Only My Magic Levels Up - Chapter 162



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Episode 162: Hunting (3)

The Evil Species Legion, unless the Siren who commanded them specifically designated a location, was made up of more and more shady entities the further out they went.

When an individual is weak, they usually try to compensate with numbers by forming a group, so those with a large number of people naturally end up forming an outskirts.

For Siren, who treated the evil bell as a useful tool, the most efficient tactic was to first push in the weak ones, whether attacking or defending, to drain the opponent’s health, and then deploy the strong ones.

But that’s only assuming battles on the ground.

If you don’t want to waste your energy fighting the outskirts’ thugs, you can just drop straight into the center through the sky.

Few people could fly, but Galen and Lilia were among the few who could do so.

Shhh!

The wyvern that was leisurely passing over the heads of the evil legion slowed down and dropped one of the priests.

When Lilia had gained enough speed, she bent her knees to create a foothold, stepped on it, and descended again as if jumping off the railing.

It seemed like he had already mastered it, even though he had only practiced once while resting after lunch and had a real match a little while ago. Galen, who was watching from above, was impressed.

widely!

Thanks to her skillful control of her falling speed, Lilia’s movements as she landed on the ground were as light as a cat’s.

The nearby evil spirits that had been absentmindedly staring at the humans suddenly appeared and began to show hostility towards them.

“Kurrrrrr… … .”

However, it was more docile than I thought. Even if you say that it was at first bewildered because it suddenly fell from the sky, it didn’t rush at you easily even after it recognized you and showed its hostility.

Lilia walked slowly, observing the movements of the evil spirits.

I hadn’t even walked a few steps.

“Coooo!”

The evil spirits, unable to bear the ever-closer distance, rushed forward. The troll was the first to step forward.

Quick!

The first price to be paid was the result of a broken skull. With the head in a mess, there was no way to regenerate or get out of bed.

Thud! Thud! Thud thud!

The evil creatures that followed, of a similar level to the trolls, were also mercilessly destroyed.

They may be elite by the standards of the evil sect, but in front of the Archbishop, they were on equal footing with the mobs.

In an instant, a dozen evil spirits were torn apart, and the area around Lilia became a calm zone.

“Hmm.”

If the surroundings are a sea of ​​blood, the evil spirits with a keen sense of smell should become even more excited.

However, the evil spirits located a little further away only flinched and did not rush in first.

This time, Lilia moved first.

Boom! Bam! Bam! Bam!

After crushing the evil spirits once more, he nodded.

She jumped up lightly.

I quickly returned to the wyvern, stepping into the air as if I was climbing invisible stairs.

“Basically it tries to stay still, but if you get too close it seems to attack!”

“I see.”

Galen nodded after hearing Lilia’s sentiments.

When the Siren gives her orders, the evil spirits follow faithfully.

When the Siren dies, the one in command disappears and the evil spirits are freed.

So what if the Siren just sits there and passes out?

“Even if I don’t receive special orders, I don’t stay still.”

“Isn’t the fact that they are gathered here an order in itself?”

“That’s true, but I don’t think he would have given specific orders like ‘Gather here, stay still, and only attack when the enemy gets close.’”

“I guess it’s impossible to be completely calm! Even Siren had a fit when asked about the devil, right?”

“Yes. I think it’s better to tame them only when necessary. Then, let’s do the next experiment together.”

“Yes? It’s okay to do it alone.”

“No. Even if the target is an evil spirit, I feel a little guilty about asking a priest for help… .”

“I’m really okay.”

“I am not okay.”

Using an evil spirit as a shield in front of the rushing evil spirits is an idea that would make even the devil cry. I didn’t want to do it to Lilia.

The wyvern came down to the ground for a moment and then came up again.

Galen himself placed the sixth on his right shoulder. Lilia stayed close by.

The place I landed was a little further in than before, the core of the legion where evil creatures more powerful than trolls gathered.

The evil spirit that greeted the two this time was a direwolf.

The giant wolf that looked like it could swallow a human whole slowly got up as it saw the two people approaching with brisk strides.

It seemed that he had belatedly discovered the sixth child hanging on Galen’s shoulder.

“Grrrrr?”

The direwolf, preparing to leap, seemed to hesitate. The wolf growled and moved its body sideways slightly.

“It seems like they are trying to recognize their owner.”

“That’s right. The direction of movement… is to the left, where there is no siren.”

“Lilia, if that thing charges at you, could you please stay away from it for a bit? I want to see how it reacts until the very end.”

“I don’t think you’ll take any risks, but are you okay?”

“Don’t worry. It’s just a direwolf after all.”

Was it because he didn’t like the sight of two people talking so calmly, or was it simply because Akjong’s patience was running out?

At one point, a huge wolf flew in at a speed that was unusual for its size. It was from the left.

As promised, Lilia took a small step back, and Galen, who had been watching the direwolf’s movements with his thoughts accelerating, turned his body as fast as he could and held Siren out like a shield. Only his thoughts were accelerating, and his body wasn’t as fast, but this was nothing.

However, something unexpected happened.

Kwajik!

Whether Galen used the Siren as a shield or not, the direwolf bit Galen and the Siren whole with its large mouth.

“Kuaaaah?!”

The sixth child, who had just come to his senses and was being chewed on by teeth, let out a terrible scream.

Ironically, it was thanks to Galen that her body was not completely torn apart.

The earthbinding that was always protecting Galen had shattered the remaining teeth of the direwolf.

Phaaaak!

Immediately afterwards, Lilia’s hammer blew off the direwolf’s head with a powerful blow.

The direwolf and the sixth flew sideways together.

“What if you almost get eaten?!”

“It just bit me for a bit. It didn’t hurt at all. You know my defenses, right?”

“But that’s true! I thought it was just a light hit!”

“It’s either a hit or a bite… … .”

Galen, who was about to say that there wasn’t much of a difference, slowly backed down when he saw Lilia’s gaze becoming unusually fierce.

Galen, who was watching her sharp gaze, muttered an excuse.

“But there is one thing that is certain… … .”

“What is it?”

Still, I will respond, Galen added cautiously.

“There is no need to keep Siren alive.”

The fact that Siren couldn’t give orders didn’t make the evil spirits stupid, and using her as a shield didn’t have much of an effect either.

Judging from the direwolf’s behavior, it seems like it is treated as ‘careful, but not particularly willing to step forward to protect unless ordered to do so’.

As expected, there was no way that proper loyalty could blossom in a hierarchy created by magic.

Unless you need to gather information, it would be better to just kill them and let the evil ones fight each other.

“If I ever have to control evil spirits in the future, this is something I need to be careful about.”

“… It’s fine to check that.”

Lilia let out a faint sigh, her face slightly softening.

“Can’t you confirm that you take better care of your body? The direwolf is a species that is as evil as gold. Your brother’s protective magic isn’t even a jewel yet.”

“… That’s true.”

The difference in level between the direwolf that could barely keep up with the gold and the Earthbound that had reached the pinnacle of gold was obvious, but Galen quietly acknowledged it.

“The severity of the wound is clearly different between a simple bump and a bite. If, by any chance, you had been hurt just now… … .”

Galen wasn’t so tactless as to ask Lillia about the trivial facts while speaking as if scolding her, but couldn’t hide her concern for him.

And, thinking back, it wasn’t Lilia being polarized, it was Galen letting his guard down.

The wizard should always be positioned in the rear under the protection of the vanguard. This is the most basic of the basics.

Earth restraint should be for insurance in case the potential is breached, not for showing off to make you step forward and say it’s okay to get hit.

The direwolf was okay, but if you let your guard down in places like this, you’ll end up dead. Galen reflected.

“I’m sorry, Lilia. This was definitely my fault. A wizard shouldn’t do that.”

“You know it.”

Lilia pouted at Galen’s heartfelt apology.

“Really, please think about my feelings too. Do you know how surprised I was when the blood spurted out? I thought it was my brother’s blood.”

“Oh, I’m really sorry about that.”

“It’s inevitable that you’ll get hurt when you’re fighting an enemy and lack the strength. But you don’t need to be exposed to an environment where you could get hurt when you don’t need to be, right?”

“That’s right. I’ll take better care of myself from now on.”

“You promise, right?”

“I promise.”

Only then did Lilia, who had been firmly convinced, loosen her expression. Thanks to her quick admission of her mistake, it seemed like things would get over at this point.

Galen sighed in relief. It was the first time this had happened between them, but he didn’t feel bad at all. He was actually happy because he was angry because he was worried about him.

“Okay! Then let’s stop talking about this… … .”

Lilia, who had returned to her usual self, changed the subject.

Her gaze turned to the corpse lying on the floor. Galen’s gaze also turned there.

Strictly speaking, it wasn’t a corpse ‘yet’, but since there was no way to revive it anyway, there was no point in distinguishing between them.

The sixth, who had not been completely torn apart but had his body pierced by teeth here and there, would have his scream from earlier as his last will and testament. The blood he had shed was already forming a puddle.

“Should I get ready to clean up?”

“Yes. The control will begin to loosen soon.”

“Is this by any chance the last stop for today?”

“There’s still plenty of magic left. Even if you drain the water, there’s still wind, land, and other things.”

“Then I’ll do it this time! You did it this morning too. I can’t just play!”

“As you wish.”

Lilia wasn’t as efficient at killing the evil spirits as Galen. It was only natural, since she had to kill them one by one.

But in the end, it didn’t make much of a difference.

Neither of them cared much about the small evils scattering and running away.

Because the powerful entities that were gathered at the center, the core of the legion, were all killed without a single exception.

And yet, the hungry men and women’s gazes turned north.

* * *

The third, who had been a bit worried when he was first sent to the pioneer zone, soon realized that his worries were unfounded.

It was because the level of the humans who were trying to drive out the demons and make the land their own for farming was too low.

I could clearly see why the master had sent only the seven sisters here. The demons alone were enough to drive out the humans. The master’s foresight was truly remarkable.

Although the number of humans was quite large, and the demons were mobilized as much as possible, the humans were only numerous in number, and their actual fighting power was poor.

Frankly, I wondered if the humans would have had the power to stop it even if there were only one or two legions, let alone six.

Before discussing strategy and tactics, in order for a fight to be successful, you must be able to counterattack with force. If the front line is breached by overwhelming force, the formation and everything else will be destroyed.

However, the level of humans in the pioneer zone was so pitiful that it was impossible to find anyone with the power to overpower the trolls.

Of course, powerful demons like Ogres and Tauros were brought in by their sisters from afar.

Anyway, overall, the difference in power was such that the fight itself wasn’t even possible, and the humans knew it, so they just kept retreating.

The third one was sent away without a hitch. Since the first and seventh ones are blocking the entrance anyway, they are trapped. We can just drive them out and kill them later.

Until just a moment ago, she had thought so.

“Third, I think it was your older sister who got hurt!”

“…what?”

Until the second one suddenly showed up.

The third one opened his eyes wide.

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“I went to check on my sister who was supposed to come, but she didn’t contact me. But there were signs of a big battle.”

“That’s ridiculous! The eldest sister’s power was the strongest among us. If necessary, she could have received help from the youngest.”

“But there were hundreds of demon corpses scattered around. There were also many traces of burning.”

“But there’s no way my older sister couldn’t escape! The humans here are all weaklings!”

“Then where did you go without saying anything?”

The third was speechless at the second’s question. Although he kept repeating no like a parrot, he was unable to answer that question either.

For them, who had a master-servant relationship with the devil, there was no concept of disobedience. If something went wrong, it was almost synonymous with something going wrong.

When the second and third were unable to do anything, they saw a black dot in the sky.

If a wyvern flies alone, which usually travels in groups of two or three, there is a high probability that someone is riding it.

Indeed, it was so. The fourth one slid down from the landed wyvern.

“Fourth! You came at a good time. Do you know what my second oldest sister said?”

“What else?”

“I heard that contact with my older sister has been lost. I think something has happened.”

“…Your older sister too?”

“… Sister too, Rani?”

The third child, who had been hungry, only then noticed that the fourth child’s face had already turned pale when he got off the wyvern.

“I didn’t hear from the fifth one, so I checked because I was worried… It seems like there’s a problem with the sixth one as well.”

“What, what are you saying?! That’s ridiculous!”

“I also think it’s ridiculous, but I’ve confirmed that the legion has been virtually annihilated. Judging from the fact that there’s been no contact yet, the fifth and sixth must have been hit as well.”

“… Then it’s likely that the youngest one was also affected.”

The second one muttered in a calm voice.

“My older sister was also hit, and since the humans here don’t have the ability to do that, we have to assume that those who came from the south broke through the entrance. Then, the youngest would have been hit first.”

“There are only three of us left… … ? In just the past few days… … ?”

The third one muttered in a daze.

Until thirty minutes ago, I was wondering how to play with the remaining humans.

It wasn’t that I was being negligent. Since I was hunting humans as planned, there was no need to contact me frequently, and I just came and went once every two or three days to see each other.

But when I went to check because I couldn’t get in touch with them even once, they were already dead? Not one, but four?

“What the heck… What the heck is going on?”

“There would have been no reason for humans to set fire so late, so perhaps it was the half-blood that used fire?”

“The fifth and sixth legions showed no signs of fire damage. They seemed to have been hit by blunt weapons, most of them.”

“Blunt weapons? Don’t humans generally prefer sharp weapons?”

“…There are guys who like blunt weapons, but have the power to take on the Legion.”

“Minions… Paladins!”

“Wait, wait. I’ve heard they’re pretty strong. But how did they know to come here? How many days have we been out there?”

“I don’t know. Maybe our paths overlapped because we were unlucky.”

“There are also some who use fireworks!”

“Guests, I guess. Who cares? The important thing is that three legions were blown away in a matter of days.”

Even if they could control the evil spirits, they could not make the dumb evil spirits speak, so the Siren sisters could not do things like listen to the story of the incident from the defeated soldiers.

The deduction that had to be made based only on traces was already far from the truth.

“It would be best if we gathered together. Then at least there would be no risk of being defeated individually.”

“Now that the entrance has been opened, it’s impossible to confine the humans… If we were going to let them go anyway, there was no need to be so thorough in dealing with them now, right?”

“That’s right. The Knights of the Holy War must have forced a march, so we can’t give them time to recover. Let’s push as fast as possible.”

“Do you have a map?”

“ruler.”

“Considering the time it takes us to get back… Should we meet up here, around here?”

“Okay. Hurry up.”

“I’ll just borrow one wyvern!”

It wasn’t that they were stupid or anything, so they made a mistake in their reasoning.

Asking them to deduce the existence of Galen and Lilia was too harsh a request for them.