80 Episode 79 Absorption and Recapture

If we're going to fight, we need to know what's going on.

Both of them have about 30 billion MP.

Ignis Wyvern's MP is 5.8 billion, so it is much higher than that.

Their other stats are about the same or slightly lower than Ignis'.

In addition to breath and flying like Ignis, he also has "Degraded Space Magic Grip".

I'm not sure what is degraded about it, but it seems to have high performance in terms of magic power.

However, in the case of the dragons, MP is also HP, which means that their durability is also high.

Since I ran out of MP in the last dragon fight, I'll keep an eye on my magic power.

It's not decreasing at all at the moment, but I thought I might be able to find out the cause of the problem.

By the way, the current value is about 3 billion, most of which was increased when the dragon was defeated.

This should be enough to check the situation.

As usual, I decided to fight at a close distance to avoid the breath.

I fire off a few spells, but they don't seem to have any effect on the dragons.

When dealing with multiple opponents, the basic rule is to focus on one of them.

Following this theory, I stuck to one of the dragons and began to attack it intensively.

The battle went smoothly.

It is true that the damage is much smaller than that of the magic sword.

However, even though it was a sub-dragon, it was an opponent that I could defeat even if I wasn't the one who was prepared to take a lot of damage from a city with one of the strongest defenses in the country such as Decibatore.

There is no way that you can't deal damage with a sword that can take the head off a dragon in a single blow if it is a magic sword, aided by high-powered magic and high status.

On the defensive side, you have enough protection to take a hit from a breath, and the speed of reinforcement of the barrier has increased as well as the output of the magic.

If the attack is not painful, the number and strength are not so frightening as long as the time is extended.

He simply stabs his sword at the parts he sees, such as the wings, legs, and neck, and breaks away when the breath comes.

It will ignore any allies in its line of fire, but since there is no coordination, it doesn't feel like a nuisance.

It's a simple battle with no single blow, but the continual attacks are slowly draining the dragons' HP.

The dragon consumes magic power to heal its wounds, but that doesn't change the fact that it reduces its own power.

In addition, the body's healing power seems to be lower than that of the previous dragons.

As a result, the dragon's HP, MP, and MP are reduced.

As a result, the dragons' HP and MP are being reduced at an accelerated rate.

The only thing I was worried about was the degradation of my grip on spatial magic.

About an hour has passed since the battle began.

The magic of one of the dragons has already been reduced to about 60%.

In contrast, my HP and MP are completely intact.

It's not a matter of strategy, but simple specs that give me the edge.

In fact, that would have been the case if these dragons had been like other dragons.

But it wasn't just the numbers that made this time's enemy different from the previous ones.

"Giaaaaaaaa......

The injured dragon suddenly let out an unprecedented roar and spread its battered wings, unable to recover from the damage caused by the magic power.

This is the degrading space magic seizure?

You don't know what will happen, so you stop attacking and keep your distance.

As you keep your distance, you watch out for the other dragon's breath, but the nearly unharmed dragon shrinks its wings and closes its mouth as if to protect itself.

The other dragon, which is almost unharmed, shrinks its wings and closes its mouth as if to protect itself. From its reaction, he judges that it is a ranged attack regardless of friend or foe (although he doesn't know if the other dragon considers it a friend) and speeds up to get away from it.

But it seems that he was too late.

I felt something like magic power being sucked out of a 50 meter radius around the injured dragon.

The leaves of the trees in the area shriveled and the undergrowth wilted.

It seems that I was the target of this absorption of magic power.

My MP, which had remained at its maximum value since the start of the battle, began to slowly decrease.

I say slowly, but that's based on my total magic power.

The drain was over in only about two seconds, but I lost about 2.5 million MP and 100,000 of my maximum magic power.

I wondered if the magic in the air had decreased, and my recovery seemed slower than expected.

Incidentally, the other dragon didn't seem to lose any magic power, probably because I protected myself.

What was even more dramatic was the change in the other dragon.

His body had recovered 80% of its magic power, and his magic power was fully recovered.

It was too powerful a recovery effect.

Considering the fact that this effect has never been used before, there should be some kind of disadvantage or restriction, but there is no such thing.

In games, there is a standard limit to the number of times you can use the item, or the time it takes to reuse it, but there is no guarantee of that.

There is no guarantee, but fortunately I rested well before coming here, so I can fight for a few days without resting.

In any case, it wouldn't be a bad choice to try the simplest strategy, which is to keep grinding away with maximum firepower.

It's good to know that the degraded spatial magic grip is no longer a threat to me, regardless of the amount of recovery.

Now that I no longer have to fear anything more than taking a series of breaths, I can attack more boldly.

As a result, the pace at which I could cut down the dragons increased by about 30%, and in less than 30 minutes I was able to cut down the dragons to the point where the previous drain came.

Immediately after that, the drain was activated, and the dragon's HP and MP recovered at once.

The MP and HP after recovery are almost the same as after the last recovery.

There seemed to be no way to reduce it by repeating the process.

Still, you keep grinding, and the dragon recovers about five times.

The bottom of the recovery was not yet in sight, but a question arose.

The non-drained dragon is dutifully defending itself every time it is drained, but why is it able to avoid the drains?

I'm focusing my attacks on one of the dragons, but I'm also slashing the other one when I happen to get close to it.

And when I was using the magic sword, I would suck up magic power from the sword stuck in the wound.

I also touched the blade of the sword at that time, almost the same condition as Aryu.

In other words, I should be able to hold more magic power than Aryu's wound.

In spite of this, my magic power is being sucked out of me, while Saryong's is not.

It's possible that it's an effect of the Degrading Space Magic Grip, but according to the appraisal results (which for some reason I couldn't see until I'd eaten one), the Degrading Space Magic Grip seems to be just a drain.

This is highly unlikely.

Since the amount of MP and maximum drain is very small, being able to prevent MP drain itself is not a big problem.

However, being able to prevent drain may mean more than that.

After all, even though I've moved my magic power, I've only increased the maximum magic power by touching the black part of the magic sword.

I've never actively manipulated anything used to increase that maximum value.

In other words, if the drain can be prevented, there is a possibility that the source of the maximum magic power can be consciously manipulated.

It might be possible to perform drain from a sublime dragon via an ordinary sword.

For the time being, I try to absorb it properly, but I can't get the feeling.

The best way to observe the drain is to try to activate it.

So, I started cutting again.

It took me a little more than 20 minutes to finish, thanks to my familiarity, and I succeeded in activating the drain.

I kept an eye on the activation and concentrated on the sensation of the magic being sucked out of me.

...... I think I've got a slight sense of what that feels like.

It's a good idea to keep that feeling in mind as you chip away at your HP and repeatedly trigger the drain.

When the sun was setting and the eighth drain was triggered.

Finally, I was able to clearly recognize the feeling of my MP being drained.

Based on that sensation, I pull it back in the opposite direction.

It succeeded.

You couldn't get it back, but you didn't lose any magic power or its maximum value.

As far as I can see from the status, no skills have been added, so I guess this is not a skill but a technique.

Now it's time for the real thing, the direct absorption of the magic power of the Sublime Dragon opponent.

First, accelerate and thrust the blade as deep as possible.

Even so, it won't penetrate more than ten centimeters, but based on my experience with magic swords, this should be enough.

Now, instead of relying on the performance of the sword, I start to suck up the magic power.

Then, I was able to feel the magic power being sucked up.

It's not as sharp as the magic sword, but the damage is incomparable to what it would have been if I had just slashed it normally.

And just like the magic sword, this sword also sucked up magic power and pierced deeply.

From that point on, it was one-sided.

I only had to slash it a few times repeatedly to remove about 60% of its MP and HP.

On the other hand, the dragons activated their drains in succession, but the recovery from the drains did not keep up with the damage.

It took less than five minutes for one of the dragons to sink to the ground after I first started sucking its magic power.

At this point, the other dragon had no chance.

It was midnight when I returned to Akaden after killing the remaining dragons and reporting back to the task force.

It was midnight when I returned to Akaden after reporting to the task force. As usual, there was still a light on in the laboratory where I was reading an ancient document.

I wondered how many days it had been.

I opened the door and walked in, and one of the researchers in the hallway came running towards me with a smile on his face.

For some reason, the researchers in the other rooms heard this and gathered around.

The researcher at the front of the group talks to me in a loud voice.

"Did you defeat the Sublong?

"Oh, yeah, we defeated it.

I was so intimidated by his bravado that my tone of voice went crazy.

But the researcher didn't seem to care about that at all, on the contrary, he raised his tone even higher and continued to ask questions.

It's a good thing that I'm not the only one who has a problem with this.

I'm sure you're not the only one.

"What ......?

With that one word, the air in the place froze.

He looked so unusual that I spoke to him in a casual manner, but I wondered if I should have been a little less rude.

I thought so for a moment, but that didn't seem to be the problem.

Clearly, this was not a normal situation.

The noisy researchers were silent, some looking up to the sky, others nodding off.

I wonder what happened while I was gone.

Is the world going to die? ......

Someone murmured, echoing in the quiet hallway.