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Volume 11 Chapter 331

Sea God（4/5）
　

　What’s going on with Haruto’s body?

　How is it that he’s still fine despite being in the middle of such a shockwave that shakes the entire temple?

　Too many things I don’t understand……

　But I don’t care about that. Right now I want to somehow surprise that kid, Haruto.

　Right now, I’m the only one who’s flabbergasted.

　But I’m a freaking god, y’know!?

　A god being taken aback by a human for too long is just wrong.

　Hmmー, what to do？

　──And then I came up with an idea.

「Hey, Haruto. How about this？」

　I created a multitude of fish──magic fish, around me.

「Alright, go！」

　I launched those fish straight at Haruto.

　While they don’t have my speed, these magic fish have the advantage of automatic coordination, and they began closing in distance more and more, sealing any escape routes for Haruto.

「──Kuh!?」

　I doubt he knows what will happen if he touches them, but Haruto still chose to evade.

　Now, that is the appropriate response.

　What Haruto messed up on here was not running away.

　He can move quicker than me, so Haruto can also move quicker through the water than the fish.

　Which means that if he were to continue to leave the premises of the temple, the fish could not catch up to him.

　But Haruto chose to keep only a certain distance from me.

　Which ended up cutting off his path of escape from the magic fish.

　──You’re cornered now.

　The magic fish poured in where Haruto stood, unable to escape.

「Uh-oh──」

　Haruto deployed a magical barrier around his body.

　I confirmed this to be the case before having the fish charge at Haruto.

　The fish who touched Haruto’s magic barrier caused a huge explosion at that moment.

　One magic fish is enough to blow an A-Rank sea serpent to pieces.

　So now imagine what one thousand would do.

　This magic is enough to even drive that divine beast Leviathan to the brink of death.

　But I thought that Haruto would be able to endure this magic.

　Even if he wasn’t able to, I fully intended to revive him.

　And then my prediction──

「Man, that was close. Kaishin-sama, that magic just now was crazy!」

　Came true with no complications.

　Haruto was still full of life.

　It didn’t make even a dent in the magic barrier.

「……Y’know, Haruto. That magic you defended against was the kind that can defeat an A-Rank monster in one hit」

「Eh, is that so? Actually, those fish moved like they have a will of their own……were you controlling them, Kaishin-sama？」

　Haruto doesn’t seem to be interested in how powerful that magic was.

「No, it’s not me controlling them. Just like you say, each fish has a will of its own」

「……Like, putting elementals into the magic?」

「As if! No, idiot, I’d never do something that messed up!!」

　If I just wanted golems that would move on orders, I could make them no problem. But in order to think up move patterns myself and make automation magic, some tinkering would be required.

　There are several ways to make automation magic, one of which, as Haruto says, does indeed involve putting an elemental spirit into said magic.

　But putting an elemental into magic that will explode upon contact with an enemy, there’s no way I could risk that!

「Then, how on earth did you do it?」

　Well, I don’t really want to tell someone I’m fighting how I did it……but then again, I did in fact ask Haruto about how his high speed magic works just a moment ago.

　I, the god, was the one who asked Haruto about that information, so I can’t just say I won’t give him information from my end──

　That wouldn’t be fair, right?

「Oーkaーy. I’ll teach you just this once, kid」

「Ooo! Thank you」

「Can you operate magic? Like the magic I shot. Could you twist it around as it flies?」

　Different from the『control』of magical power,『operation』requires quite the advanced technology──

「Yes, I could!」

　Well, of course Haruto can, yup.

　Dude’s a sage after all.

　Okay, so he responded immediately, but I’m not gonna be so surprised just by this level of confidence, kid.

「Then that saves us time. So these fish have something in the center called a・ core・──」

　I called over one fish and had it stop in front of me, showing Haruto its belly.

　The core can’t be seen unless you have the Magic Sight technique.

　Not too many humans are capable of this, normally.

　But I bet Haruto can use it.

「A-Ah, I see it. It’s an octahedron shape, right？」

　……Annnd I was right.

　I definitely shouldn’t think of this monster as a mere human.

「Yep. That’s this magic’s core. It’s essentially the brain tissue. You can build a core by having a strong image in your head of『how this magic will move』」

「So is it bad to have such an image of the magic itself?」

「Not really, but then you’d have less freedom」

「Freedom……？」

「For instance, this fish is one type of attack magic. There is the『swim fast in water』function and the『create shockwave if it hits an opponent』function. If I were to add the『team up and coordinate to corner the enemy』function, there would be various problems」

　Specifically, swimming speed would lower, and attack power would lower.

　It’s best to keep attack functions separate from operation functions.

　By installing the core ahead of time, ready-made with a vivid imagination of 『how it will move』, you can in fact turn it into automation magic that retains power.

「I see……So you just need to divide attack and operation functions when you construct the magic」

「Exーaーcto」

「Understood! Thank you for teaching me, sir. I’m gonna try it out real quick!!」

　Right after he said that, I would realize just how catastrophic teaching Haruto this would be, regretting my decision greatly.

「Fire Lance！」

　With Haruto’s chant, a knight on a horse appeared, clad in flames, with a thunderous sound.