Magicraft Meister Part 1

Immediately after Gloria left the village, Heinz Rasch advised Lysia.

"Quasi-Baron Fahlheit, it is too reckless to let Gloria go alone. I think you should send two or three people with her so that she can be used as a messenger. If possible, I would like to accompany her myself.

Licia is shocked.

"Yes, I understand!"

She chose two men who were good at riding horses from among the garrisoned soldiers, and sent them off with Heinz.

Heinz, please be careful.

Licia presented the four of them with dried meat and water bottles.

"Thank you for your kindness."

Heinz Rasch received the food and water and handed them to the two soldiers,

"Let's ride until we catch up with Gloria!"

With these words, he gave the horses whips and started to run. The two soldiers followed.

Licia watched them anxiously until they were out of sight.

"Hey!

Gloria stopped her horse and turned around at the sound of a voice behind her.

She saw Heinz and two soldiers following her on horseback. She stopped and waited.

"...... Mr. Fahlheit has sent us. We will go with you.

"Okay, we will go with you."

Gloria and Heinz move forward, gagged and gagged. Dawn had already broken and white clouds were floating in the blue summer sky.

Heinz offers Gloria dried meat and a canteen of water.

"That's very thoughtful of you, Mr. Fahlheit. You can't work without breakfast if there is an emergency.

"That's right."

Both knights have no problem eating on horseback. They ate dried meat and drank water, but never loosened their reins. The men following them followed their example.

"...... So, Mister Rush, what can you tell us about this monster?"

Gloria asked Heinz after they had finished eating.

"Yes. I can't tell you much about it because I lost consciousness during the ...... process, but it must have been about fifty meters long. It had four eyes ......, I think. They were glowing red."

Fifty meters ......?

Yes. It spit some kind of liquid out of its mouth, and whatever it hit, rock or wood, melted in a cloud of white smoke. ......

Well, that's scary.

"That's about all I know. After that, a golem that had been dispatched by Lord Machina led me to what appeared to be a silver-colored shelter, but I have no memory of what happened after that. When I came to, I was in Toka village.

"I see."

How did they defeat such a monster? Gloria tried to imagine, but she had no idea.

The road climbs gently and the greenery around us diminishes. After passing through a rocky wilderness, the road climbed steeply.

"I think we'll be at the site in about an hour," he said.

Gloria and Heinz slow their horses a little and proceed with caution.

"Should I have my sword ready to pull out at any time?"

"No, I don't think a sword will do anything against that monster. No, I don't think a sword can do anything against that monster.

Heinz answered Gloria's question with a wry smile.

The two men stopped their horses. The men following them stopped their horses as well.

"We must be close now. Let's go carefully."

Heinz's words made them all even more determined. The horses are now slowly moving again.

"...... smells funny..."

Gloria mutters with her hand on her nose.

"This is the smell of liquid spit out by centipedes."

Heinz replies while holding his nose.

The four of us proceed forward, cautious, looking ahead, back and forth, left and right.

When they see what lies beyond the bend in the road, they all freeze and stop moving. The horses are also frightened and stop walking.

And there it was. It was a picture of hell.

Numerous dead bodies of giant centipedes, each about 10 meters long, were lying on the ground.

"Mr. Rush!　There were more than five of them!"

"Oh, ah ......, they must have crawled out further after that ......."

Heinz felt a chill run down his spine when he saw the carcasses, which looked to be more than a hundred.

Riding his horse, he approached the largest of the corpses.

Gloria rolls her eyes when she sees that it has been sliced into pieces as if it had been cut by a huge sword.

"Is it possible to cut off a monster this ...... big?"

Gloria pulled out the sword from her waist and slashed at the shell.

There was a hard cracking sound, and the blade of the sword chipped.

"I don't think I can cut it with a ...... sword."

The sword I brought this time was not the one Jin had made for me, but an ordinary steel sword.

The sword is so hard that it is almost impossible to cut through a hundred pairs of legs with it. Gloria realized once again that Makina's ability was both reliable and threatening.

When she looked into the shell, she found a yellowish liquid. It seemed to be the body fluid of a centipede. Gloria plunged her sword into the liquid without thinking. Then...

"Whoa!"

The steel sword had melted away in a puff of white smoke.

"Gloria!　I told you!　The fluid of a centipede's breath dissolves everything. The only thing it doesn't seem to do is dissolve itself.

"......"

He stared at the sword, which was half empty,

"...... Jin-dono, if I ask you, will you make it for me?

Gloria muttered.

* * * *

The old man, who was monitoring the situation under the Inado Mine through the monitoring system, muttered.

I can clearly see Gloria's surprised face.

The old man was planning to recover most of the shells as they would be good materials, but he left all but the first five 50-meter class shells untouched to show them what was happening.

Now we see Gloria slashing at the shells with her sword. And then there was the scene where the swords were dipped in the bodily fluids left in the remains of the centipedes and melted.

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The old man has no face, but if he had, he would have laughed. But Lao Tzu, who is a mobile terminal, can make such an expression.

If the surrounding area had been a sea of body fluid, it would have been extremely dangerous, but in about two hours, most of the body fluid of the gigantopods that covered the ground had evaporated. Only a little remained in the shell.

It would evaporate in a few hours. The old man decided that it would be better that way, since he would not be able to exploit it.

Four 50-meter class bodies would be more than enough to keep the body fluids.

Gloria and the others are seen climbing up the mountain from the site of the battle.

* * * *

"......This is a completely abandoned mine."

Heinz looked up to the heavens at the devastation. The mine had collapsed to the point where it was impossible to tell where the entrance was, and the remains of a generic golem lay scattered about.

"Was it worth sacrificing an expensive golem?"

Gloria wondered to no one in particular.

"I don't know. I was only carrying out the orders of my superiors."

For Heinz, a knight, refusing an order was not an option.

"Let's go back to ......."

Gloria said without effort and turned her horse's head.

Heinz and two of his men followed.