“Oh ice shards, pierce.”
The Ghost King murmured order-like words, and from the tip of his staff, sharp ice filled our vision. I counted up to ten, but gave up on the rest.
“They’re coming!”
“Welcome.”
Don’t worry, because for this kind of thing, I’ll show you that I can block all of them.
<Points reduced by 1; points reduced by 1; points reduced by 1 –>
The points are being reduced every second and when the ice shards make a direct hit. The notifications are flowing through my head like a waterfall.
But I have a lot of points left, so this amount of reduction isn’t a problem.
“Fumu, what a troublesome divine blessing. And that girl there … no, it’s the soul residing within the magic tool behind her, hm? Then fire … was nothing to it. Then blow, devastate, oh wind.”
So after the ice shower is a gale. Even though it looked like we’d reach our enemy in just a few more steps.
The wind blasting from ahead of us gouged out the ground outside of <Barrier> and disappeared behind us along with the tombstones.
Like this, the wind is blocked, but our surface area has been increased due to <Barrier>, and we’re taking the complete effect of the wind.
“Fuhahaha. There are many ways to deal with an invincible Barrier. Now, be blown away with your Barrier … n?”
The celebrating Ghost King stared at us, mouth wide open.
Within the heavy winds that are blowing layers off the ground, Ramis is consistently moving forward. The wind pressure is definitely amazing, but Ramis is continuing to walk ahead as her feet sink into the ground.
“Why are you not being blown away? What have you done, magic that interferes with Gale?”
Nope, it’s just super-strength. She’s fighting it with brute force.
“Don’t lose to wind or hail, attack squad, destroy, destroy.”
Ramis, pushing forward with sheer strength, is muttering dangerous words.
“Not ice, nor wind, nor fire have much effect … then, how about this? Oh earth, wail and scream.”
Are those words necessary for the spell, I wonder? I think it’s cool, but when I hear them, my heart shudders. Right, I feel like I’ve returned to a middle school, 2nd year, where every boy was afflicted with a certain disease.
-whoops, it’s not time to be thinking about stupid things. The ground at her feet cracks open and shudders. And, with a roar, the ground splits in two, and an abyss opens wide its maw.
“W,waita-!”
I can’t let Ramis tumble head over heels and fall like that. I form change into the <Cardboard Vending Machine>. With this, it should reduce the burden on Ramis by several hundred kilos.
“Dang yooouu-!1”
Ramis kicked the side of the abyss and flew diagonally upwards, and when she reached the opposite side of the abyss she continued to kick. Repeating that and kicking her way up the wall, it’s like a ninja action game.
“There is a delectable human within.2 Oh maw, close.”
The walls are coming closer and closer, but right before it closed, Ramis’ last kick sent her flying sky high.
“What-!”
He was shocked seeing Ramis souring above the abyss. Right now we’re about 10 meters above the opponent. She did just immediately go flying. With the Ghost King directly underneath, it’s the ideal position.
“Well, for now, ki—ck!”
After reaching the jump’s peak she started a sharp descent, and Ramis fell while taking a kicking pose. That said, Ramis’ weight doesn’t have much power behind it. No matter how much super-strength she has, the power greatly decreases if her body has nothing to push off of.
In order to increase the power of the attack right now, it would be good to increase the weight. A simple matter. And so –.
“As if I would take a kick like that! Greet thine enemy. Come come come, evil from the den beyond the abyss –“
Tch, like I would let you. I changed into the giant vending machine from before. The fall speed isn’t much, but because it increased the timing was shifted, and additionally he was bewildered at my mid-air form change, so we landed on the face of the Ghost King in the midst of chanting his aria.
“Gugo-“
Even I, being carried, can sense the response of something being crushed as the bottom of her foot sunk it.
“Wa- wa-, ooph-!”
Ramis, jumped off the head of the Ghost King that she had stomped on, swayed at her landing, but somehow recovered her posture, then pounded her clenched fist into the middle of the opponent’s body.
Completely at odds with her cute yell, the explosive noise of her strike rang forth, and the Ghost was splendidly bent into a “く” shape and sent flying off at high speed. A, I can see an afterimage.
Flying parallel to the ground, the body of the Ghost King split into two parts; the upper part went soaring into the sky, spinning and revolving upwards, becoming smaller and smaller until it disappeared from sight. The bottom part crashed into the ground and raised a cloud of sand as it tumbled, coming to a stop with the feet pointing towards the sky.
They did say it was weak to physical attacks, but it turns out like this when Ramis hits it at full force, huh? Like I thought, you’re really strong, Ramis. If this girl can manipulate this destructive power at will, she will become even stronger.
“Oi oi, you guys finished it all by yourselves?”
The other members also finished defeating the skeletons, so everyone gathered together. Let’s return back to the usual vending machine.
Mikene grabbed barely-left skull of the Ghost King that had flown far away and brought it back. Shote dragged back the upside-down lower half.
Over half was annihilated, but the crumbling remains of the Ghost King were collected together.
“This guy is still barely living, na.”
Leader Keryoil approached the skull and looked down on it, but his face looks like he’s immediately crush it if there are any strange movements.
“If … you kick… the great … me… you will … die…”
“You’re pretty stuck up for being on the verge of death. Won’t you hurry up and crumble and become a coin?”
“Coin … fuhahaha… you curs… as if I was just … a level ru”
“Everyone, get back-!”
Leader’s facial expression abruptly changed and he suddenly yelled, kicking away the members near him and leaping back.
The Big Eaters Brigade also raised the “Buaaaaaa-!” yell I hadn’t heard in a while and fled backwards.
I don’t really get it, but activate, <Barrier>!
The instant the blue light enveloped Ramis, my vision was dyed black.
<Points reduced by 500>
W,what!? Our surroundings are completely black!
Points being reduced means we’re being attacked-!
What is this, the Ghost King’s suicide bombing with the last of his strength-?
“Hakkon, what is this!? W,what should we do-!?”
Ramis, that’s what I want to know. Hearing her panicked voice, I regained a little bit of my calm. If I’m flustered then I can’t think of anything; let’s calmly judge the situation.
<Points are reduced by 500>
The reductions aren’t ending. Is this darkness the enemy’s magic or something? From the feeling on the <Barrier>, it’s coming from above?
After enduring the dark torrent for a while, it began to disappear, and we could finally see light. The black downpour seems to have ended. The point reductions also stopped.
“No way … e,everyone”
When the darkness disappeared, there was a giant crater. The place we were at was directly in the middle of the crater, and only the ground below us was left, making the terrain something completely out of common sense.
Our companions … are scattered outside the crater, prostrated on the ground. They’re not dead – I want to believe.
The most likely lost consciousness? Most of them don’t move even the slightest, but Leader and Mishael somehow struggled and stood. At the very least, two people have definitely survived.
“Hou, for there to be fellows who can withstand my dark magic.”
When I turned my vision upwards to the voice descending from above, there was skeleton about two times larger than the Ghost King floating in midair.
The silver skeleton is wearing a hooded robe, but that robe’s embroidery is more elaborate than the Ghost King’s, so there’s a sense that the skeleton that’s wearing it is superior.
“This incompetent disciple. I’ll have you return the Arm of The Dead who Cling to Light.”
The skeleton floating in the air turned his palm downwards and the ground in the crater bulged; the Ghost King’s staff, that had been buried, floated and settled into his hand.
“A superior magic tool made by the hands of superior ones … I can not imagine it to be true, ne? Visitor from another world.”
So this shiny silver skeleton saw through my true nature. When he stares at me with the darkness in his eyes, I feel a chill, like he can see through the inners of the vending machine.
I don’t know who he is, but it’s definite that he’s a grade above the Ghost King that we defeated.
“W,who are you, name yourself!”
“Fumu, I’ve forgotten my name, but there are many who call me the Ruler of the Netherworld. If the Ghost King is any indicator, all of you may also call me the Leader of Trash.”
As I thought, he’s an upgrade. In this situation, it’s over if we make a single mistake. Of our companions, the ones whose life or death is unknown are the Big Eaters Brigade and the Red-White twins. The ones who are struggling to maintain their consciousness are Leader Keryoil and Mishael. How can I save them? I need to save them.
If I just need to save Ramis, I could just withstand it with <Barrier>. I still have a surplus of points. I also just had a bunch of points flowing in from defeating the Ghost King just now, so I have confidence in my protection.
But I can’t save the others. If I could abandon them, then…
“So this is the Leader Ruler’s coin? An item of little interest.”
With just a crook of his finger the Ruler of the Netherworld had the coin float in front of him, and when he lost interest, it followed gravity and fell to the ground, rolling around.
“W,why would you do this!”
“Why? I’m hunting, what’s wrong with that? All of you as well, for your own interests, assaulted the Ghost King, correct? A surprise attack should also be a hunter’s strong point, though?”
“Th,that might be true, but”
“The world of the living also has the words, correct? You should not do unto others that which you don’t want done to you. Even children know of this.”
“B,but this”
“What of it? Where you going to say this is a different matter? Why don’t you explain it to me in simple terms. Hm, human?”
This guy, he’s messing around with Ramis. He’s showing how the strong absolutely has the margin to leisurely deal with the weak. Normally this would be a chance to attack the enemy, but I can’t see a single chance of victory.
nanou(ooou-!) – It’s kind of like an angry, ‘what’d ya say?!’ reaction, so altered it to fit the situation, rather than just ‘whaaaaa?’ hagotae – it means chewy, but… ‘chewy human’ … It sounds more like a 5yo talking to a dog. Or conversely, a beast. Anyway, in English it doesn’t really give a ‘deadly skeleton mage’ vibe, nor match how the Ghost King talks. Replaced with ‘delectable’.
“Oh ice shards, pierce.”
The Ghost King murmured order-like words, and from the tip of his staff, sharp ice filled our vision. I counted up to ten, but gave up on the rest.
“They’re coming!”
“Welcome.”
Don’t worry, because for this kind of thing, I’ll show you that I can block all of them.
<Points reduced by 1; points reduced by 1; points reduced by 1 –>
The points are being reduced every second and when the ice shards make a direct hit. The notifications are flowing through my head like a waterfall.
But I have a lot of points left, so this amount of reduction isn’t a problem.
“Fumu, what a troublesome divine blessing. And that girl there … no, it’s the soul residing within the magic tool behind her, hm? Then fire … was nothing to it. Then blow, devastate, oh wind.”
So after the ice shower is a gale. Even though it looked like we’d reach our enemy in just a few more steps.
The wind blasting from ahead of us gouged out the ground outside of <Barrier> and disappeared behind us along with the tombstones.
Like this, the wind is blocked, but our surface area has been increased due to <Barrier>, and we’re taking the complete effect of the wind.
“Fuhahaha. There are many ways to deal with an invincible Barrier. Now, be blown away with your Barrier … n?”
The celebrating Ghost King stared at us, mouth wide open.
Within the heavy winds that are blowing layers off the ground, Ramis is consistently moving forward. The wind pressure is definitely amazing, but Ramis is continuing to walk ahead as her feet sink into the ground.
“Why are you not being blown away? What have you done, magic that interferes with Gale?”
Nope, it’s just super-strength. She’s fighting it with brute force.
“Don’t lose to wind or hail, attack squad, destroy, destroy.”
Ramis, pushing forward with sheer strength, is muttering dangerous words.
“Not ice, nor wind, nor fire have much effect … then, how about this? Oh earth, wail and scream.”
Are those words necessary for the spell, I wonder? I think it’s cool, but when I hear them, my heart shudders. Right, I feel like I’ve returned to a middle school, 2nd year, where every boy was afflicted with a certain disease.
-whoops, it’s not time to be thinking about stupid things. The ground at her feet cracks open and shudders. And, with a roar, the ground splits in two, and an abyss opens wide its maw.
“W,waita-!”
I can’t let Ramis tumble head over heels and fall like that. I form change into the <Cardboard Vending Machine>. With this, it should reduce the burden on Ramis by several hundred kilos.
“Dang yooouu-!1”
Ramis kicked the side of the abyss and flew diagonally upwards, and when she reached the opposite side of the abyss she continued to kick. Repeating that and kicking her way up the wall, it’s like a ninja action game.
“There is a delectable human within.2 Oh maw, close.”
The walls are coming closer and closer, but right before it closed, Ramis’ last kick sent her flying sky high.
“What-!”
He was shocked seeing Ramis souring above the abyss. Right now we’re about 10 meters above the opponent. She did just immediately go flying. With the Ghost King directly underneath, it’s the ideal position.
“Well, for now, ki—ck!”
After reaching the jump’s peak she started a sharp descent, and Ramis fell while taking a kicking pose. That said, Ramis’ weight doesn’t have much power behind it. No matter how much super-strength she has, the power greatly decreases if her body has nothing to push off of.
In order to increase the power of the attack right now, it would be good to increase the weight. A simple matter. And so –.
“As if I would take a kick like that! Greet thine enemy. Come come come, evil from the den beyond the abyss –“
Tch, like I would let you. I changed into the giant vending machine from before. The fall speed isn’t much, but because it increased the timing was shifted, and additionally he was bewildered at my mid-air form change, so we landed on the face of the Ghost King in the midst of chanting his aria.
“Gugo-“
Even I, being carried, can sense the response of something being crushed as the bottom of her foot sunk it.
“Wa- wa-, ooph-!”
Ramis, jumped off the head of the Ghost King that she had stomped on, swayed at her landing, but somehow recovered her posture, then pounded her clenched fist into the middle of the opponent’s body.
Completely at odds with her cute yell, the explosive noise of her strike rang forth, and the Ghost was splendidly bent into a “く” shape and sent flying off at high speed. A, I can see an afterimage.
Flying parallel to the ground, the body of the Ghost King split into two parts; the upper part went soaring into the sky, spinning and revolving upwards, becoming smaller and smaller until it disappeared from sight. The bottom part crashed into the ground and raised a cloud of sand as it tumbled, coming to a stop with the feet pointing towards the sky.
They did say it was weak to physical attacks, but it turns out like this when Ramis hits it at full force, huh? Like I thought, you’re really strong, Ramis. If this girl can manipulate this destructive power at will, she will become even stronger.
“Oi oi, you guys finished it all by yourselves?”
The other members also finished defeating the skeletons, so everyone gathered together. Let’s return back to the usual vending machine.
Mikene grabbed barely-left skull of the Ghost King that had flown far away and brought it back. Shote dragged back the upside-down lower half.
Over half was annihilated, but the crumbling remains of the Ghost King were collected together.
“This guy is still barely living, na.”
Leader Keryoil approached the skull and looked down on it, but his face looks like he’s immediately crush it if there are any strange movements.
“If … you kick… the great … me… you will … die…”
“You’re pretty stuck up for being on the verge of death. Won’t you hurry up and crumble and become a coin?”
“Coin … fuhahaha… you curs… as if I was just … a level ru”
“Everyone, get back-!”
Leader’s facial expression abruptly changed and he suddenly yelled, kicking away the members near him and leaping back.
The Big Eaters Brigade also raised the “Buaaaaaa-!” yell I hadn’t heard in a while and fled backwards.
I don’t really get it, but activate, <Barrier>!
The instant the blue light enveloped Ramis, my vision was dyed black.
<Points reduced by 500>
W,what!? Our surroundings are completely black!
Points being reduced means we’re being attacked-!
What is this, the Ghost King’s suicide bombing with the last of his strength-?
“Hakkon, what is this!? W,what should we do-!?”
Ramis, that’s what I want to know. Hearing her panicked voice, I regained a little bit of my calm. If I’m flustered then I can’t think of anything; let’s calmly judge the situation.
<Points are reduced by 500>
The reductions aren’t ending. Is this darkness the enemy’s magic or something? From the feeling on the <Barrier>, it’s coming from above?
After enduring the dark torrent for a while, it began to disappear, and we could finally see light. The black downpour seems to have ended. The point reductions also stopped.
“No way … e,everyone”
When the darkness disappeared, there was a giant crater. The place we were at was directly in the middle of the crater, and only the ground below us was left, making the terrain something completely out of common sense.
Our companions … are scattered outside the crater, prostrated on the ground. They’re not dead – I want to believe.
The most likely lost consciousness? Most of them don’t move even the slightest, but Leader and Mishael somehow struggled and stood. At the very least, two people have definitely survived.
“Hou, for there to be fellows who can withstand my dark magic.”
When I turned my vision upwards to the voice descending from above, there was skeleton about two times larger than the Ghost King floating in midair.
The silver skeleton is wearing a hooded robe, but that robe’s embroidery is more elaborate than the Ghost King’s, so there’s a sense that the skeleton that’s wearing it is superior.
“This incompetent disciple. I’ll have you return the Arm of The Dead who Cling to Light.”
The skeleton floating in the air turned his palm downwards and the ground in the crater bulged; the Ghost King’s staff, that had been buried, floated and settled into his hand.
“A superior magic tool made by the hands of superior ones … I can not imagine it to be true, ne? Visitor from another world.”
So this shiny silver skeleton saw through my true nature. When he stares at me with the darkness in his eyes, I feel a chill, like he can see through the inners of the vending machine.
I don’t know who he is, but it’s definite that he’s a grade above the Ghost King that we defeated.
“W,who are you, name yourself!”
“Fumu, I’ve forgotten my name, but there are many who call me the Ruler of the Netherworld. If the Ghost King is any indicator, all of you may also call me the Leader of Trash.”
As I thought, he’s an upgrade. In this situation, it’s over if we make a single mistake. Of our companions, the ones whose life or death is unknown are the Big Eaters Brigade and the Red-White twins. The ones who are struggling to maintain their consciousness are Leader Keryoil and Mishael. How can I save them? I need to save them.
If I just need to save Ramis, I could just withstand it with <Barrier>. I still have a surplus of points. I also just had a bunch of points flowing in from defeating the Ghost King just now, so I have confidence in my protection.
But I can’t save the others. If I could abandon them, then…
“So this is the Leader Ruler’s coin? An item of little interest.”
With just a crook of his finger the Ruler of the Netherworld had the coin float in front of him, and when he lost interest, it followed gravity and fell to the ground, rolling around.
“W,why would you do this!”
“Why? I’m hunting, what’s wrong with that? All of you as well, for your own interests, assaulted the Ghost King, correct? A surprise attack should also be a hunter’s strong point, though?”
“Th,that might be true, but”
“The world of the living also has the words, correct? You should not do unto others that which you don’t want done to you. Even children know of this.”
“B,but this”
“What of it? Where you going to say this is a different matter? Why don’t you explain it to me in simple terms. Hm, human?”
This guy, he’s messing around with Ramis. He’s showing how the strong absolutely has the margin to leisurely deal with the weak. Normally this would be a chance to attack the enemy, but I can’t see a single chance of victory.
nanou(ooou-!) – It’s kind of like an angry, ‘what’d ya say?!’ reaction, so altered it to fit the situation, rather than just ‘whaaaaa?’ hagotae – it means chewy, but… ‘chewy human’ … It sounds more like a 5yo talking to a dog. Or conversely, a beast. Anyway, in English it doesn’t really give a ‘deadly skeleton mage’ vibe, nor match how the Ghost King talks. Replaced with ‘delectable’.