There were no signs of demons around us except the Devil Clan on the lookout.

Pumps and demonic smells can come in from inside the elves, so if my mind is right, there are no demons nearby. But don't be alarmed.

Some demons may not smell.

We were on our feet in the woods on the main road aiming to get inside the elves.

"I'll be there in a little while. Any demons nearby?

"No, but —— stop for a second."

"What's going on?

"Is that some kind of object beside that road? It looks unusual..."

"Huh?"

Ahead of my gaze.

Something like a hidden ball was placed at the right end of the road to make it less noticeable with grass.

For the ball, it is not like it is used for sports, but is made of a metal material that seems to be strong.

Purple, I see joints in the middle. Is it an opening/closing ceremony...?

"I've never seen that before.... I wonder if they put it down in the last month or so.... for what?

"If Aina doesn't know either, she should be on guard. Don't touch me for a second. Just leave me alone."

"Okay."

I picked up an affordable pebble and dropped it near the ball.

The ball emits a pale white light.

"What is it!?

"I don't know. No, is that -- is that a demon?

About five pitch-black demons showed up.

It looked similar to the slime and wolf around it, but the status I checked with the Devil's Eye was different from normal.

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Name: Slime Lv.10 captured by Demonic Kerkus

Class: Demon

Skills: None

HP: 8912/8912

MP: 5212/5212

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Attack: B

Defense: C

Attack speed: C

Travel speed: C

Magic Attack: C

Magic Resistance: C

Mental Strength: C

Vitality: B

Magic: C

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It's a status we can defeat with no difficulty.

"Weird."

"Something's wrong with the color, but it's normal slime and wolf, isn't it...?

"Normal slime isn't that strong even at level 10. So is Wolf. Something's wrong."

Possible possibilities include two: whether that ball has some kind of enhancement capability, or whether that ball has any relation to the Demonic Kerkus.

"Whatever it is, you can't leave the demon in front of you."

I held the Devil's Sword Berserk in my right hand, just in case.

Cut ahead and move on.

"It's not just enhanced, it's aggressive."

The slimes and wolves you see on the Carlon Plains are non-aggressive (non-active), so you have a great habit of not attacking them until you attack them here.

But this demon looks different.

"Yikes --"

He waved his sword gently and defeated five demons with one blow.

Neither the feel nor the reaction of being slashed is like a normal demon.

Speaking of differences, did you just return to normal color the moment you knocked it down?

"Oh, it's gone black!

"I can't tell.... I wonder what it was."

"I don't know. But it looks like we still have a couple of similar balls."

A good look at the side bushes showed a ton of balls rolling about a metre apart.

"The demons in there don't seem very strong, so let's split them up?

"No, I want to know some more specifications for this ball. I'm in a hurry, but maybe there's a lot of this inside the elves, and I'd like to figure out what to do right now."

Then every time I found the ball I tried something different.

Try to stone the ball directly, approach it without stone, or slash it with a sword before a demon comes out of the ball.

So here's what I found out:

· React to shock whether it hits the ball itself or not.

· React even if you just get close to it.

-Break it before the demon comes out and the demon won't come out.

Especially what I found out the third time was good news.

Yes, you don't have to deal with troublesome miscellaneous fish, if you break it, you don't have to fight it.

"Hey, let's give it a try"

I tried 'climate manipulation'.

Skills that can manipulate weather, rainfall, temperature and humidity, but the weather is what I use this time.

Try to artificially drop the lightning strike.

The object is not the ball in front of you.

If you have one ball, you can try dropping it directly, but it's a hassle to find one that doesn't know how many of them are hidden.

Thunderclouds occur on one side of the sky and lightning strikes.

Maybe this ball doesn't respond in natural phenomena. There must be rain and wind around here. I wouldn't act as a trap if I was reacting each time.

The prediction seemed right, no change whatsoever. The ball was just sitting there.

Shortly after a lightning strike. The ball is Pakin! and made a sound.

Try throwing pebbles, they won't respond.

After all, when the ball breaks, no demons can appear.

Lightning strikes are designed to generate powerful electromagnetic waves.

Sticking a smartphone in the microwave would break it, wouldn't it? That's the logic.

We devised a little more powerful electromagnetic waves near the ground than the common lightning strikes.

Again, it's a pretty versatile skill.

"Yuki, what the hell did you do!?

"You mean you can deactivate the ball as long as you know where it is...?

"You're not making such a big deal out of this, are you? He took the liberty of destroying me with the side effects of a lightning strike. I'm not after the ball in the first place."

"Ah! That's the usual beginning of Yuki again!

"Yuki has a personality that's going to make enemies, right?... it's unconscious too"

Hmm?

I just said what I honestly thought, was there something I should have been aware of?