The Shadow Monarch Izuku Midoriya

Ch 11: The Boss

"Talk"

'Thought'

[System]

Izuku gripped the sword tightly with both of his hands slowly descended the steps. Could he have been mistaken when the steps felt unusually longer than before?

The lighting was worse than the first two floors, but there was no problem with seeing where he was going and thought, 'Is it because of my Perception Stat?' He couldn't help but feel that his eyesight had improved greatly.

He cautiously climbed lower until eventually spotting the railway tunnel used by the subway trains. No, he saw where the railway used to be. The tunnel that should've been used by trains was now filled with jet-black liquid, instead and thought, 'What is this?' Rather than a subway tunnel, it was.... more like a lake or a river now.

Just as Izuku took one more step forward to take a closer look....

A long log-like object shot out from the surface of the black water.

Swish!!

Izuku said, "It's fast!"

The thing that arrived in front of his nose in the blink of an eye was not a log, but a snake with the thickness rivalling one, actually. Taken by surprise, Izuku could only swing the sword and strike the head of the snake away from him.

Clang!!

Izuku's eyes opened wider and said, "What the hell?!"

He did succeed in deviating that direction of the lunging snake, but his trusty steel longsword ended up breaking apart from the impact. Izuku looked back in surprise.

The snake must've been surprised by his counterattack as well because it didn't try to follow up right away, but instead chose to simply glare at him while coiling itself up a distance away.

'The ruler of the swamp, Poison-Fanged Blue Kasaka.'

Izuku could clearly see the orange-colored name of the monster.

Blue scales covering its entire body gleamed in an oily manner. As if it had draped itself with thick armor, those scales had no gaps to speak of. Sword strikes wouldn't have worked in the first place. It'd be the same story for punches, too.

When Izuku's thoughts arrived there, the Kasaka must've finished its own analysis on its prey, because it finally lunged at him once more. No matter how one looked at it, it was a frightening turn of speed, that's for sure.

Swwwiiiish!!

Izuku narrowed his eyes, 'It's coming!'

When he concentrated hard, he could now clearly see the attack of the Kasaka, which was something he couldn't even properly decipher in the beginning. This was all due to the increased Agility Stat.

But that wasn't enough as the Kasaka slithered toward Izuku at unriveting speeds and Izuku tried to dodge by moving to the side and it still swayed it tail to the side to smack Izuku in the wall.

Izuku got up.

Izuku then lunged straight at Kasaka and thought, 'I raised my strength as high as I could. I can kill it.'

Izuku swiftly sidestepped to dodge the Kasaka and he wrapped his arms around the creature's neck and put it in a headlock.

An unbelievably powerful pressure tightened around the snake's main artery. The snake could not escape from his grip and thrashed around as if it was in pain. Izuku gritted his teeth and strengthened his arms even more.