We have a level system in place for mankind.

The Guardian fired an incredible roar. It's as powerful as I thought my tympanic membrane would break. But there is no one here to be so frightened.

First, Elena fired an explosive arrow. The Guardian is agile with explosive arrows. The movement is quick, but not as fast as the guardians of Koki Ward.

A guardian with arrows attacked Elena. I ran over to the Guardian and knocked a ring stick into my shoulder. A blow from a fiercely powerful Baton struck the Guardian's shoulders and inflicted heavy damage.

Kawai thinks it's a chance, and uses "ground manipulation" to fly a stone spear. The Guardian jumped out of sight, bleeding. Misaki attacks with Explosive Fire in Flame Manipulation , dealing damage to the Guardian.

Keep attacking at this rate.

We work together to keep dealing damage to the Guardian and feel the Guardian weakened. I went out front to get rid of it. Drive your attention into the spinning stick and speed up the rotation of the rotating blade at the tip.

The Guardian is furious and turning his hair upside down. He attacked me, opened his big mouth and tried to bite me. He attacked and rubbed it up from the bottom, knocking a ring rod into the neck of the Guardian.

The rotating blade destroyed the neck muscles and inflicted fatal damage. The Guardian drops after floating a giant body into the universe while spraying blood into the sky.

The Guardian stopped moving with a twitch.

"Did you take him down?

I nodded to Misaki's question. After thinking about where to leave it, I decide to leave the fur. The Guardian left the fur behind and disappeared. At that moment, the voice of the example echoed in my head.

[Guardian Fendez defeated. All your skill levels will be upgraded one by one]

I smiled. For me with a lot of skills, I'm happy with this reward.

Level Up

Level Up

Level Up

I didn't get much level up because I had a high individual level. The strength of the Guardian is not that strong, so there is probably less experience like it.

Standing still, he endured the pain and dived into the fountain of division and touched the control stone.

[Touched the control stone in the Fendez area. You will be given a choice]

1. Master any skill without skill points from the skill list.

2. Gain knowledge to create a protective talisman that will not be attacked by strange beasts.

3. Destroy the control stone and gain a period during which the number of strange beasts will not increase for 10 years.

I chose "Advanced Knowledge (Darkness)" in the skills list. Knowledge of the darkness came into my mind. It was like knowledge built by a civilization different from the Earth's scientific civilization.

That civilization was structured by linking phenomena that occur in nature with things like philosophy, and it was impressed that it developed to the extreme. Similar to the philosophies of the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, but more advanced in different dimensions.

Elena and the others were worried when I got out of the fountain of division.

"What do you think? Did you get the knowledge skills?

I nodded to Misaki's question.

"Ah, thanks to you, I can use skill level 7 or higher in Darkness Manipulation."

He wanted to know what a river well was like.

"The attack technique available at Skill Level 7 is [Spiral Shadow Blade]. It's a technique that uses three shadow blades built into a wolf toothpick to spiral around and stretch them like a spear."

The river leaned its neck. I couldn't have imagined it with my explanation.

"I don't know, let me see."

I replaced my weapon with a shadow blade wolf toothpick. The Shadow Blade Wolf Toothstick is an embedded Shadow Blade Stone in the tip of a weapon called a Wolf Toothstick. Point its tip towards a tree about 30 cm in diameter.

Hold the long-handled part firmly, and then be aware of "manipulation darkness". The next moment the shadow blade moves sharply, something like three black bars stretches from the shadow blade, and it turns into an elongated ribbon-like shape.

The three black ribbons stretched in an entangled spiral, reaching a length of about five meters in an instant. And in an instant, it returns to its original shape.

"It was kind of a moment. It's about four or five meters long, and I couldn't reach the tree."

"You can't help it. I didn't even know how far it would go."

After I got close to the tree, I pulled out the [spiral shadow blade] again. A helical shadow blade reached the tree and cut through its trunk. It is a tremendous penetration.

Instead, the recoil pushed my body. I never thought the recoil of punching a big hole in the trunk of a tree would be so strong.

"Hang in there. Kojiro"

Kawai reached out to me. I get up by grasping that hand.

"I was surprised. It was such a recoil."

Instead, it seems to be powerful.

We approached the hole in the trunk of the tree and looked into it.

"With such power, you can't take down a giant dinosaur in Kusandragon Ward."

Misaki raised her voice. Misaki and Elena wanted to see the Guardian of Kusanagi Ward once, so they went to see the sights. They were surprised at the size of the Guardian.

I remembered that giant guardian and compared it to the hole in the trunk of the tree.

"I don't know. If we hit it hard, we might be able to take it down, but we need to use Dark Phase Gun at skill level 8 to make sure we take it down."

The river sparkled his eyes.

"Something exciting. If you put it in English, it's a dark phase."

Kawai seems to have associated himself with a weapon that appears in a movie staged in space.

I asked what kind of attack Misaki was. I try to explain, I get stuck in words. I tried to explain it based on the information I had gained with my knowledge skills, but there was no proper language in the Japanese vocabulary.

"... I see. Earth science seems to use unknown elementary particles to attack. Its power will ensure that the Guardians of the Kusandragon Ward are dealt with in a single blow."

"Hmm, you seem confident. So, what about skill level nine?

I shrugged my shoulders. I don't want to use this attack.

"The name is [Erasure Vortex]. I know about the phenomenon that it causes. But I can't imagine the power."

"Can't you imagine power? What the hell, be clear."

Kawai said, "Be clear," but I slowly shook my head.

"It wasn't humans who created this skill. No matter how much I explain it, there are things I don't understand."

Well then, why don't you give it a shot?

I exhaled. I didn't think about trying to shoot, but I have a bad feeling about [Erasure Vortex] alone.

"Hey, Michihar. If you had a nuclear bomb, would you like to try it?

The three faces that heard the words stretched out.

"Hey, you're kidding. A nuclear bomb is a big deal."

"That's right. If that's true, there will be so many Weird Beasts that we need them."

River well and Elena denied it. But Misaki seems to be thinking about something. The Japanese think of two nuclear bombs dropped by Japan.

"I don't really think it's as powerful as a nuclear bomb, but it's so bad."

There are many types of nuclear bombs, and there may be nuclear bombs with similar power. However, I had a bad feeling that there was something horrible in the [Erasure Vortex], like the radiation attached to a nuclear bomb.

When we returned to Higashigami Town, Muto was waiting.

"Hey, they're knocking down the Guardian."

"Who told you that?

"From Hiroki and the others. And I heard about the food area."

"I was going to tell you what the food area is."

"That's the smell of water. Talk to me from the beginning."

I looked at Elena and the others.

"But only the Guardian Killer was told about the food area. I think there's a limit."

"Only Guardian killers can enter the food area?

I nodded.

"I think it's highly likely. And we need enough strength to defeat the Guardian."

"Shit, I shouldn't have done fishing or farming, I should have brushed my arms."

Misaki sandwiched her mouth.

"We also need fish and Koyama farm crops. It's not too late to polish your arms after you know what the food area is."

"Are you going to go to the food area alone?

We'll check it out, so Muto and the others can wait.

"Be careful."

We were well prepared for the day when the food area was opened.

And that day came. We went from Koki Ward to Kusanagi Ward, from where we went to the park.

Until yesterday, the park was closed by a strange force. It's gone. We broke into the park and began an investigation to see if anything had changed.

We find a strange building in the middle of the park. It was a dome-shaped building with only one entrance on the east side.

There was no door at the entrance or exit. When I went in and looked around, there was just a floor with strange patterns and nothing else.

"What do you mean?

I murmured and moved on. And the moment my feet stepped on a strange pattern, that pattern emitted light.