A great snake with its tail cut off.

Since the part that was supporting the lifted body was gone, it was struck from the head to the ground and roared.

Still alive, slowly lift your head.

---SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

"Ahh!?"

I turned around and was intimidated, so if I pinched it, it would shrink.

I've completely lost my will to fight the fear I felt for the first time in my life.

"There are people who would be in trouble if you were alive."

I took the damage, but the petrified didn't seem to be able to get it back.The statue remained seated where it was.

I could not remove the Petrify just by wounding it.

It was a frightened great serpent, but as soon as I concentrated my strength on the cut, the flesh overflowed from the inside and the slashed tail regenerated.

“Regeneration. Can you do that much?”

If I knew what the great serpent was doing, I could predict regeneration.

“But I'm not going to let you use it anymore.”

I waved down my sword, but didn't hit the snake that twisted me.

"Shit."

As the dust danced, the great serpent rushed away from the scene.

You can hear the sound of crawling.

“I'm sorry, there's no escape anymore.”

From a distance, I said, "Grrrrr!! I can hear the loud sound of" ".

The barrier has been unfolded.

Thank you very much.

Melissa's magical barriers prevented the Great Serpent from escaping.

The barrier has already unfolded around this place, and there is nowhere to escape.

No, there's only one thing left.Noticing that, the great serpent also turned its head upwards.

Well, that's impossible, isn't it?

The height of the barrier was 30 meters due to the need to unfold the barrier so that the snake could not notice it without time.If you lift your body, you can cross the barrier, but you can't cross the barrier on your own.

Then, lifting the body to check the height of the barrier became fatal.

"Hmph!!"

Giggy!

Aira came down from the sky and slashed the Great Serpent's back from top to bottom.

I sprinkled a lot of blood and turned my head toward Aira behind me.After all, petrification can only be done from the head or from the eyes of the torso, so if you don't look at it head-on, you won't be able to attack.

But when the great serpent turned around, Aira was no longer there.

I told them in advance to make sure that I left with a single shot.Although it seemed cowardly, it thoroughly attacked from behind so that the Great Snake could not see it.Otherwise, Aira's status would quickly be petrified.

Gishaa!

While I turned around looking for Aira, my head was struck by a blow.

Damn it, why are you running away from Aira's waiting?

The blow strikes Noel.

Oops!

Noel hides in the woods.

I tried not to face him head-on, just like Aira.

"I don't like the idea of surrounding and defeating six people like this, but I don't seem to have time to do it."

Magically crafted, dozens of earth thorns skewer the body of the great serpent.

If you focus on the penetrated part, you may be able to force it out.The Great Serpent also had regenerative abilities.There is no problem if there is a small number of injuries.

However, the skewered body is locked in place.

This is good, isn't it?

Yeah.

He tries to turn to the footsteps that the great serpent can hear from behind.

However, with a body that is fixed with a skewer, you can't turn your eyes and get slashed from behind.

The wound itself is shallow. Compared to my skewers and Aira's slash, it's a scratch.The Great Snake also instinctively tried to use its regeneration ability to close the wound.

"-Frozen"

However, Iris' goal is not to slash.

The aim was to slash the magic power into the body of the great serpent and generate cold air to cover the body of the great serpent.

In an instant, it spread from the place where the cold air was slashed, covering the face on the torso where the eyes of petrochemicals were.

The patterned eyes shine suspiciously on the inside of the ice.However, the gaze that is supposed to be emitted from that pattern will not jump out of the ice and will not reach us.

It's okay to go out front anymore.

Standing in front of the great serpent.

Melissa focused on maintaining the barrier and waited in the distance. Noel remained behind fearing petrification, but the other three didn't mind the petrification attack.

At the end of the resistance, the petrified gaze from the eyes of the head was released on Iris.

However, my eyes were distracted and vanished before they could reach Iris.

You really are a man of dexterity, aren't you?

I was only able to prevent it because my eyes were on the other party's attack.

Ice particles fluttered in front of Ellis, sparkling.

A thinly unfolded wall of ice caught the gaze of the great serpent.The gaze of petrification is emitted from the eyes of the great serpent, which petrifies what is hit by hitting something.However, the wall of ice plays itself like a mirror.We can't petrify it with this.

However, this defensive method is possible because it crushes the eyes on the torso.The angle of the ice wall is precise, and if it is slightly misaligned, it will penetrate and turn Iris's body into a stone.If the Great Serpent's attack method was other than the eye of the head, it could only prevent one attack, and it had become a stone after being attacked by another.

However, if the attack is limited to the head, a sober Iris can calculate the correct angle to defend against it.

In the meantime, it's only around the head, but it's completely covered in ice.

A giant snake that doesn't move at all. The other side, which is not covered with ice, is also not moving, so it is frozen to thought.

It would be troublesome if you had a tail cut off like a lizard, but how do you defeat it?

I didn't want to do it if I could, but I had to destroy the magic stone.

Any monster possesses a magic stone in its body, and if it is destroyed, it will die.

However, since the magic stone, which is a mass of energy, can be sold, I want to collect it if I can.Especially monsters like the great serpent in front of me, which I rarely encountered, were expensive.

However, it may be too late to take the time.

Magic Havoc

I slammed my magic into the center of the pattern spreading from the top of the ice to the bottom of my head.

The magic power poured into the Great Serpent's body and shattered the magic stone covered in thick flesh.

The location of the magic stone could be judged by the powerful regeneration and the movement of magic power when using the petrified eye.

The center of the four points that radiate the eyes of petrochemicals.

There is a source of magic power.

Oh, it looks like we're back together.

The grey surrounding landscape gradually began to return to green.

By defeating the great serpent that was responsible for the petrification, the petrification was lifted.

- Shit!!

A heavy sound echoes through the quiet woods.

At the entrance of the petrified area, the knight, who had become a stone statue, was freed from petrification and returned to his place, fainting from weakness.

Similar sounds can be heard everywhere else.

"... by the way, you said that there were quite a few petrified."

I just thought about knocking it down quickly, and I didn't think about what happened after I knocked it down.

"I've been thinking."

Well then, tell me.

Melissa was aware of the problem after she was defeated.

"But when we bring in soldiers, we'll be on our feet, and we won't be much of a force."Even if I bring you here, after I beat the culprit. "

Knights, soldiers, and adventurers who are stunned everywhere.

They're alive, so we can't take them back with tool boxes or storage rings.In order to heal, weakened bodies need adequate rest above all else.

“I can't help it, Ira, just go for a run.”

"Huh, me!?"

You are the closest person to them, and Melissa and Iris will recover some of the people who were petrified with Recovery Magic .

Have Sylvia and Noel stay alert.

I'd better stay because I can do both.

"Anyway, we need personnel to carry the fallen.The threat of petrochemicals is gone, so the knights will help. "

"All right."

Aira runs out of the woods.

I put the Great Serpent in the toolbox while I saw him off.