Sir Fluffles began to growl at the giant beast that towered over them.
Nova had a tinge of bloodlust mixed with fear in his system.
『Couldn't I use Area to drop them from the sky?』[Nova]
Mune shook his head.
『They're too tough for that. Midway through doing that, they'd shoot you with a laser and end you.』[Mune]
『Then, are you sure you're going to be alright?!』[Nova]
Mune nodded.
『When you channel mana through your body, you get stronger, right?』[Mune]
Nova was caught off guard by the question, but nodded.
『If you channel mana for several years, the result is that your body becomes incomparably tough in order to handle more mana and better mana.』[Mune]
Nova was in awe, but he stopped asking questions.
He held his katana with both hands and kept them at his side.
『You use a sword primarily, right?』[Mune]
Nova nodded his head, keeping Reischneid by his side.
『...Let me show you my sword style, then.』[Mune]
Mune dashed forward, closing the distance of 300 meters in the blink of an eye.
Nova couldn't believe his eyes.
『Did he just teleport?!』[Sir Fluffles]
Mune began to massacre the rank 6 brownlings.
He began with a rising sword strike, leaving a deep wound on the rank 6 brownling before cutting it once more, horizontally.
It roared, before raising it's arms to strike Mune.
When it did this, black smoke began to billow out of its wounds before Mune had cut the brownling's head off, 10 feet in the air, ending its existence.
Nova watched with awe, horror, and amazement.
『...This is inhuman.』[Nova]
Mune began to pick up speed, with his crimson red mana suddenly flowing from his blade to his surroundings.
『...What is that..?』[Nova]
Mune's surroundings started to be filled with something that looked similar to a bunch of red petals flowing from his blade's guard.
A large cascade of red petals followed Mune's blade, cutting whatever it landed on, with any stray petals flowing around Mune.
『This isn't… reasonable...』[Nova]
With the red petals following his attacks, it took him a singular swing to kill a brownling.
The brownlings with some distance fired their lasers, but the black and white orbs from Divergent Flow would shoot them in the direction of another brownling.
In less than two minutes, Mune had completely obliterated the entire swarm of brownlings.
After he finished, he turned around and looked at Nova.
『This is the Falling Sun form sword technique.』[Mune]
He shoved his sword into the ground, and the vermillion petals crashed into the ground, leaving deep stab marks.
『...Amazing.』[Nova]
Mune walked back to Nova.
『We're done here. Anything past the realm of 6 circles are way out of the expectations of the quest.』[Mune]
『...There's more?!』[Nova]
Just as he said that, a creature a little bigger than a human smashed into Mune's mana shield.
『...Damn! It's already here!』[Mune]
Mune was sent flying backwards, leaving Nova there on his own.
Nova and the beast made eye contact for a moment.
All Nova could see were the whites of its eyes.
It had a wrinkled face with huge tusks that extended out of its mouth.
Vaguely looking at it, it had the appearance of a monkey with whites in his eyes.
『...W-w-what…?』[Nova]
Nova looked down and saw a hollowed face, with holes in its eyes, mouth, and nose in the chest of the beast.
He had a thought that screamed throughout his entire brain and body.
「...I'm going to die.」[Nova]
The face in the chest of the beast began to screech at Nova.
『NOVA!』[Sir Fluffles]
Black and white flames erupted from in front of Sir Fluffles and caused him to disappear for a moment.
The beast looked away and around, trying to locate Sir Fluffles while panting heavily before it was hit tens of feet away by an explosion of flames and Sir Fluffles himself.
『NOVA! RUN!』[Sir Fluffles]
Nova's nerves returned to him and he began to get his nerves back.
『Area!』[Nova]
He teleported the beast as far as he could in the air, buying them some time.
『Quick, Sir Fluffles! We're getting out of here!』[Nova]
He waited for Sir Fluffles to fly over to him.
『Area!』[Nova]
They teleported into the direction where Mune was sent.
Upon exiting the portal, Nova found Mune in a tree fading in and out of consciousness.
『Mune! Are you alright?!』[Nova]
『...A bit… stronger than expected...』[Mune]
He had blood flowing down his head, and he seemed to have cut something in his mouth as he was also bleeding from his mouth.
『We have to get out of here!』[Nova]
Nova focused on the location of the Raidagem room, but something started screeching in the background, disrupting his focus.
『Area!』[Nova]
He formed the portal, but the screeching seemed to get louder as it neared him.
After he made the portal, it suddenly fragmented into pieces.
『What?!』[Nova]
『...The scream is disrupting your focus. You can't use it for long distance in battles yet...』[Mune]
Nova took a stardrop and forced it down his throat, not worrying about the flavor right now.
『Blessed Flame Rebirth!』[Nova]
Blue flames covered Mune, beginning to heal him.
『...Thanks.』[Mune]
『Be quiet! Keep your strength. We have to get you as close to your peak as possible before fighting that!』[Nova]
Despite Nova's protests, Mune kept talking.
『...It's a rank 7 brownling, which is the same rank circle I am… It seems to be border rank 8, however...』[Mune]
『How are we going to beat it?!』[Nova]
Mune used the tree to support himself to his feet.
『...We have to. It's a part of the mission, even if this wasn't in the mission details.』[Mune]
Mune took a deep breath.
『...I don't think we're gonna do over five missions tonight.』[Mune]
He placed his right hand on top of the left side of his breast.
『Raiment...』[Mune]
Nova stared at him with wide eyes.