Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 147 - I Effed Up

“I don’t care who you are! Eat my blade!”

“Come again?”

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Before anything else, a large jagged bone was already barrelling towards my direction to cleave me in half.

The oaf actually threw his blade at me.

Shing! Pling!

The minute I drew my weapon, it crashed into it with a resounding crash, creating an explosion of sparks.

The beastly man donned an expression of shock, as I’m guessing he didn’t think my slender frame possessed the strength necessary to wield such a larger-than-life sabre, much less use it to block his attack.

As if muscle mass is anything to go by in these novels. If we applied the logic in these things to my old world, then all the anorexic supermodels would be bloodthirsty genocidal maniacs that feed on water whilst cultivating the Heavenly Denial of Calory Vomitous Cultivation technique.

Shu!

Through the corner of my eye, I could see the Zhendong beetle scurrying toward me. Its multiple legs were scurrying along so quickly that they appeared like a blur.

Vrrrm!

The somatic essence in the brute’s body also surged like a roaring river. Its density was far above the likes of any demon I’ve come across so far.

Neat.

If you’re wondering why the gentleman who currently has a hate boner for me doesn’t have his cauldrons out, it’s simply because he isn’t going all out.

It’s something I was confused about for a while until I saw his expression. It was filled with ecstasy and gave me PTSD (Panda Traumatic Stress Disorder.)

I unleashed a sabre strike on the elytron of the Zhendong beetle, only to leave a shallow white mark for my efforts.

‘Tch. harder than I thought.’

“If you don’t take this seriously, you’re going to die here, boy! Hahaha!”

The maniacal laughter of this idiot echoed endlessly in the stone forest as he dashed towards the Zhendong Beetle in a headlong collision.

Boom!

Pu Ci!

I could see the giant’s cleaver shudder at an insane speed before that vibration travelled to his back, causing it to explode in a geyser of blood!

“Ack!”

He coughed up blood in response and it was then that I came to realise that these people have an ungodly amount of blood in their bodies.

They really need to open up an account with a blood bank.

Even though the blood loss was copious in volume, the smile on his face intensified even more.

Masochism at its finest people.

Also, from here I came to know that this Zhendong beetle is a peak rank-four magical beast.

“Is this person an idiot?” I asked myself under my breath, wait I forgot where I was for a second there.

Magical beasts, as I’m sure you know, outclass cultivators in the same realm in one or more ways. So a rank four magical beast which is in the same realm as a Core Formation expert (Martial Adept) can square against a lower-tier Core Flame Evocation expert (Martial Master) due to either their insanely high natural defences if they have it, their greater speed OR their ungodly levels of strength.

It mostly depends on what they specialise in and it can clearly be seen that this species of beetle specialises in defence.

Not only that, its attacks were augmented by high-intensity vibrations. This made even its relatively average attacks extremely destructive.

As such, even though this brute was powerful in his own right, this head-on collision ended up with him at a disadvantage.

This deadlock was dangerously temporary and could end up in his death if it wasn’t dealt with correctly.

Rumble!

The ground between the beetle and the brute violently shook as they both looked in a particular direction where they saw the earth splitting towards them like the maws of a dangerous beast intending to swallow them both!

“Earth Severance!”

Don’t judge me for shouting out the name of my attack. One, I did it after the attack was released and it’s loud enough already so no one’s being made aware of anything new here. Two, I did it because it seems to match the moment, being badass and all.

The giant was too injured to get out of the way, so he moved his cleaver from the pincer of the beetle before placing it in front of the incoming attack instead. He drove the somatic essence and forced it into the cleaver to bolster his defences.

The beetle, being as stupid as it was, didn’t try to defend against the attack, but tried to attack the giant man instead. It was most likely because he was right in front of it, but this would prove to be the wrong choice.

Before the beetle could do anything to him, the attack arrived, opening up a large chasm below the two.

The beetle bore the brunt of the blow as it fell into the abyss. The giant’s blade was firmly planted into the ground. One could even see the somatic essence that encased it. This was most likely what caused the encroaching chasm that threatened to engulf him as well to stop short of doing so.

“Hm, I thought it would have given a bit more damage. Well, it is the first time I am using this technique, I guess, so maybe I need more practice.”

Something came to mind when I executed that technique. I know for a fact that I never used that technique before. However, because I asked the goddess from back in the Anima palace to give me either ungodly or unholy talent in cultivation, this must be what that resulted in.

I have so been pimped out by the goddess. However, it still seems that I need to practise a teeny bit more to bring whatever I learn to perfection… that’s fair.

The giant looked around and saw that the beetle had disappeared before placing his sights on me.

“You took my prey away!” he roared.

“I have a strong feeling you don’t know what the word prey means.” I wasn’t going to stick around here and take this.

One reason was because there was a disturbing ability of the Zhendong beetle that I didn’t want to witness, and the other reason was that I didn’t want to deal with this muscle brain.

After all, a roided-out citizen wasn’t a model citizen.

“Since you took my prey away, I’ll just turn you into one!” He licked his lips as he looked at me.

“You have a hole in your back. How can you be smiling?” I asked him.

“This old thing?” he pointed to his back wound.

“That was given like five minutes ago. So about as far along as your intellectual maturity. Plus, why do you wanna fight a minor? Pick on someone your own size.” I was playing the minor card… don’t judge me.

“Don’t try to trick me. You’re using the bronze sabre that belongs to the Bronze Seat of the Iron Body Forge Sect, aren’t you!? You’re strong to get your hands on that!”

As soon as he said this, I realised I messed up. I vaguely remember that I was told not to go around parading with this thing since the Iron Body Forge Sect is pretty famous and well-known. If I am known to be in possession of this thing, it could be problematic if they send someone after me, which they probably will.

“I don’t suppose you’ll keep this a secret, will you?” I asked him.

“Entertain me and live beyond that and I’ll consider it!” he roared.

May I say, it was then that I knew… I effed up.