Only My Magic Levels Up - Chapter 102
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Episode 102 Who will catch more? (6)
After leaving the swamp and heading in a straight line in another direction, it had been over an hour.
A fairly wide plain appeared.
Of course, it wasn’t a place that stretched out so far that the horizon was visible, but it was a rather random terrain with mountains visible in the distance and a number of hills.
Anyway, just having a clear view made me feel a little bit better. For someone who had just come out of the forest.
“Oh my, what kind of forest is this.”
Galen shook his head.
On Earth, they do things like forest bathing, but the forests of this world are nothing more than playgrounds for evil spirits.
Even if it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, there were more than a few things that made me uncomfortable.
Plants that grow tangled and grab your ankles, trees that grow strangely and block your path, and even all kinds of bugs.
The solution Galen chose was Earth binding.
If he, a human, uses the magic of the earth elves, he will become half-human. His defense will increase, but he will not be able to move because he cannot support the weight.
If you use it gently, you can move. Your body just gets a little heavier. The defensive power that you use gently is enough to block the attack.
It’s good that it’s safer.
Even if you walk the same distance, you’ll inevitably get more tired. It’s like walking with a sandbag hanging from your body.
“Let’s go up that hill and take a rest!”
Lilia smiled and naturally took Galen’s hand.
It wasn’t a steep enough hill to require her to pull him up, but Galen obediently followed Lilia’s lead.
The two soon arrived at the top of the hill.
He placed his other hand on top of the one Lilia was holding and prayed.
Pot!
The sacred light shared through their connected hands descended gently. A miracle of vitality took hold of Galen’s body.
Of course, it feels good to have vitality returned to your tired body, but the feeling of mental stability is also excellent.
It was thanks to the special nature of the light created by the Holy Spirit. It was bright but not dazzling, and just looking at it somehow provided healing.
When the prayer was over, Galen bowed his head slightly.
“Thank you always.”
“What? Of course I should do it.”
Lilia smiled and let go of his hand.
“It would be much more beneficial if I traded my strength for yours!”
“When you say it like that, it makes me sound so sloppy.”
“Oh, that’s not what I meant. Brother, your stamina has really improved a lot. Isn’t it the highest level among magicians?”
“Well, if you treat it like that, it’ll be frustrating if it doesn’t get better… … .”
The PT I started receiving from Lilia in the Dawn Archipelago last winter was still ongoing even after more than half a year.
Even though there were days when she couldn’t practice due to circumstances, Lilia was a hard worker who never missed a single day of training on her own.
Every time, Galen rolled along too. Now, it has become a routine, so I don’t bother to describe it.
If it were Earth, I would have a body that would be more than enough to hear people say I worked out wherever I went.
It’s just that in this world, the comparison group’s dimension is different, so they just stay quiet.
Even if you brought an Olympic medalist, he would be nothing compared to a warrior of aerodynamics and a priest of divine power.
“That’s really a compliment! The more tired you are, the more effort it takes to recover. At this level, even if I keep filling you up, it won’t be noticeable!”
“Is that so?”
“Well, I guess my faith has deepened.”
Actually, I think that might be the main reason.
As your aerodynamics, magical power, and holy power increase, the total amount and the amount recovered also increase.
The amount of health that can be restored to the level of an ordinary person would be nothing to the high-ranking bishop, Lilia.
Their stamina had already been fully restored, and after taking a short break to enjoy the scenery and refresh their spirits, they set off again.
From hill to hill, following the direction that Lillia had surveyed from the air.
After roughly catching the small evil species that inevitably appear even on flat ground, I passed a few low hills.
“Oh, it’s over there!”
Lilia’s vision found the evil species she was targeting.
As we approached a little closer, we could vaguely see Galen.
Overall, it was low saturation. About a dozen horse-like beasts with dull black bodies and dull white manes were trudging along.
Of course, even if you look at it from a distance, you won’t mistake it for a real horse.
There could not have been a horse with two large, backward-curving horns on its head like a sheep.
Bicon.
Just as Galen could tell them apart with his eyes, their eyes also discovered Galen and Lilia.
The evil spirit’s instincts when he discovered two seemingly ordinary humans were obvious.
Doo doo doo doo!
Horned monster horses charged toward them.
Because it was a low hill, I barely lost speed while going uphill.
It was unfortunate for the Bycons that the two were too strong to feel threatened by it.
“Should I just clean it up?”
“Yes! Just leave the one in front!”
Galen stretched his left hand forward. The water released by the spirit spread like a fan into the air as soon as it was spit out.
Countless water masses in the shape of spears appeared.
Before the Bycons could slow down enough to realize something was wrong.
Shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh!
A hundred or so spears flew into the air at once.
Thud th …!
Except for the Vicon, who was running at the very front, the rest were swept away.
Since each one had to handle about ten of them, there was no way it could have received them all and remained intact.
The sole surviving Vicon was confused. In the blink of an eye, he was left alone, and his survival instinct surged ahead of his instinctive hatred toward humans.
The Bycon, desperately trying to brake, barely managed to stop. The bastard turned his body sharply.
Hit the button!
By then, Lilia was already running. This time, she didn’t even take off her bag.
She ran through the wind and easily caught up with the slowed-down Bycon.
Before the evil spirit could even notice, she was right next to him, grabbed his mane and jumped up lightly.
“Hehehe?!”
The first human to ride on a back that no one had ever ridden before, Bicorn started to buck and go wild, lifting his front legs and hind legs.
But Lilia was calm. Compared to the wyvern that was spinning in place in the air and glowing with its tail, this amount of shaking was not even a factor.
Without a saddle or even reins, she pulled the bicorn’s body up with only the strength of her thighs, like a cavalryman from before the stirrup.
Crack!
Lilia slapped Vicorn fiercely on the back.
But it was Bicon who caused more trouble due to pain.
Crash! Crash! Crash!
Violence is a great means of communication.
As the back smashing continued, more fierce than the whipping, Bycon could no longer endure it and lowered his tail.
That’s why there was no bicorn on the score sheet.
It was much bigger and stronger than a horse, and even had hooves like steel, so in terms of destructive power, it could only strike with a bare minimum of 100.
Compared to trolls, whose wounds from ordinary swordsmanship quickly healed, or wyverns, whose wounds were completely impervious to swordsmanship, the bicorn’s hide was far too fragile.
Bronze is also good enough to be caught with a spear or arrow if you tolerate some damage.
Because its pelvis is weak, it is subdued much more easily than a wyvern.
Lilia, holding the bicorn’s horns like motorcycle handlebars, turned to Galen and shouted.
“Then I’ll go and do some reconnaissance!”
“Yes. Don’t go too far.”
“Yes! Let’s go and have lunch!”
Lillia kicked the Vicon in the side. There was no need for a spur. The Vicon groaned in pain and ran forward.
Even if it wasn’t even a perfect white horse, it was still a bad breed. Its pure specs were higher than those of a purebred warhorse.
Aerial reconnaissance can quickly cover a wide area, but it lacks detail, so the idea was to additionally conduct ground reconnaissance.
It seems like even an earth fairy could somehow imitate the level of a bicorn, but it doesn’t matter. You won’t be able to use it more efficiently than them.
Galen even laid down a mat and waited leisurely.
How much time has passed?
Galen, who was resting leisurely without any disturbance, saw a group of black dots in his field of vision.
The eyes that had been relaxed regained focus. Upon closer inspection, the silhouette seemed somewhat familiar.
“ah.”
And more bicorns.
Was this plain originally their habitat? There are quite a lot of them.
I’m just watching it without thinking much about it.
The direction in which the bicorns were moving was this way.
“huh?”
For a moment, I had a stupid thought: Why are you rushing at me like you’ve found an enemy?
Not far away, there are the corpses of a dozen or so Bicons, dead in a horrible manner.
Galen stood up with a bitter smile.
There are more than before. About thirty or forty? It looks like the whole group was mobilized.
But as they got closer, the perspective started to feel strange.
Galen realized too late that the cause was the Vicon running in the lead.
For a moment, I thought the parent’s horse and the calf were running together.
‘Is this the leader entity?’
In terms of games, it would be like an elite monster.
No one knows exactly how it was created, but it was a variant that was discovered occasionally.
They are so named because they are much larger and stronger than their normal kin and almost always take on the role of leader.
‘Just because a bicorn is a bakery doesn’t mean it’s the leader bicorn.’
We have an honored guest here, so we’ll have to treat him a little differently.
The spirit released from his wrist rolled forward, and the magical power of the territorial advance stretched forward along the ground.
About thirty steps ahead of Galen.
In front of the Bycons who were running fiercely without looking back, the ground suddenly rose up all at once.
Sssssss!
One by one, crouching clay figurines appeared.
The timing is slightly too late to dodge to the side.
The bicorns simply chose to leapfrog the dolls.
If it had been a normal obstacle, it wouldn’t have been a problem. If I had gained momentum while running, I would have been able to get over it without any problems.
But the clay figurines were moving beings.
Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud!
The arms of the clay dolls swung powerfully overhead, striking the legs and stomachs of the bicorns.
“Phuhhhh!”
“Hehehe!”
A dozen or so horses in the lead formation collapsed all at once, their bones broken or their internal organs bursting.
The line that was following right behind stumbled over fallen compatriots or fell down after bumping into clay dolls.
There were only a few bicorns who managed to escape the catastrophe.
The leader continued to run, either unaware of the situation behind him or unable to stop despite knowing it. The distance between him and Galen was that close.
however.
Swish!
The spirit’s body suddenly swelled and created a huge obstacle.
It happened so quickly that the leader couldn’t keep up with his speed and crashed into me.
Phew!
The spirit that was hit by the body slam burst like a water balloon, but the leader’s speed was also naturally reduced.
The water that was about to scatter in all directions gathered back together as if time had been turned back.
Gulp!
The water prison held the leader captive.
It was no use flailing my legs in surprise. Even inside the prison, the current swirled and impeded my movement, and even if I tried to force myself to swim, the prison would just expand in that direction.
Boom! Boom!
With the remaining water, we cleaned up the few that had not been involved in traffic accidents.
The writhing of the leader, Bicorn, which had been growing duller and duller, finally stopped.
Galen recovered the water prison.
‘It’s easy to judge since he was killed cleanly, right?’
If you only see the head, it might be confusing, but if the body is intact, it will be easy to see how different it is from other bicorns.
They say that the stronger the variant, the bigger it is, so I guess I can give it a few points.
But to get it reviewed, I have to call the process staff again. I wonder if they are getting annoyed because I call them so often.
But that doesn’t mean you can just throw away the points you’ve worked so hard to earn.
Galen took a flag out of his bag. It should be fairly visible from the top of the hill on flat ground.
Galen waited for the agents to arrive, easing the suffering of the fallen, wailing Bicorns.
After waiting for about thirty minutes, a group of earth nymphs appeared on the hill we had just passed. It seemed as if they had found our flag.
Almost simultaneously, their opposites.
That is, in the direction where Lilia went to scout, where Galen had not yet gone.
The bicorn carrying Lilia was running towards me like crazy.
With something attached to the back.
“… … What is that?”
The thing chasing the one and only was a giant wolf.
It looks like it could swallow a person whole without chewing them. Its legs are as thick as a maple tree.
Thinking something serious was going on, Galen hurried down the hill, avoiding the corpses of the bicorns.
But, the closer you get, the more you see.
While Bycon was running around foaming at the mouth in sheer terror, Lilia, who was actually on top, looked like she was on an amusement ride.
Kuung!
There are several instances where you see the shadow of a wolf swooping down from above, grab the horn of the bicorn, forcefully change direction, and narrowly avoid it.
The chase ended almost immediately near Galen.
At one point, Lilia, who had been standing up by stepping on Bicorn’s back like a gymnast, jumped forward.
“I’m back!”
Lilia flew lightly in front of Galen and landed.
With her piloting skills gone, Bycon was immediately chewed up by the wolf’s large jaws.
“Huh? Did the Bycon corpse split or something?”
“Come one more time in the meantime. By the way, what is that?”
“It’s a direwolf!”
“No, I know that.”
“I was ambushed at the end of my reconnaissance. I was going to catch it by myself, but I dragged my brother here to catch it together!”
“Oh my, why are you doing that?”
Lilia’s help in giving him experience points was touching. Galen smiled broadly.
That too.
It’s only halfway through the first day of the tournament, and we’ve already got a basilisk, a direwolf, and even a bicorn boss.
Even without the fact that they are making rapid progress by adding ground reconnaissance to aerial reconnaissance that other groups can only dream of,
Is this place also a good hunting ground?