Chapter 19 – From a Small Battle to a Major Accident (04)

[Star Wizard].

This romantic name was not a figurative expression but a literal expression of their characteristics.

This family’s main magic is Meteor Strike.

That’s why Alice is considered the strongest wizard and essential character as she unleashes wide-range attacks.

‘Shit shit shit shit!’

I knew it in my head.

According to the system, you will not be caught in the wide-range magic used by your allies.

If that were the case, Alice would not have been an essential character but she would have become a character that had to be assassinated or killed through a trick early on.

Whether she is an enemy or an ally, she has the power to turn the battlefield upside down.

However, according to the system, the only cases where area-area magic was applied to allies were classified as hell magic, so star magic is the strongest magic.

‘Still, when something so scary falls, how does it not jump out?’

Like a dinosaur that doesn’t want to go extinct, I grabbed Ophelia’s arm and started running, but I could feel it as I almost rolled down the hill.

“Huh! Huh!”

This body is still extremely weak!

Before, I had a body that would kill me if I hit it, but now I am at least as good as a modern person who lacks exercise, but I had forgotten that even just 30 seconds of sprinting like this would kill me.

“Ah.”

And the moment I saw the meteorite falling from above my head, I realized it.

This wasn’t something that could be solved just by running.

“It’s ruined…”

The moment I was dazed, looking up at the sky in despair, Ophelia pushed my body down, laid me down, and climbed on top of me.

‘Huh?!’

I was embarrassed because I had experienced this situation a while ago, but Ophelia, with her stern face, wrapped my head in her arms and was whispering something of her own.

“Please, please, please, please… If I do well… If it’s ‘this body’, maybe… I don’t know, but even if it’s just Aren…”

And finally.

The star touched the ground.

——-!!!

With a shock wave that turned the world upside down, the hill we had just come down from a hard time disintegrated into dust and rose up into the sky, and the trees were broken and decomposed into sawdust on the spot.

The wolves that remained in the forest were disappearing without a trace, as if they had been hit by my wooden sword.

Kwaaaaang-!!

A loud noise came late after some time had passed.

The speed of the shock wave was less than that, but it felt like I was going to lose my mind, so I hugged Ophelia’s body and she held on to me.

“Uuuuu…!!”

I could tell.

While other objects and all terrain are crushed and disappear, we only get the feeling of a slightly strong wind blowing.

‘The system is applied…!’

If it had not been applied, we would have been crushed just like the wolves hiding among the trees.

However, overwhelmed by the sight of things around me being destroyed, I could only tremble in the arms of Ophelia, who closed her eyes tightly and muttered ‘Please, just Aren’ as if she were praying.

Gooooo…

Finally, the shock wave and heavy drinking end, and the dust-filled forest… No, what used to be a forest regains stability.

Originally, when a meteorite impact like this occurred, the aftermath would not have ended this quickly, but because this was a fantasy world with different laws from reality, it ended like this.

“Haa…Haa…”

With her cold sweat dripping off her face her, Ophelia carefully let go of her hair her in her arms her her her.

“Aren! Aren! Are you okay? Are you hurt?”

“It’s heavy.”

“Move your fingers. Your legs, and your body…”

“You’re not hurt at all. Look carefully.”

When I held Ophelia’s hand and let her touch my face, only then did Ophelia relax her expression as if she was relieved.

“What about Ophelia?”

“Huh? I’m fine too. It doesn’t hurt.”

Although she was not harmed by the star’s magic, she was not protected from objects flying by the shock wave, and things like tree branches and stones were stuck in her back.

“This? It’s just dust, dust.”

Actually, when I brushed off my hair, pieces fell out, but due to the systematic restriction of not damaging allies, I didn’t get hurt even if they got stuck in my body.

‘Still… This is difficult enough’

It seemed like wood chips and sand had gotten into the space between her clothes, as it was scratching every time she moved her neck.

When you fire a meteor as Alice in the game, if you fire it near an ally, your favorability will not drop for no reason.

Tuk-tuk.

After shaking off some of the twigs and stone fragments from my clothes, I was finally able to check my surroundings.

“…You’re crazy.”

After a while, the place that had been a hill just before became a basin dug deeper than before… No, it collapsed, leaving only a crater.

The place we fled to was originally at the bottom of a hill, but now it is the highest area, and the basin that was just infested with wolves has been dug down to the bottom and the rocky mountain has evaporated.

Of course, the leader wolf and the elite wolf pack all melted away in one blow.

‘Let’s use it carefully from now on’

I was able to finish the first battle with the highest score by making up my mind that if I had Alice in my party, I would make sure to drop her in a place far away from my allies.

And while looking at the view beyond the rocky mountain of the wolf that had collapsed beneath the ground in the distance, I patted Ophelia on the back and talked to her.

“Do you want to go back first?”

“Why?”

“I’m going to stop by the bathroom.”

“You can’t do it because it’s dangerous. From the side…”

Ophelia, who was about to say it was dangerous, looked around.

Looking at the forest that had disappeared as cleanly as if it had been completely erased, there was nothing that could be said to be dangerous.

There were no threatening beasts or even trees, just flat terrain, so there was no danger whatsoever.

And because the terrain was like this, there were more useful excuses.

“Can’t you just cover it up and look from nearby?”

“There’s nowhere to hide.”

“I’m going to see everything later anyway.”

No, you and I don’t have anything like that.

“I’ll go and change first, so come back quickly.”

“Yes.”

So he sent Ophelia first.

“Inori.”

When I called out to Inori using ‘voice’, I could see Inori trudging across the flat terrain.

His face looked the same as mine, but I would say he looked a little cool and calm.

‘If you look closely, it has a sexy face… Is that because it’s Inori or is it the original?’

Hmm, this face is like a pretty boy.

“Is Inori okay?”

“Yes. Because I hid in the shadows, I was not physically affected.”

Well, Ophelia and I got a piece of wood on her head and it was covered in dust and it was a mess, but Inori seemed fine.

“Instead, there was no shadow to hide in, so I had to walk from far away.”

Because the terrain was flattened, it was not a good situation to use the shadow technique of moving between the shadows of objects.

“Good job. What about Alice?”

“I lost it right after I used star magic.”

“What…Really?”

Since they can’t go back earlier than us, they’re roughly around here… That would mean they’re hiding beyond the flattened terrain.

“Do you track?”

“No, don’t worry about it. Inori goes back first and rests.”

“…”

“It won’t take long. I have somewhere to check briefly.”

I said that and pointed to a place beyond the crater.

“Personally, I would like to protect my lord. However, if it is my lord’s order, there is nothing I can do. I will wait here.”

Still, I decided to be satisfied with this since I had received some concessions.

Pieces of wood and sand were piled up on top of it, so Ophelia and Inori, who didn’t know there was something there, thought it was just terrain and passed over it, but as someone who tried to subdue her myself, I could tell that the small hill over there was where the cabin was.

The roof disappeared and it looked like it was half collapsed.

‘In the game, it was not possible to affect beyond the map used in the mission, so even if you hit Wolf’s Rock with a meteor, it would have no effect…’

Even though I knew it was right nearby, I didn’t know that it would be affected by Meteor and collapse.

I was shocked that the system application was so self-indulgent, but I wanted to check what happened to the bandits.

When I checked the bandit’s hut along the edge of the crater, the entire terrain had been turned over by the star’s magic, and the bandits who were supposed to be inside had collapsed in a heap.

“Hwiyu… That’s bullshit.”

It would have been easy to find if the surrounding terrain had been completely blown away, but this place was slightly out of the striking range, so it was a mess with flying debris.

It should be full of men with bushy beards, but let’s skip the fact that it was changed to mass-produced female thieves wearing tight-fitting clothing.

Because the basics of adult mode are to change the original humanoid enemies into enemies wearing sexy clothes.

As I concentrated my mind and strained my eyes, the faces of mass-produced bandit NPCs began to appear one by one in the red transparent window.

‘Generally, I don’t see the status window of characters who are unlikable or hostile to me, but combat situations are an exception.’

In a combat situation, it was necessary to check the opponent’s remaining life or obtain minimal information such as movement power and attack power, so it was possible to check the opponent’s abilities to a limited extent.

The remaining stamina

‘Rather than death, subjugation?’

If you were hit by the star magic dropped by Alice without system correction, the moment you got caught, you would have disappeared without leaving a trace like wolves, but the bandits were pinned to 0 health and were suppressed.

[Suppression: 37 minutes remaining]

Among the basic systems of Celestial Academy, there was no suppression.

As the story progresses, when you defeat an opponent, you do not kill them, but rather capture them and imprison them. I have never seen them directly suppressed like this. Is this also a feature added to adult mode?

‘The fact that there is a system like this that isn’t in the original means that there are situations where the suppression state can be used.’

As for the suppression time, the closer it was to the center of the explosion, the longer the suppression time remained, and the further away it was, the shorter it was, so it seemed like the more damage it inflicted when taking it down, the longer it would be suppressed.

I tried to go inside the bandit’s hut to avoid the fallen mass-produced mobs, but the building had already collapsed, so there was no need to open the door and go in.

Crispy!

When I used a wooden sword to cut off the upper part of the roof, the collapsed upper part shattered and disappeared, and I entered the hut with only the wall remaining.

– Bandit leader William –

– Overpower: 4 minutes and 21 seconds remaining –

Although its original appearance had been completely altered to resemble a female sword with a unique shape, it could be confirmed by the eye patch with leaf embroidery worn on one eye, the name that appeared in the status window, and the vitality value of 270.

That character’s eyes are normal, and the eyepatch matches the original appearance of William, the 2m tall bandit leader, so there was a problem that in his smaller body, the eyepatch looked like a loose accessory rather than an eyepatch.

‘Actually, I didn’t have any intention of killing him…’

The bandit leader William was a special NPC who had his own unique dialogue and instead of catching him all at once, he only annihilated his subordinates and made them run away. After chasing him three times, he would give in and become an external helper.

However, because there were no characteristics, the performance was not very good, and if William was at the level to join, the friends raised properly were much stronger, and above all, performance characters such as the Knights and Cylians were disliked, so there was a need to waste three practice opportunities to look for them. There was no.

Thanks to this, I should say that he is an unlucky NPC who is often not even interacted with unless he plays a certain concept.

‘But if you catch it once instead of three times, it’s good for earning early points…’

This is why I came alone, leaving Inori behind. After thinking for a moment, I took out his wooden sword and pointed it at William.

[Do you really want to kill the suppressed opponent?]

‘Huh?’

A different message rang in my ears than when I attacked the wolf earlier.

“What is it? Is it a special reaction?”

When I raised the sword again, the same confirmation message rang out asking if I really wanted to kill him.

‘Is there another purpose?’

I lowered my wooden sword just in case, and only then was I presented with another option.

[Would you like to use Companion Trainer on a suppressed opponent? Number of times remaining: 3/3]

As soon as I returned the wooden sword to my belt, a glowing orb was created in the air.

– Beginner enslavement illusion –

– You can make the opponent defeat your slave. The opponent cannot refuse the order of the person who fed it (Level 15 or lower) –

Oh yeah. There’s something like this in adult mode.