Labyrinth City Mesugaki Pawn Shop

30. Fireworks

The outside of the magic tower was clearly different from before.

It was as if the function as a city had been paralyzed and it had become a battleground for monsters.

Despite being far away, the resounding porosity made my skin tremble and my ears numb. This feeling was the worst.

The sky was tinted red, and flashes of light flashed far beyond, obscuring my vision.

“Hey… do you really have to go?”

Jerica, holding on to her wand, looked at her with her quivering eyes.

Floren was also looking at it with a tired expression.

The reality was very different from what I saw in the magic tower.

“I have to go.”

Kung.

A circular amplitude was drawn on the stagnant water on the floor.

“If I don’t go, there are people who will say something.”

If you don’t go, the leaders of the alliance, Lucky and Hayden, will definitely curse you out.

Are you trying to immerse yourself in the topic you’ve been working on?

It’s a life you can’t get out of anyway.

There was only 12 minutes left until the game over, a time that would not have been allowed normally, but it was a precious time that was somehow prepared by a trick.

It would have been fortunate if the coalition had been able to capture Legarete as the first plan, but seeing as many of them were incapacitated, it was a plan that made no sense.

-The number of participants exceeded 5! Boss HP is corrected. Correction rate 400%

-Some attack patterns are added.

-Boss status ailment resistance is amplified by 40%.

-The magic resistance of the boss is amplified by 40%.

….

-An additional 30 people occur…!

-Your HP will be corrected.

-Annihilator over time added.

-Status ailment resistance is corrected.

-Resistance is corrected.

A system message that was almost hopeless.

Perhaps if Hayden hadn’t joined the war, the alliance would have backed down even if it meant breaking the contract.

If you’re still fighting like that, it means you’re not getting the upper hand, but it was too optimistic to think that something dramatic would happen in the remaining 15 minutes.

An instinctive warning that rises whenever I see that place, that if I go there, I will surely die, but I had to go.

“And I think that I have to put an end to what happened because of my mistake.”

I also threw away a very large poop.

I couldn’t figure out what expression to make if I met Yan later.

“It must be difficult, right?”

Yerica gulped down her saliva as she looked out over her thunder and lightning.

“I might die.”

I was half prepared.

I’m just glad I still have over 100 coins.

Even if I start over, I have arranged the order of things to be done, maybe it’s the second time, so I didn’t know if I had a little more time left.

“Yerica and Floren can go back to the Mage Tower.”

I was able to carry out my plan without them.

“Is it enough for me alone…”

“…Really, that’s too much.”

But Yerica’s thoughts were different from mine.

”Do you know how shameless to ask us to go back halfway after making even the master jump in?! Seriously, let them get caught up in it.”

She approached me and held my hand tightly.

He looks like he has a lot to say, but he seems to be holding back.

“I don’t have time to explain, tell me to get on, I will explain on the way.

Really, it was a very nervous, serious expression that was rarely seen.

“And if I don’t go, Master will surely say something to me too. Maybe I’ll actually go into the slime tank this time…!”

Ye Rika, who used her body to express her slippery, sticky, worst, and woo-wook, shook her head with her tongue sticking out.

“…It can’t be helped that we got caught up in it, but we’re the ones who chose to continue. If I wanted to go back, I wouldn’t have gotten off the carriage right away. Isn’t that right, Floren?”

“No idea, nothing”

“… Huh?”

“Simple interest, so there is nothing left.”

So Floren was just left because she looked interesting…?

“No, what if I say that over there! She set the mood at best!”

“Elf, can’t lie, facts, fun, precious plants, chance to visit, check, einheri, scent.”

“Kieek!”

Whether or not she was caught up in it, Floren’s way of thinking seems to have suppressed all opposition with her memories of entering the Mage Tower’s warehouse.

As she watched Yerica shake the expressionless Floren and shake her teary-eyed, for some reason, her laughter burst out.

“Ahahahahaha!”

Yeah, that’s what it looked like, Yerica with a serious expression didn’t suit her very well.

However, I had to apologize properly.

It’s true that she got involved in things she didn’t want to do.

She hadn’t been conscious of it until now, and there was no reason for them to help me.

I just followed it out of inertia for things that burst like breathing.

She bowed her head at a right angle.

“I’m sorry, Jerica, Floren. For letting me go through this.”

She didn’t even have to bring her, it didn’t matter if she asked for her guidance or asked others to visit her mage tower.

“And thank you.”

But did Hayden really help me in the Magic Tower?

My answer to that was ‘no’.

It was definitely possible thanks to the help of Yerica and Floren.

“You know that now? Then see something later, there must be a reward, right?.”

“It’s a reward…”

I haven’t really thought about it.

“…Do you want to buy some parfait from the street vendor near the plaza later?”

The conditions that contrast too well with the elixir of immortality proposed to Hayden, no… What are you talking about?

“Are you planning to eat it with just one parfait?”

“Then two…?”

“Three!”

My heart melted at the sight of him asking so confidently.

“…Yes, I will buy you three.”

“Add strawberries!”

It was an absurdly simple price.

“Doesn’t Floren want anything?”

“…Porginei?”

No, give up on those cannibals!

“Porginay”

“Please…”

“Porginay!”

f*ck the elf sh*t…

“…I’ll just talk to Heiden-nim later.”

There’s a 99.9% Chance that it won’t work anyway, but there’s no way they’d offer something dangerous like that.

“Instead, please help me one last time.”

Just as a blank paper is better if you get it right, there were still plenty of things for the two of you to do.

The goods he packed right before he left the mage tower were piled up behind him.

The magicians who had already followed Hayden had already stolen all the supplies that would be useful in battle. All that was left was honestly nothing special, but opportunities always come from unexpected things.

“Does everyone like fireworks?”

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Legarete thought it was quite amusing even when the coalition attacked fearlessly.

Looking at them being led to their own will without knowing why, I almost laughed. At least one wizard seemed to notice, but it was already too late.

The rising sun is already half-finished, and he made four people the same as himself.

They cut off the nerves below the waist and threw it away. I’ll probably have to live like that for the rest of my life, miserably like my former self.

I thought so.

Until Hayden appeared.

“Where are you looking?”

My toes started to burn as if I was afraid to glance at them.

Without hesitation, Legarete cut off her ankle and reached out her hand towards Hayden.

She aimed precisely at her head and tried to crush it with overwhelming magical power, but the alliance members intervened in the line of sight and pushed the shield away.

‘Kwajik’

Instead, what was crushed was the shield and protector, and of course, the one who blocked it didn’t look very intact either.

” C.Pal! Even my fingers were eaten, boss! It hurts terribly!”

Blood gushing unrelentingly, except for the thumb, the other four fingers were just meat without a shape.

“It’s a good thing. Sick!”

“…With this amount, I can get a meritorious pension, right?”

“f*ck it, I’ll regenerate your finger and roll it again with the pension money.”

Lucky, who sent the crew behind, spat out words he didn’t mean to say, and looked at Hayden.

“It’s a debt.”

“Debt is debt only if you survive.

In an instant, spears of ice formed and pierced Le Garete, but she melted away.

Her feet, which she had cut off herself, sprouted like lies.

“This is strange. Since you joined, somehow it seems to be stronger than before!”

Thanks to Hayden’s constant interruption, large-scale magic like the rising sun did not unfold once again, but even that had its limits.

“It actually got stronger.”

While Hayden stepped back for a brief maintenance, the Wizards of the Mage Tower who took their seats behind them poured out the magic they had prepared.

From electric shocks that could not be chased with the naked eye to elemental and space-based magic, the magic that touched Legarete was not enough to do its job.

The twist in the trajectory caused by the overwhelming difference in mana, and even if it did touch it, it collapsed like sand due to the resistance.

I was only dragging time to prevent it from approaching any further, and only Heyden was the only one who did significant damage.

There seemed to be no further progress as even the damage dealt was completely restored with monstrous regenerative power.

As the prepared magic ran out, it was impossible to hold on to it somehow, so Legarete flew into the sky again.

“It is difficult. Tsk.”

There was nothing I couldn’t do if I wanted to go up, but if I did, the people behind Hayden would become targets like ghosts, so I couldn’t move.

As the Alliance also ran out of flying scrolls, it became impossible to approach even melee roles like Lucky.

He just shoots an arrow and keeps things in check.

The remaining time until the contract is now 5 minutes.

Once again, magic formations began to be drawn in the sky.

[The rising sun]

However, this time it was bigger and more detailed than before.

Looks like he won’t repeat his previous mistakes.

Only focused on defense and the completion of the magic circle, Lucky and other allied members sneakily showed up to induce an attack, but they did not move at all.

It was just that some of the pre-set installation magic exploded in response to the alliance members caught in the trajectory.

“That magic circle will be completed in 5 minutes…!”

As Seren came down with a serious expression, Lucky and other allies looked at Hayden.

Wouldn’t it be possible to do that kind of skill again, just like when it first appeared?

“That, is it possible to intercept one more time?”

“It would be possible if it was in an imperfect state like before… But that looks dangerous.”

It’s said that it can’t be stopped, but for some reason, Hayden’s expression seemed to be prepared for something, no, he believed.

I looked around to see if there was a hidden secret weapon, but there was nothing. The wizards of the Mage Tower are also just looking at Heiden.

“They say it looks dangerous, but why are you still standing still!”

It seems that even if you prepare right away and find a way to stop it, you are putting your hands on a situation where it won’t be enough.

“I’m not standing still, I’m waiting.”

Lucky couldn’t understand.

“The one who will erase the mistakes you made.”

“What the hell?”

The first to notice the change was a member of the Porter Association who was taking a breather outside.

“An arrow?”

It wasn’t surprising that the arrows flew at Legarete. Because it was still flying countless times.

However, it was hanging on to something.

And the trajectory was also distinctly different.

Not from under Legarete, but from farther away.

It was even moving toward the sky in a straight line rather than a parabola.

There were even dozens of arrows flying towards a place that might be higher than the magic circle being drawn.

“What is it?”

“I’m coming. Came really fast too. Sooner.”

Hayden and Lucky also noticed.

“A sylph is attached to each arrow?”

[Crackle!]

The mischievous spirits, who wouldn’t listen to the contractor’s words unless it was fun, clung to the arrows.

I can’t help but have a fair amount of affinity with the spirits.

White smoke rose from something on the arrow.

A sight as if a spider’s web was being stretched across the sky.

At the moment when all the arrows reached their zenith, a flash of light burst from the sky that would make even the sun fade.

“Could it be that the rising sun has already been completed?!”

It took a while for Seren to be stunned by the result so quickly, but she realized that it was a mistaken idea.

It was too vast to be a rising sun, and above all, there was no way that kind of smoke would blow from magic based on complete combustion.

“It’s not like that, is that… a magic firecracker?”

The amount of light created by the simultaneous explosion of dozens of firecrackers and the firecrackers scattered at the same time began to flutter, showing off their own patterns and colors.

Not just explosives, but magic power mixed in, emitting light and disturbing the surroundings. Legarete couldn’t quite guess what was going on.

I just piled up layer upon layer of defense magic just in case.

“What are you kidding?”

If you’re trying to dazzle yourself, fantasy magic would be more effective than firecrackers like this.

Of course, there is no way it will work.

So relieved, as soon as he turned his back, Legarete felt a faint presence.

It was a realm that could be called instinct, a kind of intuition.

A warning that if you don’t look back, you will die right away.

There was a figure flying in between countless firecrackers exploding.

“In the sky?”

No, more than that, why didn’t I notice? Even now, countless people were being watched with magic detection.

Why can’t the magic that detects the magical power that all living things, or even objects, basically have, can’t catch it even though it’s looking with both eyes?

Like a person with no magical powers.

It took an instant to get closer, and a faint voice resounded in the sky.

“…Thank you Yerica!”

The bright light of the firecrackers and the slight magic power emanating from them shook Legarete’s detection.

“With such a joke!”

In an instant, a block of ice formed around Legarete and shot at an unknown person.

If you can’t aim properly, you’ll just be crushed with overwhelming mass and range.

I thought that the unavoidable angle would be crushed like a boiled potato in an instant… But it was a mistake.

“The sixth dice!”

In an instant, chunks of ice split in two.

Impossible, there was no magic at all.

So with pure power?

What I was holding in my hand was a crude steel sword, nothing like a magic sword.

I don’t understand.

The one who appeared through the cracked ice was none other than a monster dressed in a red outfit he hadn’t seen before.

The front of the helmet was made of opaque black material, so it was impossible to tell who it was.

‘Catch up!’

An impossible sound echoed as the sword collided with the defensive magic.

An incomprehensible sight of an iron sword gnawing away at high level magic. Again, there was no magical effect.

I only found out after contact.

The only thing there is overwhelming physical power.

At the same time as the blade of the sword was broken, the defense magic was also shattered like a broken window.

“The 7th Dice!”

I tried to avoid those who attacked me by shouting incomprehensible words, but-

“It can’t be left like that.”

At some point, the tip of Hayden’s wand was glowing.

A magic that puts away all trivial things and focuses only on restraint.

It wouldn’t have worked even if the defense magic hadn’t been broken, but it was enough to hold Legarete’s ankles now.

I couldn’t avoid it.

‘It’s too late to prepare the magic, then what should I do? I was already pouring most of my mana into the magic circle, how could I? How? How?’

Regarete forcibly squeezed out the remaining unprepared mana and sent the intangible blade flying, but to no avail.

“The eighth dice!”

As if he knew it in advance, the red monster, who twisted his body in the air and avoided it, was approaching right in front of Legarete’s nose.

I didn’t dodge after the magic was fired.

Before it was even launched, or even before the form of magic was formed, it was already in position.

An act as if he had read the future.

At the moment my head turned white, the red madman turned his arms as hard as he could.

A distance close enough that his face was reflected in the black front of the helmet.

The only thing reflected there was the dazed image of Legarete herself.

“How?”

And soon after, an outstretched white fist filled his field of vision.

“Correction Punch!!!”

The fatal fist was lodged in the witch’s face.