The Magus of Genesis

I was stunned when I hurried to wings and put Hiiro Village in sight.

The sight that spreads there is painted black as if it had zeroed in ink all over the village.

... No way, that's all rats!?

In the sight, the flames rose as if they were fireworks from the center of the village, around the square. He must have found me dancing in the sky and signaled me. There is only one person who does this.

"Nina, are you okay!?

"It's late, idiot!

Good, you look good.

Listening to the complaining voice, I stepped down to the square looking like a dragon.

As soon as possible, the rats attacked from all directions with their tails. The dragon's tough tail plays off the little rats easily, but I didn't feel that number had decreased at all. It's like a black carpet.

"Yuki, never get off my back!

"Okay!

There will be no amount of yuki or clumps to get down in this. Countless rats bite at me, but my scales don't stand with teeth because of fangs that won't even scrape the rat back of the hibiscus.

"Nina, what the hell is going on!?

"I don't know, I'm suddenly attacking you!

I guess I've been protecting this place by myself the whole time.

There were murine carcasses piled high around Nina, but the rats didn't try to stop the attack.

"Stop it! You guys should understand the language!? Why the hell are you doing this!?

There was no response at all to the call, and I was compelled to blow a flame and respond to the rats striking me blindly. Really, do they understand the words?

How much would you have done that? As usual, the number did not appear to have decreased, but did you detect that it did not reach the boulders, and the hands of the rats' attacks began to slowly loosen.

"What about the villagers?

I finally have enough room to talk to Nina, and I ask.

"I evacuated him to the ice room. Amata's protecting you."

"Then it's okay..."

The same goes for Yuki, but the sword clubs are basically getting a way of fighting the premise of fighting a powerful few opponents. It's a giant, it's an elf, it's a lizardman... it's a dragon.

On the other hand, I wasn't very good at magic like burning down a wide area at once. Even though each and every one of them is a fragile group of rats, the boulder amata may also be harsh at this number. I guess that's why Nina stayed and protected in this square, where she was dealing with a lot of rats at once. We need to get through here to get to the ice room.

At that time, something hit my head.

"Brother!

I make a piecemeal noise and pour it down. Then I reflexively spread my wings to protect Yuki.

It was a small stone that flew in.

"Stone throwing............!?

Little stones, like beans. Clearly, where something like that hit me, there's no pain or damage. But I couldn't hide my surprise in it.

Because the rats were picking up little stones and throwing them.

"Ouch!

Nina screamed. From that beautiful forehead, blood drips.

"You'll do it -!"

With her angry voice, the trees grew from the ground. It becomes a countless weapon and floats in the air.

But before it was released, countless little bubbles blocked Nina's vision.

"What, this is............!

When Nina waves her arm, the wind blows. But the walls of the bubbles that stuck to each other just swayed heavily into the wind and didn't disappear or blow away.

From beyond that bubble wall, many rats jump in.

"Be smart!

Giving up on targeting, Nina releases her wooden weapon like an arrow. It swept away the rats from every bubble and wiped them out.

"Nina, that's not it!

I issue a warning to her. No matter how powerful Nina's magic is, it's a physical attack.

There's no way the body will disappear without a trace. That was magically created, a moving shadow.

"Cah!

Nina screamed.

Her body, if you look at it, had a bunch of rats attached to it at some point.

"Nina, don't move!

Yuki jumps off my back and waves Hiirokane's sword.

It cut off the rats climbing her body without scratching Nina's body as much as a hair.

"Quick, both of you, on my back......!

A sharp pain ran on my leg I was about to tell you.

"…… You're lying."

Turning my gaze under pain, I groan unexpectedly.

A little mouse was poking me in the leg with a sword the size of a hyirokane he deserved.

"Damn...... Nina, give me a fire!

Shouting so, Nina immediately perceives my will to create a giant flame and throws it at me.

That's just a pleasant breeze for me, but a lethal fever for the rats who were starting to climb my body.

As I slip through it, I grab Nina and Yuki with my forelegs and go up into the sky all at once. You will not follow the boulders to the sky.

"What the... what the hell are they?"

Nina says in a voice mixed with frustration and fear.

"Brother, that magic..."

"Yeah."

I nodded.

"Our, magic."

Stone throwing. Foam. Shadows. And swords. It was all magic that we had devised, created and practiced in our special classroom classes. It doesn't seem very coincidental.

The rats were listening to class.

In a corner of the room, all the time, so that we wouldn't notice.

"But I can't believe I even made a sword... Ouch"

The words clapped and the pain ran, and I distorted my face.

"Sorry, Yuki, can you draw the sword that stabbed me in the leg?

"Yeah."

The rat that was holding it burned down with Nina's flame, but the sword itself remains stabbed in my leg. As she rounded her body and brought the yuki she held with her forefoot closer to her rear foot, she reached out and pulled the sword out of my leg.

"... brother, this is not a sword."

And I pulled it out. I stare at it seriously, Yuki says.

"A nail. It's a nail that reinforces the fence."

I see. Did you grab the fence, destroy it, and take it out? Sure, a nail would make a sword just the right length for their size. I guess the reason I didn't use it from the beginning is because I just took it out of the fence.

"…… Not good."

With this, Leo will be able to establish himself as the fourth faction in the current three-ways succession war.

So, this is not the one nail of the hihi-irokane. That must be hundreds.

"I'm worried about Amata. Hurry up, grab it."

I put Yuki and Nina on my back and put my strength into the wings.

Outside the village, at the northernmost end, there is an ice chamber.

It is the first house where Eye's family once lived, a cave on a small high hill.

Usually closed by doors, its entrance was wide open, and the ice wall stood in opposition to surround it.

Good way to go. Not very much in the ice room, but not all the villagers. I guess we're using the cold air accumulated in it to create ice walls and prevent the rats from entering.

"Sir!"

And Amata, standing at that entrance like a gatekeeper, dyed her whole body bright red and called me.

A nasty number of mouse carcasses rolling at its feet tells the story of his struggle.

"Amata, it's okay!?

"Yes, don't worry. This is all return blood."

When she stepped down beside it and asked, Amata answered that all the time.

There is nothing more than a boulder... but his shoulder, which answers that, goes up and down alongside words.

Yeah, it didn't seem like I could afford it.

There were few buildings around the ice chamber, and all the woods that used to spread were cut open. It means that there will be no damage to the village if we blow the flames with some seriousness here.

"Are you back?"

I breathed in to get the rats all over the screen, it was then.

Out of the horde of black rats, a white rat appeared.

"How did you do this, Al"

"There are three reasons."

Al replied pale in a flat tone, as usual, to my words that made him angry.

"The first is because the power is gone. Especially while you were away, the biggest force, you needed to sharpen your human power somewhat.

The second is to secure food. The quantity offered by you is no longer enough. Therefore, the seizure was made.

The third is to reduce food support. There are too many organisms that need it for food. So I made a mistake. "

There was no evil in that tone, nor did it include the sound of boasting or mocking it. However, notify the facts without emotion.

I ask him with a hunch.

"Organisms in need of food...... which story is that, humans or mice?

"Both."

To Al, who answers naturally, I intuited that I couldn't tell with this creature.

I use the same words, but I know what they mean, but I don't feel like we can get through to each other.

Perhaps Al has no offense or malice whatsoever.

I'm not even aware that I cheated or broke a promise.

I did that, so I did. That's all we're talking about.

"I'm sorry, but I'll make it stop. Algernon. Now, pull. And don't ever visit this village again."

I called Al's name with all my might, and I commanded him so.

True name. Sometimes what someone else gave you on your own is valid, or it may not be.

I don't know how that works, but there's only one thing I know.

If the creature itself recognizes it as its true name, it will be its true name.

It was for this reason that I purposefully gave Al a nickname.

If there is a nickname, recognize the original name as the true name.

That shouldn't change a person or a rat.

"Earlier, you called the eagle Al."

But Al... the white mouse leaned his neck adorably and replied.

"If it's that individual, he's already dead."