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The voice that suddenly descended from overhead was not particularly loud, but strangely well audible. And yet, it left all who heard it in awe.
It remained in the air as if glaring at the people lined up on the ground.
I stared at the presence, confirming that it matched the description I had heard.
“This intimidating presence and the shape of the figure …… confirms it. It’s a demon.”
“Tale, we have to get under him. It’s a long way from here. We need to get there fast. ……!”
“Yes.”
I nodded to Anri’s words. The whole team, led by Ricardo, who was camped in this area, also nodded their heads in agreement.
We then formed up in one group and started running toward the demon who was still radiating powerful magic power.
The place where the demon was floating was close to the center of the battlefield, where the Bren defenders were forming their ranks. I had to cross many lines to get there. But even though they don’t actually know my face, everyone on the battlefield knows that I am planning to face the demon. I would ask the warriors to open the way for me, and let the demons that had begun to move through.
I was about halfway to the location of the demon.
I suddenly felt a chill run down my spine and stared at the demons with my eyes wide open. Then, I noticed that a violent wave of magic power was beginning to emanate from the demon in the sky.
–A huge reddish-black magic circle begins to be drawn at the feet of the demon.
“—T-hat, I can’t believe it. …..Everyone’s in danger, Tale!”
“I know, but we can’t …… make it in time!”
The huge magic circle that is being created in no time at all looks like a completely different system from our magic. But everyone on the battlefield realized that it was something that could harm us and that we needed to fortify our defenses.
The soldiers under the magic circle began to build a wall of earth magic and a shield of magic, but would it really be enough to withstand it? We were also advancing frantically to join the magical protection, but we were still a long way from here.
In the meantime, the magic circle created by the mages was soon completed. Magic power is poured into the dull, glowing lines that make up the formation, and soon the whole thing begins to emit a dazzling and disastrous light.
“Coming ……! Everyone, be careful–“
I said almost at the same time as I felt the magic power rising.
The blood-colored magic circle that spread out to cover the heavens at the point where I looked at him shone extraordinarily strong at that moment and brought down a ray of light to the ground. The color was like the color of the sun, and it was a heat ray that contained an enormous amount of heat.
–The moment it reached the ground, tremendous destruction was unleashed.
“Aaaaahhhh!”
Screams were heard both at the blast site and from a distance away.
The explosion that spread from the point of impact of the heat rays deprived them of vision, and the storm that erupted a few moments later followed suit. The flickering vision showed nothing, but it was easy to imagine how much damage had been done.
Eventually, our vision began to regain color and we were able to see what was going on around us.
–We were stunned to find that there was nothing moving beneath the demon who continued to float as usual.
There were no guardian soldiers who should have been there, and we could not even see the demons that had been confronting us. Instead, there was a crater as if a meteorite had hit it, and the ground, vitrified by so much heat, was smoking.
“I-It’s terrible. ……”
I inwardly agree with Rietta’s muttered words while biting my lip.
I wonder how many people were there. There must have been hundreds of people there. And all of them must have been doing their best to protect Bren, where their families and friends were.
And then, in an instant, it all came to nothing.
The nausea-inducing damage caused me to naturally glare sharply at the demon in the air.
At such a height that I could not even see his expression, what in the world was he thinking right now? I am sure that he has no regrets about the consequences of his actions. He probably doesn’t care how many lives he has taken and how precious each one of them was.
I feel anger in my heart, but I manage to suppress it for now. As you can see from their current attack, they are not an entity that can be dealt with out of calmness.
Now, just to avoid causing any more damage–
“–Let’s go, everyone. We can’t let him do whatever he wants any more.”
At my words, everyone who had been stunned nodded their heads.
Some of them may have been frightened, but I am sure that they are still inspired by seeing those who are still lying on the ground in the aftermath of the previous attack.
We were all united in our determination to do something about the demons before any more casualties were inflicted, and we all ran across the ground with demonic expressions on our faces. With voices of pain and vindictiveness on our backs, we ran toward the crater that had formed on the ground.
When we finally reached the edge of the crater, we stomped on the hot ground and stared at the demon who did not move. Finally, we could faintly see his face, and there was an evil smile on his face.
“Are you planning on seeing us in a place like that? It’s in bad taste and makes me angry. —Tale, Rietta, do it!”
“Yeah.”
“I’ll take care of it!”
Anri, righteously angry, points at the demon and raises her fiery voice.
The demon who seemed to have noticed his voice or emotion looked at me, but I didn’t care.
With the momentum of converting my burning blood into magical power, I work up magical power with all my might. The magic circle drawn at the same time is the most powerful projection magic I have.
I Mix wind and water into lightning like the wrath of heaven.
I Fill the completed magic circle with the magical power of raging lightning.
I timed it with Rietta, who was setting up three magic circles next to me, and the other adventurers who could use magic, and all at once raised the pace of our counterattack.
“Blue Thunder!”
“Three bolts!!”
The blue lightning that I shot out fell into the sky as a large, thick streak of lightning. Around it, three dragons made of water mixed with ice surround it, heading toward the magician at high speed.
Others who could use magic in the same squad also unleashed covering attacks, and colorful magic landed on the demon. Lightning bolts raged around the witch, and the ice rain dragon turned into a huge block of ice. In the aftermath of the collision of the diverse magic, the figure of the magician was temporarily obscured.
With that many attacks at the same time, no matter how powerful the demon was, it would have been able to inflict a certain amount of wounds.
We waited with bated breath to see what would happen, but there was no sign of the demons falling.
One of the adventurers, as if paralyzed, muttered anxiously
“D-did you do it ……?”
No one could answer. Even the person who muttered this probably doesn’t think he or she has defeated the demon with the current attack.
And of course, I don’t think it’s over yet either. Because a strong sense of intimidation is still emanating from the skies above, just ahead of my line of sight. No, rather, it is stronger than it was a few moments ago–
–The aftermath of the magic – when the blinds of dust, spray, and electric currents running through the air were lifted. The demon, who didn’t seem to be suffering, showed his appearance at the place where we were focusing our attention.
We were wide-eyed with not a little surprise, seeing that it looked no different from before the simultaneous attack.
“——!”
The demon, with its wings spread wide, slowly dropped in altitude while keeping its gaze fixed on us.
It landed on the ground without a sound and slowly glared at its surroundings while spreading fear around it with its unusual form. Then, its gaze was fixed on me and Rietta, and it said to us
“—You are going to be a good sacrifice.”
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