Chapter 76 – Episode 76. 1st Month After Party Formation (1)
Adventurer.
Beings who seek out the extraordinary things happening on this continent, capture valuable things, and solve problems that harm humanity in the process and get paid.
Some regard them as mere mercenaries or laggards, but those with skills are bound to be treated like knights or elite soldiers who protect the nobility.
Of course, if a person who is about the size of a hero to save mankind acts as an adventurer, many people will have expectations of them.
“Aaaaa!!”
Of course, the fact is not revealed publicly right now, and the person appointed as a warrior is currently active without any other support under the name of training.
Of course, there is no help for the country or a specific group. So if I face something beyond my capabilities, all I can do is run away.
Yes, if a situation arises where you have to deal alone with a group of monsters that attacked a farmhouse, for example.
“One animal!! You said you only need to catch one big one!! I’ve never heard of this!!”
Celica ran through the meadows on her farmhouse’s border with her screams, bursting into her weeping as she looked back frantically at the hordes of monsters chasing her own two.
A body covered in black fur, four legs with strength and elasticity that won’t slow down even in a meadow with long grass.
At first glance, it looked like a wolf, but it was not ears but insect-like antennae that grew on its head, and its eyes were not pupils, but side eyes that were divided into hundreds.
It looks like a mixture of an insect and a beast.
Considering that the beginning was a chimera (fusion) made by combining the genes of all kinds of creatures, it would not be a very wrong metaphor.
“… You should have assumed that one of them was a mother, you bastard.”
Yumir sighs as she watches Celica being chased by a group of hideous monsters from the top of the hill.
Despite the serious situation, unlike Celica, her face was only drawn with sadness.
It is natural. Even when she first received her quest, she didn’t listen to her own cautions properly, and somehow she boasted that she would solve it on her own.
‘Do not worry! Even the farmers said only one came out! With just one, no matter how strong it is, I can handle it somehow!’
Anyway, there is no business in Daguri.
But how could a person who knew that all too well, even a warrior, get involved in a fight without knowing the characteristics of monsters?
“Little boy, you don’t know, but monsters are originally those whose behavioral principle itself focuses only on division and concentration, right? Children are less intelligent, but if their fertility is higher than that of Orcs, it’s more, not less, so when you go to a place where there’s a grown monster, you have to keep in mind that there are dozens of the same monster.”
“Why did you say that now!!”
“I was going to tell you, but you left without listening to my explanation, you bastard.”
The action was so imposing that she wondered if what she knew was wrong.
It is said that monsters were born from demons, but after learning that they had a remarkably small effect on the human body, I had built a wall with them.
Of course, wouldn’t it be strange to actively pursue knowledge that is not your major?
“Miss Ymir! Mr. Ymir, hurry up! How do you do these things!!”
Still, since he had more experience in the field than himself when he was a hero, I thought he would have a corner to believe in something.
Tsk, Yumir, who clicked his tongue, stood up from his seat and collected mana into his body.
“By the way, I still haven’t fully come back to my senses for actual combat, so I can’t control the powerful magic, right? So, if you want to use something like that to strike a blow, you’ll have to lure them to a location away from the farmhouse, but until then, they’ll only be able to support you with telekinesis. If you whine about using the blown organs like last time…”
“It’s okay, so stop talking and drop them quickly!!”
“… They swear at the subject they want help with.”
-Giying!
The moment when the rocks rooted in the surroundings are pulled out along with the mana gathered in both hands.
It’s a basic skill that deals with pure physical power, but if you have the ability of a great wizard, even such a rudimentary skill can easily lift a few rocks the size of your body.
Entrusting that attack with gravity and dropping it down the hill would be enough of a threat against monsters.
-Kooung, Kwaaek!
The moment the falling rocks crushed the bodies of several monsters. The monster that burst the black bloodline convulsed hideously, but the dozens of monsters chasing Celica didn’t care about the state of their kind and just continued the pursuit.
It is natural. The principles of behavior of monsters are only predation and division.
To them, who lack kinship and fear, the barrage of fire on the group is only seen as a matter of reducing the number of people pursuing them.
-Stand up!
Of course, just by reducing the number like that, you can afford to catch your breath.
The moment the monster approaching from her side was crushed by the boulder, Celica used the boulder as a wall to leap upward and jumped between the crowd of monsters as if she had been waiting for it.
“Huh!!”
The mana that gathers in her hand with a shouting sound eventually starts to increase its length as it gives off momentum with the swing of the sword.
The moment when the surroundings were swept like a whip with the swing of the sword.
The body of the monsters that were cut out by that sword strike was cut into pieces, but none of them were properly aimed at the vital points.
-Kreureu, Kaoh!
While screaming in pain, the monsters stood up and prepared to pursue them again.
The parts that were not completely cut are regenerated at this moment, and the cut parts are also wriggling and trying to prepare for the birth of a new monster.
Of course, it’s not a normal division, so it will take time to properly form, but on the contrary, if you fail to overcome this situation, the number of monsters increases exponentially.
‘As expected, if I want to annihilate these guys, I have to drive them all in one place rather than slaughter them one by one.’
If you have a ranger in mind, you probably don’t even need to adjust.
With that in mind, it took a while for Celica to notice that one of them was running across the hill after breaking away from the group of monsters.
“Miss Ymir! Dangerous!”
“Accordingly!!”
To allow the enemy’s attention to be drawn to a mage whose basic support is the rear support.
However, it was absurd for the prosecutor to draw attention to all of them by himself in the first place.
After making a rational decision, Ymir turned his annoyance into a benevolent spirit and collected mana into his hands.
The moment when the floor he was stepping on cracked and countless stone fragments rose from it and were shot like bullets.
-Kuong! Craa!
However, the monster evaded all attacks coming from a straight line only with instinct, and was quickly closing the distance with Ymir.
A really dangerous situation for Ymir, who is difficult to aim accurately.
‘I can’t help it, even if I give up my arm here… !’
Immediately after taking the attack, even considering that the mana accumulated in her arm would explode at zero range.
-Chack!!
A flash of light that flew in from afar accurately penetrated the monster’s eye, and created a momentary gap by restraining its action.
Enough leeway to hit her with the rapidly gathering mana from a very close range.
-Bang!!
The moment when the mana gathered in her hand was detonated and her monster’s body exploded alive.
While the organs and blood that burst out of it soaked my body, Ymir, who had released and brushed off the mana wrapped around his body, breathed a sigh of relief and looked down at the monster’s severed head.
A small arrow lodged in the eyeball of her still wriggling head.
“… Because whenever I see it, it’s so great. To hit an arrow right in the vital at that distance.”
The center of town.
In the shadow standing on top of a tree where I could barely see the shadow with my own eyes, a girl wearing a black hood was standing with her bow pointed at this place.
An absurd feat of hitting the target accurately with just the shortbow held in her hand, without any help from magical powers.
For Ymir, who has not yet regained his sense of actual combat and has poor control, it was an attack that made him admire.
“…”
On the other hand, unlike Ymir, Heira just stares at the situation in silence.
The distance is far, but not quite invisible. A scene where Celica and the monsters could be seen fighting, albeit vaguely.
The arrows reached a sufficient range, but there was a risk of getting hit by Celica if you aimed the wrong way.
In addition to the wind blowing in the meadow, since there is a distance, the delay time to reach the target must be taken into account, so it will be necessary to be more careful in shooting arrows.
-Chack!!
Yes, all it takes is a few seconds.
At the end of the calculation, Heira’s arrows were shot upwards, and all the arrows drew a curve and rained down on the target.
Although it was not aimed at a vital point, it could not be completely stopped, but Heira had been on a quest together for a month and had learned the potential of those in the party to some extent.
That if given the chance, the wizard could unleash the firepower to annihilate them all.
And the fact that the person who is currently in charge of the avant-garde and engages in a melee is an existence that boasts enormous growth power.
– Viscount Chow!
Yes, all it takes is a brief respite.
As soon as the arrows stopped the movements of the demonic spirits, the force of the blades that squeezed through the gaps and swung began to change more fiercely.
The huge amount of experience gained in the field of life and death is reflected in real time, and it starts to spur that action.
– Chow ha ha!
After swinging her sword like that, Celica, who escaped from the pile of her blood, soon rolled her own body and started to run across the meadow.
“You escaped, Mr. Ymir!!”
“Okay, lure them to the valley over there!!”
Ymir gathers mana and prepares a big blow.
The monsters were still chasing them, but the arrows fired from afar at every dangerous moment were exquisitely blocking their movements.
Assistance using decoys and sniping.
Celica, who was standing in the valley area that had arrived at the end of such cooperation, hurriedly shouted at Ymir, who had followed her to the top.
“Miss Ymir! I’m where you said! There won’t be any damage to the farmhouse here!”
“Okay, well done Yin! Now leave the rest to me!”
Roaring! Flames generated around her body.
It eventually coalesces, and the vast sparks that explode around it amplify the energy that begins to gather in the sphere.
Massive power felt through the skin. I could feel it just by feeling the trembling. The attack that follows is aimless, and without any need, it will completely destroy the area you are aiming for.
Yes, with an attack of that magnitude, he could annihilate dozens of monsters pursuing him in one shot.
The one in between…
“Uh? For a moment.”
Only then did Celica, who grasped the situation, ask Ymir with a trembling voice.
“Mr. Ymir. How do I escape?”
“I will never forget your noble sacrifice. Come on.”
“Hey dog… !!”
-Quaaaaang~!!
Before long, a fireball fell on her head and collapsed across the valley.
A whirlwind of heat swept across the valley, and a landslide created by the impact crushed the group of demons alive.
***
“… Is that why Celica came to this state?”
“It’s okay~ I just lost consciousness, I’ll wake up right away.”
When she returned to her farmhouse lodging after finishing her quest, Yumir, facing her Dave, glanced back at Celica, who was draped over her shoulder.
Celica, who had let go of her mind halfway through the shock of being crushed by her rubble.
“I will kill you. She’ll really kill me someday…”
Dave tensed at the bloody voice coming out of his mouth and turned to Ymir.
“… Celica says her growth is fast, but no matter how hard she is, isn’t she rolling too hard?”
“It’s okay, it’s okay~ I have to roll hard like this in the first place so that I can be satisfied when the armored rice cake box comes back…”
Ymir looks back at Celica with a smile.
What was drawn in her eyes was an emotion that would be called kindness, which is invisible when facing Celica directly.
As if at least her actions so far weren’t because she hated her.
“And, like now, you have to have a lot of hot flashes in other places so that the burden on you will be a little less.”
“Yes? What is that…”
“You don’t have to worry about it because you’re talking to yourself. Then I’ll leave him on the bed and come back, so I’ll ask him to prepare a meal. Oh, and the bath water.”
“Ah yes. Then please.”
Yumir takes Celica and heads to her room.
While looking at his back with concern, someone approached him and spoke cautiously.
“Dave.”
Hey.
An elf girl who joined the party last and is still working hard to adapt even after a month has passed.
“Can I help prepare the meal?”
Dave, who was silent for a moment at the girl’s careful question, answered with a bright smile.
“As much as you like.”
As of now, a month has passed since the current party was formed.
It’s like seeing her gradually actively cooperating with her party.
