Chapter 25: Unexpected First Battle

I was the first one to hit the ground.

The guiding thread silvate then grabbed the trees and flew backward.

Anyway, it was distance.

I had to get this thing away from Aya-chan.

The opponent was a fifth rank monster.

I should take him on as if his strength is different from the ones I’ve seen so far.

What I want to do is to avoid shooting magic at each other near the car and getting Aya-chan caught in the crossfire.

Follow me……

The monster was indeed on board with my unspoken invitation.

No, it should be.

This guy’s not after Aya-chan, he’s after me.

If that’s the case, he would definitely come after me if I ran away.

While I was relieved that I had succeeded in my bet, I spread the Silvate threads throughout the forest.

“Transformation…”

I muttered in a whisper.

The next moment, a blade barrier was created in the forest.

“Heh, yes. You’re very dexterous. 』

But the monster in front of me leapt!

It jumped up about 30 meters and avoided all the blade barriers.

“……!”

Tremendous physical ability!

As I was gawking at it, I saw the monster wrap the guiding thread Silvate around its own back while floating in the air.

It’s setting me up–!

In order to counter the monster, which I didn’t know what it was going to do, I too had six threads. I put six threads around my entire body to strengthen my body.

However, I wasn’t going to go head-to-head in a fistfight.

I don’t have that kind of power right now.

This is a magic to keep me from dying.

The next moment, the monster’s body, which had created air through “Attribute Change: Wind,” was like a rocket!

“……!”

I reflexively created a wall with “Trait transformation: Hard,” but the monster successfully took a passive stance with its four arms and flipped around. Then, it drew a right-angle maneuver that was physically impossible, and leaped over the wall!

“Ah, yes.”

Naturally, the guiding thread silvate extended from his back.

I gulped as I watched it.

This guy is using his own body as a puppet to do all kinds of crazy aerial maneuvering!

“You won’t let me eat you easily.”

“…… Of course not!”

I use the string to jump up further and get some distance.

Then I looked down at the monster from directly above.

“I don’t think you can exorcise me if you just keep running away.』

I silently returned the monster’s provocation and produced a spear of flame.

I extended my thread silvate, which is a guided the burning spear of flame, to the monster. But fortunately, the monster in front of me does not seem to have “true eyes” and cannot see my thread.

Here’s my chance!

The next moment, I exploded compressed air created by “Attribute Change: Wind” right behind the flaming spear.

DOUGHTZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!

The explosive flame and shockwave scattered the leaves around it, and it raced at the monster!

And then, as it went straight through, it exploded!

“…Flaming Bee Homurabachi”

I muttered as I landed on the ground.

The spear of flame pierced the opponent.

I thought to myself, “That’s a good name”.

I thought about this as I stared at the monster with the big hole in its belly.

“Where did you send papa and Renji-san?”

“…………”

But the monster didn’t answer.

He remained silent.

I was thinking about what to do next, when a moment later the hole in the monster’s belly slowly but surely filled up.

It can use healing magic!

I was so astonished by the sight that I was speechless.

Amazing!

I can’t use it yet!

That’s not right.

“If you won’t answer, I have an idea.”

I took a certain distance from the monster, imitating the threats I’ve only seen on TV or in comic books.

Then, I calmly looked down at myself.

The tension that I had felt at first was dissipating. I can feel a sense of confidence growing inside me that even I might be able to exorcise the fifth rank monster.

But I mustn’t let my guard down.

In order not to die, I must exorcise him.

I keep my eyes on the monster in front of me, telling myself this.

“As expected, I’d like to feed on your magic power.”

“I won’t give it to you.”

As I replied, a thread of silvate extended from the monster’s finger.

The end of the thread is connected to countless trees.

“Come on! 』

The monster howled, and at the same time, the trees rose up!

“No matter how many monsters you create.”

It’s not going to change this situation.

The moment I was about to say that, I leapt unintentionally when I saw the trees that had moved and released the guiding thread silvate.

What…..? What are you doing?

It’s not unusual for monsters to use magic.

But it was the first time for the small fry monsters created by the young monster in front of me to use magic, and I involuntarily kept my distance. As it turned out, it was the right decision.

A moment later, an acorn fell from directly above where I was standing.

……Why an acorn?

Before I could turn my head, the acorn touched the ground.

DOHNTZ！！！！！

“……?”

Instantly, the acorn that fell right in front of me exploded!

Although I was keeping my distance and was fine, I was horrified to think that I would have been caught unaware. If I didn’t have my “true eye,” I would have died for sure. Thank goodness I have been training since I was a little.

“Hehe, so that’s how it is. You can see. Then you understand, don’t you?”

The young man looks down at me as he stands among the monsters in the trees he has created.

“If you defeat them, all of them will explode.”

I fell silent at the young man’s words.

I had to be silent.

There was no way I knew what kind of trees dropped acorns, or how many acorns a normal tree could hold. But I do know that each tree has more acorns than a hundred or two hundred!

If that is the case, the explosion that would be caused by killing the tree monster would be hundreds of times greater than the explosion that just occurred. If that’s the case, it’s not just me nearby who would be caught in the blast.

Aya-chan, who is only a few hundred meters away from here, would also be caught up in it.

However, I maintained an aloof and nonchalant attitude so as not to let him feel that I was in a pinch, and asked.

“Hey, I have a question.”

『…………』

The monster remained silent in response to my question.

Well, that’s fine.

“Doesn’t ‘transfer magic’ mean you can’t portal that far?”

『…………』

He didn’t say anything, but the young man’s eyes clearly rounded.

“Yeah. That’s all I need to know.”

Of course, the transfer distance of magic is equal to the length of the silvate.

Therefore, it is obvious that the “transfer magic” will be the same as the distance that the thread silvate can extend.

Really, it was enough to know that much.

I moved my fingertips like an orchestra conductor and manipulated the Silvate to create a net by combining two long strands.

And then I let the wind blow through the gaps between the trees!

The wind roared and snatched up acorns from the branches, and the net bounced them up into the sky!

All that was left was to impact just one.

And that’s it!

–Doooooooooonttststststststststststststststststs ！！！！！

Everything explodes in the air in a chain reaction!

I won’t miss the chance that was born as soon as the sky lit up with bright red fireworks.

The next moment, the trees were ripped in half by my Trait transformation: Blade. Then, they disappear in a black mist, the death of the monster.

“This will be the landmark. Papa and Renji-san will be back….”

I laughed and turned to the young monster.

“But I don’t have to wait for them to come back.”

The young monster turned a dubious look at my question.

…… I see. You haven’t noticed yet.

“I also found out that with a little attack, you could use healing magic to heal yourself. So I needed a big blow. And for that, I needed time.”

As soon as I said that much, the sky suddenly darkened.

“I bought myself some time.”

The monster noticed this and looked up, but it was too late.

“Meteorite.”

As soon as I said that, the monster let out a few words as if he had given up on the whole thing.

“Ah, yes……”

It was only natural.

After all, a huge rock the size of a house, which I created with “Attribute Change: Earth,” is falling down from the end of my guiding thread silvate, pulled by gravity!

“You shouldn’t have messed with me.”

With these words, the monster was pinned under the huge meteorite and died.

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