Magicraft Meister Part 1

The giant ants are just five meters away from Philippe and Dona.

"Is it over? ......"

Philip closed his eyes in despair.

He felt a bright light even in his closed eyes, and when he opened them again, he saw...

What he saw when he opened his eyes again was a giant ant with a hole in its head.

And a girl holding a strange-shaped magical tool.

"You are ......"

An automata whom I had met in the Blue Lands of the Kingdom of Egelea.

"Leco," you say. ...... thank you for your help.

"Run away quickly."

Reiko said shortly without looking back. Then the magic tool in her hand glowed again.

Two Giant Ants that had been chasing us fell down and stopped moving after being pierced.

"Oh, is that magic?　Or is it a magic tool?

Master, now is not the time for this. ......

Reiko's figure gradually faded from Philip's sight as she held off the giant ants.

And the 3rd Knights of the Kingdom of Egelea, who were running away desperately, were only running their horses desperately, and did not even have time to check who had come to their rescue.

"...... I guess it's time to get serious."

Deciding that human eyesight would no longer be able to see what had happened, Reiko increased the power of her flux gun.

Three or four Giant Ants in the line of fire are pierced by the gun, and are immobilized.

The Giant Ants, sensing the danger, spit corrosive fluid at Reiko, but they are unable to break through the solid barrier.

Meanwhile, Reiko is firing her only weapon to pass through the Solid Barrier, a laser gun.

After about 10 minutes, nothing moves in sight. But we cannot be too careful. Being giant ants, there is a possibility that they are digging and lurking in the ground.

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Reiko starts to walk slowly, keeping her physical barrier (Solid Barrier) up.

It was somewhat difficult to walk, but that was to be expected. She arrives in front of the ruins in a few minutes, and slaughters 11 giant ants.

After confirming that there was no one around, Jin called Lao-kun.

Old man, dispatch a land team while you still can. Also, I want to take samples of the giant ants.

Within a minute or so, 50 army golems and 40 artisan golems were beamed in.

The Land troops put up a solid physical barrier while using their laser guns to kill the scattered Giant Ants.

Smith then carefully examined the Giant Ants that Reiko had defeated.

First, he examines the nature of the corrosive fluid remaining in the body. It turned out to be a mixture of strong acidic liquid.

Since it dissolves silicon oxide rocks, it seems to have properties similar to hydrofluoric acid.

500 golems are made of iron. Most of the 500 left in front of the ruins have been melted down or destroyed, and not a single one is intact.

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The old man decided to retrieve the golem from the ruins as well.

He will analyze it later.

Although it is not efficient, I decided to destroy the magical devices (magi devices) that cannot be made with the current technology, such as the ether converter, to the extent that they cannot be analyzed, although it would be a waste.

I thought about removing them, but it would be easy to find out who did it, so I decided to destroy them this time.

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It was lying on the ground. It is broken by corrosive liquid, but it is a magical tool for the photographing side of the Magi Monitor.

It seems to have been thrown away when it fled.

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Jin was searching for survivors of the Gigantes from the sky.

"Hmmm, I think I'll mount a <> on it, even if the accuracy and range are narrow. ......"

Meanwhile, Reiko uses the built-in <> to detect the approximate direction and slaughter the Giant Ants.

The scattered Giant Ants are taken care of by the Land Squad.

Then, after defeating 12 more giant ants, a black shadow suddenly appears over their heads.

Suddenly, a black shadow attacked from above.

What?

Reiko dodged with a little time to spare, but her eyes widened in surprise when she saw something she had not expected.

The black shadow was a winged ant.

The giant ants had wings on their backs and were flying in the sky. They are also about two times larger than the others.

Male ants!

Among the knowledge Jin had given me was some on the ecology of ants.

Ants that build nests in the ground have a queen, who is responsible for laying eggs. Then, at regular intervals, a new queen and male ants are born, and they leave the original nest to marry, and the queen builds a nest in another location. .......

"Then there's a queen somewhere too!

I was right. While the other ants were black, a silver-colored one was dancing on a higher ground.

"......It seems to be the queen for sure."

The same thing was confirmed by Jin and the others. They came to the same conclusion.

"So, the 500 golems inside the ruins were for the purpose of exterminating the new ...... queen in her breeding season."

"That's very likely."

Elsa agreed.

"But I didn't expect to see even worker ants ......."

Unlike honeybees, ants are not supposed to divide themselves, which is probably different from the case on Earth, Jin thought.

Or maybe it was because the 500 golems had disappeared.

Just as he was thinking that.

"Brother Jin, before!"

Erza's voice made him realize, and he looked out the window to see silver winged ants approaching.

"It's going to collide with you!

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Reiko shot down the male ants while flying through the air with her <>, but then she noticed that the queen ant was aiming for Jin's >, and she readied her laser gun to shoot it down... ....

"...... from here!"

I noticed that there is a in the line of fire. If we shoot at it, there is a possibility that the flux of light that pierced the queen ant will attack Jin and the others.

"Then!"

After a few tenths of a second hesitation, Reiko put the laser gun in her apron pocket and picked up the plasma sword instead.

Swinging the sword of light, which stretched five meters, Reiko succeeded in slashing the queen ant from behind. But that was not the end of the story.

"This is the retribution for targeting your father."

Reiko not only cuts the ant in half, but also wields her plasma sword to slice the queen ant into smaller and smaller pieces.

The queen ant crashes down, spraying her bodily fluids.

Jin called.

"No, I'm sure your father would have taken care of it one way or another..."

Jin smiles at Reiko's modesty.

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"At the moment, I don't feel anything in the magi-detector.

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When Reiko says she can't detect it, Jin lowers the altitude of .

"Reiko, is anyone hurt?"

Jin asked directly, and Reiko shook her head.

"No ....... All of them are dead."

"I see."

The people lying below were all dead.

"No wonder. Let's just let them collect what they can use as a nuisance.

Rand and Smith were standing around, retrieving such items.

For a while Reiko searched the area to see if there were any survivors of the Giga-Ant, but she did not find any, so she decided that the danger was over.

"All that remains is the hole from which it emerged."

"The only thing left is the hole that came out of the ruins," he said.

"First, let's investigate ......."

While Jin was thinking about this, the 3rd Knights of the Kingdom of Egelea returned.

"Oh!　I knew it, Sir Jin Nido!　And Mister Leco!"

It was Paule, the captain.

"I am truly grateful to you for saving us in our time of need."

Paule and the knights bow respectfully.

After that, the natural question was asked.

"Why is Jin-dono here ......?"

Jin's answer is obvious.

"At the request of the Lord Kelihidole, who had been watching the Magi Monitor. I was just in the Klein Kingdom for the unveiling of the new airship.

Jin points upward, and there is the .

"Ha ha, it's a great thing. ...... Thank you very much!"

Everyone looked up at the sky in admiration. Philippe Tifo and his automata, Donna, walked out of the room.

"Jin-dono, I haven't seen you since a week ago. ...... No, I'm a now, so I must have changed.

The group, relieved to be free of their tension and fear, talk of nothing more than trivial matters for a while.

Jin also noticed this, so he went along with the chat without pointing out anything in particular.