141 – Chapter 44. Burn in the Storm – 2
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The claws of the bitter wind scratched the harbor.
In a situation where it was difficult to even properly control the body without the help of the spirit, those giants were moving well.
As for how they were able to observe the giant in a dark and stormy situation, it was because they only surrounded the darkness and contained ‘light’ in it.
“The giant of light… ….”
They were mobilized for the terror of demons that shook the world the other day.
I also dealt with one.
It was difficult to ascertain how many giants approached while hiding their light through the gaps in the black mist that wrapped around them.
Bar Tiers gave orders to his lieutenants with a groan.
“Mobilize all ships with good artillery. I also contacted the governor of the island and asked them to activate the port defenses.”
[[Yes, I see!]]
Everyone hurried to prepare for battle, except for the spirits who coordinated the ships to avoid collision in the storm.
“Erif! What do we do?”
Cermia and Shane, who were watching the helicopters from afar, came running.
They looked at the giants approaching from the sea with anxious expressions.
Children are so scared.
Did I grow up too much?
I gently lifted the pendant.
“Whatever. I have to go out.”
The two made an expression, ‘In this situation?’
A storm that makes it difficult to walk, let alone fly.
Many enemies that seem impossible to deal with with a helicopter.
This level was not uncommon in actual warfare. You can’t be called a hero only if you overcome it lightly.
“Guys. Would you like to get some gold dragons? Mine requires too much mana just to stabilize the fuselage in this weather.”
“Yes. But are we going too?”
“Of course not. You can’t always fight in an advantageous or comfortable situation. It’s at a disadvantage like now, but sometimes you can’t run away and you have to fight back.”
“But… ….”
Chermia looked hesitant.
Shaking her shoulder, Shane said with a serious expression.
“Erif is right, Chermia. If you’re feeling anxious, you can stay here and help Admiral. We will go together.”
Chermia was startled by Shane’s words and waved her hand.
“No. I will go too.”
“I thought about it. Together, we can win.”
At Shane’s words, Chermia climbed into the cockpit with a captivating expression on her mind.
Surprisingly, Shane is also strong against Chermia.
I don’t want to be caught in the future.
I turned on the Gold Dragon’s communicator, and connected communication with the Bartier’s command room.
“Oh. This is Erif Cruel. Do you have Bartiers?”
A chaotic atmosphere was felt over the communicator.
I didn’t seem to hear it, so when I tried to speak again, an answer came.
“Yes! Mr. Erif. I got a call from the helicopters of the heroes right now, are you with me?」
“Yes. Are you going to set sail? I think I’ll be beaten if I stay like that.”
“No. Activate the island’s safeguards and hold out, waiting for reinforcements. It is dangerous to go out to sea in this weather, and it is already too late to set sail.”
Well, the giants had already arrived near the crossroads of the cannons.
If you go out to sea now, you will be shaken to and fro in the storm.
Seeing those giants walking well without staggering, do their feet reach the bottom of the sea? It would be pretty deep at this distance.
Guessing that there might be some kind of magical device, I notified the Bartiers.
“We’ll go out and fight.”
「Yes? It’s too dangerous!”
“Bartiers wouldn’t think so.”
「Still- Chiik.」
For a moment, communication seemed to be cut off, and then a familiar voice was heard.
“Fire? It’s me. I’ll allow you to sortie. However, don’t do anything that will put the heroes in danger.”
“Don’t worry. If we leave the car, we’ll twirl together.”
“Yes. I’d rather be If things go badly, run away with the heroes.”
Bartiers, who was taken seriously as a joke, gave permission to take off.
I got on the back seat of the helicopter and crossed my legs.
The warriors cast a questionable look for a moment, but the flight in the storm was an acrobatics that were difficult to perform while keeping one eye on it, so they immediately concentrated on the control.
Kwaang-
The bombardment started as soon as we took off.
It was an attack on a modest scale for a group of more than a hundred ships, probably because the ships were shaking a lot and they were not yet ready.
Among them, the guns fired by the Bartiers left a blue trail and hit the giant through heavy rain.
The black mist around the giant that was hit by the bombardment dispersed, revealing a body made of light.
As if struck by lightning, the dark sea brightened for a moment.
I saw giants so full that I couldn’t see the horizon.
It was a scene where fear and surprise coexisted.
“Ugh.”
There was a sound of pain from the front seat.
I smiled and closed my eyes.
“Don’t be too scared. It’s me who goes on my own. All you need to do is project your firepower from afar, as the Bartiers just did, and lighten the darkness for a moment.”
“It doesn’t look like it’s easy to access. The weather is already like this.”
“I’ll discuss that with the spirits.”
I sat cross-legged, closed my eyes and focused.
And I woke up the power of the spirits inside and made contact with the spirits in this helicopter.
[[Misfire?]]
[[Everyone, gather around. It’s going to be a tough flight, so I’ll share some knowledge.]]
After summoning the spirits, I unleashed the knowledge contained within me.
First, the attack pattern used by the giants of light was injected into the spirit of the wind that puts a shield on the helicopter.
I prepared for a storm by putting the water spirit, which was only used for elemental attacks, in front of me, and the spirits in charge of firepower taught me how to fly.
Now, even if you cross the gold dragon’s diagonal line, you’ll hardly ever get hit by an accident.
The spirits seemed bewildered for a moment at the sudden flow of knowledge, but they immediately began to use the knowledge.
I opened my eyes as I felt the protective shield that allowed the storm to flow.
The helicopter was barely flying over a rough storm.
A dark, high wave surged up to engulf the helicopter and slammed its feet.
“Can’t you raise the altitude a bit? I will fall like this.”
“If you go up a little, the giants will attack you.”
The giants were scattering beams of light they had seen before.
The attack was mainly directed at the port where the friendly fleet was, and sometimes attacks came from this side.
However, thanks to the knowledge shared in advance, the wind spirits caught the flow of magical energy in the atmosphere and informed them of the path of their attack.
Cermia clenched her teeth and moved between the beams of light as if acrobatic.
A heavy raindrop hit the helicopter incessantly.
The gold dragon of the warriors advanced through the storm with a sense of stability, leading a heavy body.
If it were my body, I would have had to turn all the wind spirits into flight to be able to move.
When I went out to sea, the number of giants was quite large, but not enough to fill the horizon as I saw from the port.
It looked like this because high mountains at both ends of the port were constructed in the shape of a ‘U’ and blocked the view.
This is enough.
He left the center of the battle and approached the giant on the edge.
Most of the giants were attacking the harbor, not paying attention to us.
Now we have to attack, but first we need to secure the safety of the warriors.
“Do you have the Mirage Sanctuary Manastone that I gave you before?”
“This?”
Shane took out the green and red mana stones.
“You didn’t write it?”
“Yes. I didn’t have to write it last time.”
Saying that, Chermia glanced at her manastone.
She looked like she wanted to write right away.
“It doesn’t last very long, so use it wisely. I’ll give you one more.”
After handed over the magic stones that she had made in her spare time, she united herself.
As the silver armor wrapped around her body, she began to feel a little nervous.
“Let’s intercept the ones closest to us one by one. I’ll approach and mark the weak spot, so attack there. When the darkness that surrounds me disappears, I will finish it.”
“Okay. Be careful, Erif.”
“If there is anything, please contact me immediately.”
“Yes.”
I opened the window to see off from the warriors.
For a moment, after facing the strong rain so much that water pooled on the floor of the back seat, I threw myself into the storm.
As soon as I started flying, I ran into a problem.
Is this too tight?
I had to put armor on my slim and slender body, it was like putting aluminum foil on the branches.
She couldn’t see the front of the visor, so she changed the part of her head to a water-repellent property and flew against the wind.
Because of the storm, there were quite a few spirits of the wind in nature that did not appear directly in the material world.
Unlike the spirits of the spirit world or the spirits that reside in the weaponry, they were close to natural phenomena themselves.
If the spirit world is a country, should I say that the generals of the nation, the spirits in the spirit world or the material world are the people and soldiers, and these spirits flying in the storm are savages or wild animals?
It would be nice to be able to mobilize them, but even the strongest of pure spirits can do that, so my half-human and half-spirits won’t listen to my orders.
Just like in a game where you catch and raise monsters, you can’t command the monsters you haven’t caught.
However, the wind spirits gathered together to open a wind path, whether they felt the same as me, who had the same attributes.
In the vicinity of where I am, the headwind has decreased a little, and the raindrops have also crumbled.
“[[Thanks.]]”
Leaving behind the spirits that circled around them as if in response, they approached the giant.
“I came, but there is no answer.”
[[I don’t know if it will work even if I attack, boss.]]
The giant I saw before my eyes was bigger than the one I saw last time, and he was covered in darkness, so even the attack didn’t work.
I noticed something strange while observing the guys firing beams while flipping over the guns from a distance.
Unlike when the giants appeared and felt the magic from afar, the magic felt up close was a little strange.
The level of magical pressure was the same, but it was said that it did not match the visual information.
As if you can barely feel the magic of the giant in front of you…….
“Ah!”
I shouted straight into the pendant.
“Chermia! Shane! Can you use detection magic to break illusion magic on giants? It’s hard for me to write right now.”
“Welcome magic? Okay. I’ll try it now.”
Magic power was concentrated in the helicopter the warriors were riding on, and after a while, a yellow mass soared high into the sky.
The detection magic, which exploded like a flare from a few hundred meters above the sky, revealed the realities of the giants, even for a brief moment.
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Perhaps I couldn’t see it from afar, but I could definitely see it when I was close.
The bare skeleton hidden inside the light and darkness. And the demon ships floating low in the sea.
The reality of those who hid in the dark and attacked their fleet unilaterally was the Black Fleet with a scarecrow.
An armament with an attack similar to a beam attack from a giant of light was attached to the thin structure that was over a hundred meters high, and the middle part was decorated with the body of a giant to induce a futile attack.
The problem was that there were a few real giants in hiding, so if you led the fleet out, the whole ship could be overturned.
As I moved close to the giants, everyone couldn’t attack me, and most of them weren’t even real giants, so there were only a few people who raised their arms and tried to hit me.
I went back and forth between the scarecrow giants as quickly as possible to find the real giants and left a mark.
A conspicuous red light flashed above the giant’s head.
It’s an attachment type, so it’ll take a bit of trouble to remove it.
I plan to defeat him before then.
“The real giants are the ones I marked. There are only three, so tell them to focus their fire.”
“Okay, Erif.”
The gunfire stopped as the instructions were delivered safely.
Shortly after, the fleets finished aiming and fired artillery fire all at once.
Greetings-
The real giants hiding behind the fake giants roared after being hit by heavy shelling.
I almost lost my focus due to the magical energy radiating out of the air churning and raindrops, but I managed to balance and headed for the next goal.
I decided to take down the scarecrows while the real giants were being bombarded.
It wasn’t very difficult.
“Shane. Can you see my location?”
“Yes. It shows up well on the detection map.”
“Aim and fire at the giant’s head nearby and get out. If I deal with it, the next guy will do the same.”
「Larger.」
I stood in front of a giant scarecrow and then backed away slightly.
The powerful magic projected from the hero’s helicopter hit the giant’s head.
Tuung-!
It is a scarecrow, but there were several layers of shields in the armament of the head, which is the core, and they were broken with a single blow of Gold Dragon’s magic.
The curtain of darkness was lifted and it flew towards the warlord that looked like a light tower.
“[[Attribute change]]”
A chainsaw protruded from the gauntlet with the properties of water.
When the spirit in charge started the engine, the saw blade rotated violently, creating a small gust of wind in the storm.
“Hot!”
The chainsaw that was fired along with the spirit gnawed at the thin support at once.
Sparks flew, and the painful grinding sound of metal continued for a moment, and then popped. And the light tower fell.
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Puoong!
The light tower that fell into the sea exploded, and the body part that made up the giant scarecrow magically disappeared.
“Ike.”
Suddenly, a white beam of light flew past my nose.
Everyone pays so much attention to me that I defeated a scarecrow.
It flew towards the next target while avoiding dozens of rays of light.