Pain! So much pain!
Bozanka, with its hard stone body, had never felt such pain.
Being eaten forty-seven times in a row on Bewildering Snow Mountain had been mental agony.
Being cleaved in half by this sword was physical agony.
The mental and physical agony compounded each other.
They plunged the stone being Bozanka's mind into chaos.
"No, impossible! How could a mere Train Conductor who can only enter the Starcore Level Arena possess this kind of power!?"
Unable to think, its vision grew terribly blurred.
Golden-red lava flowed out of its body.
That was its blood-to humans, the blood of a monster.
However, as the first Apostle, it did indeed possess considerable abilities.
Its consciousness swiftly awakened from the chaos.
In its blurred vision, that human was watching it.
A savage expression appeared on its face. Propping up its torso with its arms, it spoke in a deep, muffled voice:
"Are you waiting for me to die?"
"Heh heh... indeed... that blow hurt."
"But human, you underestimated a god's Apostle! You underestimated my power!"
"You can only cut me apart once!"
"But I, Bozanka! The God of Lava's first Apostle! Will never fall here!"
Bozanka let out an even more furious roar.
A storm swept in.
Both the corpses of the Stone Man Legion and the stone men who had fled.
Were drawn toward it at the same moment, converging upon it.
Its mass increased again, until it reached a point of saturation. Only then did its body begin to grow, growing larger and larger until it became a Stone Giant over a hundred meters tall.
"I!!"
"Shh~"
Its words stopped abruptly.
Bewitchment~
"I'm actually quite curious~ Is the god you worship watching this place right now?"
Bozanka answered instinctively:
"Of course! My god is watching me! Human, you!"