"Here. There you go. I buried it in pieces. I thought I was playing it."
Alpina pointed across the great mountain range.
It's a basin there.
For some reason, crops don't grow, so people haven't lived there for a long time, and it's been a forgotten land.
From that ground, two golden objects, like snakes, were stretching towards the sky.
"That's the Punisher...?
"Yes. He's only showing up at the neck yet, but there's got to be a torso buried under the dirt. Pretty big, huh?
The Great Sage snorts silently.
- Big.
Oh, sure. Even just the visible neck stretches to a little pile of height.
How powerful would it be if it came out to the torso? I can't even imagine.
And the magic you're unleashing.
Big...... or bullshit.
Even though I'm not using any magic, I look distorted around the Punisher like a pneumonia.
"I'll tell you what, he's still not in the mood at all. When your soul merges with that, it's not like this."
And, says Alpina. My voice was shaking slightly. You've been floating since you came out of your pocket watch, and you're letting sweat seep through your cheeks.
There were not only two necks again, but some regular dragons, crawling out of the ground.
Again, as Alpina said, maybe the dragon we just encountered was produced by the Punisher.
Then it is possible that dragons have already flown in elsewhere.
I'm worried there's been a lot of damage.
I hope you have an A-rank adventurer just in time.
"Shall I crush it so that the miscellaneous fish dragon doesn't go everywhere first -"
Before Alpina finishes, the Great Sage's attack magic strikes the basin.
Along with the sound of Paris, a dozen dragons were scattered simultaneously. The fragment becomes a particle of light and melts into the wind.
"Wow. Oh, my God, what's the magic now? I can't believe you're attacking such a wide range at the same time, Carlotte!
Alpina opened her eyes. Apparently, I was seriously surprised.
The Great Sage feels rewarded with one arrow.
But I can't even be happy.
Anyway, I targeted the Punisher, but he's intact.
"Isn't he a little too sturdy?
"I agree. But you didn't even mean it, did you? Next time, let's strike for two. This is a basin, so you can minimize the aftermath of the attack from spreading outside. I mean, the basin, it's a crater I made when I fought the Punisher before."
"You're a battle-made crater... I've fought demons before, but I never built a crater this big on a boulder."
"Heh. I've fought demons before. That's reliable. Look, it's something similar. It's just that the Punisher is more playful, has more firepower, and has bigger graphics."
"I mean, superior compatibility. Give me a break."
The Great Sage sucks.
But the Punisher didn't give me a break or forgive me.
The Punisher opened his two mouths wide, from which he emitted the same golden rays as the urchin.
Each comes to Alpina with the Great Sage.
There was so much magic in the light that it made me sweat cold.
Still, not so much out of hand!
"" Reflect! "
The Great Sage and Alpina simultaneously generate a force field ahead of themselves.
Golden rays clash.
The brilliance of whether the retina burns is wild, and the vast destructive force of the reflection is about to crush the force field and I don't feel alive.
But the reflexes succeeded at the critical point.
The two rays return to the Punisher, and a big explosion winds up.
A giant fireball was born and swallowed both the necks of the Punisher.
The heat waves spreading from the fireball burned down the grass that had grown only slightly in the basin, and the blast ravaged the terrain.
They bounce off the edge of the basin and echo back towards the centre.
"You did it - what a moonlight dialogue, let's go hunting"
"Right. If you could do something about this, you wouldn't have had to struggle once."
The Great Sage and Alpina gaze and stick their arms out at the heart where the flames still burn.
And at the same time, a spell chant.
"" Light. It's the most dazzling. Give our magic. Collect here. Turn everything into a piercing blade - ""
Immediately above the blast site, a single shining spear appeared.
It sucks the magic of the two and enlarges, finally reaching over the clouds, still stretching,
"" And pour. Cut off the enemy - ""
The spear fell without sound.
Far more dazzling than the glow of the flames, it pierces the earth as it swallows everything that goes straight ahead.
The light of the flames that were filling the basin will also be sumptuous in front of the shining spear.
Eventually the spear disappeared into the ground.
A spear the length of which reaches above the clouds.
More than pierced by it, two necks and a torso buried in the ground will not be safe.
"Did you do it?
The Great Sage throws up a moonlight dialogue.
Eventually the explosion cleared and I saw a basin that went wild.
There were no Punisher double-headed there.
It's just an invisible hole in the ground, pierced by a shining spear.
"It's also unusual to say if you've done it and you've really done it. Well, I'm gonna play it later anyway. Now next..."
Alpina looks up at the sky.
That's right.
I knocked him down now, a lump of meat without a soul.
The body of the Punisher is more of a soul falling from space.
Oh, that's right on the verge.
Intimidation enough to give me goosebumps.
I'm sure you can feel this even if you're not a wizard?
I hope the people living nearby aren't in a state of panic.
"I'm coming, I'm coming...!
Alpina shrugged.
The clouds that were covering the sky were mutilated.
A golden pillar pierces the ground.
Light fills the sight.
And -.
When the Great Sage slowly opened his eyes, the golden pillar had already disappeared.
It was a quiet view, as if I wanted to think that what was happening now was a mess.
But whatever.
Signs don't go away. No, it's getting stronger.
The Great Sage was finally understanding what Alpina was saying earlier with her voice trembling, "Punishers aren't like this".
"Oh man... I wanted to catch you where my soul was falling... but I couldn't move a bull"
Alpina mocked herself with her cheeks.
The Great Sage can't say anything. Because I couldn't move myself either.
And at the bottom of the earth, the magic swells everywhere and everywhere.
The earth trembled.
The space trembled.
Alpina's shoulder was also trembling, and as she deluded herself, she gave a pulled laugh...... The Great Sage realized that she was trembling herself watching it too.
"Are you ready, Carlotte?"
"Not at all."
"But here we go."
Countless dragons jumped out of the ground. That number is over a thousand.
It's like an archer's army fired an arrow into the sky, but it's a sight to behold.
Of course, those are far more swordswallowing than fire arrows. It is a red dragon.
Watching it makes me feel weird about the scale.
Eventually you can follow a thousand dragons, true fear shows itself.
Golden Dragon Punisher.
The true figure who got the soul.
Crush the surface and spread wings the size of which the town is likely to fit perfectly.
A small mountain stretched its tail long enough that it was likely to wind up gluey.
Then the torso.
That's a double head the size of which is going to reach the clouds...
"How come you have three necks!?"
Alpina screams incredibly.
Punishers are double-headed dragons.
Yes, the Great Sage heard from her, and she did when she fought just now.
But. Oh, but.
I wonder what that means.
The Punisher in front of us now has more necks than Alpina knows.
More than 10,000 years have passed, and the irregular overlap and mutate that once more separated flesh and soul merge?
I don't know the cause. I don't know, now.
"Not if you're surprised! I'll fight you!
"Oh... yeah... I am. I wasn't sleeping on a pocket watch to frighten myself. Thanks for waking me up, Carlotte!
Seeing Alpina get excited, the Great Sage also burns his will.
Let's first try to fill a number of disadvantages.
"Mr. Golden Pika Dragon of Ancient Civilization. Want a taste of modern summoning?
The magic of the Great Sage scatters fire powder all around him.
They grow enormously and create the shape of people.
A giant the size of a dragon was also completed.
It is the Spirit of Fire.
The number is like the enemy, a thousand.
"Come on in."
With the decree of the Great Sage, a thousand spirits strike against the dragons.
The moment we touch each other, there is so much explosion that the dragon carbides.
Complete suicide bombing.
Regardless, the opponent tries to avoid it, but the Spirit of Fire tracks it.
In an instant, all the dragons disappear.
"Whoa! You're amazing, Carlotte! If it's just aggression, it could be better than me!
"I'm honestly glad you told your ancestors that. But don't try to push me alone."
"I wouldn't do that. I'm seventeen years old. I'll work fine!
Alpina shoots attack magic at the Punisher.
"What's a pitchy..."
Bitterly smiling at the linguistic sense of the ancient civilized man, the Great Sage followed Alpina.
The target is big, so don't worry about removing it.
From where it hit, red blood overflows.
This attack is piercing his urchin.
Then you should be able to take it down someday.
And while I was at ease.
The blood that fell to the ground was grossly distorted into the shape of a dragon.
No, not just shape, but winged and flying.
No, the blood changed. That only looks solid, not liquid, and I can't tell anything from a normal dragon.
"That's it. Yeah, do it. Punishers produce dragons."
"That's creepy...... but didn't you say a thousand dragons that a Punisher could produce? Did you just take down that thousand of them?
"That's about it when I fought before...... it looks like it's increased. I wonder what the upper limit is right now. haha."
"I see. You're in a situation where you have to laugh. Well, fine. As soon as the dragon is born, you just have to take it down. Even if the Punisher plays, you just have to attack it faster than that. And when we destroy all his flesh, we seal his soul into a surgical ceremony and launch it into space. The policy is simple. It doesn't change anything."
"You don't move... it feels like a different year"
"Well, I'm almost three hundred years old"
"Wow! You're an amazing grandmother!
"I don't want you over 10,000 years old to say grandma or something?
"Ha, what are you talking about? I am seventeen years old forever. She's a magic girl."
"Huh? Was there a magic girl in ancient civilization, too?
"On the contrary, are you in the modern age? The Battle Wizard created by genetic manipulation… The people of the Barthelink Republic used to call me the 'Magic Girl' with familiarity! They used to publish pictures of us!
Alpina speaks proudly.
What a shocking fact.
The magic girl originated in ancient civilization.
I thought it looked like a dress on the street.
Worried that we should publish this new historical discovery, the Great Sage is going to have a sleepless night for a while. I take a nap.
Either way, if you don't defeat the Punisher, you can't even bother.
Therefore, the attack of the Great Sage and Alpina is extremely harsh.
The explosion spreads the basin slightly.
With sudden temperature changes, the abnormal weather will surely continue for a while.
But he couldn't have stayed hit forever with the Punisher.
Instead of telling me what was going on until now, suddenly, I threw up light from the three necks.
"Reflection -"
"No, I can't. Avoid it!
The Great Sage grabs Alpina's arm and moves wide straight to the side.
In a moment, three rays of light passed through the original space.
We definitely succeeded in avoiding it.
Even so, I feel fierce "heat". Defensive junctions strewn all over your body are shredded.
"If it was a direct hit, we would have evaporated..."
"Damn it... it's far stronger than before..."
The Great Sage and Alpina rebuild their thinned defensive boundaries and face the Punisher.
With the current attack, it's courage, not defensive junction, that's really shredded.
Eat even one blow and you're sure to die instantly. Even if avoided, the attack only takes damage by passing nearby.
The Great Sage once fought the demon gods as well, but never so cynical.
The battle of how I came to be called by all with the Great Sage.
thrill beyond that.
I want to escape because I'm horrible.
But at the same time, for some reason, the grin spills.
In that life, the Great Sage rarely even struggled.
This is finally the second time, for example, a battle with a high degree of defeat.
"Hehe... that's fun. My arms will ring."
"Yeah, are you crazy!?"
"It's adventurers who burn when they're like this."
"What the hell. The magic girl doesn't know."
That's right.
Carlotte Gildrea is just one adventurer, even if he's the only S-rank in the world or if he's a Reiki Sage.
At least at this moment, Carlotte is just an adventurer challenging an unknown monster.
"Come on, start over!
"As much as I can count on you. I think I'm gonna be an apprentice too!