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Volume 7 Chapter 153

Strength of the Elnor Family

「──Huh? Eh!?」
When I teleported to the forest near the Sanctum, I suddenly came under magical attack from both sides, so I quickly deployed a magic barrier to defend myself.
Maybe they weren’t aiming for me.
There was a man and a woman right in front of me. I seem to have been caught up in the attack aimed at them.
So, I decided to protect them as well.
I recognized the woman.
The teleportation magic circle has a feature that can detect if there are people at the destination, but I had forgotten to use it.
I was excited and in a hurry because I was going to see the Creator God to discuss dungeon management, and I had placed the teleportation magic circle in a forest far from the Holy City. So, I let my guard down.
However, it seems that the attackers weren’t human, so I don’t think I would have been able to detect them anyway.
There’s still room for improvement in teleportation magic.
At the very least, I should have the function to automatically detect people at the destination.
This time, I was fortunate enough to be able to help acquaintances by chance.
「Um, who are you?」
A man dressed as a knight asked.
If you’re a knight, you should introduce yourself before asking for someone’s name. That’s the way of knighthood in this world, right?
I thought that, but he seemed to be in quite a pinch, and it was understandable that he couldn’t grasp the current situation.
「I am Haruto Elnor. I am a Sage from Glendale」
「A Sage!?」
Lately, I’ve been calling myself a sage.
If necessary, I can show them only the job section of my status board as proof.
By building up my reputation, I increase the chances of receiving lucrative requests when I eventually start my clan.
Especially if the other party is a person of authority, there is a high probability that they will give me profitable requests, so it’s essential to emphasize that I am indeed a sage.
If my memory is correct, the beautiful woman sitting down and being protected by the knight in front of me is the Holy Maiden of the Sanctum.
Speaking of the Holy Maiden, she is the most influential person in the Holy City, and I would like to get along with her for the sake of my clan’s development.
The reason I know this beautiful woman as the Holy Maiden, Seira, is that I met her a hundred years ago with Tina.
At that time, I think I went to stop a Stampede that was approaching the Holy City.
And it’s true that she doesn’t age while being a Holy Maiden……. Seira still looks as beautiful as she did back then.
I did get a little friendly with Seira back then, so I thought about greeting her, but with my current appearance, there’s no way she’d recognize 『me』.
For now, let’s take care of the enemy demons.
「Haruto-sama, this is──」
「Some dangerous guys seem to be here」
「Probably demons, nya. Should we kill them?」
「「We’re can do it!」」
「I, well… It seems a bit tough for me」
「Then, Luna-san, please provide support magic」
「Okay, leave it to me!」
While I was thinking about how to defeat the demons, everyone came out of the teleportation magic circle.
I had forgotten to stop everyone from teleporting here.
However, Yoko, Mai, and Mei were determined to kill them.
Yoko in her complete form, Mai and Mei, who had both grown to Spirit King level, would have no trouble with demons.
I also wanted to see their current power.
「Okay, Yoko, Mai, Mei, I leave those demons to you」
「Understood, nya!」
「「We got it!」」
「Rifa, please shoot them down if they try to escape. Luna, I’ll leave the support to you」
「Yes!」
「Got it!」
「I don’t have a role to play?」
The divine beast Shiro, who had turned into a scarf around my neck, moved to my shoulder and asked.
「Since I’ll be with Mai and Mei, Shiro, please go with Yoko」
「Understood」
I think Yoko will be fine, but I’ll have Shiro accompany her just in case.
「Tina, Meldie, Hakua, please protect them」
「Understood. Everyone, do your best」
「We’re the defense team, nya!」
「We’ll protect them!」
The three of them would protect Seira and the knight from the aftermath of the battle.
Yoko materialized her tail and switched to combat mode.
Mai and Mei also became spirit bodies.
The formation is complete.
Now then, should we eliminate them?
I released the magic barrier.
At the same time, the demons launched their attacks.
「What the hell are you guys!?」
「Trying to interfere with us—oh!?」
Mai, who was in spirit form enveloped in flames, moved at super-high speed to the front of the demon on the right and punched it in the face.
The punched demon was blown backward—
And was swallowed by a three-meter diameter water sphere.
It was a water prison created by Mei.
「Goodbye」
Mei clenched her hand over the water prison, and the three-meter sphere of water,compressed in an instant to the size of a candy ball.
Completely enclosed in this water prison, even a demon would definitely die, no matter what.
However—
「It failed, it got away」
「Ugh, you bastards!」
Although it had its right leg crushed, the demon that had somehow managed to escape from the water prison lunged at Mei from above.
But Mei didn’t show any signs of panic.
It was because she had caught sight of her sister, who was protecting her, behind the demon.
「Don’t you dare lay a hand on my sister!」
「──!?」
Mai, who was even higher in the sky, gathered an immensely powerful bundle of flames in her right fist and swung it down at the demon.
「Foolish—」
The demon was incinerated by Mai’s flames.
Even demons with the overwhelming recovery ability that allowed them to regenerate instantly from even lost limbs couldn’t withstand Mai’s flames, having become a being on the level of the Spirit King.
「You…… you……」
「Can you afford to get distracted?」
「──!?」
The other demon, who was surprised that their comrade had been defeated, turned its face toward the voice in shock.
Yoko, who had compressed an enormous amount of magic into the tips of all nine of her tails, was about to release it toward the demon.
「Farewell」
Yoko gathered all nine of her tails’ tips in front of her body, and a beam of light was fired from there.
「Kuh!?」
The demon dodged it.
He used the dead body of one of the bandits on the ground as a shield, slightly deflecting Yoko’s beam.
However, even with that shielding, the demon’s right hand was blown off.
「Y-you bastards…….. I’ll make you all pay for this!!」
The demon was attempting to escape through teleporting.
There’s no way I’m going to allow that.
「──Huh? Why? Why won’t the transfer gate open!?」
「My teleportation magic canceled out the spatial connection, and I was able to block your transfer. You’re not escaping」

「Nonsense! You think a lowly human race like you can pull off such a trick!?」
Even if you say that, I managed to do it, so there’s no helping it.
「Damn it!」
No matter how many times it tried, the demon could not teleport. Giving up on it, it spread its wings on its back and took flight.
But its wings were instantly shot down, and it fell to the ground in front of me.
Rifa, who surpasses level 100, with Luna casting support magic on her, had shot down the demon’s wings.
「Welcome back. Are you giving up on running away?」
「Kuh, damn it! You lowly human!」
The demon, while going crazy, lunged at me.
Instinctively, I moved to stop the activation of the magic prepared above my head.
But it’s too late now—
「Holy Lance!」
A pillar of light, ten meters in diameter in name only, descended upon the demon.
The demon vanished without even a final scream.