God of Money: Reincarnated as the Weakest SSS Rank
Chapter 83: Grand Potbellied of the Ancient Empire

Chapter 83: Grand Potbellied of the Ancient Empire

It was a terrifying being; its hands and feet looked like dried branches of some ancient tree that stretched out to the sides for more than 4 meters, while its torso was only 2 meters long, but it was incredibly fat.

Its rotting flesh made it look terrifying, and the bandages on its body made it look like a corpse that had existed since ancient times.

The visual impact was not as frightening as the smell he suddenly began to give off. It was a smell that, when inhaled, entered your lungs and burned them.

It was not magic, much less an ability.

It was how rotten it smelled and how horrible it felt to your nostrils.

Even when they were in the distance, it was still horribly smelling.

Its eyes were like hollows that glowed with a reddish hue. But its limbs seemed to be bound.

Large chains more than 1 meter thick seemed to chain them. But it was not quite true.

When this terrifying beast noticed its targets were looking at it, it pulled its legs and hands to the front and smashed the wall behind it. That wall seemed to begin to remake itself with a strange slowness, but on its own.

Still, the beast had broken free, and its name finally floated above its head.

[Grand Potbellied Traitor of the Ancient Empire: Level 60.]

’It’s not that strong, but its belly... It’s something to protect itself, isn’t it?’ Louis thought and looked at Laura.

She nodded to him, and they both immediately started running towards it.

The closer they got, the more horrible the smell became, so at one point, they both had to breathe the bare minimum.

They felt like that smell might hurt their nostrils.

As they approached, the beast screamed again, before pouncing on one of them: Laura.

Still, she simply jumped back and drew her weapon.

Louis quickly took her place and took the blow head-on.

Despite the Grand Potbellied weight and unreal height, it was pushed backwards, but not too much.

’It’s because of the body size advantage.’ Louis immediately realized that in frontal attacks like this, it would be difficult to kill this bastard quickly.

That’s why he took advantage of the force of the impact and threw a shot at it with his other hand.

They were no longer at such a long distance as before, so the bullet, launched with his skill, firmly pierced the skeletal hand of the Grand Potbellied and shattered it.

At the same time, another bullet echoed from behind.

With terrifying precision, worthy of a sniper, the bullet passed through its head, shattering a part of it completely.

Despite this and the following scream that seemed to allude that the shots had hurt it, the Grand Potbellied was able to keep moving.

She had missed the core, but not because she failed in her aim, but rather because she failed to know where it was.

’It must be in the belly.’ Louis thought. That pile of rotting fat in its belly shouldn’t be for no reason.

He needed to find out.

Louis reloaded his gun and started to run to the side. Then he fired a second shot, this time a magical one, towards the other hand, which was coming towards him to hit him.

The speed made Grand Potbellied’s escape impossible. Soon, the impact shattered the incoming hand, and it could not reach its target, thwarting it.

After reloading as fast as he could, this time with a magic bullet, Louis fired again, aiming at one of the feet with great precision.

The shot hit a little above the chains, right in the calves, shattering that part and cutting off one leg, forcing it to fall forward on its knees.

This one rolled far enough, shredding the rotting flesh on its knees, to reach a meter of Louis, which he took advantage of to aim at it at point-blank range, right in the belly.

Then he fired.

BAM*

Although Laura hadn’t understood what he was doing before, she could finally figure it out at this moment.

Its core was behind all that rotting belly meat.

She couldn’t help but wrinkle her nose at the thought of the terrible smell Louis was smelling right now, but after seeing Louis’ shot meet resistance, she aimed in exactly the same direction and released the shot.

BAM*

One bullet was pushed with the other, passing through the barriers of flesh or fat arranged there. Louis’ bullet carried a shattering force, which shattered the core as soon as it touched it.

Laura’s bullet carried flames of rage, which ignited the entire body from within.

"WAHH..."

A final scream was emitted before the flames swallowed its entire body.

As the flames swallowed it, Louis could see that its last remaining eye showed some strange feeling of... despair and hopelessness.

’Curious. Beasts that are practically dead, can they feel those kinds of emotions?’

Still, he paid more attention to the keys that fell into his hand and then stepped back to avoid the heat from the flames.

He smiled. "We got it." He spoke.

Laura nodded in the distance and finally relaxed.

The battle hadn’t lasted long, but somehow it was intense. Even though the level was well below her own, she had felt the pressure.

"The dungeons in this place are always so troublesome." She sighed and stood up.

"Let’s go back."

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When they got back upstairs, they realized that it hadn’t been long; it was just that the passage of time in that place wasn’t what they expected.

Already, the sun was beginning to set.

"Shall we make camp or go to the next one?" She asked.

Louis shrugged. "If we keep fighting, we’ll run out of supplies. I don’t know what the Bat Cave will be like, but those beasts always go around in large groups. If it turns out that there are more beasts there than in this dungeon, then we’ll be in trouble."

"You’re right. Let’s make camp then and pull ourselves together."

With the decision already made, they went back to the Red Hill River.

It was lonely.

A wild deer with gleaming antlers was quietly drinking water at the river’s edge, while the fish continued on.

The deer had no trouble with them, so they pitched a tent while taking out a few things to prepare food.