I Was Called Incompetent ch.27

Patreon Chapter
Brought to you by The Patrons
Arigatou Gozaimasu!

Finally, all of sponsored chapters for October cleared.
Sorry for the delay, our dear Patrons. We’ll do our best to deliver this month sponsored chapters on schedule.

Enjoy the chapter.

Translator: Raizu
Editor: Mirp

Episode 27 – Terror

[I haven’t heard any of this… This is… we…!]

[I, if we work together…!]

[I, impossible! Nearly half of us have been defeated by that monster!]

[I told you… Let’s just run away!!]

[Ah! We can’t do this anymore, Hagarー!]

This Hagar was the same person who reproached Rhode earlier today.
He’s one of the best B rank adventurers participating in this request, known for his adept use of steel magic.
Due to his good record, everyone trusted him to become the leader of their group for this request.
The pride of excellent record made him unable to withdraw so easily.

One by one, his group became the prey for the wyvern.
He did hear that the wyvern sighted was bigger than usual, but he thought that it should still be possible to defeat if a bunch of B rank adventurers were to gang up on it.

But Hagar’s mistake came from assuming that the wyvern would be just slightly bigger than normal, just as what the witnesses said.
The report was correct.
What those witnesses saw was the wyvern Rhode had defeated.
However, this second wyvern the group was currently fighting is something that was not mentioned at all inside the report.

Of course they didn’t know about this second wyvern, as this one was an individual that had been in this mountain from the very beginning.
This particular wyvern had lived in this area for years while keeping itself hidden from sights.
It spent the daylight resting in its nest, only coming out to search for food in distant places under the darkness of the night.

Dragons would eat people and other monsters indiscriminately.
Not to mention monsters nearby, sometimes it would attack a village in a different area just to get food.
Taking advantage of its kind capability to travel long distances, this wyvern had evaded adventurers’ scrutiny for a long time.
It’s all because the wyvern knew that it’s no still no match against the more powerful humans.
Due to its cunning and brutality, it managed to accumulate power that its red scales actually turned partially black.

This wyvern had turned into something more superior than flame wyvern.
Its body was also one size larger than the one Rhode defeated.
The black flame it breathed out was way beyond the flame that the regular flame wyvern could spit out.

Now, it’s an Inferno Wyvern.
A wyvern species so vicious it beared the name of the flames of hell.
It was of course angered when another wyvern trespassed into its territory. Then in a blind rage, it came down to the area it normally wouldn’t approach.
It realized that this may spell doom to itself, but it couldn’t ignore its instinct as well.

Humans may end up finding it, but the wyvern thought things would be just fine.
Because it’ll get to devour more magic power that way.
It has already eaten 30 people so far.

But then, it sensed that the trespassing wyvern’s presence had suddenly gone.
Assuming that someone else had killed the trespasser, it decided to clean up the food in here first before hunting the killstealer down.
Afterward, it would go back to its hideout.

Hagar covered his body with steel.
His magic gave him the ability to coat anything he touches with steel.
This means he could add more defense and durability to his armor, giving him the capability to tank several more attacks than normal.
In addition to that, he also coated his battle axe with steel.
He swung his axe at the wyvern, who was currently distracted by the other adventurers.

[OooorraaaaaA!!]

Gakinnn, a loud clanging noise filled the air.
However, the axe that has been reinforced with steel couldn’t even make a dent on the wyvern’s black-red scales.

[I, impossible!]

At the moment Hagar was struck by the wyvern’s tail.
His steel cladded body was easily knocked away, bouncing and rolling on the ground several times before stopping.
The difference in power was clear.

[Gahaaa……!]

[Hagarー!]

He didn’t instantly die thanks to the steel coat in his body, but that blow still sent enough shock that Hagar couldn’t immediately get back up.
The first thing he saw when he got to raise his face again, was the sight of his travelling companion being devoured whole by the wyvern.
The screaming voice of his companion diminished along with his body disappearing into the wyvern’s mouth.

[Da…dammitalll…]

[Hagar! Oy, Hagar!]

[Run…Inea… you must…]

[Nooo…! I don’t want any of this!]

The wyvern had devoured 30, leaving only 2 remaining.
The wyvern slowly approached. Inea was too scared she couldn’t move and didn’t even realize that she had wetted herself.
Hagar’s steel magic could only serve as little annoyance. For the Inferno Wyvern these two were nothing but easy snacks now.

[Aaa…aaaaaa…]

]Inea…..run…..]

The inferno wyvern already opened its maw.
It dexterously picked Hagar and tossed him into the air.
The reason behind why the wyvern always swallows its prey whole, is because that’s an effective way to absorb the magic power.
Most of the magic power courses through the blood after all.
Naturally, the inferno wyvern was also aware of this little fact.

[Hagaaar!]

Inea’s heartbroken cry resounded.
Hagar’s body that was tossed into the air by the wyvern like a broken doll, quietly fell into the wyvern’s open mouth.

[Kyaaaaaaa…… Noooooooooo!]

The inferno wyvern seemed to be considering what it should do with this last prey.
Instead of eating her right away, it decided to tease her first.

[Gyaah!]

It simply played around with her, nudging her around with its snout.
Inea cried, her body trembling as she crawled away in a desperate attempt to save her life.
At that moment, a shout from somewhere else distracted the wyvern.

[What’s wrong with this bastard.]

The wyvern looked around to search for the source of that shout.
However, there’s no one in sight.
When it realized that there’s something wrong, one of its wings had already been torn off.

[GyaaaaaaaAAAA!?]

The next thing it saw was the edge of a black greatsword.
Judging from how it could tear its wing so easily, it must be a dragon slaying sword.
Despite the momentary bewilderment, the wyvern still managed to avoid having its head chopped down by jumping backward.
Of course it has no idea that the sword was the famed Balmung.
But it instinctively knew that the sword was dangerous.

Deprived of one of its wings, the wyvern could no longer fly.
But at the moment, it was dominated by a different impulse.
This human, he must be avoided at all cost.

It could sense tremendous power coming from the human that was glaring at him right now.
And it’s not just the weapon he wielded.
The magic power that overflowed from his body was enormous.
However, the wyvern could no longer escape.

[Gighaaaa!?]

[The combination of Levi-chan’s magecraft and my power… can’t move, can you?]

[Such an amazing power, Solomon-sama.]

[I feel motivated when a cute girl praises me like that.]

[Stop playing around, please…]

Let alone flying, the inferno wyvern couldn’t even move its body.
There was something invisible that prevented it from opening its mouth as well.
Meanwhile, the sword wielding male human approached.
It could only hear him say one thing.

[Do you get it now, Inferno Wyvern…? This IS terror]

And then, everything faded to black.

=====

[It swallowed…..! Everyone!]

[It’s alright, we understand. Please calm down.]

[Your cute face will be ruined if you keep crying, y’know? So calm down, okay?]

One more thing I learned today… Solomon is a womanizer.
No doubt about it.
The girl slowly regained her composure under his careful coaxing and a few gentle pats on her back.
He might’ve used one of his powers through those pats.

[Ha…..ha….. I…..]

[It’s alright, it’ll be fine. Boss, the rest is up to you.]

[Yeah. Levi, please guide me. I need to be careful so as not to hurt anyone when I cut the stomach.]

[As you wish. First of all…]

Following Levi’s instruction, I started to cut open the wyvern’s stomach with Balmung.
Levi detected several living adventurers inside the wyvern’s stomach earlier. That’s why I chose to behead the wyvern instead of cutting it in half like Balmung did.

[Rhode-sama, a bit more gentle…]

[Ah, okay… it really swelled a lot]

Having swallowed more than 2 dozens of adventurers, the wyvern’s stomach was naturally swelling big.
After I carefully cut it open, the adventurers inside overflowed out, and a weird stench filled the air.

[Ugh… how are they, Levi?]

[Yes… they are all alive.]

Even after I pinched my nose, the stench still made me a bit dizzy.
Anyways, fortunately everyone was still breathing.
Although the stench is a bit too much…

[Solomon, your turn.]

[Coming in hot. It might be better to wash them off first. Some of them had their outfit partially melted already. Ugh… what a stench]

Their clothes and armors were certainly melting from the wyvern’s digestive juice.
If we have water… ah, of course…
Taking out the black notebook, I opened a certain page.