Episode 173
EPISODE.87
Gyaaaaaagh!
With a ferocious roar, the mantis-shaped monster swung its front paw.
A wall of magic transparent enough to see through.
On top of it, a forepaw like a death scythe falls down—
bang!
At the moment of impact, the wind blew fiercely.
Kwagwagwagwa!
The wind that arose turned into a gust of wind and blew horizontally with the horizon, wrapping around the monsters in the area.
It was a powerful wind that could swallow up not only the attacker, but also dozens of monsters nearby.
Gyaaak-!
Kyaaaaaagh!
Demonic spirits caught in the gust of wind fly away like a pendulum with a thread cut off and crash.
Awesome!
The impact must have been so great that the skins of the monsters on the floor were shattered.
Bodily fluids and viscera ooze out.
But that’s all, Kieh!
Immediately, other monsters appeared and filled the vacancy.
Kieeck!
There were monsters all over the place anyway, so they were filling the whole area with no space to set foot on.
Compared to that number, about a dozen have disappeared.
Io twisted his lips as he caught a glimpse of the monsters rushing in like cockroaches from inside the transparent magical wall.
‘–Hey.’
The face of a strong warrior who couldn’t be found to be gentle and soft as usual.
It has to be.
Now she had people to protect.
“Io. scary.”
“Ahhhhh-.”
Is it because of the unique hearing ability of the elves?
Even in the middle of the sound of the monsters, the cries of the children could be heard.
It was all coming from behind her back. Young elven children who have not yet lived a hundred years.
The other elves hurried to appease them, but it was not so easy to stop the children’s cries once they broke out.
I couldn’t let those children become a meal for the monsters.
That’s why Io is here, even though he has enough strength to escape.
‘Perhaps other people do the same.’
Io thought so when he caught a glimpse of the elves who, like himself, were maintaining a transparent membrane.
A magical membrane that spreads out in a hemispherical shape and separates the boundary between elves and monsters.
This barrier was a type of barrier created by the elves with the power of spirits.
‘Can I hold on until the sun rises…’
The question is how long this barrier can last.
‘Everyone is so tired…’
They had been working hard to rescue the isolated fairies for days and days. The accumulated fatigue from the previous battles as well as the consumed magic power were also formidable.
If it wasn’t for her who had begun to awaken the dragon’s factor, the other people’s mana must have started to show the bottom.
Even so, it was impossible to break the barrier and fight the monsters.
‘If a melee broke out, the damage to allies would grow out of control.’
In a situation that could never be called good, Io bit his lip.
It was then.
“West of the barrier-!”
“It’s pierced!”
The elves who maintained the barrier screamed!
When I turned my head slightly, there was a monster trying to squeeze in at the moment when the magical shield weakened.
It was a monster with a bizarre jaw that opened up, down, left, and right.
The man’s jaw pushes out the mana and cuts it off, and the sprouting teeth cast themselves behind the mana wall.
And that wasn’t all.
Perhaps the barrier on the west side had weakened considerably, and a few other animals were slowly pushing inside.
At this rate, more and more monsters will flock to the gap they opened.
Witnessing the scene, Io raised his mana.
Whoa ah-.
The atmosphere around it starts to vibrate.
“Wind, shoot me an arrow!”
There was an answer to that call.
Eurus opened his mouth and let out an arrow made of wind.
Euros is one of the highest spirits of the wind, who controls the east wind and rain.
As such, the arrows ejected by Euros also possessed extraordinary power.
Aww-!
The moment the bow rod broke and the tension was nearing its peak, Io let go of the string.
Paeng-!
An arrow made of wind soars toward the sky with a sharp piercing sound.
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The moment you break through the magic wall, a shockwave bursts out, transcending the speed of sound.
Then, the flesh that soared as if it could touch the clouds exploded.
Beopbeobung!
It exploded and erupted again, turning into dozens of arrows and falling towards the ground in a chain.
This is the wind and rain of Euros, which is said to govern the east wind and rain.
The flesh of the falling storm bombarded the western side of the barrier.
Bubbubbububbuck-!
The monsters trying to enter the barrier were quickly turned into beehives. Then Io shouted, catching his breath.
“This is the gap. Barrier again…”
“Yeah!”
As if it had already been experienced several times, the barriers began to be restored at a rapid pace.
If he had enough magical power, there wouldn’t have been any monsters or anything like that breaking through this barrier.
Io raised his head as he checked the barrier that was beginning to be repaired.
I looked up at the still dark night sky.
Why does the passage of time feel so slow?
There must still be a lot of time left before the sun rises and dawn approaches.
In this situation, the only hope was other than the feathered man who went to the main unit to ask for support.
‘I wonder if he arrived safely…’
It was the moment when Io’s eyes were about to project his worries about the future.
“East too! East this time!”
Again a sharp scream was heard.
“You mean already?”
The barrier in the west was restored just before, but this time in the east.
I could feel that the speed at which the barrier collapsed was noticeably faster than before.
If things go on like this, we won’t be able to predict the next few hours, let alone tonight.
“Hey Euros. Give me an arrow once more…”
The moment she tried to accept the wind-woon’s bow again.
thud!
Suddenly, a stone fell on top of my heart. Together with him, the chest begins to pulsate -.
An image of someone was suddenly projected into his mind.
With black hair and red eyes.
‘Why is the benefactor’s face suddenly…?’
Roaring!
Right after that, a huge wall of flame wrapped around the wall of magic.
Fire Wall.
The skin of the monsters engulfed in flames was sore and melted from the heat that far exceeded the usual 4-circle magic.
“ah!”
However, what Io felt from the flames was an infinitely warm feeling.
A familiar sign of magical power.
Recalling the memory of the moment he had been saved the previous day, Io raised his head.
Among a group of people jumping from a rocky mountain in the distance, I found a young man with a halo and a red robe fluttering.
“Benefactor…!”
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Russell strained his eyesight as he confirmed that the flames he had created turned into a wall and entwined the elves’ barriers.
He met eyes with Io, who was looking at him beyond the flames.
‘It’s barely on par with the Top Master level, or a little less than that.’
Somewhere between 5 and 6 circles.
It is a much stronger ability than when we faced each other the day before.
However, it is an absurdly weak state to be regarded as having inherited the factor of a dragon.
‘Perhaps it’s because the dragon’s power hasn’t fully awakened yet.’
It was then. The voice of Vermillion, who was jumping together, was heard.
“I think you will know what to do without having to explain. Priests.”
With this amount of power, he was able to penetrate the path between the monsters while protecting the isolated fairies.
Even so, holding on and fighting until the sun rises would be a strategy only minions would take.
“yes.”
Leaving behind Russell’s short, heavy reply, Vermillion clenched his fists.
thump thump-.
Uncharacteristically for a wizard, he heard a thick bone sound, and soon his fists began to heat up red.
“Then I will open the way.”
Then the moment when he puts the government to the front!
Vermillion Woolsen.
Originality.
Flare Fist.
bang!
The pushed air is shot forward like a cannonball.
The air fired by the generated frictional force burns -.
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Traces of magma flowed at high speed, and the entire surface of the earth was ripped away.
It was only natural that the monsters caught at the end of it would be smashed without a shape or turned into lumps of charcoal and fell down.
‘Crazy…’
Russell stuck out his tongue at the sight that was no different from shooting an aura with his fist.
Its power is outstanding, just as the idea was to concentrate and shoot 5th circle level magic into one fist.
Russell accelerated the new model while confirming that the road opened between the monsters in an instant.
‘Excel Haste-.’
Russell’s new model, which turned into a flash battle at once, leaped hundreds of meters in just two steps and flew in front of Io.
“Io.”
“The benefactor… the benefactor is here.”
Seeing Russell flying in front of her, Io, who had partially lifted the spirit barrier, showed a relieved expression.
“How can I repay the grace of saving life to my benefactor twice already…”
Russell replied, confirming Io’s personality that hadn’t changed in the slightest.
“As a mage of Endymion allied with the fairies, I just did the obvious thing. Rather…”
“…?”
“I’m thinking of opening the way from now on. Could you please release this barrier first?”
“What do you mean by opening the way?”
“We plan to open a road in the form of a sharp advance, so that we can protect the fairies and run straight through to break through the army of monsters.”
At those words, Io shook his head with a pale face.
“Ha, but if you do, the slow-footed kids will be left behind.”
Why didn’t she think of that? However, it could not be implemented because the conditions did not exist in reality.
“it’s okay.”
“…?”
“Things are different from then.”
The number of fairies in the seat was about five hundred. Nearly four hundred of them are non-combatants.
No matter how great the spirit magic of the Elves is, it would not be easy to have all of them dwell with God’s protection.
but.
“Olive. Would that be possible?”
“of course. Count Russell. That’s one of the reasons I came with you.”
Distinctive features and advantages that exist in each lineage of the mage tower. Among them, one of the advantages of Baektop is its versatility.
A fair wind flowed from her body and spread around the area.
“This?”
Olive explained to Io, who tilted her head as she felt her body lighten in a slightly different sense from the spirit’s protection.
“I cast a magic on all the fairies here to make them feel lighter and move faster.”
Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t make superhuman movements. However.
“I should be able to run fast for a few hours, though.”
No matter how top master level mage was, it was never easy to cast and maintain magic on hundreds of people.
So, with this, Olive is excluded from the combat personnel who make the advance.
However, there were enough people to fill the position.
‘I’m worried that Io-nim is a little tired, but…’
There were several other Elves who could fight.
“Io!”
Subsequently, Azlan and the elven rangers arrived, confirming that the party had all joined, and Vermillion clashed his fists.
“Let me lead the advance.”
Bang!
From the spot where the fists met, sparks rose like flint, and his entire body was covered in a haze of long flames.
It looked like a huge tiger with red fur.
Demonstrating the magic that made him called the Mad Tiger of the Tower of Flames, he sighed.
“I’ll break the bone marrow. You monsters.”
Russell replied, sighing at the expression that did not look like a wizard at all.
“Then I will be in charge of the left wing, so would Io-sama take over the right wing with Azlan-nim?”
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several hours after that.
Kwagwagwagwa-!
As originally planned, Russell, who was overrunning the group of monsters, raised his head.
Their eyes widened as they confirmed the direction they were heading.
“castle…?”
In the direction where the main unit should be, there was a huge wall that was not there originally.
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