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25.

Thunder Tiger had a brain bead hanging from his neck like a cat’s bell.

The Brain God’s Orb is a magic item that doubles the power of lightning-attribute skills for one time only.

It was the best match with Thunder Tiger, whose main weapon was lightning skills.

I had never had a chance to use it before due to the 24-hour time limit, but it seemed like the chance had finally come.

“Thunder Tiger! Using the Brain God’s Orb, it attacks with Thunder Spark!”

-Krrr!

Thunder Tiger understood Chris’s command and began to gather the minute electricity in the air with his charging skill.

“Well done! I’ll draw the Devil Ent’s attention to this body.”

Ray circled around the giant devil ent, drawing its attention to himself.

-Peeeek!

The monster with the black crystal in it had its intelligence reduced, and the giant devil ent kept swinging its branch whip to catch the ray in front of it.

Ray’s aggro management gave me some recharge time.

Thunder Tiger raised its tail like a lightning rod and absorbed the surrounding electricity through its tail.

Soon, a blue-tinged electric current began to crackle across Thunder Tiger’s body.

-Grrr!

It seemed like the battery was fully charged.

“Ray, your charge is complete!”

Ray waved his hand to Chris’s shout, indicating that he understood.

“I guess I should stay away a bit.”

Small dragon wings sprouted from Ray’s back.

The tail and wings were usually not implemented so as not to burden Chris.

Flutter!

Ray’s wings spread and in an instant, he leaped up into the sky.

At the same time, a distance of about 30 meters was created between us and the giant devil ent.

The Devil Ent’s branch whip lost its target as it cut through the air due to Ray’s sudden escape.

-Peeek?

A giant devil ent that looks flustered and flustered.

In the meantime.

Thunder Tiger’s skills are ready.

“Brain God’s Orb Activation execute!!”

With Chris’s shout, magical power exploded from the orb of the god of thunder that was hanging around Thunder Tiger’s neck like a cat’s bell.

The overflowing magical power gathered in the space in front of Thunder Tiger and changed its appearance into a magic circle.

This large magic circle engraved with multiple spells acts as a magic circuit that doubles the power of Thunder Tiger’s techniques.

-Grrr!!

Thunder Tiger’s mighty roar shook the foggy forest.

At the same time, the electricity charged inside Thunder Tiger’s body began to emanate.

-Phew!

By the time the Devil Ents discovered the lightning cascading from Thunder Tiger’s body, it was already too late.

Phage, phage, phage!

A flash of light engulfed his son-in-law.

A wave of electricity surged like a tsunami, engulfing the entire body of the giant devil ent.

-Peeek!!!

The giant devil ent screamed in unbearable pain.

Kuung!

The Devil Ent fell to his knees with burning pain all over his body.

He briefly lost consciousness and passed out due to the intense pain of the electric shock.

Ray, who had been gliding through the air and waiting for an opening, took advantage of the Devil Ent’s movements and quickly flew in to pull out the black crystal embedded in the Devil Ent’s pillar near its forehead.

Ray clung to the pillar of the giant devil ent like a cicada.

“Krrr!”

Using the Dragon Nail skill, I placed the strengthened nails into my forehead around the black crystal.

Push!

Ray succeeded in pulling out the black crystal.

Meanwhile, Chris felt a strong sense of weakness due to lack of magical power as Thunder Tiger poured out Thunder Spark.

Somehow I managed to hold on and endure Thunder Tiger’s attack until the Devil Ent was defeated.

But as soon as the Devil Ent fell, Chris also collapsed.

At the same time, the Thunder Tiger spirit body summoned by Chris also oxidized into light and disappeared.

Ray’s case was a bit of a special case.

Ray’s body, unlike those of other summoned creatures, was based on a homunculus created by the great summoner Jude Delun.

Since Ray’s original body was a divine beast located in the spirit world, Jude Delun created a homunculus body to capture Ray’s soul in this world.

That’s why Ray’s body was able to store a little bit of magical power, and even if Chris completely cut off his magical power supply, he was still able to move for several hours.

Ray ordered the two knights of the Delun Estate to lay the unconscious Chris down under the oak tree so he could rest for a while.

Chris, who had been unconscious for 30 minutes, was able to regain consciousness much faster than before thanks to the ring of magical power restoration.

“Chris, are you awake?”

“Uh… What happened to the Devil Ent?”

“First, I took out the black crystal embedded in the pillar. I guess I’ll have to wait a while until the Devil Ent comes to his senses.”

As Ray said, Devil Ent was unconscious after being hit by Thunder Tiger’s ultimate spark attack.

After some time, the giant devil ent opened its eyes.

-Peee.

Perhaps because the black crystal was removed, the Ent’s eyes seemed clearer and it seemed as if it had no intention of going on a rampage and harming humans.

Ray, who can communicate with monsters, steps forward and attempts to talk to the giant Ent.

The two talked for a while.

“What did Ent say?”

“The Ents were also said to have black crystals embedded in them by some people.

After that, the transaction became so violent that I couldn’t control myself.”

“What kind of people are they?”

“They were wearing masks and black robes that covered their bodies, so their identities were unknown. They put a black crystal in the giant ent, the leader of the ents, and drove him crazy. The other ents followed the leader’s orders and attacked humans.”

Devil Ent society was an absolutely vertical society where the leader decided everything.

The masked villains drove the leader Ent mad, causing the Devil Ents throughout the Foggy Forest to attack the people.

“Are you saying my son is already dead?”

The village chief was filled with despair.

“Just wait a minute, I’ll ask the Ent Captain.”

As Ray relayed the village chief’s words, the leader Ent began to tremble and then began to vomit out the things that had entered his body.

Woof woof.

Human bones and animal carcasses such as rabbits and deer were also found mixed in with the saliva.

Among them, a healthy adult male was found unconscious, wrapped in saliva, and vomited out.

“Andy!”

The village chief found his son and put his face close to his nose.

Fortunately, he was still breathing.

“Creator God! Ah! Thank you. Allelui, AlleluiAllelui.”

The village chief was a very religious man, and he repeatedly thanked the Creator God and recited the incantation Allilui, praising the Creator God’s grace.

“You were lucky. Ents are slow to digest what they eat. You were able to find it quickly and save it before it dissolved in the digestive juices.”

Ray was satisfied to see the village chief and his son reunited.

“By the way, don’t those masked people seem to be the same ones who attacked Thunder Tiger?”

Chris recalled what Thunder Tiger had said.

Thunder Tiger also said that he was implanted with a black crystal by a mysterious group wearing masks and black robes.

“Hmm. The symptoms of Captain Ent and Thunder Tiger are similar, and the black crystals are similar, so it seems likely that the same group is responsible… What is the purpose of making monsters violent?”

Ray tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.

A thought crossed Chris’ mind at that moment.

“Recently, monsters have been appearing in large numbers and becoming violent in various parts of the Kingdom of Ridelph. Could this have something to do with it?”

If the black crystals were to make monsters violent, it seemed quite possible.

“Your Majesty. What good would it do to make a monster violent?”

The skinny knight interrupted after hearing the two men talking.

“No, there might be someone with evil intentions who would do something like that to cause chaos in the Kingdom of Ridelph… .”

Chris had a bad feeling that he was being a bit unreasonable, but he didn’t know that there could be such crazy people out there.

“Hehehe. I think you’ve read too many fantasy novels, Master. These days, even the demons live quietly without any trouble.”

The short knight shook his head, saying that it was nonsense.

“No, Chris’s words aren’t completely nonsense.”

Everyone paid attention to Ray’s words.

“I don’t know about these days, but in the past, there were times when the demons directly infiltrated the human continent in order to cause chaos in the human world. Of course, this is the first time I’ve seen a black crystal, but I need to look into it.”

“So you’re saying that the demons are using the black crystals to make the monsters violent?”

Ray shook his head firmly at Chris’s words.

“There’s no way the demons could have invaded the human continent. There was a tight barrier built along the border between the human continent and the demon continent to keep the demons out.”

“The demons might have sneaked past the barrier.”

“I know that the magic barrier that went in there was created by Jude Delun, but there’s not 100% chance of that happening.”

My grandfather, the great summoner Jude Delun, created the magic barrier of the Great Wall of China, the barrier that separates the human continent and the demon continent.

It was Chris who learned something new.

“If they are not demons, what are the identities of the masked men?”

The more Chris thought about it, the more curious he became about the identities of the masked men.

Ray put forward a hypothesis that came to his mind while he was thinking.

“I heard that there are forces that follow the Demons among the non-Demons. Maybe they are part of that group of followers.”