Side: Luke
"... hey this sucks"
Me and Luna are surrounded by a bunch of demons named Mahonome right now. Mahonorm is a rhinoceros monster with horns on his head on four-legged foot.
Other features, magic is hard to work with. Magic resistance is so high that you can't do damage without advanced magic, a demon that a swordsman or knight would deal with if it were normal.
It was a B-rank demon, which was supposed to live in this steel forest very little. Those guys, for some reason, came across a place traveling in a herd, and when they realized it, they were surrounded.
By the way, Mahonome doesn't have that much difficulty crusading if it's a swordsman position, so it's rank B, but if you encounter it with only a wizard present, the danger jumps to rank A.
That said, I am not the enemy if I am the grandson of a wise man.
If it's one-on-one...
I have ten mahonorms in front of me.
Kind of a pinch.
With Ultima Thunder (Ultimate Magic), you can defeat them all together, but the damage to the forest is also greater, so I'd like to avoid that if possible.
I said, I'm not clever enough, and I don't have enough magic, to be able to do a series of high-altitude magic that narrows the range to defeat one head at a time.
Can you get Luna to do auxiliary magic and defeat it with intermediate magic?
I was thinking about that.
"Ru, Mr. Luke, do you want to fight? Or do you want to run?
Looks like you've made Luna worry.
"It's okay, maybe you can win. Then, in the name of the wise man's grandson, Luna will definitely protect him. But just in case, prepare the whistle the teacher gave you."
"Yes, I get it!
I have to show Luna something cool.
When I was thinking about that...
"─ Huh!?"
I felt so much magic approaching that I had goosebumps.
"Hey, something's coming!
"Yeah...... could be pretty bad"
Something (...) with more magic than Dr. Tina is on its way to this place. Since the magic fluctuations don't belong to Dr. Tina, it doesn't look like the teacher came to help.
If that thing was an enemy, there's no guarantee that I could win if I fought with all my might. I also thought about trying to get out by knocking down a corner of the Mahonome herd, but something of that got here faster than that.
That (...) appeared suddenly.
A knight whose whole body is formed by flames.
The Horseman of Fire looks down at me, Luna, and the flock of mahonorms that surround us, and puts a spear in his hand.
─ ─ !!
Something at high temperatures passed us by at super high speeds.
Looking back, the whole Mahonome that was surrounding us was on fire. A spear of flame penetrated that epidermis, which should be very resistant to magic.
Shit, this guy's too strong!
I have to find a gap and run.
But there was no gap at all in the knight of fire.
I couldn't even follow the spear by with my eyes. If that attack had targeted us, my spine would have gotten cold.
─ No, I threw that spear. Isn't this your chance now?
With that in mind, the Mahonorms, angry that their people had been defeated, ignored us and attacked the Horseman of Fire at the same time.
A new spear was held in the hands of the fiery knight.
Mahonome, who tried to pierce a horn on a fiery knight, is pierced and burned up by a new spear.
Another mahonome stood up with her hind leg and tried to crush it with her forefoot, but the knight of the flame took it with one hand.
Mahonome's body begins to burn from where the Flaming Knight took it. The Horseman of Fire threw the mahonome into the other mahonomes.
A mahonome weighing a few tons flies to his people at high speeds as it burns.
A thrown mahonome hit a buddy and blew up.
Several of the bumped mahonomes died instantly, and those that did not also die instantly hit some of the burning bodies of the blasted mahonomes, from which the flames spread to the body.
The flame-wrapped mahonorms roll down the ground, but the flames show no signs of extinction.
And those mahonorms stopped moving quickly, too.
The living mahonome came together afterwards.
The one who realized he couldn't beat the fiery knight turned his back on the fiery knight and fled - to us.
"Not good!"
I don't have enough time to chant enough magic to defeat the mahonome coming at me. We held Luna and strained our defensive magic in front of ourselves.
But the hurried, stretched magic fence was instantly broken into the corner of the Mahonome.
Hastily strengthen your defenses to the limit with body strengthening magic to prepare for damage.
Can you stand it!?
No matter how long I waited, the shock didn't come.
Instead there was a blunt sound and something fell to the ground.
Turning terribly, the mahonorm that came at us was pierced from the side by the knight of flames and he was out of breath.
I defeated that mahonome, apart from the one I was fighting earlier (...) The Knight of Fire.
Right now, before me and Luna, there are two flaming knights.
It's over...... there's no way you can win.
"Luna, I'll manage to buy you some time, won't you run away?
Even if you don't win, I'll just try to let my classmates get away with it.
"So, but"
I'm trying to use the whistle Luna was given to me by Dr. Tina.
It would be useless.
This fiery knight has more magic than Dr. Tina.
─ ─ That's two bodies.
This kingdom of Glendale no longer has the power to fight it. As a possibility, is it about Hurt?
I don't see the bottom of his potential at all.
- Mm-hmm?
Speaking of which, this knight of flames, kind of resembles the wave of Hart's magic...
"Huh?"
A fiery knight turned his back on me and Luna and ran away into the woods.
"Did you help?
"Yes, I think so."
"Good for you."
Luna, I just sat around. I feel sorry for making you feel scared while I was on.
Nevertheless, the magic of that fiery knight is Hart's...
"No way."
I can't help but think of the magic of a demon that seems disastrous to my friend.