Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 129

Chapter 129

Right before Cha Haein was enveloped by the light.
[Kraaaaah……!]
Kaisel quickly covered her with its wings to shield her from the impact.
And it was disastrous.
Wooosh!
‘Ah, no……!’
Cha Haein let out an internal scream, feeling Kaisel’s strength drain to the bottom.
Kaisel’s shadow body was becoming tattered.
‘Kaisel……!’
It was protecting her at the cost of its existence.
But at that moment.
Thomas Andre frowned at the center of the blinding light to look towards somewhere.
Fwooosh-
The eyes surrounded by blue energy located something approaching from far away in an arc.
A highly condensed freezing wind.
The blizzard or the Echo Forest was screaming.
Splurt!
At the end of the arc, a frozen trident emerged, piercing through the blizzard.
Crash!
And the ‘Spear of Ice Tree’ made contact with the body of the ice dragon.
[……!]
An enormous amount of force hit the ice dragon.
And starting at the center of the impact, the ice shards started to shatter and break.
Fshhhh!
The new spirits approached the ice dragon to quickly mend up the broken spots.
However,
Rumble!
A huge presence weighed down the Echo Forest.
Ding! Ding! Ding!

[King of Snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch is forcibly suppressing the ice spirits.]
[King of Snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch is compelling the ice spirits to submit.]
[King of Snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch is…….]
……!
The ice spirits that were running wild started screaming from the sudden appearance of a monarch.
Even the blizzard of the forest shook.
At the center of it all.
Tap!
“I found you.”
Suho got a hold of his mother.
“Mom.”
……!
[Kieeeeeek!]
At the same moment, Beru stuck itself to Cha Haein’s head to wail.
[Cha Haein-nim! Are you okay?!?!?! Please worry no longer! This lowly servant of yours have finally come to assist thee!]
[Guuahhhhhh!]
The tattered Kaisel recognized Suho and Beru to also cry out, and Cha Haein looked towards her soon with a surprised expression.
“S, Suho? How on earth did you get……!”
“ChaCha! I brought him here! ChaCha did!”
Added with Sirka shouting excitedly after seeing Cha Haein safe.
But they had no time to leisurely chatter about.
Grrrr!
“……!”
“……!”
The Ice Dragon that was destroyed from the spear was already recovered and attempting to stand up behind them.
Suho saw the slightly revealed face of Thomas Andre and widened his eyes.
“Thomas Andre?!”
“Was he lured in by the spirits? Wait, he looks a bit different.”
Skira felt an ominous feeling from the blue energy emitting from Thomas Andre’s body
Just what is that energy?
Similar to spirits but something that couldn’t be labeled as a spirit…….
Step.
[Young Master, please get ready.]
Beru got in front of Suho and let out its killing intent.
[The Apostle of Itharim is here.]
Fwoooosh!
Suho immediately took out a greatbow from his inventory.
Then got out Qwei from the shadows to put an arrow to the bow.
“Shoot out, Qwei!”
Then aimed the shadow arrows to target the heart of the ice dragon, towards Thomas Andre.
“Kill him!”
[Per your order, master!]
Swooosh-
Suho did not hesitate to shoot out Qwei towards Thomas Andre.
Thomas was not in a normal state.
But there was no time to be worrying about his safety.
After all, the opponent was not a normal enemy but the ‘Apostle of Itharim’.
An enemy too dangerous to fight half heartedly, and any hesitation would endanger not only himself but his mother as well.
So hesitation was impermissible.
Even at the cost of someone else.
But those thoughts had no meaning.
Crash!
Even before Qwei reached Thomas, his body got completely buried deep within the ice dragon,
And unfortunately, Qwei’s arrows could not pierce through the thick defense.
[O Great Itharim!]
And the unnatural voice flowing out of Thomas Andre deep within the ice.
The ice dragon opened its large mouth at the same time.
To start a vortex of enormous energy within it.
Cha Haein, who’s experienced that attack, shouted towards Suho.
“Careful! It’s a dragon breath!”

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But Suho had no plans of retreat.
“Beru!”
[Yes!]
Suho shouted while glaring at the ice dragon directly.
“The shadow dragon here is already exposed to the enemy! In this situation, it shouldn’t matter, right?!”
Suho’s question was pointing towards Kaisel, who was still trying to protect Cha Haein.
Beru bared its teeth and answered.
[Of course sir!]
“Then come out!”
At that moment.
Suho’s shadow expanded.
Shwoooooosh!
Tens of shadow soldiers emerged at the same time.
“……!”
And Cha Haein’s eyes widened at the scenery before her.
‘Dear heavens.’
That was a sight too familiar to her.
That back, surrounded by countless shadow soldiers.
Cha Haein saw the back of her husband in her sons.
‘When did our son grow so much……?’
It was truly a surprising sentiment.
She never expected to feel something like that in these types of situations.
A corner of her heart felt like it was being tickled.
[Listen up!]
The small ant Beru, proudly standing at the forefront of all the soldiers.
The ex commander Beru shouted viciously and commanded.
[All forces disperse! Proceed with the all out attack!]
Kwaaaaaaah!
All the shadow soldiers dispersed throughout the area and started to attack the ice dragon simultaneously.
Swoooosh!
The barrage of arrows twisted and turned at multiple angles to all target the ice dragon.
And from there, a spider web like cracks started to appear on its body.
Crack! Crack!
At the same time, the shadow minotaurus and shadow troll ran to ram into the dragon.
Wham!
Boom Boom Boom!
The restless attacks made the ice dragon crack and almost fall down.
However,
It was not enough.
This did not come close at all.
The opponent was an ice dragon.
It excelled in attack and defense.
Kwaaaaaaa-!
And that moment gave the opportunity for the dragon breath to be used.
One movement of its neck destroyed everything on its path.
[……!]
The single attack destroyed all the shadow soldiers.
Although few managed to survive, most shadow elves were completely gone from it.
But
‘I bought some time!’
Gulp gulp!
Suho was using this opportunity to have her mother drink a few healing potions and mana potions.
Then immediately extracted a few more soldiers to replace the destroyed shadow soldiers.
There were plenty to be extracted from around here.
Since there were ice elves that died from the dragon’s breath and not just the shadow soldiers.
“Arise!”

[Shadow release succeeded.]
[Shadow release succeeded.]
[Shadow release succeeded.]
…….
And the shadow soldiers were replenished like that to continue the cycle of the ice breath destroying them.
But Cha Haein continued to look better over time.
Even the accumulated injuries over the years she’s been living on the strange dimension were getting healed.
But Suho did not stop there.
He handed every recovery item to his mother.
And among them was ‘Item : Bandages of Mummy’ and even the recently acquired item the spring water of the Echo Forest.
The spring water of the echo forest was a precious and rare detoxifying potion only found at the holy area of the blizzard monarch.
‘I’m sure that it will have its uses!’
At the same time, Suho attempted to analyze the situation.
As he heard from the town of the elves, he confirmed the fact that his mother became an S ranked hunter.
He never thought that he’d see his mother emitting such enormous energy when all he’d seen was his mother as a normal housewife.
This was still unbelievable despite seeing it with his own two eyes.
And he also confirmed that the scavenger hunters were spread all throughout this area.
‘Even Esil is here!’
Suho quickly combined all these different situations in his head to come up with a strategy.
‘There’s no way I can win against that dragon alone. I have to fight with my mother.’
Cha Haein walked out of Kaisel’s embrace once she could properly move her body.
“Kaisel, leave the rest to me and rest.”
[Krrng…….]
Kaisel felt the comforting touch of Cha Haein and closed its eyes.
It couldn’t hold off any longer so it turned into black smoke to be absorbed into Cha Haein’s necklace.
‘I’m glad that Kaisel is safe.’
Cha Haein firmly held the necklace with two hands and let out a sigh of relief.
And once she lifted her head,
“Son.”
“Yes, mother?”
“Your mother is really angry right now.”
“…….”
Ah, I’m slightly intimidated.
Those words made Suho flinch and nervously examine his mothers expression.
The clear eyes of hers were set ablaze.
“Won’t you be a dear and buy me some time? I’ll be using every mana I have in a single attack.”
Fwoooosh!
An enormous amount of mana started to condense within Cha Haein’s body.
Skill, sword of light.
The ultimate move that Cha Haein always leaves to the last due to the large amount of mana it requires.
“If this move is not enough, you need to buy more time and give me more of those mana replenishing items.”
And so it was.
Cha Haein was intending to fight against the ice dragon continuously by tag teaming with her son.
This was the most perfect strategy that she, the vice captain of the strongest hunter guild of korea in the nonexistent timeline, could make.
“You can do it, right?”
Cha Haein looked at Suho with trust.
Her grown son that she hasn’t seen in years felt strange yet familiar.
He looked just like her husband when he was younger.
‘But he still has a long way to go.’
Cha Haein had analyzed her son without a bias.
Suho was still weak compared to her husband, let alone herself right now.
But it was enough.
‘He can buy time.’
Yes, that was enough.
And that was precisely Suho’s strategy as well.
“Understood. But I’ll decide on the direction of the attack.”
“What?”
Suho smiled with a glint in his eyes.
He was looking at the description window of the item he fed his mother.

[ITEM : Spring Water of the Echo Forest]
Difficulty to obtain : ??
Type : Consumable
A mysterious spring water of Echo Forest.
It can nullify poison through consuming it or applying it on the body.
The spring water was supposed to be an ingredient for crafting the ‘Holy Water of Life’.
And its use was most likely for nullifying the poison of ‘Blood of Purified Demon King’
“Sillad, let me ask you one thing.”
Suho asked with conviction.
“Does the spring water of the Echo Forest also work on monarchs?”
Suho’s gaze fell on the hot springs behind the ice dragon.