“Hey, get those two into the car.”
The middle-aged man gave instructions to the Seekers behind him.
Two men approached Yuma and the others. However, their feet stopped abruptly, because of the immense Magical Power gathering in Yuma’s right hand.
“W-what? What is this guy…?”
The middle-aged man’s eyes widened as he raised his rifle. At that moment, an incredible blast of wind struck the Seekers. It was like a raging storm.
Everyone hastily erected Magical Barriers, but they couldn’t withstand the gale.
They were helplessly blown away, and even the large jeep was overturned. The middle-aged man jumped back, crouched down, and shouted.
“This guy’s a Seeker! He might be a spy from a foreign country! Surround him and kill him, don’t let him escape no matter what!!”
The other Seekers reacted to the man’s command.
Braving the raging wind, several Seekers surrounded Yuma. Two of them lunged forward, attacking Yuma.
One was a male Seeker, the other a female. They ignited their Longswords with flames, cutting through the wind.
It would be a bad move to counter a Fire Magic user with Wind Magic. Yuma pointed his left hand at the male and female Seekers.
What he unleashed was a freezing Blizzard.
The Frost extinguished their flames and blew them away.
“H-hey! He used Water Magic!”
“Wasn’t he a Wind Magic user?!”
The surrounding Seekers stirred. It was probably because Seekers who used multiple types of magic were extremely rare.
The Seekers became wary and stopped approaching Yuma.
“Keep your distance! Attack with rifles!!”
The Seekers with rifle-type Magic Enchanted Armaments pointed their guns at Yuma and pulled the triggers.
Yuma immediately switched his magic and deployed a “Flame Barrier.”
The bullets were likely to be of Lightning Affinity and Fire Affinity. If so, he wouldn’t be able to defend completely with “Wind” and “Water” Barriers.
Thanks to Yuma’s quick thinking, he incinerated all the bullets.
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The middle-aged man’s eyes widened in disbelief.
“A Flame Barrier!? He can use Fire Magic too?”
According to Seeker common sense, using three types of magic was impossible. It was extremely inefficient, and each magic would become weaker.
However, the magic used by the man in front of them was all powerful.
Dozens of Seekers couldn’t easily approach him, and their attacks didn’t work. The middle-aged man clicked his tongue and looked around.
The other Seekers were clearly shaken.
“Damn it! Are you kidding me?”
The man infused his legs with “Lightning Magical Power” and dashed forward.
Certainly, the opponent seemed to be a Seeker who used multiple types of magic, but his Magical Power wasn’t infinite. He shouldn’t be able to maintain the Barrier forever.
As the man charged in, thinking that, the opponent dispelled the Magical Barrier.
The man drew a Dagger from his waist and slashed as he ran past.
–How’s that! I felt the impact.
When the middle-aged man turned around, he saw that the opponent was bleeding from his left arm. It was a fairly deep wound.
The man grinned and glanced at his fellow Seekers.
“Look! If you exploit an opening, your attacks will work. Everyone attack at once!!”
His comrades regained their composure, saying, “O-okay,” and “That’s right!” The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief.
They had been shaken because the opponent used unexpected magic, but they had the numbers.
They shouldn’t lose if they fought normally. The man thought so and looked at the opponent. At that moment, a sense of unease struck his heart.
Despite suffering a deep wound, the young man didn’t panic and held his left arm with his right hand.
The next moment, the middle-aged man saw an unbelievable sight.
“What!?”
The young man’s arm was enveloped in light. A soft, warm light. The middle-aged man recognized this light.
“No way! That’s Recovery Magic!! He shouldn’t be able to do that!”
When the soft light subsided, the young man raised his left arm, checking if he could move it.
Realizing there was no problem, the man turned his gaze towards him. The middle-aged man involuntarily took a step or two back.
Healing such a deep wound in an instant could only be done by a high-ranking Messiah.
“A Messiah who uses attack magic…”
The man shuddered and stumbled back, falling on his rear. A Messiah who used multiple attack spells was a being only spoken of in theory.
There was no way they actually existed. And yet–the man gnashed his teeth.
At that moment, he saw a large monster walking towards them from across the road. It looked like a Scorpion and had black carapace.
Its body was larger than a truck, and it approached, cracking the concrete with its legs.
Leading it was a Seeker holding the Magic Enchanted Armament [Staff of Domination].
He was saved. The man breathed a sigh of relief. No Seeker could win against that thing in a straight fight. The man slowly stood up and glared at his opponent.
“It’s over! I don’t know which country you came from to investigate us, but you didn’t have enough information. This monster is a [Abyssal Monster] brought from the ‘Black Dungeon’. Most magic won’t work on it! Now, what will you do!?”
While piercing the ground with its pointed legs, the black Scorpion-like monster lumbered closer to its opponent.
Even with the grotesque monster before him, the young man didn’t seem flustered.
“Hmph! It’s no use pretending to be strong. Do it! You can kill that man!!”
Hearing the middle-aged man’s voice, the Seeker holding the Staff stepped forward. When he raised the Staff with a Magic Gem attached to its tip, the Scorpion-like monster reacted.
It raised its sharply pointed forelegs and attacked the young man.
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“That’s a big monster… It looks like it’ll be a pain to defeat.”
As Yuma said something so nonchalant, the giant Scorpion swung down its foreleg.
“Whoa!”
Yuma barely dodged it and took a step back. In front of him was the monster’s leg, driven into the ground.
Probably, this guy was a monster from the “Black Dungeon.”
Wind and Water Magic might not be very effective. Thinking so, Yuma calmly stepped forward and touched the monster’s leg.
He gathered [Fire Magical Power] in his hand.
The monster’s leg gradually heated up and took on a red glow.
–I don’t have the dexterity to control Fire Magic freely like Rui and Albert-san. But–
The monster’s leg that Yuma was touching began to glow red and intensely. The monster seemed to sense fear and tried to back away.
But the heated leg didn’t move, and it crumbled more and more as it increased its glow.
“When it comes to firepower… I won’t lose to anyone!!”
The monster was engulfed in flames, and the concrete under its feet melted like magma. The flames became a giant pillar of fire, incinerating everything.