Kajiya de Hajimeru Isekai Slow Life

“Why is it necessary for us to defeat that boss thing?”

I asked the commanding officer.

“Monsters are a lump of stagnant magical power.”

The answer did not come from the commanding officer, but from Liddy-san. It was a soft but clear voice.

“A monster is born from stagnant magical power after all.”

“They are not exactly a living creature?”

“Yes. Aside from dragons, demonic race, or those who were originally living that turned into monsters, the monsters born from magical power are not alive like us. As they are born from magical power, they could easily multiply. Furthermore, they would attack anything that is alive.”

Like those enemy monsters in the computer games in my previous world huh. You don’t know what kind of life they live, they just attack you and appear endlessly.

“What happens if we kill them?”

“The magical power that they have in their body disappears. If it’s something that is alive, its body will remain, but the magical power will disappear.”

I don’t know if the bear I defeated before was considered to be a monster. There is no doubt that it was not born from magical power though. I thought that magical power is something like an energy, but apparently, it’s a little different. Well, at least it doesn’t have a conservation law. The energy that existed but disappeared afterwards is still too mysterious for me though.

“So…if we do not defeat the boss, a monster will be born from its magical power. Then more monsters will be born based on the magical power of that born monster. Is that right?”

“Yes”

“So if we leave them alone, they will multiply endlessly huh.”

It’s like the monsters will be multiplying like rats.

“That’s right. Normally, monsters only spring up little by little, but if a large number of monsters emerged for some reason, it will be a big deal. And that happened a while ago…. Here.”

“Eh?”

Just now she said something heavy without hesitation. I got curious but did not delve on it.

“We barely fought them off but there were a few monsters left. We tried to keep them from increasing for some time now but we couldn’t defeat them all. And since the same thing is likely to happen again, we asked for a subjugation team.”

“So that’s how it is huh.”

The elves can defeat the boss but they can’t go all the way there. On the other hand, the subjugation team can make a way to reach there but they can’t defeat the boss. They then agreed to join hands and annihilate them.

While talking about such things, the sound of the battle became quite loud. I can see the torchlight shimmering, and there are also some reflected light, probably coming from the swords. It seems that there is a little hall ahead of us. As far as I can see from here, it’s a big battle.

“Alright, you should protect the elf lady!”

The commanding officer shouted at me as we moved forward.

“I know that without you telling me!!”

I shouted back at him as loud as I could, and held my spear at the ready while shielding Liddy-san behind me. The soldiers also stepped in front of us and began to clear the area.

As we entered the middle of the battle, with the help of the light on the torches, I could finally see the features of monsters here. Rike may get angry when I say this, but they are about the height of a dwarf, only, they have greenish skin. They have bald head, pointed nose, and their glaring eyes glowed yellow. Unbalanced limbs, like thin dead branches, extend from their body.

The closest thing to them that I know is the goblins. But the goblins that I know are a bit more civilized, they are clothed and armed, but these guys don’t have anything on their bodies and their weapons are their long claws and razor-sharp fangs, making them look almost like a beast.

They jumped at the soldiers, but most of them were blocked and slashed. The goblins that have been cut off do not spatter blood and once they were killed, they turned into black ash and they disappear just like that.

I see, so this is what she meant when she said they are not a living creature….

From time to time they throw themselves upon the soldiers. And perhaps since the soldier was just jumped on, he misunderstood the distance and the sword he swung vigorously in the air struck against the rock on the ground. Certainly, the sword will be distorted and chipped this way.

Oh well, let’s just fix the ones that I can still fix when we get back.

The soldiers are clearing the way in front of me so I’m going forward while protecting Liddy-san and focusing on the rear. On our way there, a goblin approached us, perhaps it slipped through the gaps between the soldiers.

I thrust out my spear so as not to hit the soldiers and then the tip of my spear caught the center of the goblin’s body and it pierced right in. The lack of substance I just saw and the feeling in my hand don’t match up, which is really weird. Even though the performance of the spear is equivalent to that of a custom-made model, it still feels a little like I just pierced a flesh. I quickly pulled out the spear and the goblin disappeared before it could fall to the ground. There was nothing left behind.

I slaughtered about four goblins just by crossing the hall. Some of the soldiers were injured, but they are generally safe so the goblins eventually reduced in number. With the battle behind us, we rushed into the deepest part of the cave, where the boss was waiting for us.