The Reincarnation of the Kingmaker

Chapter 42: Kayn versus the Flame Gorilla

After decapitating the head of the Earth Worm to make sure that it won't affect the subsequent event, Kayn immediately got himself out of the Nature's Trap as the trunk he was standing on was quickly being grounded into pieces.

When Kayn landed on the hard ground, he quickly noticed that the Flame Gorilla has finally destroyed the last remaining trunk blocking its way from reaching him.

At this moment, Kayn and the Flame Gorilla finally came face to face against each other in a staring contest with no one to disturb them.

Just to make sure that was really the case, Kayn shortly glimpsed at the other monsters, and soon after felt how ridiculous and stupid they currently looked.

If before they were only trapped in the center of the trunks that the Flame Gorilla had blasted in the middle, right now they are basically intertwining with each other. It's literally impossible for them to move any time soon.

"No wonder they are the losers in the competition," Kayn realized in his head.

Unlike the Flame Gorilla that was smart enough to pick another direction to reach him, albeit not smart enough to just jump on the trunks, the other monsters, on the other hand, decided to just go back in the same path they came from. But because they were all doing it at the same time, and no one seems to have volunteered to give way for the others, or at the very least, adjust so that they would be able to get out faster, as a result, they started intertwining with one another and eventually ended up in a ridiculous and stupid situation.

Moreover, because some of them countered the element of the other, like the Light Deer and the Dark Boar, it causes them to suffer some degree of injuries. What's even worse is, the Flame Gorillas who are covered in flames started burning the other monsters nearby them. And as they twitched in pain and tried to avoid getting burned, their situation just turned even more unfavorable and terrible for them.

After confirming that no other monsters would try to disturb them, Kayn returned his focus to the Flame Gorilla. And as if the latter thought the same as him, it showed a smile of excitement.

"I guess it's not only me that has long been wanting to have this fight," Kayn smiled back.

As someone who has continuously lived his entire life fighting almost every single day, hour, minute, and second in order to strive, survive, and reach higher in life, suddenly experiencing a day with barely any fights makes him feel a bit weird, or perhaps he is the weird one.

He had shown it before when he fought against the Dark Boar that charged at him without any reason. But clearly, that wasn't enough to satisfy his thirst for battle.

Hopefully, this time it would.

"Hey, big guy! How about we take this fight somewhere else far from here," Although he has seen the current state of the other monsters, he still wants to make sure that no one will disturb them.

Unfortunately, the Flame Gorilla can't understand human language, just like how Humans can't understand the language of monsters.

For the Flame Gorilla, it thought that what Kayn is doing right now is provoking him. It had experienced fighting against some Humans before, and most of the time they would exercise the same kind of action being expressed by Kayn before initiating their attack.

And as if to confirm the Flame Gorilla's thoughts, Kayn started making his move.

Kayn moved to the left so that he can avoid leaving his back to the monsters trying to pounce on him.

On the other hand, the Flame Gorilla responded by moving to the right while still maintaining its distance from Kayn, evidently showing how cautious it is to its opponent.

The reason why the Flame Gorilla is feeling cautious is that when it was making its way toward Kayn, it also watches the scene of how the latter had killed the Earth Worm. Watching everything unfold, it doesn't feel any confidence that it can survive if it was the one facing Kayn instead of the Earth Worm.

However, contrary to what the Flame Gorilla was expecting, Kayn suddenly started running away.

Seeing this, the Flame Gorilla was momentarily stunned before quickly pulling itself together and chasing after Kayn.

"You thought I was going to fight you right off the bat?" Kayn smirked. What he is doing right now isn't running away, but a tactical retreat. Once he reaches a far enough distance, that's the time that he would immediately initiate a fight with the Flame Gorilla.

As always, while Kayn was running away, he continued to cut the trees along the way. But this time, he made sure that the Flame Gorilla would be able to pass through before the tree would block the way. This was so that even if the other monsters could escape their current situation, they would still be delayed.

Eventually, Kayn passes the earlier trees he had cut —the ones that forced the Flame Gorilla and the other monsters to get close to the Nature's Trap. This confirmed that he is halfway to his desired distance.

"I was planning on eliminating the Rock Ants first before finally facing the Flame Gorilla. I guess it can't be helped," Kayn thought to himself.

While running, Kayn made sure to slowly make his way back to the path leading toward Selina and Leah. In this way, if things unexpectedly turned out for the worse, someone could, if he is lucky, save him.

After a few more seconds of running, Kayn finally decided to stop as he turned around to face the Flame Gorilla. This time he was seriously going to fight it and no longer run away.

Observing the approaching Flame Gorilla, Kayn tightly holds his sword and readied his feet. Right after that, he launches himself toward the Flame Gorilla.

Seeing Kayn's action, the Flame Gorilla immediately bulked its body to prepare for the incoming fight. Simultaneously, it stretched its right arm slightly backward, ready to punch once the opportunity comes.

In the next moment, a crisp sound of the wind echoed throughout the surroundings as Kayn's sword clashed against the Flame Gorilla's fist.

Although the Flame Gorilla was strong, it was unsuccessful in its intention of throwing Kayn away. Instead, it received a sizeable cut on its fist, causing pain to run from his hand to his entire arm and making his fingers a bit numb.

Without wasting any time, Kayn hastily followed up by pulling his sword backward and swinging it toward the pinky of the Flame Gorilla — since it is the thinnest part of its hand, hence it can cut easily.

Just like what Kayn expected, he was able to easily cut off the pinky of the Flame Gorilla, causing it to back off a few meters away while grunting in pain.

"I'm not done yet," Kayn chases after the Flame Gorilla, not intending to waste the opportunity to end everything as quickly as possible.

However, before Kayn could get close to the Flame Gorilla, it suddenly exploded in rage. White flame erupted out from its body as its two hands started thumping on its chest. Following that, it roared loudly toward Kayn.

While that was happening, Kayn didn't stop on his approach. He continued charging toward the Flame Gorilla with his sword ready to swing.

Realizing that its intimidation did not work on Kayn, the Flame Gorilla gathered a ball of white flame in its hand before throwing it at Kayn.

The speed of the incoming white fireball was fast, but it was not fast enough to hit Kayn. Before the fireball could reach him, he tilted his head to the side, causing the fireball to simply pass through him without affecting his movement.

Boom!

A loud explosion sounded as the white fireball hit the ground and created a small black crater with white flames burning the surrounding greenery.

At the same time that happened, Kayn finally arrived in front of the Flame Gorilla.

The Flame Gorilla who was trying to create another fireball was not able to put up any guard to defend itself. As a result, when Kayn swung his sword, another wound was left on his body. This time, the wound was at a very fatal location as the sword had targeted its stomach. It was lucky that the sword did not cut deep into its flesh due to its thick fur and tough skin. Otherwise, its innards would no doubt gush out from its body right this instance.

"You let down your guard,"

Out of the Flame Gorilla's expectation, the sword currently in an upward midmotion suddenly made a downward turn directed to its newly cut flesh.

What the Flame Gorilla feared the most has just turned into reality.

Surprisingly for Kayn, as soon as the flesh became deep enough to see what was inside, a strong heatwave hit his face. Luckily for him, he swiftly raised his sword to block in front of him. Albeit, his eyebrows were burned and his face turned slightly red. If he was just an ordinary Superhuman, there's no doubt that attack would have instantly taken his life.

As he was focused on defending from the heatwave, Kayn didn't notice a fist coming straight to his stomach.

In the next second, Kayn is blasted away. He destroyed a few trees in his wake before eventually stopping upon landing on a huge and thick tree. His entire body was somewhat buried in the trunk.

Kayn can't help coughing out a mouthful of blood and drenching the uniform he is wearing.

"Fortunately, I was wearing an armor…" Kayn smiled weakly. If back then he got overly confident and decided not to wear armor, then that punch would have certainly broken a lot of his ribs. Well, it did break a few, at least two, if what he is feeling inside right now is indeed accurate enough.

"A surprising heatwave plus a critical punch. That was such a good combination of attack from the Flame Gorilla," Kayn muttered as he slowly stood back up.

Over the distance, the Flame Gorilla was in an even worse condition than Kayn. Some of its innards were exposing out from its stomach and blood continued to gush out quite fast from the wound.

"How weak… of me…" Kayn understood the sad truth. He was very confident earlier that he won't face any problems when it comes to dealing with the Flame Gorilla as long as there were only the two of them. Although that was indeed the truth, sadly, because of the unexpected turn of events, the table has now turned against his favor.

"If this was before, I would have easily avoided that surprise attack,"

"I can't let this continue. I have to kill the Flame Gorilla quickly and get out of this place before the other monsters arrive!"

Making up his mind, Kayn tightly held his sword before making his way back to face the Flame Gorilla again.

The Flame Gorilla understood the underlying meaning behind Kayn's action.

That's right, only one of them can survive!

Just like Kayn, the Flame Gorilla no longer minded its serious injury as it started hopping in the direction of Kayn.

The closer the distance, the faster both Kayn, and the Flame Gorilla became.

Not long after, only five meters of distance separated the two.

It was now time to decide who will survive and who will die.

At that moment, instead of continuing to approach, Kayn suddenly tilted his body to the side with his arm holding the sword crossing to his left waist.

As the Flame Gorilla quickly approaches close, Kayn swung his sword at breakneck speed, instantly cutting a deep wound on the left waist of the Flame Gorilla.

With the addition of that wound, the innards that were already about to burst out from the stomach of the Flame Gorilla can no longer hold themselves back. Instantly, it burst out from its stomach.

It was still not over.

After swinging his sword, Kayn promptly changed the posture of his hand holding the hilt of the sword into a back grip, seemingly like a dagger, as he then made a swift backward stab to the location of the Flame Gorilla's heart from its back.

Soon, a muffled sound was heard as the Flame Gorilla dropped onto the grass that it had dyed red with wide-open eyes. Over its back, Kayn's sword has penetrated its heart.

As for the person that caused all of this to happen, he was long already gone from the scene as he feared that if he delayed any longer the other monsters might arrive. By then, he would be completely defenseless and helpless to fight against them.

"Shit! I no longer have… any… strength…"

However, just after walking for a few tens of meters away from the scene, Kayn eventually gave in to his injuries and collapsed onto the ground just like the Flame Gorilla.

"Kayn!" A beautiful female voice called out.

That was the last thing that Kayn could remember before finally losing consciousness.