Chapter 50 - v2c11 All-Out Stalling (1/2)

—Raust—

「Gh!」

A fireball approaching from right in front of me.

I managed to avoid it somehow by jumping sideways.

No, I couldn’t avoid it completely.

The fireball slightly grazed my leg, causing a dull pain.

But ignoring that pain, I put strength on my legs and kicked the labyrinth’s ground.

Despite only grazed, this was the flame of a phoenix, a super-high difficulty monster.

Normally, it wouldn’t be strange if I couldn’t use my legs anymore.

However, my body currently was fortified with the fire resist magic tool I made myself.

As long as it was only a graze, there would be no problem other than the pain.

Indeed, this time I was helped by magic tools.

Still, I couldn’t rely on those magic tools.

Being a tool, magic tools could break.

In short, there was a limit on how many times it could protect my body from the flame of phoenix.

Also, it could do nothing if I got hit directly by the fireball.

Combined with Laila’s healing magic, I could defend against the fireballs to some extent, but that too had a limit.

…Considering this, there was more pressure than I expected.

「RA─────A!」

「Uoooo!!!!」

Apparently, I seemed to be more nervous in this condition where I fought without using magic detection, guess I was still naive.

While barely avoiding the fireballs by kicking the wall and jumping around, I analyzed the current situation.

Right now, I didn’t use magic detection, I was dodging the phoenix’s attack only by lightly strengthening my body with ki.

I was unable to trigger magic detection which required complex processes in the interval between phoenix’s attacks.

Fortunately, magic detection seemed to be not very useful when fighting the phoenix.

On the contrary, magic detection could be said to have very bad compatibility with the phoenix who attack from outside its range.

…However, it seemed that not having magic detection, which taught me of the dangers around me, activated, was more burdensome than what I had imagined.

「RA───A!」

「Guaahh!」

The pain I felt when I jumped forward with all my strength to avoid the phoenix’s fireball reminded me once again of the value of magic detection.

Until now, I have been evading by the narrowest of margins.

But this time, I made exaggerated movements.

Without magic detection, I didn’t know if I really would successfully avoid the attack and so I ended up making an unnecessary move.

「Hahh- Hahh-」

…As a result, I was fatigued physically and mentally more than I expected.

By now, I didn’t know how much time I have earned, or how much longer I need to keep this up.

However, my fighting spirit was still ablaze in my heart.

「《Area Heal》」

Along with Laila’s dignified voice, my injury healed and my physical fatigue recovered a little.

Given my current fatigue, the physical fatigue recovered was just a mere consolation.

However, that 《Area Heal》 worked wonder on my mental fatigue.

To be honest, I had really bad compatibility with the phoenix.

It was much more troublesome than the hydra before it was mutated.

Even so, I was full of motivation compared to when I fought the hydra with Sword of Lightning.

The presence of the comrades I have behind me was what inspired me.

And so, I smiled as I grabbed the dagger I usually used after I threw the melting greatsword that just got in the way.

「Raust, back off!」

It was at that moment, Zieg-san’s shouted.

The moment I heard him, I immediately understand that Armia’s magic was ready.

I wasn’t aware how much time had passed as my sense of time was off during the battle

For a moment, I felt relieved, knowing that I managed to do my part.

「RA────A!」

「—!」

But the next moment, I realized something, my face tensed.

…It wasn’t just me who noticed Armia’s magic.

The phoenix was no longer interested in me.

At the end of its line of sight was Armia who had her eyes closed as she concentrated.

Looking at that, I was convinced that it really noticed Armia’s magic.

It wasn’t clear if the phoenix’s magic sensitivity was what make it noticed the almost completed magic or if there was another factor.

However, regardless of the reason, the phoenix was certainly aware of Armia’s magic.

「RA───────A!」

Phoenix raised a roar of anger at Armia.

Apparently, the phoenix had noticed the trump card we hid until the last minute.

「With this, we win…」

Yet, even knowing that, I laughed.