I Am the Weakest Cat, but If I Keep Evolving, Can I Become the Strongest? - Episode 19: VS Crazy Lizard

Episode 19: VS Crazy Lizard 

▽ Episode 18: VS Crazy Lizard 

I observe the Crazy Lizard. 

It aggressively attacks the violent turtles and devours them in no time. 

Even turtles desperately resisting with water magic are overpowered by the lizard that breathes high-powered flames. 

After burning them to ashes, it slurps them up and eats them. 

The only ones not eaten by the Crazy Lizard now are the rabbits and me. 

The other creatures have no way to deal with the lizard. 

“Nyao” 

Let’s try hitting it once. 

I quietly activated magic while hiding on top of a tree. 

“Nyan ([Dimension Strike]),” 

The cat claw crackling with lightning scrapes the hard-scaled fire lizard. 

Unfortunately, it was my claw that got shattered. 

And it’s hot. 

My hand caught fire. I hurriedly used water magic to extinguish it. 

『――――』 

It noticed me. 

My eyes met with the Crazy Lizard. 

I attacked first. Without questions, I follow up with an attack using water magic. 

The Crazy Lizard breathes fire as if to erase it. 

The flamethrower in creature form easily evaporates water as it heads straight toward my life. 

“Nyaan ([Counter Gate]).” 

I send the hellfire back to the Crazy Lizard just as it is. 

However, perhaps because it has strong resistance to fire, or maybe it nullifies its own flames — it shows no signs of taking damage. 

『――――』 

The Crazy Lizard doesn’t move. 

Showing no concern, it continues spewing overwhelmingly destructive fire. 

What makes it a threat is its hard scales that can nullify all attacks, combined with long-range high-powered fire attacks. 

Even though its movements are dull, there’s little chance of victory. 

In the first place, Rank III lacks firepower. 

It’s afflicted with a disease, so I can’t kill it with poison. 

…..…In the back of my mind, “just run away quietly” rises as the top candidate. 

Physical attacks and magic attacks lack firepower. 

Poison can’t be inflicted, and enemy skills are nullified by the enemy. 

At first glance, it seems like I’m out of options. 

“If the enemy is crazy, and its movements are slow… then I can kill it.” 

I grinned to myself. 

▽ 

I use [Dimension Wall] as a floor and steadily rise into the sky. 

I reached about one hundred meters in height. 

Huge birds start to surround me. But if I intimidate them with [Thunder Claw], they don’t approach. 

Apparently, birds know how dangerous lightning is. 

Still, since they’re bird-brained, the moment I stop intimidating, they rush in at incredible speed. 

I take down a few of them with [Dimension Strike] as a warning. 

Now then. 

Let’s leave it at that. 

As I observed, I noticed the big birds don’t go higher than this. 

Any higher might attract “some dangerous creature”. 

They understand this on an instinctual, species-wide level. 

I’ll follow the precedent. 

“Nyaon ([Apport]).” 

Suddenly, a giant rock appeared in front of me. 

This is the boulder I summoned with the [Spatial Magic] spell [Apport]. 

[Apport] is a magic that draws in one’s own possessions. 

The range depends on magic attack power. 

In my case, the distance I can draw from is about 30 meters. 

This time, I used it about four times to summon it. 

Along the way, I placed it on [Dimension Wall]. And I repeated summoning and setting. 

Now, the enemy is directly below. 

I worked hard to lure it there. 

I also moved the big rock with [Apport] and brought it into a position where I could kill the enemy. 

The lizard’s flame range is about fifty meters. 

Until halfway, it tried hard to hit me. But now it can’t reach. 

The Crazy Lizard looks up at me longingly. It seems like it wants to burn me. 

“Nyan” 

Here, I deactivated [Dimension Wall]. 

Obeying gravity, the giant rock began to fall directly toward the Crazy Lizard. 

For good measure, I applied [Enchant Air] to the rock. 

Perhaps trying to intercept, or maybe because it’s just crazy, the lizard breathes fire at the rock. 

It’s such high temperature it could melt the rock. But just barely, [Enchant Air] acts as a shield. 

The next moment. 

The rock fell. 

An overwhelming mass attack… 

From this height, even that Crazy Lizard can’t come out unscathed. 

I couldn’t confirm below because of the cloud of dust. 

After descending to the search range and checking the smoke… it’s still alive. 

It looked like it was nearly dead. But it was definitely alive. 

If it had been the lizard before eating the Crazy Dogs, it would have calmly avoided it. Or it would not even let me prepare in the first place… 

The intelligence debuff is awful……… 

I descended to the ground. 

Its hard scales were broken in several places. Its bones seemed to be broken too. 

Crushed under the rock, it was twitching and spasming repeatedly.

I was totally creeped out. My tail went *byooon* without thinking. How embarrassing. 

“Nyao” 

I put some distance between us — and then made some preparations. 

First, I wrapped [Enchant Air] around my claws. 

Then, by extending my claws, I activated [Thunder Claw]. 

I gained momentum and used [Acceleration]. 

Overwhelming speed and two types of enchantments. 

It was so fast that my vision blurred. But without caring — I slammed a full-power blow into the lizard’s flesh. 

My claw, like a piercing hand, gouged into the lizard’s body. 

From the inside, I burned it with lightning. 

The lizard convulsed violently. 

It thrashed around. But after about three seconds, it settled down… 

I won. 

[You have reached the level limit.] 

[Please select your evolution path.]