It was about three days after the Sankajo was notified to each village. It was at that moment when I left the lord's mansion and walked about ten steps while thinking, "Let's open up a road leading to Arkenia village today."
"Noo!?"
A level of danger perception that I had never felt before worked. I was completely careless, so my evasive action was delayed. Too bad, transfer magic and defensive magic won't make it in time!
At the very least, as a form of resistance, face the direction the attack is coming from, and try to protect only your head and heart with your arms.
"Gaaaaaaa!?"
Hot, painful, hot! I have no idea what the attack was, but it was too fast from the time it sensed danger until it landed. You feel heat and shock, and your sense of balance becomes fuzzy. It probably exploded and blew up. The square in front of the lord's mansion was in an uproar due to the sudden explosion.
Of course. I got up, got dressed, and came out right after eating breakfast, so there is a certain amount of people in the plaza in front of the lord's mansion. I don't know who the other party is, but I was attacked at the worst possible time and place!
"Damn!"
The entire surface facing the direction of the attack hurts. It seems that he narrowly escaped death in one hit, but it's not good that he doesn't even know the nature of the attack. He whips his aching body and rolls awkwardly, moving his gaze to find a place where he can hide. Since he's not far from the lord's mansion, the quickest thing to do is run to the lord's mansion, but that's out of the question. There are marl and others in the lord's mansion. It's impossible to get involved in a battle.
Danger perception worked again. Not enough time to use magic. I don't think evasion is in time. Then give up? No way.
"Everyone get out of here! Go to the containment area! Run!"
I don't know what kind of state I'm in, but I raise my fist while giving instructions to the clover residents who seem to be around me. The place where the former slaves are held is far from the sense of the lord. If it's over there, I won't get involved in the battle unless there's a lot of things to do.
There were many more things I wanted to think about, but I don't think I have time to think about it anymore. He puts in all his magic power and slams his raised fist into the cobbled ground.
Roar! The cobbled ground exploded with a roar and rolled up, blocking the view. A blast, a flash, and a shock attacked from beyond the rolled up stone pavement and earth. Now is your chance. I turned around and ran into the shadow of a building in the opposite direction to where the attacker was supposed to be, hiding in the blast while activating the concealment skill.
"Damn it hurts"
I quickly cleanse my whole body and check the wound on my arm that seems to have received the attack. What the heck... it feels like I've been burned on top of an explosion. With this feeling of pain, it seems that my face, head, and stomach are going to be terrible. If you look in the mirror, isn't it a light horror state?
"Bullshit...!"
However, the identity of the attack was somehow predicted. I think this is probably an attack with an optical weapon such as a laser. I've heard that when attacked by a high-powered laser, the surface evaporates and explodes instead of being burned off. Considering the fact that they weren't able to attack me due to the piled up earth and sand, I don't think they're normal magic bullets or mass weapons.
Having come to that conclusion, I used recovery magic to heal the wounds on my body, and equipped the Aurora Sword and Demon King Armor mkII. I don't know who it is, but I'll let you know what I'm doing... I'm sure it's an absolutely dirty ninja-like guy like an ambush without even looking at it. I'll tear it apart with my aurora sword.
"Don't get caught, you say?"
I use Presence Detection to search for the enemy's position, but I can't find any reaction that looks like it. Do you have something to trick Presence Sensation? Is it a concealment skill, or is it some kind of magic tool?
Hiding like this won't improve the situation. Rather, they might start attacking the lord's mansion to lure me out. There is no choice but to go with the game when it comes out.
"Damn, it's troublesome to be forced to react after the first."
If this isn't a clover, it's fine to make a place where enemies are likely to be vacant, but that's not possible. It's tough when you're blocked from a wide-range, high-power attack and you can do whatever you want over there.
But as far as this method is concerned, the other party knows me, right? I didn't just collect and research information. Maybe it's the guy who actually fought once or watched my fight with his own eyes.
Release the hidden skill, jump up, and land on top of the stone building while concentrating your magic power.
"Come on...?"
Not so many come to mind. One of the gods, or else...
"After all, it's an old man."
Beyond the mercilessly crushed, gouged ground. On top of the building, like this one, there was something like a white full-body armor――a figure wearing a reinforced exoskeleton.
I don't know his name, but that figure must be an old man who seems to be a survivor of the ancient people I met in the Great Forest before. That old man has an extraordinary desire for revenge against Real, the evil god who destroyed the old world, and he attacked me to kill me when I was trying to revive the power of Real. He blew up hard and had a very carefully placed super-detonation, but he seems to have survived.
Did he not hear me or did he ignore me? He silently pointed the cannon-like thing he was carrying on his shoulder. As soon as the danger perception rings a warning sound in my head.
"Damn it!"
But this is expected to happen as well. Using the concentrated magical power, close the gap with teleportation magic――! ?
"What!?"
Transfer magic doesn't activate, and magical power dissipates. What the hell is going on! ?
"Ahhhh!?"
Flash, explosion, pain. Shock after floating feeling. Apparently, it was blown off the top of the building and fell. With just one blow, the Demon King Armor mkII was wrecked in one blow. Nuaaaaaaaaa! It was destroyed without being able to demonstrate its performance! regrettable! And it hurts! Recovery magic!
"Damn, that bastard is serious."
I've shown transfer magic once before. They must have dealt with it in some way. The old man's reinforced exoskeleton--he called it power armor--was said to be something like a weapon that was originally created to kill humans who adopted pseudo-gods. It's called the technique of escaping from detecting signs, and the technique that interfered with the activation of the current teleportation magic. Of course, countermeasures were also developed.
"Hey, General, are you okay?"
The window of the building where I was hiding opened, and a cow's face popped out of the window.
"It's not okay at all, but it's okay. Instead, call out to everyone in the building and run to the containment area. Don't go out into the square, get out of that window. Hurry up!"
"Oh, I understand!"
A cow's head is withdrawn into the window and thuds are heard running away.
Alright, I feel like I've calmed down a bit.
"If you keep hiding like this, there won't be any attackers over there."
If you want to defeat me, you need to kill me with a single blow from outside of recognition, in the instant before moving to evasive action after sensing danger. Even if you give a big blow, if you hide in the shadows like now, you can recover immediately. And, if so, what will the old man do next...?
"Unpalatable!"
If it were me, I would "get rid of the shadows". That is nothing less than destroying the townscape of Clover. There are Marl and the others in the lord's mansion, and there are still residents in the building in front of us and even in the surrounding buildings!
"Damn!"
While concentrating my magic power, I immediately jumped up and landed on top of the building again. He turned his gaze to the old man, but the weapon in his hand did not change. Are you thinking too much? Or is it that the target is focused only on me?
Muzzle repointed. However, it's not like I'm being beaten even if I'm here. Refine the concentrated magic power.
"Don't think you can swat flies over and over again, Koraa!!"
Before the next attack was fired, telegraph pole-shaped spears made from soil rushed toward the old man. On the other hand, I followed closely behind the barrage of dirt spears. Closes the gap as a shield for offense and defense. If you close the gap like this, you can win!
"Do you think so?"
With the old man's voice, thump. Something pierced a barrage of earthen spears.
It was the red tip that pierced the barrage of earthen spears. A sword or a spear? The tip of the sword, which emits an ominous aura, is an unavoidable blade for those who were moving behind the barrage of earthen spears.
Yes, it was an inevitable blade. Unless you expected it.
"I think so, right? I'll return that word exactly as it is."
Outside the distance of the red tip, from the shadow of the barrage made up of earthen spears, I aimed the gun barrel of the aurora sword, which had changed to shooting mode, at the old man. The old man is still in the posture of sticking out his ominous sword with a red blade towards the barrage of earthen spears. In other words, the sides are empty.
"Let me die!"
A dazzling flash of light burst out between the forked blades, and the heat rays fired from the muzzle pierced the side of the old man's reinforced exoskeleton. The gap-filled old man is blown away without any way to do anything, and is pushed out of the clover beyond the castle wall.
Of course, there's no way I'm going to let the old man escape like this.
"Oraa! Wait, Koraa! This time, I'm definitely going to stop my breath!"
I use flight magic to chase the old man who blows away with a trail of smoke. The last time we had a fight, we carefully detonated it. Since the corpse could not be confirmed, there is a strong feeling that ``Is it still alive?'' That reinforced exoskeleton didn't seem to break at all even if it was hit by an explosive light bullet from a close range.
The old man fell down on the north side of the clover. Strangely enough, the Clover Invasion Army was deployed, and it was a place where Marl's magic nuclear mines flew away and turned it into a vacant lot. It would have been troublesome if he had fallen into the sea of trees and escaped and hid, but at that point he wouldn't lose sight of it. I'll kill you to my heart's content.
Just as I thought that, my sense of danger kicked in. Looking at it, the old man was blowing away, but he was adjusting his posture in the air and pointing something like a firearm at me.
"Take it easy!"
The old man silently fired what looked like a firearm in his left hand. I don't know the identity of the weapon, but the danger I feel on my skin is equal to or greater than the laser cannon from earlier. If I can use transfer, it's best to transfer, but if the activation is blocked again, I can't even look at it.
"Gu!?"
While raising the defense by filling the whole body with magical power, dodge by jumping sideways in the air. The sudden change of direction that ignores inertia puts a sudden burden on my body, but that's not the reason why I raised my voice in agony.
The left half of the body was left unprotected due to avoiding to the right side. It was because of the pain that ran through it. The identity of the attack is unknown, but it is likely a physical attack. Because the flesh was gouged out and the blood gushed out!
"Everything hurts, you bastard!"
"Isn't it strange that you can eat an accelerated shotgun and get away with it without pain?
When I landed, the old man said that with a voice that sounded like he was truly amazed, and pointed the gun at me again. It's a strange gun. It looks like a bunch of barrels bundled together, and at first glance it looks like the Pepperbox Pistol used by that cold-blooded prince with a larger, longer barrel.
"What the hell is that gun?"
"It's a gun to kill monsters like you."
firing again. But the measures have already been taken.
"Mud wall!"
A thick earthen wall rises from the ground and catches the bullet. It penetrated several times and hit me, but the power has fallen and it doesn't hurt much.
However, if it had the power to penetrate this thick earthen wall, it shouldn't have been possible for this guy to expose me who was hiding behind the building. After all, this old man seems to be careful not to get involved in the battle other than me, right?
"Hey old man. Why don't you stop here? If you do any more, you'll end up with a serious injury."
"That's an unreasonable advice. Didn't I tell you before? I will never forgive him. He uses that power to transform humans into beings that are lower than beasts. Stripping them of all their dignity as humans." Have you ever had a familiar face recreated like that?Have you ever had to force someone's life to end?If not, you wouldn't understand my resentment.Even if you did,you wouldn't understand I'll kill you."
Is this exactly what it means to devote yourself to resentment? The anger and hatred soaked into the old man's words is considerable. I can't imagine what it would be like to be stripped of my dignity as a human by that authority, but I'm sure it would have been a bad situation.
But that's it, this is this. As far as I'm concerned, I didn't know that. I honestly don't feel like giving up this head.
It would be impossible to discuss further than this, at least in a state of mutual satisfaction. Judging that, I invoke recovery magic to heal the wounds and go around the mud wall from the right side. He was holding the gun in his left hand, so it would have been slower to turn around on the outside of his arm.
"bingo"
"F*ck!"
However, it seems that the old man was reading my movements. It was aimed perfectly and shot again.
"Oh no!"
Hurry up and hide yourself behind the mud wall, pour magic into the wall to increase its strength. It looks like it didn't go through this time.
"Hey, you bastard! Even if I die, that evil god won't die!"
Rather, if I die now, I feel like I'll be happily elevated to the gods. I don't think so, but isn't that why he brought this guy here? No matter what, it's not like that.
"It's a lie, if you kill the evil god's vessel, he will perish."
"Yes, bubu! It's a pity! He's already revived and is coming out of my body! Killing me won't solve anything!"
"what...?"
While provoking him, he uses earth magic to make a clay doll about the same size as me, and throws it so that it looks like it popped out from the left side of the clay wall. On top of that, I jumped onto the mud wall a beat later.
As planned, the clay doll that popped out from the left side of the wall shattered with the sound of gunfire.
"What!?"
"There is a gap!"
"Gah!?"
Outside the range of the sword, my aurora sword that I swung at a place ten meters away definitely cut both of the old man's arms. Two arms covered with a white reinforced exoskeleton are cut off from the shoulders, and they fly in the air while holding a red sword and a strange gun.
"Idiot, huh...!? What the hell!?"
"I have no reason to tell you."
Someday, I will return exactly what the old man said to me. I'm not an idiot who speaks loudly. In the first place, even if I say that it's a mystery that I learned by breaking through the limits of my swordsmanship skill, the old man won't understand.
"Now"
When I thought about killing him, I hesitated for a moment.
This time, this old man was just aiming at me. It feels like he still has other powerful weapons hidden, and if he was going to bury me with Clover by any means possible, I wonder if he had other ways to do it.
When I think about it, I wonder if it's okay to just kill him here. No, of course, if you think about the future, this old man is definitely a big anxiety factor, so the correct answer is to get rid of it here and now without spoiling it.
However, now that the real world has left my body, I think there is no more reason for this old man to stalk me. Even while I was doing this, blood continued to spurt from both of the old man's shoulders. Even if I don't do anything, he will die soon.
"Guh... what?"
"For the time being, I closed the wounds.
In any case, I can't do anything more to an old man who lost both his arms. Use recovery magic to close the wounds on both shoulders to the bare minimum and stop the bleeding. Also, the old man's arms and weapons lying around are confiscated. Store it in storage as soon as possible.
"Old man, let's talk. Before and this time, we didn't even talk to Roku. We have the intellect to manipulate words."
"Intelligence, I must be skeptical whether such a thing exists in us."
"There's no doubt. If humans had decent intelligence, they wouldn't be able to fight with each other or destroy the world. But well, let's put such nihilistic talk aside for now. I'm I'm willing to get my hands dirty with blood if I think it's necessary, but I also want to avoid pointless killing."
Look at the old man's eyes behind the reinforced exoskeleton helmet. Yeah, it's through the helmet, so I can't understand the line of sight and the expression!
"Ossan's purpose is the evil god that destroyed the old world――revenge against the real world, right?"
"...That's it"
"Then, it's wrong to target me now. Real has already regained his strength and left my body, so even if he kills me, the old man won't get anything."
"How can you prove that the words are true?"
"I don't know, that kind of thing. I feel like I can look into research facilities in the old world, but I don't think I'll go out of my way to go there and get tested. It means that there is no need for me to lie to you. Rather than trying to persuade you by lying, it is overwhelmingly quicker to just kill you. Right?"
The old man was silent at my words. As I said to the old man, I have no reason to lie in this situation. If you want to do something about being targeted by an old man, the quickest and surest way is to kill him as I said.
"If that story is true, why won't he destroy this world? If the guy who regained his power is a free man, it would be strange if the world wasn't destroyed."
"I don't know about that. Ask him."
"what?"
"Hey! You're watching!
"No, it doesn't matter, but..."
It's abrupt, as if you were there from the beginning. Divine silver hair that looks like a rainbow depending on the viewing angle, a neat face, and a modest, undulating girlish body that is hidden by a simple white dress. A perfect body that invites intense inferiority while being neat and clean.
Without any premonition, a perfect beautiful girl appeared in this place who could not be thought of as being from this world.
"Yes, everyone's idol, super cute real-chan☆"
When I winked with a snap, the glittering star effect flew. I don't understand the principle at all, but I do understand that it's a waste of magic power and divine power.
"Hey, he's the victim you used to rant about a long time ago. Take responsibility and take care of him."
"Eh, even if you say that. It's true that I was a little naughty and destroyed the old world, but in the first place, I continued to consume the gods as energy resources, and in the end I Isn't it just a story of self-destruction due to being unable to control energy resources?Or rather, I was dragged out of the throne of God and forced to incarnate, and on top of that, I was the victim of being consumed as energy resources. ?"
I honestly don't know if it's okay to call me a third party, but I don't think so either. If I am forced to work until I die after being forced to conscript, I will complain, and if I can't even complain, I will go on a rampage with all my might.
"On top of that, when you dragged him out of the throne of God and incarnated him, you did something to seal his intellect, didn't he?
Real says so and folds his arms and puffs out his cheeks. Yeah, it's cute, but destroying the old world as a result is a big story, isn't it?
"That may be true. But it's also true that my friends and family were tortured to death by you. I will never forgive you."
Saying that, the old man's eyes, glaring at the real world, were dark with vengeance, burning violently. Hmm, I tried to change my mind somehow and called the real one, but did this have the opposite effect?
"Oh, I can't forgive you guys for dragging me into this world and pushing me into trouble. I don't care about destroying other gods--Isn't it good? Thanks to you, I can regenerate the world. I ended up doing something that didn't even exist.Honestly, it would have been easier if even one of the gods on the order side had survived.I'll tell you, I'll clean up after you guys did it. Regardless of whether it's the order side or the chaos side, it's really enough to consume all the gods.Even if they had completely controlled me and used me as an energy resource, this world would have been destroyed, right? The earth crumbled, the water rotted, the fire stopped, the wind stopped, the light stopped shining, even the darkness disappeared, and everything was gone. Disappear into nothingness.The world at that time was on the verge of a cliff, you know?"
What a scary thing. I see, I wonder if there's a bad effect if I kill all the gods.
"Our foolishness and arrogance have long since become entrenched in us. is the only redemption that can be done to mankind.And then you appeared before me.Your existence is not only an enemy, but also the greatest negative legacy we left behind.This substitute Even so, I must destroy you alone. I cannot let this world be destroyed again."
It's not me who destroyed the old world. You've stripped me of all of our dignity. I'm afraid you're pretending to be the protector of mankind and narcissistic by putting that fact on the shelf."
Real gives out words of scathing criticism while smiling like an angel. Hmm... Maybe I'm subconsciously supporting the real world because of my position, but I feel like the real thing is more correct, or rather justified.
No, even so, it would be a mistake for the real world to massacre people and almost destroy the world. From what I've heard, the ancients have a strong sense of self-reliance. I don't know if Real really lost his intelligence due to the hands of the ancients, but as long as the old man doesn't deny it at all, it's probably true.
"Well, I can't help but say this to you now. I also found something to enjoy.
Real glanced at me with a glance. oh? what? Shall I give you a hug? All right, all right, it's a little thin, but it's pretty comfortable to hold. The part where he buries his face in my chest and smacks his cheeks is a little cat-like and cute.
"No, it's too late to talk about that long ago. It's already expired. As compensation for almost destroying the world, I will throw away my duty as an evil god and do my best to regenerate this world." So, have you paid enough for your sins?"
"Well, the world isn't destroyed, and humans are living fairly well, so I think I'm fine."
For an old man, it might have been just the other day, or maybe a few years ago, but for me, it's a long time ago.
Even if it's real, it's definitely a story from thousands of years ago, and he's done everything in his power to recreate the world on the verge of extinction so that humans can live on their own, and he's been watching over them all this time. It seems that the past sins have been atoned for.
"You're kind of generous, aren't you? Are you okay? I used to be a bastard who brutally killed a lot of people, you know?"
"If you're still planning to do that now, it's a no-brainer, isn't it? Besides, well, it doesn't seem like you did it entirely on your own terms, and from my point of view, the atonement was completed properly. It looks like there is, so I have no problem."
Even if they did it in the past, it's a mythical story. It's not like anything happened directly to me, and from my point of view, the old man's resentment was just "Hmm, that was tough".
"Nfufu... Really already, you already."
The real person hugs me in a way that looks like it's going to be done. Oh no, no customers! Please stop sucking on my nipples because your clothes are falling apart from repeated bullets! Oh no no no! Are you going to do it here, customer!
"The person you hate is like this, is that okay?"
I somehow manage to tear off the real that sticks to me while sprinkling pink hearts, and I ask the old man while holding the forehead of the guy who still tries to stick to me.
"...I want to die"
While being hit by the heart-shaped stray bullets scattered by the real world, the old man had an expression like a Tibetan sand fox. What an innocent look. I'm serious about this.
"Old man is depressed. Do something about it."
"Would you like me to kill you quickly?"
"You are like that."
I approached the old man who was drooping his head and drooping his shoulders after visiting him with a dekopin that suddenly performed a merciless evil god move. No, I didn't have a shoulder to drop now! HAHAHAHA!
"So, are you still after me? Then I really have to get rid of you."
"...everything has become silly, uncle."
"Yes, it's hard"
I take out the old man's arm that I slashed away from the storage, purify the wound, press it against it, and regenerate it with recovery magic. Judging from the fact that he was moving his fingers aside, the treatment seems to have been successful.
"I don't know if you feel uncomfortable, please do something about it yourself."
"... why didn't you kill me?"
The old man says so and looks up at me with weak eyes. When I threw a ball to try to have a conversation, it came back as an iron ball. What is it all of a sudden. I have a heavy question.
"You were trying not to involve the residents other than me, weren't you? If unrelated people were involved and attacked, they would have killed you without question."
"Is that so... Hey, how is that guy from your point of view?"
With his knees down, the old man turns his gaze toward the real world. For some reason, the real person who is looking at her is puffing out her chest and making a triumphant face. Why are you smug? you.
"He's a wicked guy, to say the least."
"a little bit?"
"He brings me to this world on a whim, manipulates people's actions to plan various things, sticks and incites them, is annoying, is fairly loyal to his own instincts, and makes people suffer. There's a part of me that looks like I'm grinning when I'm stumbling back and forth, a part of me that doesn't care about things that I'm not interested in, and abruptly makes an evil god move."
"Uhm..."
Rial averts his gaze while dripping cold sweat. I continued my words while embracing such reality.
"However, in reality, he is very caring, he does not show his efforts to others, he is easy to talk to, and he is weak when attacked even though he tries to seduce him. It's really nice to have a cute side or something like that."
"Huaaaaah... stop it"
Real writhed while hiding his red face with both hands.
"Hahaha... if you look at me like that, you're just a cute little girl."
The old man stood up with a powerless laugh and erased the reinforced exoskeleton he was wearing, though I don't know how. After all, it seems to have the same ability as my storage.
"What are you going to do next?"
The old man shook his head at my offer.
"Well, I think it's good to look around the current world."
"Right. Don't die hanging out there, it's a nuisance."
"You're a quiet kid."
The old man wiped the dust from his body with his hands while laughing and looked up at the sky with a somewhat refreshed face. I don't know if the face that the possessed person has fallen refers to this kind of thing.
"Well then. We'll never see each other again."
Saying that, the old man turned around and tried to walk away, so I grabbed him by the shoulders from behind.
"Where are you going?"
"what?"
The old man who turned around makes a dubious expression.
"Isn't there a problem that should be cleared up, such as the stone pavement that was destroyed due to the old man's attack, or the one-sided attack on me? Hey guys, you just told me in real life that you should just do what you do and don't neglect the aftermath, right?"
"Ah, I'm sorry."
My hand digging into my shoulder hurt, and the old man smiled cramped up.
"No, it doesn't really close"
I grabbed the real face that shrugged my shoulders with an expression that seemed to say, "Wow."
"What's that!? Wha, what!?"
"What are you saying that sounds like someone else's problem? You're the reason this old man attacked you, so you can't be forgiven, can you?"
"eh!?"
You look like a pigeon eating a pea shooter, but it's natural, isn't it? I was beaten by an old man who was looking for you. Did you think it would end with iihana sidana? Wholesalers don't sell that.
"Well, let's go to Clover first! If you run away, I'll chase you everywhere and make you regret living, you guys."
Let's make full use of the old world technology and real god power that an uncle has. The future of the Brave Federation is bright