Volume 7 - CH 4.3

Part 3

She’s not here!?

「What’s the meaning of this, Shera is……!?」

「Di, Diablo～」

A voice came falling.

He looked up.

Something that looked like vines twisted around Shera’s body, and raised up up to a considerable height.

It bound her arms and legs, and crept about as if checking the curves of her body. Its outward appearance was that of vines, but its movements resembled that of a snake.

With the thickly growing foliage at its back, he noticed its squirming body.

It was a green orb.

It had a size that a person could fit in it.

Tentacles that resembled plant vines grew out from its body, and by extending those, it grabbed onto a tree, and caught Shera.

Its surface split open. It was an eye. The gigantic eye glared at Diablo.

「So it was a 《Napper》!」

It was a plant-type monster that was classified as a wild beast.

Swords had a hard time reaching it, and it had a high resistance to magic. Hiding in the leave overhead, it makes surprise attacks with its tentacles.

It’s easy to crush if arrows are used but……

Shera, the crucial Archer, was restrained.

Diablo clicked his tongue.

「Falling behind to some level 50 fellow.」

No matter how high its POW (resistance) was, it doesn’t matter if he hits it with a high firepower magic. However, since Shera was made into a shield, he needed to make it so that she didn’t get caught up in it.

The sounds of footsteps came from behind him.

They were probably Rem, Rose, and Rafleisha.

「《Heaven’s Fall》!!」

Several gigantic rocks came falling from the sky.

The level 100 attack magic was multiplied by his Magic Staff, the 《Tonnerre Empereur》, and dropped huge rocks in the whole area.

However, the Napper was not included in the attack range.

The trees in the vicinity of the monster were pulverised altogether.

Diablo glared at the enemy.

「You went and did as you pleased, didn’t you, you mere small fry.」

In the game, even if it looked like the terrain was changed with magic, it was just a performance. However, this other world was different.

If the enemy was making use of the trees to run away, he merely had to pulverise those trees.

Sensing the difference in power between itself and him, the Napper turned Shera into a shield.

Concealing some tentacles in between the collapsed trees on the ground, it stretched them out to the trees that were outside of the magic’s range but……

All of its movement were grasped by Diablo.

「Pulverize all of that foolish thing! 《Lightning Arrow》!!」

Several shining bullets of light went flying.

Making them avoid the front and go around so that they wouldn’t hit Shera, he made them accurately hit at the bases of the tentacles.

The tentacles that had caught her loosened, and she fell.

「Hya!?」