Chapter 107 - Pyramid Exploration. Part 3. Being on the verge of death and the little girl’s talent. (2/2)

That leaves it to Albert or Philia-chan but…Albert’s fighting style is one where you could say that his offensive skill is his greatest defense, one where he shuts down his opponents with his overwhelming offensive power.

That being the case, against an opponent that doesn’t have a physical body and mainly attacks with magic attacks, buying time would be hard for him because of bad compatibility.

Thinking back on the reflexes she showed a while ago, I made my decision.

I took out a 『Holy Water』 from my inventory and increased the distance with the fire demon with a backstep.

There’s only one chance, if I fail, it’ll enter CD and I won’t be able to use it again.

The fire demon raised its arm and violently swung it down.

I went under it while narrowly escaping getting hit, brandished the bottle and threw it!

「Please hit!」(Hind)

The bottle I had no other choice but to throw due to the demon’s violent attacks, hit the little girl and broke.

It shined with a pale light and the liquid enveloped Philia-chan’s body.

「…?」(Philia)

Looking as if she didn’t understand what was going on, Philia raised half of her body and looked around.

Can’t be helped, Yumir, who had gotten used to dying was an abnormality.

But, please notice me already, geez…!

「!! Hind, look out!」(Philia)

It was the first time I heard her shout.

Having no time to be surprised about that, I rolled to get away from the flames.

Once I took a stance in a panic to anticipate the next attack, I saw a slender body in front of me that acted as if it was protecting me…

「…Hind, I’ll leave healing everyone to you. I’ll do my job as a vanguard.」(Philia)

「-! Yeah, I’m counting on you!」(Hind)

I threw an『Intermediate Potion』at the small back in front of me and recovered her HP.

Believing in her physical ability, I started casting 『Revive』, which had come back up.

The target is the one with the highest magical resistance after Shinto Priests, the mage Riizu.

「..Tsk!」(Philia)

Philia-chan: jumped, rolled, ran and at times she bent down and took a posture that made it look as if she was running on four legs and moved around to avoid the demon.

While holding a heavyweight class weapon, she displayed dodging skills that would put a Light Warrior to shame, seeing that, it made me confirm that choosing her had not been a mistake.

Those movements are mesmerizing.

Then I finished casting 『Revive』, once Riizu got up, she used a 『Holy Water』on Albert.

Albert opened his eyes wide once he saw his daughter fighting alone, but he remained calm and used a『Holy Water』on Selene-san.

With this, everyone is is revived and lastly, I used 『Area Heal』 to instantly make us able to go back into the fight.

Philia-chan, who was finally in tatters, fell back and Albert switched in as the tank.

「You did well, Philia. Leave the rest to dad.」(Albert)

「…Yup,」(Philia)

The moment he passed by her, Albert lightly patted Philia-chan’s head with his big hand.

…Ah, I get the feeling that Philia-chan made a small smile right now…no, was it my imagination? Now that I’m looking at her, she has that usual blank expression on her.

The 『Vestiges of King Knurl』 had recovered its HP up to around forty percent, but having witnesses all the effort his daughter had gone through, Albert was filled with fighting spirit he didn’t have before.

He had already activated 『Berserker Edge』 and his body was enveloped in a dark red aura.

The three of us, members of Migratory Bird, exchanged glances and Riizu used 『Guard Down』on the boss and I cast 『Attack Up』on Albert.

Red light converged in his greatsword, he had started to charge 『Rampage』.

Ignoring us, who had used buffs and debuffs, the 『Vestiges of King Knurl』 stayed in place.

While dodging its attacks by a hair’s breadth, Albert kept charging up.

Immediately he had finished charging up, it released a dazzling light and Selene-san’s 『Blast Arrow』hit the demon’s body.

Just as the 『Vestiges of King Knurl』 had its movements stopped by the bolt, Albert leaped forward.

While holding his greatsword over his head, he released all his strength in a single blow along with a war cry filled with fighting spirit!

「Uooooooooooooooh!」(Albert)

A thunderous roar.

The forty percent of HP remaining on the enemy magnificently vanished and the flames dispersed.

Goodness gracious, that’s a boss monster 15 levels ahead of us you know…to have it be defeated like that in a single blow is a bit…

Holding a weapon, which weight had been pushed to its utmost limit, throwing away his defense and completely charging up his attack while dodging.

Making his motion of attack as big as possible, furthermore, aiming at its weak point, which was the head, with pinpoint accuracy.

In theory, if a Heavy Warrior can do it, anyone else can do it, but actually doing it is another story.

As expected from someone whose strength was from another dimension.

Having discerned that the battle was over, Albert calmly put away his weapon on his back.

We all took a big breath and exchanged smiles.

That was dangerous…I’m glad we managed to win.

Like that, the unnatural high temperature of the room was gone, when we turned around because we heard the sound of something falling, we found a treasure chest placed there.

I guess I should say this was to be expected, a stream of words appeared in our field of view.

『Regarding the dungeon, Pyramid of King Knurl, the party of : Mercenary Albert-sama, Philia-sama, Selene-sama, Riizu-sama and Hind-sama has conquered the twentieth floor. Congratulations!』