episode_0172

It was Mileia who moved first.

Using her wealth of combat experience, she chose to attack from a safe distance and watch the reaction of her first opponent.

“Yunoa, go back!”

Mileia jumped forward as if charging forward, threw a sword strike into the air, then kicked the ground again and came back and shouted.

Following her words, I retreated to the point where I had nowhere else to retreat and turned my back to the wall.

Soggy… thud! thud!

The experimental monster, which looked like it would make you vomit just by looking at it, started chasing us inside.

The boom I heard earlier! thud! The sound was not the sound of a monster walking, but the sound of muscular legs extending at strange angles tapping on the ceiling.

I opened my eyes to see the movement of magical power and looked for the trace of the sword strike that Milleia had left in the air.

If the monster moves a little further forward, it will be cut by Mileia’s delayed slash.

but… … .

Soggy! Soggy! thud! thud!

It was the moment when the test monster made an unpleasant movement and came forward, coming within the range of the slash that Mileia had saved.

Normally, her slash should have torn the monster’s body, but strangely, the slash did not activate.

Mileia seemed a little surprised as well, and glanced at her long sword, which had slashed in the air.

At that time, what Xaviel said came to my mind.

Did you say that the monsters here ‘devour magical energy’?

At the time, I didn’t know what it meant to consume magic power, but if I could literally eat magic power at random, I could understand what was happening in front of me.

Sigh-!

I immediately gathered magical power into my sword and fired sword energy horizontally at the test subject from a distance.

The powerful sword energy, capable of breaking even large rocks with a single blow, quickly headed towards the test subject’s body in the shape of a crescent moon.

However, after a while, as soon as the sword energy reached the test subject’s body, it suddenly disappeared.

“As expected… … .”

This made it clear.

‘Magic power’ does not work on this guy.

If you try to use a magic technique on it, it will disappear the moment it touches its body.

Is that what Xavier expressed as ‘eating it up’?

It was an annoying ability.

I heard that some monsters have skin that is highly resistant to magic, but this one is not at that level.

It’s enough to make both Mileia’s delayed slash and my sword energy seem like they never existed in the first place.

If the resistance is high, the attack will hit, but you will not be hit.

However, it was impossible to land an attack on him at all.

“Mr. Milleia, that guy seems to be absorbing magical energy.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

But surprisingly, Mileia was not embarrassed.

On the other hand, I was overcome with anxiety.

The way I fight absolutely relies on magical power.

My method is to utilize the enormous amount of cumulative magical power that can be built up infinitely, and to use it to overwhelm the opponent with magical power.

If necessary, he could take away control of the opponent’s magic power, so he was confident that he would skillfully deal with opponents who used magic power.

But that monster is the direct counter to my method of relying on magical power.

If I didn’t use magical power, I was completely helpless.

If a monster like that were to run out, it would definitely cause trouble.

『Yunoa suddenly realized that she could never defeat that monster.

It was natural. Because he only focused on his natural magical talent, he did not acquire any other combat skills.

A raw fight was tantamount to suicide for Yunoa.』

At that time, the narration gave me an evaluation that was like a death sentence.

I should have considered Xavier’s words carefully, but I made a mistake.

『But Yunoa’s bringing Mileia was the best choice.

It is true that most adventurers become ridiculously weak without magical power.

Demons are even more dependent on magical power, so the moment these demons appear in the demon world, something catastrophic will happen.

However, although it is very rare in this world, there were adventurers who were strong without relying on magical power.』

I listened to the narration and glanced at Mileia.

Clearly, she wasn’t backing down and was preparing to fight that monster again.

Although he has an expressionless face, he doesn’t seem embarrassed or afraid at all.

“Could you please wait safely behind me for a moment?”

Mileia spoke to me with her eyes fixed on the test monster.

I felt sorry for something, but I knew that even if I came forward to help, it would only be a distraction, so I quietly backed away.

And the next moment, Mileia kicked the ground and rushed forward.

I can’t feel any magic from Mileia.

The speed of rushing forward has also slowed down to the point where it can be detected with the naked eye, unlike when the body is filled with magical energy.

She was rushing at the monster without using any magical power on her sword or her body.

Soggy-! Soggy-!

The test monster swung its arms and legs at strange angles at Mileia.

If you get hit by an attack like that without using any magic power on your body, you won’t just fly away and end up in pain.

Magical power strengthens the body and increases its durability, which is why adventurers have been able to hunt monsters until now.

A human body that does not use magical power is very easily torn, broken, and damaged.

However, Mileia seemed to have no fear of such things and narrowly avoided the monster’s arm flying towards her by lowering her head.

Then he raised his long sword upward and cut off the outstretched arm of the test monster.

Phew!

However, the power of a sword that did not contain magical power was insufficient.

The sword was unable to completely cut off the test subject’s arm, and was stuck halfway and could not be pulled out again.

In order to pull out the sword again, Mileia put her weight on it with both hands and pulled it down forcefully.

Soggy-!

But at that time, the subject’s other arm protruded from the pus-filled body and flew towards Mileia.

She had no choice but to give up trying to pull the sword out of her arm and dodge away, leaving the sword behind.

Mileia, whose hands were now bare, seemed to think it was impossible to continue like this and stepped back.

“… … It’s not easy.”

Mileia gritted her teeth as she glared at the test subject.

Driving a sword into such a monster without magical power is certainly impressive, but without a weapon there is no chance of victory.

This is difficult… … .

At that time, something occurred to me.

It was clearly said that the monsters here were created to experiment with ‘pseudo-demon souls’.

Then, wouldn’t this terrible experiment in front of me be the pseudo-demon spirit contained within it?

The pseudo-demon soul was a kind of weakened version of the real demon king soul whose characteristics were made as similar as possible to the real demon king soul.

That was clear when thinking about the contents of the stone tablet deciphered by the narration.

And don’t I have a decisive battle weapon against the Demon King’s soul?

This is the sword that the goddess Stellania imbued with her final strength, and which she arbitrarily named the Holy Sword.

Since this is a sword that was originally created to extinguish demon lord souls, wouldn’t it be effective on pseudo-demon souls as well?

Moreover, the holy sword I had was not included in the terrible ‘structure of the world’ created by Stellania, so it was not an item that only true heroes could use, like a real holy sword.

I immediately held out the sword I had to Milleia.

“Mr. Milleia, please take this sword.”

In an environment where magical power cannot be used, Milleia would be able to use this sword much better than me.

“This is… Isn’t it a holy sword? I am… … .”

“It doesn’t matter. First of all, it’s a holy sword in name only. That bastard doesn’t work with magic, so this is the only way.”

“Then I will borrow it for a while.”

Mileia immediately took my sword and rushed forward again toward the test monster.

Although it was a much smaller sword than the great sword she originally used, her movements were smooth.

Soggy-! Soggy-!

The test monster stretched out its arm again.

However, Mileia ran and struck away her great sword stuck in the guy’s arm with my sword.

While the monster’s arm stopped for a moment due to the impact, I dug in a little more and plunged my sword into the monster’s body.

Phew!

Only about a third of the holy sword was stuck in the test monster.

The physical destructive power seems absurdly lacking.

But the next moment, the blade of the sword stuck in the monster began to glow brightly.

Paaat-!

Then, intense light emanated from every hole in the test monster’s body, and its terrible body melted away.

The holy sword worked on him!

Only a foul-smelling liquid remained where the test monster was.

Mileia picked up her greatsword from the dirty puddle.

And then he gave the holy sword back to me.

“Thank you. Thanks.”

Mileia expressed her gratitude to me with an expressionless expression.

With this, has there been a way to deal with the monster that is devouring the magical power of this place?

In this way, we continued our search for the Demon King Soul research facility Calozium.

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