"This thing looks a bit like the 'Earth Elemental Djinn' that rarely appears in this era. No, the color is different from the one in the book. The normal earth element aggregate should be yellow, and it is not so thick.
Malice."
Miss Benenice said, and the three of them prepared to fight.
The monster walking in the forest also noticed them at this time. It stopped and roared, and then blocked it in front of itself with its huge and hard right arm. It carried the color of earth with it at a speed far faster than the slow walking just now.
The stream of light rushed towards them sideways.
"Get out of the way!"
The well-informed witch warned loudly and hurriedly dodged to the side. Because the target of the monster's collision was actually Shade, Luvia easily dodged it.
However, Shade stood still and did not move. He planned to test the strength of this monster:
"Seal of Heaton!"
The moonlight sword pierced the ground, and he picked up the seal with his left hand. A spherical shield with golden light flowing around him immediately bloomed around Shade. But at the next moment, as the giant rock that was half as tall as Shade collided,
The heavy khaki elemental power defeated the shield. At the same time as the golden shield exploded like fragile glass, the aftermath of the impact caused Shade to fly backwards. He rolled twice on the snow before standing up with difficulty.
I feel like I must have been internally injured:
"You can't resist forcefully, this is not a simple physical attack."
"Everyone said this is an aggregation of quasi-elements!"
Miss Benenice said loudly:
"Don't try to get close to it and engage in melee combat with it, use long-range thaumaturgic attacks!"
"OK!"
Luvia, who had been prepared for a long time, threw the fireball in her hand that was as big as a human head. The fireball hit the right shoulder of the elemental giant. After the roaring explosion, it only took away four parts of its shoulder.
One-third of a stone.
The gap in the stone squirmed and grew and healed itself, and when the elemental djinn, who was angered by Luvia, turned to her, Shade also completed his charge:
"Moonlight Wheel!"
The rotating light wheel hit the target from behind the enemy, and the sharp sound of the light wheel cutting stone made the ears hurt. But even so, the light wheel only disappeared after nearly half of it entered the body of the elemental giant.
.
"The defense is so high?"
"There is no so-called weakness in this kind of elemental creature. You have to defeat most of its body at once to destroy it."
The witch reminded:
"Shade, prepare the witch's light."
As she spoke, she took out three small stone statues from her pocket and threw them in front of her:
"Power of the Earth·Calling the Stone Statue!"
The fallen stone statues emitted light in the snow, and then three five-pointed star ritual arrays bloomed. As the stone hands stretched out from the snow, three human-sized stone statues were summoned.
Together, they rushed towards the elemental spirit who was about to attack Shade again, hugging him tightly and holding him in place. At the same time, Shade and Miss Benanis raised their right hands together:
"Feliana's Witch's Light!"
The dark golden light slowly melted the body of the elemental giant. It roared and tried to rush out of the range of the light, but because it was hugged by the stone people summoned by the "power of the earth", it could only melt its entire upper body by the light.
After the critical point of damage it could withstand, with the sound of fragmentation, the remaining body of the elemental giant also collapsed into rubble, leaving only a small pile of black stones like coal on the snow.
"To deal with the fallen elemental djinn, you need to use attacks that can destroy more parts at once. The alchemy bomb is a very effective weapon, but I didn't expect to encounter such an enemy, so I didn't bring it with me."
Miss Benanis said to Shade and Luvia, while Luvia asked how Shade was injured.
"Just take a breather."
As he spoke, he knelt down and picked up the black stones:
"I feel the power of the earth's twisting, but that power is fading quickly."
"Is this a monster born in the crazy land?"
Luvia asked very worriedly.
"Most likely not. I still haven't felt any signs of distortion in the earth. This means that even if there is indeed a Crazy Earth in this area, it is very far away from here. Generally speaking, the evil spirits born in that area
Or other monsters, you can’t just leave.”
Shade stood up:
"I'm worried that this is the same as the 'petrified plague' in the city. This monster appears randomly in the Randall Valley area, just like the evil spirits randomly appeared in the city during the late Middlesbrough incident. It's just because of where we are now.
, the serious problems mentioned by the guardians are about to occur, causing the power of the earth to gather, which is why this kind of monster appears so frequently."
The witch took a gentle breath:
"If it really appears randomly across the entire area, then the trouble will be even greater."
The group of three people continued to follow the footsteps of the church, probably because the church had already cleaned up the nearby area, so they did not encounter the second fallen earth elemental giant.
The location given to Shad by Guardian Mr. Lassus was an entire area. When they arrived nearby, they found that nothing had happened. The small hill was quite peaceful. Shad even saw it.
A wolf followed a rabbit furtively.
The church's camp had already been set up. Instead of surrounding the hill, they set up camp at the foot of the mountain and at the commanding heights on the hillside not far away.
They didn't even cover their tracks. The smoke from the bonfire drifted from the forest into the clear evening sky outside the city. The sky was getting darker and night was coming.
Since nothing happened yet, the three of Shade also took cover and camped a little further away from the church camp.
Although the three of them were not afraid of the cold due to their physical fitness, sitting by the campfire still gave them a sense of peace of mind. Shade decided to wait patiently, after all, he couldn't tell what would happen next.
While Shade and Miss Bernanice were chatting quietly, Luvia wanted to try divination again. She used the rare tortoise shell divination, which is to throw bones or tortoise shells into the fire and burn them, and then according to the cracks
to interpret destiny.
However, this time Luvia just threw the tortoise shell into the fire, and the tortoise shell actually cracked completely.
"Did you buy defective divination supplies?"
Shade asked in surprise.
"Are you kidding me? I always buy supplies like these that are not prohibited from the association."
The female fortune teller frowned, took out the playing cards, and used her best playing cards to divine fortune. Shade didn't see what the three cards she drew were, but Luvia's face did not change for the better because of the result:
"There is someone nearby interfering with destiny."
"What's the meaning?"
The witch asked, looking around.
"It's hard to tell what it means. Someone is preventing something nearby from happening that should happen. And the methods used by the other party look familiar."
Luvia said, handing her playing cards to Shade:
"Just pick one?"
"me?"
He drew the first card:
"[Puppet]. I remember that this means that the person being divined is being secretly manipulated by someone, but he does not know it. Of course, it also means that the person being divined may be trapped in some huge conspiracy without knowing it.
."
"No, no, your interpretation is just a general interpretation. I am not divining your destiny. The meaning of this card now should be [Puppet Operator's Notes]."
Luvia corrected, and "she" in Shade's ear smiled for some reason.
The blonde witch asked:
"Is that note the relic that you mentioned was in the possession of the [Blood Spirit School]?"
"Yes, we have encountered this relic many times, and Shade got a blank page of notebook paper last summer and gave it to me, so I am very familiar with the power of this relic."
"Is there anything going on with the Blood Spirit School tonight?"
Shade asked suspiciously, because this time the effect of [Puppet Operator's Notes] did not directly affect him, so he could not use [Twenty-sided Dice of Destiny] to fight back.
"Can you know what the other party has changed?"
Miss Bernice asked, but this time Luvia could only shake her head:
"It is a relic after all."
The dim sun finally completely set below the western horizon. After the warm sunshine disappeared, the forest in late winter was still extremely cold.
Time passed little by little, and Shade thought that what the guardians said would happen after the sun went down. But until eight o'clock that night, they were still waiting in the peaceful forest.
If Mr. Lassus hadn't said this in person, and if "she" had been there to prove that Shade had remembered the time and place correctly, Shade would have even wondered whether he had come to the wrong place.
The time came to half past eight, and Shade was talking about his cat-raising experience to the suspicious Miss Benanis. Before the witch wanted to question Shade's cat-raising method, which seemed to be a little wrong, the three of them suddenly came together.
I heard a "whoosh" sound.
He stood up and looked at the western sky. The white light spots trailing the tail of the flames swayed up into the night sky, and then exploded into fireworks in the night.
After the fireworks exploded, the ground immediately began to shake. This sudden earthquake was so strong that Shade felt that the whole world was shaking in the first few seconds:
"The guardian said that every strong earthquake means that the distortion of the earth becomes more serious! It's the third stage! Wait, this feels like it."
Just as Shade supported Luvia, the strong malice unique to the "Crazy Earth" suddenly appeared on the hill not far away.
At this moment, the howling wind was like the world itself howling. The clouds blocked the starry sky and the moon, and Shade could only vaguely see that there seemed to be a few more people on the top of the originally empty hill. At the same time, first
A small trickle appeared on the top of the hill, and then the fountain on the top of the hill shot into the night sky and fell over the entire area.
In the dark night and strong earthquake, this scene is really strange.