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[Let’s go with a bang! Demon Beast Cerberus Battle]
“It’s coming! Frick! I’ll support you too.”
“It looks like we can’t escape from the Cerberus, so we just have to do it, right.”
[S-should I divert it?]
“Ahh, please.”
The magic sword fires a probing Fire Arrow.
At the same time, I start the chant of ‘Fireball’.
“Become a hot and burning ball of fire, and burn my enemy, Fireball.”
I fire the large ball of fire that was formed above my head toward the Cerberus following the fire arrow released by the magic sword.
The large fireball made a sound of tearing through the air and directly hit the body of the Cerberus, who was diverted by the fire arrow released by the magic sword.
Direct hit! Did we did it?
[Master, not yet.]
When the explosion caused by the Fireball that hit it directly subsided, Cerberus with his three mouths wide-open looked this way as if it had not suffered any damage.
It’s not working!?
It’s a lie, right…did I adjust the power too much?
In the next moment――
Lightning, poisonous fog, and flames were all spit out from each of its heads toward us.
I avoid the lightning that came faster than the sound by a paper-thin margin.
If not for enhancing my body, I would definitely be unable to dodge the lightning.
Dangerous! Normally I wouldn’t be able to dodge such a thing!
“Frick! Don’t let your guard down! The fire and poison are coming!”
Gawain, who was at a distance, had already put up a Magic Barrier for himself to prevent the flames from reaching him.
Fire and poison!? The fire can be warded off with a Magic Barrier, but…
“Become a white membrane, and wrap around me. Magic Barrier.”
Because I was wrapped in a white membrane, the flame of Cerberus couldn’t reach my body.
However, the poisonous fog penetrated the membrane and reached my lungs.
Inhaling the poisonous fog caused a prickling sensation in my lungs, and I couldn’t stop coughing.
“Cough cough! Damn, an attack that can’t be blocked by magic, huh…what a troublesome attack…”
“Cough cough! Cough! At this rate, our lungs will be poisoned and we won’t be able to move. What should we do?”
It seemed that the poisonous fog had reached Gawain as well, and he looked sick.
On the other hand, Cerberus was preparing for its next attack while waiting for us to be weakened in such poisonous fog.
It would be better to clear the fog by blowing it off with wind made of magic, but while doing so, its next attack is likely to strike again.
At that time, I wonder if I can dodge that attack…
“Kueeeeeeee!!”
When I was troubled on what to do with the poisonous fog, I heard Dimol’s cry from the sky.
And I heard Noelia’s chanting voice at the same time.
“Oh drifting air, become a vortex of great blades and tear up my enemies. 《Air Blade Tornado》”
When Noelia finishes chanting, a tornado rolls up from the ground near Cerberus.
The tornado swallowed Cerberus, then it began to suck up the poisonous fog around it.
When Dimol came down to a low altitude through that gap, he dropped Noelia near me and soared again.
“Kueee!”
“Frick-sama, I’ll support you. I’ll properly hear the scolding later, so please concentrate on the enemy now.”
Both Noelia and Dimol seem to have returned because they were worried about us.
“Okay. Thank you for your support.”
“While you thanking me, you can also give a complement to the Cerberus, its fur has a fairly high resistance to magic, so the power of Frick-sama’s magic and my magic will be considerably lowered. That said, even if use physical attacks, you would be attacked with those claws and fangs though…”
As expected, magic doesn’t work well against it, huh…
Should I try…physical attack?
Hearing that magic doesn’t work well against the Cerberus, I glanced at the magic sword.
[I-I’m fine. I’ll also do my best in physical aspect! I’m going! I’m going with a bang! I will never break!]
“It would be impossible for an ordinary swordsman, but if it’s Frick-sama who had learned body enhancing and this child…”
I knew that this magic sword is a super first-class sword just by gripping it, afterwards depends on whether my skill can get through that guy, huh.
I came to the frontier and learned magic but, as expected, I want to master the sword too.
I should try it, huh!
“Noelia, can I leave the poisonous fog to you?”
“Eh? Y-yes. Understood――wait, no way!?”
Giving a sidelong glance to the confused Noelia, I talk to Gawain who was at a distance away.
“Gawain-sama, please distract it for a little while. I want you to catch his eyes just for a while.”
“What? Has Frick decided to make the Demon Beast Cerberus be the first sacrifice to the magic sword that I made? What a manly story. All right, I’ll be decoy. I’ll show you the essence of Body Enhancing magic.”
“I’ll leave it to you.”
Before finished listening to my words, Gawain jumped out in front of the Cerberus and moved to left and right at high speed to make an afterimages as if toying with it.
Although he is being an incomprehensible person like usual, certainly, the Cerberus’s eyes are after him.
“Dimol! Please distract its eyes, but don’t push yourself too hard!”
“Kueeeee!”
When Dimol also replied while flying in the air, he kept a certain distance from Cerberus and threatened it with a cry, taking the line of sight of one of the dog’s heads.
“Okay, let’s go. Let’s see if my skill and your strength can get through it!”
[Y-yes! Let’s go! I’ll do it! I’ll do my best!]
The magic sword was blinking its magic stone strongly.
I gripped such a magic sword, and started running toward the Cerberus at full speed.
The two heads were conscious of Dimol and Gawain, but the remaining one reacted to my movements.
Poisonous fog is exhaled from its wide-opened mouth.
However, the poisonous fog was scattered by the Gale Wind released by Noelia.
Thanks to the support of Noelia, I was able to slip under the feet of Cerberus at once.
“Okay, at this distance, it’s poisonous fog won’t be so scary――”
[Master!! Claws! The claws!]
Without the time to feel relieved, the sharp claws that popped out of the Cerberus’s foreleg were swung down toward us.
I received the claws with the magic sword.
[Gukigigi! I will do my best! This much is nothing!]
Although I received it with the magic sword, the tip of Cerberus’s claws was grazing my cheeks.
The feeling of blood dripping from the cut cheek is transmitted.
However, this much doesn’t count as a scratch.
Don’t be scared, we can fight.
[Y-yes. I can do it! Let’s go with a bang!]
The frustrated Cerberus was trying to crush me as it was, and put more weight on his fore legs.
[Gunuuuuuuun. It’s heavy. I’ll not…bent. I will do my best without bending or breaking! Guts!!]
I wonder if it’s normal for a magic sword to say guts…?
No, but I feel that it’s fine if it is the one who say it.
In this serious situation, the words spoken by the magic sword made me suddenly burst into laughter.
The laughter made me feel that the tension I had been holding on was released.
In order to escape from the pressure that was about to crush me, I relaxed for a moment and flew behind.
Due to that, the Cerberus, who was trying to crush me, leaned forward.
We won’t miss that opportunity.
“Okay, good child. You did well. Let’s take our turn from here.”
[Yes! We’re going with a bang, right! Understood!]
“That’s right, let’s go with a bang.”
When I repositioned my sword, I slashed at the front legs of the Cerberus, who was about to lose its balance.
By enhancing my body with Body Enhancing magic, despite the thick fur of the Cerberus, the magic sword slashes its thick flesh one after another.
[I’m going with a bang!! ※■▲〇※■▲〇]
Every time the magic sword cuts through the flesh of the Cerberus, it blows up a flame.
Apparently, it was shooting Fire Arrow when it slashed and reached the inside of the Cerberus.
I’m sure from the Cerberus’s perspective, we are a plain pain.
The kind of plain pain that you felt every time you hit your little finger with the door.
[This is the payback for before! ※■▲〇※■▲〇]
“GaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
Cerberus, whose front leg was torn apart, was roaring violently, probably because of pain.
At this rate, maybe we can beat it…?
[We should be able to beat it! Let’s go!]
However, the Cerberus has not lost its fighting spirit yet.