779 Tiger is Free
There are still tamers in this place. But I don’t know where they are. So I just approach them to kill them. Just the usual.
Though this time, I have two targets. Two old men with white beard. One is a full beard, and another is just a goatee. One of them could be Tiger’s master.
I would like to just snipe them from afar, but it’s difficult this time. They are master level mages. and they are already fighting the others directly. Maybe one of them, or even both of them, were using telepathy to give orders to the monsters while fighting.
Well, the simplest thing to do is just to kill them directly.
The full beard one is facing Candy right now. He’s a water mage as well and used water to protect himself from the Candy’s fire magic. But Candy is also a lightning magic. And when she used her lightning magic, he dodged it.
He’s good. He has experience fighting strong mages.
I would like for Candy to defeat him by herself, but I don’t want to risk Graham’s life or Grandpa Weretiger’s life who is meeting Tiger soon.
If I fail to kill Tiger’s master soon, both Graham and Grandpa Weretiger will have to face Tiger who will be ordered to kill them. But if that’s the order, those two should be able to push Tiger back to Magicless Area.
If his master ordered Tiger to do something else, like escaping or getting his master out of the city, then Tiger would run here with his full speed to do that.
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Hmm... now that I think about it, I have never really forced my familiars to do things that they don’t like. I only asked them to do something and they agreed to do it.
I thought that it might be the differences between summoner and tamer. Summoner can’t force their familiar to do what the summoner wants, while tamer can. But maybe it’s just that the level is different. The higher the level, the easier it is to force our familiar to do things that we want.
Well, I’ll just continue ask them to do things instead of force them to do it. I don’t know if I can do it, but I like how things are going.
Shelia is willing to fight because that’s what she wants. Graham is helping me because his sister is a victim. Ray is... I don’t know. He’s just loyal to me. I can feel that. As for Victoria, she did everything I ask her because she wants to.
But maybe if I want to force them like how Tiger’s master do it, I can. Though I don’t like it.
As I was approaching the man Candy was fighting, an ogre tried to block me. and I killed it to see several other monsters are blocking me.
And not just me. some other monsters also using their own bodies to protect that full beard guy from Candy’s attack now.
Then it’s clear. He’s a tamer and probably the one who tamed Tiger. Let’s kill him.
Oh, wait! The same thing happened to the goatee one! They are both tamers!
Let’s kill one first and then the other next.
The full bearded guy is also a master level water mage. Water mage is not well-known for their offensive magic. But they are quite capable in defensive magic. So it’s no wonder how he can block Candy’s fire magic.
But it’s just water. I can cut it.
I killed the monsters as I made my way toward the full bearded guy, and when he noticed a guy in full armor approaching him, he created a barrier out of water to also block Candy’s attack.
I just slashed Victokatana at him. Splitting the barrier and his body in two.
“Sorry to steal your kill, but I need to kill a guy like him so we can get the weretigers to join us,” I said to Candy.
“That’s cool with me. Getting more monsters to join us is always nice. Also, I saw a vampire among the monsters tamed by the enemy. What should we do?” Candy asked.
“Treat them like the other monsters. Kill them unless we killed their master first and they don’t want to fight us anymore,” I said.
“Okay. Good luck getting those weretigers to join us,” she said before she leaves to join another battle.
Now, it’s time to kill White Goatee.
He has a lot of powerful monsters. And the ones fighting him are the new guys. The ten master level mages whom we just recruited. Old man Henry’s grandaunt and the others.
(Master! That weretiger is running to the city! His master is still alive!)
While I was looking at the ten master level mages, I got contact from Graham. Seems like it was not the full bearded guy. It could be the goatee.
(Delay him as much as possible! Aim for his legs!)
If Tiger is running this way, then the master ordered him to protect instead of to kill. If it’s Graham, he can’t win against Tiger. But he should be able to stall him until I kill the Goatee. I just told him to aim for Tiger’s legs so he can’t run fast. And it should be fine knowing that he has the same regeneration ability like the werewolves do.
If it’s Tiger, he can reach this place anytime soon. Even if Graham is delaying him, Tiger will still get here. So I should kill White Goatee right away.
“Move aside!”
I killed the monsters blocking the way and go after White Goatee. He’s also a master level earth mage. So he protected himself with rock wall round him.
But I just transformed Victoria into a hammer and destroy the wall. Finding him inside looking surprised as I threw a magic kunai that pierced through his heart and the hand trying to block the kunai without any resistance.
“Whoa, what’s that? I want one”
One of the ten master level mages who watched how I killed White Goatee wanted to have a magic kunai as well. Since I have some more with me, I gave the one I used to him.
“You can take that. I’ll check if the weretigers officially joined us or not.”
I asked Graham right away to see if there’s any change with Tiger. And he said that Tiger stopped running. Graham relayed a message from Tiger thanking me for freeing him from his shackles.
Great. Now the chance of another monster tribe joining us is high!
There are still many enemy mages here. Still many tamers and monsters. But there’s no more summoners I can find. So I just kill everyone I see.
And I didn’t forget to tell the weretigers that Tiger is finally free. This will increase the weretigers’ morale. And seeing the weretigers like that, the werewolves’ moral will also be increased.
It’s so easy to handle these monsters. I like them.
“Roy! Large scale air magic started from over there!”
All of a sudden, Airy warned me of an air mage who used a large-scale air magic. I looked at where she’s pointing at and see that the one that the guy that Airy talked about it facing Jewel and Kayla.
He was losing at first, but all of a sudden, Jewel’s and Kayla’s movement slowed down. And not just them. Everyone else near that location also turned sluggish. Some of them started to sleep.
“That’s sleeping gases! He’s an air mage!”
I shouted to warn everyone. Kayla and Jewel also heard me so they tried to keep their distance from him. But now that I tried to get closer, I feel that the air magic is more concentrated than before.
Looking at Kayla’s reaction who is an expert level mage, I can tell that he’s at least expert level air mage. But I’m still better than him in air magic.
So once I got close, I used air magic to clear the sleeping gas. And he noticed that I’m also an air mage.
“An air mage who walks around in an armor and swinging swords. You’re the Aura user who caused so much trouble to us,” he said.
“Oh my God, you’re right! But that’s not important anyway. Leave him to me. you take care of the others,” I said to Kayla and the others nearby.
“It seems like you are better at using air magic than me. Well, I just accidentally keep improving my air element because I keep using it for breathing for decades. I only know that we can use air magic to create sleeping gases thanks to this unknown air mage who became a doctor,” he said.
“Should you really tell me something like that? And where’s your gratitude now that you met the unknown doctor? He’s right in front of you now. Though he’s wearing a mask, I can tell you that he’s extremely handsome,” I said.
“It was you? Then there’s only one thing left I can do—”
“DIE!”
Before he does whatever that one thing he needed to do, I killed him. There’s no need to spare anyone here. Although Sunglasses were given the order to capture as many as possible, that doesn’t mean I will do the same.
Also, it will be dangerous if this guy knows gases other than sleeping gases. Like the one I learned that will make people kill each other just by inhaling it.
As expected, air mages are dangerous in a large-scale battle. Good thing I can kill a powerful air mage here.