Published: July 3, 2025
At 12 PM today, I posted "0163 ＜＜Intermission＞＞ Adventure in Room 10 - Part 1."
Please read that first.
The sound of despair.
To sum up the situation in Azone Village in one phrase, that four-character compound word was perfectly fitting.
All around the village, there were bodies lying as if they had been severed by some sharp and enormous blade, and the villagers and merchants were in a state of total chaos.
“Hey, what happened?”
The swordsman Bandash asked as he found a guard collapsed near the castle gate.
At the same time, Terence healed the guard's wounds with heal.
“A wyvern... A wyvern has appeared,” the guard finally managed to utter.
“A wyvern, huh...”
Bandash could only utter that before he fell silent.
Of course, he wasn’t the only one. Everyone present fell silent.
A wyvern is on a different level compared to other monsters.
With a wind attribute magic called 'Wind Barrier', it constantly negates damage from attacks.
Moreover, the invisible wind attribute attack magic air slash and sonic blade are far more massive and powerful than attacks cast by human mages.
Yes, they can sever multiple bodies in a single strike.
Because it is such a powerful monster, significant preparations are required for subjugation.
At least twenty adventurers of C-rank or higher.
And it’s better to have a larger number of mages.
Regular attacks won’t work, and attack magic gets repelled.
Therefore, they must continue attacking until the wyvern tires and its wind barrier disappears... with magic.
The group headed towards the daimyo's office.
In emergencies, the main response unit is the daimyo's office in this village.
However... it had already turned into rubble.
“This is terrible...”
The one who muttered this was Ash, the eldest sister and fire attribute mage.
“Just as expected, the wyvern's air slash is powerful,” said Nash, the second sister and wind attribute mage.
“It’s thoroughly destroyed compared to others... They must have attacked or retaliated and incurred the wyvern's wrath...” said Kash, the youngest sister and earth attribute mage, as if she had witnessed it.
Among the three sisters, it is the youngest sister who excels in logical thinking.
“From the looks of it, there are no survivors,” Bandash muttered, and Nils nodded in agreement.
It was that thoroughly destroyed.
“If we stay here, we’ll be thought of as the same lot.”
At the same time as the youngest sister’s mutter, a voice rose from afar.
“Here it comes again!”
It was less than five seconds after hearing that voice when the wyvern reached the daimyo's office.
And it spotted the group.
It seemed to be looking at them as if to say there were still some it hadn’t killed yet.
“Not good. Everyone, behind Goriki!”
Bandash shouted.
The three sisters and Terence immediately reacted, and a moment later, the three from Room 10 also got behind the shield bearer Goriki.
Goriki, too, raised the enormous shield he always carried, simultaneously when Bandash shouted.
In that moment, a sound was heard...
Clang!
It sounded as if something hard had struck the shield.
“That's definitely not the power of an air slash...” Nash, the wind attribute mage, whispered, but it was indeed an air slash.
“The distance is quite close,” Kash, the youngest sister, said, peering through a slit in the shield and referencing the distance to the wyvern casting the air slash.
“Right, normally, wyverns cast magic from over fifty meters high. But that one... is about fifteen meters?”
“Why is that?” asked Ash, the fire attribute mage, as Bandash questioned.
“Who knows? Maybe it’s an individual that can’t cast air slash over long distances... or perhaps it just enjoys watching humans get cut up from close by...”
In any case, if it’s cast from this close, there’s no way to dodge it.
It's fortunate that they were protected by Goriki's shield, but if this continued, they would be in a dire situation.
However, after a while, perhaps it got bored, and the wyvern flew away.
That said, it was going to destroy other parts of Azone Village.