Chapter 97
“Do you like young girls?” (Amy)
After today’s matches were over, that was the first thing Amy asked upon seeing Leelan when she joined the group .
The way Amy looked at me with that smile, it was scary .
It was a similar pressure from back when I dyed Zir’s hair black .
“No, that’s not it, let me explain, Amy . ” (Hibiki)
Somehow, it sounded like the excuse of a cheating man .
“Aunty, you’re scary . ” (Leelan)
Leelan just dropped that bomb there .
“A-aunty? Is that what you called me just now?” (Amy)
Amy sent a murderous gaze .
Leelan hid behind me at once .
“Already, that close, huh?” (Baara)
Baara said in admiration after seeing that .
“This girl, seems to be quite talented . Worthy to be the disciple of my disciple . ” (Kuesu)
Kuesu already saw through Leelan’s talent, and planned to make her my disciple .
Although Leelan was already sufficiently strong even without specific training .
We ate together, and then returned back to the inn, as there would still be more matches tomorrow .
After entering the room with a sigh, Sai gave his report at once .
“Quite a large amount of money was transferred to the building where the chimera Para was being held in . ” (Sai)
In other words, the church wasn’t the only one involved in this, but probably even the country .
“Then, let’s stop the recon for now . Alert the goblins first thing in the morning . ” (Hibiki)
“We’re ignoring them?” (Sai)
Sai looked a little uneasy, and he had wanted to attack the facility directly .
Of course, they had been under some disguise, but there was a possibility that their identity had been found out .
“No, we’ll attack all the buildings . ” (Hibiki)
The night of that day .
When the lights in the city had decreased, Zir and I were already 100m away from the building where Para had been held captive, with Ruby and Sai keeping watch nearby .
Ayla and Amy stayed behind to watch over Leelan who was sleeping due to exhaustion .
Perhaps it was because they were worried that the opposition would try to retrieve Leelan back .
I turned my eyes back towards the building . We were at such a distance where we could still see even with the inadequate lighting .
“Doth thou truly wish to attack every building?” (Zir)
“Not really, but by attacking each building at once they won’t be able to send help to each other . ” (Hibiki)
Zir summoned skeletons as I said so .
Skeletons continuously appeared as they neatly arranged themselves in 3 rows in the nearby street .
There was no sound even after 100 had been summoned .
“Fu, thou actually can doth ‘t if thou tryeth . Soft-footed Skeletons . ”
The soft-footed skeletons moved without sound . They don’t actually walk though .
You couldn’t hear their footsteps nor the clacking of their bones as they literally moved by gliding across the ground .
Zir moved in with the skeletons after wrapping her body with magic power .
“This may beest gross in sense, but, mine lord, I wilt beest expecting plenty of rewards at which hour I cometh back . ” (Zir)
“Yeah, I know . ” (Hibiki)
The silent skeleton unit started to move towards the facility with that .
Straight ahead along the road from where the skeletons gathered was the building .
“Mine lord, the skeletons art in place . ” (Zir)
Instructing Zir to start invading, I covered the whole building with a wind barrier .
I conjured a flame inside the barrier to increase the temperature in the building .
And as the last touch, I used 【Flood Magic】to raise the air humidity, effectively creating steam to cover the building .
Because skeletons wouldn’t be affected by such a situation, they could merrily charge into the building .
Why not spread fire normally, instead of using steam?
A country wouldn’t want to let something they own to fall into their enemy’s hands .
However, there was no such thing as an autopsy in this world, so death due to steam will be treated as a regular death .
In relation to that, some will just chalk it up as the [Curse of the Dead] that fell upon them because they did unjust and inhumane research .
There were indeed undead and ghosts in this world, as well as “curses”, so that notion should be stronger .
The skeletons didn’t attack aggressively, they were merely there to seal any possible exits .
Right about now, the temperature should be too hard for a body to handle .
If we kept doing this for the next few hours, there would be no humans left alive inside the building .
The nastiest thing about this attack was that the heat and humidity was created indirectly by magic power, so undoing it would be a lot harder than with regular magic .
Moreover, with the 100 skeletons keeping the magicians preoccupied, it would be near impossible for them to lower the temperature and adjust the humidity .
In this way, we managed to complete the [Steamed Building] by sunrise .
It took longer than I thought, so the rewards for Zir had to be postponed until the end of today’s matches .
“Morning, Hibiki . You look sleepy . Why is that?” (Lux)
“Yeah, Ayla and the others didn’t let me get any sleep . ” (Hibiki)
Dodging the bullet from the sharp Lux, I went to the arena .
Today was the third round .
The first match was the Elite Magician VS Me .
The elite magician quickly distanced himself and conjured a lot of water into the air .
He made water bullets from that mass of water, but the attack only managed to hit my shadow . Body fitness was also an important aspect of battle after all .
I tried to approach, but I always got blocked by a wall of water each time, which then turned into a hail of water bullets .
That pattern repeated for a while, until the bullet nicked my shoulder and broke my stance .
The elite magician didn’t miss that gap . I was attacked by the water walls itself instead of the water bullets .
At that sudden development, after equipping a gauntlet onto my left hand and loading it with 【Shock Magic】, I aimed it at the elite magician .
Right after, a high pitched sound from the self made speaker inside the gauntlet filled the arena .
The elite magician flinched, losing focus and causing the water mass to lose shape and drench the arena .
Not going to miss that opening, I pointed a sword point blank at the elite magician .
The elite magician had a disappointed look but otherwise accepted the defeat .
“Phew, that was dangerous . ”
My self-made speaker was made of a magnet with metal wire coil and thin durable monster leather that was shaped like a megaphone .
By sending electric current to the speaker, it would produce either a high pitched sound or an extremely low sound .
I prepared this thinking that it would be a good distraction, since the humans in this world are unfamiliar with the sound of a buzzer, it was only normal to be taken by surprise .
The same happened to the audience, since that would also be the first time for them to hear such a sound .
I felt a lot of strange gazes directed towards me as I left the arena .
The next match was Lux VS Elf .
The winner of this match would be my next opponent, so I have to watch it carefully .