Chapter 278: Battle Against A Devil
The figure that appeared under the mantle was bizarre, as if soone replaced a human’s upper half with that of an octopus.
It was clearly not a human, and neither had I ever seen a monster like it anywhere in this world. I wasn’t very bright in that departnt, but I could still understand that this enemy was simply too deviated from the norm.
Receiving the hysterical man’s order, it faced towards and took a step. There was still ten ters between us, so why did it stop—
“Woah!?”
It then raised its tentacle and thrust it as if to stab with it. Contrary to the softness you’d expect from an octopus tentacle, it had a claw at its top and the blade was releasing a dangerous light.
I imdiately dodged it, but it caught the mantle that I was wearing and almost dragged along with it. I hurriedly unfastened my mantle and escaped the danger.
Its attack didn’t stop at that, however.
It successively pushed out its tentacles, all of them furnished with similar claws. It ripped my mantle to get rid of the disturbance, scattering its rags on the floor.
It was proof that those tentacles had enough strength to reduce the study traveling mantle to pieces like paper. And so were those claws sharp.
“I sure encounter a lot of abnormal enemies these days!”
Be it the Floating Waka or this, there were a lot of tentacle monsters. It couldn’t be helped that I ended up complaining about it out loud.
While dodging its eight tentacles left and right, I directed my sight towards the children. Maxwell had just finished rescuing one of the children behind the man.
“Gh! Where did you co from! Wait, that appearance… Could it be Maxwell!” “I ca together with her. Maybe you have a problem with your eyesight? Antidote.” “Damn you, to think you could sniff out our movents… I have to praise you for having such a good nose!”
The man set up his staff to prepare for combat despite his ridicules. Maxwell, on the other hand, cast Antidote towards the child. The child flinched in reaction to the spell, and then lose consciousness and fainted on the spot.
“It appears… That they have been treated quite unreasonably. How inhuman of you.” “Who cares, they were destined to be sacrificed either way. Making them climb a mountain is no problem.” “It definitely is a problem.”
Maxwell lifted the child and rushed towards another. But the man inside the circle threw a spell at him to restrain him.
“As if I’d let you! Crimson eight, Ultramarine one, Jade nine—Fire Javelin!” “Oh please. Crimson three, Ultramarine one, Gold one—Earth Wall!”
The spell the man released was an upper-ranked offensive spell of the Fire system. It had a range of about two ters, but the power behind it could easily reduce a person to charcoal.
Maxwell, however, guarded against it with a wall.
The man was ranting like a madman all this ti, but his skill with Magic turned out to be first-class. Maxwell seed to be having a hard ti facing him while carrying a child.
That said, I was in no state to observe them so calmly. I was also in the middle of fighting this Octo-freak, and I couldn’t look away from it so carelessly.
While dodging its tentacle spears, I was waiting for the opportunity to close the distance. But then, Maxwell suddenly warned before I could.
“Nicole, that thing eats magic power from the surroundings. Do not approach it!” “What!?” “The reason why this man did not let it inside the magic circle was due to that ability.” “If you know what it is, then tell in detail already!” “Devil ZellKarn… It is a Devil that devours flesh and magic power in avarice. It is called the vanguard of the otherworld.”
Maxwell explained to while skilfully avoiding the enemy’s spells. He couldn’t cast Antidote during that ti, but it couldn’t be helped. I was learning about the dangers of fighting unknown enemies even in the academy.
Sucking magic power ant that it was the worst enemy for . After all, I was making up for most of my physical abilities with Enchant. I could of course use threads to strengthen myself too, but if I did that, it would an that my ans of attacking would also decrease.
Its abilities were lower compared to the twin-bladed Devil that I fought before. But it made up for that by the incredible number of attacks it was sending my way.
I could see why it was called a vanguard. These Devils excelled at battles against many.
If it approached , it would devour my magic power and forcibly dispel my Enchant. If I stayed away, it would overwhelm with incessant attacks.
That said, I couldn’t make myself withdraw from this place. If I did, those kids would most definitely be sacrificed, and a new Devil would be summoned.
In the first place, abandoning children was not sothing I, who was aiming to be a hero, could ever consider.
Maxwell had decided to postpone saving the children and shifted to restraining the man. He probably judged that it was faster to neutralize the summoner compared to saving the remaining four children.
He seed to have judged that I would need his help and changed his approach.
“In that case, I will keep you company until Maxwell arrives!”
I flashed it a daring smile while dodging the incessant rain of tentacle attacks.
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