I planned to assist Higlia and the others fighting with my Wave Gourd, but――
"Reinforcents, huh?"
An irregular, humanoid shape with two slender torsos overlapping in the front and back and a helt with small antlers. It\'s holding wooden stakes in the four arms growing out of the torsos that are divided into front and rear parts.
I interrupt my sprint, and stab Baldok\'s spearhead into the ground. At the sa ti, I put the Wave Gourd down. As the gourd sinks into the soil, it releases sploshing sounds. The elephant-trunk-shaped, tal fixtures located at the bottom of the gourd sink into the ground.
I did feel like it had beco heavier than initially, but it\'s now weighing even more, I guess.
Quiche and Kisara also stop moving upon the appearance of new enemy troops.
"This is our village! You won\'t be allowed to trespass any further!" Quiche yells, anger oozing out of her voice.
Folding her shield at her bosom, she adopts a stance of placing the shield under her longsword. Quiche scowls at the weird, crooked deer monster with the two split torsos through the gap between sword and shield.
I thought Quiche would keep her distance, but…as soon as she clads her legs with Magic Combat Style, she dashes like a fierce tiger. Quiche uses a unique step work, lightly closing the distance to the monster in an instant.
While faintly bending her upper body down, she thrusts out her blade with a flash of light. The sword\'s point drives into the base of the monster\'s neck before it can even react. Right after that, Quiche swiftly pulls the sword that pried open its foe\'s throat back towards herself.
Next, she bends forward while muttering, "Thrusting Sword - Twin Fla," before increasing her speed by another notch. Her longsword seems to blur. That\'s how fast she uses the sword to perform repeated thrusts.
Her sword thrusting technique penetrates the monster\'s middle forehead alongside its helt.
However, another deer monster of the sa type approaches Quiche from her right side. Kisara tries to use on her witch spear, but I hold her back. I jerk my chin, implicitly instructing her, 『Look at the enemies approach from the other direction』.
"Yes! Please leave it to . You an that broad monster eating the uji bugs, right? It\'s a rare species in the desert that combines rat and weasel. I think it\'s a subspecies of reggmogg." Kisara ntions the na of a monster I\'ve heard sowhere, and readies her spear.
I fire in Kisara\'s stead, aiming at the feet of the monster that\'s closing in on Quiche.
"Gunuooo――"
While screaming in pain after getting hit in the legs, the monster swings its four arms ― the four stakes at Quiche, having them approach her shield from the side.
Quiche capitalizes on her long and smooth legs. Using her toes as axes to rotate her entire body, she dodges the stake attack by hair\'s breadth. The way she rotates resembles my rotation technique a bit. Did she possibly use as a reference here? No, I think that\'d be thinking too highly of myself, I think.
Quiche moves the shield in her left hand, and uses her shoulder protector. The monster\'s movents are dull after its legs suffer my magic attack, but its four arms are quick nonetheless. Quiche skillfully uses her shoulder protector to block the wooden stakes.
Imdiately after splendidly parrying the barrage of stake thrusts with that, she mutters, "――"
That skill starts with a front kick that looks as if she\'s stretching out her knee. Right after the kick impacts on the front torso of the monster, Quiche takes so distance, and brandishes her slanted sword from the left to the right. The glaring blade sinks into the monster\'s front torso, and bisects it. Leaving the unhurt rear torso behind, the front torso slides downwards.
I can hear, "…Too fast――" from the fallen front torso. Blood gushes out of the cut section at its waist.
anwhile Quiche takes a step forward while holding up her shield so as to not get showered by blood spurts. The rear torso tries to attack her with its stakes, but its arms are severed by her sword. Moreover, she wields her shield upwards as if lifting it diagonally to the side. Her shield slams against the monster\'s head ― in other words, a shield bash.
The head of the rear torso is crushed alongside its helt with the shield\'s shape imprinting itself on its head. Overwheld by the pressure, its skull explodes into smithereens.
I suppose is a skill that combines sword and shield techniques. Her initial skill specialized on a barrage of sword thrusts was very decent as well, but…the chain attack of kick and shield was even more amazing.
A sword style that makes full use of her tall figure. She uses beautiful sword techniques as appropriate for an elf.
She quickly swings the bloody longsword sideways, getting rid of the blood clinging to her blade.
"There are still other deer monsters around. You\'re going to save the ancient wolfn, right? Please go ahead, Shuuya." She says with a broad smile that shows off her white teeth.
"Yeah." I answer half-heartedly.
Did we hold such a conversation in the past as well? No, I didn\'t talk with her in that way, but…I recall having looked at her smile.
…Running together across Mt. Baldok in order to kill the Evil Dragon King…
Fond mories…of a ti long past. At the sa ti, my chest pains as if the sadness of having parted with her back then is reviving in my heart.
It\'s not just my mories of Azola and Pau. Of course I\'m happy to see that Quiche\'s sword techniques have improved remarkably. But, it also shows that ti is inevitably moving on.
Her face as a mother who thinks of her children, and her face as a woman who relies on like now. Her discernnt as commander-in-chief. Her approach of always striving at farming and trading.
For this reason, my bonds with Quiche are…even when we separated in the past…she\'s been properly alive within . My treasure, which I desired to be inside the knapsack she carried, was also in . I strongly recognize this anew.
The bee mark on Quiche\'s cheek doesn\'t look like Bakunoda, but…if she asks to save her clan\'s souls, I\'ll do my best.
As if placing those feelings onto her, I pour mana into Holy Spear Arost, held by my while using . Arost\'s cross-shaped spearhead that teems with my love towards Quiche looks like it is brightly shining. It plunges straight ahead while tearing through the night like a gleaming ray, running through the deer monsters that have amassed in the forest ahead of . It passes through the swarm of monsters and the forest\'s trees, aiming for the boss that\'s slowly moving deeper inside the forest.
The aquatic monster screams, "Nununu! Block that spear!", while retreating.
In accordance with its barked order, the deer monsters around it begin to gather for the sake of protecting their boss, creating a distorted wall of monster flesh.
Holy Spear Arost clashes into that wall. However, countless monster corpses are already piled on top of each other on its cross spearhead. Therefore, despite the being boosted by my physical strength and mana as Lucival…Arost has lost a lot of its power, albeit carrying the light attribute.
And yet, it still tears through the flesh wall ford by multiple layers of deer monsters.
In the end, it stops midway, unable to completely pierce through the wall.
Well, even if it contained my love towards Quiche, it\'d be expecting too much for things to work out so easily. I consider retrieving Arost with , but the Burning Knights as they fight against the bear monster enter my visual field.
Zetas\'s sword――of which I forgot the na――is stabbed into the neck of the bear that has beco immobile because its legs are paralyzed. Adomos\'s shield bash explodes into the bear\'s belly. The bear crumbles down while spouting blood from its neck.
The Burning Knights seem convinced of their victory. As if making use of the puff-puff smoke that\'s ever-shifting and spouting through the gaps in their armor, they engulf their bone swords with that puff-puff, and stab the fallen bear many tis over. Next, they consecutively bring down their square shields that are also wrapped up in puff-puff.
They\'re going at it with a force as if to turn the bear into minced at. Its skull, ribs, and thighbones get pulverized.
"――Your Excellency, we defeated it!"
"The big bear is doooown!!"
"Sure, but there\'s still plenty of enemies around, you two."
"We\'ll save Higlia-dono\'s brethren."
"Definitely."
"Roger! Adomos, let\'s go."
"Aye!!"
After having killed the bear, the Burning Knights head over to the ancient wolfn as reinforcent. However, the wolfn are still being overpowered. The number of deer monsters is strangely high.
Cydale Ancient Wolfn vs. Military Forces of the Tree King of Wonders, eh? I\'d call this a smaller war.
Should I use Dusk of OriginBeginning Dusk? Or at the multi-legged deer monster. The stake shots are parried by the monster\'s magic spear. Accordingly I resolve myself to invest so mana, and activate .
Darkness stakes keep manifesting in the empty space right in front of . A thousand-ard Kannon consisting of stakes that were created with my huge mana after kneading it takes shape. The stakes, now transford into a thousand hands, rain down on the deer monster like a downpour of darkness.
The monster attempts to repel the rain of stakes with its magic spear, but it\'s swallowed up by the flood of palms instead. Each ti a palm impacts on the monster\'s body, a loud thunk reverberates. The monsters arms alongside the magic spear are whittled down.
As the dull, smashing thuds reach with a delay, its huge torso gets crushed flat. Its multiple legs are also severed and sent flying. While blood and chunks of at are scattering into the vicinity, it gets completely squashed.
After the palms of darkness within milliseconds, all that remains on the ground is…countless stakes and bloody hand-prints. Transient darkness stakes from a dinsional world of darkness. The area I specified was limited to what I could see, but it\'s powerful――
The Wave Gourd crashes down on the spot with the hand-prints, destroying their shapes and causing a wave of blood to splash all around.
I also land there while rotating. Using , I suck up all the blood in an instant.
"Your Excellency～ I wanted to dance over there, but I shall hold back on it――"
It sounds like Hel wanted to skate in the pool of blood. Just as she said that she\'d endure, she begins to attack with a barrage of ice spears. It\'d be too exaggerated to call it weather manipulation, but it definitely looks like a storm of ice spears, I\'d say.
Hel destroys nature on a wide range by knocking down countless trees with her spears. The best part is how the troops of the Tree King of wonders end up stabbed to death in succession.
But, I think Hel separating from Rollodeen like that is also charming. I an she\'s obviously running away from Rollodeen\'s flas which are released every now and then.
At that mont, a magic voice\'s chant reaches my ears.
"Hyureya――"
"Gyaaaaaaa."
The blood-sared spearhead of the witch spear pries open the torso of a four-ard deer monster. It looks like she\'s hit it with a kind of skill.
"――Superior crow." Kisara mutters a prayer with a magic whisper while instantly pulling out her spear.
Next she hold her spear with both hands, and uses . The witch spear with its filants tears straight to the air while spiraling fiercely. It\'s a trajectory like that of a beam cannon exceeding close and middle range.
The several dozen monsters in its path have their bellies, legs, and heads penetrated by the witch spear, and die. In the end the spear stabs into the trunk of a huge tree, and stops after causing the tree to incline.
At that point Quiche charges after a thrust as if performing a fencing flash. After hitting an enemy\'s solar plexus with a knee strike, she enters my visual field at the point when unleashing a chain attack of sword slashes. She deals with it the monster closing in from behind without looking back at it, using a motion as if she\'s going to sheathe her sword in the scabbard at he waist.
She stabs the monster\'s belly by jutting out the sword towards her back, then whirls around just like that, carrying out a back turning kick that blows the monster away.
Another deer monster targets the opening of her having finished her kick. I don\'t think that Quiche has been careless, but it doesn\'t look very likely that she\'ll be in ti with evasion. That\'s why I assist her by shooting several ice spheres at the monster that\'s approaching her.
"――Thanks, Shuuya!"
"Don\'t ntion it――"
At that mont, I see Kisara. While moving as if she\'s dancing, she makes a different prayer as if blowing her magic breath on her own wrists.
Several darkness crows are born from her wrists. Seeing how those crows were flapping their wings, I thought they\'d fly off into the sky, but they transford into daggers. Daggers with mana blades. Silver fixtures are visible at the pomls of the daggers. Silver chains are hanging down from those pomls. Cross ornants, similar to a cellphone strap, are affixed to the tips of those chains.
Kisara grasps those daggers with both hands.
"On my na as Four Heavenly Witch Kisara, I shall annihilate the remaining monsters and save the ancient wolfn――" She declares with a smile on her lips.
After readying the daggers in her hands as if to extend them diagonally below, she advances. She appears to head for a wolfwoman who\'s struggling with a 2 vs. 1. After dashing like a gale, Kisara hits the ground with both her knees, and while gliding across the moist grass covering the soil, she swiftly swings her left and right hand with her body bent back as if doing a limbo dance.
The dagger blades grow their bluish-green mana blades by several sizes. The mana blades, which have suddenly closed the distance by extending, sever the waist of a distorted deer monster with legs that have three feet, cutting the monster in two.
Kisara uses the montum of sliding, making her body turn as if doing breakdance. Then she nimbly stands up while flashing her panties by spreading her legs to the sides.
Following that, she unleashes a chain of kicks that capitalize on her thick boots in a capoeira style. The crooked monster with the severed waist and dislocated spine receives those kicks on its head and torso, getting blown away. Due to the kicks\' impacts, the torso gets twisted and rips apart. The pieces of its torso clash against many monsters, knocking them down in the aftermath.
Kisara lends a hand to the wolfwoman who\'s fallen on the ground.
Aweso work, Kisara.
Having separated from the Wave Gourd, I borrow Quiche\'s back while pulling out Baldok. While rotating sideways, making sure to match my back with Kisara\'s, I swing down Ganghis, which I\'ve summoned into my left hand, from an overhead position. Ganghis bisects the head of a monster on the left.
Then, as I ready Ganghis and Baldok, I check my surroundings. No deer monsters are heading for us. There\'s still so left deeper in the forest, but as might be expected, they stay away from the open area.
Without noticing, our surroundings have beco littered with tons of monster corpses. Despite that situation, the ghosts are continuing to sing.
Wait, are they possibly planning to keep singing forever if I don\'t agree to their request? If that\'s true, they\'ll be much more of a pain than the monsters. In such a case, I guess I\'ll simply accept their plea.
I might get so kind of reward out of this, and as long as it doesn\'t cause any special harm…I guess I can accept their request, if it\'s only that. Besides, that holy ground of theirs might be close…to a destination of the mirrors I haven\'t explored yet.
Yeah, as if. I doubt things will go as smoothly as that.
Oops, I\'m still in the middle of battle. Higlia and the ancient wolfn also have won their fights. The only enemies left are the boss and the humanoid monsters with a torn mouth and spears in both their hands.
"Quiche, Kisara, I\'ll handle the rest. Rollo, co back!"
"Nnn――"
Rollodeen has been devouring deer at as if still not having sated her hunger. After jerking her head my way, she makes her ears twitch. In the next mont, Rollodeen starts to run. While changing from the big panther version into a horse-like form, she gallops through the forest.
Her approaching while stepping on the deer monster corpses and blowing them away is a sight for sore eyes. All the wolfn we saved gasp.
I run up to Rollodeen after she\'s co back, mount her, grab the rein tentacle, and make her gallop once more. We\'re heading straight for the boss. The rein tentacle attaches itself to my neck, allowing to actually experience that allows to share her senses.
The spear-using monsters respond to our approach by fanning out and attacking from the sides. Using that mont, I activate four instances of which I haven\'t exhibited in this battle so far.
The two monsters are taken aback by the sudden appearance of light spears. They aim their bone and bamboo spears at my torso, but my hit their spears first. Furthermore, the directly hit the heads of the monsters on both sides, causing both of them to explode.
Next I fire two at the boss. It opposes the light spears with a net of tentacles as if to show off its huge mana, but the light spears easily penetrate that tentacle net. One of them stabs the humanoid upper body half, and with a slight delay, the other one pierces the planarian lower body.
A crack appears on the butt ends of both spears. Those cracks divide radially, forming light nets in no ti. The light nets wrap up the two body halves. Caught by the net, the lower body lts away like a slug that\'s sprinkled by salt.
"Hiaaaaaa――" The womanly upper body screams.
The light net cuts corrode her skin color that\'s close to a human\'s in a sh shape. I thought that the monster would get defeated by the light net just like that, but it doesn\'t want to go down.
Understanding my intent, Rollodeen extends her tentacle bone swords. At the sa ti, I unleash with Ganghis while we run past the monster.
Within the blink of an eye, I pour mana into Baldok as usual, and release my certain death technique: .
The vibrating, crescent-moon shaped spearhead of Ganghis that\'s clad in water mana is added to that. penetrates a part of the humanoid upper body. Once its small water mbrane bursts apart, the drops create small holes while expanding those holes as if destroying the cells around them.
On top of that, Baldok\'s red spear, clad in the darkness of , pierces through the monster\'s womanly face. The head explodes.
And then Destruction Lance Gladopalus makes its entry while emanating an overwhelming presence. Gladopalus, which is releasing an aura as if coming straight out of hell, swallows the lower body, which has been in the middle of regenerating, and the upper body, destroying both. Gladopalus then plunges onwards as if to pierce through space behind the monster.
Befitting of its na, Gladopalus possesses a force similar to a Spirit World\'s Demolition Arrow. A part of the woodland and surrounding trees are drawn towards Gladopalus mother-of-pearl-inlay, and get destroyed. The ground is being gouged out. Just like that Gladopalus creates a vortex while ssily involving the surroundings, before fading.
In no ti, Gladopalus and the mana vortex beco hard to distinguish, but…Gladopalus sure is devastating. A trendous destruction of nature that puts Rollodeen to sha.
At that ti, silence falls upon the forest. Only Rollodeen\'s excited, rough snorting can be heard.
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