Volume 2 - CH 401

Soldiers jumped at once.

Stopping them is easy.

“This is really useful! Plug your ears, everyone! 【 Howl】 !”

A silent howl echoes.

At that moment, the enemy’s movement comes to a complete stop, and those who were running trip and fall.

“Nice job, Oren-san! 【 Summon】 !”

Tiara, who was plugging her ears, immediately summons Shadow Wolves.

Four Shadow Wolves drop soldiers one after another into the escape route.

” 【 Kijin Flash Step】 …”

As soon as Uchikage thought he had stepped through the ground, the distant enemy exploded.

That’s too much, oi.

Or rather, you should have been slowed down by the debuff you’re under, right?

What’s going on?

“【 Magic Fog】 ! Alright! Next!”

“I won’t let you…”

“Uwaaah!?”

Karna, who had closed the distance without anyone noticing, attacks Maria.

Uchikage and Tiara seem to be attacking and not noticing over here.

As for me, it’s impossible to accurately manipulate a single person in a crowd of soldiers.

Danggit, she’s attacked at such good timing!

I want to attack too, but I’m moving slowly, and I even have Prince Kreis with me, so it’s impossible for now!

My skills?

Unfortunately I just noticed her approach.

There’s no way I can make it in time!

“Hah!!”

“…Shu…”

Bid steps forward and deflects the attack.

The debuff skills that were applied haven’t been released yet, so his movement is slow.

However, it seems he had predicted and moved accordingly.

“Aiming for someone who can cast skills is a standard! Kreis!”

“Yeah!”

” 【 Quickly】 “

“”Guh!?””

She avoids Shadow Eye Kreis’s attack with lightning speed, and in between, kicks Vid and sends them flying.

“【 Slowly】 “

Further honing her skills, she even decreased the speed at which he fell.

I thought she was aiming for that, but it seems not, she ignored it and defended against the attack that flew at her.

“What a hassle…!”

“…Su-…”

She easily defended against the attack from Uchikage.

However, she was inferior in strength, so Uchikage used his tremendous strength to blow Karna away.

While in the air, it was an opportunity to attack.

However, since there was a possibility of being at a disadvantage in terms of skills, it seemed that he did not pursue it further.

At that point, the soldiers began to move again.

“【 Magic Fog】 ! Hey, what do we do with this?!”

“It’s an unbelievable number! Also, this kid isn’t waking up!”

“How rude of you to call the Prince like that!”

“Ouren-sama! Can’t we buy time with the earth spirits?!”

“Even though that’s a good idea! Please don’t make me panic!”

“Forget about that, hurry up and do it!”

“Got it!!”

I activated my skills by stomping on the ground.

I manipulated the ground with the earth spirits to create a wall and buy time to devise a plan!

The wall surrounded us.

It seemed that attacks were concentrated on a single point from the outside to break the wall, but I repaired it repeatedly.

Let’s buy time with this until the effect of the earth spirits wears off.

“Pant…pant…”

“Maria Guild Master, are you okay?”

“I used Magic Fog too much…I have no more magic power…”

“Here.”

I took out five mana potions from My magic tool bag.

If there’s no magic power, then this is the solution.

“…Are you kidding me?”

“Do I look like I’m joking this time?”

With an incredibly unpleasant expression, Maria drank all five mana potions.

As expected of the guild master.

Well, leaving that aside, what are we going to do now?

The enemies have gathered, and it’s not realistic to defeat them all and escape.

My howl is also being interrupted by that robe woman.

The soldiers can be dealt… but she covered that weakness.

Well, it’s not the first time she dealt with that skill, so I guess she’s plugging her ears just before I activated the skill.

What a quick response.

In addition, it’s extremely troublesome that I can’t defeat her now!

<Come out, intruder.>

I heard a voice as if it was coming through a microphone. At the same time, the soldiers stopped attacking the wall.

“What’s going on…?”

“Ouren-sama, create an air pressure barrier. There’s a possibility of being attacked as soon as the wall is removed.”

“That way we can see the opponent’s movements better. Alright.”

I expanded the air pressure barrier in all directions. After confirming it, I used the earth spirit to remove the wall of earth.

Outside, the soldiers still surrounded us. But they only held their weapons and didn’t show any sign of attacking.

As they tilted their heads in confusion, they heard the voice again.

<How did you release the slave mark?>

“…. Where’s the sound coming from?”

“Ouren-sama, it’s coming from the church.”

“From there?”

Wecould see the church a little further away. A person who appeared to be a priest was standing in front of the door, staring at us fiercely.

<Are you listening?>

“I’m listening! By the way, are you the one who engraved the slave mark on your allies? You’ve got guts to say that in front of so many soldiers!”

<What are you talking about? They are all my pawns.>

“Huh?”

Everyone except for Ouren was looking at the soldiers who were nearby. When they looked closely, each of them had a slave mark engraved on them. The locations varied, and some of them were invisible… But the ones who were really here probably had a slave mark engraved on them.

In addition, their expressions were expressionless, and it seemed that they couldn’t hear what we were saying.

“Maria Guildmaster, is there a way to use the slave mark like this?”

“There is… It’s prohibited though.”

“I see… The priest’s words are God’s words… Maybe that’s his reason to use it.”

“Indeed. But with this many?”

“Maybe they made some kind of deal with the devil.”

It’s not an impossible story, is it? Oh, but if we defeat him, we win! The people here will also be released, so it’ll collapse on its own.

” 【 Reamed Water Spear】 …”

It was the sharpest skill I have. The air pressure barrier only surrounded us on all sides, so the top was open.

I used it from there… and charged in!

Fhyuuuu!!

As the sound of cutting wind echoed, the reamed spears pointed its blade towards the priest.

However, it was repelled by several soldiers’ defensive magic.

As expected, they responded firmly to such a situation.

“It’s not that easy to defeat you huh.”

<If you know it’s useless, then hand over the prince.>

“I won’t let you. There are still things under my sleeve!”

<I see.>

The priest raised his hand.

At that moment, the soldiers who had been motionless until then began to move in unison, closing in on us.

“With only three of us, including me and Shadow Eye, we can’t handle this number.”

“I’m sorry, Ouren-sama, but my skills are specialized for individual battles.”

“I’m the only one here! Alright then…”

“Wait a minute…”

“Ouren-kun!! Don’t throw the prince!!”

“Ahh shut it, we don’t have time for this many enemies to come at once!”

Well then, I shall use my new skill with these guys!!

“Alright… 【 Mizuryuu】 !” (Water Dragon)