Chapter 298 Part 2
I monitor the situation while continuously firing Force Blasts, taking advantage of its wide range.
I’ve been planning to use Invisibility should there be too many monsters chasing after me, but…
I should be fine with this many, right?
And I can also see the Lesser Gryphons.
Helix and the other Summoned Monsters have been keeping them in check, but I wonder if they’ll still chase after me.
I expect them to.
No, I want them to.
Dealing with those Garms comes after that.
I want to defeat the Majins first.
『Are you going to turn around now?』
「Not yet! Let’s pull ahead a little longer!」
What about the group of monsters?
There’s a lot of them.
But it’s not like there’s way too many of them.
If we take the time to do so, we might be able to take them all out, but…
These Exorcising Priests and Fire Breathers riding their Lesser Gryphons are too persistent!
They don’t care about Helix and the others trying to keep them in check, and they just target me!
But that’s only natural, since I’m the one at the rear end of their formation.
「Five Elemental Seal!」
Damn that Exorcising Priest.
It resisted it twice!
But the third time’s the charm.
In exchange, all of my buffs were canceled!
「Gravity Prison!」
Did it work?
It worked.
I can see where they’ll be once they finish losing altitude.
I turn Zangetsu over there and we launch our assault.
「Rider-Horse Union!」
I use a Skill.
As I ride Zangetsu over there, I choose and activate a spell.
Then, I drive the tip of my spear into the Majin’s body, tearing it away from its mount.
This Majin, that is, the Exorcising Priest, is still alive.
It’s still trying to do something against me.
I drop the Exorcising Priest on the ground.
Then I turn Zangetsu around once again.
I’m suddenly surrounded by monsters.
It’s a pack of Garms.
「Gravity Mail!」
I cast a spell.
Then I immediately selected a weapon arte and activate it.
「Penetrate!」
I force my way through the middle of the group of monsters.
Then I head straight for the Exorcising Priest.
Zangetsu lowers her head drastically for a moment.
Then she brings it back up just as rapidly.
I can see she’s just tossed the Exorcising Priest upwards using her horn.
It flies forward for a brief moment before falling and rolling on the ground once again.
Then she tramples over it.
That’s amazing!
But, you know…
By the time she had tossed it upwards, the Exorcising Priest’s HP bar was already empty.
To think that she’d beat on the dead!
Helix and the others are still keeping the Lesser Gryphons, which are being affected by my Gravity Prison, in check.
The Lesser Gryphons are on the ground.
I charge the monsters from behind to kill them, then head towards the Summoners’ line of battle.
The Garms once again have me almost completely surrounded.
I also see some Majins riding on Svadilfari Slaves.
They’re Jugglers.
There are also some Knife Throwers here and there.
There are so many things flying at me that it’s hard for me to keep up with me!
I’m hit, I’m hit!
Stop it, that hurts!
Ignoring the damage, I fire a Force Blast to stop the Garms long enough to allow me to gain some distance, but…
The Svadilfari Slaves approach.
This is bad.
Those guys are too fast!
But help came.
Their Majin riders are pierced by a volley of arrows.
Then I get a Whisper.
『Over here! Over here!』
『Come to me!』
Adele and Irina.
The Summoners are lined up neatly to the side.
Also there are several Wolf-type Summoned Monsters.
I can hear a song, too.
Is that Threaten?
It’s like a curse to any enemy monster who can hear it.
But it’s like a chorus of angels to me.
I pass between Adele and Irina, who are riding their horses, and turn around.
What’s the scene that my eyes see right after that?
AoE offensive spells are being unleashed one after another.
The Orthros contribute to this using their Breath attacks.
The Fairy-types and Fox-types also let loose with their own magical attacks.
It’s like a wall made of raw firepower.
The sight of those Garms HP bars being shattered one after another is truly spectacular.
But…
There are some who can endure this onslaught.
Those Svadilfari Slaves.
And their Majin riders, too.
They really are a persistent bunch!
Volff takes the lead and attacks.
Oma follows suit.
The swift waves of attacks from the Wolf-type summoned monsters, the Svadilfari Slaves’ HP bars start to decrease rapidly.
Ah.
Dammit.
I’m late again!
By the time I manage to get close enough, my prey is already gone.
Not again…
It’s those monsters following me who are at fault for not being that many after all.
That has to be it!
《【Light Magic】Level Up!》
《【Earth Magic】Level Up!》
《【Silence Resistance】Level Up!》
《Summoned Monster『Heather』 Level Up!》
《Please add 1 point to a desired stat.》
The hunt is really going smoothly today!
This is something worth celebrating.
Heather’s AGI increased automatically upon leveling up.
Let’s choose VIT as her second stat increase.
Heather Silky Lv7 → Lv8 (↑1)
DEX 9
AGI 25 (↑1)
INT 24
STR 8
VIT 9 (↑1)
MEN 27
Skills
Flight Levitation Magic Resistance [Medium] MP Regeneration [Medium] Wind Attribute
Earth Attribute Water Attribute Lightning Attribute
What is Heather’s MP bar?
It’s almost reaching a tough spot.
Well, let’s leave that aside for now.
Let’s get as many items as we can from these monster corpses and check the battle results.
There were no deaths on our side.
Only one of our Wolves has been hit with a status abnormality.
Hmm…
This was almost a flawless victory.
And what about the swarm of monsters that follow the Slave Beast – Turtlesnake?
Is it decreasing?
It doesn’t look like it’s decreasing at all.
It does seem that the number of Majins demons has been reduced to less than half, though.
I also checked this with Call Monster.
Yeah.
I don’t really feel like counting them.
However, it is safe to say that the number of Majins has decreased.
There are only three Svadilfari Slaves left.
And there are only three Lesser Gryphons flying around.
So we got them down by less than half, huh?
I have to think that these results are good.
「Was there a Majin atop the turtle’s head?」
『I saw them!』
『There’s an Exorcising Guru and a Beast Master up there. I tried hitting them with my arrows, but I don’t think it was enough to kill them.』
『I have already reported it to the analysis team.』
Hmm…
It’s good to know that the troublesome work has already been done.
Things are going quite nicely today.
It almost makes me want to say “at this rate, we could…”, but…
The time is almost 6 PM.
Going any further than this would be too risky.
Night is approaching.
『What are we going to do?』
「Let’s go west for now. How about we regroup there, then we can disperse and continue hunting on our own?」
『Disperse?』
『Considering the time at which we’ll have to log out, that’s a good idea!』
Hmm.
It would be nice to have them stay with me until the very last minute before midnight, wouldn’t it?
But I won’t push it that much, and it’s not like they can stay either.
Well, the right thing to do would be to rearrange the union according to each of our own circumstances.
But before that…
We should split the items we got from these monsters evenly.
However, it seems that this won’t be much of a problem.
We only managed to get items from the monsters that were chasing after me, but we got about enough Magic Stones to get one for each player.
There was only one Magic Stone left after splitting them all amongst ourselves.
Looks like it’s fine if I keep it.
Then, the 32 of us decided to eat together.
We’re deliberately not using Instant Portals.
The fact that we can eat more at ease without using Instant Portals than with them during this event is quite ironic.
Eating all together might be a bit troublesome, but…
We have plenty of fighting power.
We can take on any monster that dares attack us.
But despite my wishes, no monsters come to attack us.
That’s something beyond my control.
「See you tomorrow, Keith!」
「I guess we’ll meet again tomorrow at the defense line of the Silent Bamboo Woods.」
「Sounds good.」
Our reduced Summoner army was disbanded here.
Several unions are formed between two and four parties before and disperse from the rest.
Those who are confident in their abilities form a union between two parties.
Those who lack confidence form unions between three or more parties.
Some form a union simply because they want to have fun with people they get along with.
The union of Adele, Irina, Haruna, and Konohana is among the latter.
There’s no doubt about it.
Of course, I have no intention of joining the girls’ talk circle.
Such skills are nowhere to be found in me.
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