Mission No.6 Greed (9)
“What is Ilunacon?”
Gradually he began to get used to seeing ogres with various expressions, and Balt walked away with Har Pia on his back.
“It’s a magic metal.”
“I’m sick of magic metal.”
“… After all, it is a magic metal.”
Adele, who was flapping her wings and tried to run away from Ewald, screamed with a face caught in extreme fear.
Even the feathers falling from the wings of the harpies in front of Ebalt seemed like a fantasy.
Of course, that scene seemed to Elif as an octopus rampaging to eat Ewald.
And to Shu Pea, a giant praying mantis appeared to wield her front paws.
Whatever it was, it was clear that the scene was far from normal.
Ewald put down the harpy eye from his back for a moment and inserted a powerful body blow into the harpy eye’s abdomen.
If it was Adele’s image, I would have felt sorry at least, but now I just feel like I’ve hit a monster.
Ewald, who wrapped the droopy harpy on his back, continued his interrupted explanation.
“It is a metal that emits strange waves that disturb the intuition of intelligent lifeforms looking at other lifeforms.”
It’s hard to say.
Ewald, noticing the ogre’s confused look on his head, shortened his earlier answer.
“It’s a metal that makes other creatures look like monsters.”
The ogre had a tearful expression on his face.
“What kind of metal do you have?”
“I don’t know. There are theories that God made it as a joke, and there are theories that the metal has its own intelligence, so it is intended to confuse intelligent life that is trying to mine itself so that they kill each other. Nothing is certain, but when you are around the Ilunacon, everything around you looks like a monster.”
“It is a bad metal.”
The frightened ogre put its paws together at Ewald’s side.
“… It’s dog-like metal.”
A mermaid with a frown on his face took the cigarette to the gills with his finned fingers.
Ewald shook his head, feeling as if he would let go of his mind.
“It is so shiny and beautiful enough to be called a jewel, so there is a lot of demand for it. Even if it’s not for that reason, it’s a metal that’s sufficiently valuable for wizards just for its mana amplification effect.”
“I don’t need jewelry that makes everyone else look like a monster.”
“Of course, if you want to use it as a jewel, you have to treat it with magic. Or use it for offense.”
“… What do you mean by attack?”
The mermaid fluttered her gills and stood next to Ewald.
“When was it? Someone sprinkled Ilunacon at the launching ceremony for the Stett Kingdom.”
You sprayed Ilunacon in the middle of a crowd of soldiers in a parade ground?
The ogre tilted his head with a puzzled look on his face, then opened his mouth, revealing savage fangs.
“You must be upset?”
“There was a knife fight until the last person was left.”
I’ve been imagining
The scene of the enormous monsters surrounding him swinging their swords at each other came to Elif’s mind.
“Some say it’s Luxen Kingdom, but no matter how you think about it, it’s Ilunacon.”
“It seems so.”
The mermaid let out thick cigarette smoke and waggled her tail.
“So you’re saying we’ll just have to watch this crazy thing until we’re out of range of the Ilunacon?”
Having stabbed the core, Shupea smoked a cigarette with an annoyed face.
Ewald nodded his head with a look that could not be helped, and Adele drooped his shoulders with a completely sullen expression.
“I’m glad though. There must have been an expedition team that fought with each other because of the Ilunacon.”
Well, considering the initial surprise, I was really fortunate that I hadn’t swung the knife right away.
“You mean you don’t know how long it will last.”
“It will disappear when you return.”
Ewald calmly accepted Elif’s words.
Anyway, everyone here knows that this is an illusion, so there shouldn’t be a big problem.
Ewald, who judged that it would be mentally difficult, but once he got used to it, would be fine again, lifted the harpiei on his back.
“I just need to walk one more day…”
While he was about to turn his head to the side and look at the two monsters, Balt had to stop his words for a moment.
A pair of harpiei’s wings wrapped around his neck were covered with something.
Ewald was about to look at the crew, but then he stopped and looked at the monster’s paws that were being draped over the wings of the harpiei, and involuntarily gnawed his teeth.
And Shupea’s voice broke out sharply.
“Goble, no, mister!”
“… I saw it too.”
Ewald took his gaze away from what was around his neck and identified the mermaid and ogre.
Nothing has changed between the two.
However, the wings of the harpy eye that Adele had transformed overlapped with the grotesque arms of the werewolf.
* * *
Shupea, who became a mermaid, and Elif, who became an ogre, sighed.
“The mantis overlapped with the caterpillar!”
“An octopus has merged with an orc!”
It seemed that way to both of them.
Ebalt, who had put her stunned Adele down on her floor, looked at her as she took on the appearance of a harpy and a werewolf superimposed on one another.
But he couldn’t quite come up with an answer.
“Why are the two monsters overlapping?”
Both the mermaid on the left and the ogre on the right appear to be a single monster.
Even Ewald himself looks like a goblin or a troll monster.
But Adele was different.
Two completely different monsters coexisted.
“… It makes no sense, this.”
I definitely understood that other people were seen as monsters because of the Ilunacon, and it turned out to be a reality.
However, I have never heard of a person appearing as two monsters overlapping anywhere.
Ewald scratched his chin, unable to draw any conclusions from the anomaly that happened before his eyes.
“The two monsters seem to overlap… Two monsters…”
Everyone else seems to be one, so why only this one…
It was then. Harpiai’s body slowly started to fade.
Ewald looked at Shupea and Elif, wondering if he was mistaken, but both monsters were looking at each other with eyes similar to Ewald’s.
“One is missing? The octopus is disappearing.”
“… The wart is gone.”
Ewald put together that little piece of information.
The harpy eye overlaps with the werewolf and then disappears.
The Kraken overlaps with the Orc and disappears, and the Mantis merges with the Larva and disappears.
All of the previous appearances are disappearing.
And in an instant, the Harpiei disappeared right in front of Ewald’s eyes.
Ewald, who was confused by an incomprehensible phenomenon, found the werewolf who had collapsed in his seat violently opening his eyes.
He almost reflexively drew his sword, but Ewald managed to suppress the urge and grabbed the werewolf by the collar.
The sudden shock caused the werewolf to open its large snout and show anguish, but it didn’t last long.
The werewolf opened its loathsome muzzle with a smile full of sarcasm.
“What are all these monsters?”
The bright yellow werewolf’s eyes shone as they alternately pointed at Ebalt, Elif, and Spea.
However, the werewolf who began to giggle with Adele’s beautiful voice,
“I am not afraid even when I walk alone in the dark.”
He started singing.
“Not losing courage even in the face of a monster.”
A clear and beautiful voice spread out in all directions riding on a beautiful tone.
Ewald drew his sword against the ogre, and Elif drew his sword against the troll.
“Because they know that the monsters will kill each other.”
Ewald and Elif thrust their swords into each other’s hearts.
* * *
“What are you doing!”
As soon as Shupea’s high-pitched voice burst out, two golden shields were created with a magnificent sound.
The goblin and the slime, who had stabbed each other in front of Shupea’s eyes, stumbled and fell as they stumbled due to the shields created at the ends of each other’s weapons.
However, the two monsters quickly wriggled and began to wield their swords terrifyingly.
With a sense of danger that they would both die in the event of an emergency, Shupea swears and moves the shield around, bouncing both swords at each other.
It looks like goblins and slimes, but those are ebalt and elves.
I don’t know why these crazy men are suddenly brandishing knives. Besides, didn’t Elif hold a sword against people?
And why is Ewald stabbing his subordinates now?
One side was a goblin, so it was easy to notice the direction as it moved similarly to a human body and wielded a sword, but that liquid slime didn’t know what it was wriggling about, but it seemed to be moving with a sword attached to its body, so Spear swung a protective shield with a stern expression. Had to
“Why is it slime!”
It’s a terrible sword strike. I don’t know how many pieces I could break if I got caught up in the dance with a knife.
Shupea spread the shield without even a chance to breathe. Her dizzying trajectories radiated so much light that she couldn’t possibly follow with her torso’s eyes.
However, she flew into a place that Shupea couldn’t cover with her shield, and her sword ricocheted off her opponent’s sword.
Ebalt was also Ebalt, but Elif’s sword skills were also not uncommon.
At that moment, a goblin’s sword flew outside the slime.
A movement so fast that Shupea couldn’t even follow her eyes, but the goblin, cutting her jelly-like shards from her body, raised her sword above her head.
A part of the slime’s body was sharply cut at the tip of the blade’s trajectory.
Squeak.
Whatever was cut was cut. The slime shrank and slithered back.
Elif was clearly being pushed back.
The slime wriggled the knife attached to her body to the part where it had been cut off and carefully slid back.
But the goblin slashed the knife he had raised high above her head.
“A little!”
Shupea’s timing was half a beat faster.
The goblin’s sword bounced off the protective shield created by Shupea. But at that moment, the slime wriggled and cut the sword horizontally.
It was a shield attached to her slime, so her slime’s attack broke through her shield and grazed the goblin’s chest.
At the same time, a long trail of blood spurted from the goblin’s chest onto the wall.
Supea’s chest dropped, but the attacked goblin took a step back and laid his sword aside.
At that moment, anger rushed into Shupea’s eyes.
“They’re both squeezed!”
Damn!
The slime and goblin’s bodies were swallowed by two protective shields.
In that state, Superea, who spread her hands out to both sides, clenched his fists as they were. At the same time, the protective film surrounding the two monsters contracted with tremendous force.
The movements of the two monsters stopped.
They were trapped in a protective shield while brandishing swords at each other.
However, after confirming that the protective shield was the shape of Ebalt and Elif in human form, Speaa unknowingly drew a smile on her lips and turned her eyes, which contained that anger, at the giant caterpillar.
“Hey, make it.”
Shupea had forgotten.
Adele is a bard.
Then, the caterpillar moved the expressionless part of its head to Shupea and let out a beautiful voice.
“… Why are you so fine?”
“I don’t know. It could be because you sang the song like a f*cking b*tch.”
The caterpillar wriggled and tried to step back.
However, after checking Ewald and Elif with a sidelong glance, Shupea took a step closer to Adele.
“What are you?”
Hearing his voice alone made it clear that he was perplexed enough.
At the question uttered by Adele in the shape of a caterpillar, Shupea raised her mouth.
“What is it?”
Superea created a small protective shield over his palm with a terrifying smile.
“Valkier-sama is a sassy bully priest who loves X.”