24

"So, retreat! Retreat! Rebuild your posture...... Huh!

Rose's magic tools forced a heavily damaged main squad of diocesan knights to retreat.

Regardless, this does not make the Knights incapable of combat.

There were still more than half a dozen humans left to fight, with the exception of the dead and seriously wounded, when they said they knocked in Rose's maximum available power attack.

Whatever the sexual roots, do you mean that there are only the most elite knights in this world?

It would have been easier if it had been wiped out, but it doesn't seem to be that good.

Nevertheless, there was nothing like them hitting the dark clouds like this.

You can't possibly do that.

They don't know how many more shots Rose's 'Fireworks' can shoot, and in the first place, they don't even know what the means of attack is.

In the sense that it would frustrate nostrils, Rose's offense had no more success.

Following the commander's instructions, the knights temporarily retreat to try to get in shape.

After we've lined up, we'll consolidate our defenses, and then we'll be attacking again.

I can use auxiliary magic, so I could fully expect it to increase my magic tolerance.

The wound you just inflicted should also heal to some extent.

Still, Rose didn't dare attack.

Tiger Kid's 'Fireworks' is an installed magic tool, so you can't chase it and beat it in.

Even if we try to shoot now, if the range gets longer, that's how much the hit rate drops.

This place should be kept warm more than just one more shot to use.

In addition, it is also about its own wear and tear.

Use magic tools and consume magic.

If you're retreating, you can.

That's what Rose had decided.

Rather than, it was less convenient to have been attacked by darkness on this occasion.

Because if you are attacked by darkness, you will have to use the battle costume Fireworks.

Even if it could have done even greater damage, it would not have been annihilated.

Not so far away, Rose would have had to abandon this place.

With that in mind, it would have been enough if we could have pushed him back, even temporarily.

To be exact... 'With that in mind, Rose struck twice with a maximum attack of limited power from the beginning'.

"So far, you're right."

Even when they come back, they will be cautious, and the marching legs will be dull.

It's not your job to destroy your enemies.

Or, if it's 'my job', I can also say 'I've already fulfilled it with what I'm doing'.

You don't have to.

Dropping off the backs of the retreating knights, Rose snapped pompously.

"Nevertheless, Sister Lily also said..."

I think of my admiring sister's, pranky but fascinating smile in the void.

"Sure, 'this' is' irregular '."

White thunder fell.

That's all I could feel.

That was what happened when the knights of the Separate Movement were walking in the woods.

"Geez!?

It was the knight who earlier was making fun of his' main team 'colleagues who screamed.

The knights who were walking around freeze.

Because a giant white spider was crushing him.

"Why are you here...!?

On the way to the march, one of the knights gave a startling voice to the appearance of an enemy who suddenly jumped into the line.

It was this separate team that was trying to cross the woods in secret by rolling out the "main unit" of the ().

They, who were on the side of the ambush, do not envisage being attacked.

How could we have been raided?

His head, filled with doubt and consternation, was, however, anointed with another emotion at the next moment.

Slowly, a white spider, Gabella, lifted the face of the girl lying down.

... beautiful.

The knights felt that way, even though they recognized him as a monster of sorts.

It is the ultimate in beauty unlikely to man.

It was a beauty to the point of being demonic, which would even make me forget about the spiders in my lower body.

The beauty of the white spider shines to its fullest in battle.

However, she was still suffering from a serious illness.

A purple text covering her body and peeking at her from neck to cheek is eroding the girl.

The condition of such a girl was so dangerous that her chest ached, and that's why it was something that made her remember some decadent and disloyal beauty.

If you try to be some kind of person...... it's like putting them together, hurting them, making them want to do it dirty.

Unfortunately, there were people of that nature on this occasion.

"White spiders deep in the tree sea!

One of the knights screams.

The voice had a fever that produced brutal joy.

"You have nothing to fear! This guy's getting Captain Travis' Holy Eye '!

That fact is tantamount to an absolute guarantee for those belonging to Unit IV.

A holy curse that works for any powerful monster.

They have slaughtered as many monsters as they have ever made weak.

That is no exception, even for the legendary white spider.

Indeed, it surprised me that he was assaulted.

There is a question as to why we are here.

But it doesn't matter if you kill something like that.

The ridiculous knight waved his proud sword arm...

"Huh?"

- A spider's leg slammed through his belly trying to inadvertently step in.

"Obu......"

Spit out a chunk of blood, and a knight with his belly chopped off his sword.

"Huh...?

The last thing he saw was a spider's yarn that spread to cover up the space around.

"Ugh, wow......!?

Sprinkled spider threads tangle with the knights.

Suddenly, Gabella pulled the spider's thread.

While the tremendous power was also weakened, there were times when surprises were pounded, and many were drawn to roll unnecessarily on the ground.

It was no longer a line or anything.

Those who indulged in agitation, or let go of the shield that prevented the thread, are also breathtaking in unexpected misery.

... What is this?

Wasn't the white spider supposed to have been tied to the irresistible chains of the 'Holy Eye'?

The bigger consternation than earlier was immediately afterwards anointed by the biggest emotions ever.

That is, to the colour of fear.

"Gu......!?

Garbera swayed her upper body loosely, trampling and killing one of those who rolled on the ground.

"... let's admit it. Indeed, the present concubine is weakened without further ado"

What I said was the fact that there was not a single lie.

The original girlfriend, who was entangled with the unintentional strike of the spider's thread earlier, could not let it fall.

I should have put them all together and let them pull them like garbage chips.

Failure to do so is precisely the result of the weakening.

In time, Gabella asks.

"But what happened to that?

My body is heavy.

I can't breathe well.

The more tensile the movement is, the less glorious it is.

The abominable 'Holy Eye' continues to erode Gabella.

But soon after she had eaten the 'Holy Eye', she had told her Lord.

He said he could fight.

Then there is no lie in that word.

"I didn't know you could take a concubine's neck to this extent, lads."

White hair drooped, and his eyes glaring at the knights as if to solidify blood from that gap.

"... Hih"

The knights recall with reluctance.

Here is the legendary white spider.

That it is the most powerful monster in the deep tree sea.

"You got your hands on something you shouldn't touch. With regret, die."

To this extent, tying white spiders does not materialize.

Ravaging those who rolled to the ground with the legs of eight spiders, Gabella jumped.

"Shhhhhhh!

Spider legs slap shields, injure armor, play swords, and blow people away.

The enemy is nearly a hundred cathedral knights.

If you bump from the front, even Gabella will lose count and quality.

However, Garbera was able to cross with the knights well enough, while in the bad conditions that drew the curse of the 'Holy Eye'.

There are two reasons.

The first reason is Gabella's combat experience.

Having lived in the depths of the tree sea for a long time, she has a great deal of combat experience.

This is how your combat experience deprives you of strength, muscle strength, and agility, while minimizing your ability to fight.

Especially, its true value is solo combat.

I'm not good at fights with protectors, but this time the role is to ramble around. It's a battlefield where I can demonstrate her true worth.

The second reason is the advantages of the place.

"Fuck, fuck, surround! Enclose!"

Using the trees, Garbera strikes the knights from all angles.

Knights trying to take advantage of numbers somehow, but scratched by mobility, it doesn't work.

Weakening magic, too, is not well captured by the opponent by the shadows that hide between the trees, regardless of the wider space.

That's how Gabella behaves herself.

That's what she could do.

Because this is a tree sea. It's a white spider homeground.

She knows how to fight in this place better than anyone else in this world.

That's why Gabella was put into this battlefield.

And she wasn't the only one put in here.

"Gahhhh!?

The magic of the third staircase of the wind blows in the corner of the knights, who were completely distracted by Gabella.

On a battlefield splashed with blood, one girl descended with flax hair.

The look of it is pathetic, and, well, disastrous.

"- Partial pseudomorphism" Demon no arm ""

The girl's arms were turned into literal devil's arms.

If the rigidity produced by the bear's arms wielded the sharp sickle of the kamakiri that grew on each and every finger, the knights were summed up and cut to the bone.

Those who have spared the fatal wounds also poke their knees with a blue face, eroded by the poison secreted from the blade tip of the Great Sickle of Kamakiri.

No matter how distracted Gabella was, the knights were stunned when they quickly killed nearly ten people.

But naturally so too.

Because while Gabella is unwell, it is she who is the family of Takahiro Mashima and has the greatest fighting power.

"If so, stupid......!?

The Knights also knew she existed.

She's Lily.

Among Takahiro Mashima's handkerchiefs, he is the monster responsible for the main corner.

That's the fact that I'm here with Gabella.

"No way 'The Monster User'... put his own strongest protection in a place like this, both!?

The knights, aware of the situation, peeled their eyes at the barbarism.

"Hey, what are you thinking, Takahiro Mashima...!?

There was no need for a screaming voice.

They were supposed to take the total attack of their family members, or they were supposed to take it as a separate team.

As for them, they didn't accumulate.

Only what we did not envisage also became a battle in such a disadvantaged place.

"Why are you doing such a stupid thing...!

And, confused, they don't notice.

That Takahiro Mashima kept the two strongest handkerchiefs away from him in a 'far-fetched decision' that they think is impossible.

That the two families and the others in the separate movement team have thus encountered 'unfortunately' in unfavourable terrain.

And that Lily, the main squad that was supposed to poke Gabella's absence, is eating 'the unexpected foothold' by all the attacks Rose slammed in from the beginning.

If all of this were coincidental, it would inevitably be gone in the world, etc.

So Lily thinks.

He said this was a little 'against the rules'.

That's why, though I won't get out of hand.

"Kill him, kill him, kill him."

The knights shouted with a desperate look.

After several more casualties, finally, they succeed in taking a dense formation with some.

Split between the avant-garde and the rear guard to position the interception.

However, some twenty people had already been defeated, including in the fight against Gabella, and another ten or so had been rendered incapable of combat by serious injuries and poison.

This hit a third of the personnel in a separate team.

"Ha, that's a different story...!

"You'd think so."

Lily showed understanding to them in battle.

Different story.

I don't think so, but I can't help it.

The first thing I noticed about that fact was her loving husband, Takahiro Mashima.

What he wondered was the scene in which Travis withdrew.

I felt uncomfortable with the way it looked, retreating slowly.

At that time, Travis had about fifty diocesan knights.

That couldn't be said to be enough force in that scene.

As Gabella also said, it was only enough for her and Lily to do enough together.

For example, the other family members who were hiding in the woods - especially if they had attacked with around Robbia - Travis must have been in a pretty bad situation.

In fact, everyone else was hiding away, so I couldn't give such instructions, but the Travis couldn't possibly know what was going on here at that point.

Yet it was odd that it was so flat.

If so, there is one thing you can think of.

They were serious and did not doubt their advantage on that occasion.

What Takahiro was saying, "A Big Mistake" by Travis and the others, was this.

Come to think of it, this isn't weird.

Indeed, the Travis had information on Takahiro Mashima.

But it wasn't perfect.

For example, the presence of Robbia, who recently joined his family, could not have been known.

In fact, Travis didn't seem to assume Takahiro Mashima would show up in that village, and I can tell you that he didn't get the latest information from this either.

Takahiro at the moment was conserving the power of Robbia, and I could not have expected Lily and the others to be able to move for it.

Nor did I know that Lily had reached a level close to the legendary white spider.

In addition, an irregular has arisen that Gabella could still fight.

"Yikes!?

Another knight fell, poked by a spear held in the opposite hand from the devil's arm.

Not to miss the gap in this attack, the rear guard knight shoots a second stairwind bullet in.

But it disappeared after being sucked into the mouth of a random pile of teeth in the palm of "The Devil's No Arm".

"I'm sorry."

The dust and Lily smile.

"What are we going to do? You're gonna wipe it out, aren't you?

……

It just looked so cute, it also seemed like a nightmare sight.

"Oh, oh! That's the woman in the front! Go for him!

I got a screaming voice.

"Take away your physical abilities! We're going all at once!

The judgment of the knight who gave the instruction is not a mistake.

As it is, we are poor.

The power is shredded little by little.

Especially vicious was Lily's "Devil No Arms".

Even a knight's arm strength reinforced by his buddy's auxiliary magic is no match, bear-like arm power, as you can see.

The nails are too sharp, and if they can't be prevented, they are turned into two pieces.

A deep cut into the shield where it was prevented, if it hit the armor, it would reach even the meat, and if it was delivered to the meat, the poison would turn.

It's hard to surround and beat, but even in the woods. Yeah, Gabella gets in the way.

Lily's right, there's no way forward as it is.

So what do we do?

You're so unilaterally attacked because you two are the opponents.

If you only have one opponent, you can fight enough.

That's how the commander decided.

Unlike Gabella, who is flying from tree to tree, sayings, Lily is fighting in the front.

More and more damage is being done for it, but it also looks good.

Apparently, a magical attack can be fed to a creepy mouth on the palm, but not with auxiliary magic.

That was supposed to happen.

But......

"Hey, why, does the weakening work...... guzzle!?

I questioned, the black spear tip chooses the knight's throat.

Somehow there is no precipitation in Lily's move to disarm the 'Devil No Arms' and start fighting with one spear.

Even if it is not as vicious as Travis' Holy Eye 'which penetrates the subject's magical resistance, the overlap of weakened physical abilities is a magic that works comparably well.

If that doesn't work...

"- Damn, it's compatible!

One of the knights threw up when he realized the situation.

It's not just debilitating magic, but magic doesn't always work.

If there were hundreds of monsters, there wouldn't be effective magic in all of them.

It would be easy to see, for example, the holy light that works on the undead monster.

That thing doesn't make sense to normal monsters.

The magic of weakened physical abilities also has no effect on some monsters such as inorganic systems.

In some cases, almost all of the weakening magic plays, but come on, Lily's identity is slime. That condition does not apply.

"Nothing! Make it another magic!

"... That's right, it's quick to respond"

compatibility issues.

Lily thinks it's just right that I spotted it immediately.

I just wasn't in a hurry because of that.

The knight's idea, in itself, was never wrong, but it was no longer out of its essence.

They should have thought a little more.

What, what, wasn't compatible?

What didn't go well with Lily was the magic of weakened physical abilities - it wasn't.

Collective tactics of the Cathedral Knights.

Without realizing that the highly constructed tactic itself made Lily a natural enemy...

- Eat it!

What was unleashed simultaneously was the weakening magic of fire attributes.

This is similar to the debilitating magic of the water attributes that Leah used against Red Jade Bear opponents during Operation Crusade for the Herd Raven.

If it is a creature, it is mostly injured by fire.

Compared to normal attack magic, it's only as powerful as harassment, but that's also an exception to the story if you have the numbers.

In the front of the knights, the flame tries to roll multiple times over the body of the girl who was fighting to dance.

……

Just as the knight who was fighting in the avant-garde saw something strange at that moment.

Ears.

I tried to scratch the girl's flax hair, and she had animal ears growing on her head.

Round, is it a bear's ear?

He thought the extreme tension in the battle might have driven his brain miso crazy.

But the hallucination did not disappear, and the girl's mouth moved.

- Ah... Ri... oh.

……

immense sense of crisis.

That poor smile had something that froze my spine.

However, he was not given any time to respond.

"Ahhhhhh!?

Because the next moment, around Lily, the ground burned up hard.

If we're going to talk about the compatibility of debilitating magic, there are more terrifying things to be aware of than ineffective.

That's what makes them stronger.

For example, what happens if you apply the weakening magic of fire attributes to monsters that manipulate fire?

The fire will strengthen, and could rather be in the interest of the enemy.

Like the current Lily.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

There was zero flame coming out of Lily's entire body.

It's the unique ability of red bear, known as the most troublesome monster, here in western Akel.

It's the ability to erupt flames from all over your body and burn your surroundings.

That was not so much enhanced by the auxiliary magic of the entire diocesan knighthood, which was supposed to be the enemy.

Lily was right, the knights should never have used fire magic.

But that's why, when it comes to another magic, it's not.

Wind for wind, water for water, earth for earth.

Lily can reproduce the power of the corresponding monster.

Absolutely no weakening magic will ever work for Lily, who simulates the nature of numerous monsters beyond the absence of the magic of weakening that works for every monster.

For the tactics of the Cathedral Knights, Lily's presence is just the gateway.

If you dare mention something in their hand card that works for Lily, it would be about Travis' 'Holy Eye' who doesn't choose the subject.

The knights scream and go right and left, seared by a flame that burns as if it was smashed even by gasoline.

You can't even fight properly in a situation like this.

Whenever the black spear flickered, the knights in flames fell blindly.

Gabella also took an active part in the offensive.

By the time the flames subsided, the knights, who should have been close to a hundred, had been reduced to about forty or so left.

It also has burns all over its body.

There 'Demon No Arms' is shaken off and the spider legs are tapped in.

Absolute tactics broken, numbers reduced, morale wore out.

Still, Lily and Gabella never get out of hand.

Because I understand that it is my role to promptly put another action squad of the Cathedral Knights in a state of devastation here.

Why was Rose, guarding the entrance and exit of the village, aware that even the trump card could not wipe out the main unit, but deciding that it would be enough if it could be stuck?

I mean, it's only because I recognized that it was my job to buy time for my sisters to come back with this other team destroyed.

That's why Lily and Gabella were put into maximum combat power here.

To sharpen enemy power while Rose is doing everything in his power to buy time.

From the side, it's like a sweeping operation, but as it stands, it was going well.

That, when it comes to why...

"I knew it was' unruly '."

I smiled bitterly, and Lily thought of him dearly.

"Hey, mister."