chapter 11
Realm of Shadows
Brahms was the first to react to the monsters falling from the ceiling.
snarl.
Pulling out the sword worn behind his back and swinging it towards the ceiling once,
👌👌👌👌👌
A blazing green aura erupted, smashing the numerous monsters falling over their heads at once.
The identity of the enemy revealed by that was the D-class monster, Sneaker.
With three pairs of legs resembling a spider, and a strange upper body resembling a human, it looked like a mummy with bones attached to it, and it had five pupils.
The three pairs of legs resembling spiders were covered with fine hairs, and they were structured so that they could be hung on the wall by generating van der Waals force, a powerful electrostatic attraction, with magical power. was a monster that evolved into a relatively poor form.
Instead, the claws on its six pairs of legs were very sharp, and the claws that sprouted from the tips of its tiny arms were a fine weapon reminiscent of a 30-centimeter-long blade.
The strike of Brahms, a Class C attacker and a 6-star swordsman, was obviously strong, but it was not able to show its power due to the darkness around it.
It was Leon who helped Brahms like that.
‘There is no room to form a path for electric current to flow through magical resonance.’
Leon raised all his minds, activated the circle, and converted all that magical energy into electrons.
It was a completely different form from the completely controlled thunderbolt magic shown in the attackers’ guild.
Chain Lightning, a 3-circle lightning magic that electrocutes everything around without any distinction between the enemy and the child.
The lightning beam that stretched out like a chain by exploding a mass of ultra-high voltage electrons sweeps away everything around it.
“for a moment!”
The wizards who recognized the true nature of the magic vomited out in amazement.
This was because, if the chain lightning was deployed so close, even allies with metal objects that could easily be charged could be caught in the current storm.
However, Leon did not hesitate and fired a lightning ball.
Supporting!
With him, all the lightning beams emitted from the lightning ball aimed exactly at the sneakers.
Sneakers were hanging from the ceiling not so long ago.
It had been suspended from the ceiling by electrostatic attraction by generating van der Waals power, which was strengthened with magical power from the hairs growing on their legs.
Naturally, their bodies were charged strong enough to withstand the weight of several tens of kilometers, and they were engulfed in static electricity, which induced a chain lightning current that simply ran wild.
hey hey!
Puss!
Sneakers that had their nails and toenails raised towards the party had no choice but to be electrocuted, and they had no choice but to ruminate helplessly on the floor.
“How the hell…!”
The wizards couldn’t help but be astonished by Leon’s magic.
With a single magic, Chain Lightning, which is known to be very difficult to use because it does not distinguish between enemies, is deployed without a chant to incapacitate dozens of sneakers at once.
Obviously, the magic used was just 3 circles of magic, but Leon’s inaction with that one magic could never be summarized with a simple expression of 3 circles.
Leon’s magic was practiced in a realm beyond their understanding.
And Lyon was also shocked by Leon’s appearance like that.
‘I thought I was just lucky enough to be noticed by Jessica-sama.’
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Jessica’s eyesight was outstanding.
Leon was by no means an ordinary wizard to be seen everywhere.
For a 3rd circle mage, her skill is not much different from that of Laila, who achieved the level of 5 stars.
But, would Layla be able to neutralize all of the dozens of monsters just because she knew exactly where the sneakers were?
No matter how much I thought about it, it was unreasonable.
It hurt Lila’s self-esteem.
But leaving behind their shock, Leon said.
“Sneakers lying on the floor were electrocuted and immobilized, but not dead yet. I’ll get back to you soon, so we need to get them out of breath before that.”
At those words, Leila put aside her personal feelings and took out 6 daggers and shoved the blades into the sneakers’ pockets with a swish of light.
Unlike Brahms’ reinforcement-type martial arts, which strengthens physical abilities with Aurors and strengthens the material structure of the greatsword, Layla is learning the control-type martial arts that freely control the material by instilling Aurors in the material. It was.
It was an interesting sight to see the daggers that had been thrown once sucked back into their hands with a light movement, as if watching a magical magic.
Following her, the wizards hurriedly deployed their magic arrows one by one, and began to cut off the breath of the demons.
Then the surroundings began to light up little by little.
This quiet and dark space was the ability of Sneakers, who inherited the power of the demon of shadows, Silus.
The D-class monster, Sneaker, is a monster operated as a scout in the demon realm, and has the ability to hide in the dark by canceling light and sound with magical power.
Unlike Silence, which blocks the vibrations of the air itself, it was a very sophisticated ability to erase only the desired sound by causing a destructive interference with the vibrations of the air caused by the surrounding sounds.
Originally, its ability was only enough to hide its appearance or to hide the sounds it generated, but it seems that this ability has been strengthened because this is the realm of Silus.
It was in the same vein that the light magic developed with the start of the battle disappeared in an instant.
All the light in this space was erased by offsetting the wavelength of electromagnetic waves caused by visible light.
As soon as all the sneakers that fell to the floor stopped breathing, the surroundings became bright enough to barely see the surroundings.
Only then did the workers, who understood the situation, release their hands from their mouths, sighing in relief, take out their daggers and start dismantling the sneakers.
Porters recovered the sneaker’s leather, legs and skeleton.
Sneakers have three main abilities.
The first is to infuse magical power into the hairs growing on the legs to induce a dipole, and to generate an electrostatic attraction strong enough to attach dozens of kilograms of bodies to the ceiling, the Walder Waals force.
The second is the ability to read the wavelength of visible light from the skin and hide by causing destructive interference in the light.
The third was the ability to hide the noise by reading the wavelength of the sound that resonates with the skeleton and causing destructive interference to the surrounding sound.
The by-products that provoked that ability were the hair, leather, and skeleton of the legs, respectively.
If the magical energy contained in this by-product can be purified through alchemy and processed into artifacts, it will be possible to create a tool with a function similar to that of Sneaker.
Leon was watching the porters grooming the monsters, and Brahms approached him.
“How the hell did you see the place of the sneakers in the dark?”
When other attackers praised Leon’s inability to subdue dozens of sneakers at once, Leon’s ability to surprise Brahms was none other than his ability to find enemies.
Leon glanced at Brahms like that and replied simply.
“It’s magic.”
When Leon answered with no sincerity as if he was annoyed, Brahms panicked and looked at Leon.
Such an attitude bothered me, and Leon explained it a little more in detail.
Objects with temperature must generate electromagnetic waves, so amplifying the electromagnetic waves to make them visible to the human eye would be difficult for people in this world to understand properly.
“I cast the magic of seeing the temperature in my eyes.”
Night vision, also known as thermal imaging magic.
At those words, the wizards who overheard Leon around intervened.
“I have never heard of such magic!”
“Does such magic really exist?”
Leon was a little burdened by their torch, but he nodded and answered.
“… it’s a magic I created.”
The words of the party were astonishing.
Magic is a miraculous power that borrows the power of God and reappears on this earth in a human body.
That means that you cannot create new magic without God’s permission.
Of course, the geniuses of the century who appear occasionally develop powerful magic that is more efficient than the existing magic, but Leon’s case was a completely different story.
Is that also the magic of seeing the temperature?
It was the most magical of all the magic that the wizards at this place had ever experienced in their lifetime.
“Then could you cast that magic on me too?”
At Brahms’ question, not only the wizards, but also Laila sent Leon’s eyes filled with curiosity and anticipation.
Leon nodded briefly.
In response, Brahms snorted with excitement.
“This gives me hope. If I can’t see anything, I’ve been thinking about how to attack this dungeon in the future. This is all thanks to Sir Leon.”
Soon after the porters’ by-products were collected, Leon gave the attackers a night vision.
“Oh My God. The pitch-black darkness could be seen so clearly.”
“I thought I would not be able to see objects without temperature because I could see the temperature, but it was not.”
Leon responded to the wizard’s question.
“Humans describe a temperature lower than their own body temperature as cold. Even the sub-zero temperature at which ice freezes is often thought of as cold air, like some kind of energy opposite to heat.
Virtually all matter has heat except at absolute zero.
In other words, it sounded the same as meaning that there is no material that cannot be seen with night vision.
It’s just a matter of being able to detect and amplify even the smallest electromagnetic waves with magic.
And Leon and his companions were soon able to encounter a group of Sneakers in the dark.
The number reached as many as several dozen.
However, even the slightest sound could not be heard from those who approached while hanging from the ceiling.
They were slowly approaching the attackers, erasing the sound with their ability to hide all the sounds around them.
On the contrary, it was a very defenseless appearance.
It seems that they could not even imagine that their appearance would be clearly detected by attackers.
Leon deployed his magic towards them.
The magic that unfolded was a gust of wind containing a large amount of water vapor.
Static electricity is easily generated in a dry environment.
Static electricity doesn’t happen very often in summer, but in the cold winter, when you hold the doorknob, static electricity occurs and you are all surprised at least once.
The reason is that water vapor in the air discharges static electricity in the summer when humidity is high. As the weather gets colder, the water vapor in the air condenses and dries, because static electricity is more easily generated.
So, what happens if static electricity causes a fan with a large amount of water vapor on the sneakers attached to the ceiling?
Whoops!
Sneakers hanging from the ceiling were discharged from the static electricity on their legs due to a sudden gust of wind, and they fell from the ceiling.
Sneakers panicked at the sudden situation and tried to climb up the wall again, but the steam wind created by Leon continued to swirl around them, discharging static electricity, so they couldn’t climb the wall again.
It was like the appearance of insects clinging to the ceiling and hiding, and I felt a physiological disgust, but now was not the time to worry about that.
“Now!”
At Leon’s signal, Brahms and Layla ran first.
If they keep clinging to the ceiling, there would be no means to attack, but without that means, sneakers were not particularly difficult prey for the talented attackers Brahms and Laila.
Although Sneakers were D-class monsters, it was only given because their special abilities were difficult, and their combat abilities weren’t that strong.
Sneakers are split and scattered by three or four at a time on Brahms’ Greatsword,
Layla’s dagger flew through the air and began to fertilize the sneakers.
And finally the wizards were able to demonstrate their skills.
“Wrath to immortalize all your sins. Allow me to convict you. Fireball!”
A mass of flame on the tip of their staff sweeps through the fleeing sneakers.
Kwawaang!
Nevertheless, the surviving Sneakers were poured with magic arrows.
“Wrath to immortalize all your sins. Allow me to convict you. Fire Arrow!”
“Balance that governs the flow of power. give me the wind Wind Arrow!”
Their realm is a 3 circle wizard.
The magic arrows, the 2nd circle magic, continued to increase as if they were multiplying around them.
In order for a wizard to develop magic, the chanting of a spell is essential.
However, sometimes you have to deal with multiple magics with weak power instead of one powerful shot.
The magic formula developed by a genius wizard for that time was this chain casting.
A magic formula that helps to sequentially deploy the same type of magic by calculating only one chant and magic formula once.
Its speed was excellent enough to help a 3rd circle mage unleash a 2nd circle magic once per second, but it was still not fast enough for 2 mages to deal with dozens of Sneakers.
Then Leon came out.
However, although Leon has excellent magical power and mental power, his real level is only one circle.
Naturally, chain casting, which helps develop sub-magic chains, could not be used.
Instead, what Leon used was a very excellent ability to respond to magic.
An 8-year-old body that reached its maximum synapse, and a 65-year-old mental power.
Leon’s magical response reached by combining those two conditions was at a transcendental level.
“Lightning Arrow.”
There was only one lightning bolt generated from Leon’s outstretched fingertips, but
Crazy!
The lightning split into 5 branches according to Leon’s image and flew at Sneakers.
With only the ability to feel and handle magical power, one arrow was split into five and struck at the same time.
It was just a basic ability resulting from overwhelming talent, but as a result, it was more intense than a chain casting that deployed magic one per second.
In the end, the Sneakers, driven into a corner, had no choice but to give up their escape and fight against Leon and the others.
If he couldn’t escape, he was trying to find a way to somehow survive until the very end.
But their choice was literally just the last effort.
Because it was none other than Brahms who stood in the way of them.
“I couldn’t see before, but now it’s different.”
A green aura swirled around Brahms with his sword raised.
It obviously had a completely different momentum than before.
As he said, until now, his eyes were blinded by darkness and he had not been able to exert his powers.
The great sword that he quickly wielded was nothing more than a tool for dealing with Aurors.
If the giant sword had cut two or three Sneakers, the green Auror swirling from behind shredded dozens of Sneakers like a blender without a trace.
Sneakers slipped through the gap in the Auror, raised their claws and stabbed Brahms’ chest.
turuk.
Their claws left no trace on Brahms’ skin, which had been infused with Aurors.
Rather than retreating ahead of dozens of sneakers, Brahms was slowly moving forward.
With the impenetrable momentum of Brahms, Sneakers could hardly approach the wizards who broke through the barrier and poured their magic from the rear.
‘…was being a 6-star knight so reliable?’
If Leon was a 6-star knight, he had experienced many battles before returning, but he never felt as reliable as Brahms now.
Probably because the top priority of the Knights is the high-level personnel such as wizards and priests belonging to the Wizards, so Leon, who was a regular soldier, did not have a chance to experience their skills.
However, when Mu-min, who had reached the level of the six castles, went forward to protect Leon and stood there, Brahms’ broad back, which had only been like a bear, felt like a huge and strong wall.
Leon was able to safely attack the dungeon by following Brahms’s footsteps while renewing his awareness of the six-star state.
Sneaker’s 3 abilities.
Invisible, inaudible, and ignoring gravity and all their abilities to climb walls were blocked, they could never stop Leon’s progress.
The temple of the demon god, which was soon filled with darkness, gradually became brighter as the number of sneakers decreased, and Leon and his party soon found the chapel located in the center of the temple.
However, the door of the chapel was always wide open in the meaning of welcoming the entry of believers into the Temple of the Heavenly God, whereas the chapel of Silus, the demon god, was tightly closed with a huge and heavy door.
“Looks like you are here.”
All dungeons had a dungeon core that maintained the space of that dungeon.
The dungeon core is an artifact of the demon realm that connects the demon realm and the human realm and creates a temporary ‘space’.
In the case of a closed dungeon without an exit like this one, in order to escape from this place, it was possible to escape only by destroying the core of the dungeon and creating a temporary exit by flooding the energy of the artifact.
Naturally, from the demon realm’s point of view, the dungeon core had to be protected from destruction, and the monsters protecting the dungeon core were commonly referred to as boss monsters.
Before the battle with such a boss monster, Brahms made eye contact with everyone, confirmed the agreement, and opened the door with strength.
That’s right!
As if the heavy stone door refused to open, it poured out a noise that rubbed against the ground, and soon revealed, inside the chapel, someone was sitting on a colorful chair.
That was the moment.
“Wow!”
“Go, the magic power suddenly …!”
“Magic doesn’t move?!”
The wizards flinched back and sat down on the floor.
At their sudden appeal, Leon, like them, tasted the sensation of pressure on his mind and looked at the master of that power.
A body covered in black scales, and horns in the shape of a crown.
Its appearance resembled a human, but a figure that could never be called a human was sitting at the top of the pedestal.
Layla vomits her identity in a suppressed voice.
“A demon…?”
If the great race that lives in the heavens is the Elyos, then the nobles who rule the Demons are the Demons.
[Kneel down and worship. The land where you set your feet will be the realm of the great shadow.]
The demon on the top of the table stood up and looked down at the insignificant humans with a face full of ridicule.