Chapter 142 – The Fishermen Who Control the Water
I thought the battle was over with Rebecca’s slash.
Strangely, however, the buzzing of the wagon’s alarm did not end yet.
“Luke. Can you still hear the sound from the wagon?”
“I don’t think it’s over yet.”
I wondered if more fishmen would come out of the river, but the river was quiet.
But after a while I realized that I was looking in the wrong direction.
“Kyaahhhhh!”
Bella’s screams echoed from the rear of the carriage.
Enemies attacked not from the river side, but from the rear, the land side.
As many as twenty fishermen were secretly hiding on the forested riverbank.
“Keuugh! Stone Spike!”
Hanna stood up a stone thorn to block the fishmen’s charge, but it was not enough alone.
The accident happened before my stationary party arrived at the rear of the wagon.
“Sah, save me!”
The fishman who broke through Hannah’s line of defense grabbed Bella. Hannah tried to use her magic to protect her Bella, but her vision was obscured by the fishmen who immediately rushed in.
Fishmen, swarming with worms, stood between Bella and us.
“Mr. Bella!”
“Bugilma-nim!”
With a splash!
Lifting her bella over her shoulder, the stout fishman kicked off the ground and threw her into the river.
Twenty fishmen were not willing to let us go.
Eventually I made a decision.
“Rebecca. Catch the fishmen here with Hanna! I’ll go after Bella!”
Rebecca nodded her head and sliced up the fishmen who rushed around her. As I was about to jump into the river, there were fishmen who tried to catch me with long water whips.
Awesome!
But when Rebecca swung her sword like a dance move, all the flying water whips snapped.
I was able to jump into the river without being caught by fishmen.
“Waterwork! Liquid Ring!”
The moment I landed on the river like the ground, the water surface I stepped on became a wave and pushed me forward.
Surfing!
It is a movement technology that applies Water Work and Liquid Ring spells.
I rode the wave, tied Bella, and chased the bouncing fishman. Certainly, the speed at which he swims like a fishman is not normal. At a speed comparable to my riding the waves, the fisherman fled toward the lower reaches of the river.
Of course, just because the speed is the same doesn’t mean there’s no way to catch it.
Water battles on water are the stage for water magicians.
It was possible to unfold my magic to the limit here.
Chaaaaagh
“Stop!”
A stop spell that didn’t work for Banner, the leader of the Blue Rake tribe!
However, it ate well enough for the common tribesmen. I focused on the surface of the water where the fishman was swimming. At that moment, the speed of the water, which flowed violently downward, gradually slowed down.
“Is it magic?! Churruru!”
It was only then that the fisherman sensed the change, but it was already too late.
As if drowning in a swamp, the fishman’s swimming speed noticeably slowed down.
I sprinted along the waves and accurately implanted the magic sphere into the fish head of the fisherman.
Grasp!
Bodily fluids and brain fluid splattered everywhere.
The dead fishman missed Bella, but Bella, who floated in the river, did not float down and stayed there.
It’s because I manipulated the flow of water and stopped Bella’s body.
“Mister Luke! You’re here to save me!”
Bella was like a drenched mouse and shed tears.
I barely succeeded in grabbing both of Bella’s outstretched arms.
“Well?”
It was then.
The current, which had been slowed down by my magic, began to flow again.
It felt like playing tug-of-war with water.
If I tried to pull the river upstream, someone tried to pull it downstream.
“Keugh!”
“What, what’s going on?”
“It’s the fishman’s superpower! Someone is pulling the river down! Ordinary fishmen aren’t this strong!”
Countless fishermen I’ve fought on land.
They did nothing more than blow checks with water whips like me in the days when there was no rank. The output to manipulate the water was remarkably weak, so it was impossible to change the flow of the river.
But now, a person with power similar to mine pulled the river downward.
I was forced to float downstairs with Bella.
“Go, you can’t stop the river?!”
“A fisherman with power similar to mine used his ability from below! And rivers flow from top to bottom!”
If our strength was equal, it was only natural that we drifted away.
After all, according to the laws of nature, water tends to flow from high places to low places.
“Suck!”
I stretched out my water whip and tried to wrap it around a tree rising from the river bank.
But before the whip could reach it, Bella and I were floating in the air.
This is because the river that flowed diagonally reached the end of the waterfall.
“Aww!”
“Ouch.”
It is said that falling has weight.
Bella and I, of course, also had weight, so we fell helplessly.
What we saw below was a large valley, and even if we fell on the water, the shock we would receive was no joke.
The waterfall is as high as the 4th floor of a building, and if you hit it with your bare body, both of us would break our bones.
“Water!”
I summoned water droplets under my feet and fixed the circular shape with a spell.
The water droplets that had been blown with magic power were large enough for two people to hang on to, but even this would absorb the shock of falling if placed under them.
“It sticks to the droplets!”
Aaaaa!!
The moment I jumped on the drop and collided with the water of the valley, I realized that my judgment was correct.
We plummeted slowly as the giant drop of water shattered.
My whole body was soaked in water, but at least my bones didn’t break from the impact of the fall.
“Phew.”
I grabbed Bella and floated her body over the creek water.
Bella and I, holding her hand, struggled to believe that we survived our fall from the falls.
“Cool! Sa, alive! Nonsense.”
“What doesn’t make sense?”
“I thought I was going to die right here! I left my Raven Ring, which turns into a crow, at home. I didn’t expect the power of a wizard to be so useful…”
Certainly, the ring that Bella always showed on her finger was missing.
Without the Raven Ring, if she fell from mid-air, she would have been dead.
If it weren’t for me as a wizard.
“If you didn’t know that wizards were useful, why were you so obsessed with recruiting wizards? You always complained about the lack of wizards in the guild.”
“That’s what I judged based on the charts I saw in the office. The demand for wizards from adventurers and clients is always endless.”
“Isn’t the wizard Hanna-san next to you?”
“That said, but… This is the first time I’ve ever received death threats from anyone. I’m about to die, so I know Mr. Luke is what our guild needs.”
I am an essential talent for the guild.
Always when Bella said that, she was expressionless, so I thought she was pretending.
But this time, Bella’s expression as she looked at me was filled with desperation.
“I need you, Luke.”
“…Yes.”
When I met her eyes with Bella, I felt embarrassed.
Receiving sincere recognition from a high-ranking person has never been experienced on Earth.
I was reincarnated in a different world and was persecuted wherever I went because I was a lowly dreamer.
Her heart skipped a beat when the woman who would become the guild master of Gala Le Horn told me, “I really need you.”
It feels like I’ve been rewarded a bit for the years I’ve been on the bottom.
“Sniff.”
“What, what is it? Could it be that Mr. Luke is crying?”
“Absolutely not. I have rhinitis.”
“Ah, you have rhinitis.”
I was so moved that I barely held back the fact that I almost cried.
I blamed my gloomy mood on rhinitis and walked out of the valley with Bella.
Now it was time to find a way up the river and rejoin the group.
Maybe they’re coming down to find us after killing all the fishmen.
Not only Hannah, who was a magician of the same level as me, but also Rebecca, who said that I was a third-rate, was angry, but it was unmistakably strong.
In other words, they are not women who can only be beaten by ordinary fishermen.
Kate’s ability to survive is certain, so she must be hiding somewhere and waiting for her to cast a healing spell.
“Wait a minute. There’s someone in front of you.”
However, before finding the way, there was an opponent that had to be defeated first.
After walking out of the valley, it wasn’t long before we ran into a fisherman.
As soon as Bella saw the fisherman, she gnashed her teeth.
“Bluetalon Chief Banner! You were here!”
Banner of the tribal chief who manages the fishmen’s naruto.
Those rotten dynamic eyes that tricked us and jumped out came out and blocked Bella’s way.
Banner was sitting on the ground around the valley, cross-legged like an ascetic.
The fish man sits cross-legged like that in order to fully demonstrate the supernatural power of manipulating objects.
I realized that Banner was the culprit for pulling the river down and dropping us into the falls.
“It was you. You brought us here, right?”
At my question, Banner nodded his head plainly.
“I was the one who dropped you down the waterfall. Manipulating the river, I thought I was competing with a wizard equal to me. That wizard was you, blond dreamer.”
“Thanks to that, I almost fell behind.”
“It’s a pity he didn’t die.”
Banner seemed genuinely sorry that we survived.
A mad killer was smacking his lips right in front of us.
Bella stared at the banner with a horrified expression.
“Mr. Banner! You weren’t like this before! You’ve been a good boatman for 30 years!”
“Originally, this is a person. I’ve only been patient with it. I’ve hated humans since the old days. No, it’s not just humans. He’s the one who thought everyone on this continent had to die except the fish people. Giggles.”
I felt madness from the laughing Banner.
He instinctively realized that he was not the one to repent of his sins verbally.
You’re a Hitler-like bastard who says everyone but the fish man has to die.
“Oh, how can you think such a terrible thing! It’s racist!”
Bella trembled as she watched the banner reveal her true feelings.
However, looking at the banner, my mind was at peace.
“You can be racist, Ms. Bella.”
“Yes?”
“Actually, I don’t like Eoin either.”
In fact, I hated other races as well.
In particular, the fish-man race can’t stand it because every time they open their mouths, the fishy smell comes out of their mouths.
Those young fish don’t smell if you wash them well, but they deliberately give off a fishy smell.
I’ve been holding up just fine so far.
I’ve been patient for a really long time.
I turned and spoke to Banner.
“Did you say your name was Banner?”
“Exactly.”
“Yeah. You can think of crazy things like that.”
“…What?”
“Actually, I’ve hated fishmen since the old days. I didn’t like the fishy smell that came out when you talked. I even thought that I had to annihilate all of you on the continent.”
Banner was taken aback by my sincere remark.
“Mi-crazy…! They say we annihilate fishmen?”
I guess I didn’t know that racist remarks would be equally racist.
What about
Dream horses are a race that can taste the extremes of all racism.
“You bastard, do you want to die!”
This is how I replied to Banner, who spoke with a sense of survival.
“The time has come to annihilate the fishmen.”
