301 – Enemies coming one after another
I thought someone could block our path, but…
I never imagined it would be this guy.
“···Siegfried.”
When I mumbled that name, the other person let out a small exclamation as if he was quite surprised.
“Ho. I guess you know who I am. “I know very little about you.”
I know. The bad relationship with this guy was so deep, how could I forget it?
The question is why Siegfried appears at this moment.
This is before Drakan begins his activities in earnest. Of course, it was probably moving quietly beneath the surface at this time, but it was several years later that it made such a public appearance.
“What is the purpose? “Why are you targeting me?”
I forced my body to stand stiffly and tried to act as calm as possible.
It’s not good to find out that I’m in the worst shape right now. You need to raise the opponent’s alertness as much as possible to prevent them from attacking you hastily.
“Well, there is only one reason why we move. “Everything is for the second coming of the dragon.”
A truly Drakan-like answer came back, but after hearing it, I couldn’t understand it even more.
What on earth does this have to do with dragons that are bothering me?
I don’t know. I have never seen a situation like this, even in the dimensional gap.
From the moment I didn’t move according to plan, all the stories outside the window became nothing more than possibilities of a useless world line.
In the end, there is only one way. Defeat him directly and then dig up information.
If Drakan starts to move, you should move assuming that you are dealing with all the others as well. I guess I should say it’s fortunate that there’s only one Siegfried right now.
“Raven, are you okay?”
“No problem.”
After reassuring the goddess, I slowly raised my fighting stance.
If you delay, the number of opponents may increase.
Drakan has a powerful fighting power that exceeds that of each member of the group.
Even I don’t have proper information about how strong the leader, who was shrouded in mystery even in the original work, is. So here, you need to kill Siegfried as quickly as possible and get out of the place.
“Ha. I will praise you for your courage in fighting instead of running away. “Then goodbye.”
Siegfried, not doubting his own victory, leisurely stretched out his hand and released cold air.
I quickly summoned my staff and countered the opponent’s attack with hat magic.
“Is it reflection magic? “Not bad!”
Even after seeing the flying ice pick, the opponent smiled without even blinking and raised the glacier wall.
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And then Siegfried came toward me, gliding lightly as if skating on the frozen ground.
Are you planning on competing in close combat?
Without hesitation, I took out a bunch of trump cards and scattered them around.
The biggest reason why his cold magic is so deceptive is its overwhelming binding power.
The cold that rushes in every time you use a spell slows down the opponent’s movements, and if you even slightly touch the ice, the area will slowly freeze from there. Then, the moment it is touched even once, it completely freezes and freezes to death.
Then how should we deal with it? Surprisingly, the method is simple.
If you don’t allow a single attack, that’s it. The opponent’s attack is very threatening, but it is not so fast that it cannot be avoided.
Siegfried also knew that fact, so he must have deliberately induced a close combat.
If you shoot cold air from afar, I will easily avoid it, so the plan is to freeze the entire area from close range.
I had already figured out what the other party was aiming for.
I actively used the trump cards scattered around me to completely destroy his intentions.
“Ugh…! What!?”
Every time it emits cold energy, it teleports to another card’s location and avoids range attacks.
Siegfried, who only realized that close combat was meaningless, tried to step back and prepare his stance, but it was already too late as he was in the middle of the cards I had laid out.
A sword came out of the king’s card and quickly flew towards the opponent. The opponent was taken aback by the unexpected attack coming from behind and barely managed to avoid the sword.
But it didn’t end there, and soon a chain came out from the Queen’s card and began to entangle Siegfried.
“Ugh…!!”
Without missing the opportunity when the guy was momentarily helpless, he moved to the location of the nearest card and swung his staff.
Then a black box appeared out of thin air and trapped Siegfried.
The black box was divided into three layers, and the face and lower body could be seen through a transparent glass window, but the upper body in the middle was blocked by an opaque wall.
“What, what…!?”
I kindly explained it to Siegfried, who was embarrassed and unable to move.
“Even if you struggle like that, it won’t go away. “It’s an escape magic where you can only escape if you see through the trick.”
“Damn. Do you think I’ll fall for that nonsense!?”
“Whether you believe it or not is up to you, but this is magic that can only be activated under fair rules, so I just explained it to you. Now, let’s start the escape magic – body dismemberment section.”
I looked pitifully at Siegfried, trapped in a box and screaming meaninglessly. At times like that, it would be a much more reasonable option to try to spot the trick.
Well, for me, the longer I can tie his feet, the better, so I welcomed it with both arms.
Since it seemed like there was no way he could escape anytime soon, he leisurely changed his staff into a saw and walked closer to the box.
Sweak swish. I deliberately created a sound effect to make it more audible and began to separate the middle of the large box.
Siegfried noticed that I was doing something, but he could only see straight ahead through the glass window, so he could not fully grasp the situation yet.
“What are you doing…!”
“Don’t you feel a little empty in the middle?”
After separating the box, I kindly held it in front of the guy’s face and showed it to him.
“Your upper body is in here.”
“Nonsense…! “You think I’ll believe something like that!?”
“As I said before, it’s up to you whether to believe it or not. Anyway, it would be best to quickly figure out the trick and escape. “If you don’t follow the rules and try to use tricks to get out, you will have to say goodbye to your upper body for the rest of your life.”
Thump thump thump!
The box shook noisily as if there was a commotion inside. Siegfried’s expression hardened, as if he realized that what I was saying was not just nonsense, given the fact that the box in the middle of the cutout moved in sync with his movements.
“Eldina. “Let’s take this opportunity to run away quickly.”
“···Is it okay to leave it like that?”
“It will probably take several hours at most to escape. This is a much cleaner method than losing strength just to fight that guy. “If we just get the jewels back, it won’t be a problem from then on.”
It is possible to fight and win, but I also end up consuming a lot of stamina and magic power.
In addition, Siegfried is able to block attacks by freezing his body, so his defense power is quite excellent. Naturally, there is a high possibility that the battle will drag on for a long time.
Assuming that all of the Drakans will block our path in the future, we must conserve our strength as much as possible and minimize wasting time.
I would like to trap all the others with escape magic, but that magic can only be used on one person at a time. In other words, it can only be used again after Siegfried escapes. But at that point, all he has to do is tell his colleagues how to escape, so it becomes useless.
“But what is that magic trick?”
“That’s magic, but I can’t tell you about it. Or try going in and escaping later yourself.”
“Hmm. “I’d like to decline that.”
Anyway, we left the port at dawn, leaving behind Siegfried, who was trapped in a box.
The destination is the Magic Engineering Society headquarters. Sharon has probably collected most of her jewelry by now.
In that case, the primary destination is the Magic Engineering Station in London. If you take the fastest train to London, you will arrive quickly.
“Are you feeling okay?”
“···It’s worth holding on for now.”
I wanted to say there was no problem, but the situation was not so good to say that even if it was empty words.
I intuitively realized that I had very little time left. The cost of forcibly jumping out of the hospital bed and wandering around is slowly trying to come back like a boomerang.
You have to go as quickly as possible. However, contrary to our earnest feelings, there was an obstacle waiting at the station to stop us.
“A gentleman wearing bandages. “Would you mind stopping for a moment?”
Veronica stands in the middle of the station, blocking our path with a lewd smile.
This composition is not good. There weren’t many people because it was early, but it wasn’t completely empty either. If I fight here, I will attract people’s attention and my location will be revealed to the enemy faster.
··· How did Drakan know my location in the first place, and just like before, is he still waiting first?
“Why are you worrying so deeply? “I didn’t know I could afford that.”
Veronica stretched out her hand and cast her magic. Her mental attack was not noticeable on the outside, so people around her passed by her without notice.
No, it didn’t pass by, but suddenly stopped.
Her eerie silence, as if time had stopped, soon began to be controlled by her, and her passers-by began to surround us with empty eyes.