Episode 69. Magical energy flood (4)
“Uhhhh.”
“hahahaha······.”
“Everyone, be quiet.”
Einz frowned at the rest of the breathing noise and looked back.
Einz, who saw the four team members at a glance, couldn’t help but sigh.
All four of them were walking with open eyes.
It was evident that the condition was not good.
“Shall we take a break for a while?”
“Please… some antidote….”
Einz glanced at the glass bottle of blue liquid in his pocket.
Everyone was constantly asking for an antidote due to the symptoms of magic energy poisoning.
However, Einz himself had not yet felt that much of a load on his body.
There were two cases.
One is that Einz’s ability to decompose magical energy is far superior to others.
The other is that the team members are doing their best right now.
Recalling the latter possibility, Einz glanced at his teammates with suspicious eyes.
“Here. Take one sip. Don’t drink it all.”
In the end, Einz handed him the antidote.
If it’s the former, it’s a big deal.
Trying to save on the antidote could ruin a whole practice test.
I couldn’t erase the thought that it was a waste, but I decided that it was right to avoid the risk as much as possible.
“Is everyone okay?”
“Uh, yes. I’m a little slender now.”
“Then everyone lowered themselves and quietly. I found a group of black dogs.”
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The team members followed Einz down and hid in the bushes.
black dog? where?
They could not notice the presence of the black dog at all.
Because the thick magical energy was obstructing the flow of mana.
But it was visible to Einz, who had pierced through the dark mist with his superior eyesight.
Black dogs drooling and running towards somewhere.
“It’s at 1 o’clock. The scale is about 50 eollchus.”
“Uh. I see.”
“If you catch all of them, you will be able to complete the test well.”
Do you really need to catch them all?
It would be more beneficial for time management to run away immediately after catching 20.
Although some of my teammates with slower legs than me would be at risk.
It was Einz who thought something like that, but he did not dare to speak out.
It’s just that if you kill the 20th, you have to use the team members as bait to get out of it.
“The speed is fast. Do you think it would be better for the five of us to aim with pinpoint snipers?”
“No. Leave it to me.”
Now is my turn.
Einz smiled and stepped forward.
The black dogs were running in groups without noticing this at all.
So, if you grind wide-area magic, you can send at least 10 of them at once.
It was an opportunity to play an active part at once and get additional points.
“I’ll wipe it out in one shot.”
“Hey. Still, wasting too much magic at once…”
“What? Waste? If it weren’t for my magic, I’d be attacked by bandits in the mountains.”
“············”.
And because of you, we all had to put out the fire and walk to the Wrist Forest.
The words came up to the end of the team members’ throats.
He seemed to be getting angry, but there was no one who could stop Einz.
Einz was a candidate for successor to Wigenstein, one of the three great families, and he had the most outstanding ability among them.
“Look carefully. If you get the angle right, I’ll catch 20 at a time… Huh?”
Einz’s expression, as he stretched out his thumb to measure the distance, became strange.
The movements of the black dogs, who were running in one direction in an orderly manner, became strange.
It spread in all directions and ran away, just like the movement of an animal facing a natural enemy from the front.
“Uh, crazy.”
Quang!
A green figure protruded from behind the giant tree.
A couple of black dogs were hit by the club they swung in an instant, and blood spattered with a crackling sound.
The snoring man’s head turned to reveal the face of the bipedal monster.
A huge body that seemed to be three or four times that of a human.
An ugly look like a pig.
And long fangs.
It was a lieutenant monster, an orc.
“Why are the orcs here!”
“Shh.”
Surprised, Einz shut the mouths of the teammates who had panicked.
Squeezing down the team members’ trembling, Einz fell into thought.
Today is the day when the magic energy fog does not move, so the radius of action of the demons is fixed.
In other words, the low-ranking monster, the Black Dog, and the middle-ranking monster, the Orc, will not collide.
Did we go too deep because we misread the map?
At the same time, did the black dogs go crazy and enter into a high concentration of magical energy?
It would be foolish to believe that two extremely unlikely events happened at the same time.
More likely, it was the disaster side.
“The orcs are hunting black dogs…!”
“Be quiet, really.”
Quasi-movement of the flow of magical energy.
If that was the case, everything was explained.
A black dog that runs away from the high concentration of magical energy.
And while running away from a higher concentration of magical energy, an orc that meets black dogs and beats them down.
It was clear that the concentration of magical energy in the Wrist Forest was changing now.
And that’s pretty fast too.
Otherwise, the two groups of monsters who are migrating across the nation will never run into each other.
“under······.”
As if to show that Einz was right, the sky began to turn black in an instant.
A thick fog had begun to cover the forest.
It was still dark because of the dense trees, but now it was as bright as a dark night.
“Uhhhh….”
“The mandible… the mandible… the mandible… ha ha ha….”
The team members were already showing symptoms of magic energy poisoning.
Now I could be sure.
This isn’t like acting.
He vomits with his face contemplating, how is that acting?
Gradually, Einz was feeling dizzy as if his head was spinning.
‘Isn’t it all I can drink?’
After all, if I had to give the antidote to my teammates, it would take less than three minutes to be in that state again, and I’d be in trouble.
Rather, I thought that it would be beneficial for all the team members to retreat, and I would drink all the antidote and wipe them all by myself in the best condition.
Then you will get extra points.
It was Einz who seriously thought about it, but-
-With great power comes great responsibility. Remember, Einz.
After remembering what Schlus had said, he shook his head.
With great power comes great responsibility.
The big power here is probably my superior ability to decompose magical energy.
If I have that kind of ability, I have a duty and responsibility to show consideration to those who do not have it.
Because that’s the right attitude as a nobleman.
“Here. I’ll retreat immediately after taking a sip. Be careful not to make a sound while you drink.”
I handed over the half bottle of antidote.
After taking a sip, there will probably be nothing left.
But it was fine.
Because I can withstand magical energy better than others.
So, it was right to take this kind of sacrifice.
It was only now that Einz understood the meaning of Schlusus a little.
“Here, Einz.”
“Then let’s go…”
Einz, who took the glass bottle without thinking, was mesmerized.
There was still half a sip of antidote left in the glass bottle.
When I looked around the team members, everyone was looking at Einz and laughing out loud as their condition had improved.
Einz shook his head and drank the antidote.
It was only half a donation, but the effect was sufficient.
The narrowed field of vision widened, and the body began to move smoothly without delay.
“Guys. When retreating, I’ll run along the road between those two giant trees. I’ll intercept the monsters that follow me from the rear. When the magic power runs out, the first person in the front comes back and changes seats. Repeat this until you leave the forest. Understanding. I did it?”
“OK.”
“okay.”
The students nodded their heads with wretched eyes.
I couldn’t wait for all the demons to disappear.
You will soon become addicted to magical energy again.
In addition, since the magic energy fog is coming in in real time, the time it takes to poison the magic energy must have been much shorter.
“run!”
Einz and his team kicked off the ground, got up and started running.
At the same time, their internal circuits, which were activated, strengthened their bodies to the limit.
Before long, they were running through the forest at a speed equal to that of a horse.
“Wow! It’s crowded!”
The orc gang, noticing this, followed at a bitter speed.
It never lags behind in speed.
Some of them were even faster.
“I’ll make it all into powder… Huh?”
Waiting for the orcs to gather in the rear, Einz, who was reaching out and aiming at the magic, was startled.
Orc tiles were spread out widely on both sides.
‘In order to minimize the damage of wide-area magic…?’
Indeed, the intelligence of orcs cannot even be compared with those of black dogs.
Einz bit his tongue and erased the wide-area magic trick again.
Here, it seemed better to blow up the orcs that were closely following them one by one with pinpoint magic.
“Ugh! Orc in front!”
“What?!”
The team members stopped in front of the excellent water.
Unable to beat the speed, Einz jumped out of the team-
“∑!”
“Queek!”
A kick was struck on the chest of the orc that appeared from the front.
The ribs were severely cut and flew backwards, never to get up again.
“sh*t······.”
However, there was not a single orc that appeared from the front.
It was dozens… or maybe hundreds.
You came back to the shortcut and blocked the front.
Now, the Orcs were also narrowing the distance quite a bit from the back.
“Po, we’re under siege! What should we do?”
“Calm down, guys. I’m going to escape through the siege with a single shot. Can’t you see there are relatively few orcs over there?”
“Uhhhh… I can’t stand it any longer…”
To make matters worse, the team members were showing signs of poisoning.
I wondered if I could pour out all my firepower, but the condition of the team members was already running towards the worst.
‘I have to do it all by myself.’
The only thing I have to do here is to stand still.
Einz clenched his fists and thought.
I made a barrier with flames by lightly grinding fire magic over there, and pierced five or six orcs with light magic over there…
It was the moment when such a plan was being established.
Wheeing…
“uh?”
Suddenly, a chill began to creep in.
It wasn’t an illusion.
Frost began to form on the leaves of the bushes in real time.
It’s supposed to be summer now, so how did this happen?
Awkwardly…!
At that moment, a gust of wind blew and surrounded the room.
Einz and the team members opened their eyes after closing their eyes for a moment in the wind.
The orcs were all frozen white and could not move.
“Hey. It’s bitter if you try to burn the forest.”
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A playful voice was heard.
He had never felt his presence at all until now, but as of now, he was so happy.
A man who climbed a tree and looked down at this side with a smile.
He was Professor Sergei’s assistant.