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Chapter 186: The Moth’s Power

“Bring it!”

"Keeeeeeeeee!"

“Hah!”

“Keeepee!"

Huh? Isn't the Emperor Moth weaker than I thought? It would be tricky if it flew and attacked me unilaterally, but since I clipped its wings, it can't fly. The only way this thing attacks is poison, lasers and wings. It is not difficult to avoid or defend against it.

"Ki!!!"

After cutting off all six of its legs so that it could not move, it slammed its wings into the ground and floated 10 meters in the air. It would have been better if I had not slashed all of its legs and driven it into the ground.

“Keeeeeeeee!!!"

Then it flapped its wings and released countless wind blades at me. It would have been troublesome if all of them had come toward me, but they were shooting in all directions. So, because they were dispersed, only about 10 at most would come to me with one flap of wings. I could have easily slashed that many.

“Kiiiiii........."

It’s trying its best to fly, but it’s not flying on chipped wings. It is falling slowly and steadily.

I jumped up to put a stop to it by dropping its head, just in time for the wind blade to break off.

“Zero-niisama! The mysterious monster has vanished!"

Almost at the same time as Sophie's voice, the crisis high speed detection reacted from directly above. I wonder how Sophie can sense magic hundreds of meters ahead.... I don't care about that, I want to get away from this place right now, but since I’m in the air, I can't move. Intuitively, I used lightning shrink, which is an evolutionary step beyond shrink. Unlike shrinking skill, this one could move in the air. I hurried back to the ground and tried to keep my distance, but from the reaction of the Crisis High-Speed detection, there wasn’t enough time to avoid it completely. So I hurriedly used the Raiden armor to increase my defenses.

“MIEEEEE!!!!!"

Then, me and Emperor Moss received an invisible attack from the mysterious monster that suddenly appeared directly above us.

“Zero-niisama!”

I was blown away, but was able to passively stand quickly. The Emperor Moth was just in a straight line between the mysterious monster and me, which mitigated the power of the attack. Perhaps that is why the damage was minimal for a strong reaction to the crisis high-speed detection. Well, if I hadn’t moved from that spot, I would have been trapped under the Emperor Moth and the mysterious monster.... Incidentally, the Emperor Moth that served as my shield was crushed to the ground.

“Are you alright!”

“Yeah, no problem.”

Sophie was the first to arrive at my position. Looking at the mysterious monster again, it looks like a black cicada. But it’s about 20 meters in size.

“What was that attack?”

“I think it's a shockwave."

That's Sophie for you. I only asked her just in case, but she gave me an answer.

"Keeeeeeee...!"

“Eh?”

I thought I heard some sort of a desperate voice, but then I saw the Emperor Moth being eaten by the cicada. Huh? Did cicadas have fangs that ferocious? I mean, was there such a proper mouth to begin with?

“......"

The cicada finished eating the entire giant emperor moth in about five bites. As I was waiting to see what it would do, the figure became transparent as it looked toward the spirit tree.

“Lightning contraction!”

“Zero-niisama! Wait!"

Hearing Sophie's words to stop me, I ignored them and headed for the cicada's vicinity with the lightning contraction. It would be bad if I couldn't see this guy now. I would lose sight of it since it was not near the spirit tree. I have a high-speed crisis detection, but the elves are open to one-sided attacks.

“Raiden double enchantment."

I hastily changed the lightning enchantment to a Raiden enchantment. Then the cicada broke the invisibility.

“Ha...?"

The cicada then unleashed a poison exactly the same as that of Emperor Moth. After blocking all of them, it now released lasers from its antennae. Next, it released countless blades of wind.

“Hey...!”

After that, he was about to become invisible again as if nothing had happened.

“Hey! You! Wait!”

This guy, of all people... has what I wanted... no! He's got some ongoing predatory skills I want! Why can't I and why did the cicada get it! You think I'm less than a cicada! I'm going to kill this guy for sure!!!!!!!!!!! And then get those skills for myself!

“Damn it!"

However, the speed of invisibility was faster than I had expected and It completely disappeared as I lost sight of it. Exhaling a sigh, I swung my raised sword down vigorously as if I was taking it out on the eight ball.

“Mhmm...”

“Hmm?"

Then, the cicada which had been invisible appeared in front of me. Incidentally, the sword I swung down did not hit the cicada. The cicada and I both froze and stared at each other for a few seconds.

“Mie..."

Then the cicada began to become invisible again as if nothing had happened.

“I won't let you!"

I waved my sword as before and the invisibility was lifted. I don't know if this invisibility is magic or not, but it seems to be done by using magic power. That's why my magic slash can cancel it with an evolved magic slash!

Come to think of it, why didn't the cicada fly away as soon as it became invisible? If It had done so, I wouldn’t have been forced to disarm it in this way and it didn’t use invisibility when it fell, when it was eating the Emperor Moth, or when it used the Emperor Moth’s magic. Apparently, invisibility has a weakness...

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