Chapter 318: Azalea (side Azalea)
318 – Azalea (side Azalea)
“…To think I would be forced to use [Summon] at this time.”
As its purpose is to act as a decoy, I summoned only a lesser lecherta to conserve magic power, but being forced to use the magic power that I sacrificed my body for is not pleasant.
Hearing my murmur, the mage by my side, Sherry, hangs her head apologetically. The magic she cast to hide my presence, [Hide], was insufficiently precise, so it seemed that one of the ouroboros’s heads had noticed us.
“Sherry, your skill with magic is even praised by Nowell… But that head of its had remarkably good perception.”
Our anti-ouroboros force is split between seven inside the cave and Sherry and myself outside. Though Sherry is only here to [Hide] me from the ouroboros.
When I considered that enough must accompany Tolman-kakka to prevent the worst from happening, these eight are the most I could take with me. More importantly, it matters little what number I take with me.
That is because I of course have no intention of carrying out a proper battle. If that really is an ouroboros, then it is a magic beast worthy of the A rank designation. The ouroboros is known to fight by making use of its overwhelming stamina and magic power to raise an endless tide of undead, so it is fotunate that there have not been any undead other than the undead child from earlier. Even so, it is not an opponent that can be defeated through a frontal assault. Even in a weakened, humanised state, that does not change.
I will lure the ouroboros into the cave, then dragonise and release [Dragoflare] into the cave to collapse it and bury it alive. That has been my objective from the start. I told Tolman-kakka that I would use [Flare], but that was so that the other members would not know I was planning on burying them with it. Attempting to kill an ouroboros with [Flare] would be utter foolishness, and is doubtful whether [Dragoflare] could kill too. In order to kill it with any certainty, there is no other way but to ram it with [Dragoflare] while it is being crushed by the collapsing cave.