Chapter 144


Chapter 144 Strongest Sage, Gives Up


"Ruli, next arrow!"


"Yes!"


Alma shot the arrows Ruli augmented one after another, hitting the bird monster .


However, those arrows didn"t have much, if any, power .


"KISHAAA!"


And the undamaged bird monster charges toward Ruli and the others .


However, Alma didn"t loosen her attacks .


She steadily let loose more arrows while being ready to evade anytime .


Ruli also continued to make arrows and augment them .


Instead of creating arrows beforehand, doing it in the heat of battle will lessen the payload on the arrow maker and maintain constant quality .


Thus, besides the pre-made arrows you put aside in Storage magic used for the first strike, you always want to bring the raw materials with you .


And the monster"s attack was--


"SOI!"


Blocked by the spear in Iris"s hands .


Her foothold has been magically reinforced by Ruli beforehand, so it won"t collapse easily .


"GII!?"


The monster regained its posture even while looking bewildered to have been flung back by Iris who was far smaller than it .


And it"s also been slightly damaged . Were Iris could handle her spear better, it might have lost one of its legs already . . . but well, Iris has only started to adapt to human body after all .


Alma kept shooting arrows one after another while Iris was buying time .


. . . They"re doing pretty good .


The flight inhibition should works its magic right about now .


Right when I thought that, the magic showed its effect .


The bird monster couldn"t gain alt.i.tude no matter how much it flapped its wing .


This signals for Iris"s turn now .


"I"m going!"


"Yes!"


"Un!"


Once Iris declared that, Alma and Ruli retreated from the frontline and hid behind a nearby cover, peeking with only their faces showing .


They"re avoiding getting rolled up while also being ready to support Iris if anything happens .


. . . However, that worry seems to be unwarranted .


"SOI!"


Iris thrust her spear on the monster"s body along with that shout .


"GYAAAAAA!"


The stake-sized spear pierced deep into the monster as if there was no resistance .


Normally, you have to pull a pierced spear right away to prevent it from getting stuck, but . . . . That"s meaningless before Iris"s power .


Iris swung the spear along with the pierced monster with both her hands and flung it onto the wall .


Being the center of gravity, Iris also ended up hitting the wall on the opposite side . Faster than the monster"s crashing speed .


"Au! . . . . Ei!"



However, Iris was mostly undamaged .


And then, Iris pierced the heart of the monster, ending the battle .


Or to be more exact, her pierce was slightly off from the heart, but since the power of Iris"s spear thrust blew away all the surrounding parts, there was no particular problem .


One unfortunate point is that most of the monster materials have turned into a mess . . . but we can get this level of monster materials anytime we want anyway, guess it"s fine .


I"ll gather the usable-looking parts at least .


"You three really managed to defeat it without me . "


"Rather than us three, it was mostly Iris-san . . . "


"Un . The two of us only brought that thing down to the ground . . . "


Alma points at the tragic remain of the monster .


"No, I alone, wouldn"t be able to hit it, it wouldn"t have worked! . . . Mathias-san, could you make this spear a bit longer?"


Iris asked me .


However, unfortunately, it can"t be made longer than that .


"That"s the maximum possible length for now . A long spear is hard to manage if you just swing it around, it"s too heavy, and you"ll just end up getting swung around by it instead . "


"That"s true . . . I also got swung to the wall when I was swinging that monster earlier . . . It hurt a bit . . . "


Iris looks at a narrow pa.s.sage with reproachful eyes .


She doesn"t seem to be hurt anywhere in particular, but I guess she did get swung with a force that would have turned an ordinary human to pieces .


It ended with just 『Hurt a bit』 because it was Iris .


"Once you get used to spear more, you can do many things even with that length . Your current way of fighting relies too much on brute force . . . . Also, I think Alma and Ruli"s fighting style are fine the way you are . When you"re with Iris, it"s best to leave the main offensive to her and create a situation that allows her to strike the enemy . "


In actuality, there are ways for them to put out serious firepower too .


I should teach them about it to protect themselves when they"re not with me or Iris, but an archer grows faster if you let them experiment with arrows in a variety of ways as a support at first .


A style that only relies on high-powered arrows is hard to put into application after all .


--We delved deeper in the dungeon afterward .


Unfortunately we never found the monster we were looking for .


Let alone finding one, there wasn"t even any sign or traces of it .


The least bad one was the monster the three fought against . . . but there"s no way they needed to form a subjugation party just for that weak monster .


"Hmm . . . Wonder if it disappeared?"


"Disappeared . . . . Can monsters suddenly disappear just like that?"


"It"s unusual, but such cases happen sometimes . . . . Guess we should turn back for today . "


After descending to a certain floor, we had a discussion and decided to make our way out of the dungeon .


And we arrived at the exit safely .


Now then . . . . We should sell our spoils today at the guild for now .

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