Chapter 215 – The 8th Hierarchy
I knew that Glinda was a wizard well-versed in alchemy who could create the Philosopher’s Stone, but I never thought she would commit such a terrible act.
It’s impossible to turn an entire castle into a golem.
It is literally magic on a different scale.
Gaaaaa!
As the giant golem slowly rose and roared into the night sky, the seven elves standing in front of it quickly spread out left and right.
“Megrez! Dube! You take charge of both arms!”
When Akkad, the commander, gives an order, two elf mages called Megrez and Dube raise their staffs at the same time.
Then, a huge spear of wind and an ice pick were created in the empty air.
Although it is a fairly simple magic compared to its high hierarchy, its destructive power cannot be underestimated when its diameter exceeds 10 meters.
Eventually, the magic projectile hits the golem’s large body.
Quaaaaang!!
The golem’s body is slightly pushed back with an explosion.
However, the expressions on the faces of the elves who succeeded in the attack were not that bright.
Even though it took a direct hit without any guard, the golem’s body seemed to have no damage except for small scratches.
“… Could it be that the magic resistance that the castle had was inherited?”
After hearing Master’s hypothesis, I nodded without realizing it.
This is because it was a fairly credible guess.
Originally, the abilities of a golem are determined by the skill of the caster and the quality of the material.
In this case, the abilities of Margaret, the caster, were beyond doubt, and the castle that served as the base for the golem was built by Mav, the third queen of Elven Wood.
In addition, there were a number of powerful defensive techniques applied throughout the castle, so to think that they had become the golem’s food was nothing short of terrifying to the opponent.
In its current state, there were only two ways to attack that golem.
Target the magician who controls the golem, or-
“All we can do is destroy it with the same enormous physical force.”
Perhaps his thoughts were the same as mine, Akkad muttered that and used some familiar magic.
It is Polymorph, the dragon’s proprietary magic.
His body is enveloped in a dazzling light and begins to rapidly increase in size.
Eventually, Akkad, transformed into a huge red dragon, roars menacingly at Glinda’s golem.
Kraaaaa!
“That guy! Was it a dragon and elf harp!”
Dorothea, who was watching the fight with her hands sweating and her heart pounding, mutters with a surprised expression.
Half-jeweled half-dragon.
It is a mixture of an elf and a dragon that I have only heard about.
For some reason, when I looked at it up close, the eyes looked like a reptile, and I never thought it was foreshadowing.
A giant dragon over 30 meters tall and a golem were intertwined, and a battle of monsters unfolded before our eyes, but there was no time to watch idly.
This is because Akkad, who transformed into a dragon, took charge of the golem, and the remaining six magicians, whose hands were empty again, began to attack us in waves.
“Pfft…!”
We were already running out of mana.
Even if Glinda’s defensive abilities are different from those of ordinary mages, it would be difficult for her to block all the attacks from six mages of the same rank by herself using only the mana generated within her body.
When I saw her face gradually becoming pale and the beads of sweat on her forehead, I became impatient and asked if we could fight together right now, but Glinda flatly refused, saying, “No.”
“For everyone else, please just think about running away after this fight is over. That’s the only way for everyone to survive.”
Maintaining her magic must have been difficult, but as she said that, Glinda turned around and forced a smile on her face as if to reassure us.
“Glinda…”
Margaret calls her name with a trembling voice.
Among her group, she was the one who benefited the most from Glinda.
“… I understand.”
In the end, I once again broke my will and quietly retreated.
Then Glinda heard my answer and murmured in her usual kind voice.
“Thank you for trusting me.”
Thanks to you, my last hesitation disappeared.
“What?”
Just as I was about to ask what that meant, Glinda, who had been concentrating on her protection spell throughout the fight, raised her staff for the first time.
Boom!
She only touched the ground once.
However, as if there were resonance, the ground pulsated loudly.
Boom!!
It felt like an earthquake had occurred.
As the ground shook with the tremors, we who were standing on it were unable to keep our balance and began to fall to the floor one by one.
Boom!!!
It sounded like the heartbeat of a living thing, and to someone who didn’t know much, it would feel like Glinda was controlling the entire land with her magic.
But the reality was different.
Rather, it should be said to be even more amazing.
Suddenly, a thread of blue mana erupted from the ground and began to gently caress Glinda’s exhausted body.
It was like a mother gently hugging her child after returning from a long absence.
Although it has been over 500 years since the owner changed, the land remembers.
Who is the legitimate successor to this land?
The red dragon, who had barely defeated the giant golem after a bloody battle, let out her menacing roar at Glinda, but was no longer a threat to her as she was under the protection of her ancestors.
“Akkad, you have always been so arrogant.”
Glinda said that with her eyes closed.
“Is that still the case? “No matter how generous I am, I’m starting to get sick of it.”
Akkad, who had polymorphed into a dragon but still spoke the same way as when he was an elf, looked down at Glinda with bright yellow beast eyes.
From the outside, it doesn’t look like there will ever be a fight.
It is a combination of a red dragon that is over 30 meters tall and an elf that is only about 160 centimeters tall.
But I trusted Glinda.
It was because she believed that she, who was more rational than anyone else, would not step in front of her guy without any chance of winning.
And as if repaying that trust, the strange rumbling in the ground became even louder.
Boom!!!!
“I am the one who provided the magic that manipulates ley lines and the original technology for that magic. But do you think the person who developed the magic would not have created even a single detour to prepare for an unexpected situation?”
「… What?」
Akkad’s voice was perplexed after hearing Glinda’s explanation.
It almost felt like the confident image she had shown so far was a lie.
Thud!!!!!
At the moment when the earth tremors reached their peak, a huge magic circle unfolded from the tip of Glinda’s staff.
The mana flowing back from the earth is sucked into her body.
“At this moment, control of the ley lines under this land has returned to me. After I left, it seems that the ley lines were only used to block mana in a certain area, but does the ley line originally have this use?”
Glynda said this in a gentle voice, as if a teacher was teaching her student, and stared at her Akkad with expressionless eyes.
「Tsk! Don’t look at me with those eyes!”
The dragon’s large snout opens.
His next move was obvious even without looking.
Breath, one of the dragon’s representative weapons.
Since it is a descendant of the red dragon, which is known to live in lava fields, it will emit extremely high-temperature flame breath from its pointed snout.
But before he could fire, Glinda raised her wand above her head.
「Octa spell」
“Meteor Strike.”
The next moment, a huge meteorite summoned in the air fell on the red dragon’s head due to gravity.
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Biiiii—──
Tinnitus is ringing in my ears.
It happened so instantaneously that I didn’t even have time to cover my ears.
Among the magics I can use, the magic with the strongest destructive power is the Aether series, including Little Boy and Fat Man.
However, ether magic had the fatal disadvantage of taking too much time to cast and only having a high hit rate when attacking a stationary target.
Honestly, who would sit still and accept this magic in a situation where every minute and every second is a waste?
So the magic I mainly used on the battlefield was the school’s arcane wind demon magic.
In general, powerful magic lacks practicality.
That is the general opinion of academia.
However, Glinda calmly committed an act that completely overturned the mainstream opinion.
An inefficient summoning magic that creates a huge meteorite using earth magic, and reduces the time lag using gravity magic so that it falls on its own even if left alone, so it hits the enemy straight away.
It was used in practice.
Before there was time to escape, the dragon was crushed by a huge meteorite and died on the spot.
And the other elves who were caught in the explosion’s range but barely survived didn’t seem to be in any good condition.
There is only one Glinda standing on the ground.
She said, looking behind her.
“Three minutes have passed.”
Cough!
After saying that, Glinda fell to the floor, spitting out blood from her mouth, like a doll whose strings had been cut.
