Chapter 111: Ominous Magical Beasts
After successfully enchanting their weapons and Ai gathered her composure, Tatsuro cleared away the earth wall. Gregory, on the other hand, was avidly observing a battle that could be described as a giant Paralaceus with a mammoth's face versus Jeanne, resembling sothing out of a special effects show.
He seed more engrossed in that fight than his own, completely unaware that Tatsuro and the others were watching the collapsed wall. anwhile, the lord's son, Bertram, cowered behind Gregory, trembling.
"No need to bother with pleasantries. Just go for it!" (Ai)
"Wind—Slash!" (Tatsuro)
With these words, Tatsuro swung a whip imbued with wind magic towards Gregory. The sli instinctively moved to shield him, but upon contact, a small tornado erupted from the whip. Part of the sli's body was blown away upon touching it, and the whip's tip struck Gregory's abdon, sucking it in as if vacuud.
"Guboo!? …Don't get cocky, and that won't happen!" (Gregory)
It seed a broken rib had punctured his internal organs, as Gregory spat blood and glared at the scattered sli, annoyed.
"All of you… are nothing but useless. Damn it, I didn't want to resort to this, but… Siton, co out." (Gregory)
"What?" (Tatsuro)
"What?" (Ai)
From behind Gregory, a pair of gray wings erged, and sothing shaped like a human crawled out, landing on the ground with a thud. Resembling a newborn foal, it struggled to stand, then wobbled forward to show its face to the two.
"Is that… a magical beast?" (Ai)
"Invisible to humans, though…" (Tatsuro)
The face resembled a goat with impressive horns, while the body was human-like, sporting large gray wings on its back. As they stared in astonishnt at the grotesque figure, it turned its head unnaturally towards Gregory, emitted an eerie "eeh," and healed his wounds.
"Is that magical healing?" (Tatsuro)
"Yeah, and its neck is twisted in a weird direction. Creepy, creepy." (Ai)
As they exchanged these impressions, Siton, the creature, turned its head again to face Tatsuro and the others. Flapping its wings, it flew up and released a black magical energy mass, roughly the size of a soccer ball, towards them. Sensing the danger, the two hastily moved away from the impact point. Upon landing, the energy created a crater with a three-ter diater, seemingly gouging out the ground.
"So, that's Gregory's trump card, huh?" (Ai)
"Yeah, definitely stronger than that elephant over there." (Tatsuro)
"h-h-h-eeh!"
While Tatsuro and the others prepared for the impending battle, Siton, the goat-faced creature, smirked unpleasantly, laughing like a human.
"We can defeat that thing. Let's go all out." (Ai)
"Yeah." (Tatsuro)
Ai switched the whip to her left hand and held a gem sword in her right. Confirming this, Tatsuro fired several lasers. Siton, with its limbs dangling, skillfully dodged while flapping its wings, creating several black magical energy projectiles that scattered in the surroundings.
"Gaah!?" (Gregory)
"What?" (Bertram)
"Eeh!?"
The projectile range included the area where Gregory and Paralaceus were located. The latter managed to dodge by contorting its body, but Gregory, not being a combatant like Paralaceus, couldn't avoid it completely and had his right leg grazed, nearly torn apart.
Bertram seed to be lucky, as he was just outside the attack range and remained unhard. Witnessing Gregory's nearly severed leg, he gasped heavily.
Tatsuro and Ai, utilizing magic and agility, successfully dodged the attack and remained unscathed. However, they couldn't help but be surprised that even the lord got caught in the crossfire.
"If we leave him alone, he might self-destruct." (Tatsuro)
"But before that happens, the entire place will be riddled with holes." (Ai)
As Tatsuro and Ai observed Siton, it landed beside Gregory, took the almost-severed leg, and began devouring it.
"You scummm!" (Gregory)
"eeee."
Listening to Gregory's pained and angry cries, Siton consud the leg with apparent satisfaction. Witnessing this, Bertram, feeling nauseated again, crawled away from Siton.
After finishing one leg, Siton, sweating, applied magic to heal Gregory's injuries, restoring the leg to its original state. It then sported a creepy smile.
"What is that thing…" (Ai)
"It seems it can't be controlled well. Ai, it's ti to use ‘Level Eater.' Can you help?" (Tatsuro)
"Of course. What do I need to do?" (Ai)
While holding hands with Ai, Tatsuro recovered the magical energy continually consud by maintaining the wind magic barrier that prevented the entry of bee-like magical creatures called Depris. Despite being futile, he attempted to shoot a laser at Siton's head while its attention was diverted.
The downside of "Level Eater" was its slow projectile speed. Unless the target was stationary or skillfully guided into the projectile's path, it was challenging to hit even if the target couldn't see it.
This ti, to corner Siton, Tatsuro enchanted the whip with wind magic and used telepathy to convey detailed instructions to Ai, incorporating images through ntal communication.
"That sounds interesting." (Ai)
"Yeah, I'm counting on you. Until Cardina stops the Depris proliferation, I can't use much magic due to the barrier. So, I'm relying on you this ti." (Tatsuro)
"Leave it to ." (Ai)
As soon as the strategy eting ended, Ai swung the whip like a fishing line, taking a trajectory to smack the tip onto Siton.
Siton, lazily hanging its limbs, moved only its wings to dodge.
"Not yet!" (Ai)
However, Ai tracked its movents, swinging her arm to follow Siton persistently. For the first ti, Siton showed a displeased expression and tried to escape upwards, but Ai continued to chase it with her hand movents.
As Siton continues to run in random directions. Ai also swings her whips in all directions and chases after it. Siton had the strength to prolong the confrontation but it decided that it would take too long and it would probably end in its loss.
Ai persistently changed the trajectories of her whip to prevent Siton from learning it.
However Siton eventually learned her whip trajectories and the mont its facial expression changed from annoyed to tired, Ai activated the second phase of her plan.
"ee!?"
"Take this!" (Ai)
Thanks to Tatsuro's wind magic, the whip was forcefully moved in an unnatural direction, coiling around Siton from its right shoulder to its left side like a diagonal sash. Ai then quickly pulled it towards her, slamming Siton in front of Tatsuro.
"There we go." (Ai)
At the perfect mont, Tatsuro hit Siton's face with the "Level Eater" black sphere, followed by burning its wings with lasers and burying it in the ground using earth magic.
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Level: 37
Skills: [Astral Body], [Levitation Lv.8], [Healing Magic Lv.10]
[Dark Sphere Lv.8], [Life Drain Lv.3]
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(Despite being level 37, the skills are quite impressive… This should be more than enough to contend with stronger opponents. What caught my attention is "Astral Body." It's not a typical magical creature; perhaps it's closer to a ghost?) He thought.
With these thoughts, Tatsuro absorbed all the skill levels, considering the threat to be low once the skills were nullified. He left his level for Ai's leveling.
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Level: 37
Skills: [Astral Body], [Levitation Lv.0], [Healing Magic Lv.0]
[Dark Sphere Lv.0], [Life Drain Lv.0]
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"Love, I need you to stop. It can't use healing magic anymore!" (Tatsuro)
"Alright!" (Ai)
Ai charged her gem sword with energy, creating a sparkling residue as she slashed. However, the divided Siton escaped while trying to reach Gregory. It attached itself to the sli that protected Gregory, attempting to use the "Life Drain" to replenish the cut parts.
However, the skill was currently unusable at level 0.
"eeh?"
"What's wrong, Siton? Recover quickly! Stop, what are you doing! Stop it!" (Gregory)
"eeee… eehhh."
Failing to attach to the sli or replenish itself, Siton was forcibly detached using the power of the contract.
Blocked from sight, Gregory noticed that only one person was left in his line of sight. Panicking, he quickly searched the area but couldn't find Ai, who had always been by Tatsuro's side.
Sensing Tatsuro's attempt to conceal Ai's location, Tatsuro urgently used his wind magic to save energy, creating a dust cloud to obscure the surroundings.
"Damn it! Protect , all of you!" (Gregory)
"eeh…"
With the view obstructed, Gregory gave up finding Ai, and all his subordinates, including the sli, entered a defensive stance. However, Siton, ignoring the command, tried to move away.
(As expected, that goat man seems uncontrollable.)
Ai was observing Siton's futile attempts, the mont it lost its connection with Gregory due to its attachnt failure, she used [Body Strengthening] to the maximum and jumped into the air. Holding a giant axe in her hand, she gathered energy.
What she envisioned was the area-of-effect technique that Iyaruki had used, creating a massive crater. She had repeatedly observed it during her free ti, recalling and practicing the image.
And now, her efforts were bearing fruit.
(I think it was a compressed feeling, then a booming sensation… like this!)
Ai, using [Air walk] to catch up to Siton, descended rapidly on her second step towards it. With her current durability, this speed posed no problem. She then compressed her energy to the limit at the central point of the axe's blade and intentionally triggered an explosion just before making contact with Siton.
With a thunderous sound, Siton was engulfed in the explosion caused by Ai's axe, leaving no fragnts behind. It vanished from this world.
|Acquired Skill: Axe Mastery Lv.1|
|Level has increased to 34.|
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