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Chapter 152: Monster Subjugation Day

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“Today we’ll go to a place far away from here.”

“Okay.”

After yesterday’s spirit magic training, I went to bed and woke up to find that today was already the day of the monster subjugation. It’s just outside of the elf village. By the way, Judy seems to be in charge of subduing monsters. Emily is the queen of the elves, so she seems to be busy. She tends to drop by when she has no business to attend to.

“We’re going to run for the time being, you can use any skill to keep up. Come on.”

“Got it.”

And with that, she suddenly started running. I hastily applied a double enchantment of lightning and followed her.

“I’m moving away!”

“Yes!”

Too Fast! It’s all I can do to keep up. I can’t tell if Judy is taking it easy on me, but she’s running about the same speed as me. However, she is very good at running through the forest. I had to slow down many times to avoid the trees, but Judy didn’t slow down at all. Her avoidance is so natural that it looks as if the tree is avoiding her.

“Good job.”

“Haa…haa ……”

And after about an hour of running as fast as I could, Judy stopped. So I drank the MP potion I was given.

“A-rank monsters will appear around here, so do your best.”

“…Got it.”

I was told that there were A-ranked monsters, so I used the double enchantment of lightning that I had released when Judy stopped me.

“Oh… don’t use any enchantment.”

“Huh…….”

I was told that I would be fighting A-ranked monsters without using any enchantments. She’s not saying this to be mean to me, although it may be obvious.

“To be honest, when it comes to avoiding attacks, Zeros-sama, you’re as good as the three of us.”

“Thank you.”

I was suddenly praised. It’s always nice to be praised.

“But you’re not good at accepting and parrying attacks due to the fact that you’re too good at avoiding them.”

I think the knight commander said something similar to me. I intended to practice accepting and parrying in my own way, but it seems I wasn’t very good at it.

“So don’t use enchantments to force them to run away.”

“Got it.”

It’s true that if an attack comes at a time when you can’t avoid it, you’ll definitely take it or parry it.

“Also, for today, you’ll definitely use your sword for defense and only kick for attack.”

“Eh?”

“Zeros-sama only uses swords and magic for his attacks. Since you have your legs free, it would be a shame if you didn’t use them as well.”

“I understand.”

It’s true that I didn’t use any physical techniques when I was holding a sword.

“Then I’ll be leaving now.”

Judy said and slammed something into the ground. Then, pink smoke spread all around.

“What’s this?”

“It’s smoke with a smell that insect monsters like. There will be many of them, so hang in there.”

Then Judy flew high into the sky. At about the same time, I heard a buzzing sound from around me. I couldn’t see my surroundings because of the smoke, so I used my magic sense, which I was still not very familiar with.

“Kiaaa!”

I managed to catch the one charging at me with my two swords.

“Huh? A beetle?”

The beetle I caught was a male beetle about five meters long, a common beetle in Japan.

“Behind!”

As the smoke gradually cleared and there was nothing to block my overhead view, I noticed a monster coming from behind. I was still holding back the rushing beetle, so I used the one sword that was holding back the beetle to guard against the newly appearing monster.

“Hercules beetle?”

And now it was a male Hercules beetle. Are there a lot of beetles around here? I kicked the beetle that had come first from below.

“Giaa!”

The beetle retreated a little due to the kick. However, because I was concentrating on attacking the beetle, my power to restrain the Hercules beetle became weak. The Hercules beetle took advantage of the opportunity and swung its horn to the side, blowing my body away.

“It’s not just about accepting the attack, you have to receive it properly.”

“…Yes.”

It’s not easy to kill two at the same time, so I’ll try to kill them one by one.

…..

“That’s all for today, right?”

“Yes…”

I think I killed about 15 beetle monsters today alone. From that point, I found different types of beetles, including male Caucasian longhorn beetles and male Atlas longhorn beetles. Or rather, there were only males. I think there were about eight beetles at the same time. When there were that many beetles, they started to fight each other. I thought it would make things a little easier, but in fact it was a hindrance because they were so violent. We had a proper lunch break. Judy helped me float to her position. During the lunch break, Judy’s spirit magic held all of the monsters to the ground so that they could not move.

“I’m going to run, so follow me.”

“Ah…”

That said, Judy started running again. I had completely forgotten about the return trip. I hurriedly performed a double enchantment of lightning and followed her. The hour-long sprint began again.

I was exhausted after another day. I’ll get a good night’s sleep and do my best for the spirit magic training tomorrow…

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