Volume 11, Chapter 2: Trying Out Going to the Newly Developed Southern Territory - Part 2

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A sharp voice was raised from the coachman’s seat.

「What in the world is that monster!?」

──Monster?

The military use carriage’s windows were small. They were unfit for looking outside.

He determined that this was no longer the time to be hesitant.

While holding Rem in his arms, Diablo half rose from his seat and kicked open the carriage’s right side door.

*Gou* Wind rushed in.

Green scenery streamed by.

There should have been a valley to the right.

A gigantic head entered his view.

It was a short and stout, no necked monster. There were holes in the places that looked like they would be the eyes and mouth.

Diablo recognized it.

「So it’s a 《Spriggan》!」

In the MMORPG Cross Reverie, it was a type that would wait in the vicinity of a base. To think it would appear in a place like this!

Rem’s eyes opened wide.

「Is that, a Spriggan……!?」

「Hii!?」

Shera raised a scream.

The Spriggan raised a fist that looked like a hammer that was at the end of its thick arm over its head.

Most likely, they wouldn’t be able to get away with the carriage’s speed. Rather, it would turn out to become a perfect target.

The instant he felt danger, Diablo’s thought speed skyrocketed.

──I need to crush it with magic! No, for magic that would have to be big enough for it, and moreover be strong enough to crush a monster with a metallic outward appearance in one shot, an appropriate chant length is necessary. We’d get attacked if I don’t make it in time. Putting me aside, Rem and Shera wouldn’t get out of it safely!

「Jump off!」

Diablo shouted at the coachmen.

Since he was carrying Rem with one hand to begin with, he grabbed hold of Shera. Carrying the two of them with both of his hands, he leapt outside of the carriage.

《Flight Magic》

If they were to jump off from the carriage that was moving with considerable speed and make contact with the rugged ground, as expected, they wouldn’t get off safely.

Diablo ran toward the sky.

Immediately after──

The Spriggan’s hammer-like fist struck.

The carriage was smashed.

The sound of metal being broken and the sound of wood being crushed overlapped. Even the horse’s scream.

Rem groaned.

「……The coachmen were.」

It seems that they didn’t jump off.

When encountering a large-sized monster, it was reckless to try and shake it off with speed. They should have abandoned the carriage and escaped into the forest.

Shera leaked out a voice that sounded like she was going to cry.

「How terrible……」

「……Kuh……What should we do, Diablo?」

「If it’s just us, it will be possible to run away with Flight Magic just like this.」

「……Yes. But.」

In several days, the Lifelia Kingdom’s army should be passing through this path. If the large-sized monster were to be set loose on them, a large number of victims will surely appear.

At the time of the quest commission, the cabinet minister brought up its name as the enemy that attacked the fort. Should it be considered as a target to subjugate?

「Hmph……A suitable punishment needs to be given to fools that oppose me!」

Diablo went down to get close to the crushed carriage.

「I will create a diversion!」

Rem threw a crystal. The Summoned Beast 《Stoneman》 came out. It was a stone giant.

Although it is called a giant, since its size only about twice the size of a person of the Races, when compared to the Spriggan which had a height bigger than the royal capital’s ramparts, it was quite small though.

The Stoneman galloped along the mountain trail and pulled the enemy’s attention.

Shera used her Summoned Beast, the 《Turkey Shot》, and monitored things from the sky.

「It looks like that big guy is the only thing nearby!」

This was unusually appropriate work.

Up until now, these two did nothing but watch from afar when they would fight against high leveled enemies but……

Before, they had personally seen Rose and Sasala serve as the vanguard, so Rem and Shera might have thought about the things that they could do.

They were also Adventurers. They grew and developed as such.

The Spriggan once again held its fist up high.

The Stoneman that Rem controlled jumped towards the opponent’s face. It struck it. A hard sound resounded.

Being hit by the Spriggan’s gigantic fist, the Stoneman easily crumbled to pieces.

Turning into a black clouded crystal, it returned to Rem’s hand.

It was beaten without it giving any proper damage to the enemy……but it had bought plenty enough time.

Diablo pushed his Magic Staff, the 《Tonnerre Empereur》, out.

──Spriggans were of the Earth Attribute, weren’t they.

What would be effective on them was the Wind Attribute.

「……O atmosphere, howl, twist in a spiral, and pierce the heavens and the earth! 《Grand Tornado》!!」

It was a tornado.

It pulled down the mountain’s trees, cut up the ground, and swallowed everything into its vortex.

The Spriggan’s exterior crumbled, and the fragments fluttered in the sky.

A deep voice was mixed into the violent gusts.

Was it the enemy’s groans?

It had a size where all of it couldn’t fit into his view, but it came making proper physical attacks, and damage could be effectively given to it with magic of the attribute it was weak against.

It looked like it had a lot of stamina, but it looked like he could win with a brute force approach.

Even with the attack, although it had power behind it, it was slow.

When the 《Grand Tornado》’s effect settled down, the clearly metallic surface was cracked, and black colored liquid was spilling out from inside of it.

──Is that blood? No, instead, would it be something like oil?

This sort of damage display didn’t exist in the MMORPG Cross Reverie though.

And if he were to go even further, within the game, even if living creatures took damage, they didn’t suffer any physical loss, nor did their viscera come flying out.

Evading its third attack as well, he struck magic at it again.

They repeated this simple pattern.

Even the steel giant that boasted outrageous sturdiness, it seems that it couldn’t endure more than ten shots of high firepower magic.

Both of its thick arms that it waved about made a sound and bent.

Maybe due to their weight, they fell to pieces.

*Zuun* The ground shook.

The Spriggan’s movements stopped.

Diablo wiped the thin sweat that was on his forehead.

「Fuu……Finally.」

「……Did you defeat it?」

「As expected of you, Diablo!」

Rem and Shera rushed over to him.

「Hmph……A small fry of this level is……Mu!?」

As he was talking, Diablo hurriedly kicked the ground. Similar to when he jumped off of the carriage, he grabbed the girls with both hands.

Once again, he sent magical power to his boots, the 《Empty Sky’s Dance》. Through Flight Magic, he flew up from that spot.

The Spriggan’s surface became completely red.

──Something about this is dangerous!

It was a special action that wasn’t in the game.

Having become like heated iron, the Spriggan softly swelled──and burst open.

It exploded.

Rem and Shera screamed.

The intense blast covered them.

Diablo’s view spun like a wheel. He became unable to tell which way was up or down.

「Guuhhhh……!?」

──You’re telling me the Spriggan self-destructed!?

《Flight Magic》 was not automatic. If the caster were to lose their sense of equilibrium, it would be difficult to continue flying normally.

By the time he realized it, his feet got caught in the branches of a standing tree.

「Gah!?」

「Kyaah!?」

「Helpー」

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