Chapter 123 – How to Save the Race.

“Hehe! Hehe!”

Inaba ran and ran. She was so out of breath and so thirsty that she felt like she was going to die, but she had to run.

‘More! We have to go faster! ‘Boom!’

Otherwise, her people, who had lost all their men to the water spirit, might become extinct.

‘Now! It means that we have finally brought our savior. ‘Boom!’

Perhaps she had finally brought in the person who could most definitely prevent their extinction, but she was just about to take a breath and run again with the determination that she could not lose them in vain like this.

“Boom? This sound…?”

Her sensitive ears caught an unfamiliar sound coming from above and when she raised her head.

“Poof?! Ha, are you flying in the sky? Poof?!”

To be exact, it was close to being thrown by Tiaran, but in her eyes, it only looked like it was flying in the sky.

-Quaaaaa!!!

“Ugh! Why, this! So strong!”

Crusha took the lead and raised her shield to block the water jets fired by the aqua slime, preventing them from reaching Lucia.

“Don’t let your guard down! Water is heavier than it looks, so even a little bit of it can be dangerous!”

“Because I’m experiencing it firsthand! There’s no way I don’t know!”

Krusha blocked the first stream of water, but the next one was the problem. She was in mid-flight, but as she blocked the stream, her momentum was reduced, and she was pushed back, with the stream still shooting towards Lucia.

“Anise!”

“Yes. Leave it to me.”

In the end, on behalf of Crusha, who was positioned behind Lucia, Anise drew her holy sword and swung it towards her water stream.

“[Color Kaido]!”

That was Anise’s favorite spell. Basically, it had the effect of strengthening the attack, but what was important was the additional effect.

-Quaaaaa!

She cut off her water stream and blocked the attack from reaching Lucia. Originally, Anis would have been pushed back like Krusha at that point, but Anis is still in the lead.

The true value of ‘Color Kaido’ is that rather than strengthening the attack, it adds the option of not being able to interfere with the movements performed by the caster.

Unless the opponent is quite overwhelming at the time that spell is used, Anise’s movements cannot be blocked. It also did its job well in the air.

“There’s one more left!”

However, three streams of water were shot out by the light blue slime, and there was still one more remaining, aiming for Lucia, as if it had been shot exactly to match the number of girls.

However, since Anis had already used Maka’s spell, the inevitable delay could not be helped. Maca requires some recovery time once used.

“Lucia. Please do me a favor.”

Anise seemed to have already made up her mind and raised her holy sword to catch the stream of water that followed her and retreated behind her.

“Now…!”

Finally, all obstacles between Lucia and the giant slime disappeared. In addition, her Maka energy that she had stored up with [Explementum] Has also accumulated to its limit.

“[Quito Fulguetra]!!”

Without hesitation, she fires the most powerful [Kito Pulgetra] Loaded with all that energy at the light blue slime.

-Kurgorneung !!!

“Kyaaaaat?!”

Then, with a thunderous sound echoing through the sky, even Lucia, who had actually used the spell, was pushed out by Maka’s aftermath.

“W-Maka?! Is that Maka? Boom!?”

Meanwhile, Inaba, who was watching the situation above while running to the village, was astonished when he saw the lightning bolt shot out by Lucia and its afterimage.

‘It’s a power that most Macaroons can’t even dream of. ‘Boom!’

She is also a shrine maiden of the rabbit tribe, and her role is similar to that of Macia, so she couldn’t help but realize how absurd her power was.

‘With that level, I can definitely save my people! ‘Boom!’

Although Inaba was happy, she continued to run towards the village. I noticed something was wrong.

‘… The monster didn’t fall? Boop?!’

Because the machia of the monster she sensed was still alive and well. No, the scale was reduced as if it had clearly suffered damage, but it felt like it had been divided into small pieces.

“Ugh, ears… What about slime?”

When Lucia finally regained her balance in the air and checked what happened to the slime, it seemed like [Kito Pulguetra] Was a clear hit.

Not only did the unique daylight remain like an afterimage in the air, but at the end of the daylight was a light blue slime with a large hole in the center of its body, with smoke rising from it.

“Success!”

“Thank goodness.”

“Phew, what if I fail?”

It took a moment for the girls to cheer and be happy after seeing that.

“Wait a minute, Lucia.”

-Bubble Bubble Bubble

Anise was the first to notice that the slime was in a strange state.

“Is that thing being divided?!”

The slime was no longer able to maintain its shape and was collapsing, but on the contrary, it was dividing as if a new slime was being born based on the collapsed body and was attacking the rabbit beastman’s village.

“That’s ridiculous! You definitely destroyed Machia?”

It was an even more incomprehensible sight for Lucia. All monsters or demons have Machia and move with their heart.

No matter how slime it is, if Machia is destroyed, it is the same as losing its heart, so it can no longer divide and disperses.

Therefore, Lucia also sensed the machia felt inside the light blue slime and aimed and shot it. How can she divide anew when she has seen a clear hit?

“Monster?”

“Could it be that slime?”

Anise mumbled as if she sensed something at that moment, and Crusha seemed skeptical.

“… Other than that, there is no explanation.”

Lucia thought her opinion was quite persuasive. Whether it’s a monster or a demon, if you destroy Machia, you die. But wasn’t there one exception?

A monster that is too strong to be a monster, but has no reason to be considered a demon. In addition, they cannot be called monsters or demons, and have heterogeneous characteristics that are unique to each individual.

“But I’ve never heard of a monster like that before?”

“It can’t be helped. Monsters cannot be classified into separate races.”

The monsters that appeared in the last Sorrent were like that in the first place. A monster with one male monster and two female monsters forming a trinity of three and one.

If the three Machias were not destroyed at the same time, they would constantly come back to life and wreak havoc. It was truly worthy of being called a weapon of the demons.

“What should I do? Lucia, can’t you take care of those guys with a marker?”

“… No way. The distance is too far and each slime is too small to be detected with a search.”

If the distance was close, I would have been able to select specific ones through search and deal with them with [Raudo Fulgor], But the distance is far and there are even rabbit beastmen among them.

“If you’re not careful, even the prisoners will get involved.”

“Like that.”

It was a time when I wondered if I had to wait and see what happened to the rabbit beastmen.

“Oh, wait a minute!”

“What is Tia?”

“Already?!”

When Krusha discovered something and made a gesture, they were able to see Tiaran arriving close to the beast people’s village.

“Huh, how can a human be faster than I? Boop?!”

Inaba was trembled. Wasn’t she in the middle of running to her village when someone suddenly snatched her and ran with her? And at a faster rate than her own.

“If you can’t do this, you can’t make a living as an adventurer!”

His identity was, of course, Tiaran.

“Are all humans like this? Boop?!”

“I’m not a human! I’m an adventurer!”

“What’s the difference?! Boom!”

Soon, he arrived at the rabbit beastman’s village faster than the party members he had sent away first.

“Run!”

“Aaaaah!”

“I hate it!!”

Soon, we were able to see the sight of small, divided slimes scurrying around and trying to attack the rabbit beastmen.

“It wasn’t an ordinary monster after all.”

“Don’t you know that just by looking at it? Boom!”

Even though Machia is destroyed, slimes that create new Machia and divide do not appear anywhere.

“But I guess I won’t be picky anymore.”

“What are you talking about…?”

Inaba could no longer speak. That is, when Tiaran jumps directly into the midst of the fleeing rabbit beasts and the swarms of slimes chasing them.

-Grrr!

“I don’t like it! Let go of this!”

-Wow!

“Eh?”

I moved between them like water, targeting only the slimes, and started dealing them out by pulling out their machias with just two fingers.

-Push!

“Hmm, it’s perfect for a warm-up!”

Eventually, it took less than 20 seconds for all the slimes to lose their machia and melt away. It ended so quickly that even the rabbit beasts that were running away were just looking at Tiaran with dumbfounded faces.

“What on earth are adventurers like?! Boo!?”

Inaba eventually came to the conclusion that adventurers only looked the same as humans, but were a completely different race, like a sub-race. Unfortunately, Lucia, who would correct her mistake, was still flying to the village.