CH 109

“The demons attacked, but it may not be as hard as I thought….”

Translated by Dawn

“The demons attacked, but it may not be as hard as I thought….”

The day after I returned from Nagartinya’s base, I had a reaction to Sense Manipulation. The sensation was somewhat unpleasant and uncomfortable.

“Something’s coming…….what is it, [Remote Viewing].”

Using magic to project a particular landscape, I projected outside the city of Orargrand and found that the monsters there were so numerous that they covered the grasslands around the street.

The swarm of monsters clearly had its target set on Orargrand, indicating that someone was controlling the monsters. I then searched the surrounding area and found two major reactions that mirrored the scene.

“I knew it. It’s her.”

There was a bewitching Female Demon who, as usual, was dressed in a costume with little surface area. Nearby, there was also a male demon dressed in a similar strain of costume to the female demon, albeit with more surface area…….could it be her close aide?

“Demons again…….and this time it’s not familiar, but a serious one.”

The moment I saw them, I could feel that the female demon and the male demon were not just ordinary demons. There was no doubt that they had considerable power among the demon race, and the seriousness of the demon race could be seen.

Many of the monsters were classified as C or B rank, so even the adventurers of Orargrand would inevitably have a hard time. The fact that they had targeted a city so large that it competed with the best and second-largest cities in the Schells kingdom might mean that, as Nagartinya said, the demons had begun to move in order to seize the world’s supremacy.

“I have to say that this is also another cliche to get caught up in an event like this as soon as you get stronger….”

Although I was grumbling like that, I could not pretend that what had happened had not happened, so I decided to use Conversion Magic to move instantaneously. By the way, since Space-time Magic had evolved into Conversion Magic, it was now possible to move instantly without using a dimension gate. However, there was still the same limitation of not being able to use it unless you had been to the place before.

After leaping to a less popular location near the gates of Orargrand, I quickly climbed through the roof of the building and took up a high position. In front of me was a horde of monsters, no less than tens of thousands of them, crowded together.

“It’s quite a spectacle.”

As soon as I blurted out these unimportant thoughts, the monsters started marching toward the Orargrand gate wall. Soldiers and adventurers had already deployed in position and were ready to intercept the monsters.

The Adventurers’ Guild, which had noticed something unusual the day before, had contacted the town’s lords and adventurers and had the soldiers deployed yesterday. I was informed by a busty female staff member, whose face I knew but had never spoken to before, that she had checked my position the day before and had returned to my home with teleportation for a moment’s rest.

“Let go of the arrow!”

With someone’s command, a number of arrows rained down like rain. The monsters were not intimidated by the force of the arrows, and their advance knew no bounds.

A few moments after the arrows were released, the wizards also began their magical attacks. Fire, water, wind, soil, and every other attribute flew across the battlefield, laying waste to the monsters. However, such attacks could not last for long and were meaningless in the face of overwhelming numbers.

Gradually, some of them began to show fear of the approaching monsters, but then, as if cutting through the air, a magic spell was released.

“[Cyclone Tornado]!”

With the unimportant thought in the corner of my head that both cyclone and tornado mean the same thing, I looked at the person who had used the magic. It was Isabella, the guildmaster of the Adventurers’ Guild.

The Cyclone Tornado she unleashed became a gigantic tornado that blew away the monsters. The scale and damage were enormous, and the morale of the soldiers and adventurers, who had been on the verge of sinking, was restored by the sheer power of the tornado.

“Hmmm, is it like this? [Cyclone Tornado]!”

I was impressed by the power of the tornado that swept down the crowd of monsters and tried to cast the same magic that Isabella had used, just as I had seen her do. A tornado with a radius of no less than 20 meters, perhaps twice that, suddenly appeared, engulfing her tornado.

My tornado swallowed Isabella’s tornado, knocking out all the monsters and leaving only the limbs of the dismembered ones behind. But even so, it was not enough to crush the tens of thousands of monsters with a single blow, and the march of the monsters had not yet been halted. ……you annoying bunch.

“How about this then? Push them away, [Megaria Mailstrom]!!”

Suddenly, a huge tsunami appeared and swept over the advancing monsters. No one could resist the wall of waves over 20 meters high, and most of the monsters were swept away.

However, although the magic looked flashy, it was not very effective in killing the monsters, and although it was able to keep them away from the gate, most of them survived.

But there was no way that I would let the monsters pass in such a state without a fight, so I delivered the final blow.

“This is the end. [Mist Steam Explosion]!!!”

The monsters were enveloped by a misty substance. The misty substance was a flammable gas, and if there was even the slightest bit of fire, it would cause an explosion with enormous energy. And it was not an accidental fire, but a spark triggered by magical power that sent a loud roar throughout the area.

The monsters’ limbs were blown to pieces by the phenomenon of the explosion, creating a gruesome scene that was almost like a mosaic. Naturally, there were no monsters left alive in such a state, and they were literally annihilated.

“Okay, now that the small fries are taken care of….un? Why are you looking at me?”

After finally clearing away the tens of thousands of monsters, I looked around and suddenly caught sight of Isabella. She was looking at me with such intensity that I could see it even from a distance, but she was not the only one who was looking at me.

Most of the soldiers and adventurers present were focused on me, and most of them were filled with feelings of curiosity and astonishment.

Just as I was beginning to feel uncomfortable, the Sense Manipulation reacted. I looked in the direction of the reaction and saw a huge sphere dyed jet black appear there.

“Tch, it’s his magic……it can’t be helped.”

The sphere was created by a male demon among the remaining demon race. At a glance, it looked similar to the death ball technique used by the Emperor of the Universe in a famous manga, and I guessed that the effect of the technique was similar as well. I immediately interrupted in a straight line of his attack and cast a spell to counter his magic.

“Light, protect us from the evil one! [Sacred Holy Shield]!”

The magic I cast causes a shield like an assembly of white mirrors like a kaleidoscope to appear. Almost simultaneously with the appearance of the shield, the opponent’s huge sphere was released. The overwhelming mass and size of the sphere collided with the deployed shield, causing an enormous release of energy.

The two forces of light and darkness collided, with white waves overflowing from the mirror-like shield and black waves from the giant sphere. At first, both sides were competing against each other, but suddenly the equilibrium began to collapse.

“Can’t I hold it? No, I have to!”

The sphere of darkness destroyed a part of the shield of light, and it disappeared like a mirror cracking. However, a new mirror immediately emerges from the destroyed area and continues to block the attack, seemingly impervious to the opponent’s attack.

The sphere on the other hand, which had been about 20 meters in size at first, had now shrunk to less than half that size.

The magic I cast [Sacred Holy Shield] had the ability to absorb and convert an opponent’s magic power into its own magic power, and it was especially strong against the opposite attribute, darkness.

And since the power of the opponent’s magic was only determined by the amount of magic power contained in it, there was no way to replenish additional magic power. This difference in ability was reflected in the decisive result.

The sphere that absorbed the magic power shrank, and in the end, even the minimum amount of magic power required to maintain magic was absorbed, and the sphere could no longer sustain its existence and disappeared.

“Looks like I win.”

When I looked at my opponent’s face in the sky immediately after the victory or defeat, I could not help but notice that his face was more contorted than ever. Of course, he had not expected his own confident magic to be blocked, so it was natural for him to be frustrated.

I felt that I was being somewhat passive in waiting to see how the other party would react, so I decided to make a move this time.