Before heading back, I use to land atop the gate's roof. The outlook is great here――allowing to observe a part of the Sea of Trees.
Once I shift my eyes below, I can spot Catiza and the Burning Knights, including the children who are clad in bluish-white bone armors, who are moving up the narrow up.
At that point, I notice the squad of ancient wolfn led by Higlia and Daon co up the slope. It looks like they've finished the patrol of Cydale's vicinity. I guess they're going to join up with Catiza's group.
With a slight delay, Ryokline also shows up. Deer heads are stabbed on her hands' sword-shaped, extended claws, and her body had been basked in blood spurts all over. She's wearing an outfit where a part of her claws are sticking to her slender body, huh?
Looks great.
Ryokline was in the process of reporting to Higlia after drawing close to her, but in the middle of it she got surprised when seeing the children in their extra bone armor created by Catiza.
Well, it only makes sense for her to be surprised.
Catiza receives a sweet from Arry. …Is it one of those they've made during their cooking class? Going by its appearance, it looks kinda suspicious with its black luster. It's got a crooked shape, but barely manages to look like a donut. To be blunt here, it seems unappetizing.
But, Catiza seems like soone who'd love dagashiya. 1 She accepts the sweet, which has probably been made by Arry herself, while depicting a heart symbol with her silver hair. Then she thrust it into the air while yelling, "Ta-dah!", and looking extrely happy. After further blowing golden dust out of her nose, she energetically tosses the sweet into her mouth and begins to chew on it.
While moving her mouth, Catiza points at the gate's roof where I'm currently standing. Imdiately followed by her waving a hand at . I should better wave back.
『That sweet is…I have heard that Gramps Ton's cooking is great, but it looks like the sa cannot be said about Arry』
『Seems so…』
While eating the sweet, Catiza nods several tis with a serious expression at Higlia and talks with her about sothing.
It appears the Burning Knights haven't gotten any sweets. Looking disappointed…they make their puff-puff smoke deflate.
At that point, Catiza gives out so instruction. It seems Chief Gatekeeper Catiza is going to act together with the ancient wolfn. After telling the Burning Knights sothing, the group quickly descends the slope.
I'd like them to take care of the narrow path, but they're apparently heading for the Sea of Trees. Their movents make them look like a trained army corps. Or rather, they're army forces, aren't they? An allied force of Cydale and the wolfn.
The leader is like 'that.' Are they really okay with Catiza commanding them?
『Hehehe…this is the cornerstone of the Holy Lucival Empire…』
――Oh, shit.
Hel's motivation switch was apparently triggered. Well, I made her experience so loneliness, so if it makes her happy, I guess all's fine.
While blowing out the smoke of my magic cigarette, I shift my eyes to Kisara and Rotalz who are duking it out up in the sky. The situation up there is completely contrary to the relaxed mood down here. It doesn't feel like you could call it an excessively violent mock battle, though…
『…I can sense a darkness stronger than that of darkness spirits from Rotalz』
『I'm with you on that. It doesn't feel like it's a simple darkness attribute. He's using beams』
『A ga Particle Diffuzon Cannon was ntioned, but…』
A ga Particle Diffusion Cannon, huh?
『It's a cannon that compresses the mana that interacts between particles called electrons and positrons』
『…I don't understand. But it kind of sounds like cramming many spirits together in a tight place and making them explode in one go』
That might not be far off from the truth.
『I'd say it's sothing like that』
I smoke my cigarette while laughing. As I'm observing the battle while having such silly telepathic talks with Hel, "――Shuuya-sama! Are you going to join the air mock battle?"
"No, I'm fine down here. I was thinking about contacting my bloodkin with blood ssages."
Kisara has apparently her attention distracted by during the mock battle.
"――Kyaaa!"
And as result of that, she's blown away after taking a direct hit from Rotalz's sperm-whale-like forehead. It's a mighty blow that puts any shoulder tackle to sha.
Kisara spouts blood from her whole body while being whirled away. Her hand lets go of the witch spear, but the spear doesn't lose any of its inertia. After creating small wings with its filants, it chases after Kisara. The unique knuckle-guard-like part has disappeared. It's returned to the sa transparent handle that makes you wonder whether you can actually grab it as the one when I encountered it first.
I had thought that I'd like to grab it myself, seeing how it's a spear, so that might be fine as well.
"Kisara～ looking away mid-battle? phalla-sama would weep if she saw that, you know? A kin connected to the na Expert Skull Martial Artist swoons at the sight of a guy?" Rotalz sneers.
As I thought, it's no wonder that Kisara seems to be special. Still, to blow her away without any hesitation as her familiar…
"…Rotalz, do you have such training sessions with Kisara on a daily basis?"
"Haha, sothing of this level is playing around. Kisara's lord, are you worried about her body?"
"No, not at all. Rather, I might be worried about you. I have a hunch that soon your forehead will be drilled out again."
Once I answer him, Rotalz exhibits his unrest by jolting his forehead.
"…You're worried about , you say? Damn it, you're way too nice!" Rotalz yells with his eyes wide open, and then heads off towards the west, following Kisara's flight path, but not before farting once.
『…Your Excellency, I have understood why Rollo-sama has taken a liking to him』
『His butt, huh?』
『It's quite the intense butt! I can fully understand Rollo-sama's desire to spank his butt』
I don't know what she wants to spank him for. But I'm sure it's going to be based on so deep spirit butt standard.
anwhile, Kisara has apparently released the power of the grimoire at her waist while rotating mid-flight. Paper pieces fly out from the grimoire in succession after it automatically flipped its pages. Those scraps of paper take on origami-like shapes, and then bunch up to adopt humanoid shapes.
The small origami humanoids revolve around Kisara while dancing, kinda like confetti. Are they healing her wounds? Is that healing magic? Or maybe a defense field? Or maybe both?
The blue eyes peeking out from behind her black mask are stabbing.
While their protective net flutters in the wind…Kisara uses her slender hand to grab the witch spear which has returned to her through that protective net as if ignoring its existence altogether.
Imdiately following, Kisara unleashes a -based spear technique at Rotalz. Spear and whale clash. Both sides keep their combat distance, but the humanoid origami stick themselves to a part of Rotalz, and imdiately explode, blasting him away.
Kisara…has manifold spells at her disposal.
Rotalz twists his body and breathes in as if to suck in the surrounding clouds. …He's quite tough, which makes him a good training partner.
I had planned to go back to my house and contact Mysty through my blood ssages, but…I abandoned that idea. I got influenced by their battle, so I'll do so training as well.
Holding up a hand, I use . The swarm penetrates the lower body of a deer monster that has stopped moving. I can totally feel Hel's fighting spirit from the number and quality of her stakes.
I summon Baldok into my right hand.
Alright, I'm going to go all out as well!
"Nuoooooh――"
With a loud battle cry, I jump across the heads of the orcs and many deer monsters, and then slam down Baldok from an overhead position. At the sa ti, I fire 《Frozen Snake Arrows》 to the left and right.
The area right in front of is occupied by a three-headed deer monster. I strike the top of its shoulder with my ax blade. I put strength into the blade, which imdiately penetrates into the monster's chest, through the handle. Pushing Baldok's blade diagonally downwards, I bisect the large deer monster.
Then I feel a hard feedback from the handle as the ax blade clashes against the ground with a thud.
"Gyaaaa."
I'm assailed by the monster's scream and its blood. anwhile, the ax blade cleaves open a part of the hill alongside its slope. I erase Baldok.
Powerfully kicking off the torn ground, I charge. First I shoot my from the left, hitting a deer head with it. As the brain matter whirls through the air, the Sanskrit characters on the glow up. The sa chain continues to punch through the belly of a deer monster behind the first one.
――I'm far from done yet!
At once, I make Baldok reappear in my right hand. Then I shoot a restraining 《Frozen Bullet》 at a deer monster diagonally to the left. Moreover, I brandish Baldok.
As the ax blade draws a horizontal semi circle, it bisects the torso of a flabby monster that has approached from the right. As soon as the monster screams in agony while its torso halves misaligned, its upper body slides off, falling backwards. Flas shoot up from the cut section of the remaining lower body half. A disgusting iron stench of burned at wafts my way. The blazing lower body half stinks, so I send it flying with a kick.
Using the recoil of the kick, I rotate my body like a spintop, and jump up high in the air after utilizing the rotational power to kick off the ground with the toes of one foot.
My visual field changes, allowing a peek at a sun-flooded Sea of Trees scenery. Confirming the small battlefield, I see a cloud of dust rising at the spot where I've been fighting. I guess I'll observe the situation for a bit.
And then, after a short while, I stab my 《Frozen Snake Arrows》 into the torsos of the monsters which are running away from Hel's stake attacks. An ice spear is embedded in the belly of the deer monster I had restrained with a freeze bullet. It's one of Hel's ice spears.
Ice spears pierce its vital spots at the belly, head, and chest one after the other. Lastly, one spear accurately penetrates its butt.
――How typical of Hel.
Afterwards, Hel uses the strings extending from the flower bulbs on her fingers, and moves around the low sky as if dancing while blocking the enemy's movents. She blocks the visual field of enemies, who get close to her, with a water curtain, and mows them down or stabs them with her ice swords. She deals with the enemies at mid-range, who're keeping a bit of a distance, by firing ice pebbles. At close range, she releases an ink-black darkness mist, sealing their visibility by covering their crooked deer heads with the mist in accordance to their heads' sizes.
And then, once she makes the strings of her gleam even stronger by apparently pouring more mana into the skill, she manipulates those vividly shining strings to twine themselves around the necks of the monsters who had their sight robbed by the mist.
Hel gets ready by grabbing the strings with her hands and twining them around her elbows. She grins like Benten-sama (Goddess of Arts and Wisdom).
No sooner than I suspected that she might draw the deer to herself by reeling in the strings, Hel tugs on them, and in the next instant, all the monsters lose their heads.
Wow. So her strings are capable of sothing like that as well, eh?
She's fighting while freely using various ice and darkness spells as well as her new skill.
In the brief ti I've been admiring her beautiful fighting style, she's been surrounded even further. At that mont, Hel transforms herself into a liquid and invades a deer monster through its mouth as a counter-attack after evading its physical attack. The deer monster's head was already crooked, but now it becos even more distorted.
Far from just showing an expression full of anguish, it screams madly with so strange squeals, just to have its head explode in the next mont.
Hel, whose liquid is blended with blood, appears within a shower of blood and brain matter. And then she fires a series of ice spears in a state of being human-shaped but still liquid at the sa ti. Many of those spears stab into the headless deer monster as it continues to crumble to the ground like a broken doll.
After Hel finishes her transformation into her humanoid shape, she shouts, "Ahahahahahaha! A deer, and yet such a rich blood! I've gladly taken it for His Excellency!"
At the sa ti, she diagonally slashes a nearby deer monster with her ice sword, and then she pulls off a weird but pos…yea, okay, I haven't seen anything. However, small water droplets scatter from the tips of her eyelashes.
――Very pretty.
Just like that, she keeps steadily slaughtering the deer monsters who are surrounding the orcs. I guess I'll stop watching from the air, and join the battle again.
I erase Baldok from my right hand. I put my free right hand on my left wrist as I recall how I shot at the dog with the torn mouth back at the beginning in the underground world. I focus on
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