EP13. A Gentle Adventure (5)
Shawn and the others stopped walking until they were sure they had gone far enough.
As Sean caught his breath, he questioned the two women.
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“Right now, maybe you think you’re a bit weird. Someone who seems to have run out of emotions?”
“I think I’m fine now.”
“I’m fine too.”
Whew. Shaun let out a short sigh and sat down on the stone as it was. Levi and Elsa also rested comfortably and regained their composure.
As he calmed down, a feeling of helplessness came naturally.
“It’s much more difficult than I thought. Anyway, if you want to catch him, you’ll have to approach him, but you haven’t come across him yet…”
“It’s definitely more difficult than defeating normal monsters.”
“Levy. Any good way?”
Trying to remember what she said earlier, Levy answered Sean’s question with a confident smile.
“Of course, this Levy-sama has a way!”
“Oh. Seeing that you’re so confident, is it trustworthy? Like magic that blocks monster abilities.”
“Uh… Of course, there is such magic. Instead, it only applies to one person and you cannot move while using it.”
After hearing Levy’s answer, Shawn pondered for a moment. Clearly, Levy is currently the best among them. If she can’t move and only protects one person, will she win the battle?
It was a pretty risky gamble now that we don’t know how strong Kor Kurasm is.
“I wonder if there is a safer and surer way…”
“The way I was going to say it is different!”
“····Really? What do you mean?”
“If a monster has the ability to manipulate emotions, then the opponent without emotions can fight, right?”
“Is that possible?”
As he asked with a questioning expression, Sean immediately remembered the sparring that had taken place earlier. Realizing that Sean had noticed, Levy snarled his nose vigorously and explained.
“Did you notice? If you deal with the magic you saw earlier, there will be no problem!”
“The magic I used earlier in Dalian. Edward, right?”
“Yes. It’s magic that reproduces objects in my memory as shadows.”
It was a great magic just by explaining it. Of course, according to Levy’s explanation afterwards, there were quite a few restrictions attached, but even taking those into account, it couldn’t be denied that the magic was infinitely practical.
The characteristics of shadow magic explained by Levy were as follows.
First. It can only be used during the day when there is sunlight. Even if it is daytime, it cannot be used if it is in a dark room or there is no shadow due to lack of light.
Second. The wizard must know what to copy. It is not possible to simply know the face, but you have to understand how the target actually fights. The more you know, the stronger the shadow’s combat power, but it can never exceed the power of the main body.
Third. Copied targets cannot use their abilities. In other words, the abilities used by wizards, witches, and monsters cannot be reproduced. The shadow fights using only pure physical abilities.
Last fourth. Because it is a magic that uses the caster’s shadow as a medium, the shadow cannot act alone as it is far away from the wizard.
After hearing all the explanations, Sean kept getting stuck on one thing even if he put aside everything else.
“The last one is the problem…. After all, if you want the shadows to fight, you have to be near them too.”
“Um… There is a way. If you use the mental protection magic I mentioned earlier, you’ll probably be fine.”
“Together? Are you saying you can use both spells at the same time?”
Elsa, who was quietly listening by the side, asked back in surprise. Sean, who doesn’t know much about magic, could guess that Levy’s words would not be easy even at first glance.
“Yes. It’s possible. But if I do that, I’ll have to focus everything on casting magic, and I’ll be completely defenseless…”
The most basic thing in a wizard’s battle is your own safety. In fact, the first thing wizards learned was defense magic. Being defenseless due to the nature of a magician who doesn’t train his body is the same as saying that if you allow access by going wrong even a little, it will lead to defeat.
“Then, why don’t Elsa and I cover Levy and finish it as quickly as possible?”
“For now, that might be for the best.”
“The problem is that you have to control your emotions as much as possible while fighting.”
Elsa nodded her head.
“I still have some experience, so I think it’s worth holding on to. I didn’t feel that bad before… By the way, Shawn, are you okay? Apart from being good at it, I know I’m not very good at it.”
“I… I don’t know why, but I was fine earlier. And Levy will be fine with the magic, so even if we get hit by the ability, we can just wake him up right away.”
“Hmm. Right now there is no other way to do it, so I will have to do it.”
The three quickly revised their plans, albeit imperfectly, and began to return to the realm of Kor Kurazm.
Unlike before, they didn’t chat at all, focused on the map, and stayed alert as much as possible.
Elsa, who was leading the way like a avant-garde with a shield, suddenly raised her hand and gave a signal.
“I just heard something.”
“Is it a monster?”
“Okay. What is certain is that your question was quite intrusive.”
Sean thought for a moment that Elsa was joking about her, but then he realized that what she said meant that her monster’s abilities were affecting her.
As before, Sean didn’t feel any particular emotional ups and downs, though.
“For now, we try to keep our composure as much as possible.”
Levy was between Elsa and Sean. Since she had already used her mind protection magic the moment she entered the forest, she was spending most of her concentration on maintaining her magic.
If you cast shadow magic here, Levi will be completely incapacitated. So it was best for Levi to use her magic once her monster had been fully confronted and driven away from escape.
In the end, the key was to find Kor Kurasm as quickly as possible while Sean and Elsa maintained their emotions.
Sean used his special skill, the sense of hunting. Currently, the forest is closed to everyone due to the association’s measures. In addition, since it was a fairly barren forest where animals were not inhabited except for small animals, there was a high probability that the traces found here belonged to him.
“It’s on the left.”
Finding subtle traces that normal people would never have noticed and missed, Sean said assertively.
“Are you sure? What is the basis?”
“Maybe it’s the result of living as a hunter for 10 years.”
“You are laughing.”
It was a short time, but her attitude, which was always slick and relaxed, began to sharpen as time went on. Seeing his emotions clearly running high, Sean realized he didn’t have much more time than he thought, and hurried.
“Mr. Elsa. Keep calm. Aren’t you being swayed by the monster’s ability right now?”
“····Definitely. Thank you. Thanks to her, she came to her senses.”
“I’m glad Sean is fine.”
While listening to Levy’s relief, Shawn’s doubts preceded him. Why is he so fine?
At first, he simply thought he was lucky enough to escape, but if he is still fine the second time, isn’t it for some other reason?
Of course, it was a problem that couldn’t be answered by worrying about it right now, so Sean and the others immediately turned left and went looking for the monster.
After a while, I found a monster that was believed to be Kor Kurasm.
But there was a little problem.
“Kirreuk.”
“····Is this really that monster?”
Shaun murmured in a voice full of bewilderment and disbelief.
In a way, such a reaction was a natural result. The creature in front of him, which might be rightly called a monster, was a dwarf so small that he couldn’t even reach his knees.
“Smaller than a goblin?”
“You sure look weak.”
“····Still, you can’t be careless.”
Kor Kurasm didn’t show any hostility or wariness when they saw them, and immediately drew their attention and didn’t even look at them after that.
“For now, I’ll block the escape route so Elsa and I can’t escape, so let’s stick to the plan.”
“Okay.”
Shortly, Sean and Elsa went behind the monster and prevented it from escaping. And Levi recited an incantation to prepare the magic.
As soon as he chanted all the spells, a shadow in the form of Edward, whom he saw earlier, appeared behind Levi.
As I said earlier, Levy was completely defenseless with his eyes closed.
Edward’s shadow moved in front of Levi. Then he untied his arms and plunged his fist into Kor Kura Zm.
The attack was so powerful that even Shawn, who was behind him, could feel the shock, shaking the ground. I couldn’t see the monster because of the small dust cloud, but maybe it just fell out in one blow?
“Levy. Did you catch it?”
“·······.”
Sean tried to talk to Levi about her, but she couldn’t even answer because she was using her magic at the same time.
“····Kirreuk, kiruk!”
At that time, a monster’s cry was heard from among the dust clouds. Realizing that he hadn’t collapsed yet, Sean raised his guard to stop him from escaping, calling out to Elsa by his side.
“Miss Elsa! We have to stop the monster from escaping!”
“·······.”
“Miss Elsa…?”
Sean, belatedly noticing her strangeness, turned her head to where she was, but her Elsa figure was nowhere to be seen.
While searching for her whereabouts, frowning at her, she turned her head as she felt the intense death from behind her, and a ghastly blade aimed at his head.
If it was just a little too late, the head would have been pierced.
Shaun gritted his teeth and shouted at his attacker.
“Calm down! Now Elsa-san is being manipulated!”
But this time, unlike before, she didn’t apologize. Elsa, who retrieved her sword with her cold eyes, she only said to Shawn:
“I will cancel what I said earlier. You are also not funny.”
“····Damn it. I thought it was easy to solve.”
Shawn drew his sword and prepared for battle, but kept an eye on the situation. Levi was motionless, maintaining her magic, and her Korkurasm was long gone.
Did he run away?
Quickly subdue Elsa and chase after her when she hasn’t gone far.
Of course, I admit that Elsa is a very tricky opponent, but with Levy, it won’t be too difficult to defeat her.
With that thought, Sean tried to call Levy.
But one step ahead of that, a new variable was added to the war situation.
A variable that no one had ever thought of.
Cold.
The trees in the forest were broken one by one, and soon the guy appeared.
“Kleurreu….”
Trolls.
It was a purebred troll, not the subspecies Sean and Levy had caught. Its body was much larger than that of subspecies trolls, enough to make it understandable why the guide and guide said that.
But that wasn’t the problem.
At a glance, it was clear that the troll that appeared was in an abnormal state. He gasped heavily and his eyes wandered about unfocused. Even while he was still, his muscles twitched and he couldn’t control his hands and feet.
In a word, he was excited.
The reason why was so simple.
Kor Kurasm’s ability is to control the emotions of creatures.
It was only natural that monsters, including trolls, also belonged to the category of creatures.
Sean realized that this adventure would be tougher than he thought.