"Shotgun."
Bite brother and Vargas are arguing.
I activated the magic next to it.
I ride the Valkyrie. I cast a spell with my right palm facing Valgus.
At that moment, a hard stone, pointy as an arrow, flew from my hand towards Vargas.
Dadan.
A shotgun pierces the ground with such a noise.
The magic unleashed towards Vargas hit the ground, not because the aim was otherwise sweet.
It was just a little off target by making it look like a threatening shooting.
Shotguns flew to the ground at Vargas's feet.
"... is that magic?
"That's right. Drop your weapon. I want to talk to you. If you move, I'll hit you this time."
"Fine, try it"
Though I spoke up for the discussion, apparently I received it as a provocation.
He's just somewhat surprised to see the shotgun, which doesn't mean he's afraid.
Vargas, as if he were a raptor, began to run this way with eyes aimed at his prey.
Is it terribly quick to quarrel, or does the experience of being active on the battlefield teach that opponents who are capable of ranged attacks need to be quick and close?
"Hey, stop. Shotgun!"
Activate magic to hastily intercept.
But the next moment, Vargas flew to the side.
Shotguns with several stones flying have the effect of increasing hitting.
Because it's magic that I created to hit any one of them and try to do damage to them.
But Vargas tried to prevent it brilliantly.
Vargas, who was supposed to be running this way, jumped sideways reading that orbit the moment I flew the shotgun.
But that alone cannot avert all stones.
But in anticipation of it, he swung it to shield the sword and bounced off the stone that was likely to hit him.
There was no stray in the movement.
Maybe I wouldn't have made it if I had waved the Great Sword in surprise at the stone that flew in.
Could this guy have spotted the characteristics of the shotgun when I first fired the intimidation shot?
The magic of a shotgun is convenient, but therefore distinctive.
First, that I point my palm toward the target.
That also means that it can be read from the opponent as to where they are about to unleash their magic.
The characteristic of more than one stone flying scattered will also allow us to escape beyond that range as long as we understand how it diffuses.
Even if you can't escape out of range, there's no problem if you prevent it with a shield or something.
Even though it's a pointed stone, it doesn't have the power to penetrate the metal.
But is it something you can understand and deal with just once you see it?
Maybe I can't.
No, you wouldn't want to put it into practice even if you could.
If you fail to dodge it, it's going to take a lot of damage.
It was well understood that a man named Vargas would be scared to death by humans from other villages.
Besides being used to fighting, you have the power to instantly judge and even have the courage to jump in without fear of your opponent's attacks.
I see, they just call me a hero.
"Shotgun, Shotgun, Shotgun, Shotgun"
Vargas is slowly shrinking its distance.
I keep intercepting it.
No matter how much great judgment you say you can circumvent, there must be limits.
That's what I thought. I kept shooting.
The sharp stones produced one after the other run over to Vargas and are released.
Vargas trying to avoid that.
But at last, the limit came to its evasion.
I'm not panicking and having a series of magic without thinking about it with me.
Predicting the direction of Vargas's evasion, he was releasing a shotgun toward the position he'd prefetched.
A shotgun flies on a direct course towards Vargas, who jumped to the sidelines.
No matter how big a sword you are with that, you won't be able to stop it.
That's what I thought. I was surprised by Vargas' behavior again.
Direct hit now exactly.
It was when I thought so.
"Wow, wow, wow!"
Vargas barked.
Vargas screaming out loud like his tympanic membrane could definitely tear if I heard it up close.
And at the same time as that roar, Vargas burst into my firing shotgun.
Although Vargas has a leather breastplate, he is otherwise raw.
If I thought about it normally and hit the shotgun directly, there would have been damage.
But I don't see a big scratch on Vargas' body that's approaching my immediate proximity.
Could it be [hardened]?
My head was full of big pigs who were scared to even take a shotgun.
The big pig supposedly can't get through the arrows, but the hard body surface and fur weren't the only causes of it, and it was big enough to be able to use the magic of [hardening].
Actually, I can do anything close to this [hardening].
I often use [physical enhancement] to fill my entire body with magic to increase muscle strength.
However, if we concentrate our magic on the skin, which is not the entire body but the surface of the body at this time, we increase our power to prevent external shocks and so on.
Maybe Vargas is the same.
It's not a spell, but I may have self-taught myself on the battlefield how to increase my body's defense by making my earlier loud howl-like voice look like a self-allusion.
"I'm sorry, ever."
I never thought this village would have one that would use magic to boost its defenses, too.
It also turns out that the one who is used to fighting against it may not be able to deal with the magic of [shotgun] alone in the opponent.
This may have been good in a way, just because I noticed before I fought the Fontana family.
But it's a bad idea that he came in ready to be shot just because his defense would go up.
It's not that my attack didn't come through.
Zdon, the sound sounded.
Around, earthsmoke stands up, making the surrounding sight worse.
I guess I didn't know what happened from around me.
It was quiet.
After a little, the wind blows and the earthen smoke disappears.
Vargas was down there.
Next to it is rolling with his prized sword broken from the ground up.
Seeing that, I guess I finally got around to it.
That I defeated Vargas.
The villagers watching over him were staring at me riding the Valkyrie as if they had seen something horrible.