CH 36

[The Burning Magic Sword]

By slashing and giving it fatal attack, the Cerberus’s target focused on us.

“Gaaooooooooooooo!!!!”

When the roaring Cerberus jumped this way, it aims and claw at my body with the claws of its long thrusted out front legs.

However, perhaps because of the wounds it suffered, it was neither as strong nor as fast as it was at the beginning.

This is a chance to counterattack!

When I divert it’s coming momentum by parrying its claws with the magic sword, I drive in a slash at the Cerberus who had lost its posture.

One slash, two slashes, three slashes.

The slashes certainly increased the wounds on the front legs of the Cerberus, but none of them were fatal.

[Master! The Cerberus is licking the part where it was injured for some reason! And smoke is rising!]

“What? Smoke?”

Cerberus, who received our counterattack, immediately took a distance from us.

Looking at the Cerberus, it was licking its injured front legs with its own tongue, and as the magic sword said, black smoke was rising.

“Impossible…p-perhaps, it’s recovering? No, that’s impossible…”

“No, it is recovering. The cuts that Frick opened is closing.”

Watching the state of the Cerberus, I heard unpleasant talks from Noelia and Gawain.

That means…with that strength, it also possesses a mean for recovering…you’re kidding, right?

If it receives half-baked attacks, it can just recover itself. At this rate, we won’t be able to beat it…

However, magic has its power reduced by its fur…and it is unlikely that sword will cause it a fatal injury…

What the heck should I do…

I lacked a method of attack in the face of the opponent’s recovery means.

Magic is repelled, and attacking with a sword alone only produce shallow wound…

Slashing with the sword and exert the power of magic at the same time, huh…

If I can put magic effect on the sword’s blade, I will certainly give deeper wounds to it, but…there seems to be no such a magic…

[If there is none, then how about you try to make one! Master! Even if it’s something like burning blade is okay! Like burning with a blaze! I will do my best!]

“Making magic, huh…it is not so easy…burning blade!?”

Hearing the words of the magic sword, an image of a sword clads in a burning flame came to my mind.

Spell Sword, huh…there’s nothing like that yet, right…to dwell magic in the sword, Spell Sword.

If this magic was added with the magic effect that the magic sword showed when it was slashing the enemy like before…it’s possible, huh.

I could imagine the form of the magic effect to some extent.

Let’s see how it goes…at this rate, I would only become a prey for Cerberus anyway.

Deciding so, I put to words the incantation that came to my mind.

“Oh burning flames, dwell in my sword and burn my enemies. ‘Flame Sword’.”

The magic was activated splendidly, and the blade of the magic sword was wrapped in deep red flames.

[Ha-wa-wa! Fire! Fire! A fire came out!]

“You, you said it yourself you want to burn with a blaze. So, you just burned. Is there a problem?”

[N-no! There’s none at all! I’m fine! I was just a little surprised!]

The magic sword seemed to be surprised because flames suddenly came out of its blade.

The other two also opened their mouths and looked this way.

“Frick-sama, what are you…doing?”

“What, you say? …That guy has fur that reduces power of magic, and it can heal wounds from sword, so I thought ‘is there a way to add magic damage to my slash’ and made it…by the way, I set the power to the highest setting…can’t I?”

Noelia’s face had an expression that said, ‘I didn’t think of that idea’

“It’s not like you can’t. It may be the optimal solution to combines Frick-sama’s sword and magic. Putting magic effect on the blade…I couldn’t think up such a thing at all.”

“No, I just tried to see if it works, moreover, I don’t know if it can get through that Cerberus.”

“I’m sure that with Frick-sama’s power of magic and sword skill…you’ll definitely be able to subjugate that Demon Beast.”

A gaze full of expectations was directed from Noelia.

“If it can’t get through, we’ll have to block it’s sight with magic and escape at full speed though.”

“…Even if we escape from this place, the wounded Demon Beast Cerberus will follow us by following our smell.”

“It follows the people who escape?”

Noelia nodded her head silently in response to my question.

That means there is no one who managed to survived after injuring the Demon Beast Cerberus, huh.

“Okay. I’ll definitely kill that guy.”

I wanted to get rid of Cerberus safely and return to Youg Hannotes.

Just spare me from ending my life as the Demon Beast’s prey.

“Burning blade, huh…That Frick, he sure provides me with an idea to create an interesting gimmick. Let’s make use of this in my next work.”

There is one dangerous blacksmith here, but I just wish he keep it to the extent where he won’t cause a big accident.

Meanwhile, the Cerberus has finished healing its wounds, and it was ready to re-commence the battle.

“Alright! Let’s go! I’m counting on you, magic sword!”

[Y-yes! Burning with a blaze! I’ll do my best!]

I re-gripped the magic sword that was clad in flames, and ran toward the Cerberus who had healed its wounds.

At the same time, Noelia, Gawain, and Dimol resumed to restraint and lure it.

However, Cerberus didn’t pay attention to them at all and ran straight toward me.

“So it’s only aiming for me, huh!”

“Gaaaaaaaaaa!!”

Cerberus jumped at me as if to say ‘That’s right’.

Perhaps the Cerberus also thought that magic and poison fog weren’t very effective against me, so it chose to attack me directly.

I dodge the approaching nails and fangs by a paper-thin margin.

Fierce attacks poured down on me from top, bottom, left and right as if to not giving me time to breathe.

Eventually, as I got used to the attacks, I was able to find a gap.

“There! Eat this!!”

The blade clads in burning flames slash the front leg of the Cerberus.

In the next moment――

Flames blows up from the holes other than the ones cut-open by the blade.

Because I put in and activated the Spell Sword with my maximum power, it seems that the fire of magic that was activated in the opened wound spread inside the body of the Cerberus.

“Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”

The Cerberus, who was blowing out flames from holes all over its body, rolled around on the ground in pain.

Apparently, the effect was outstanding.

“Its sure works.”

[Yes, it works! Let’s follow up with another attack! Attack!]

“I know. Burning flames, dwell in my sword and burn my enemies. Flame Sword.”

The effect of the Spell Sword disappeared with a single slash, so I activate the Spell Sword again to follow up with another attack.

Then, I approached the Cerberus, who was rolling around on the ground, and stabbed the flame-clade blade in the middle of its torso.

“Gyawuuuuuuuuuuuuu~~~~n!”

The Cerberus twitches for a while, but eventually large flames blown out from all over its body and it died.

“I won, right…huu…”

When my tension was released, the Body Enhancing magic that I was activating was also released.

Just like that, I sit down on the corpse of Cerberus.

Meanwhile, the blade of the magic sword that remained stabbed in the body of the Cerberus shines brightly.

[Monster core! Lots of factors, get! Delicious! Delish, delish! It feels like I’m growing up! If I have to say by how much, then it’s like by ‘Let’s go with a bang!’ or ‘Let’s go with more bang!’]

I’m not sure how much it grows by that analogy though…

Is it really growing?

[The factor was a little too delicious and I forgot myself! I feel like I can learn about 10 new magics with the factors taken from the Cerberus! By the way, I feel like my magic resistance to poison, fire, and lightning are increased by a wee bit!]

It feels like it is absorbing the characteristic and the type of magic used by the Cerberus, huh.

[Desu desu. My power is still nothing compared to Master, but I should be able to help more! I’ll grow with *bam bam* from now on! I’ll do my best!]

The magic sword said so, and the dazzling light of its blade subsided.

“Frick-sama! You’re safe, riiight!”

Rushing to under the body of the Cerberus, Noelia called out to confirm if I was safe.

“Ahh, Noelia, I’m fine! No problem! The Spell Sword was unexpectedly useful, right?”

“It’s too powerful! Discovering a magic that can exert this much power, I have to hurry to send a report to the Magic Research Institue…ahh, but it may be a unique case of Frick-sama, how should I explain it…”

Noelia was flustered because she couldn’t decide what to do with the Spell Sword I used.

Certainly, it might have been a little too powerful…

While I was thinking about the power of the Spell Sword that I had made, I smell the smell of burnt meat floating around.

“It’s amaaaziiing mon, see for yourself. It might be better to mass-produce swords that can support Spell Sword you know. I surely don’t think that you can put the power of magic on a sword. Fusion of sword and magic huuuh~, this is interesting. Interesting y’know.”

Gawain also inspected the body of the dead Cerberus and was planning his next weapon production.

I was a little worried about that, but I was sure of his skill, so I wholeheartedly wanted him to make something that was not dangerous.

After that, I cut off the Cerberus’s head as a proof of subjugation, and we decided to return to the workshop.

Thus, the one who became the first sacrifice of the magic sword that became my lifelong companion was the Demon Beast that was feared in Youg Hannotes, Cerberus.