Offer blocks to the end times

Hydra is a multi-headed serpent that lives in the nearby mountains. After exhausting its magic, it will go to the bottom of the lake and absorb magic from the surrounding land. This process takes ten years, so it is usually in a dormant state.

It is very large, about the size of a wealthy family's yard, and looks more like the final boss in the game. The reason for the extremely high bounty is that it has been absorbing the magic of the earth, making the surrounding area barren. Defeating it will make the surrounding area fertile.

However, no one has ever truly destroyed it. Every ten years, the Kingdom Knights would come and exhaust the Hydra's magic, allowing it to continue to slumber.

“Hmm, I think I understand. We can give it a try. If it doesn’t work, we can just run away,” Senju said from the side. The group of people next to her nodded in agreement. Aqua was still worried, “Senju, don’t destroy this place too much! I’m planning to build a temple here.”

What. "

"I understand," Senju nodded, and then the group of people sneaked towards the lake. After a while, they arrived near a small hill and found a green, murky lake there.

"Is it inside?" Thousand Hands asked from there. Darkness nodded. "Yes, but the way to deal with Hydra has always been to surround it with a large army, exhaust its magic, and make it fall into a slumber again. The royal capital will also send knights to deal with it in cycles."

"I see. Then everyone hide well, and I'll test the waters," said Thousand Hands. He then opened a spatial portal, and a pair of massive, heavily modified mechs appeared. A jumble of missiles flew into the lake, causing loud explosions. The lake water soared hundreds of meters high, and the surrounding area trembled violently.

"Bombs! Hey, this is too much of a cheat!" Kazuma Sato shouted, while Aqua cheered him on, "More! Just blow up the Hydra! Go Senju!"

"Ahhh, it can release explosion magic at will!" Megumin stared in astonishment at the robot. "Although those robots are cute, I still hate those gadgets that just explode randomly!"

Chapter 583 Battle with a Lower-Ranked Sub-Dragon

Although the lake was large, it quickly lost most of its water under the constant bombardment. The monsters inside seemed to have been awakened, and Huihui warned, "Be careful, there's a powerful magical reaction at the bottom of the lake, the Hydra is about to emerge!"

"It's good that it's coming out. If it doesn't come out like this, then it'll be troublesome," Thousand Hands said, still looking at the constantly shaking lake surface, unable to make out the appearance of the monster inside.

However, after a while, everyone clearly saw a huge monster emerge from the lake. It looked as big as the guild's castle and had eight snake heads on it, but its body was already broken and tattered.

"Isn't it called 'Nine Dragons'? Why does it only have eight heads?" Sato Kazuma wondered, while the mecha next to him had already activated its laser to scan the monster.

After the laser made contact with its scales for a while, it created a hole in its body. However, the Hydra suddenly exhaled a cloud of miasma, enveloping the surroundings. The laser's power was greatly reduced, and it was unable to penetrate its scales at all.

Senju immediately switched to bomb attacks, but the bombs melted quickly after entering the miasma. Senju wanted to blast the miasma away, but Aqua stopped her, saying, "Wait, Senju, that miasma is highly polluting. It will be difficult to deal with if it spreads to the surrounding area."

"You can't handle it either?" Senju looked at Aqua, who clearly had strong purification abilities. Aqua nodded, "It's fine in the water, but pollution on land has to be removed little by little, which is very troublesome."

"I see. It seems I'll have to step in," Senju said, standing up and walking outside. "You guys wait here for now."

“How can that be? How can a knight stay behind someone else?” Darkness stood up as well, while Megumin held up her staff. “I also want to try the thrill of fighting a boss. This kind of target is perfect for burst damage. Although I feel like one shot won’t be enough, I can use eleven. Kazuma, get the potion out.”

“There’s no other way, I’ll join too. I can’t miss this chance to level up,” said Kazuma Sato, drawing his dagger. “My partner… also craves the boss’s blood!”

"Um, I guess I don't need to participate," Aqua said, backing away. Sato Kazuma tapped her on the shoulder, exasperated. "Don't cause any trouble. You just need to provide support!"

"What? It's that simple? With the goddess behind you, warriors, hurry up and go slay the monster!" Aqua exclaimed excitedly.

"Alright, just be careful yourselves. Aqua's here anyway," Senju reminded them before raising her staff. "Fimbourne!"

A powerful blast of cold air swept across the lake, and with the help of magic, the entire lake froze into a block of ice. Thousand Hands struck again, "Tornado!"

A powerful column of wind suddenly appeared from the miasma, sucking it in. Then everyone saw the Hydra frozen on the lake's surface. "Sunfire!"

A burst of intense fire shot from Senju into the pillar of wind, instantly burning away the miasma within. Those nearby breathed a sigh of relief as they watched the frozen monster, but Megumin could still sense its magical power. She too began to gather her own magic, asking, "Can I shoot? Is it okay now?"

"He should be dead by now," Aqua said as she ran over. Then the ice cracked open. Kazuma Sato looked at Aqua speechlessly, then shouted to Megumin, "Now's the perfect time!"

"Hahaha, leave this to me! Hydra may be a subspecies, but it's still a lower-ranking dragon. If I kill it, I can rightfully call myself the Dragon Slayer!" Huihui shouted happily, then ripped off her eyepatch. "Blacker than black, pitch black, fused with my crimson, the time for awakening has come. Fall into the realm of infallibility, form an invisible distortion, appear, Explosion!"

As she chanted her spell, a powerful magical reaction erupted around her. A fiery red magic circle unfolded in the sky and then hurtled towards the frozen monster, engulfing the Hydra in a massive explosion.

"Ouch!" But it was obvious

Hydra was not dead. As the surrounding dust cleared, everyone saw that only its two heads were missing, and they were still growing rapidly.

"Tch, the power is still too weak," Huihui said unwillingly while lying on the ground, then shouted at Sato Kazuma, "Take out that drug, I'll do it again."

"Wait," Kazuma Sato pulled a box from his pocket, opened it, took out a vial, and fed it to Megumin. The Hydra over there also saw the people here, and it swam over and rushed towards them.

The explosion dealt it a heavy blow, but it also shattered the ice around it. Senju, watching from the side, felt that it couldn't be allowed to get any closer. "Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!"

A giant wooden figure suddenly appeared. Compared to it, Hydra looked like a small cat. Thousand Hands' consciousness transferred into the wooden figure, grabbed Hydra's tail, and slammed it around repeatedly.

The battle ahead left those behind stunned. "This is too unfair! Senju, you actually have this move? Huh, Senju?"

Kazuma Sato saw Senju sitting on the ground, seemingly unconscious, and couldn't help but shout. Aqua, who was next to him, glanced at him and said, "Don't worry, Senju is currently focused on controlling that giant and can't attend to this side."

“I see,” Kazuma Sato wiped away a cold sweat. He had almost interrupted Senju’s spellcasting. “Darkness, protect Senju’s body and don’t let anything touch it.”

“Leave it to me,” Darkness replied happily, then used her body to block all the ice blocks and pebbles flying towards her.

As the wooden figure slammed down violently, Hydra screamed incessantly, but it quickly wrapped itself around the wooden figure's fist and then spat out molten liquid that corroded the wooden figure's hand.

Seeing that his palm had been corroded, Thousand Hands immediately restored it. However, Hydra fell onto the ice, and Thousand Hands immediately began to punch repeatedly with both fists, then four, then eight, then hundreds of fists, continuously bombarding the area. When Thousand Hands felt that it was almost enough, he saw a shrunken eight-headed serpent lying in the ice pit.

"It's really tough," Senju exclaimed, surprised that it hadn't died after such a strong attack and was now slowly reviving.

Chapter 584 The Palace in the Water

"Come out, longsword," Thousand Hands said, seeing that it was still alive. He crafted several large swords of super-hard metal and slashed down with force. At first, the Hydra was constantly regenerating, but after a while, the Hydra was chopped into minced meat by Thousand Hands, and blood splattered everywhere.

“It shouldn’t be able to come back to life now,” Senju said to the people beside him as he returned his spirit to his body. The group looked at the giant wooden figure and then at the minced meat, and they all shook their heads. “It definitely won’t come back to life.”

“But how are we going to show this to the guild? We might lose the bounty,” Sato Kazuma said worriedly. Senju paused for a moment, then said, “That is a problem. By the way, Aqua, can you save it?”

“This,” Aqua hesitated, looking at the Hydra that had turned into minced meat. Darkness stepped forward and said, “Don’t worry, in the name of the Dustinis family, your attack will not be erased. I will report this to the capital, and the relevant information can also be found on the card.”

“Oh,” Senju nodded. Although he didn’t understand the Dustinis family, it seemed that Darkness was also a noble. He then looked at the card and saw that it had leveled up ten times in one go. It seemed that this was a real experience gift pack.

After packing up the wooden figure and the shredded meat, Senju looked at the group that were currently entangled with Darkness and said, "Well then, let's begin construction."

“Great, great!” Aqua exclaimed excitedly from the side. “We’ll put the palace here, the giant statues here, and over here…”

"Let's eat something first," Kazuma Sato said, tapping Aqua before gathering twigs and lighting them with a 'fire starter,' but then he looked at the rabbit with some concern.

Huihui immediately took it and started processing it with a short knife. Sato Kazuma helped create water using 'Water Generation'. After a while, a processed rabbit was placed on the fire.

"Wow, Megumin is amazing," Darkness praised Megumin's skills, while Senju discussed the construction of the palace with Aqua.

"This is too much trouble. I might as well just flatten this place and build structures there," Senju said, explaining his construction plan. Aqua, after her initial excitement, became frightened again. "Could there be other monsters hiding here?"

"Probably not," Senju shook his head, glancing at Huihui who was excitedly roasting rabbits. He had no desire to eat those rabbits. "Well then, I'll get started."

Thousand Hands slowly floated up, opened a spatial entrance in front of him, swept the area, and then all the items above the cut surface disappeared, leaving only bare land. He continued to repeat this process until there were no more depressions.

“This is…” The group stared blankly at the surrounding scene. After slightly enhancing his artistic skills, Senju created a model from the palace data scanned by number six. “Then let’s begin!”

Crystal palaces began to rise from the surrounding ground, followed by various facilities. After a while, the group found themselves...

I was roasting a rabbit in a pale blue crystal square.

"This isn't a dream, is it?" Kazuma Sato rubbed his eyes in confusion, then he tugged at Aqua's cheek. "That statue looks a lot like you."

"Ouch, ouch, ouch!" Aqua broke free from Kazuma Sato's clutches. "Of course it looks like me! That's me!"

In the huge square stands a colorful crystal Aqua statue over a hundred meters tall, built based on the image of 'the Goddess of Compassion' provided by Aqua. It has pink feathers floating behind it and blue hair, making it look very solemn.

“This plaza is where everyone worships me,” Aqua excitedly ran around the plaza, but then she tripped and fell. However, she didn’t seem to be hurt. Instead, she said in confusion, “Strange, why is there water here? Is it because I built a palace here? I’m so amazing.”

However, the people nearby noticed that water was starting to leak everywhere in the square. In some places, the springs were even washing up the stone slabs on the ground. After a while, a layer of water more than ten centimeters deep appeared on the flat stone square. Combined with the blue floor below, it looked like being at sea.

"Oh, sorry, I forgot about the groundwater," Senju said apologetically. Although he could remove the hills, mounds, and trees, he couldn't do anything about the spring water that gushed up from underground.

"Senju is amazing! This is the perfect place for me to live. Let me purify this water first," Aqua said happily as she sat on the water's surface. Several team members beside her were holding roasted rabbits. Sato Kazuma looked at the surrounding water speechlessly. "Let's go back. I feel like this place will be flooded in no time!"

“Hmm, that’s right,” Huihui and Darkness nodded, but when they got outside, the area had turned into a vast ocean with dozens of springs gushing water, and the depression was about to be filled.

Senju looked around and realized that he had indeed been careless. Although this place seemed very suitable for the goddess of water to live in, he had dug too deep!

Aqua, who was inside, saw her team members about to run away, so she chased after them, saying, "Wait, everyone! There are still places for you to stay here."

“Let’s forget it,” Kazuma Sato looked at the water around him. “I can’t adapt to this kind of environment. Besides, it’s so far from the town, and it would be very troublesome to live and do missions here.”

“How could this be! It was designed by someone else with great effort,” Aqua exclaimed. “With this, many believers will come to worship, and then I can live a leisurely life.”

“Is that so? That’s perfect,” Kazuma Sato said nonchalantly. “Then I’ll give up on defeating the Demon King too. If even someone as powerful as Senju has given up, I’m even less capable of dealing with him.”

"Why is this happening? If that happens, I won't be able to go back to the Celestial Realm!" Aqua cried out, clinging to Kazuma Sato's leg. Megumin and Darkness beside her also tried to persuade her, "Aqua, come back to town with us. It's inconvenient to do many things here."

"No way!" Aqua stubbornly insisted. "This place is my temple, and I'm going to receive everyone's offerings here!"

"You useless goddess, do you want to go back to the heavens or stay here and enjoy offerings? Make it clear!" Sato Kazuma snapped, while Aqua said sheepishly, "Of course, it would be best if I could have both."

"Huh?!" Sato Kazuma glared at her, and Aqua immediately surrendered. "I understand, but let me make some arrangements here first!"

Chapter 585 Failure and Hypothesis

“Alright then,” Sato Kazuma nodded, and then the others went up to a higher platform. After sharing a roasted rabbit with Senju, the four of them ate there.

"Hmm? Not bad," Senju looked at the rabbit in his hand. The color was nice, and the smell was good too. Seeing that everyone around him was starting to eat it heartily, he also tried it. To his surprise, the roasted rabbit tasted very good.

While everyone ate rabbit, they watched Aqua work. She seemed to be setting up a barrier, running around everywhere. After a while, she ran to her own statue and started writing and drawing.

As Aqua cast her spell, the water in the entire plaza gradually receded, and the floor dried up again. Then, Aqua drew a magic circle there.

“The floodwaters have receded,” Darkness said, looking at the dry square. She jumped off the platform and went to Aqua’s side to watch her work.

Meanwhile, Megumin, who had eaten her fill, was feeling quite uncomfortable holding her staff. She could have fired another shot, but unfortunately, apart from Aqua's palace, there were no suitable targets. Moreover, the Nine Dragons Hydra had been killed by Senju, and she had not yet obtained the title of Dragon Slayer.

Kazuma Sato lay bored on the crystal platform, while Senju sorted through the pile of 'minced meat,' which contained a lot of scales and bones. Senju separated them one by one, intending to keep them as raw materials. Unfortunately, the monsters here didn't seem to have any magic stones. After sorting out the useful things, Senju froze the remaining minced meat.

After an unknown amount of time, Aqua finally finished her work. "It's all done. Let's go back to Axel and spread the word about what happened here so that more people can join the Axis Cult!"

"Ah!" Kazuma Sato stretched and said lazily, "That kind of..."

"What happened doesn't matter anymore. The problem is, how do we get out of here? The area around us has turned into a lake!"

“Don’t worry,” Aqua gave Kazuma Sato a thumbs up, “Mizu is my familiar, this little thing is easy for me!”

Seeing Aqua's appearance, everyone decided to trust her for the time being. Then they saw Aqua jump into the water, which was more than a meter deep, and swim there with ease. "Everyone, just follow me and swim across."

"I'd be an idiot to believe you!" Kazuma Sato shouted angrily, then opened his arms towards the water's surface. "Freeze!"

A thin layer of ice immediately formed on the surrounding water, freezing Aqua, who was swimming there, in place. "What are you doing! Is Kazuma an idiot? Why did you use freezing?!"

“It seems this won’t work,” Sato Kazuma shook his head, looking at the thin layer of ice, then looked at Senju beside him, “Senju-sama, I’m counting on you this time!”

“Hmm,” Senju nodded, then built a long wooden bridge over the water. Darkness also pulled Aqua out of the water, and the group left along the wooden bridge.

Aqua also erected a large sign at the end of the bridge that read, "Axis Order, Axel Branch, Temple of the Great Goddess Aqua, welcome all believers to come and worship."

On the way back, they used the airship again. Although everyone felt it was a bit dangerous, walking was too tiring. Fortunately, nothing happened along the way, and after about ten minutes, they were back in Axel.

After stopping outside, the five of them rushed into the guild. Aqua ran to the bounty board and looked around for a while before tearing off Hydra's bounty poster. "This is the quest we need to turn in."

"This is an ultra-powerful boss, the Nine-Dragon Hydra. Did you defeat it?" Luna looked at Aqua with admiration. Aqua proudly raised her head. "Of course! Who told it to live in my newly purchased territory? Offending the water goddess Aqua will bring divine punishment."

Kazuma Sato ran over and kicked Aqua aside. "Actually, this is what happened... and then we defeated the Hydra."

“I see,” Luna nodded after hearing what Sato Kazuma said. “Then we’ll have the capital send someone to inspect it. Once that’s confirmed, the bounty will be issued.”