Read Novel Full Vol 17 Chapter 21
Vol 17 Chapter 21
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Chapter 21 – Conclusion
The water magic creature had flooded the royal capital. To defeat the water magic creature, Alessia-san and the others went to the royal palace on Galette, and since there was too much water to reach the core, they had to destroy the royal palace and force their way in. The result is…
“What are we going to do? That thing is chasing us!”
I asked loudly to Pal No. 2, who was moving next to us.
“What are we going to do, you ask? Let’s just concentrate on running away for a while!”
Alessia-san on Pal No. 2’s answer was to run away. Alessia-san also looked puzzled by my question, so I guess she couldn’t come up with any brilliant ideas.
Run away, huh? It seems that we are faster than that thing, and we are moving away from it without closing the distance, so there is no problem running away.
But we’ve been driving for more than thirty minutes, and it’s still chasing us without giving up.
Reflected in the rearview mirror is a human-shaped body of water that, despite the distance, still looks as huge as before.
It doesn’t feel so real anymore, and it’s not just scary; it’s like watching a monster movie.
Still, what should we do?
At this speed, we should be able to get away as long as we keep running. But the question is, how far will it chase us?
Can we let this monster out of the danger zone of the desert? If it chases us endlessly without giving up, it is obvious that this desert country will be in an uproar.
We will be regarded as war criminals.
I hope it will give up soon.
We continued our escape for another hour or so, but the water magic creature was still chasing us.
Although its visible form has become much smaller, we are sure that it recognizes us because it is still following us even if we change the direction of our escape.
Fortunately, there are no other monsters chasing us.
When we went to the royal palace, we only had to run a short distance, and the monsters gathered around us. However, the monsters in the danger zone must have sensed that something was wrong and are hiding.
“Wataru, we’ll stop at the top of that dune.”
Alessia-san gave us the order to stop from Pal No. 2. It looked like we were going to stop running.
“So, Alessia, what happened?”
As soon as the car stopped, Dorothea-san asked Alessia-san. I would have thought that we would take countermeasures against that monster first, but if we don’t know what happened, it will be difficult to deal with it.
“Let’s see, after Wataru and the others were thrown out, the attack focused on us. So we started to fight back, and we went… too far and destroyed the royal palace.”
Alessia-san smiled cutely after saying that. Although it was cute, the content of the story was so disturbing that it was frightening.
When Dorothea-san asked for more details, it became clear that Alessia-san was quite reckless.
After breaking down the wall, she continued to break down the obstacles to the reservoir while fending off counterattacks. As a result, not only the ceiling of the reservoir collapsed, but also the building above it, and the reservoir was apparently filled with debris.
Alessia-san and the others hoped that they might be able to break the core, but the debris in the reservoir scattered as if in an explosion, and then the water began to gather rapidly, so they fled.
That water magic creature kept its territory pretty clean, didn’t it?
Maybe it likes cleanliness, or maybe it has a personality that can be described as germaphobic. If such a creature had its home destroyed and the debris thrown into the water, which is its own body… it would have lost its temper eventually.
I don’t know if the magic creature has strong feelings, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s ready to kill us. No wonder it is still chasing us after almost two hours of running around.
I have a feeling that it will continue to chase us until it kills us.
Since I have a bad feeling about this, I try to stabilize my mentality by hugging Rimu.
“…We have no choice but to defeat it somehow… don’t we?”
Dorothea-san seemed to have come to the same conclusion as me and concluded in the direction of defeating it. The reason for the question mark is that it is hard to imagine how to defeat that thing.
“That’s right, we can’t go to the human living area with such a monster following us.”
Alessia-san answered Dorothea-san’s words with a determined look on her face.
“…So how are we going to defeat it?”
Everyone frowned at my question. Yes, we don’t know how to defeat such a monster, do we?
If it were easy to find out, the country would not be in ruins.
“…We can’t just sit in silence and come up with ideas that might help us defeat it.”
Alessia-san suggested, and the meeting began.
The water magic creature was getting closer and closer, and I was getting impatient, but Ilma-san’s idea that if we didn’t come up with any ideas, we could just run away and pull it away again helped me calm down and think a little more.
Now, if only a spark of genius would land on one of us…
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“It’s about time. Are you ready, Wataru?”
“Yes, I’m ready.”
I answer Alessia-san’s confirmation nervously. To be honest, I feel like running away, but I tell myself that this is my chance to be a hero.
Several ideas came to mind, but they were all too vague to be of much use. Contaminating the water or vaporizing it were not bad ideas, but the problem is that the opponent is too big…
“Wataru, now.”
“Understood. Ship Summoning!”
Just as the monster landed between the dunes, I summoned the Chateau over its head.
It was a full power play to crush the giant water magic creature with a huge luxury liner.
A huge magic circle appeared in the sky above it, and as the Chateau was revealed in all its glory, it fell. The water magic creature was crushed at just the right moment.
“Everyone, get down!”
Alessia-san’s words made me fall to the ground immediately. When I heard the voice say, “Master,” Ines and Felicia covered me.
A roar echoes through the air, and a gust of wind mixed with sand rushes over us.
When the dust settles, I look up and see the Chateau lying in the desert before me.
“Did we make it?”
Oh, Alessia-san flagged it down.
My bad premonition became a reality, and the water that should have been crushed by the Chateau wriggled and concentrated in one place.
It was not good.
The power is perfect, but I don’t know the strength of the core, and barriers can be erected. I had estimated that due to the resistance of the water and the sandy soil underneath, there was a 50-50 chance of destroying the core.
But I would have liked to have succeeded if possible. The next mission is also 50-50 whether it works or not, and it’s not so subtle.
“Wataru, next!”
“Roger that.”
I repatriated the Chateau and sent it back to the place I had planned for the strategy.
Here, too, between the dunes, I was able to summon the Chateau in a freestanding state, although the summoned Chateau was slightly tilted.
I quickly climbed aboard the Chateau, then summoned Hideaway onto the deck.
“Well, hopefully, the next one will work…”
I nodded my head as best I could at Alessia-san’s words. If that fails, the only idea left is to hold out until the water magic creature gives up.
Well, I’m used to endurance contests in the Demon Forest, and the ship is comfortable, so I don’t mind, but if we can’t defeat the water magic creature, we can’t explore the royal capital, so I’d like to defeat it here if at all possible.
Besides, I think that even if we can’t defeat it, it’s okay as long as it leaves. I couldn’t say it, but…
In front of my eyes, the water magic creature regains its form and takes on the shape of a giant, looking up at us as it did before.
As if it had no intention of giving up and leaving, it approaches us.
“It seems to be the same size as before. If it doesn’t lose any volume, it will be difficult to vaporize it. I wonder how it works?”
Ilma-san stands next to me with a crazy smile on her face. I want you to wait until after all this.
A giant the size of a luxury liner that even if we were on board and looking up at the Hideaway from the deck of the luxury liner, we would still have to look up at it.
Hmm? Is that shiny thing in the center of its chest the core? It looks like a mirror ball, and it stands out well.
Or rather, it reminds me of a hero who should not resemble anything but can only fight for three minutes with a giant and a glint on his chest.
While I was thinking about this nonsense, the water giant raised its arms in a grand gesture.
It seems to want to crush us with that thing. What will happen now?
Both of the water giant’s arms went through the Chateau’s barrier and crashed into the Hideaway’s barrier, causing the arms to fly off.
“It looks like it worked.”
“…Yes, it worked.”
I answered Alessia-san’s words with confidence.
The strategy was simple: change the Chateau’s barrier to allow entry, to allow water, and to deny entry to magic.
The result was a water giant that flinched before us, having lost both of its arms.
Since it is a magical creature, it is almost certain that it is controlling the water with its magical power.
If the water and magic had not separated, the water would have bounced into the barrier, but we won the bet.
By the way, it was Carla-san who came up with this strategy. She came up with the idea with a look of astonishment on her face that surprised all of us.
The one who was especially surprised was Carla-san’s closest friend, Claretta-san, whose usual saintly expression had fallen off, but I guess it couldn’t be helped this time.
“Go ahead, Wataru, do it.”
“Roger that. Ship Summoning.”
I wanted to say something like, “Fuhaha, water giant, you’ve been lured into our trap!” in full Chuuni style, but I stopped myself at the last moment and summoned the ship normally.
A magic circle floats behind the water giant. The Chris appears from it and falls towards it.
Since I chose a place with the torticollis behind it so that this would happen properly, I felt that it would have been okay if I had said the words.
And the barrier of the falling Chris was changed to a specification that does not allow magic power to pass through the water.
In other words, the moment it touches the barrier, the water giant will be unable to resist, will lose control over the water, and will lose its body.
“Ara? This is an unexpected result.”
“Yes, it’s a bit anticlimactic.”
Alessia-san and Dorothea-san talk in a deflated mood.
But that’s not surprising.
The plan was to significantly reduce the volume of the water magic creature and finally finish it off with an attack.
But… we can see a core stuck between two barriers, unable to move.
“It’s brilliant that it won’t break under the weight of the Chris, but it would be impossible to recover from something like that.”
“Let’s break it anyway.”
“Wait, I’ll dismantle it!”
Alessia-san tried to finish it off with her sword, but Ilma-san stopped her with a crazy look on her face.
…The water giant, no, the water magic creature, would have been happier if it had been crushed to the core by the barriers, wouldn’t you say?
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