The Shadow Monarch Izuku Midoriya

Ch 12: One For All Part 1

"Talk"

'Thought'

[System]

That thing is the boss.' Soon enough, the creature could be seen in the distance. In the empty, open space not too far from him, a dozen or so Heroes were surrounding a giant made out of rock. It was as tall as a telephone pole.

It was a Golem-type monster.

The soldier spat out a gasp of fear as he took a step backwards.

Perhaps it was his first time seeing one, since the moment he saw it, his entire body had stiffened noticeably. But then again, most people would react in a similar fashion. The difference between seeing a monster for real and seeing it on a TV or a computer monitor was like heaven and earth, after all.

Unlike him, Izuku remained calm and observed the unfolding situation and some said, "Healers! Concentrate your healing on the Tanker!" 

Then ne of the healers said, "We're also doing our best!!"

Then a swordsman said, "Why isn't it dying already?!"

The tanker yelled, "What are the damage dealers doing!! It's not even remotely close enough to dying, is it?!"

The swordsman yelled, "The monster's defenses are too strong! And we just don't have enough magic-type Heroes in our group!"

Because they had been summoned out here in haste, none of them seemed to be high ranked Heroes. Both their defenses and attacks didn't look that effective at all. Because of that, Heroes couldn't avoid being embroiled in the protracted battle of attrition.

BOOM!!

When the Golem slammed its massive stone fist downward, the Hero acting as the Tanker had no choice but to kneel down just for a brief second.

"Keo-heok!!"

The Tanker vomited out a mouthful of blood.

The healer yelled, "N-no!! The Tanker might die at this rate!!"

The mage said, "What do you want me to do?! My magic energy reserve is completely empty, you know!! Hasn't the support from high-ranked Heroes arrive yet?!"

These Heroes looked like they had reached their limit.

Izuku's gaze, as he took all of these in, gleamed quite sharply and thought, 'If it's only that much.... I can do this.'

Izuku slowly took several steps back. This Golem-type boss might possess the high defense, but its rank was probably lower than its scary outer appearance might suggest. Just from the aura it emitted, it was definitely weaker than the boss of the instant dungeon, the Poison-Fanged Blue whatever and Izuku thought, 'So, if I could just render its high defenses to nothing....'

What's needed right now was a powerful strike that could penetrate past that dumb rock giant's defenses. Izuku got to enough distance away and took a position of throwing something. The muscles in the arm holding the broken sword began swelling up quite violently out of the blue. Thick, pulsing veins even popped up on the back of his hand, too. All of his physical strength was concentrated in his right arm.

A short while after that, the arm pulled back taut like the string of a bow was shot forward at the speed of sound and Izuku yelled, "Go!"

The tanker was gasping for air and the view was slowly becoming dark...

His shield began forming cracks. The magic energy from the healers and mages depleted as well. At this rate they all might die.

The tanker yelled, "Leave this to me and you all gotta...!" As he wanted to save his teammates at that moment he saw something small and silver in the air and it was fast.