Chapter 23 (2/2)
None. Ria, Carlos, and Gig each nodded, magic being used on them.
“Alright, let’s go!”
“This isn’t what we talked about!”
Ria let out an angry voice. The three warriors had to withdraw from the guardian’s room.
“So you said…”
Serge pouted. It definitely wasn’t his fault.
The trap was the room itself.
The ray the dogazer shot was aimed towards Gig first. The barrier prevented it from hitting.
When Lulu tried to use the barrier again, she noticed.
“I can’t use magic!”
Because entering the room diffused magical power. Magic couldn’t take form, only fired.
Ria had to carry and fling Gig out of the room after he began to attack allies due to the mind control ray. After that, his abnormal condition was removed with magic.
Even when they tried to hit the dogazer with a weak Water Bullet magic, it turned into plain water the moment it entered the room, falling down in place.
As for the barriers, once magic was applied it wouldn’t diffuse. But offensive magic couldn’t get through. This was such a room.
“What do we do?”
Carlos was at a loss. He couldn’t come up with a good way to defeat the dogazer from this situation.
Gig also felt depressed from being no help, as well as the two magicians.
“Well, I do know of one way to beat it.”
Everyone was surprised from Ria’s statement. Why didn’t she say it sooner?
“The Ogre King used the same method to break through though. Well, it can’t be helped.”
Ria stood up, leaving her large and small katanas with Lulu just in case.
“Eh? What are you doing?”
“I’d be troubled if they were disintegrated by some chance.”
From the magic bag, she took out her dear Beat to Death Wooden Sword. Then she gripped an axe in each hand. Though she wasn’t accustomed to these weapons, the light rays would probably affect long-handled things.
“The Ogre King also had a hard time here. He had to defeat it by himself in the end.”
With his resistance to abnormal conditions, the Ogre King was also quite strong, but that wasn’t all. Now that she’d seen how magic diffused, she knew how to defend against the rays.
The Ogre King couldn’t use magic. But he was rich in magical power itself.
“Then, I’m going.”
Leaving that message, Ria ran into the guardian room alone.
The dogazer fired rays towards her. The first one was blocked by the magic defensive barrier.
The second ray. Resisted by Ria’s resistance.
“Haah-!”
The slas.h.i.+ng axe attack pierced the dogazer. She damaged it by rotating quickly.
The dogazer all-out rammed her, flas.h.i.+ng again. Then a ray shot out. This time was the disintegration ray of instant death.
But it was countered by the magical power that Ria released.
That’s right, magical power.
Not magic. Before becoming magic, it was a ma.s.s of pure power. It blocked the rays.
Though the room could scatter magical power in the magic, it couldn’t erase the magical power itself. So in that case, if you release the magical power, it was able to defend.
The efficiency was bad. She brought magic, or pure energy so to speak, into existence and gave it a primary direction, using it as is.
But in this case, it was effective.
When the dogazer used magic to fire rays at her, Ria made use of her magical power to defend. There were no problems even if there were ten times more to defend against.
She just had to crush the dogazer before her magical power ran out.
Cracking the dogazer’s carapace, Ria single-mindedly slammed her axe into it.
After it noticed that its rays had no effect, it used its fangs to attack. However, it was useless.
Its ramming attacks were sluggish, and its fangs were crushed by the axe.
In the end, Ria defeated the dogazer by herself.
“Somehow or another, isn’t Nee-chan fine by herself?”
Towards Serge who greeted her with an amazed voice, Ria shook her head in response.
“That’s unreasonable. If I were alone, I would have been overran by sheer numbers on some floor and collapse from running out of endurance.”
Though she said that, she wanted to challenge this place by herself some time.
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