Chapter 200 – This Is Magic

With the help of Iris and Iona, I flew to the middle of the waterfall.

As Elisha cuts her waterway, a hidden gate emerges beyond it.

Helena swallowed her saliva and opened her mouth.

“… Come to think of it, this is my first time trying to clear a dungeon, brother.”

“Is that so? Since you are a righteous priest of light, you must have fought a lot, which is surprising.”

“Yes. I killed a lot of them, but they were all managed dungeons like the practice dungeons we had together before.”

“Aha?”

Dungeons make money.

As a result, quite a few dungeons are managed by the owner of the territory, and profits are raised by collecting monster materials or rare resources from within.

Thanks to such an easygoing mindset, the cultists later run amok in the dungeon and cause a wave of monsters…

Anyway, the current dungeon was treated like a mine.

Of course, you shouldn’t clear these dungeons by attacking them. No one wants to rip open the belly of the platypus that lays the golden eggs.

Unless it’s a really dangerous dungeon, it’s normal for the lord to manage not to enter a place that’s deeper than a certain amount.

But that doesn’t mean Helena has the skills to enter the dangerous dungeon that recruits attackers.

“Well, even if it’s a dungeon raid, it’s no big deal, so don’t worry. … No, don’t get too excited.”

“Ah… Calmly… Yes. I know.”

Helena, ashamed as if she had been found out.

Seeing that, she smiled and nodded her head at Iris and Iona.

“Let’s go in now.”

The gate slowly approaches. I threw myself towards a place that looked like a whirlpool of blue particles.

In an instant, the landscape is distorted and then completely transformed.

It must have been a few meters floating in the air, but the feeling of the ground touching the soles of my feet clearly. The loud sound of the waterfall and the feeling of the water breaking and clinging to the skin were gone.

As if instead, an open meadow spread out in front of my eyes.

Except for a few scattered trees, the terrain is free of obstacles.

Women who naturally take out weapons while looking around. I also took out my dagger and iron staff and opened my mouth.

“Fortunately, it is as expected. Wave type. The monster is a slime. It’s an ordinary acidic slime, but be careful because they will combine with each other later.”

“Yes! Master!”

“Please leave this to me.”

Carla and Elisha nodded and prepared to fight.

Did she think she didn’t have to step out? Iris and Iona leisurely stood in the center.

It’s a good opportunity to gain combat experience, so I won’t intervene unless something happens.

Fei, who lacks combat power, is hiding between the two and waving her hand slightly.

Seeing us form in perfect order, Helena blinked in embarrassment.

“Yeah… Brother? Have you ever been to this dungeon?”

“It is the first time I have been here in person. I was only aware of it… Ah, Priest Helena, please stand by me. Monsters will come soon.”

“Ah, yes.”

Still, because it’s a dungeon, Helena, who listens well, stands next to me and pulls out her mace.

It feels like there is something special power in it rather than simply being well-groomed.

Somehow, he carried a mace even when he prayed… It must have been consecrated every day.

Helena, swinging her mace in the air and lightly loosening her shoulders, opened her mouth cautiously.

“Information… Are they the ones who took Ayla’s gaze after defeating her and took her brother?”

“Hmm… The members of the Church of Light came as reinforcements, so Helena-sama must have known about it. You’re right. This is the information we got there.”

“I’m sorry for seeming to keep asking questions. Come to think of it, I feel like I didn’t know much about you…”

“It’s okay. We decided to spend time together during vacation to get to know each other anyway, right?”

“Whoops. That’s it too. Later, when the opportunity arises, we will share a more in-depth story… For now, I’ll start with the buff first.”

Helena recited her prayers as she glared at the slime that slowly rose from the floor.

Light illuminating the surroundings. It is a group buff that spreads widely, not an individual buff, perhaps because it has grown more than during the dungeon practice.

“Oh…”

First of all, is it normal body strengthening? In addition, the advantage of sacred art is that it can be strengthened by using magic or aura.

Sacred arts are words that strengthen the body, but fundamentally, it’s no different than a god giving strength instead.

Gurgling. Kuruk.

Grassland… The slimes began to take shape in the land where they used to be.

Something like a human, something like a beast, something like a simple lump.

Each slime took a different form, but they all had one thing in common.

It is the fact that there is a dark red core somewhere in the translucent body.

As their cores glowed and their bodily fluids turned dark red, Helena’s second buff was activated.

“… The stronghold of the Lord will come here!”

A subtle radiance covering the whole body. The Citadel of Light, a buff that specializes in absorbing physical attacks.

Against normal slimes with no magical abilities to speak of, this is the best.

What to do if your body is acidic In addition to having to hit the body directly, the power I had was not that strong.

Bean! Bean! Bean!

While I was thinking about something else for a while. The slimes finally run towards us.

I think it’s at most about the size of the knee. Even though it has a strong resistance to physical attacks above that level, it would be meaningless if it was that small.

The danger of this dungeon lies in its wave form itself.

A type that is created when monsters that are sometimes crowded are trapped in a dungeon all at once.

Compared to other dungeons, each monster’s ability is often inferior, but the number of objects is many times greater.

As soon as someone enters the dungeon, they notice it and attack them all at once.

But if it’s ranged attacks and mass destruction here, it’s a party of thugs.

No matter how many heads he has, he will never be pushed back by an opponent of a lower level.

Rather, they are like moving targets that are perfect for testing what you’ve learned so far.

It turned into a dark red wave and aimed the staff at the approaching slimes.

“The back side is stronger than us, so you don’t have to worry about it. Just focus on the enemy in front of you.”

“All right. … So, when can I rush?”

“That wizard. I don’t do rushing.”

“Ah, it was… Sorry…”

Helena, who was sullen to the point of being visible. If you think about it, it seems that she was a wizard and often cut with a knife.

After hearing our conversation, Iona said in a clear voice.

“Yandel students! Yandel students! Me and Iris are watching anyway, so it’s okay for her to run amok as she pleases! And… Isn’t it the perfect environment to test out what you’ve learned from me this time?”

“Her?”

Surely. These guys are relatively sluggish, and their attack power is not enough to pierce my shield.

You’re even receiving support from Helena’s sacred arts right now, aren’t you?

There is nothing dangerous unless it is the super-sized slime that appears at the end of the wave.

After a moment of thought, he nodded his head.

“All right. But I will try it after using intermediate magic a few times.”

“Yep. It also required practical experience. There are a lot of monsters anyway, so do whatever you feel comfortable with!”

Shrugging her shoulders, she said to Helena.

“Now that it’s like that, let’s charge together after shooting a few magics from a distance.”

“… Yes!”

Helena nodded with a happy expression on her face. It seems that her shoulder is quite expected from now on.

If she’s pure, she’s docile. She smiled at that figure and looked at the slime that was still bouncing around.

Let’s see… If possible, it would be better to use magic that has not been used before.

Pounding.

A heart that reacts naturally when mana is raised. The heavy beating sound that only I can hear resonates around me.

Feeling the mana in her air responding, she slowly opened her mouth.

“”Breath of the Tyrant. Raging fury. Sharpness to hack. I beg you, please give me the calamity.』”

Ugh-

Every single word that comes out of the mouth becomes a declaration and is engraved in the world.

The magical energy inside the body and the magical energy of the atmosphere are mixed together, and take the form contained in my will.

What is imaged is the whirling blade of wind.

“”Sharpness Hurricane.””

After reciting the start language, nothing happened for a while.

The moment Helena, who was very excited about this, tilted her head. Suddenly, the central part of the group of slimes rose abruptly.

Whoop-

And the calm wind suddenly turned wild and began to gather toward her uplifted body.

The wind, which only stirred a few slimes, engulfed the wind around them and gradually inflated their bodies.

A gentle breeze becomes a whirlwind, and a whirlwind turns into a blizzard.

And the wind whirled and turned into a small storm.

Kwaaaaa!!

A terrifying majesty that can be recognized even from a distance.

A ruthless magic that pulled all the slimes in the area and grinded everything it touched at the same time unfolded.

Just looking at it makes me feel refreshed, something that fills me up with tears.

Okay. This is magic

Shiba, this is magic…

It means raising a wizard for this feeling of sweeping away enemies at once.

It’s been awhile since I’ve been impressed with the power that is on a different level from the low-level magic I’ve used or the combination of elements based on it.

For some reason, Helena, who was next to her, started stamping her feet.

“… There is still a lot left, so don’t worry, Priest Helena.”

“Phew. If so, I’m glad.”

I mean, he’s an easy-to-understand person.