Act 2-36 - Hostility of Healer

Chapter 36 : Hostility of Healer

I headed toward the healer who was an old man.

Since his enchanted cane has no blade, its killing power was low… but then, he could beat me to death with it, or use another type of magic to kill me.

It would be for the best if he didn’t have close combat power though…

「Shitty brat.」

The old man was baring his teeth, pointing his cane toward me.

It’s coming, maybe some sort of attack magic!

I assumed that kind of pattern.

But, even if I knew that the attack magic might come from the front, if it turned out that this old man was a better enchanted weapon’s user than me, I wouldn’t have much room to dodge his attack.

Even if he used attack magic, there were various kinds of magic such as the type that ran in a straight line, or scattering type.

If it was only dodging, I could do that as much as I wanted.

Jumping to the side might enable me to dodge the attack.

But, even if I avoided a direct hit, it’ll make me lose this precious opportunity to attack their healer.

「Lend me your power, Beelzebub!」

I pointed my enchanted sword.

A magic circle deployed at the tip of my sword.

「《Petit Dimordi》!」

「《Flame》!」

Both the old man and I chanted our aria at the same time.

Beelzebub appeared from my magic circle in her temporary form with 《Petit Dimordi》, and 《Flame》 bursting forth from the oldman’s magic circle.

… I am glad I used Beelzebub as insurance.

The old man not only can heal, his attack magic was first class too.

Worst of all, it was AOE magic.

《Flame》 was a C-rank radiation type attack magic.

Rank C magic was high rank magic that only a few high level adventurers of Romburgh could use.

「Just how many times are you going to use this mistress, the ruler of Orgol as your meat shield?!」

Beelzebub spoke with self-derision.

「M-My bad… this is the only way.」

「Dean, I want three more portion of that steak in our victory banquet!」

Beelzebub was laughing as she jumped into the flame.

I followed her from behind.

I crossed the distance between us by following Beelzebub’s back.

I was leaning forward as I ran through the 《Flame》 while enduring the heat.

Beelzebub came out of the flame, raising her claws toward the oldman.

「Tch! What a sturdy devil!」

The old man used his enchanted cane to parry Beelzebub’s claws.

He protected himself agaisnt Beelzebub’s claws.

Though my guess was right about this oldman not being a close combat type, his level was high.

But, in terms of strength, Beelzebub was slightly stronger than him.

Though maintaining Beelzebub consumed a large amount of mana, it wasn’t the situation in which I can be frugal about it.

I was closing in at once.

「THIS IS IT! 《CRUCIFIX》!」

A giant cross appeared behind the oldman.

This binding type tulpa was Gaza’s special magic.

I created a cross with chains using mana.

It was a troublesome skill due to its slow invocation, and couldn’t be used as restraint since it consumed a lot of mana.

But if it succeeded, it was an excellent magic that enabled me to halt the attack of a higher level opponent.

There was a chance for that old man to escape the restraint by going forward but, standing right in front of that oldman was Beelzebub who could reap his life the moment he showed an opening.

The oldman was trying to escape to the right while thrusting his cane at Beelzebub.

Beelzebub, moving even faster as if to close the oldman’s escape route while dodging his thrust.

She even countered back with her claws.

She intentionally made a large move to lure the oldman into her trap.

「F-For me, to lose… against this brat…!」

The oldman was leaning over, rolling his body to the side as if to get away from me.

But, the chains that descended from the cross had already coiled around the oldman’s body, pulling him toward the cross.

Even if the oldman was trying to resist the chains, Beelzebub’s claws which knew no mercy, were already right above him, who couldn’t move anymore.

Her sharp claws slashed down the oldman right on his face, all the way down to his thigh.

「G-GUUUH!」

And yet, the oldman was still resisting.

Following Beelzebub’s attack, I arrived right in front of the oldman, and stabbed him in the abdomen with my enchanted sword’s blade.

His eyes were lookign at me, and then down to his own abdomen.

Blood spewing out from his mouth.

The moment I thought that was the end of him, the oldman’s eyes opened wide.

「I’M NOT DONE YET!」

His arms finally broke free from the chains, he then moved forward, mouth wide open toward my arms which gripped the sword that stabbed him in his stomach.

Dammit, I couldn’t dodge this attack.

I hardened my arm with 《Transcendent Toughness》, and punched toward the oldman’s fast approaching face.

My punch broke the oldman’s teeth and nose.

Blood and mucus were flowing down from those wounds.

「Im-possible… please forgive me, O-Ornoa-sama…」

The oldman’s head shook once upon receiving the impact.

I cancelled 《Petit Dimordi》 and 《Crucifix》 right away.

The oldman’s body then crumbled down right in that place.

The odo’s light that overflowed from his bloody body then entered my body.

「K-Killed…! He killed their healer!」

The other adventurers couldn’t hide their shock upon seeing me killing the healer.

Though Heidar sent a relieved smile upon seeing my victory, Gamdon couldn’t hide his shock.

Bypassing the defense line of the grey cult and killing their healer, he might never have expected that a nameless adventurer like me would be able to pull off such a feat.

Anyhow, the death of their healer should make our battle easier than before.

With this, they wouldn’t be able to defeat us with battle of attrition anymore.

In addition, we now could overpower our enemies with our superior numbers.

Moreover, the other side didn’t have this oldman as their control tower and healer anymore.

With the loss of their control tower, the chance for our side’s victory should be bigger than before…!

「The oldman who got killed with brute force is dying with laugh.」

Dig, the enchanted dagger user from grey cult was heading toward me while fighting against three other adventurers at the same time.

「NOW, I DON’T NEED TO FIGHT A BORING BATTLE AND COOPERATE WITH THE OTHER GUYS ANYMORE! THE GUY WHO KILLED THE OLDMAN IS MINE! NOW DIEEEE!」

Dig parried the adventurer’s sword with his barehand while keeping his attention to me, and countered by stabbing his dagger toward the said adventurer’s abdomen.

The moment he saw the other adventurers hestitation, he turned around and ran toward me.

Expecting common sense from these guys was a mistake huh.

By nature, every single one of them were monsters in human skin.