Chapter 98: Survival Battle 3

"Take that!"

"Ha! What?"

I parried the attack of Becua, who was the first to come at me. But soon after, my crisis sensor reacted again. However, there’s nothing in the bird's-eye view that could be a crisis.

"Up high!"

I looked in the direction of Gladden's loud voice and saw him throwing a huge rock upwards and trying to hit it with a hammer.

"Stonewall!"

Seeing this, I hurriedly built a wall with magic. The rock exploded with a bang! The sound of rocks exploding was followed by the sound of debris hitting the magical wall.

"Random water blade!"

After destroying the rock, we were about to deal with Gladden who was coming towards us when Elilia shot a random water blade at the three of us. I thought the power would be low since it was only water, but the water blade hit a tree and easily cut through.

"Hmm?"

I panicked, wondering if there was a malfunction because my crisis detection didn't react at all to such power, but it didn't seem to be a malfunction because no water blade came near me at all. It's not a malfunction of the skill.

"Hey what's going on here. Deine!"

『That's why I said it's impossible~ 』\

"Why can't you do it?"

"Windcutter!"

I then fired a wind blade in return at the elves and spirits who were arguing about something, taking the opportunity to do so now.

"Water Wall!"

But it was blocked by a wall of water that suddenly appeared. Then I thought, "If magic doesn't work, I'll use my sword..." but there was a dwarf coming from right behind me, so I had to deal with that. Come on! The elves are focused on something else! You should deal with them first, not me!

"Hey!"

"Huh! Damn it!"

I dodged a hammer swing from behind and tried to slash Gladden, but Becua kicked at me from the side, so I stopped attacking and stepped back to get some distance. Then Becua kicked Gladden and flew towards me.

"Just kick him properly!"

"You're my opponent! Zero!"

"Thunder Spear!"

I unleashed my magic on Becua, who was coming at me. Becua struggled to prevent the fast lightning magic without stopping and was able to prevent all of it, but that left him wide open.

"Fire enchantment.

"Ice armor."

At the moment of attack, I cast a double enchantment of lightning and fire. I didn't want to show off the double enchantment, but I decided that if I could get Becua out of the way, then so be it. However, Becua created a kind of armor made of ice on his stomach. I couldn't slash him because it was shielding him.

"Zero... What did you do? One hit and my ice armor was cracked."

His mouth was complaining, but his face was smiling for the first time today. He looked like a child who had found a very interesting toy.

"Tsunami!

"Whoa!"

I was so focused on Becua that I neglected Elilia, and a huge amount of water poured out to eliminate everyone here.

"Hmm?"

And yet again, despite the situation, the crisis sensor was not responding at all.

"Good!"

Believing in my crisis detection, I took no defensive action against the tsunami that was swallowing everything in its path. 

"Hey Deine! What's going on?

"Uu..." 

"What the hell is going on?"

It's not as if Elilia was aiming for it herself, as she complained to the spirit when she saw that I slipped through. And everything is gone except for me, Elilia and the pedestal. Even the trees around us seem to have all been swept away.

『 The reason she can’t attack Zero-kun is simple. 』\

『You know? 』\

『 Yes! 』\

I was struggling to figure out why, but Ygg seemed to know the reason, so I asked her to tell me.

『 It's because Zero-kun has a contract with me! 』\

『 What? 』\

『 Spirits have a strict hierarchical relationship, and I'm the king of spirits, you know? You can't attack the king, can you? 』\

『 But now we're fighting as enemies, but she still won't attack me? 』\

『 You can't attack the king just because they said, “come on! Attack!” when you're told to right? 』\

『 ...I can’t 』\

『That's what I mean! 』\

I don't seem to be getting attacked by the spirits at all. It seems like i’ve become an elf's natural enemy since they specialize in spirit magic

『By the way, the person who contracts with the spirit king is sure to become the king in the elf country you know? 』\ (Ziel)

"Huh, really"

Certainly, even if an elf who has a contract with the spirit king attacks the country in an attempt to take over, no one can attack the elf with spirit magic, so it would be easier to make him the king from the beginning.

『Because if Ygg tells the spirits not to contract with the elves, they won’t be able to use spirit magic.』\

『seriously! 』\

It's not that it makes him king or anything, it's just that it gives him the same power as a king without making him the actual king. So if it's the same whether he’s made the king or not, it's better to have him be king.

『That's why those who have contracted with the spirit king regardless of race will become the king of elves. 』\

『 Huh…? Wait a minute? 』\

『What's wrong? 』\

I feel that some words that I can't ignore have just come from Ygg ...

『 What did you say earlier? 』\

『 You will become king of the elves? 』\

"Earlier, first."

『 Regardless of race? 』\

『 That! It doesn’t matter what race I am? 』\

『 Yes, that’s right? 』\

No, no, no, no, no! I can't let them find out! I have to keep the fact that I'm under contract with Ygg a secret at all costs! I have no intention of becoming the king of the elves!

"Enough! I'll do it!"

"Hmm?"

Just as I finished talking with Ygg, Elilia and the others seemed to have given up on persuading their spirits and came at me with their rapiers at the ready.

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