Chapter 100: Battle in the Forest of the World Tree 4
Tamaki, Arisu, and Mia rose to level 21 at the same time.
Perhaps this is only expected. There is only the difference of 30 experience point between Tamaki and Arisu, and the difference between Arisu and Mia is only 20 points.
Comparatively, we can attain 60 experience points by defeating 1 Arachne. If it is the Arachne Mage, then it must be close to 200 points.
「Then again, Lucia, with this, we have defeated the leaders of the Arachnes. Do you think that they will retreat with this?」
Lucia shook her head.
「The Arachne that can use magic is not the leader, their leader is normally a vanguard type called Champion.」
Huh, is that true?
Ah—— did Lucia just say Champion? Is this due to the naming rule, and auto translated by the system……?
「So to say, for the species of Arachne, other than the Mage and Champion, are there any others?」
「There seems to be one that evolved with jumping power in mind, called Jumper. Other than that, I have heard that there is a frightening individual called Legend. Some judged that it is a delusion of the soldiers who meat it…… but if the Legend does exist, with that sort of combat power, it is definitely judged as Divine Soldier Class.」
Woah —— what is this. Divine Soldier Class…… is that the same type of monster like Mekishu Grand?
If this sort of enemy appears together with an army…...
Don’t joke about it. When we fought against Mekishu Grand, it was because there is only one of that, that is why we could barely win.
If we met that kind of enemy in a royal rumble, then the situation will not only become tough but very risky.
「But if the leader is here, then it will be strange if it does not come out now.」
Tamaki raised a reasonable doubt.
「Hmm, is it because the Arachnes in that place, are the ones left by the main troops which went to chase after the People of Light?」
「You are right, Mia. The Champion could be in charge of commanding the main troops, so if there is really a Legend, then the possibility of it being there is very high.」
Lucia smiled and said:
「In other words, there are a few choices before us. One of them is to assault the enemy that is faraway from the main troops, and gain experience and result. We will get more power with our words and Rin will also be happy. The tough battle that the main troop of the People of Light will be facing, is also nothing but a small matter.」
「Hoho, so evil!」
Mia raised both her hands and shouted happily.
Why do you look so happy?
I say, I get this feeling that I have seen that smile somewhere before…...
「Lucia is really like Shiki-san.」
「Ah, you really think so? Actually me too.」
Arisu opened her mouth and spoke hesitantly.
Actually to Arisu’s character, these sort of words are quite rare. Ah, even though she did not expect it to be so herself.
「Even though we met with such a situation, we should scout the village for the survivors and Globster. After all the Globster is a target that we must absolutely defeat, and saving the survivors will increase our opinions.」
「Hmm, Lucia-chi, you are Shiki-chi number 2.」
Mia nodded, seemingly very satisfied and placed her hand on Lucia’s shoulder.
Lucia tilted her head in bewilderment.
Wait until the transfer gate to the mountain is opened successfully, then we can introduce you to each other…...
Okay then again—— I peeked at Lucia.
Did she consider the attitude that the soldier had towards me, so that is why she deliberately tried to incite me?
Towards the guy that looked down on me, we should give them back the suitable revenge.
That’s right, Lucia could be using words to induce and try to probe me.
Did she want to see how I will be influenced by my emotions? Or perhaps wanted to see if I can still make judgement based on reasonings when my pride is wounded?
Actually, my thoughts will not be affected by that sort of damage…… that is what I thought.
Hmm, because I was angrier yesterday night. Even when Shiba took Arisu, I could still think about methods that does not involve killing him…...
In the end, I judged that letting him live will only cause harm.
That decision was made after I had thought about it deeply.
Shiki-san had also agreed to it.
So, the judgement that I had this time, is probably correct too.
「Let us confirm the base plan first. Even if the Arachnes escape, we will not chase, we just need to occupy the gathering place.」
This time, we still continue keeping the skill points.
Then we returned to the original place.
Arisu: Level 21 Spear Skill 6／Healing Magic 5 Skill Point 6
Tamaki: Level 21 Sword Skill 8／Physical 1 Skill Point 5
Mia: Level 21 Earth Magic 4／Wind Magic 7 Skill Point 4
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We returned from the white room.
The Arachnes immediately escape in chaos.
Ah, once they they noticed that the Mage had been taken care of, they escaped. Hmm, it must be because they no longer had any chance of winning and their boss that they are supposed to protect is already dead.
Afterall it is troublesome to fight them one by one, so this is fine.
I ordered the familiar not to chase them too deeply in.
Before I could give out this instruction, the Greater Wind Elemental have already released an electric strike and defeated an Arachne.
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After the enemies have all escaped..
Other than the original 2 familiars, I summoned out another 5 crows and had them scout in the tree holes after casting 《Deflection Spell》then《Night Sight》 on them to let them see clearly in the dark. If there is an ambush in the treehole, or there are traps, then the ones defeated will only be the familiars so there will not be any problems.
Before long, one of the crows that was scouting in the bigger tree holes came back.
Through a spirit connection, I was informed that a certain tree hole has the Globster within it.
The intense atmosphere spreaded among us.
「Tamaki, Arisu, the 2 of you will stay alert and get closer to see if the Globster is summoning any monster. If it is confirmed that there is danger, fly and escape.」
I had Mia recast 《Fly》 on them and instructed them.
Mia, Lucia and I were following behind Tamaki and Arisu’s back.
We did not meet with any ambush that we were worried about. The space in the tree hole is about the size of a classroom, and in the middle, there is a lump of flesh quivering around.
It’s Globster.
In the dim area, a disgusting stench that causes one to pinch his nose drifted over. It smells like perfume and faeces mixed together.
There are sounds of female groans and breathing roughly inside.
Just as I have expected, there are a few females buried within the flesh of the Globster. From the looks of their faces and the 2 pairs of ears, they should be the People of Light.
Every time the Globsters moves, the females will give out sound which I don’t know if it is from pain or pleasure.
The sweat bathed snow white skin glittered under the sunlight that shone into the cave. I could not help but swallow my saliva, which attracted the glares by Arisu and Tamaki.
「Hmm, Kazu-chi is a boy, so this is something that can’t be helped.」
「Mia, you don’t have to act as an understanding girl at such timings.」
I shall leave that first, as we have to save them.
This job…… will be better left to Arisu and Tamaki who have had experience before. I gave them instructions.
「Mia, you will come with me, and look at the other tree holes. If we just have the familiar scout, perhaps there maybe some afraid citizens that continued hiding in fear.」
「Oh—— I want to see too, I can use it as future reference.」
What reference!
I dragged Mia who is grumbling and move away.
「Lucia, you are in charge of supervising and taking care of the people who are rescued.」
「I know, please be careful.」
Ah, anyway, I am just finding an excuse to leave the scene.
Honestly speaking, I don’t wish to see girls become in that state.
Although after seeing that scene will make my instinct burn, but if I keep staring at their pitiful looks, then it will make me feel apologetic.
「Kazu-chi, if you are thinking of ecchi stuff…...」
I flickered Mia’s forehead when she was about to say something weird. She pressed on her forehead and glared at me after raising her head unhappily.
「We are still on the battlefield, so don’t think of useless things. That sort of action is a death flag.」
「Woah, why will Kazu-chi say words like death flag. So I was saying people mix up reality and delusions are——」
Mia shrugged her shoulders exaggeratedly.
That smiling face make me feel like punishing her.
「Do it seriously. The most scary thing is suffering an ambush after we thought that we had won.」
「Hmm, if we can detect that surrounding atmosphere then it will be good. It is during such times, I wish to borrow my brother’s power.」
Ah—— because a ninja is very dependable in such timings.
And such times also made me want someone who has Rank 1 Detection Skill.
……. Someone who has Detection Skill.
「The best on the ground is probably Earth Elemental, while reading the air current is the Wind Elemental.」
「Is it impossible on the trees?」
「We could use 《Summon Invisible Scout》......」
Rank 8 Summon Magic 《Summon Invisible Scout》 can call out scouts who are transparent.
This sort of familiar is apt at hiding and seeking out the enemy, but it doesn’t have combat power at all. Although it is specially for scouting but it surprisingly need 64 MP which is alot…...
「If we are surprised and ambushed , then we are goners.」
「You are right.」
「I also don’t wish to remove the Fire Elemental. The familiars’ healing can be left to Arisu-chi and Lucia-chi, even if we don’t use Support Magic, as long as we discover the enemy first…… then we can act first, and use Lucia’s Fire Magic to wipe them out.」
I see, no wonder she is Mia, she actually came out with a plan to deal with it in a while.
If that is so…… then we may have to increase the number of familiars to 3…...
First discussing on a concrete battle plan, we patrol the streets that were destroyed.
We can see bodies of the People of Light everywhere, and gems that have fallen to the ground. We don’t even know if they defeated those and we collected all the gems together.
Including those we defeated, there is a total of 21 blue gems.
Adding with the gems from the past, the number of tokens is 810, which is about enough to buy something good.
But what if the Vendor machine come out with something that we wanted…...
Mmm—— this is a hard choice.
「Perhaps we can save and buy Lucia-chi’s Magic Release.」
「Then we need 2000 tokens.」
That’s right, to obtain the special ability “Magic Release” that Lucia has, we need more than 2 times of all of our tokens. Mia’s power can be raised with this, but she don’t think that this will be useful for attack magic.
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「Currently we do not need it. But one day, an enemy that requires us to do so may appear.」
Mia said.
Hmm—— is this referring to a stronger foe than Mekishu Grand?
If in addition…… Lucia’s Fire Magic is useless against that opponent.
The worse is that, the possibility of it being so is really high.
The combat power of the monsters are really high, if that limit continues to grow…..
The limit of our Skill Rank is 9.
We have already reached the peak but the enemies are getting stronger…...
This is a nightmare.
「It will be fine, there will definitely be some way.」
Then again, just how much of my inner thoughts were discovered by Mia?
She smiled and floated slightly with 《Fly》, and caressed my head from somewhere that is slightly higher than where I am.
Hmm—— I was consoled.
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