Volume 2 Chapter 14 (1/2)

Chapter 14 The Hero and The Little Red Oni

Slucky had already finished all his duties by devouring Barkas’ bisected head, so I put hiical Beast's Egg Blade】ly quiet when doing the opposite; its petals silently enveloped the slime much in the same manner as would a carnivorous plant’s

But then it happened; ere attacked

「Minnalis!」

「!?」

11 different projectiles suddenly fleards us

（Can I even ht us couard and seized the initiative

I immediately focused on the battle at hand and kicked ear My sharpened senses allowedtowards us were throwing spears Their tips were coated with a strange purple liquid, one I could only presume to be poison 7 of the 11 were ai 4 at ed to react to the attack, but would only be able to defend herself at best She norht have been able to do more than just that, but that was because the swords she usually practiced ere much easier to handle than the blunt weapon she’d used to crush Dot’s head

The nuoblin-like creations in our vicinity totalled to 16 The 5 that hadn’t thrown their spears had quickly charged towards us to follow up their coed attacks

I was able to take in all that infor it in was by noto it It was an issue that resulted fro a body with the specs to match it The discrepancy forcedback

There were only 16 of theht for a longer, sustained period of ti that, I swiftly forht hand, and the【Holy Sword of Vengeance】inas s The foret a better grasp of as going on around me

I undid the subconscious limiter that my brain placed on noring the fact that my muscles almost seemed to creak under the strain

It all happened in an instant; the actions I pulled off and decisions I made ate up a cumulative span of less than a second The feat was one that that demonstrated the fact that I truly deserved the title that claimed that I’d reached the Zenith of Technical Mastery, and that the fancy SSS I had decorating my status plate wasn’t just for show As far as finesse went, I was literally the best of the best

（It looks like she’ll be able to ward off the 2 co the other 9 instead）

The cos allowed ility stat otherwise allowed

I ignored the spears aimed towards me They were accurately thrown so that they would’ve been unavoidable under any sort of normal circumstances In other words, I didn’t need to mind them The speed at which Iany harm

（Well, that’s four less I have to deal with）

I wasn’t capable ofbeyond a fraction of a second I’d snap my own limbs if I accidentally exerted too much force

I cut up the three closest spears with the【Holy Sword of Vengeance】deflecting the final one

ht on the tip with the【Soulblade of Origin】

（Just three more）

The spear I deflected spun out and collided with the re spears and caused a series of chain reactions that caused the had been perfect; I ht as the fiveus leapt out of the bushes and revealed themselves

（Perfect Looks like they’re Red Caps）

Red Caps were a relatively ss The first was the fact that their heads were red, and seemed to resemble hats Apparently, this wasn't an inborn trait, but rather one that resulted fro their prey's blood all over their skulls ioblin subspecies' second defining feature was that itswith one another

I span around on one foot and turned towards the two that’d appeared around Minnalis back right side and accelerated once o of both oblins by their red, hat-like heads before using Sky Step to jump just shy of two meters into the air I then whipped both Redcaps towards Minnalis’ left and caused them to be impaled upon their comrades’ spears, an act that immediately caused said comrades to stop in their tracks

14 eneht by me, and 2 were frozen in place by Minnalis

The two blades I let go of just a second earlier basically hadn’t rabbed both and ht by me

（Tsk I’h I’ve been keeping myself as under control as possible）

My body was screa been pushed to its lihtrope, as outputting even the slightest bit more power could potentially lead to self-harm

I wouldn’t have had to resort to this had I any more mana I would’ve been able to pull out what one could actually call a truroup had eaten up too y, so I instead ended up with a cheap knock off I would’ve lost the ability to move had I not done a series of fine adjustments on the fly Naturally,through my body as recompense

It looked like tomorroould be a day in which I suffered frooblins had just happened to colow of a job well done

I formed a cross with my blades as I slashed the red cap in order to vent my frustrations

「Goshujin-sama!」

「Get rid of the two you see over there I’ll take care of the ones still in hiding」

The two Red Caps that Minnalis had by her had already failed their ambush, so I saw no reason for her to not be able to handle theht Thus, I dove into the forest without awaiting her answer

None of the 11 re Red Caps had yet to inal positions as they had yet to figure out how to cope with the status quo

I dispelled the【Holy Sword of Vengeance】and usedknives out from within the Round Squirrel Pouch and proht

Several trees stood between the Red caps and I, so I wasn't able to aiive both relatively deep injuries, as the knives stabbed one in the ar

「Gyaruaaaa!?」

「Gyuruuu!?」

The fast acting poison Minnalis had applied to the knives ahead of time caused both to scream in pain; they were doomed to die some time within the next 10 minutes, even if I siin】straight into another one's heart and listened to its death throes before putting it away and pulling out another set of Soulblades【Flaood in close coht and the【Emerald Crystal Blade】in my left

I span in a counterclockwise direction and weaved through the trees in order to slaughter all retheir brains out from within their eye sockets, and s them into nearby tree trunks

I swapped the【Ein】and used it to overkill the Red Caps that tried to pull a fast one onthe ones down, and even finally skewered the one trying to use its allies as meatshi+elds as it attempted to escape

「It looks like you’re the last」

「Gyaruaaaaaa!」

「Shut up」

The last caht an end to the Red Cap's assault as a whole

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「Argghh, my aro home I wanna dive into my bed and roll around in it」

I voiced my body’s desires and threw a bit of a tantruood mood because of e did to Barkas and his companions My flesh and blood body, however, failed to reflect my emotional status It was in all sorts of pain as a result ofmyself harder than need be I was also intoxicated as a result of using too much mana at once, and thus, I was unable to think with as much reason as I otherwise could’ve I’d already drank an MP potion in order to restore nitive abilities, but it had yet to kick in

「Why didn’t I realize that I could’ve just stopped going full throttle the moment I knocked all their spears away?」

To to ache, and both ony all day I was co exerted myself for a few seconds

I mean, I went all out and stuff, but I hadn’t been serious, which in turn et even worse than it was right now

「Ugh, we should stop by a pharmacy and pick up some pain killers Er, wait, I should be able to heal et a bitto be one of the things that holds et the Meditation skill as soon as possible It’ll he- wait」

（Aw crap It looks like I started talking to ain That’s a habit I really need to shake）

I shook my head; I couldn't believeto h it'd only been a few days since Minnalis had warned

（I guess I better grab what I need to prove that we killed these Red Caps… Ugh… I really don’t want to There’s like 16 of the all these back would make us really stand out）

Red Caps were pretty weak by themselves, but there was no way for a pair of brand new adventurers to defeat 16 of them That was just way the hell out of scope