Chapter 175 – Cannibals (2)
You say it bounces like this?
We were taken aback by the unprecedented situation in which a cannibal monster shouting “Mashijeng of human meat” Attacked the village and escaped without killing a single person.
‘What are you really here for?’
I looked around the town lit up by the flames, but there were no corpses.
They came to us in a straight line without killing the villagers, fired magic, and then suddenly used the magic of swapping to hit the pants?
【Looks like you’ve retreated. If the battle continued, it was an opponent whose victory could not be guaranteed.]
Veronica said so. It seems that she was shocked that her own rune magic was destroyed from the front, but she was weak.
No——Is the lack of energy because mana is sucked? My body felt heavy, just like the mornings I hadn’t slept well. She was suddenly worried and checked her mana tube.
“… The fuck?”
As a result, I realized something unbelievable.
Because of the rune of ᛃ(Jēra), my mana tank was reduced by more than half, but this was good. Since the maximum MP was the same, it would recover if left alone.
The problem was something else. My complexion turned bluish, saying that this was not reality.
Has disappeared.
The mana of the runes I had accumulated——all disappeared!!!!
“Gyaaaaa!! It’s a mana thief!!!”
I screamed at the feeling of emptiness as if I had lost my hot pack during cold weather training!
“ᚲ(Kenaz)!! ᚨ(Ansuz)!!!”
I shouted out the names of the runes as if calling out the name of a lover who fell off a cliff, but my strong 2nd job advancement skills didn’t reply.
Not to read
My rune was kidnapped by a black-haired, green-skinned bully!
Fuck!! Does it make sense to steal someone else’s skill?! I knelt down, pouring out my heart’s copper.
“Tahuhheuk… I brought mana, but why can’t I eat it, why can’t I eat it… Oddly enough, today was bad luck…”
A sense of despair as if a person had been pickpocketed! To me in despair, Veronica clicked her tongue and explained.
【Did you steal the old god’s mana? I’ve lost one too It is impossible with ordinary ᛃ(Jēra). It must be a relic of an ancient civilization.]
“Fuck, that’s what’s important…”
The new fact that the rune’s mana was the old god’s mana was revealed, but it didn’t surprise me at all.
After losing his girlfriend to Taeyang Geum, what would he use if he found out where his family was?
Still sick. If you think about it, it’s a natural thing.
Since the Germanian gods are called Old Gods, the mana of Odin’s rune magic must of course be a type of Old God’s mana.
‘… Uh huh But if that’s the case, what did Tabula see in me and say something about the old god’s mana?’
I don’t know.
My thoughts were not well organized due to the transcendent despair I had felt for the first time in a long time. Veronica said to me who was weeping so much.
【Stand up, my lady. If you haven’t forgotten the realization you gained when you acquired the rune, you should be able to build up the mana of the Old God again by taking the time.]
“Mother… How long will it take?”
【… Well. Wouldn’t one year for each one be enough?]
Fucking sickness. Beyond sadness, I began to feel anger.
‘Let’s kill the ogre. Ogres are my enemies.’
I’m going to kill you. As I, who had turned sadness into anger, was gnashing my teeth, Tirshi took out the bottle he used as a magic medium and said,
“I still can’t believe that an ogre speaks human language. His intelligence seemed very high.”
“It was. Even using magic on the subject of an ogre. It feels like my common sense is about to collapse.”
“I agree. We don’t know what that ogre might do by running away, so we have to quickly start with the damage to the village in this gap—”
Tirsi stops while giving instructions like a party leader. She said to me
“… Could this be my obsession?”
“I don’t want to get caught up in the inn without taking care of the damage. Let’s organize it in moderation while being careful of the ogre’s surprise attack.”
Tyrsi nodded her head. With a subtle expression, as if she had mixed up a sense of humiliation and a sense of humor at the right rate.
I also moved while burning my hatred towards the ogres.
【My dear. Is she all of her party?]
Veronica, unable to help because she was a horse, extinguished her fire with rune magic and asked. After listening to it, I can’t even see the trollers plucking their noses.
“There are more, but I don’t know where they went.”
I didn’t even expect them. After the promotion match, I was going to delete my face and name from the hard disk within three days after we broke up.
─Kooung.
We put out the fire and cleared the rubble. No one came out of the village, perhaps because the ogre was afraid.
I fully understand the feeling of not wanting to go outside when Tank is running around, but it’s not a zombie story, so even if you’re stuck at home, there’s no fucking point if the ogre keeps rampaging.
“Are you adventurers!”
At that time, the old man who appeared to be the village head reflected his face. Looking at his determined face, it seems that he came to talk with him in charge of his short-lived life.
“Kheuk. Thanks for driving the ogre out…”
“No. I’m glad no one was hurt.”
“Yes. It’s nothing short of a miracle that such a terrifying monster has attacked and the village is safe! This is all thanks to you guys!”
The village chief bowed his head while saying that. I gave Tirsi, the party leader, the job of explaining to the village chief and separated from them.
Veronica came after me with the sound of her hooves.
【My dear.】
“Veronica.”
Veronica stopped talking telepathically because she was speechless, but I spoke ahead of Veronica.
“I will ask you first. When was the last time you flew to that sacred forest?”
[Last night. It’s a transfer of about 20 hours.]
Veronica said as if she was remembering the events of last night.
[Shinma-nim’s moving magic circle requires a delay until mana refills once you use it. That’s why it took her a long time to come back after using it after breaking up with you. And since I used a lot of mana, I took a night’s rest.]
“Ah. There was no news about the reduction for over a month, was that the reason?”
【It is true. I left Britannia after giving you the grace of lifesaving, but in order to meet you again, I had to wait thirty-one nights until the moving magic circle was restored.]
It was a clearing-up answer.
Of course, that meant Veronica was thinking the same thing as me. I started to get angry again and gnashed my teeth.
“The Old God’s mana was stolen from us, and the rune was at the level of a master. The conditions are met.”
【──I can’t believe it. Apparently, after being captured by those vicious servants in Romania, I used the moving magic circle twice in the Holy Tree Forest here.]
As I muttered, Veronica groaned and retorted.
【However, how did you mean that ogre figured out how to use the moving magic circle?】
That was why we think.
The reason why the ogre pup took mana from us and escaped.
I said it like it was nonsense, but Veronica probably knew it too. It’s just so hard to accept. I shook my head.
“I don’t know why. It’s not something we need to worry about right now. All you care about is that that ogre pup might fly to your kind sometime today or tomorrow, doesn’t it?”
【… Seriously, just hearing about it is unpleasant.]
Veronica was so disgusted by the appearance of her horse that it was clearly visible.
An ogre who counters rune magic attacks the sacred ground of the vicorns?
It’s hard to say how strong the other bicorns are because I haven’t seen them myself, but isn’t it a national rule that the Holy Land becomes a battlefield in this kind of fantasy industry?
【It is my mistake. I didn’t have to use a magic circle, I had to cross the sea. If that was the case, he wouldn’t have even noticed the location…】
Veronica was visibly agitated, as if she thought that there would be kin blood flowing in her. I asked a question to cool Veronica’s head.
“Since you used it to come here, shouldn’t you wait for 31 days until you run out of mana again?”
【Not like that. If you can fill the magic circle with mana, it can be reused. The magic circle only works at dawn and dusk, but if that savage ogre has accumulated mana, it can be activated at dawn.]
“… I have bad news, will you hear it?”
【Don’t tell me. I can imagine. I thought there was a lot of blood smell in the forest last night.]
It felt like the reason why the ogres had attacked the orc colony had been revealed unexpectedly.
Just as a bear gathers stamina before hibernation, it was to recover stamina and mana by eating efficient prey at random to gather mana for the old god to activate the magic circle.
I said as I rotated the elite-dagger barrel 3000%.
“Human sacrifice—isn’t it, did you accumulate your mana in an item or something for a long time?”
Aren’t you a bastard with an artifact that steals other people’s mana? There must be at least an artifact that stores mana.
In other words, can we call it a reserve mana tank?
The ogre must have been eating well, sleeping well, restoring mana, and happily waiting for the day to go on an overseas trip, storing it in his mana-savings account.
The general mana collected like that—it doesn’t matter what type it is as long as it’s not the old god’s mana—was used as the cost of the plane.
‘And the rune’s mana stolen from us is a passport to pass through the magic circle, right?’
It’s like fuck, really.
I couldn’t stop my anger because I thought that the voice phishing criminal who stole my fucking passport would enjoy my YOLO life with it.
“Fuck. Wasn’t that bastard trying to steal something like a mana potion from our examiner?”
Even though they are smart, they are ultimately savage ogres of uncivilized civilization. I couldn’t find the mana potion.
There is a limit to the mana recovered by eating and sleeping with folk remedies. Maybe that’s why the bastard was aiming for an examiner with a mana potion that would restore his normal mana?
【Examiner?】
“Ah, that’s what you mean——”
When I explained everything, including the Auduumla guild promotion examiner, Veronica was impressed.
【It’s getting bigger and bigger. If he came to steal our mana, it is highly likely that he has already found the magic circle and estimated the amount of mana he needs.]
“Right. That bastard seems to have followed one of you or me.”
【Because you and I both have the mana of the Old God.】
Veronica agrees with me. What did she say the bastard said? Did she say there were two suitable ones? She said she was lucky and she seems to have been.
Doesn’t that mean that fucker has been preparing to forge my runes since then? It was me who was getting mad without a solution at the fucking foreshadowing that was revealed one by one.
【Now that things have turned out this way–I’m sorry, dear. I want you to wait a little bit for the return of my life. I have told my people, so even if I am wrong, other colleagues will come to tell me later.]
“What?”
At that time, Veronica suddenly made a noise like a fat. What’s the answer?
【Of course, I know that I will not be able to defeat it alone. I’ll hide around the magic circle. And I’m planning to target the time he’s transferring and move with me to sound an alarm to my comrades before I’m caught and killed.]
In response to my reaction, Veronica gave a nonsensical explanation of what she was mistaken about. It is an operation based on a suicide special attack. I think Japanese soldiers will like it.
“Ah, I see.”
I nodded and put the chop into Veronica’s colt’s head.
“The bitter taste of fear!!!!!”
【Hehe!!】
Quick-!
Refreshing hitting sound!
Shack the foal screamed and kissed the ground.
Because they were an uncivilized quadrupedal race with only forelimbs but no hands, they could not even cover their heads. I didn’t hit that hard, but it was overkill.
[Muh, what did you do!! That’s rude!!]
Veronica drained, tears welling up in her bright eyes. I spoke to Veronica, who was crying and screaming.
“Don’t grab Gao and ask for help, asshole.”
