Chapter 10 - Water Battle

The deck of the speedboat is about 10 meters long. Considering the people standing in the back, the range of movement that can be moved should be much smaller. He doesn’t know which of the intermediate demons is in the shape of a human being, but the skill of wielding a sword clearly shows that he is not the one to ignore. With an archer at the front, the gold medalist Ford bounced forward between the two. The broad word which was in Ford’s hands, blocked the sword of the intermediate demon.

Kkkkuuuu.

Ford’s knee seemed to be wobbling due to the strength of the intermediate demon, and he tilted the broad sword to take over the intermediate demon’s knife, then rolled out sideways and inserted a dagger into the foot of the intermediate demon. It was different from the formal knights. Even on the ship, his movements were unhesitant, and the intermediate demon paused at Ford’s swordsmanship. Ford didn’t mean to catch the intermediate demon alone. He rolled over to the back of the intermediate demon and headed for the Red-Eyed demon followers on the speedboat. Hamel shot seven arrows at the intermediate demon. The intermediate demon, who couldn’t chase Ford after arrows flying in a row, wielded a knife with an annoyed expression, and tried to lower his hand to pull out the dagger stuck in his foot, but Hamel didn’t give him time to do so. Before they knew it, the blade of the wind from Sirke’s cane hit the intermediate demon.

“How dare you!”

The intermediate demon struck the sword with all his might and cut off the blade of the wind. It had incredible reflexes and superpowers. There are not many people who are human beings but have that much ability as intermediate demons. There were only about 30 species of intermediate demons, so they could identify who they were at once.

It was the intermediate demon ‘Creatine’. When he is in his main body, he is often transformed into a human being because he is half-spirit. And he’s a demon specialized in creating followers. He is a demon who is more picky when he is human. Then he had to give up his human form first. Ed, who had already widen the distance, fired three arrows in a row.

Babang!

The third arrow was shot with cold air, so the area around froze with a noise. He put a lot of mana to tie his feet completely. If he had shot the arrow to the side of the demon’s stomach, he would have fallen to the floor. Creatine’s face hardened when he fell down after his legs were stuck, and cold air emitted from the arrow on the floor. Then Gerrard swung his Battle Axe. Creatine frowned and turned the knife back to block Battle Axe, but couldn’t properly stop him because he couldn’t even turn around with his feet stuck to the ground. The knife was broken and Creatine’s leg was cut off. In the meantime, all demon followers died in Ford’s hands. Gerrard then burst into laughter and shouted.

“Good for you!”

‘In the meantime, Ed was shooting an arrow and injecting mana. Creatine’s leg was cut off, so he was abandoning the human form and returning to his main body. Human skin flowed down like skin. Hamel fired arrows one after another, but general physical attacks rarely worked when he was a spirit. So the attacks only worked as long as he was in human form. Creatine thus returned to the form of a spirit. The reason why it was called a spirit body is because it can exercise physical force even in that state, and the attack works at the moment it exercises physical force. So Ed stepped back one more step. Sirke, who stepped back to the end of the speedboat, blew the blade of the wind at Creatine first. Only the magic of Sirke and the cold arrow attack worked on Creatine, who was in his spirit form. Then Creatine soared into the air, dodged the blade flying in the wind, and flew straight for Sirke. Sirke hurriedly opened a shield, but when Creatine raised his fist and hit him, he was crushed by the force and fell into the water. As soon as Creatine dropped Sirke into the water, Ed fired a cold arrow. Until now, the power was incomparable to the first cold arrow. Creatine realized it was inevitable and grabbed the arrow with his left hand.

Freeez.

In extreme coldness, Creatine’s left arm froze. Even though he is a spirit, only he is attacked by magic. Ford, who ran from behind, cut off his arm.

-Argh! My arm! My arm!

Ed saw Hamel jump into the sea to save Sirke and realized that he and Ford were the only ones left to fight Creatine. As expected, he was an intermediate demon. He knows how to fight. Just by dealing with the most threatening creature, the mystic, and dealing with the remaining people, he could see his experience. As Ed raised his magic power again, Creatine flew straight in. He was not affected by the sinking speedboat as the water filled up because it was not necessary to step on the ground when he was a spirit. Except for the mystic Sirke, Ed was the only one who could attack him right now. Using the magic power he has collected so far, he fired cold arrows at Creatine, which is rapidly narrowing the distance. The power was halved because it could not be gathered as much as before, but it was enough to keep Creatine in check. The problem was that the Creatine, which lost one arm, turned its eyes. He held his decapitated arm forward. It froze over the shoulder of the left arm, but the Creatine, which narrowed the distance at once, hit them head-on. Ed, who was standing on the stern of the speedboat, looked at the Creatine in shock. Creatine had a body, even though it was for a brief moment when it was hit. And in time, Ed shot an arrow into his neck. Ford swung his Broad Sword after seeing the bleeding Creatine. However, Creatine has already become a spirit and the arrow that was stuck to his throat had also fallen. Ford’s Broad Sword just grazed the Creatine and Creatine soared into the air. Now, Creatine is seriously injured due to the injury in his neck and left shoulder. Just by looking at the blurry spirit, they could see that it was a dangerous situation. So, the spirit rose up into the air. The speedboat broke and everyone was falling into the Ain River. If they move to the speedboat of the enemy, they can survive, but if they did that, they’ll miss the demon. Before falling, Ed injected mana into his bow, twisted his waist, and shot a cold arrow into the river.

Freeeeeez.

When the river froze and a lump of ice floated on the surface of the water, he barely escaped falling into the river by stepping on it and holding onto the arrow. But Ed’s weight caused a lump of ice to tumble and sink halfway. But he somehow escaped falling into the river. When he put his arrow at the front again, Creatine saw him and turned in the air, and flew right in. Then the blade of the wind flew toward Creatine from the sunken speedboat. He was flying towards Ed, so he twisted his body in a hurry, but he was badly wounded.

“Huh.”

Ed, who took a deep breath, fired back and forth with a series of shots, injecting mana into all five arrows. The bow was pulled and released without a break, but there was no cold air on the fifth arrow. He was running out of magic power. However, four arrows were inserted into the body of the flying Creatine, freezing his entire body and falling into the river. When a large chunk of ice floated in the river, Ed stepped on the block of ice and gently descended on the frozen body of Creatine. He took a hunting knife and stabbed it between the eyes.

Booooom.

The demon’s frozen body broke, leaving Creatine out of breath. Feeling that his level had risen to the incoming experience level, Ed only coughed up a long breath. If they had met on land, he could have caught the demon much simpler than now. That’s how active the cold air was. However, it was difficult to deal with it as they fought on the boat. Ed saw the fragmented body of Creatine floating on the Ain River, then jumped and started running on the wreckage of the speedboat. Thanks to his superior agility, he was able to step on the wreckage of a speedboat floating on the water and reach the speedboat of its numbers. The rowers of the speedboat were not followers of the demon. They’re just slaves. They all raised their hands when Ed got on the ship and pointed an arrow at them.

“Save the people from drowning.”

As the speedboat of the numbers turned the player and moved near the sunken speedboat, Hamel took Sirke to the speedboat. Ford also took Gerrard, bleeding from his legs to the speedboat. Starting with the guide, Ed rescued the speedboat’s rowers, but two of the rowers died. Two people swept underneath died when Creatine slammed Sirke into the river. When everyone came out of the water, Sirke vomited water, approached Gerrard, and put a recovery spell on his leg. Wizards’ spells for recovery were no match for divine magic, but first aid was possible. When the wound was sealed, Gerrard opened his mouth with a bitter smile.

“I look terrible. I’m sorry.”

Ed said a word of comfort because Gerrard looked so demoralized.

“Thanks to cutting off the demon’s legs, I was able to catch him easily.”

Gerrard grinned at the words.

“Right? I played a part, right?”

Ed nodded at what he was saying while looking at the man dispatched from the black dealer. Gerard, who looks humble right now, believed that if he was already famous enough to catch the eye of a rock statue, he would grow significantly with this battle. So he gave him a compliment that doesn’t cost money.

“You’ve done enough.”

When he returned to the pier in Bern, Gerrard recovered to the point of walking on two feet. The body itself is as recovering thanks to the wizard’s amazing recovery magic. So he really is a savage warrior. When everyone got off the speedboat, the man who followed from the rock bottom opened his mouth.

“You guys are coming with me to get paid.”

Gerrard tapped Ed on the shoulder and said.

“I’m going to stay at the ash tree inn for a few days, so please stop by some time. I’ll buy you a drink.”

Ed answered with a slight bow and turned around. He did not have to visit Arien because he paid in advance, so he was going to visit the inn and rest. Contrary to the idea that it would take quite a while, the payment was cheap for the request that ended in a day. The ice bow will require practice, but it seemed to be able to carry out various tactics. Hamel and Sirke also approached Ed. Hamel’s robe hung over Sirke’s wet clothes.

“You two were lovers?”

When Hamel nodded, Sirke explained with a smile.

“Hamel lost his voice. So don’t get him wrong. And we’re married.”

Come to think of it, he hasn’t heard Hamel speak. Sirke said with a smile.

“If it weren’t for you, everyone would have died at the hands of the demon. He wants me to say thank you.”

Ed shook his head.

“I could have died if it wasn’t for the blade of the wind you blew underwater at the end. Thank you.”

Sirke looked at Ed with strange eyes.

“You’re a humble man.”

Ed has lived far from being humble. Instead, he was not able to lie, so he was also sincere in expressing his gratitude.

“I hope we get to see you again next time.”

As the two moved along with the man, Ford approached me and reached out. What he handed to Ed was an arrow that he shot at Creatine’s neck. He thought it naturally fell into the river, but Ed guessed that he picked it up while rescuing Gerrard. Ed thought he was a great man.

“There will be a day to pay you back.”

Seeing Ford leave muttering as others say, he seemed to be a gold medalist and shy. Ed was watching the four mercenaries leave the pier with a bow on his shoulder. Ed booked an inn and laid himself on the bed. It was the tiredness that he felt after a long time because he used all of his magic power. He was just going to sleep tight, but he had to open his eyes at the sound of knocking on the door. Sona was smiling in front of the door when Ed opened the door with a hunting knife in his hand.

“Good morning.”

Ed sighed deeply and slammed the door shut.

“Excuse me, Ed?”