Vol 6 – Chapter 29 – The Girls’ Battles (Part 3)
POV: Tama
Nyu!
Path springs out of the forest?
It looks like the secret arts of the Fairies, I’ll ask Mia to teach it to me next time.
I’ll be taking a lot of prey freely!
Huh?
Ahead, on the opposite side of the forest, I can see dark people. Behind the people who are running away on the highway?
Ah, an old woman fell.
A dark monkey-like thing bares its fangs, bullying the old woman.
Don’t bully the old woman.
I throw a stone from here.
Aah, the dark person’s head disappeared.
Will master scold me?
Green blood is coming out of the dark person, looks like it’s a Monster?
Safe!
POV: Liza
“Mia, to the highway.”
“I understand.”
Mia connects the path to the highway.
I want to quickly go to master’s side--but if I abandoned people of the same race as master on the way, I wouldn’t be able to show my face in front of him.
Master has so much mercy, he probably won’t abandon innocent people.
I quickly pour Magic Power into the Magic Spear--after master reforged it, it feels as though it’s an extension of my arm; as though my nerves are connected, running along it all the way to the tip. I could wield it freely.
“With me holding this spear, I won’t let you through.”
A small fry that managed to bypass me because of its speed, and sacrificing its companions, is easily dealt with by Tama. I’ll leave that side to her.
The enemies are a swarm of Zombies.
“Mia, bows and arrows don’t work on these things. Please support me with Magic.”
“Nn.”
The Magic Spear slays the Zombies, which are swarming in groups, like I’m mowing grass. Normally, this is not how you should use a spear, but thanks to the effect of the Magic Blade that manifests when Magic Power is put into the spear in accordance with what master taught me, I can cut them as if they’re dead trees.
If it was a normal spear, this careless handling would have long broken it.
“We’re helping ya, scalekin.”
Oh?
It looks like that cavalry, who have been following us, are going to participate in the battle.
It’s fine as long as they don’t get in the way--
POV: Karina
My fist was stopped before it managed to hit Ishizuchi.
“Raka, why are you stopping me?”
<Karina, you are under attack from the Demon’s Magic. Come back to your senses.>
When the Magic Tool Raka shines with a brilliant blue light, the hatred inside me disappears as though it was being washed away.
Besides me, it seems that the young Wood Giants and sir Zotor are affected by the Magic. The affected Giants are being pinned down by the other Giants--sir Zotor is raging violently, while being held upside down by his ankles.
I’m a bit disappointed.
<Ishizuchi, punch towards the front left.>
‘Acknowledged.’
Ishizuchi hits a nearby tree, hard.
It was surprising.
Several dark people, who have bat wings, emerged from places that originally looked empty. When I asked Raka later, it’s not that the Demons were invisible, but they had disguised themselves as trees; it seems that it’s called mimicry.
“Muhahaha! Young lady, some unthinkable reinforcements--”
In the middle of the Demon’s talk, the Demon is suddenly sent flying all the way outside the forest.
Giants are short-tempered.
A female Giant, who’s walking beside Ishizuchi, swings an enormous club and sends all the dark Demons flying.
Most of the dark Demons have become dark rubbish after that attack, but one of them recovers and floats completely still in the air above us.
“That’s the real body, Ishizuchi, let’s go!”
‘Yeah.’
However, before Ishizuchi manages to move, the situation begins to change.
Many little lights, that come out of nowhere, are surrounding the Demon, moving around haphazardly. It looks very beautiful…though, my impression may be out of place.
<Ridiculous, that’s impossible!>
“Raka, what’s going on?”
<That’s a tactical level Magic that belongs to an Advanced-Grade Magic Art. Karina, is there an exceptional Mage working for the Baron?>
“No, there’s only one person who can use Intermediate-Grade Magic, but no one can use the Advanced-Grade.”
From the opposite side of the glittering lights, a blue light sparkles for an instant, before immediately disappearing over the horizon--leaving a trace of blue light.
Then, the Demon, which should have been contained in the glittering light vanishes.
“Did it escape?”
<That’s not it.> Raka’s voice sounds like he is forcefully squeezing the words out.
“It’s not?”
<The Demon has been destroyed. No, it was destroyed by an attack from a Holy weapon just then. Ridiculous, unbelievable.>
“Maybe is was the real hero?”
<I do no know, but that’s not the problem, Karina. The attack from the Holy Weapon earlier wasn’t normal. That was a Forbidden Technique that causes Magic Tools to run wild by supplying it with excessive Magic Power, in order to increase its attack power. The person earlier used a Holy Arrow or Javelin, but they used it to make the Holy Weapon disposable. Just who in the world is it?>
“Can’t you see it?”
<It’s too far away so I can’t use my power: See Through--but it seems to be a young man with black hair, he is holding a strange crossbow with words in a language that even I can’t translate: facti cinere. Though, judging by the flame-like wood. It looks like his weapon is a famous Holy Crossbow; and he used a Holy Arrow as though it was expendable…what is he?>
The impostor didn’t have a crossbow, but he was young and had black hair--but Raka could identify the impostor.
Furthermore, the impostor’s sword may have let off a blue light, but it didn’t have a mystic feeling. It was vague at the time, so I got deceived at first, but there’s no way it could be the twisting Gjallarhorn--if it’s about Holy Swords, I could talk for three days straight.
“Raka, let’s find out who he is!”
<Wait, Karina. First, we have to eliminate the Zombies that are overflowing from around the city.>
‘Don’t mind it, we have no more duties now that the Demon is destroyed, so you can leave the disposal of the Zombies to us and the knight.’
I happily take advantage of Ishizuchi’s favour, and let him take me down to the outer wall of the city, to near the strange man.
POV: Mia
Jeez! Just how many of them are there? Even though Liza and the cavalry should have defeated around 100 of them, they still keep coming. They’re really coming.
“*** * ** ***, Water Screen!”
Dangerous. Really dangerous.
Behind the Zombies, there’s a snake with a lot of heads that was breathing fire.
Surprising, I was really surprised.
But, but, I had wonderfully prevented it with Water Screen. Prevented, you know. It’d break if I defended straight against it, so I had just warded it off to the side.
I came up with it when I saw Tama and Pochi warded off with Liza’s spear. I just had to put it into practical use, you know?