Chapter 244 – Manipulation (3)

Rosé’s strengths are that Rosé’s excellent martial arts skills allow her to engage in pure melee combat with a powerful single entity, her powerful instantaneous attack power, and her strengthening magic, which rips enemies apart with terrifyingly condensed mana, shows destructive power beyond imagination.
The role that Rosé was playing in the four-person connection was to be protected by the four and deliver a definite blow at the decisive moment.
Siena is in charge of defense, Arna is to paralyze, control, and attack enemies, and Louise is to intervene and connect the two. Rosé’s role is to deliver a critical hit the moment she receives a signal from one of the three.

In other words, unless it’s time to inflict a fatal blow, you’re waiting and gathering strength, so in this situation, only Rose is left with a hand.
There is no choice but to have Rosé deal with the fluorescent butterflies.
However, it would be a waste of power to have fluorescent butterflies consume the power that should be conserved in order to deal with a huge and strong object because hallucinations do not work.

Rosé, whose hallucinogenic powder of fluorescent butterflies does not penetrate, enters between the butterflies and each time she swings her dagger, the butterflies fall one by one.
When a fluorescent butterfly flying silently in a dark place flickers the light from its wings, it is aiming for the moment when it emits light and reveals itself.
The moment I noticed that fact, the butterflies all at once extinguished the light.

“Kuh…!”

Naturally, Rosé’s combat fatigue increased.
It wastes more of his mana, and takes longer.
The fluorescent butterflies thoroughly consumed the rosé.

Sienna spread a thin layer of ice on the floor to stop the tentacle snakes crawling on the floor.
That’s the method I’ve used before, but things are different now.
As soon as I was a little worried about the tunnels dug by the giant moles, the tentacle snakes all hid in the tunnels and began digging together in groups of several.

Louie’s strength is in defending against large attacks, slowly building up damage to the opponent before exploding.
In the linkage, it seems to be in charge of another defense that supports the defense teammates, but it is actually in a key position.
You can launch a powerful melee attack by firing an explosion like a bombardment from the tip of a spear, and show delicate defense with shield skills accumulated through experience.

It specializes in protecting allies, countering, and dealing with huge enemies.
However, the accuracy of the attack and the maximum magic power are lowered.
As such, they are not accustomed to attacking many and small ones.

“For a moment… Why only me!”
“Senior!”

Tentacle snakes from under the ground, and fluorescent butterflies from above, feeling the tentacle snake injecting vaginal fluid into Louis, fly over and attack Louis.
At that moment, Sienna stopped building an ice wall and placed her hand on Louis.
Tentacle snakes and fluorescent butterflies freeze and fall.

Sienna’s strengths lie in her fine magic attribute control and skillful position change.
Her ice-based magic is capable of both powerful physical and magical blows.
Being able to increase her armor, increase her own movement speed, or slow her opponents is a huge advantage.

However, the ice produced by Siena is characterized by a decrease in strength as the size increases.
It is a chronic problem that can not be helped by making ice with magic power and strengthening it with magic power.
As such, when Siena is concentrating on her defense, Louis’ role in assisting Siena’s lack of defense is important.

“Oh… ! This, these children… Ha… !”

When such Louis came into contact with the tentacle snake and the fluorescent butterfly, her mana was sucked in in an instant, and he became addicted to the highly concentrated vaginal fluid and vaginal powder.
The moment Louis couldn’t move properly, the defensive linkage between the two was bound to be greatly shaken.
In my mind, I admired the unknown Commander entity.

I don’t know who the Negative giving the orders is, but he must be a very good guy.
As if he had watched magical girls for a long time, he grasped them in an instant and started targeting the core little by little.
Even if I control the infected, they will do what they want to attack in this way one after another.

The moment I thought that fluorescent butterflies, tentacle snakes, and giant moles were not enough, the curtains on the ceiling drooped.
As a plant-type infectious agent, Curtain has the regenerative ability to quickly regenerate even if it is cut.
Cutting just one part won’t kill it, so you can only kill it by removing a large amount at once, destroying the means of attack as much as possible, and then rooting it out and burning it.

Among the magical girls, Louis can deal with the curtain most effectively.
If you block the front with a shield, jump up to the ceiling and pierce the spear and blow it up, you will be able to burn the roots right away and kill them.
However, Louis had already ceased to be in a normal state.

No matter how much Rosé and Sienna cut, Curtain can regenerate the stem right from the wound.
Its weakness is heat attacks, and the only thing left is Arna.
But… That’s a trap

When Siena and Arna link their magic together, they use an attack that either conducts lightning through the ice and reflects it, or spreads and releases it.
If you show it this many times, even the commander can’t help but notice.
There are too many objects around Siena who uses ice magic that Arna’s attack can be conducted.

“Kyaaaaa?!”
“Kuu?!”
“Siena!”

Knowing this, the commander ordered her curtains to conduct lightning through the hanging stem to the ice like a lightning rod, deliberately hitting Arna’s magic, who was careful not to let her attacks touch Siena.
In order to burn and kill numerous curtains at once, the attack was rained down on Siena.
Arna broke her spell as soon as she realized that she had attacked Sienna with all her power, but she was too late.

Arna’s greatest strength is her magic expression speed.
The moment she uses her magic, lightning magic at the speed of light shoots out at a speed that even Arna herself cannot perceive, attacking her opponent.
Siena, Rosé, and Louis could reverse the attack depending on the situation after attacking, but Arna couldn’t do that.

“Ha… ! Ha… ! Oops… !”

It is an incident that can instantly break the friendly fire by her colleagues and the high morale even if it is not intentional.
Anxiety that her opponents can undo her magic at any time makes her attack difficult.
Many of the curtains died at once, but there are still many left.

“Commander! Find the commander!”

Only then did Louis, realizing that the situation was getting serious, exclaimed urgently.
The opponent is only a curtain, a fluorescent butterfly, and a giant infected with one arm cut off by a tentacle snake.
Tentacle snakes and fluorescent butterflies can be caught even by low-level magical girls if they are careful, and curtains are minor infections that even ordinary people can deal with if they wear protective clothing.

However, the situation is getting worse because the infected are attacking and hunting magical girls as if they know all their weaknesses.
It is clear that there is an entity giving orders somewhere.
But it was too late for her to realize that.

Louis, who is in charge of her secondary defense, is in a state of liquor poisoning, and Sienna has suffered a huge blow that even a magical girl can’t bear, and her reaction has become dull overall.
One has to protect two, and only one can move.
Rosé specializes in eliminating single objects, and the magic or fighting method she uses is not suitable for personal protection.
Likewise, Arna specializes in escape, pursuit, and mass annihilation.

The only thing that can move is Rose, and Rose immediately spreads his magic power wide to find the Commander entity.
Infectious agents reacting to Rosé’s magic cling to Rosé.
It seems that he made the choice to find and destroy the commander, even at the cost of a little sacrifice.

“Oh no?! Why?!”

But for some reason, Rose couldn’t find the Commander entity.
What Rose can’t find… It means the commander is hiding somewhere.
I honestly admired a commander I had never seen before.

This guy is quite mean and cautious.
Negatives that give orders are stronger and smarter than other infected.
But even so, it’s a negative, if the magical girl is weakening this much, it’s clear that she wants to eat on her own.

Still doesn’t come out… As if he was going to leave only after the situation was completely over, he continued to give orders so that the insignificant infection could play with the magical girls, even while giving away meals to the serious punks.
Is she strong enough to think that she can always taste something like a magical girl?
I don’t know what kind of guy he is, but he’s dangerous… But now… Super helpful

More than anything else, it’s amazing to use these insignificant infectants like this.
The curtain controls Arna, the fluorescent butterfly controls Rose, the tentacle snake controls Louie, and the giant mole controls Sienna.
It’s not hunting or attacking, it’s containment.

In any battle, it is harder to defeat the defending opponent than to defeat the attacking opponent.
This is what the NPC told me in a tactical training game for training soldiers that I played in the National Guard when I was a trainee.
If so, wouldn’t it be stronger if you attack while defending?

As I thought I had done sometime ago, the infected continued to leave their leeway even though they seemed to attack.
Attacks are the least infectious agents that can cause mental and physical stress.
If you see a gap while maintaining a defensive check, attack, make sure that the tension cannot be slowed down, and gradually pressurize.

Fluorescent butterflies cover Rosé’s vision and blink repeatedly, causing her to frown.
When Arna tries to use her magic, the curtain deliberately stretches and stretches a stem near Siena and Louie.
Rather than attacking Siena, the giant mole breaks the ice wall to make it easier for other infected organisms to operate.
The tentacle snake continues to climb up Louie’s legs, becoming more and more unstoppable, sucking the liquid that runs down her legs.

“This, something like this… ! Things like this… !”

Louis lowered her spear in anger as if she was resentful that she was being beaten by these guys, and with her hand she ripped off the tentacle snakes one by one and burst them.
Since they are low-level infectious entities that are too embarrassed to even call for support, they lose their temper all the more because they are opponents who would think it was strange that they lost.
You killed the giant mole so easily, but these are miscellaneous infestations that are less than food for the giant mole… I’m getting more and more short of breath.

“Oh~”

I applauded the cooperation of the low-level infected and imagined what the Commander entity would be like.
It is clear that she possesses an ignorant power of observation that seems to grasp all of the magical girl’s weaknesses.
Executive level… No, there’s no way executives play with infectious agents, so they must be elite at best… But it must be a highly intelligent entity.

Then… Is it the mind eye that sees from a distance?
It is a negative that uses mental attacks that look like one large eyeball is floating.
That… I don’t think anyone is as smart as this… Maybe it’s better to think that there is one mutant…

Either way, this is an opportunity.
Something huge… Heaven must be helping me.
I just gathered a lot of infected and tried to call Rapid, but the commander object came out and controlled the infected.

It’s not even a low-level commander who does trivial maneuvering.
Reliably identifying weaknesses and carefully pressing the enemy… As a human being, he is disgusting and cowardly to the point of suffocating.
What he must have looked like was a grumpy fellow, jumbled up with tentacles and chunks of meat.

“Whoops… Hehe…”

Laughter erupts spontaneously from your mouth.
I fell into joy as I watched the magical girls gradually waste their magical powers and try to defeat the lower-level infected, with no way to do anything about it.
Much faster than I planned, much faster than I thought.

I thought I would have to repeat it for a week or so, but the commander who suddenly fell out of nowhere helps me.
This is destiny
It is the support of the fateful attraction that tells me to meet Rapid.