Rise of the Eromancer

Chapter 303 Rhys Vs. A Weird Demon Goat in Steroids

"What the…!?"

Everyone unbuckled themselves from their seats and stood up as they realized a large boulder was heading toward the helicopter at a speed that would surely obliterate the entire aircraft.

Rukawa leaned out of the helicopter, grabbing a pen and storing lightning into it as he stared at the large rock. He was, however, also staring at Rhys who seemed like he was flying toward the boulder; even controlling his trajectory to the center of the rock.

And before Rukawa could even do anything, a loud explosion erupted as a skirt of wind formed around Rhys, using his wind control to further and further increase the rate at which he was falling toward the large rock.

That wasn't really hard to do at all, and most who can manipulate the wind could do it. After all, it's just pushing yourself again and again — however, no one would actually attempt to do it due to the fact that most people want to keep their lives and their bodies intact. After all, who wants to accidentally hit something at supersonic speed straight toward a hurling boulder?

"Is… is he fucking crazy?" One of the team members forced out a chuckle as they saw that.

"Fucking Zeus…"

"I've heard he's insane, but this is next fucking level crazy."

"This human of yours is very interesting," Dr. Dhani also could not help but express his curiosity as he talked to Malenia and Edissa, who just glanced at him as they didn't understand what they were saying.

"W—"

And before anyone else could react, Rhys finally made contact with the boulder; slamming his fist straight through it.

"That—"

But alas, contrary to everyone's expectations, the boulder did not explode into smithereens at all and Rhys's arm actually just pierced through it.

"Oh…" Rhys actually also expected the boulder to just fracture like in the movies.

"Tch," Rukawa once again stored lightning in the pen since the boulder was about to hit them, but as he was getting ready to throw it, the boulder began to split in two.

Rhys no longer decided to punch it, but just dug his arms through and completely pried and forced it open — and as soon as it cracked, Rhys was able to finally to split it in half. He did not actually need to do that, since he had already negated some of the force of the boulder and it wouldn't actually hit the helicopter anymore.

"Hm…" And while everyone was impressed with what Rhys had done, Dr. Dhani just let out a sigh and returned to his seat,

"...Why didn't we just move the helicopter away? We had ample time."

And as he said that, everyone turned to look at the old doctor, most of them shaking their heads in disagreement.

"You're right…

…but it wouldn't be as cool."

Everyone then watched as Rhys just let himself fall straight to the ground, landing right at the very center of the city.

"Find a safe place to land in the city," Rukawa said to his pilot before also just leaping off the helicopter. And as he did that, everyone else just let out a sigh and also jumped.

"Does no one really want to wait for this thing to land first? I know we can all survive the fall, but…" One of them complained before jumping off. As for Malenia and Edissa, they remained on the helicopter as they were given only one task — protect Dr. Dhani.

"I may be a senior citizen, but I do not need protection," Dr. Dhani could really only sigh as he saw the two just looking at him; anticipating whether he was also going to jump like the others. He was not, of course.

As for Rhys, he landed on the soles of his foot and his knee — right in front of one of the three so-called Llambydis, the one who threw the large boulder at them. Or at least, it might be the one.

It looked a little different from the photos he had seen on the internet. It still stood on two hooves, head of a goat, and its torso was similar to that of a gorilla… an insanely muscular gorilla, that is. The monster in front of him now was… more muscular and taller than even him by perhaps 3 feet, unlike the records which showed that they should only be as tall as Rhys.

"Meeeh!" And it did not even wait for Rhys to stand up before rushing toward him, ramming through a truck left on the streets before just pushing it with his arm and throwing it to the side like it was made of styrofoam; its large thick horns that curved into a spiral, threatening to completely obliterate Rhys.

The creature in front of him right now was at the same level as the Cyclops Barbarian he had faced during his stay in the Underworld Corps, which Ayesha ordered him to fight…

…and Rhys remembered absolutely being hammered and not even able to fight back. Considering the llambydis in front of him was much smaller than the Cyclops and yet at the same threat level, it means that it was strong… abnormally so.

But of course, so was Rhys now. He couldn't even be compared to before he was able to receive Ayesha's abilities, which is arguably still his main and favorite choice of attack — it was simple, very much so.

Ayesha went toe-to-toe with the Barbarian Cyclops, beating it while barely even working up a sweat. And even though Rhys only has parts of her strength, it should be more than enough since he has other abilities.

"Let's go then…" Rhys did not move away at all and just casually stood up; raising his arms and getting ready to catch the llambydis' horns, "...Let's see what you are—"

And before Rhys could finish his words, the llambydis suddenly disappeared from his sight, before being followed by a thunder as soon as it appeared right in front of Rhys with its horns already only just an inch away from hitting him.

"!!!" Rhys quickly grabbed the horns… only for him to be violently blown away in the blink of an eye; his entire body, just spinning in the air as it shot toward the building meters behind him — but he did not stop as he hit it, not at all, he continued just going through the entire building and onto the next one, and the next before he finally stopped and found himself inside some sort of office,

"W…what the…"

Rhys coughed up almost an oz of blood while he picked himself up from the floor; pushing away the desks due to him being slightly dizzy; wheezing breaths, violently escaping his lips as his chest was almost caved in.

"A… Arise…" Rhys whispered so he could at least completely collect himself. But before he could do anything else, he quickly moved to the side as the llambydis just suddenly emerged from the floor.

And this time, Rhys let go of any thoughts that he was stronger than his enemy; he just quickly released threads from his fingers and quickly wrapped them around the llambydis' head and neck while it was still going up from the floor.

And without even giving it a chance to land, Rhys gritted his teeth and swung the threads upward — practically destroying the ceiling as the llambydis' body made contact with it.

But Rhys was not done, however, as he just continued to swing the threads, hoping to just snap the llambydis' neck apart. Rhys did not let up at all, even starting to run through the building — slamming the llambydis on the walls before leaping out of the building; adding all the momentum as he spun in the air with the demon goat like a yoyo.

And as soon as they were near the ground, Rhys let out a loud breath and slammed the goat on the cold hard pavement at full force — completely shattering the road and shooting straight down into the culverts of the city.

"Ha…" Rhys quickly breathed out, raising his arm as the road above continued to collapse around him.

"!!!"

And all of a sudden, the llambydis just shot out from the rubble and once again just ran toward Rhys like it was not even affected by what Rhys did at all.

"Huh…" Rhys just shook his head before raising his arm — controlling the little bits of water in the culvert to try and pierce the llambydis' feet with them; it did not pierce the llambydis' thick hide at all, however. But still, it managed to slow the llambydis down and even almost caused it to trip.

"Mieeeh…!!!" But of course, the demon goat knew nothing else but to kill as it just once again rushed toward Rhys, only to find that it was no longer in front of him — but behind. It quickly turned around, only for one of its eyes to be stabbed by a scalpel.

Rhys was going to stab his other eye too…

…but the goat was able to grab both of his wrists. Its remaining eye, quickly glaring at him while its nose started letting out fumes — in short, it was starting to get angry.

"Oh…" Rhys whispered,

"...I might be in trouble."