I Possessed It Instead of My Younger Sibling

78 – 『Weevil · Extreme Flame Bird』

On top of a hill not far from Sacree Village.

Wheein-

A faint twist of space occurred there, and a human figure stepped out of the twist.

“……Good.”

After checking the amount of mana remaining in my body. He put on a satisfied expression.

‘It was a good idea to mark the spatial coordinates near the village as insurance. Thanks to that, I was able to significantly reduce the amount of mana required to use space magic.’

Even if there is no marking, it doesn’t mean you can’t use space movement,

If you moved from Karabog to here without marking. According to the characteristics of space movement magic, in which the amount of mana required increases exponentially as the distance traveled increases, an unusual amount of mana must have been consumed.

My mana consumed at once by space movement is about 10% of the mana I possess, but if there were no markings, 80% of my mana would have been consumed.

‘The first insurance went well… I hope the other insurance that I have in Sacree Village goes well….’

I hurried to the edge of the hill overlooking the village of Sacree.

“…After.”

‘I’m glad. I’m still holding out.’

I let out a sigh of relief when I saw the sight of the several-meter-tall earth wall surrounding Sacree Village, blocking the attacks of the monsters.

That wall is another insurance that I carefully made in about 30 minutes.

A magic that is automatically activated when a certain number of monsters approach the village—a complex magic wall created by weaving three attribute magics.

‘Using the neck magic, I made a skeleton with hard and elastic wood, and reinforced it with the toe magic. In addition, in order to have some resistance to magical attacks, I even put an anti-magic barrier using light magic.’

Probably, even if thousands of D-class or lower monsters came, they wouldn’t be able to nod for half a day.

… Well, the C-class monsters, which are higher than that, came from time to time, so if you endured for about an hour, you would have endured well.

‘… If it weren’t for the presumed Cuff mercenaries fighting on top of the earthen wall, it would have already been over.’

I rated it that way while watching the struggle of the cuff mercenary corps and the village guards who assist them with a considerable level of force on the earthen wall to block the monsters from trying to cross the wall.

If it wasn’t for them, the wall would have collapsed before I came, and Sacree Village would have been devastated by monsters.

‘… It seems like that will end soon, too. The Cuff Mercenaries must be quite tired, but more than that, the town guards are too tired….’

Even if the mercenary named Kraft had left immediately at the time of the monsters’ attack, it would have taken at least three hours to reach Karabog.

Fighting monsters full of living without rest for 3 hours would be quite difficult even for those who have reached the level of superhuman, but those who have not reached the level will be horrified.

Probably less than 10 minutes from now, holes in the defense will begin to form, and once a hole is pierced in the defense, it will begin to grow out of control.

‘──That means you can kill all those monsters within 10 minutes.’

I raised the mana of my whole body.

The mana that rushed through the mana rod all over his body like a violent torrent soon began to converge in his grasp.

‘Monsters are attacking the village from all directions, so it’s best not to use explosive or penetrating magic. It’s because if you do it wrong, you can punch a hole in the castle wall. Then, the type of magic that I have to use this time has some degree of manipulability…… ….’

An accident that started accelerating in an instant while entering a combat situation.

In the midst of an accident that felt as if time was passing slowly, I instantly began to select one suitable for the current situation among the many hands I currently possess.

Within a very short period of time, less than 0.1 Second in real time, he decided on the magic to use. I instilled doubt into the magical power converged in my grasp.

Giying-

The converged mana began to draw a magical spell in the air according to the owner’s will.

──Fire!

Soon, what began to be created in the air was a bird of flame that hurled its wings made of flame.

The flame hawk’s true identity is intermediate fire magic, “Firebird.”

It is a magic that can be manipulated to some extent even if it is removed from the magician’s hand.

… In exchange for excellent maneuverability, the power of magic itself was the lowest among intermediate magic.

──But there is already a solution to that problem.

‘──The spell ‘overlapping’.’

Inscribe Firebird’s spell again into the Firebird’s spell right before completion.

It is a skill that overlapping the same magic formula is many times more difficult than adding another magic formula to magic.

The more they overlap, the stronger the magic becomes, but the risk of collapse of the spell and the repulsive power of magic also increase….

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Forcibly suppressing it with a dominating power that can be called overwhelming against magical power, it began to endlessly stack the spells.

──Fire!!!

A hawk of flame that started to increase in size and heat each time the spell was stacked.

Soon, the leak of flames with nearly 20 spells stacked—

───Quaaa!!!!!

──It turned into a giant crimson hawk that was several meters long.

Every time it flaps its wings, this crimson hawk emits so much heat that a haze rises around it.

It must have the same power as, or even more than, the advanced fire magic of the trumpet of Gafer, a platinum mercenary wizard who was the subject of a duel during the special promotion test.

Then the name of this magic is——

“──『Weird, Extreme Flame Bird』”

The red lotus hawk spread its wings of red flame and began to fly away.

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“Haaap…!!!”

A giant godfather entwined with an aura, wielded with great spirit by a muscular man.

─Kwajijik!

“””Kyaa, evil…”””

The godfather roughly cut several lizardmen who had climbed up a high earthen wall.

“Whoa… This is a big deal…”

A muscular man and leader of the Cuff Mercenary Corps, Lesby broke the bones of the orcs who had climbed up the wall with an ax soaked in the green blood of Lizardmen and looked around.

“Heo…! Heo…!”

“Turn it off…”

“My… way…! The sword is heavy…!”

In the fierce battle that lasted for 3 hours, the rest of the combatants, except for the mercenaries, were already close to their limits.

Thanks to the suddenly rising earth wall, no one has yet lost their lives, but it will be difficult if it goes on like this.

“Even now, the inn in the center of the village is bitten by the defense line and sit-in? …No, that won’t last long. Umm…”

“Brother, brother!”

Towards Lesby, who was in serious trouble, he pierced the heads of the monsters climbing up the wall with his spear and approached.

“Brother…! Aren’t we f*cking f*cked!?”

“You bastard, Georgia! Didn’t I tell you too much! Now that our mercenaries have been promoted to platinum rank, fix that cheap tone!”

“Uh…uh…so…….Leader! We seem to have grown up as puppies!!!”

“Mmm! Great!”

“What’s good! Bastards who put dog dicks in these heads instead of brains!!! You guys aren’t fighting right now!?”

Tiofy, the vice-captain of the mercenary corps and a high-level fire mage, counterbalanced the fireballs flying toward the wall with fireballs, and spat out curse words at the two mercenaries who were talking dumbfoundedly.

The two mercenaries flinched at her bloody eyes and whispered softly as they swung their weapons at the monsters again.

“…Hyung, did Kraborg make it to Karabog safely? He seemed to be seriously injured while breaking through the siege…”

“Trust your brother. He must have arrived safely at the mercenary guild by now and is requesting support.”

“So, when will the reinforcements arrive?”

“Even if we come as fast as we can, it will take four hours.”

“……How long can we last?”

“……Four minutes.”

“Hermi…Sipal…. Really f*cked….”

Georgia continued to stab the monsters with her spear while lamenting, but more and more monsters were coming up to the point of climbing the wall.

“…That’s it. …Georgia, Thiope! Prepare to retreat with the nearby combatants—”

Looking at that, Lesby decided that it was impossible to hold out any longer and was about to give the order to retreat.

“──What?”

Kwaaa——!!!

I inadvertently held my breath as I watched the gigantic bird of fire, which lit up the darkness of the night with wings of burning flames, devouring monsters.

The fire bird, not paying attention to the embarrassment of such a man, started to turn the monsters one by one ashes along the castle wall.

People stare in awe at the bird of fire that overcomes a hopeless situation at once.

“…That’s Gaffer’s 『Crazy Bird』…?”

“But old Gafer said he was going to do a long-distance request that would take at least several months, right? He, during a special promotion test, he spent more than half of his savings on replacing the jewels on his wand with Chateau Annecy’s finest rubies. I mean it flew away.”

“…No. That’s not Master Gafer’s [Rainbow Bird]…”

“…T.O.P?”

Thope denied with a trembling voice the words of Lesby and Georgia, who were having a daze conversation while watching the fire bird devouring the monsters attached to the castle wall.

Feeling strange, Lesby turned her head and saw Tiofi, her eyes shaking wildly as if she had witnessed something unbelievable.

“That form and movement… That’s for sure… That’s the intermediate magic [Firebird]…!”

“…Ehehehe, no matter how stupid I am, would you be fooled by that? 「Firebird」 Is not that, your sister’s most used intermediate magic! It’s magic. On the other hand, that magic is one of the higher-level magic I’ve ever seen, and it’s finger-picked magic, right? hahahaha, it’s an absurd joke for sister Thiope.”

“How could you have such power…. Did you add a range expansion spell? …No. Then it would only increase in size, but rather reduce the power….Then, a power amplification spell? …Not even that. Then the stability of that movement and form would be I can’t come out… How did you do it…”

“…Sister?”

Georgia laughed knowing that Thiope was joking. Thiopi didn’t even pay attention to Georgia’s laughter, as she stared at the firebird and muttered so much blood in her eyes.

And soon, as if he noticed something, TOP opened his eyes wide in amazement.

“…Certainly, the same magic spell overlapped? …No, if that’s the case, how many times did you overlap…?!”

“Is the stacking of spells so great, sister? It’s just that you keep using the same magic over and over.”

“Of course it’s great! You idiot…! Please, don’t go anywhere and say such ignorant things! You’ll be looked upon with contempt by wizards!”

“…Like your sister’s eyes right now.”

Georgia crouches down as if she has been hurt by Thiope’s glaring eyes.

Looking at him like that, TOPI sighed and explained.

“Stacking the same magic is several times more difficult and dangerous than adding different types of spells to magic. If the stacking is successful, all factors such as the power and range of the magic increase, but the difficulty increases exponentially. In addition to losing, the moment the stacking fails. The spell collapses, and the magic that formed the spell explodes, causing great damage to the wizard. There are quite a few wizards who die because of this.”

“…Ome.”

“Anyway, what you need for stacking is mastery over magical power and understanding of spells. The better you are at these two, the easier it will be to stack spells. , If you only care about stacking, it will take about 10 minutes and you can stack up to 5. If you are the current owner of the Red Magic Tower, maybe you can stack up to 20?”

“…Ohh. Then how many stacks does that [Firebird] Have?”

After Georgia went around the castle wall and reduced more than half of the monsters to ashes. He asked, pointing at the fire bird that was charging towards the monster presumed to be the boss of the dungeon.

“…At least 15 stacks.”

“…What?”

“It’s really a minimum of 15 stacks. Maybe more…”

Toopi said in a shaky voice as if she still couldn’t believe it.

… Gulp

Georgia read the awe in her quivering voice, gulping her saliva,

“…In other words, the one who uses that magic is a monster label with talent equal to that of the tower owner…”

I watched with trembling eyes at Mistiltein, who was walking down the path of ashes created by the fire bird.