A few minutes to be chased by a bunch of demons.
Still, the demon hordes are after us, and the number seems to be increasing rather than decreasing.
Perhaps there are demons gathering around here... nothing but annoyance from us being chased.
But it's not like there's no solution.
If we keep running like this, we should be able to reach the lake where Miarak is. If we get that far, we can get on a boat and cross the lake. The boulder demon won't even come into the lake, so if we even get to the lake, it's this one.
"We're running low on trees! Almost there!! Usato, are you okay?!?"
"I have no problem at all!"
"No, isn't it strange that you have no problem walking with Burlin and the horse?"
Ignore Nair grunting so over his shoulder and see if Burlin is cheap running next to Amako on his back.
In the meantime, I'm relieved everyone doesn't seem to be hurt by this.
"Usato, something pops up from before...!!"
"A demon...!"
While I was at ease, Amako turned her hand around my neck and told me that in her ear.
Nair was also listening, he activates sorcery on his shoulder and sends a curse of restraint to his right hand. I also create an instant healing magic bullet in my right palm, throwing it to release a healing restraint bullet at the same time as the smudge in front of me shakes.
There's no time to stop, if you're trying to hold us back, you're forced to open it.
"Oooo!! Wow!? Oooo!?"
"... eh"
It was the demon of the human form that jumped out of the bush about fifteen meters away while the healing restraint bullet struck directly.
II. A large body of five meters.
The fierce-looking demon looks like a musculoskeletal human on the side, but from the reddish skin and the large stick held in his hand, it can be seen that he is a demon, not a human.
I feel strange about the demon in front of me as I get a clear view of him under healing restraint bullets and stiff.
Musculoskeletal.
A barbaric weapon.
Horrible face like a ghost.
Is that it?... Wait, could this guy be...
"Auga!? Why are you such a loser - Usato!?"
"Was I identified with this...!?"
They said I was like this!?
Either this or that strong side of you!?
Never before have I known the appearance of a demon named Auga, I hold my fist firmly and without any further inward irrationality.
"Wow, ooh!!"
"Usato! The restraint has been lifted!? This is not our opponent -"
"Shiraku!! Amako!"
"Keep it up, Auga can't react"
Hearing Amako's prediction, I step in in the form of pulling Burlin and the horse apart for only a moment, entering the pocket of the orga at once, and sticking a powerful healing punch out to the dovetail.
"Hey, keep going!?"
"I'm not this savage!! Eat it!!"
"Listen to me for a second!?"
To a fist pierced with no sound, Auga leaks a groan that clears the air, peeling her white eyes.
As I slowed down, I grabbed Auga's right arm and threw it at a bunch of demons approaching me as I turned around.
Auga falls to crush the demon that was in the lead, thanks to which the herd moves slowly.
I smile at the sight as I lift it to my forehead.
"... utterly rude, isn't it? I can't believe you treated me like such a monster..."
"Yeah...... I'm not an ogre anymore. Something more than an orga."
"Oh, that? Auga was supposed to be as dangerous a demon as Burlin... am I crazy?"
Ignoring the voice on my shoulder and back, I run out again.
But... well, the Auga was pretty strong, too, but not as good as Rose. It's not intimidating at all, and most importantly, if you're going to sink in about a fist blow, you're more scared of the strong side, yeah.
If they suck, they're tougher than me, the healing wizard.
But there are some things that bother me.
"Nair, is auga something that goes out near where people live?"
"Uh, no. Normally it should only lead to dark spots of magic. I think maybe he came out of his residence under the influence of that roar... obviously not normal."
After all, this may also have something to do with the voice just now.
In the meantime, when you get into Miarak and make sure you're safe, let's tell the Queen of Miarak about this. If there was a big walk around Miarak that had a strong influence on the demons, it could be a bad influence on Miarak, not just us.
"I see Miarak!"
"Eh."
Return to me in Mr. Alk's voice and look forward.
The trees are gone and I see a white city in front of the open view. Not as big as Samaritan, but as a city, it doesn't change to a big place.
"... Usato"
"Hmm? Amako, it's okay. 'Cause we're gonna be on a boat soon."
"No, it's not..."
Amako, who laid her hands on me and embarked on a far-sighted journey, opens her eyes as if to see something incredible.
I look forward, and I look in the direction she's looking, but what I see is Miarak in the lake and the lake that reflects the sunlight and shines white...
"Wait a minute."
It's good to shine white.
But how come the water on the lake isn't moving?
As if time had stopped, in a solidified lake, I accelerated once and for all to grasp the situation and move to a place where I could see the whole lake.
As I approached the lake, the first thing I felt was the cold.
I felt the temperature drop all at once, as if the season had changed only in that place, and I looked around in agony.
"What's going on...!"
"Frozen!?"
Waiting for us to arrive in the water city of Miarak...
It was not a beautiful water capital surrounded by lakes, but a silver world dominated by ice and transformed without the shadow of a water city.
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The lake is freezing.
That's pretty broad, too.
I was totally familiar with the world of fantasy, but I couldn't help but complain about this sight.
"Well, there can't be a ship out there...! Mr. Alc!! I knew I'd stop. Alk please go directly to Miarak with Amako and Burlin!!"
Mr. Alk's horse gets caught up even when he runs normally.
I can't say enough that there's no chance there's someone flying something in the demon, so I have to stop here first.
"Huh... I believe Lord Usato will be fine...!"
"I'll leave as soon as I stop!"
"... ok! Don't force it!"
Mr. Alk nodded with a bitter look.
I nod at him like that, too, and put Amako down on his back, and put him on Burlin's back beside him.
Brulin, I asked for Amako.
"Gluer."
"... I'm not worried, but come back properly"
"Oh!"
I dropped off Burlin and Mr. Alk's horse running towards Miarak, and I caught Nair with wings trying to keep up with them and turned back in front.
"Nair, you're stuck with me."
"Oh, no! Who likes it and has to fight like that!? Come fight with the monsters!?"
Monsters get along......
Keeps me smiling even though I'm a little frustrated.
"It's okay, I'll protect you."
"Leave me alone if you want to protect me!? That dialogue only feels insane now!?"
"Nah, it's only a minute or two to say I'm stuck. We're just talking about beating and messing up."
"I'm not just worried about it!?"
That's it for nothing.
Spread your legs half a step so you can run out at any time, fist up.
Hit the leading orga first, gather hostility.
Mm, when I get other demons, I try to distance myself and even avoid them. Let's sink the one that can sink in Hit & Away.
"Okay -"
At that time, a terrible crushing noise called Zugan sounds from behind.
!?
"Now what!?"
I wondered what was going on and turned around and in the frozen lake - there were two figures about thirty meters away from me. One is a long, naked man with long hair that I don't think of as a man. The other one is wrapped in cracked armor and doesn't know his gender.
The man has a large double-edged axe that emits a silver glow on his hands, lowering his arms to weaken sloppily, staring at the armored figure.
The armored man on the other side - perhaps knocked on the surface of a frozen lake with some extraordinary force - was leaking a groan in the center of crushed ice, staring at the long-haired man.
From the circumstances, you can see with these two the people who were making the battle noise Amako was saying--
"... the movement of the demonic flock is stopped...?"
When I saw the demons, they were shaking their bodies to fight and fleeing the scene.
As if I didn't want to be blinded by a horrible being, I gently poke Nair over my shoulder with a bad feeling about the demon running into the woods.
"Are you okay, Nair?"
"Heh, heh. I don't know what that is, but let's go after the Alcs. The speed of the horse and the burlin will get you to Miarak soon, and there's no more reason for us to be here..."
I'm upset.
Nair didn't know he was going to punish you?
Sure, if it's Mr. Alk's horse and Burlin, we'll get to Miarak soon - but I've never seen her try to be so frightened.
"Ugh..."
―――
A long-haired man slowly walks over to an armored man who is slammed by ice and unable to move. gently shake up the axe held in its hand -,
"First!?"
"Usato!?"
Fly forward reflexively.
Whatever you think, that long-haired man doesn't look normal. I don't know if that armored guy is on his side, but he's not going to be so inhuman as to miss where he's about to be killed.
Lighting a healing magic on my fist, I instantly pack my distance, whilst slamming a healing punch with a slight knock on the abdomen of a long-haired man who shakes up his axe and punches him hard.
At that time, there was a strange feeling in my fist.
"... eh"
What, hard?
It doesn't feel like I hit a zombie, even though I was inhibited by muscles.
While confused by the feeling of beating a hard scale like an evil dragon or that snake, I look back and speak to the armored man looking up at me.
"Hit him...? Lightly..."
"Can you move!?"
"Oh, oh... oh, the pain"
Armored man holding his leg.... That's a higher voice than I thought.
I don't see the look on your face, but you seem pretty sure you're injured everywhere.
I need to heal my injuries with healing magic right away.
I think so, and when I rush over to him (?) and try to do healing magic, I get grabbed by Gasilli and his hand.
"Run fast...! No matter how successful the unintentional strike is, he'll be up soon...!"
"What do you mean, get up -"
"Usato! Behind!!"
When I hear Nair's voice and I hear something crushing behind my back, I feel signs of wind cutting over here and approaching. My sight, turning right behind me, shows a long-haired man trying to tap his fist this way.
I slam my right palm forward and accept a man's fist.
"- Huh!"
"Huh, Mm...!"
A shock punches through his fist.
Surprised by the unexpected power, he can withstand the shock with his feet and, conversely, catch his fist.
The long-haired man stays faceless and opens his eyes.
―――!?
"Lies... accepted, taken...?"
Somehow the armored guy in the back is surprised too, but now let's concentrate in front of him.
You look like an eye that doesn't make you feel like you're willing, but you feel hostile. - Apparently, this one's the enemy and you can't go wrong.
If so -,
"I'll heal you, just skip some more!!"
Attract the fist you grabbed and release a spinning kick with your left leg pulled back wide.
But a long-haired man takes a kick with an arm with an axe. Even though I can force myself to kick every defense, the man's awesome power has completely stopped me from kicking.
- Huh, it was taken directly from the front!?
A long-haired man puts his arm into my fist, which is grabbed by me. This one also stabs his leg in the ice and tries to stick with the loser, but the opponent also antagonizes the force if it is a considerable amount of strength, and there is a big chunk in the ice, which is a scaffold.
"... Gu...!?"
What a power...!
If you distract me at all, I'll push you down!?
On par with me... maybe more than that.
"I'm sticking with Usat's idiotic powers!?"
"I didn't say anything out of power. Support me!"
Nair activates the magic, pours the curse of restraint from the fist he's grabbing and causes the movement to stop only for a moment.
―――!?
"Humph!"
With that gap, a shape of healing restraint fist thrust up from the bottom into his chest, beating him more than just now and forcing him to distance himself.
It's good to beat him up, but he hasn't taken as much damage from the feel of his fist.
I leak in a hurry, waving my left hand. [M]
"What, that guy's not human power...?"
"Hey, are you serious about that? Do you understand that word will come back to you?"
……
"Even I, the boulder, was finally antagonizing...! Ku... I should have worked out more if this were the case...!"
"Kuh, it's not. Notice something strange at a time of antagonism."
Nair can't hear me with a bitter, bitter look on my face. [M]
I can't hear you. I can't hear you.
... probably will get up soon, so I don't have time to be healing armored people.
While alerting to the attack of a long-haired man, I lift my hand to the back and knee of the armored man.
"Oh, hey, what..."
"I'll get away from here"
"Ha, you're the only one who can leave!! I wore armor... he's not sweet enough to carry himself away!"
Does this man know who that long-haired man is?
Then I'll have to ask what's going on later.
"Don't worry. Because it's something I'm used to."
"What are you used to... Ugh!?"
Leave the scene at full speed, holding the armored man.
Travelling with people is a business for me in the lifeguard. That doesn't change wearing armor, rather the knights were all wrapped in armor during the battle of the Demon King's Army, so there's no reason enough to lift this man up and run.
Besides, there's no way I'm the healing wizard who leaves the injured behind and runs away...!
"Pain... this is healing magic, isn't it?"
"It's healing magic. The injury is no big deal, so it will heal soon!"
"Ki, are you a healing wizard!? Yet you were dealing with him!?"
"Yep.... ugh!"
You hear a loud noise behind you, and you hear something looming as you crush the ice.
I don't know if they've been after me or what they are, but don't think you can catch up to me with your feet...! The signs keep getting farther and farther away when you speed up your feet.
Did the man with the armor see the back, breathtaking?
"Who are you..."
"I'm Usat. He is an apostle from the kingdom of Ringle and a" normal ”healing wizard. I'm here to give Miarak an important letter... Uh, what about you?"
Nair over his shoulder whispers, "That's not normal..." but it ignores and asks the dull armored man a question.
Then, shake your helmet as you put it.
"I'm Leo -, huh!? Get away!"
Fly off the scene reflexively to the panicky voice of the armored man.
The next moment, a big ice-cold from the sky pierced where I was just now. Ice columns scatter awesome cold air and burst like shotguns.
When I turned my eyes in the direction in which the ice column would have flown as I opened my eyes to surprise, there was a long-haired man waving a double-edged axe and approaching this way - followed by many ice columns coming down from the sky -,
"Ahhh, it's a spell of resistance!!"
"I'm already doing it. Ooh!?"
I'd be in danger with Nair and the armored man anyway if I ate those scattered ice columns!?
Perhaps my resistance to ice rubble has been loosened and enchanted by witchcraft, I concentrate on avoiding the falling ice columns.
"... what the fuck! It's beyond magic!!"
"I feel great power from that axe... but it's not the same power. This!?"
Supporting the armored person with only one hand, while striking down the shotgun with the other hand.
By the time all the ice columns had fallen, the long-haired man, who should have pulled away, was pretty close.
"I'm sorry I got you into our fight..."
The man with the armor said so weakly.
In contrast, the long-haired man breathes loudly and raises an unimaginable loud voice from his angry, faceless expression as he thrust his axe into the ice ground vigorously.
"Wow, wow, wow!!"
"... uh, this guy"
Was it this guy who was rambling the demons after all...!
Plus it's called ice earlier, is that what made this lake freeze?!?
I can move whenever I want.
"His name is Karon."
The man with the armor shudders and whines with a voice that only I can hear, as if to see something painful.
"Originally of a human... a man who was supposed to be a brave man"
”Originally” is human.
"It was" supposed to be a brave man.
I couldn't help but recognize that the situation was infinitely worse.