Magic Warrior Chapter 48 (Patreon)

Demon Spider

The cobbler with grilled meat was even better than I expected.

You know how to make sweet and spicy sauce, mother!

We were lucky if we could find a stone pillar to ward off monsters, but when we reached the street, we saw one nearby and decided to have lunch there.

"I have a feeling there are a lot of Killer Rabbit's around here, even though there aren't any around here. We ran into them twice just going straight through the forest."

"I wonder if the Forest Bear is getting in there a lot, too."

"Big Sister, Forest Bear had a lot of little bears with him, didn't he?"

Claire was right, many of the Forest Bears were with their cubs.

They seem to be timid by nature, and I wonder if it's more likely that they ran away early to protect their cubs.

I wonder if the forest ecosystem will collapse if we leave it like this."

"Wouldn't that be a disaster?"

The northern forest has a lot of normal animals, so if there are too many dangerous monsters, they may become extinct.

The line between normal animals and monsters is sometimes quite vague. If we only look at the ecology, Forest Bear is almost the same as normal animals.

After lunch, they take a short rest.

After lunch, when I was taking a short rest, suddenly all the birds in the area took off at once, as if they were making a noise.

"What?

"Hmm?"

The chirping of insects that I had heard earlier had stopped, and silence reigned, as if all the creatures in the vicinity were holding their breath.

"Mina-sama, something is coming from the north."

"Claire, get behind me."

"Uh-huh."

The three of us wait, weapons at the ready.

A black spider, about 3 meters long, emerged from the trees.

It stood still with its front legs held up, making a grinding sound with its joints, as if it was trying to price us out.

"Demon Spider!"

"There is only one in the vicinity, watch out for its poison attack and the strings it sends flying from its butt."

Demon Spider, a rare monster in SeveChro, and one of the rarer monsters in the game.

Because of this, I've only fought it a few times and have a hazy memory, but I believe it was lower than level 50 and was an enemy that attacked forcefully with poison and adhesive thread attacks on its front legs and fangs, and with three-dimensional movements using trees and rocks.

Even if we were to retreat back, we would not be able to outrun it if it chased us through the woods.

--We had no choice but to defeat it!

"Its main body is water-based, and its threads are supposed to be weak against fire."

"Does Rilfana-chan know about this?"

"Yes, I've never actually fought one, but I'm pretty sure I've read about them in the illustrated book."

Claire, stay out of it and cover me!

I know!

The level of the opponent was too high for Claire's stick art.

Claire hid behind a stone pillar to avoid monsters, and began to formulate her magical power.

She still doesn't know how much the difference in level affects them, but with Claire and Rilfana around, they might be in danger if they don't take it seriously.

"Rilfana, I'll be aiming at the feet!"

"Yes!"

There are a few unspoken strategies in SeveChro as well, starting around the middle of the game.

One of them is to use a site-destroying technique to stop a strong monster in its tracks.

In games, it is only a temporary stoppage and is often disabled by bosses, but in the realistic world of Virtuari, I believe it will be effective as long as it is not physically impossible.

"Strengthening, Acceleration."

"Here I go!"

While I'm chanting my own enhancement spells, Rilfana takes off running with her dagger at the ready. Even I, who have acceleration, can't catch up with Rilfana, who is running at a dash from a lowered posture.

"Defense Up!"

Claire casts a reinforcement spell that raises the defense value on Rilfana and me, and then starts to cast the next spell.

The spells with the "grant" can be cast on party members as well.

Rilfana has already reached the Demon Spider. I am still a few seconds away.

Seeing that we were going to fight, the Demon Spider swung its threatening paws down like crossed scythes.

"You're too slow! Fireball, Ice Needle!"

Rilfana slid under the spider before its paws could fall. She completed the double chant as they passed each other.

The fireball generated in front of the spider, in Rilfana's path, lands on the intersection of the paws, causing a small explosion, followed immediately by a rush of three icicle icicles to the same location.

The Demon Spider emitted a strange sound, which might have been a scream or a swear word.

I followed it, impressed that it was able to shift the impact a little.

I don't know how it happened that the magic was generated not at my current position but at the path I had taken.

I went around to the left side of the body, not to the front, and slashed at the nearest paw.

"Water Sword!"

Just before the hit, I activated the magic sword without asking any questions.

The tip of the blade quickly entered the leg and severed it completely.

I knew it was a top-level skill, and at this level, there would be no problem in terms of attack, right?

I decided to continue to slash on the right side of the leg, and kept running toward the back of the room while maintaining my water sword, Aqua Spada.

Rilfana, perhaps sensing this, passed right under the spider to the back and turned to the opposite side leg.

The Demon Spider repeatedly stamped its feet in an attempt to crush us as we moved under its feet.

It would have been more difficult if it had spun around, but being an insect after all, it didn't seem to think that far ahead.

I cut off the second leg. Except for the front legs, there were only four more to go. No, Rilfana had cut off the back of the right side, so there were three more to go.

"It's pretty hard!"

Maybe it's the difference in weapon performance, but Rilfana seems to be taking a long time.

"Watch out for the strings!"

Unable to help itself up, Demon Spider started to wriggle its butt.

"Fireball, Ice Needle!"

Rilfana's double chant, Fireball, landed around the spider's buttocks and caused a small explosion.

Three icicles were stuck in the spider's buttocks as well.

As was the case with Killer Rabbit, Rilfana is very good at canceling actions.

Even in games, it was something that only a player with some familiarity could do....

-- Gigigigi!

Demon Spider, realizing that there was nothing he could do at this point, leapt forward and to the front.

"Ah!"

"Claire-sama!"

Demon Spider leapt toward Claire on the street and landed in front of her.

"Hiiieeee!"

Startled by the spider that suddenly leaped in front of her, Claire stopped moving for a moment.

This time, however, she didn't even buckle, and she immediately ran toward us, with the stone pillar that protects her from the monster behind her.

With three of his legs missing, he chased after Claire at a sluggish pace.

The stone pillars were of no use to us once we got into the fight.

Rilfana and I start to run, passing Claire.

But we were too late for a moment, because we were both behind the spider, the furthest away from Claire.

The Demon Spider spits out sticky threads from its buttocks.

Claire was covered with sticky threads from her back and rolled over.

"Whoa."

"Don't move! You'll get tangled up!"

Claire rushes to remove the thread, but the sticky thread tangled in the opposite direction.

She rolled around a few times and stopped. Her right hand, which was holding the cane, seemed to be almost untangled.

Rilfana barely made it is what I was about to say, but…

"I'm okay! Explosion!"

Claire chants. It was an intermediate level fire magic.

Unlike Fireball, it is a magic that simply explodes around the target's position. It can't be used in melee situations, and to be honest, it's not very useful.

The target is...inside the Demon Spider's outstretched mouth!

Causes a small explosion in the Demon Spider's face.

The explosion is smaller than we know from SeveChro's knowledge...lack of Claire's magic power? Or is it under control?

No enemy is intimidated by an explosion in the face, and neither is the Demon Spider.

"Claire-sama!"

Rilfana arrives before I do and steps in front of Claire.

Rilfana, before I knew it, was also holding a dagger in her left hand.

"I'm angry now! ...[Hidden Art: Cherry Blossom Rain Slash]"

Rilfana dances.

The daggers and daggers on either side create a faint afterimage.

At the same time, the Demon Spider sends pale green blood flying with a screeching cry.

The three-meter-long giant spider is helplessly cut to pieces.

Rilfana is already in charge.

The Cherry Blossom Rain Slash, one of the ninja's sword skills, delivers a barrage of heavy damage, and once activated, the attack can continue until it is stopped, but it is not a technique that can be used very often due to the large gap between attacks.

Most of a ninja's melee skills have the word "Hidden" in the name of the skill to be handled with two swords, but sometimes "True" was also used.

Rilfana's current occupation was a Trickster, which would mean that her highest level of occupation prior to her derivation was that of a Ninja.

"Oh, Big Sister, stop and just ponder about something please help to take this off me..."

Oops, I should get the string that is wrapped around Claire.

I put Fire Sword on a small knife that I had prepared for this kind of situation, which could not be used as a weapon, and cut the threads. It might be a little hot, but please bear with it.

"Thanks Big Sister, Rilfana-chan."

Rilfana stood back, seemingly tired of taking apart Demon Spider.

"Good night, Rilfana."

"Oh, um..."

I felt like I had something to say, but it was hard to say. She looked like that.

"Rilfana, I didn't know you were this strong."

I muttered as I looked at the almost shattered Demon Spider.

I put the iron sword back into its sheath. It's a proper weapon made of iron, it seems to be able to withstand several uses of the magic sword.

"I'm sorry for not telling you..."

"What? It's okay. There are things I can't tell you either."

I can't tell people I'm a reincarnated person either. There is a high possibility that they would suspect me of being crazy.

"But I am a slave."

"I don't think of you as a slave, I think of you as a friend. I sometimes think that my father's or mother's reaction might suggest that they treat you as my wife, but..."

Rilfana's cheeks gradually reddened in surprise at my joking line.

"Mi, Mina-sama..."

"Rilfana-chan as Big Sister's wife.... That means she is my sister-in-law."

"Even Claire-sama!"

No sister-in-law! I don't mind if she's my sister-in-law!

Is that what this is about?

Well, let's take this home with us.

I'll just take the paws and fangs, okay?

I can sell the eyes as ingredients for the potion.

Don't touch the paws and fangs with your bare hands, they're poisonous.

"I believe I brought some gloves, as well."

Claire pulled out a pair of leather gloves from her magic bag.

You are always so well-prepared, did you read the book I bought?

I've read it thoroughly, but I haven't prepared anything!

I thought I could wait until I became an adventurer to prepare the details, so I left it as it was.

I'll tell you about it someday...when I have a better idea."

"Yeah, okay."

After collecting the Demon Spider materials and burying the rest on the side of the road, we walked back to Feld Village.