Just when I thought it’s getting boisterous deep in the forest, I t Mai, i, and rdie, who was carrying Leaffa.
Behind them, the forest was enveloped in a raging fire, and they were running from the fast-approaching flas.
They reached the spot where Youko and I were sitting. As rdie was catching her breath, I asked her about Leaffa’s condition. Apparently, Leaffa refused to escape, so rdie hit her, so she’ll pass out.
If it’s just fainting, it’ll be easy to revive her. So I prioritized stopping the looming fire.
I released magic and ford a summoning circle. Because of that Evil God’s curse, I can’t consu more than 10 points of mana. However, the most basic summoning of spirits requires at least 30 points. In other words, I can’t summon with the usual thods because my mana is not enough.
Since that’s how it is, I just devised my own thod. I cast magic then transform each clump into characters and letters. I do this until I have enough symbols to arrange into a summoning circle.
Each symbol consus 10 points of mana, and since the magic circle I use is made up of about 1000 characters, a single summoning consus a considerable amount of magical power.
I was cursed, but my magical power isn't reduced at all.
The magic circle is completed.
If I were to extinguish the blaze, then I’ll summon her.
“Aqua Lance!”
I pictured the image of a woman holding a water-attribute trident and activated my magic.
"Halt, it's been a long ti."
"Ah, it's been a while. Have you been well?"
It’s been three years since I last summoned Undine, the water spirit.
"Just so so. Hmm, lately, I've been lonely because you didn’t summon ."
"Sorry, Sorry."
Three years is just a tiny span of ti for Undine who lives eternally, but I used to summon her every day to partner with for training, so I can sowhat understand her feelings.
After that, Undine started to talk to Mai and , so I started reviving Leaffa and rdie. By the way, Undine already manipulated the water with just one hand, and she extinguished the forest fire.
As usual, she’s a spirit that can really work.
“Ugh… w, where is this?”
“Oh, you’re awake. Ah, don’t force yourself, is there anywhere that hurts?”
I cast Recovery Magic to Leaffa, and she gained consciousness.
Since I can only use Level 1 Healing Magic, I have to layer up hundreds of spells to elevate the spell in order to revive her.
“Halt, thank you very much. I am fine now.”
“Hoh, that’s good. How about rdie, are you okay?”
rdie, who joined us earlier, apparently forced herself to move so they’ll be able to escape. So she realized the danger was finally over because of Undine’s magic, she collapsed to the ground.
She couldn’t stand because of the fatigue, so I also divided so of the Recovery Magic and applied it to her.
“I’m good, my magic’s full to the brim.”
That’s good to hear Seems like they recovered just fine.
“Sorry for earlier, Leaffa.”
“No, I’m the one who should apologize; I did not keep my cool. Thank you for carrying all the way here.”
"It's great that both of you were safe. By the way, what kind of monster did you et that caused the forest to catch fire?”
I finally asked the matter that’s been bothering . If I’m not mistaken, there should be no demon in this forest that could be the source of that fire.
“It’s probably this, right?”
Undine-sama brought the ball of fire trapped inside a water chamber from who knows where.
“Ah!!! Yes!! That’s it!!!”
The thing Leaffa pointed to was my magical mass of fire.
"This, this guy attacked Leaffa!?"
"... Rather than saying I was attacked, it ca towards so aggressively. I was shocked, so I attacked."
“But the truth is, it just wanted to exterminate the Goblin Archer hiding in the thicket behind Leaffa.”
The [Fla Knight] noticed the Goblin Archer targeting Leaffa, so it tried to attack it. Unfortunately, the knight startled Leaffa and was attacked instead.
Leaffa’s wind magic and the knight’s fla magic’s compatibility is too good.
The dense and compact wind was absorbed by the knight, causing the flas to explode and spread towards the forest.
── so it was an accident.
I felt relieved to know that my magic didn’t deliberately attack Leaffa.
Ah, but I think I still need to apologize to everyone for putting them in danger.
“…This guy’s my spell.”
“EHHH!?” (All)
“I’m deeply sorry for inflicting danger to everyone because of this.”
I bowed my head towards the four of them.
“Do you have any proof that this is truly your magic, Halt-sama?”
Mai asked . I dunno why Mai suddenly addressed with honorifics, but that’s not important, so I gave her the evidence.
“Undine, take out that guy.”
“I got it. This fire doesn’t disappear even in my water chamber, so what kind of chanism does it have?”
Undine asked while she was releasing the [Fla Knight]. After being released, the knight beca full-grown. Well, that’s to be expected since it’s my spell, after all.
“I’ll show you now.”
I drew closer to the knight.
The knight went down on one knee as if to swear loyalty to .
“So, is this okay? Or would you like to create another one?”
“No, no need! Thank you very much!”
Mai and i didn’t speak that much.
Mai looks like she’s interested in my magic, so I hope we’ll have more opportunities to talk in the future.
“Is everyone safe?”
Tina ca running towards us, with Luke, Luna, Ryuushin, and Ryuka on her heels.
Luke’s four-man group seed really shaken when they saw the knight of flas kneeling in front of .
“Professor Tina, we were all safe, thanks to Halt.”
Leaffa explained the situation to Tina. She said it’s thanks to , so I was a bit shy.
“Leaffa, you blew the whistle, right. I am truly sorry I was not able to co to your side imdiately.”
“Did sothing happen?”
I wanted to know the reason why Tina didn’t co to Leaffa’s rescue right away.
“… Yes. First, for so reason, a large number of Maho Gnos live in this forest, and a herd attacked Luke and Luna.”
“Eh?”
“However, when I ca, the Maho Gnos were already subjugated.”
“Luke did that?”
“Nah. You listen to the rest of Teacher Tina’s story, will ya.”
“As soon as I reached Luke’s place, I suddenly sensed the presence of a considerably strong Warlock near where Ryuushin and Ryuka were.”
“Warlock!?”
“Yes, but the Warlock was also defeated.”
“Y, you’ve beaten the Warlock?”
“No, it wasn’t .”
Leaffa asked Ryuushin, but apparently, he was not the one to do it.
Sobody managed to vanquish B-ranked Maho Gnos and a Warlock.
This forest is more dangerous than we thought.
“When I listened to the four of them, I understood that the one who subjugated the Maho Gnos and the Warlock were the [Fla Knights].”
“EHHHHHH!!?”
“…”
Mai, i, Leaffa, and rdie shouted in surprise.
“Halt-sama, do you have any idea on this?”
Tina's gaze is fixed on the knight of fire in front of .
Ahhh... So it really is this guy.
“…Yeah. This Flaming Knight is my magic.”
“So it really IS Halt!!”
Luke and Ryuushin scread simultaneously.
Hmm... I just assud defeating C-rank monsters would be easy-peasy… but it seems that these guys (Fla Knights) were stronger than I thought.
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