Chapter 46 – Behemoth (2)
Rose’s soft hand touches the warrior’s chest.
Now, three weeks and a day after the hero entered the library, the number of mana rings she felt in her heart exceeded five and six had settled.
‘Really… It’s an incredible growth rate.’
If the hero said that he was a 4th circle wizard three weeks ago, how many people would believe him?
Because magic is an area where talent dominates everything, the growth rate of wizards varies greatly depending on their talents.
But even so, Rose had never heard of a mage who had risen to the 6th circle so quickly, neither in her books nor in real life.
It took a considerable amount of time for Rose, who is even nicknamed the second coming of the first Allenbaut, to reach the 6th circle.
“Looks like I’ll be on the 7th circle soon. It really is a great talent.”
“Rather than talent… Maybe it’s because I have a good teacher?”
“What? Heh, if you can’t talk…”
Rose playfully tapped the grinning warrior on the shoulder and asked Lina next to her.
“By the way, don’t you need any more books about the Behemoth?”
“Uh. All the information in other books is there, so I didn’t have to read it.”
It was no exaggeration to say that Lina, who had read more than 30 books related to the Behemoth in the last three weeks, said that she was the one who knew the Behemoth the most.
While Lina studied about the Behemoth, Yuria kept confined to her room and entered a kind of closed-door training.
So, not to mention the hero, even Rina, who was staying in the room right next to her, hadn’t seen Yuria’s face lately.
“Then, today we are going to test our newly learned magic. Would you like to watch from the side?”
“Huh! What is it?”
To be precise, it was not a newly learned magic, but a new magic developed by the hero.
It was a new magic, so it was the first time Rose had seen it, but the hero heard about it.
“It’s magic that cuts elemental magic with a sword, absorbs it, and then converts it into other elemental magic.”
Not only elemental magic, but also fire and naturally occurring thunder and lightning can be converted into mana and fired back.
Of course, it was a magic that was created in preparation for dealing with the Behemoth, and it was only a theory, but it was a magic that had never been actually activated.
“Rose. Use brain attribute magic. As fast as possible.”
“… As fast as possible? Are you insane No matter how quick you are, how are you going to cut through the lightning?”
No matter how much I thought about it, it was a crazy sound to cut through lightning that was faster than sound.
If I had told Rose to do the same, she would have screamed that she would never do it without even trying.
Even if you maxed out magic that enhances your intuition or sixth sense, there’s no way you could do something crazy like cutting down lightning.
It would be impossible even if Rose cast her support magic on a swordsman with an innate sense of instinct rather than Rose, increasing her power.
“It’s okay to use fire or wind rather than brain attributes.”
“No, it has to be brain properties. If it’s not an attack that fast, it’s meaningless.”
Seeing the hero’s resolute attitude, Rose wondered if she should really shoot brain-attribute magic at the hero.
Of course, it was intended to control the power, but even so, it shoots thunderbolts at people.
“Of course, I will activate elemental resistance magic and defense magic. Of course, the magic that enhances intuition will also be activated.”
“Or do you not trust our hero so much?”
“Tsk… Don’t blame me later!”
With Lina from the side, Rose was able to change her magic on the spot in order to lower her power as much as possible.
And then, with trembling hands, aiming the magic at the hero who cast all the defensive magic.
– All right! All right!
From far away, from the Great Library as well as from the whole of Elysium, the sound of horses running was heard, which was hard to hear.
“What is going on?”
Rose turned her head after hearing something unfamiliar, and her horse was running towards her.
“Is this your group?”
“…”
Rose asked, but the hero simply stared at the adventurer on her horse with an expression that said something had finally come.
“Yoah? Reena?”
Yoa wasn’t the only one who was silent. Even Lina, who always had a playful expression on her face, was looking at the adventurer on her horse with a serious expression on her face at this moment.
While Rose was uneasy about the two people’s unusual attitude, an adventurer on her horse came right in front of her.
“Yoah ball!!”
The adventurer who found the hero hurriedly got off his horse with the look of finding an oasis in the desert.
The adventurer who got off his horse and fell to the ground, probably because he was too hasty, rushed to the hero as if he was half crawling.
“I-I know it’s shameless to ask you this, but please! Please save our vice-captain!!”
“… Calm down and tell me slowly what happened.”
“B-Behemoth…”
As the adventurer’s explanation, which began with the name of the Behemoth, progressed, Rose’s expression began to become increasingly grim.
She said, ‘I heard they were close, but…’
It is not an exaggeration to say that Behemoth is not just a monster, but a walking disaster.
Fortunately, it would have passed like a storm if we hadn’t quarreled in order to subdue that calamity.
I never thought there would have been an idiot who went so far as to filter the dispute while ignoring the announcement from the adventurer’s guild.
Fortunately, however, thanks to the person called the vice-captain, at least there was no damage to Elysium.
“I know you have no shame, but please! Please, our vice-captain… !”
“No.”
It was not the hero who refused the adventurer’s earnest request, but Rose, who was quietly listening.
Rose, who had a stern expression unsuitable for her, told the adventurer with a firm attitude that she would never tolerate it.
“If you know it’s shameless, don’t ask me from the beginning. Even seeing the Behemoth in person, people ask for help. There is a certain degree of shamelessness.”
“Rose, I…”
“You are shutting up!!”
The adventurer who didn’t know about Rose was just puzzled why the outsider was so excited, but there was a reason.
“You can’t attack Behemoth…”
If you are in a high position, information will continue to come in even if you don’t want to hear it.
And among the information Rose heard from her brother was information about the Behemoth that was not written in her books.
“I admit that you are very talented, but… Not really this time Do you know how many corps commanders the Allies have defeated?”
“… I heard it was three.”
“It wasn’t actually the allied forces that defeated it.”
It was the Behemoth that killed the three Demon Lords and dozens of officers under them.
I don’t know if they were planning to dominate the Behemoth or to make a weapon out of the byproducts of the Behemoth’s body by hunting them, but the demon army challenged the Behemoth.
And as a result, they faced a devastating defeat and all, including the executives, were wiped out.
“They manipulated information to reassure the morale of soldiers on the front and the rear. In fact, everyone was defeated by the Behemoth…”
“… That’s the thing Did the three of them do it separately? It’s not like they jumped in all at once.”
At Lina’s question, Rose silently shook her head.
Then she speculated even Lina, who at first she was in favor of helping Grindella, she said to the hero.
“Hey… The opponent is worse than expected, this time I just give up and next time…”
“No, I will go right away.”
Despite Rose’s alarming information and Lina’s dissuade, the hero did not change her mind.
Seeing this, Rose, who was feverish, shouted at the hero.
“You were listening to me right? Did you wipe out three army commanders?!”
“If that’s the case, we can’t just leave such a dangerous witchbeast unattended. And if you defeat three corps commanders, that’s even better.”
“What’s good… !”
“If I defeat the guy who defeated the corps commander, it will prove that I am stronger than the corps commander. And I promised to help.”
“What? What is that…”
A possibility that had only been imagined so far passed through Rose’s mind as she said that.
“Yoah… You can’t… !”
“Maybe what Rose is imagining is right. Tell me all the information about the Behemoth while you go to Lina.”
“… It doesn’t matter. You’re not doing this without thinking, are you?”
“Of course. I don’t know if only my life is at stake, but your lives are also at stake, so I won’t do anything reckless.”
“… I really believe! It’s not scary to die just because you’ve lived a long time! Understand?!”
“Yes, I do have a spleen. You’ll be scolded by Marta, but I mean.”
When the warrior smiled and nodded, and the atmosphere was formed to depart, Rose covered her head and said,
“Oh really… Then don’t leave right away, wait at the gate! I have something to bring you from home!!”
*****
“Oh… !”
Opening her eyes with a short moan, Grindella looked at Mirian, who looked down at her with her half-closed eyes.
“Grindella. Have you come to your senses?”
“Prince Mirian, this is…”
When Grindella was confused by the sudden change of situation, Mirian spoke in a calm tone.
“This is my room. Do you remember the last time it happened?”
“Last… Oops… !!”
Grindella, remembering everything, hurriedly rose from her bed clutching her aching stomach.
“I have to go quickly… While doing this, Uncle… !!”
“Calm down. Now your men have gone to call our warrior.”
“Warrior…”
When the word warrior came out of Mirian’s mouth, the conversation they had at the dock that day came to mind in Grindella’s mind.
‘If something happens, please contact us immediately through the guild.’
At that time, the hero’s kindness was so appreciated that he nodded, but the Grindella then and the Grindella now who witnessed the Behemoth were different.
“No… There’s no way even Lord Yoa could defeat him!!”
Just the thought of the Behemoth made Grindella break out in a cold sweat.
How on earth do you defeat a mad beast that literally carries a thundercloud next to it instead of making it thunderbolt?
If the hero was able to defeat the Behemoth, Grindella would have bowed his head and asked the hero right away.
To save the uncle.
However, unless the hero could defeat the Behemoth, he couldn’t ask for anything other than asking him to die.
“Before Prince Yoa goes to his uncle… We need to call them back soon…”
Grindella said that and tried to get out of bed, but Mirian grabbed Grindella’s arm.
“It must have arrived. And a hero would surely have accepted that request.”
“Then you should hurry up and dry it…”
“If it dries… What are you going to do next?”
“Next… ?”
After drying the hero, the next job was Grindella, never thought about it.
The person who gave me thanks for the first time when I had to resent it. I just wanted that person not to die.
“I-I’m going…”
“What are you going to do? Are you going to die with your uncle? Your uncle probably didn’t let you live for that, right?”
“Oh… !”
I bow my head at an irrefutable theory. If an uncle had been here, what advice would she have given Grindella?
No matter how much I think about it, I can’t think of it. There is no uncle anymore to give advice.
“I, I… Maybe that’s a good thing.”
Reason says that giving up your uncle here is the least sacrifice, but emotion tells you not to give up your uncle.
Reason and emotion.
Two conflicting qualities collide inside Grindella, and in the aftermath, Grindella’s thinking stops.
How many minutes did you have to do nothing and suffer from the conflict in your heart?
-Kiik
As Grindella pondered, her room’s old hinges creaked, and a gasping warrior entered the room.
“Yo, Lord Yoa…”
Seeing the hero, Grindella’s legs gave out, and Grindella sat down on the ground helplessly.
Grindella’s rationality spoke in her head. I should tell you not to go.
Grindella’s emotion in her heart speaks. Beg to save your uncle.
Once again, Grindella struggled between reason and emotion, unable to say anything and opening her mouth like a goldfish. The hero reached out to her and said,
“Wake up! We have to go quickly and save him!”
Even knowing that this shouldn’t be the case, Grindella’s hand went to the hand that the hero had extended.
But it is unavoidable. Because it’s human nature to reach out and see if there’s someone to save her.
