Chapter 26 (1/2)

Chapter 26: Defense Specialized and Teleport Destination

The light that covered the two’s sight disappeared.

And at the same time, Kaede readied her large shield to be alert for the pre-emptive attack, but the powerful attack that they were fearing of did not come.

All the more so, there was no monster anywhere.

The two continued to be on alert while confirming the surroundings.

In there, was a very wide circular space.

The walls were covered by blue shining crystals, and the ceiling was open.

From the sky, snow was falling.

And, one part of the crystal on the wall ahead was protruding, on it was a huge bird’s nest.

But, it seems that the nest’s owner was not there at the moment.

「Okay〜…… I got it. A bird-type boss would absolutely come. Maybe I can’t use【Ocean]」

「What should we do? You want to approach the bird’s nest?」

「……but carefully. Probably, it would come when we approached」

The two, while on alert, advances towards the bird’s nest.

There were only five meters left before the bird’s nest.

At that instant, together with a roaring sound, something was shot at high speed towards the hall from high up in the sky.

But, the two who was on alert could barely jump back and was able to dodge.

Those were sharp-edged ice.

And following that, a monster bird that has feathers white as snow swoops.

Glaring eyes, sharp beaks, and talons, bearing the dignity of strong beings, the monster bird descended to the hall.

The path of reconciliation does not exist from the start.

It was the start of the battle.

The monster bird emerges a magic circle on its sides.

From there, ice shards that were shot, covering almost all of their sight.

「【Cover]!」

Kaede lowers her large shield and stood in front of Risa.

If she received these shards, it was because that the number of uses of【Akujiki]would disappear in an instant.

「Yosh! It isn’t piercing!」

Kaede received those shards with her body, and nullified it.

It seems that the monster bird was more intelligent than normal monsters, after it understood that its attack wouldn’t go through, it combined the magic circles into one, and shot ice that was the same with what it shot from the sky.

In exchange for power, a chance appeared.

Risa jumped into that chance.

「Maple!」

「【Cover Move]!」

Forcefully catching up to Risa, there was only a distance of three meters between the monster bird.

When it was only one step before the monster bird, the monster bird raised harsh cries.

The white magic circle, spreads out the whole floors of the hall.

「This is bad……!」

With explosive sounds, piercing through the hall’s floor, large thorns of ice grew. It reached one meter in height covering all of the floor.

But, in the exception of Kaede’s surroundings.

Within the snow clouds were fluttering down, Kaede adjusted her large shield towards the floor.

「…………I’m saved! Nice, Maple!」

「There’s only 6 times left of【Akujiki]okay!」

「Okay〜!」

Risa kicked the thorns of ice and approaches the monster bird as if to jump.

Because the footings were bad, she was not able to stop somewhere.

The monster bird tries to capture Risa with its talons, its speeds was even equal to that of Risa’s.

「【Super Acceleration]!」

The sudden acceleration made the monster bird react late for an instant. And, in this rapid changing battle situation, that was a fatal mistake.

「【Cover Move]!」

The large shield that Kaede swung who closed the distance in an instant, devoured its talons together with its feet that were used to attack Risa.

The monster bird cries in a loud voice because of its anger and pain.

But, that movement only opens a chance.

「【Hydra(Poison Dragon)]」

The three-headed poison dragon devours the monster bird.

Kaede landed on the top of the melted ice that was melted by the poison that fell, and Risa looked at it from a place a little far away.

An unbelievable cold air was emitted from the monster bird, and the poison that covered the monster bird was frozen.

And, *Parin*, together with that high-pitch sound, it shatters and fell down with a glittering shine.

「It’s HP Bar was only decreased by 10%?!」

「No way…!」

For the two who had planned to finish it quickly with Kaede’s fast attack, its HP amount was higher than expected.

Without minding the two who were surprised, the thorns of ice that grew around the monster bird broke and gathered.

And after a few instances, it was shot as a bullet.

「【Cover Move]! 【Cover]!」

Kaede who moved in front of Risa lowered her large shield and received the deadly bullets.

Red effects were emitted from her body.