Chapter 733 - Chapter 3: The Demon Lord's Resurrecting Cave in the Demon Realm ④ (Morandine) Outpost
I don't know if the childish provocation worked or if it was angry about being surprise-attacked, but the Harpy took the bait completely.
The opponent is apparently fast. And we can only go high speed for a short time. When I wondered what we were going to do, we suddenly ascended. At a steep angle diagonally upward, deviating from the standard, we headed north with our backs to the sun. My weight suddenly shifted to my legs, and I unintentionally crouched down. I'm worried the bottom of the bowl might fall out if we go up too much. We've come quite high up. Peering from the bottom, the Harpy is coming up with great momentum.
The bowl gradually decelerated, then stopped abruptly and turned around.
"Hold on!"
When I wondered what to hold onto, I was pulled down by Henry-sama. Then, the bowl tilted forward and dived all at once.
This time my body felt like it was going to float away. Henry-sama is holding my back down.
We charge straight toward the Harpy just like that. Since we have the momentum of the fall, our speed keeps increasing. The Harpy, perhaps surprised, stopped abruptly.
"Bonnie!"
"Yes!"
Bonnie fired a silver arrow. How can she even stand in this situation?
"Get down!"
What is it this time?
Goooon!
A dull sound rang out. We hit something. There was nothing clearly visible, so it must be the Wind Barrier the Harpy released. It's pointing one hand toward us.
The bowl seems to have knocked it away using the momentum of the fall. The Harpy, realizing it was ineffective, fled as fast as it could.
I wonder if a living thing, when chased by a strange thing that might pose a threat to it, ends up fleeing in the exact opposite direction from which it's coming. The Harpy is exactly like that. It probably never imagined that humans would board a strange thing and challenge it to an aerial battle.
Occasionally it fires Wind Cutters as it turns around, but since Eleanor-sama has deployed a second Wind Barrier as a windbreak, they are all being deflected. Having settled down somewhat, it changes direction to the right and left more or less, but since I, having regained my composure, am sticking my hand out from the side of the windbreak and firing log-sized Holy Lances in the Harpy's path according to Henry-sama's instructions, it can't change direction. A hero's insight is quite something. If he says right and I fire to the right, the Harpy, trying to go right with its wings spread, will have the log Holy Lance pass right by it, and it hurriedly returns to the front. After repeating this several times, the altitude has dropped significantly.
The Harpy is trying to flee into the forest. In the forest, the maneuverability of the large bowl will become difficult.
"I think it's about time..."
It was when Eleanor-sama muttered that.
The Harpy's right wing suddenly became frozen. No, it became a block of ice much larger than the Harpy's body.
It's Mary.
Using her ultra-high-level magic control to her advantage, she froze it all at once. It must be an Ice Cube at full output. Ice magic grows from the targeted part. As long as it's within the targetable range, it won't miss even a moving target.
The Harpy falls as if being pulled by the wing that has become a block of ice. Something like a scream is rising, but it probably can't be canceled. Just like that, after mowing down several trees in the forest, a cloud of dust rose. It seems it crashed into the ground. Furthermore, more than ten log Holy Lances were fired toward the place where it fell. It must be Price-sama and Harrison-san.
"Jeanne, let's deliver the finishing blow."
"Yes."
Descending all at once, I fire an eight-volley Over Flow with a reflector from the tip of my staff twice, aiming at the twitching thing's chest. Furthermore, Bonnie jumped down and slit its throat with a silver knife.
We defeated the Harpy. Since the ice was canceled, Group 1 seems to have descended as well.
"Jeanne, Sense Living."
"Yes."
Responding to Eleanor-sama's instruction, I chant, and there are no monsters in the vicinity.
"It's okay."
I make a circle with both hands toward the sky.
When the tree canopy rustles unnaturally, the medium-sized bowl reveals itself.
"Thank you for your hard work. You have brilliantly defeated the Harpy."
Price-sama offers words of appreciation.
"Mary, that was brilliant."
"No, it is the result of your daily guidance."
She responds humbly to Eleanor-sama's words.
"Now, everyone, move over to that one. The real thing starts from here."
Is it still the beginning? What on earth is she planning?