52 Episode 51 Subjugation and Materials

I've enhanced my magic armor, but I've learned my lesson about scouting from the air, so I start preparing to look for wyverns from the ground.

The first breath was a certain distance away, and it wasn't a direct hit to the center of the breath, but it was that powerful.

If you were to be hit head-on at close range, you might not be able to survive.

As for the magic armor, it reached the limit of reinforcement after I had poured about 10,000 magic power into it, so there would be no point in spending any more time on it.

The thickness of the magic armor is about 30cm, so it probably has something to do with the distance you can handle magic.

The amount of magic consumption fluctuated during the battle, so it's not certain, but it's probably something like that.

There are also enough explosion spells to blow up a forest of one square kilometer, and enough warding spells to blow up a forest of two square kilometers.

There's not much difference between these spells if I add some more now, so I'll leave them as they are.

I also have enough pressure spells for about 3,000 magic power.

When I was looking for a way to counter the shakedown earlier, I noticed that if you hit the back of the magic armor with pressure magic, you can accelerate forward rapidly, so I prepared this one.

If you try to accelerate too far, the impact will be too great, and it is not suitable for continuous acceleration, but the advantage is that it does not consume magic power at the moment of activation.

Of the one minute of harvesting, including storage, I spent a whopping 10 seconds on this experiment.

I wasn't just harvesting sugar cane.

Now all we have to do is find it and kill it.

From the way the sword is cutting, it's impossible to decapitate it with a single blow, so there's not much point in taking it by surprise.

So I'll just watch out for the breath and go straight in the direction where I think the wyvern is.

I don't use magic to accelerate, I just run.

This is because the acceleration spell used to avoid being hit by a wyvern's breath is more efficient when the speed is low.

But it's a hassle. If magic worked, I would have blown up the whole forest.

The trees here are similar to those near Decibatore in terms of hardness, so it would be a waste to use explosion magic just to improve visibility.

As a result, we had to search steadily.

Thankfully, we found the wyvern in less than a minute.

The wyvern was in a slightly hollowed-out area of the forest with no trees, probably a wyvern nest.

It wasn't as bad as that time, but it had the same atmosphere as the mine when the wisp was there.

Looking at the wyvern's status, it seems that its maximum MP is slowly recovering.

The wyvern's status shows that its maximum MP is slowly recovering, but it's not recovering more than one MP per second, so it won't affect this battle.

The distance is about 10 meters, so let's slash at it.

Just as I was about to ......, the wyvern turned to look at me, and the displayed MP of the wyvern blew up by several hundred million at once.

After that, the wyvern opens its mouth.

So this is the sign of the Breath.

But that's why I walked all the way here.

Don't panic, and use your acceleration and pressure spells to pass to the right side of the wyvern.

In less than half a second, he was under the wyvern's feet and thrusting his sword into its wing.

The breath, having lost sight of its target, shot straight into the forest, scorching the trees in its line of fire.

It goes on to burn the surrounding trees in a radius of about 10 meters from the area directly hit by the breath, then disappears.

I thought trees in demon territory didn't burn.

Well, it's certainly powerful, but it doesn't matter if it doesn't hit you.

All you have to do is to keep attacking it with your sword and drain its MP.

While observing the power of the breath, I sink my sword into the wyvern's wing.

The sword turns almost completely black, except for the base, and I can feel the magic power activating.

Perhaps the maximum value has increased as well, though I can't feel it here.

After about ten centimeters of cutting, the wyvern moves its wings to draw its sword, as if the post-breath stiffness is over.

Well, there is no need to hold on to it here.

He pulls the sword out quietly, holds it up again, and brings his wings into view.

The sword gradually loses its blackness from the tip and regains its original blue color in about five seconds.

Come to think of it, this blackness is being removed by my hands, isn't it?

I couldn't feel the blackness being absorbed when I touched the wing, but I wondered if it would go away if I cut it with my hand on the blade.

It's best to try it out.

Anyway, I slashed at the wyvern again.

And then, instead of thrusting, I was hit by the wyvern with a slashing motion and lightly pressed my hand into the blade, which was about 5mm deep.

Spat!

It cut.

The blade went in cleanly.

The sword, which was about four centimeters thick, dug almost all of its blade into the wyvern.

"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

The wyvern cried out in anger.

That's a hell of a cut.

To give you an idea of how sharp it was, it sliced through his hand to the bone when he lightly pushed the blade into it with his dominant hand.

It was not because of the sharpness of the sword that I was only injured to that extent, but because my hand collided with the wyvern's wing at the point where it cut that far, preventing my hand from going any further.

I quickly healed it with a healing spell, but it was almost severed.

I checked on the wyvern, but it didn't look the same.

The wound hadn't healed.

Maybe he's running out of resources to heal, or maybe he's trying to conserve them, but either way, he's definitely cornered.

I'm going to try to finish him off quickly.

You'll be able to find a lot more than just a few things that you can do to help you.

The wyvern cut straight through, just as I wanted.

With a straight cut, he managed to cut off about half of the wing.

That'll work.

You use your acceleration magic to jump up and try to cut off the head... and succeed.

The blade is not long enough to sever the head, but it is still connected to the rest of the body, but it is already useless.

The wyvern's body relaxes and he falls to the ground.

That was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

But I can't let that happen.

You must slay the corpse to save firepower.

I put my hand on the side of the blade and cut into the wyvern, but I don't feel like I'm absorbing as much as I did when it was alive.

After about three slashes, the wyvern was almost ineffective, so I gave up and stowed the wyvern.

I tried using a rock spear, and it seems that the magic power available per second is about 200.

The maximum magic power is now 1.2 billion.

It doesn't really matter now, because you still can't use it all.

The time is not even noon yet.

The explosion spell has been prepared, so we should be able to blow up today as planned.

Cutting and chewing sugar cane on the way home.

Slowly, flying at the speed of a bullet train.

The sugar cane is slightly sweet, but to get the most out of it, you need to refine it.

If I'm going to do this, I want to do it on a large scale.

Then we need to grow it.

But we don't have the space.

If we start to farm carefree near Deshbatore, we will get angry.

There is a place where we can farm without causing trouble: ......

I'm sure there is.

Or rather, that's exactly where I was just now.

If you do it on an island, you won't bother anyone.

There is no reason why it can't be done, since it used to be grown on islands like Hawaii, albeit in different sizes.

The farming method also has its place.

It is a very smart farming method.

In ancient times, mankind acquired fire, and its blessings have contributed greatly to the development of mankind up to the present.

The bounty of Mother Earth and the bounty of the forest are also indispensable to mankind.

There is a truly human way of farming that makes the most of these two.

--that is, slash and burn.

Afterwards, as usual, I went to report to the guild after finishing the blasting and hunting of the remnants.

I somehow missed the timing of the wyvern report, but I guess I can finish it while I'm at it.

The person at the reception desk was not the usual mayor, but a regular receptionist.

Hello, I'm here to report a request for logging and killing. 　There was also a wyvern.

I'd appreciate it if you could just let it go.

"Oh, there's a huge number of trees as usual. ...... Hmm?　I thought I just heard a wyvern.

Yes, it's called Wyvern Ignis.

Ignis!　I'll get the mayor!　I'm getting ready to retreat!

I'm going to get the mayor!

...... Oh, I forgot to tell you that I killed him.

I forgot to tell you that I killed him. - Oh, it's okay, I already killed him.

"Nah.

No need to retreat. We killed it.

...... Well, it's a maple. 　Either way, I'm calling the mayor.

After saying that, the receptionist retreated to get the mayor.

Shortly after, the mayor comes out.

I heard you killed a wyvern.

Here's your guild card.

...... It looks like you're right. We haven't decided on a reward for the Sublong yet, so we'll see what happens.

Yes, and what about the ranks?

I'm not surprised at all. ......

I've long since given up on common sense. 　The rank of ...... will be judged to be A class in terms of strength, but the rank will be raised to C, maybe even B.

Two ranks higher.

"Does A rank mean that I have to kill a lot of sub dragons?

It's not possible. If there were that many dragons, humans would have been destroyed long ago. 　It's a matter of leadership.

Leadership?

Yeah. 　A-rank adventurers are required to have not only fighting ability but also leadership ability. 　An A-rank adventurer must be able to lead a large scale extermination mission.

It's a far cry from what I'm used to as a soloist.

I'll wait for the results. 　You'll be able to find a lot more information on this website.

"...... Okay, so can we start preparing to retake Brokens now?

Sure, we'll get to that point soon.

That's why we're cutting down the trees, so there's no reason to stop.

Of course.

All right, it's going to be busy.

Yeah. 　I'll leave you to it.

I finish my report unexpectedly easily, so I go back to bed.

A healthy bedtime as usual.

By the way, I got the materials for the dragons easily, what should I do with them?