On the way towards the magic city, Manarak, I suddenly heard a loud roar from behind the carriage. The coachman of the rchant carriage who also heard the sound stopped the carriage and turned around to look at us.
「It’s a flute made of ogre shellfish huh. It’s a signal for an all out battle against monsters. That’s why please do your best, Saint Pora-sama.」
The rchants bowed to Pora.
「P-Please stop calling with such an embarrassing na! P-Pora… is really troubled by that na…」
Pora’s face flushed red as she spoke to the rchants.
「Is that so?」
「Yes… no, I an, please. In the first place, Kanata-san is more powerful than Pora…」
「Eh… was that really the case? I an, I thought that he’s so sort of attendant…」
The rchant was looking at with a slightly doubtful look on his face.
「P-Pora is just a normal adventurer! That’s why, uhm… can you stop attaching weird title to Pora?」
… I wanted to add that Philia was far more powerful than Pora, at least by a factor of ten.
「Well, let’s do our job, Pora-san.」
I leapt out from the window of the carriage along with Philia.
「That child… you’re not going to leave her in the carriage?」
The rchant asked .
「Yeah, since I don’t know what she’s going to do I can’t leave her out of my watch for the ti being.」
I carried Philia on my shoulder as I replied with a wry smile towards the rchant.
After sending a sidelong glance towards the rchant who seems to be unable to understand the aning behind my explanation, I continued on towards the end of the line of the rchant carriages.
By the way, Pora chased after us a short bit later.
「Kanata-san… are you sure it’s safe to take Philia-chan along with you? I an, it’s not like she’s going to get hurt under Kanata-san’s protection but, in the worst case…」
「… Actually, I’ve an even bigger worries if I leave Philia-chan in the carriage since I don’t know what she’s going to do.」
「Kanata-san, what… do you think of Philia-chan?」
A level 1800 homunculus with the power to control the phantasmal class item, 《Dream Sand》.
Though I could say that she’s only your normal everyday girl, one carriage might get accidentally burned to ashes just by her playing around with fire magic.
「It’s o~ka~y! Philia, iz stronk!」
Pora sent a worried look at hearing Philia’s remark.
As for , I’m more worried about Philia’s attack being too strong.
I looked around.
All of the eight carriages that had gathered for this journey had already stopped. There were adventurers running towards the other end of the carriage line.
The adventurers around us were fighting against a crowd of huge white-haired monkeys with a pair of huge tusks stretching out of their mouths.
They were monsters called Fang Apes.
Though it was the first ti I was seeing them, I’d heard about them before from the adventurer’s guild. They were trouble monsters who liked chasing after caravans and attacked in crowds. In exchange, their danger level was quite low since every individual was a D-rank monster.
Their numbers matched the number of adventurers on our side. They might be able to handle this fight without our help.
Suddenly, two Fang Apes ca towards us.
「Let’s just hunt them normally according to our quote to prevent disturbing the other team.」
Pora and I alone should be more than enough to kill the two who were daring to charge at us. No one would complain if we killed those two Fang Apes.
「Well since we’ve got this rare chance, how about you try to use the spirit magic that you trained so hard?」
Since spirit magic was a magic that borrowed the power of spirits, many of its invocations take a long ti in exchange for the minimal amount of mana needed to use it.
Though it had the advantage of suppressing the exhaustion of the caster while allowing the caster to exhibit power far beyond their level, I think the fact that its user is exposed during the invocation was a fatal flaw in real combat. It was literally useless against an experienced opponent.
「Y-Yes! I’ll try it!」
Pora tightened her grip on her cane.
「Spirit Magic, 8th-Rank, (Salamander Claw》.」
Huge fire claws slashed through the air leaving behind a huge blackened scar on the ground due to its heat.
The Fang Ape who’d gotten hit by the fire claw was bisected in half and rolled to the ground as the fire burned its body.
I heard a commotion from afar.
… I didn’t wish for our battle to make a commotion but…
「I guess we should use weaker magic.」
「S-Sorry… B-But, it’s Kanata-san fault for ssing up with Pora’s common sense!」
When Pora was sending a resentful faze towards with slightly blushing cheeks, the other Fang Ape was already closing in on her. It had already leapt towards Pora, ready to swing its huge claws to end her life.
「SPIRIT MA-!」
Pora, who’d reacted slower, tried to use her spirit magic to defend herself but she wasn’t able to make it in ti.
「KYAAA!」
In a mont of confusion, she ended up pushing her cane towards the Fang Ape.
「GI!」
Pora’s cane pierced through the Fang Ape’s chest with ease.
Pora then raised up her cane and swung it down with force.
The Poor Fang Ape’s head crushed sickeningly against the ground, exploding into a gory ss.
「T-T… That was so close.」
This result was only natural considering the difference in their levels, but… for so reason, I felt sorry for the poor Fang Ape.
「Pora… might not need to use magic anymore…」
Pora swung down her cane which was now covered with the Fang Ape’s flesh and blood as she muttered those words with a lancholic look on her face.
「You might ended up being surrounded by level 300 enemies if you let your guard down you know.」
「Is that situation even possible outside of 《Distorted World of Cursed Mirror》?」
The level of the devils in the 《Distorted World of Cursed Mirror》 was around 3000 but… for Pora who couldn’t even see the movents of those devils, level 3000 and level 300 might look the sa for her… in a bad way.
「Well, that aside… Thanks for the hard work, Pora-san. Let’s go back and let the other adventurers to take care of the rest of Fang Apes.」
「Only praising Pora, so sly! Philia want to fight too!」
Philia, who was sitting on my shoulder, complained to .
When I looked up at her, she was pouting cutely.
… It seems she wishes to join the battle too.
That mont, I felt an unpleasant presence fast approaching in our direction.
The Fans Apes weren’t the only kind of monster that was attacking us. Sothing was trying to use the Fang Apes to distract us.
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