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My hand flashed out, clawed gauntlets extended.
And bounced off of the flesh of the Goliaths lower stomach, where its magic stone was located.
Its skin was so tough and durable, I couldn't even leave a scratch on it. I am literally incapable of getting my loot from the boss monster I just killed.
I sighed in defeat.
It made a fine pair with the disappointment I felt. I literally cannot believe this. When I came up with the idea to come down here and fight this thing after acquiring a safety net, I thought that that I'd be fighting a titanic beast. I thought I'd be on the defensive, playing keep away in a desperate, heart pounding, adrenaline fuelled scramble through a massive uphill battle.
What I got, was nothing close to that. For one, the Goliath wasn't even half the size I was expecting. It was seven metres tall. That was less than twenty five feet. The Black Goliath, was well over fifty feet by my estimates. And on top of that, it didn't have the regeneration I thought it would either.
Like, I know the Black Goliath was an irregular spawned by the dungeon specifically in response to Hestia's divine power to kill her, but the discrepancy is a bit too great here.
Sure the normal Goliath was way too durable for me to hurt from the outside, and was way, way stronger than me and could have probably killed me easily if it got a hold of me.
But that required it to be fast enough to do so. And it wasn't. It wasn't any faster than some of the minotaur's I'd seen on the way down here, and not nearly as fast as the enhanced Killer Ant I made…who was a bit of a disappointment itself.
Frankly, with that size, it just made the Goliath an easier target. If it was actually smaller, closer to a human in size, I don't think I could have beaten it. But with how big it was, yet not titanic levels like the Black Goliath, it was stuck in a middle point where it wasn't too big for me to dodge around easily when it attacked me, while not being small enough to actually move that massive bulk around fast enough to catch me and it having the same vital soft spots as a human, just made it all that easier to kill.
Its absurd durability didn't mean jack shit when I could so easily target its soft spots.
"Do you want…me to get it for you?" the voice of my current companion drew me from my thoughts and I looked over my shoulder to meet the blank gaze of Ais Wallenstein.
Honestly, I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that I've agreed to teach the titular heroine how to game break the falna and get even stronger. Is this a form of cuckoldry? Am I cucking Bell?
I'm not sure how to feel about that to be honest, I'd had literally zero plans at all about interacting with this chick and the Loki Familia as a whole, even though I knew it'd be inevitable.
I suppose it isn't really cucking him considering I'm not really interested in her. I mean, don't get me wrong, Ais is beautiful, gorgeous even. Those thighs and that ass? Woo boy!
But that blank gaze is just kinda creepy. All that beauty she has, doesn't mean jack squat when she basically comes across as a doll. Some guys would probably be into that kind of thing, I know for sure there were sad freaks on the internet into mind control crap and the like who were totally and creepily into chicks being their doll like love slaves.
But that ain't for me. Though she's definitely good eye candy.
"Yeah, if you can please." I replied, waving my hand at the giant Goliath corpse I was standing atop of.
"Mmm." Ais nodded and with a casual jump, leaped twenty feet through the air to land beside me, drawing her gleaming beautifully crafted rapier as she did.
With a single casual swipe of her arm that was so fast I could barely follow it with my eyes and only saw a shining flash, the blade gouged and sliced through the Goliath's chest, peeling it open and revealing the large magic gleaming magic stone within its body, in place of its heart.
"Thanks." I said, before stepping forward and grasping its both sides of the sliced open skin and grit my teeth and pulled. It was insane how rigid and heavy its skin was, and the amount of exertion I needed to put into it just to peel both sides back a few inches made my hands go numb and I could feel a pulsing vein throb along the side of my face.
it took a good minute or so before I pulled it back fully enough for me to retrieve the magic stone, and I realise I could have had Ais do it, but still.
When I finished, I was panting deeply, more exhausted than I had been from fighting the damn thing. Wiping sweat from my brow, I reached in and grasped the magic stone which was about half the size of my body, the biggest I'd seen yet by far and pulled it free.
As soon as I did, the Goliath's body fell apart, dissolving into black smoke and disappeared and both I and Ais dropped to the ground.
I blinked as we landed though, because there was something in the place of the Goliath.
It was a huge curved fang-like tooth, a bit longer than my forearm.
"Ah…a Goliath Tooth," Ais tilted her head to the side as she noticed it as well, "Lucky."
I nodded in agreement.
While the drop item wasn't all that big, from what I've read, it could be used to make incredibly durable equipment, mostly small equipment like gauntlets, or weapons like a short sword.