Chapter 113

Chapter 113 Strongest Sage, Vanishes

" . . . W-what the hell are you!"

A demon asked in surprise when I showed myself up while killing the third demon .

"T . . . This guy's Mathias! Spread out as planne–"

Looks like one of the demons know my face .

I activate 【Shrinking Ground】 when I see that demon trying to give an instruction .

"Wha, he disa–"

A demon shouted out in surprise when they saw me suddenly vanishing .

Looks like those demons lost sight of me just now .

It should have been easy to break through 【Shrinking Ground】 by simply looking at the mana reaction . . . . Present day demons really aren't used to combat .

Thus I kindly show myself up in front of the demon so they won't lose sight of me even by mistake .

" . . . Eh?"

I swing my sword horizontally at the demon who couldn't grasp what was going on and let out a stupid voice .

The demon couldn't react until its end as its head got lopped off in one slash and fell to the ground .

Ten remain .

It'll be troublesome if it took the group under control .

Defeating the one who looks like they could take lead is the basic of combat against groups .

"Th . . . this guy can vanish!"

"How'd you even fight something like–"

The demons shout out in fear after seeing my move just now .

They've completely lost their wits . They look like they're ready to run away anytime now .

. . . . Letting them run will be annoying .

If this many demons use 『Fullpower Flight』 all at once, some could likely escape .

Since The 『Great Barrier of Royal Capital』 that can prevent demons from going in and out is not operational yet .

OK . Let's give them a hint .

When I think about it, it feels like I'm always doing sneak attacks whenever I'm fighting demons .

"It's useless . You have no way to fight back inside this barrier . "

After saying that, I regulate my mana to make it look like an emission from barrier magic .

What a lame fake if I do say so myself .

"Barrier–I see! This guy makes himself disappears with control-type barrier! Destroy–"

However it seems the demons are tricked just fine .

The demons shoot out a huge amount of mana toward a point .

It's a technique called 『Mana Saturation』 used for destroying simple barriers .

With a cracking sound, something seemed like it broke behind me .

Yup, an expected response .

It was worth purposely killing them in an impactful way to rob them off their ability to think calmly .

"Idiot! Combat-type barrier can be easily be broken off with mana!"

Of course the idiot here is the demons .

The barrier we set up isn't so small it could be broken by this level of demon's 『Mana Saturation』 .

The sound earlier was something I put out using magic in order to show these demons in an easy to understand way that the barrier had been broken .

"Eh? Why'd he disapp–"

While thinking that, I activated 【Shrinking Ground】 once again and killed the demon who was giving orders .

I also killed two other nearby demons while I was at it .

Seven remain now .

. . . Should be about time to make it look like they've dealt with 【Shrinking Ground】 .

Since they'll likely try to escape if they get too cornered .

And so, I run toward a demon without vanishing myself by kicking barrier magic on my foot .

"I can see him! I can see him! Now we–GUAAAAAA"

When the demon saw me rushing toward it, it shouted out in delight as it swung its magic augmented sword while also shooting a magic .

I put 【Steel Slash】 and 【Mana Strike】 on my sword and cut the demon along with the sword it was going to use to block my sword .

Yup . The new sword is nicely sharp .

This time it had the time to scream its last since I cut its body, not neck .

"Mo . . . Monster!"

The remaining demons who saw that backed off while shouting fearfully .

I mean I'm human, I don't think it's right for the demons to call me monsters . . . .