Chapter 375 - Lakeside Extermination 1

After Cecil gave everyone a rundown of what they were going to be doing, the members of Little Kings immediately understood that Cecil had gathered everyone together not to fight them, but to lead them towards a fight.

The Silvaria Kingdom's Exploration Group along with Anglaria Kingdom's Little Kings would work together in a joint operation to clear out all of the monsters at the nearby great lake located just a few hours away from the Silvaria Kingdom's Frontier City, Regio.

The lakeside was the place that Cecil wanted his kingdom to build a marine fishing city due to his promise with his wife. He had postponed this endeavor for a long while since he had other important things to attend to, but now that he was finally free from all of his other responsibilities, he thought that it was about time to go and clean the place up for their kingdom's new city.

He had promised Lucia a seaside city and since their kingdom was far away from the ocean, the humongous lake would have to do.

Once everyone was prepared to set off, Cecil quickly led the two—no, the three large groups, including Angelia's monster horde, out towards the frontier city. They would head there first before they continued their journey towards the lake.

No one had named the large lake yet, but Cecil was planning to name it after something unique he found in the area. He'd also name the city after the lake once it was established.

It took the group half a week to get to Regio City but it didn't even take them half a day to get to the lake. The group camped on a hill overlooking the lake after they cleared out all of the monsters in the immediate vicinity.

The Exploration Group immediately set up a perimeter and the Little Kings mages began conjuring stone walls around their campsite. Everyone from the Exploration Group was rather impressed at the beastkin's magical abilities.

It also had to be mentioned that Katya had joined in with them on this expedition out of the valley. She had asked around and soon found that Gabriel was one of the Exploration Group's captains and she had asked him to recruit her into the group.

Gabriel had seen her abilities and didn't find any reason to oppose it so he naturally took her into his squad. Katya was fascinated by the beastkin's magic since they were different from hers. The magic the beastkin used had conjured a rock wall out of the ground with using the ground itself as a medium for the spell.

It was different from hers alright since she needed a medium to cast her spells. The only exception of this would be the wind, fire, and water elements. Wind was everywhere while for the fire and water elements, she could use her comprehension in science to conjure up those elements. Mixing her mana, invocations, and science was Katya's way of creating her magic spells and Cecil was able to copy this.

After he had trained himself to use Katya's method of conjuring spells, he now had two ways of using elemental spells.

All he needed to do now was increase his proficiency in using Katya's method so that he would be able to use it in battle. Cecil had tried using both Katya's magic casting as well as his written magic casting in tandem and for some reason, it worked.

If he used Hypersensitivity to speed up his mind's processing speed and multitask on using both methods of spell casting, then he'd be able to parallel cast two different types of magic at once.

Lucia was envious when she saw this so she began training herself in Cecil's spell casting method as well as Katya's or what Cecil liked to call, Earth's spell casting method. If she was able to add these two methods of casting spells, then she'd be able to parallel cast 3 spells at the same instance.

It was pretty ambitious but she was making headway in her endeavor. She had already been using Cecil's casting method for a good while so she only needed to increase her proficiency in using Hypersensitivity.

Using the technique in the way Cecil did was the only barrier that prevented Lucia from achieving her dream of triple casting multiple types of spells. Parallel casting was quite different from her normal multicasting.

When Lucia multicast her spells, it was only her conjuring up multiple copies of the same spell that she had initially used so if she wanted to conjure up a different spell to multicast, then she'd have to begin chanting another spell's incantation. Of course, the only exception would be her original spells that were voiceless, but it does take time for her to transition in between casting those spells.

However, Parallel casting would take away this slight bit of time lag. Once she's able to parallel cast multiple spells, Lucia would then have access to at least 3 different spells at one time which she could then multi-cast. With this, she'd have more options of attacks once she could effectively use those 3 methods of casting spells.

Cecil was very supportive of his wife's endeavor and was now helping her master Hypersensitivity so that she could use it just like how he did.

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Once the campsite was finished, Cecil and Lucia began setting up magic arrays around the campsite. The two were the only ones currently able to use the written casting method so their actions intrigued the beastkin and the humans who weren't in the know.

The old members of Little Kings were rather accustomed to seeing this and were only surprised at how much better the two had gotten at their craft. Cecil didn't even need a second to write out a spell formation in the air before placing it around the camp while Lucia had narrowed down the time of her written casting to only a few seconds and she was much more adept at it, committing fewer mistakes than she did back then.

Once all of the formations were set up, Cecil created one last formation and sent it in the air. Lucia then began injecting her mana into the formation and a barrier formed around the campsite indicating that the large spell array they had created using the spell formations was now active.

The time was already late into the evening so Cecil decided that tomorrow morning would be the time they'd start the extermination operation. For now, they should all rest. He also wanted the humans and beastkin in their group to bond together tonight so that tomorrow, their cohesiveness and teamwork would be better after each side grew an understanding of each other.

Eli and Ainz also wanted this to happen so they encouraged their fellow members to interact with their human friends. Cecil of course didn't let them indulge themselves in anything that would impair their abilities for tomorrow's operation but everything else was okay with him.

Cecil retired early to his tent. Lucia also followed after him and when their friends saw this, they shook their heads and eyed the girl meaningfully. Lucia only stuck her tongue at them and giggled. She also apologized to Eli before heading into Cecil's tent. Eli was rather helpless since she wanted Lucia to stay in her tent so that they could have some girl talk along with Velicia but it seems that this friend of hers had other plans tonight.

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The next day, Cecil addressed the group after he had split up the area around the lake into sections. He did this to make it easier for their group to complete their task by dividing up their numbers. Once he divided everyone into their divisions he began assigning them their sections. Each division would be responsible for subduing all of the monsters in their sectors.

Angelia was separated into her own division with Lucia being there to watch over her. Eli, Velicia, and one of the female captains of the Exploration Group named, Anise Velten, who was once a secluded expert in their city who Gabriel had managed to recruit into their group, were in charge of one division and they'd be handling an area to the far east of their present location.

Lucius and 2 other Exploration Groups captains were grouped up together, while Gabriel and Ainz were paired up.

Cecil was going to take on an area alone which caused many in the group to give him an incredulous eye. It wasn't like he was flaunting or anything, but the old members of Little Kings voted on him taking an area all by himself just so that they could speed up the operation.

Cecil could only comply with their vote and took up the central sector all by himself. This sector also had the most concentrated amount of monsters in their operation field, but his friends believed that he'd probably be able to clear it before everyone else.

Once everyone's groups and sectors were assigned, Cecil officially announced the start of their operation. He watched as everyone else made their way towards their areas. Before she left, Lucia walked over to Cecil and gave him a good long kiss.

This morning, she woke up with an absolutely radiant countenance. Everyone and their grandmothers knew what they had done last night and why she was radiating so beautifully. Of course, this was with the exception of Angelia who still wasn't aware of those kinds of things.

Speaking about Angelia, the little girl felt a bit upset that Ren and her friends weren't here with her. She wanted to bring them along but they were all busy today. Ren had to go to the industrial district to work on some magi-techs that the kingdom had finished making. Cecil had tasked him with the magi-techs' runic engraving so it was a really important task that he couldn't postpone.

Since Cecil was busy, he left it all to his apprentice. He had also gathered a few promising young men and women who were eager to become artificers and had Ren take them under his wing. Cecil wanted Ren to teach them the basics before he took over and taught them the more advanced studies of artificing.

For now, Cecil had to focus himself on the operation at hand. He quickly released a breath and began circulating his mana.

He activated Mana Burst and quickly took to the skies. He flew above the area he was assigned to and locked his senses on all of the monsters in the vicinity.

"Let's clear this place up quickly," Cecil mumbled.

He stretched his arms out and began bombarding the monsters down below with numerous Mana Bolts. He also wrote out some spell formations and chanted some spells. His swift bombardment from the sky had everyone looking at him in shock.

Only his wife, siblings, and friends didn't feel any shock. This was what they had expected from him. Any less and they knew that he was just playing around.

Seeing as the operation's leader was getting his game on, the other members of the group psyched themselves up and charged deep into their areas and began smashing apart the monsters.