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Volume 11 Chapter 330

Sea God（3/5）
　

「A-Are you sure？」

　Will you really fight with me!?

「Yes. If Kaishin-sama says he will fight with me, I would like to fight with Your Godliness. Besides, I do have a desire to test how much my power will work」

　Haruto’s eyes as he said that glittered excitedly like a child who finds a new playtoy.

「By the way, if I surrender in the middle of the battle, could I have you promise not to kill me？」

「Y-Yeah, of course. This is what I wanted anyway. And even if I accidentally kill you by using too much power, I’ll revive you for sure」

　Although I get the feeling that there won’t be any need for that.

「Thank you very much! Then, let’s have a fun fight to the death!!」

「Aight！」

　……Mm？

　S-Something feels off.

　I feel like there was an extra word in there.

　──＊＊＊───

　OMG OMG OMG！

　He’s insane!!

　J-Just who is this crazy guy!?

「Kaishin-sama. Let’s try this out, readyyy go！」

「Oi wait just a minute, Haruto! Isn’t that the magic that I used earlier──」

　Haruto made a huge whirlpool spear in his hands, launching it in my direction.

　This move is actually Ultima Vortex, the ultimate water elemental magic. It’s the strongest magic you could possibly unleash on another person.

　And Haruto just casually──

「Water Lance！」

　Activated it with the lowest ranking magic chant.

「Eeeek!!」

　While not being able to believe I could let out such a pathetic voice, I barely managed to evade Haruto’s magic.

　And that attack I avoided struck the super fricking tough wall of the temple, managing to crush a large portion of it.

　T-This guy’s magic is……insane！

　What’s even going on!?

　How does reciting the lowest rank magic give you the most ultimate magic class destructive power!?

　Incidentally, what’s insane isn’t just the destructive power.

　Haruto mimicked ・every・ single・ spell I used. Well, he is apparently a sage, so it’sa understandable that he can use the same sort of magic that I can.

　But Haruto actually takes the magic that I use, and then fires it right back with・ several ・times ・the ・magic ・power!

　That’s the magic that I──one of the Four Great Gods──used with quite a bit of my strength, you know!?

　I really don’t get this guy’s magic!

　──No, not just magic.

「Kaishin-sama, over here！」

「──ngh!!」

　Haruto had the decency to call out to me right before hitting me, so I was able to dodge that fist.

「Yeesh, that was close！」

　His movement and attack speed are so fast that I can’t believe he’s human.

「As I’d expect of a god. Your reaction speed is insane」

　No, you’re the insane one!!

　How is it that you can move quicker underwater than I, a sea god can!?

「Hey, Haruto. How can you move so quickly under the sea?」

　Although we’re in battle, I couldn’t resist asking.

　Of course I was feigning placidity.

　This is my best attempt at putting on a courageous act.

「I can probably move faster underwater than on land」

「……Hah？」

　Y-You are……human, right, my guy?

　Why would a human be faster in the water?

「Water aids my movement, actually. The open air is too dense to move around that quickly in, you know」

　No, that’s……not any sort of proper explanation.

「What I do is, I make the water density smaller in whatever direction I’m moving, using mana, and then I up the density in the opposite direction. Using the principle of liquid moving to less dense areas, I’m able to move faster than normal」

　He seems to realize that I wasn’t getting it, so Haruto had added that explanation.

「Adjust the water density……with magic？」

　Is that even possible?

「Just like this！」

　Haruto began emitting mana.

　Then he started to gather that mana in front of his body.

　When he did so, his body began moving forward little by little.

「Whoa！B-But……how？」

「You know that mana materializes when you compress it to a high density, right?」

　Yeah, I knew that.

「And then the materialized mana pushes whatever was originally in the area to a different location. Underwater, that would just be water, you see」

「Hmhm」

　Once again, Haruto began gathering mana in front of him.

　He seemed to be assembling it into an even denser form than earlier, and I could see the cluster of mana appear before my eyes.

「Right now, in the space in front of us, there’s this cluster of mana in place of the water that it pushed out. This is my mana, so it follows that I can erase it」

　Haruto erased the mana.

　At that moment, a ・space ・with・ nothing ・in ・it was born in the depths of the sea.

　The next instant, water flowed into that space, but the flow speed was too fast, and the different portions of water bumped into each other, creating shockwaves.

「──Wha!?」

　In the deep sea, everything has an unfathomable amount of water pressure inflicted on it.

　The merfolk who live in these parts have always been clothed in magic that neutralizes the effects of water pressure around them since birth.

　If any merperson were to die in the deep sea──

　The neutralizing magic surrounding them would dissolve, and the corpse would instantly be crushed to the size of a pearl.

　The crushed corpse would become a beautiful orb with the color of the merperson’s hair when they were alive.

　It has the name of 『Mermaid’s Death Treasure』, and it is said to fetch quite the high price in the human world.

　In this area, there was enough water pressure to crush my subjects’ flesh in an instant.

　Haruto says that he used that pressure and changed it into propulsive power.

　I get the gist of the principle at work here.

　But who normally gets up one day and decides to try something like this?

　One wrong move and his body could be ripped to shreds.

　In fact, when Haruto dissolved the mana cluster, shock waves big enough to shake the temple had emanated.

　Already, such shockwaves should be more than enough to ・tear ・a ・normal ・human ・to ・pieces.

　However──

　Haruto was not your normal human.

「You can tell I only went forward a little bit, right? If you repeat this, you can actually race at extremely high speeds!」

　Slightly displaced from where he was previously, I saw a monster, sound in wind and limb.