Death March — Fixed

“Tek here, for my work, I had to put together a lot of disposable scripts, but when I got accustomed to it, I could make one in less than 10 seconds. New recruits were surprised when they saw it for the first time--but they could also do it themselves a year later. That is if they didn’t disappear before a year was up…like a certain junior.”

“There they are.” Arisa looks over one of the parapets and sees the girls fighting a distance away, “Master, they’re surrounded by Zombies…”

I walk up and pat her on the shoulder, “It’s fine, I will support them with Remote Arrow if they really need it.”

Grabbing a more expensive staff out of storage, one that looked like an obsidian stalagmite with a tennis ball-sized Emerald was set in the top, glowing runes floated around inside the Emerald.

“What is that staff?!” Arisa looked at the staff in my hand.

“Hmm? It’s called ‘Staff of the Cave Hermit’…It increases Magic damage by 30%, decreases both Magic Power cost, and the enemy’s Resistance by 15%. And a special Spell, which I won’t use, called Ancestor’s Cave Dwelling--which causes the surroundings to become a cave, in which I have a lot of power--sort of like an artificial labyrinth.” I explain the staff to Arisa as I fire 3 successive shots of 14 Remote Arrows.

For some reason, Arisa rolls her eyes and taps me on the forehead a few times, “First--that staff would sell for more than a Kingdom, and that’s even without the unfair skill. Second--Magic isn’t something that you can fire rapidly, you are lucky that the people only saw one set of your Remote Arrows.”

I look over and see the Baron looking impressed. For some reason, some of the maids, and female soldiers have slightly flushed cheeks.

“When you’re in front of people, keep around a 5 - 10 second gap between each Arrow if possible.” Arisa finished and looked back at the Zombies.

For now, I have to get Liza and the others out of their current predicament. I’ll let Liza and the other finish off the lower-20s level Monster, so they can gain experience--but their safety comes first.

I’m slightly worried that the knight from Duke Oyugock, who’s near them, witnessing it; but they probably think that I am the one firing all the shots.

“Arisa, it’s time to act, I am going to unleash Remote Arrows, and pretend you launch some too. Just time them with mine.”

“Yes, master.” Arisa responds and raises her staff, she is intently watching my actions, to time it correctly.

This time, I can pause maybe 3 seconds between each one launched from my staff, interspersed with the ones ‘launched’ from Arisa’s staff.

I open fire, taking down the three hydras, using Arisa to divert some attention, faking the both of us drinking MP Potions. The Baron looks impressed, but not suspicious. I can’t hide my power all the time, so I need to slowly reveal portions, but not enough to draw fear or the desire to monopolize me.

***

“The forest it strange.” Pochi says as she pulls at my sleeves again.

That’s right, I had put them off since I was worried about Liza and the other’s safety, but the Giants in the forest were having some trouble.

Fortunately, since the Giants who were affected with Confusion are few, it seems like there wasn’t any friendly-fire. As expected, it’s probably easy for the high-leveled ones to resist the Magic.

Now then, while I finish off the foes who are giving Liza and the others a hard time, with the Remote Arrows fired from the sky in such angles that the people on the wall don’t even see them, I remove a Spacial Pouch out from beneath my robe.

Now comes the more difficult part--I guess I just have to hope for the best.

Out of the pouch, I pull a crossbow that looks like it is constructed from fire. The cool wood looks like it would be burning hot, it is the Holy Bow ‘Conquest’s Bow’, which seems to be named after the fourth horseman ‘Conquest’.

While Arisa, and the Baron, are still gaping at me, I pull out a Holy Arrow. The Arrow is called Sagitta, which is named after the Arrow that Hercules used to kill the eagle that eternally consumed Prometheus's liver.

I quickly enable my ‘Hero’ Title.

Suddenly, I see the indicators that denote the Demons on my radar, are rushing out of the forest.

A surprise attack?

I immediately prepare more floating Remote Arrows, only Arisa notices.

“W-What?” Arisa flinches as she sees my reactions.

“It’s the Demons, they’re leaving the forest.” I start tell Arisa, but suddenly notice something, “Wait, they’re not jumping out, they got blown away by one of the Giants.”

The Split Bodies are annihilated the moment they leave the forest.

The Demon’s real body, which has been blown out of the forest is floating in the air while facing the forest.

I can’t see, since it’s too far away, but it’s probably using Magic Power to float.

While I stare hard at it, some skills become available--which I instantly max out and activate.

>>Skill: Distant View Acquired.

>>Skill: Bird’s Eye Acquired.

Since I can now accurately see the Demon, and all of it’s surroundings, I pour Magic Power into Sagitta, the Holy Arrow.

Since Arisa had put 100MP into the Holy Sword just fire, first I’ll put in around 50MP, since there seem to be differences in power between our Magic.

It’s fine.

Continuing on, 100MP

I am keeping the Demon caged with Remote Arrows--and since I saw someone with the See Through Skill in the forest, I used something that I had been playing with. My Remote Arrows, well my Magic in general seemed to change if I had the intention in my mind when I cast--maybe because my skill was so high?

But the Remote Arrows from the sky, had a different feeling from my normal ones--so the person with See Through probably won’t know I was the one who launched the Remote Arrows which contained the Demon.

When I put 200MP into Sagitta, it begins to shake rapidly. It gets covered in a glowing blue pattern, the same pattern that appeared on Liza’s spear.

It will probably explode if I put any more into it.

Now then, I wonder how much damage it will cause.

I’ve aimed, using help from the map, and shoot Sagitta out of the Holy Bow, Conquest’s Bow.

Then, several hundred meters away, seconds after firing, the Holy Bolt causes a small explosion--causing it to rapidly accelerate. Flying in a straight line at the Demon, it draws a track of blue light which sucks the Demon into it--

“Huh?”

--it flies away into the empty sky, leaving several circles of what look like blue rings.

After several seconds, Sagitta’s special ability activates and it reappears in my storage…nice!

This seems a little too anticlimactic an end for a Demon, but since the log displayed, ‘Short Horn Demon is Defeated!’--I actually defeated it.

“Hey, what about the Demon, is it coming here?” Arisa asks, the Baron looking worried, listening intently for my answer. From their point of view, it would only have looked like a small explosion.

Well, since I decided to reveal this, I should probably keep the ‘Hero’ title always applied, unless things change.

“I’ve beat it.” I speak calmly, more to the Baron than Arisa, slipping the crossbow back into the Space Bag.

Both of them are shocked.

Pochi hugs me and rubs her head on my chest as her tail wags so quickly that it’s like a fan--when I pat her head with a smile, she looks at me, “Master always wins!”.

“Yeah, he does.” I can hear tiredness in Arisa’s voice, but she smiles at me.

One of the Giants place a person, who looks to be the young lady, on top of the city wall near us. I can’t see the Magic Tool with the See Through Skill, the one called Raka, which means that it could probably either become small or invisible.