Levelmaker

Episode One Thousand Thirty-nine: Zombies in the Sky

"Wow... wow!

I'm indoors now. Yet I can hear the groans of the people who have been made zombies so far. When did you gather this many people, when you realized there were tens of thousands of zombies in the sky. If I'm bad, there might be 100,000 of them.... There were no reports of tens of thousands of people being kidnapped.

"Ninety-nine minutes, I think it's some kind of replicated dummy."

"Huh? Really, Mika"

"Yeah, from what I saw pah, I found about five people in the same outfit with the same face. There are a lot of other people wearing it."

It does seem so. I found someone in the same outfit with the same face. I thought human reproduction was the only thing I could do.... When this happens, I'll broil the original copy out and bring it back to life, it'll break my bones. I guess I'll have to create that kind of specialty item after I'm done. This is...

"Mm... is that true?

"What is it, my king?"

"No, I hear the other countries have stopped attacking patarily already. The manipulated humans have not emerged."

"Oh, did you find out it was my job to prevent all attacks? I thought it was time."

So you're saying that the people in the sky have gathered in one place that they were going to disperse in other countries? I rather feel like less if you were going to divide that one into different countries. No, seriously, something's wrong.

"Hey, didn't those guys split up now?

"... you do"

"How can you let a human have a dividing function?"

Those zombies showed up and it's already been a minute without attacking me. There were about 100,000 of them, but I think there's about 200,000 of them. Wouldn't it be an infinite increase if we left this alone?

"If it keeps growing, it's gonna be hell, Kanata, what are we gonna do?

"Sister Mika, speaking of which, didn't you have the skills to only identify your enemies and allies and recover your attacks? Probably, but if it's made of magic or items, it should be recognized apart from the split source and the split destination..."

"You just have to designate the source of the division as your ally, right? Then use that skill."

Speaking of which, Micah was the first SS ranked skill she made herself. Watching people multiply through the windows creeping between everyone, Micah headed out to a position that was easy to see.

For a moment, some weird sensation runs through my body. It's not chills or a bad feeling, it's uncomfortable. I think Micah probably used her time-stopping skills. I guess I used my skills in that. When I saw it from us, I instantly wrapped it in white, where the sky was close to gray.

The countless zombies that were floating in the sky... had disappeared without one left. Micah comes back to me with a slightly sad face.

"Looks like it was all fake"

"Well, can't we put the real thing on the field at the point where we can split?"

"What, Micah did that now? So you're saying they weren't all kidnapped?

"Yes, Your Majesty. Probably from now on... Here I come"

Countless zombies again over the sky. Plus now he's already trying to storm this way. I can't manipulate all those people individually and with mindfulness. Your brain has its limits.

As Kanata deliberately did so, she slipped through the barrier for instantaneous travel and is proceeding in a straight line towards this castle. I had no choice but to split up and not assume that the body would be managed elsewhere.

The fake zombies who were now on their way were buried in an instant within the time they stopped at Micah again. I'll be out again soon after that.

"Do you have to be magical all the time? Well, MP's pretty much infinite, and I'm perfectly fine with this."

"No, if this happens, my sister Micah won't have to work so hard because I'll stick another barrier that specifies another condition."

When Kanata said that, it immediately became clear that the whole country was covered by magic. Some of the mass-produced zombies who have just appeared in the evidence try to storm, but the first ray attack likewise disappears through the invisible wall into the border.

"... I don't mind being on the other side of the war. But they want to wipe us out, which is why they've been at war, and I think if this happens, they're gonna set us up in one of the rest of the patterns."

"The rest of the pattern?

"Yeah, it's especially possible that we have more than one overwhelmingly strong pattern."

"I mean, Mitsuo or Herrell are coming?

"With Soyuko. I don't think you'll ever come out of that anaza-level way of attacking yourself, so that's the best chance."

Hardly any more attacks go through than we do have Kanata. If this happens, the only way to attack it is if someone with the other moment mobility skills or who can make his body gaseous takes his people through the Canata barrier.

"... hmm? They're pulling back."

"I think I found out it was no use. Then I guess it's time to come."

"Those guys you were telling Alim right now,"

Exactly, Your Majesty.

The moment Kanata said that, a little away from here, there was more than one great magic, I could sense.