Chapter 276 – Horseman of Death (2)
I shouted at the woman and threw my spear at the black, half-man, half-beast.
─Whee-ae-ae-ae!!
[Gertur]’S herbivore spread and the spear he threw reached the half-man, half-beast like a shotgun.
It was then. The humanoid part of the rider’s neck turned 180 degrees like an owl and aimed at me.
“Ras! Turtsu ha——!!”
The half-man, half-horse screamed and made a sudden stop and reversed.
─Susasasasasasasas!!
No, can I call that backwards? As if the horse’s four legs were ignoring inertia while sprinting, it only retreated backwards in the direction ‘at the same speed as it was running’.
Due to the relative speed difference with the wagon, it almost looked like the enemy was jumping backwards at twice the speed.
Of course, my spear missed and stuck deep into the ground.
“That shit! Not even mosquitoes!”
The horseback, which had retreated while cutting through the grass in the meadow, came running toward us.
The movement of that bitch from earlier had a strange feeling, like a video projected by a beam projector, but since these guys weren’t uncommon, I was able to think calmly.
“Victoire! I will break the wagon!”
“Damn the fuck!! I don’t want to fall behind either!! Let it go!!”
Victoire was well-disciplined, befitting a peddler who traveled to and from danger zones. I fired a series of frozen beams to block the approach of the half-man, half-horse and shouted.
“Franc!!”
“Yes!!”
─Quaang!! The peddler’s wagon was smashed by the hammering blow and poured into the meadow.
The hammer wielded by Fran was a magic item left behind by the president of Tustars.
To be precise, the key part of the hammer, the wooden handle, was removed and a new iron part was attached. Unlike the magic reflecting shield made of mithril, the metal parts of the hammer were not enchanted.
Still, it was true that it was a precious metal, so I repainted the handle and asked Clara to cast the iron part into a different shape. It left the enchanted magic and changed only the appearance.
-Excellent water. Fragments of the wagon were thrown in the wind.
“Life Sipal!!”
Victoire burst into tears and cursed. Fran threw the knife without stopping.
The jockey tried to dodge this time as well, but landed a good hit with the knife orbiting in the air.
Fran carefully aimed at the horse’s body, which had a wide target, and thanks to that, all the knives were stuck in the body.
“Rrrras!!!”
The wounded rider shouted even more ferociously. The overturned skin was barely penetrated even by Frank’s knife throws, which seemed to be suffering from inflammation.
“Lalilura! Barrage!”
“Yeah!”
At my instruction, Lalilura threw the doll she was holding onto the carriage floor.
After somersaulting, the ferocious clown puppet turned into a familiar puppet. Ringling, which had a miniaturization function added through rune magic, was number 4.
Unlike the transformation of a creature, which requires processing of breathing, heartbeat, and five senses to be resolved with mana, transformation of an object consumes less mana. After consuming the mana required for transformation, there is nothing additional.
“If you want to be loved by me, wear clothes first☆!”
Lari Lura pulled the thread of her mana. Linglingi 4 spewed 〈 Magic Missiles 〉 from its 10 fingers like a downpour.
“Siiiiiyyy!!!”
Rain of arrows pouring down on the meadow! However, the jockey showed an astonishing evasion technique. With jaw-dropping controls, he approached while deflecting and avoiding the magic barrage.
Horsemanship to the extent that the nomads who harassed our ancestors were like this!
No, it might be more accurate to call it taijutsu because it is a skill to control one’s own body.
“Ssslsliiiii!!”
The half-man, half-horse rider raised a sickle that deflected barrage. Shouted the woman pressing her wounds behind her.
“Be careful!! I intend to attack!!”
“Thiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!”
─Fuhuaaaaak!!
The crimson mana overflowing from her scythe flew out while drawing a half moon.
I tried to intercept, but put my hand down. The spear was barely chasing at the speed of the wagon, so it seemed impossible to retrieve it if it missed now.
More than anything, I wasn’t the tanker in our party.
“You bastard!! Don’t pay me any more repair costs!!”
Dana, who climbed up to where I was holding onto the broken ceiling of the wagon, spread her shield. The red semicircle shook Dana’s shield loudly and stopped. It was a fucking strong ranged attack.
‘But not to the extent that I can’t stand it.’
I half-opened my eyes. The shield cracked, but I couldn’t break it. That means the enemy’s skills aren’t transcendently superior to our party’s.
Fran’s knife is still stuck. The enemy’s attack and defense are at a level that even we can defeat!
The problem was the speed that the horse’s four legs spewed out.
If it’s about chasing a normal horse, I can do it too. However, the words of the woman who is being chased are not common. At a glance, it seems to be faster than a car on the highway.
If it was an instantaneous speed, the stamina to run for a long distance while maintaining that speed anyway, and the ability to run without inertia moving back and forth and left and right were absolutely threatening.
“Veronica! Magic!”
【──The red guardian of wealth and joy (wyrtrumun underwreþyd, wyn on eþle)!! I’m ready!!]
“Take it off!!”
─Rumble! Kugu Palace!
A wall of earth rising from the ground blocked the rider. As the rider turned his head, Fran and Lalilura focused. If you jump over it, you’re probably thinking of shooting it in the air and knocking it down.
But I couldn’t imagine that bastard could be that stupid.
I took the mask out of my pocket. The rider swung his scythe 2 times in a cross pattern. As the earthen wall was pulverized, the disgusting horse head was wrapped in dirt and disappeared.
“Saaaaa── A?”
The rider, who was about to launch another surprise attack on the carriage, hesitated. Because I, who was on the carriage, disappeared.
He took the window When he hid in the dust, I put the mask over his face and jumped into the driver’s seat. Impression camouflage worked for a while. It is a forage-style gourd flower.
He jumped down as if hiding in the shadow of the carriage, so that even Victoire, who was busy whipping his horse, didn’t notice. The jockey, whose gaze was elsewhere, never noticed.
I took advantage of the gap I earned and squeezed up my mana. It’s the same technique as the frozen beam I used before.
‘Add ᚨ (Ansuz) rune here to increase the output.’
Unfortunately, it is not a combination of magic.
Combining the magic formulas with a really high level of difficulty was really difficult. It is a frustration that reminds me of the first time an English letter like χ appeared in secondary mathematics.
So I wrote a shortcut.
He noticed that if he applied magic to the rune engraved on the blade of a mithril spear, the result would be a similar effect.
“Yaaaaau——!! Wiiiiid!!”
The jockey noticed me. You’re a sluggish bastard.
As I jumped from the coachman’s seat, I slashed the edge of a spear with extreme cold.
“Wolar Cheungchung.”
Compressed cold steam spewed out like bullets.
─What a mess! Kwajik!!
After experimenting in the yard, the attack that made Frank cool and was jointed by Dana hit the half-man, half-horse rider. Since there was no angle to avoid, the rider froze as it was.
Still, the rider did not die. He roared as if his fighting spirit was on fire even after his scythe-holding arm and the part connecting the humanoid body and the horse’s back were turned into ice pickles.
“AAs, Swwwww… Tyaaa?!”
─Two-kick!
The javelin pierced the head of the rider’s horse, who was pulling the scythe as if he didn’t care if his feet slowed down.
“If you get hit by CC, you have to get out of your body, bitch.”
I sneered as I brushed off the arm that threw the spear.
My javelin, which had reached the master’s level, worked with the strong horse’s neck muscles and bones to produce surprising results. The horse’s head, which had been skewered, had been pulled out with the spear stuck in it.
“Faaaaa!!!”
─Puffy!!
─Kudangtangtang!!
With the horse’s head gone, the rider with his twisted foot tumbled across the meadow.
The humanoid body, which was impossible to fall off, rolled on the floor and stood tall, stupidly like a criminal who was beheaded.
Even an Amman monster would die if both heads exploded. As I retrieved the spear, I cracked my brain.
“Bye. You’re a cutthroat bastard.”
“Ouch, what a fucking surprise!! When did you come down?!”
Victoire’s dazed scream, hearing my murmur, announced the end of the fight.
Fuck you. It’s been a while since I met a monster on the way.
***
We stopped the wagon and treated the wounded first.
“Go, thank you.”
“… Ugh, ugh. Yeah.”
As Dana treated the haggard woman, she kept looking at her face. What’s going on? Did our nunna open our eyes to homosexuality?
Although slightly worried, I was wary of surprise. There could be other monsters besides that half-man, half-horse whose identity I don’t know.
“Go, Finpanel!”
─Whiririririk!
The smoke alter ego was blown to check the life and death of the horse.
I tried to touch it, but it doesn’t seem to come alive. To be resurrected here would be impossible unless it was a recovery alter ego like Yerna did.
“Senior~. What about this scythe?”
Lalilura brought him the scythe he used, but she didn’t seem to find much use.
The blood-stained and rusty blade was terrible, as if it could not escape tetanus if it was cut with it. Suddenly, I’m worried about the lady who is being treated there.
‘Well, it’s treatment. Dana will take care of it.’
It’s not about giving advice to experts. In particular, respecting the wife’s professional field was a duty for a smooth married life.
In that sense, I decided to toss Scythe’s Genuine Luxury Check to an expert in this field.
“Franc. What do you think?”
“Um… Wait a minute. I need to peel off the rust first.”
Fran knelt down and peeled off the scythe with a knife.
─Kagak. Close by. It was a sound I didn’t want to hear, so Fran worked with a frown. Fran, who touched the exposed metal with her hand or stabbed it with a knife, tilted her head.
“I can’t be sure because it’s so dry, but it must be sea iron.”
“Sea iron?”
“Yes. Iron found below sea level. It is very expensive because it is hard to find. Almost treated as a precious metal? Remember to pay more than the same weight of silver.”
“Is it true?”
It was Victoire who bit the rice cake. When I looked up, he scratched the back of his head shyly.
“No, after all, you saved my life, so I can’t ask for anything else, but I can help a little with selling it. Hehe.”
“Heh. I will think about it.”
We’re planning to get off the wagon before going to Romania, so it might be difficult to sell to this guy.
Fran was touching a moss-covered tree and just broke it.
“The handle is just sturdy wood. I ate so much water that I couldn’t sell it.”
Victoire picked it up too. What is Merchant Spirit?
“Wow. See you sweat profusely hot right? Would you like some water?”
“Hee-hee!”
Lalilura was feeding the middle-aged woman’s horse with water.
Is it because I ran furiously in this cold? Steam flowed from her horse’s body. It’s like a person who took a hot shower on a cold day and went out to the veranda.
“Walalaluya. Have you possessed an animal again?”
“I’m Priscilla, right?”
“That’s an unimaginable identity.”
As I was laughing like that, Veronica approached me. She whispered to me as she fought her nerves by snowballing with her horse with the mask on her face.
“… Dear Did you notice?”
“Uh. That bastard, isn’t that normal?”
I couldn’t get a sense of it from a distance, but I knew it when I got closer. It doesn’t have horns, and the part where it should have horns was covered with a mask like an eyepatch, so I couldn’t recognize it.
Still, horses with rune mana would not be common. Veronica silently nodded her head.
“It is not our clan. Maybe a unicorn.”
“… Do you think it’s a bad baby? “
“I don’t know. But at least as far as mana goes, it doesn’t look like you’ve learned any evil magic.”
Of course, she couldn’t be sure of that alone. Like a unicorn warlock, he can do as many bad things as he wants even if he doesn’t openly show that he’s a bastard.
I looked at him with a mindset to be wary of.
The virgin bug was looking at us while taking water from Lalilura. That bastard also seemed to have noticed Veronica’s true identity.
What the hell are you staring at? Shall I beat you up?
“Senior? This kid seems to be very hot. Can’t senpai cool them down with cold hands and feet magic?”
“Oh! Uh, don’t do that! You could get hurt if you do it wrong… Ugh!”
The middle-aged woman was surprised by Rari-Lura’s words and tried to dissuade her, but she let out a moan as if her wounds were sore.
She deserved it. I want you to consider the case of Veronica in reverse. When Hudain I approached, she seemed to hit her back kick.
“No, don’t overdo it! It’s good that the injured place is the arm and it can be treated quickly, it’s a wound that could be life-threatening! What if I lose the use of my arms!”
Dana was startled and stopped her healing magic and helped her up. I blinked my eyes at our nunna’s polite attitude.
Of course, even if my wife looked like that, she was polite enough to come as a bride to Kun-ah of the Eastern Kingdom of Courtesy, but it felt different from that.
“Ah… Go, thank you Is it late to say hello?”
The middle-aged woman, with impressive wrinkles around her eyes, humbly bowed her waist, as if her stamina to have a conversation had finally returned.
“I am Cerzanne Heiromaine. Doctor of Archeology.”
