Pain like a cracked soul, anger like a creaking soul.
âNot even sorry âŠ? Iâm sorry for tricking you!? Or that there were circumstances!? Youâre not even going to give me one excuse!? I wonât listen even if you tell me!!â
The limbs, which had been atrophied, came to life.
â⊠What is it âŠ? I thought she suddenly stabbed herself⊠what is she talking about? This oneâŠâ
âShe must be delirious, unable to distinguish between her memories from before she was killed and the present. It happens to the undead all the time.â
The two tigers were cut in half at once, splattering blood and guts.
â Because they are big! Because they are strong!ăBecause they are more than human! Thatâs why! For that reason alone! Do you think you can control everything!?â
He kept her in stock for the time being, and when he needed her, he would give her a Divine Protection and have her fight.
She would not be used, but she would be prepared for the time being.
If they died, he would just replenish the stock.
If they went crazy and rebelled, he would just dispose of them as enemies without any emotion.
They were pawns.
There would be no emotion there. It was a one-sided relationship.
âIf so, I will climb up to where you are! I will crush you! I will crush you and slam you to the ground! I will trample you down! Itâll be too late to cry and apologize when the time comes!!â
The head that turned like a golden mask. The eyes of the holy beast were shining with a strange gleam. Apparently, they were not birdâs eyes.
ââȘIce Shacklesâ«!â
At first, she attacked with a low-level magic that was reasonably powerful even without chanting.
The wings with golden strips of ornaments froze and restrained it in a posture that seemed to tie them up behind its back.
âKeeeeeeeeâŠâŠ!â
The bird-shaped holy beast fell with a creaking sound of metal. It landed on the cobblestones, smashing them with its claws.
The holy beast shook its wings and tried to escape from the shackles of ice. Holy beasts were generally highly resistant to magic, and would have been able to escape at this rate.
The target was not the holy beast, but further behind it.
ââȘNecrobrandâ«â
âTsuah!? Dangerous!â
Around the neck of the bearded Thief, a tattoo like tangled ivy appeared.
He hurriedly curled his body to protect his heart. But that was it.
âAs expected, itâs not a naive resistance that will kill you easilyâŠ
âȘNecrobrand» was one of the âInstant Death Magicâ spells.
It was a one or two-strike attack magic that, if it broke through the resistance of the subject, would cause death with a single blow, and if not, would not do much damage.
Instant death magic was a complex and elaborate device for efficiently killing creatures, and its formulas were likened (by eccentric magic developers such as Everis) to works of art. Perhaps that was why instant death magic, when resisted, significantly diminished its effectiveness, just as a golem that had lost a single cog would cease to move.
In fact, the success rate of instant death magic was not very high, but adventurers feared the effect of âif you are unlucky, you will die without questionâ, and it was a magic that could be used just to keep them in check.
âHere comes the instant death magic!â
âWe have no choice but to use the charms!â
Erminioâs order flew, and the adventurers each activated their own charm.
âȘConsecrationâ« The bad feeling disappeared.
As intended. Now the reinforcement buff was useless. The charm was an item that could block the enemyâs magic attacks, but since it was triggered indiscriminately, it would absorb magic from itself and its allies as well.
âThe âDecisive Droletteâ seems to be putting the holy beast in a position to stand in front and provide cover fire⊠ThenâŠ
Combined with her costume, she looked like a magicianâs assistant or somethingâŠ
âThatâs the holy spotlight they used the other day!
She shouldnât have had that thing with her.
So she must have taken it out of the storage magic. If she thought there wasnât much magic flying around even though the magician was there, she was just being a baggage handler.
The seven cursed bullets created by the magic flew with a sound like a devilâs teeth grinding.
Two of the seven bullets were fired at a bird-shaped holy beast, two at another bird-shaped holy beast, and the remaining three were fired at the holy spotlight.
âAh!? DamnâŠâ
As expected, it seemed that they had not even attached the protective charms to the magic artifact.
The Thief who was resourceful prevented two magic bullets with his arm and let the protective charm absorb the attack, but the last shot slipped through and punched a hole in the magical artifact. The irradiated light was interrupted.
Furthermore, a bullet from the one that separated and flew in the air pierced the soaring bird-shaped holy beast.
When the city became small enough, she flapped her wings and shifted to hovering.
âSorry for the trouble.â
With a sigh, she muttered, and Tracy, clinging to her back, laughed, âNyahaâ.
âWhat is it? But what happened in the end?â
âIâll explain when we get back. I think Everis needs to hear it too⊠Is Tracy okay? I mean, you may have been hurt, but you werenât poisoned to the max, were you?â
âIâm trained in anti-poisoning, so Iâm relatively safe. Hemoptysis is a fragile and picturesque thing.â
âI guess itâs okay if you can talk lightly⊠Wait a minute, youâŠâ
âEh. After all, you helped me out, and you even helped me with my body.â
âThatâs because youâre a useful piece of equipment. If I can help you, I will, and I also care if your body is damaged. I have to take good care of you because you donât come down from the heavens or grow wild in the mountains⊠Generally speaking, it doesnât add up for me to thank you for helping me there when I was in danger because of being subjected to the âS*ave Coreâ, right?â
âWell, thatâs right, butâŠâ
Tracy was frustrated in a âI donât think soâ kind of way.
That was really all she was doing, and she didnât intend to do anything special.
âItâs still a little unsettling to be thought of as a âgood personâ⊠when youâre fighting for revenge and youâre prepared to do whatever outlandish acts are necessary to get itâŠ
She tried to fly slowly, straight and steady, but the trajectory of her flight was like an electrocardiogram, just like when she escaped from Terra Kaine in a great hurry.
Vampire wings, like dragon flight, were a non-magical form that used the magic in the living body.
She didnât know the detailed principle, but hovering was still better. However, when she tried to move, it became instantly difficult to control. This was the same as the magic spell «Fly».