Royal Capital raid
“what? What’s up?”
The party, who had come to the meeting place before Leon, suddenly gathered around Leon’s side, trembling with fuss when they saw Kane Sirius pretending to be close.
“It was nothing. Coincidentally, the group assignment schedules overlapped, so we just encouraged each other to do well today.”
“···not really. I can’t.”
Mary tilted her head at Leon’s words and muttered, but it didn’t matter now anyway.
“Are you ready for that?”
At Leon’s question, the party looked confident.
Only Arya Rothbane was standing there with a blunt expression on her face.
However, unlike her expression, just by looking at her armament, she could feel how thoroughly she prepared for today’s group assignment.
It was because I brought a time-freezing wand that Leon made as a birthday present in a pure white dress with a lot of sky blue lace.
However, the rest of the party had prepared as well as Aria.
Vincent had been making various potions with Mary’s support, and among them there was even a kind of Molotov cocktail.
It was a kind of magic grenade equipped with a safety device that did not explode unless the magic circle was activated as a magic bomb that exploded by accelerating a chemical reaction with the magic circle installed in the flask.
Vincent had been dangling these things from his belt and shoulder straps.
On the other hand, Mary’s equipment was unexpectedly short.
Dressed in a red bread hat, a red cape, and puffy pumpkin pants, it was decorated with the utmost cuteness, but seeing that no magical flow was felt, it was not an artifact.
However, the magic wand he held in his hand was very splendid.
“What do you think? good? A new weapon developed by the craftsmen of the Millennium Empire Ibrium. They call it an 11-year-old cartridge staff, and they can fire magic bombardment quickly by automatically loading cartridges made by processing magic stones.”
Then, when the cartridge staff was activated by injecting magical power, the crystal ball emitted a ji-ying operation sound, and the metal processed into the shape of a wing spread out, and a magical light was emitted.
The magical reaction felt there was considerable.
“Are those cartridges consumables? By the way, how much does it cost per cartridge?”
“Well, I don’t remember very well, but was it about 20 gold per cartridge? Not long.”
In other words, the cartridges attached to the bullet belts hanging from the cartridge staff are close to 3000 gold.
To bring such a thing to use only for the academy group assignment.
“Isn’t that a violation of the rules?”
“why? Obviously, using artifacts in the cannabis battle group task is personal freedom. I was just making the most of my abilities. It’s not magic, it’s just wealth.”
And finally, Angelica.
As a student from commoners, she was plainly armed.
She was the only one in the group to come out wearing a school uniform, and a muscular giant with a glamorous presence was standing behind her.
“Is that a slime?”
To Leon’s question, Angelica answered with an expression that she didn’t know how it happened.
“yes······.”
And when I listened to her explanation, it seemed that the slime connected to the artificial spirit had awakened many abilities anew.
First, slimes under her control were able to fuse into one.
When a slime grows to a certain size, it is instinctive to cause division.
This is also related to the reason why the cell divides. The cell processes the input and output of information and substances and maintains the functions of the cell. As the size of the cell increases, the ratio of the surface area to the volume gradually decreases. This is because, as the number of information exchange entrances becomes smaller, it becomes impossible to process information for a unit volume.
To put it more simply, the bigger the body, the more energy is needed to maintain the body, but the mouth is too small to maintain the body shape.
So, when slimes grow to a certain extent, they divide to maintain the most efficient size.
But what if we could artificially control that division?
Wouldn’t it be possible for the split slimes to fuse into one again?
At Angelica’s instructions, when more than 500 slimes gathered together, their size was overwhelming.
Assuming that a slime the size of a human head weighs about 4Kg, it weighs a whopping 2 tons when put together, and that alone was enough to show off the physical ability of any golem.
In other words, it would be more correct to call it a slime magic doll, or slime golem.
In addition, slimes have strengthened their digestive power to maintain their size.
The digestion ability of slime is limited to microorganisms and mushrooms that exist in soil or mold.
However, having acquired the power of the Spirit of Order, the slime wanted more nutritious prey besides microbes, and Angelica seemed to have witnessed the slime swallowing the cat whole with its tentacle-like arms and melting it in an instant.
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Just as Dice, the spirit of Leon, can make the body clean by breaking down the dirt on its body into particles, slime can use the power of the spirit of order to decompose and absorb substances.
“It’s not just that. So I was able to mimic the substances I absorbed.”
As if to explain Angelica’s explanation, when the slime golem raised her hand, her fingers changed like a cat’s head, and she cried ‘Meow~’.
“I thought it would be good if I could simply block the enemy’s breath and fight comfortably.”
“I literally turned into a monster.”
Of course, the energy required to imitate the substances absorbed by the slime golem is limited because it is supplied from Angelica’s circle, but compared to the time when they were ignored as non-class monsters, it was a difference between the sky and the earth.
Leon, having confirmed the group’s armed status, finally filled his chest with the badge-type magic projector that was distributed for the group task in the subspace pocket.
It is an artifact that emits magical energy to the surroundings like a sonar and stores the returned 3D image, and was given to the team leader for this group task.
In this way, when the battle contents were recorded and submitted, the professor checked the video and evaluated the score.
Behind the five students who boldly advanced through the gates of the royal road, four maids, including Veronica, were following them.
Soon, the battle began smoothly.
As soon as they came out of the castle gate and entered the nearby forest, the E-class monsters that hid themselves in the bushes were careless and attacked by the appearance of Leon and his party, who still looked young.
A rabbit-type monster boasting the size of a wild dog, Antlers attacked with the antlers on their heads as weapons, but they were blocked by a slime golem that was acting as a guardian and could not move.
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Just by covering them, their movement was blocked by their heavy weight.
That’s because the slime golem weighed a whopping 2 tons.
The slime golem didn’t stop there, it just found all the holes called the holes in Antlers and crawled in, and it burst out of its body.
“Ugh.”
It was quite a terrible sight.
In addition to the visual aspect, where blood and flesh are separated and bones and intestines are scattered, even if wizards and knights are superhuman beings, how to deal with the attack method that flows into their body and damages the internal organs If you think about it, it was even daunting.
“I’m glad Angelica is our team.”
Leon turned his back to the wall and walked into the forest deeper.
In each territory, monster subjugation is conducted regularly by the lord who leads the territory.
No matter how much compensation was paid to the person who found the dimensional rift in the attackers’ guild, not all dimensional rifts were discovered.
Of course, in dark places where no one can visit, dimensional rifts and monsters are poured out without anyone knowing, so it is necessary to reduce the number of monsters before they increase too much.
So, in order to find a more powerful monster, it was necessary to go farther from the royal capital.
However, for some reason, Leon and his companions were able to encounter some Antlers but could not find any monsters.
“what? No matter how perfect the policing of the royal capital is, there is no way that there are so few monsters in the nearby forest.”
As Mary tilted her head, Leon said, “Ah.”
“what. what’s the matter.”
“no. Nothing.”
Leon soon assumed that this was due to Cain Sirius.
A magic stimulant that Cain Sirius prepared to interfere with Leon’s group assignment.
He wanted to use something that was absorbed through the skin and generates pheromone to excite and attract monsters, so Leon returned it as it was.
Maybe that’s why all the demons around here chased after Cain Sirius?
And as if to prove it, some students appeared in a wreck by Leon’s side as he wandered through the forest.
“Wow!”
“Sa, save me!”
Cain Sirius gathered dozens of students for today’s group assignment.
The group task was to hunt monsters with a team of five people, but Sirius used his power to accept three or more teams under his command to make hunting more comfortable.
At first glance, it seemed to be ignoring the rules.
‘Because there was no rule not to join forces with other teams.’
In addition, if Mary Goldberg’s strength is financial wealth, it is possible to interpret Cain Sirius’s strength as power.
The problem was that the students who had gathered like that were scattered and running away.
“What’s up?”
“Monsters, demons…!”
“It’s called Monster Wave!”
At the cry of a boy, the faces of the party became serious.
Monster Wave.
It originally refers to a phenomenon that occurs in a place where people are rarely popular.
Even if people don’t touch it, dungeons continue to form and pour out monsters, and if the number of them increases, the weak monsters will eventually be pushed out.
However, if the situation has reached that point, it is said that the ecosystem within that area has already been completely destroyed.
Naturally, strong monsters start moving after the weak monsters pushed out by the territorial battle, even in order to survive, and the weak monsters unite and run away to survive from the strong monsters.
It is called a monster wave because it looks like a wave made of monsters.
But Leon knows.
There is no way that a monster wave would happen near the royal capital, the capital of the Philo Kingdom.
It must have been because of the stimulant Kain Sirius had prepared.
‘No, no matter how strange it is, isn’t it?’
Monster Wave.
No matter how good the performance of the magic stimulant Kain Sirius obtained, it cannot create a monster that did not exist.
By the way, so many monsters have gathered to cause a monster wave?
This may be the case in a local territory or near the border where the soldiers are weak and cannot use their power to subdue monsters.
But this was the royal road.
The capital of the country and the city where the king resides.
Of course, compared to other territories, monster subjugation must be carried out more thoroughly, but where did all these monsters come from?
Of course, just because it was a royal road, it wasn’t safe from the demonic attacks.
The only thing Leon remembered before returning was that the Royal Capital was attacked several times.
‘But maybe not this year?’
The royal capital is attacked the year Leon turns 12.
That is, next year.
A famous incident that even Leon, who lived in an attic, could not know about because a huge hole was drilled in the wall of the royal capital and a lot of damage occurred.
‘no way.’
Leon asked, hardening his face.
“therefore? How did Cain Sirius get away with you?”
“Fuck, how do we know?”
“Kane has an escort from the duke’s family, so he must be alive somehow.”
Kane is alive.
“Damn it.”
If Kane dies, it’s self-defeating.
Even if he was really killed by a monster, Leon was confident that he would laugh at his death.
But the problem is that he’s alive.
If I had been swept away by the monster wave and died, the pheromone that attracts demons would disappear and the demons would have come to their senses.
But if Kane is still alive,
And if you are being protected by escorts,
Where will they go?
“The royal road is dangerous.”
The safest place from the monster wave is determined.
Inside the city protected by huge walls.
The escorts alone will not be able to completely deal with the monster wave, so they will try to evacuate to the royal road to protect Kane.
And if Leon is right, this monster wave is the army of the demon realm.
‘Originally, the raid that would happen next year is happening now.’
Perhaps the Demon Realm was trying to slowly increase the number of monsters so that they would not be detected while building a dungeon in an inconspicuous place near the royal capital.
In order to form a dimensional rift and attack it at once until enough troops are gathered to destroy the royal capital.
But the future has changed.
Because Cain Sirius used a magic stimulant, the demons lost their sanity and started to run wild outside the command system of the demons.
“You troll bastard.”
Leon was furious, and flames blazed around him.
The emotion of anger that he couldn’t control himself had created a magical resonance.
Leon was preparing for a raid on the royal capital next year.
It was natural.
Leon knew that the walls of the royal capital would collapse and many civilians would die.
Now, Riel was also one of those citizens of the royal capital.
Leon’s efforts to complete the Pure Potion and Mana Potion in such a hurry were also part of the plan to minimize the damage to the Royal Capital.
All of those plans have come to an end at this point, though.
“But I don’t want to let go and watch.”
A lightning bolt engulfed Leon’s entire body, which had developed a hatching thunderbolt.
The party couldn’t help but be astonished at the great sight.