The Magus of Genesis

Lesson 28 Acceleration/Acceleration

"The eagles have a life span of roughly a year. The individual you call Al is dead now, four dragon moons ago. About twenty days after your first conversation."

Al... the white rat who thought I was Al answers that fluently.

"So... then you're saying that the white rat we were talking about later was you all along?

"Deny. The individual also died earlier. This is the first time the eagle talks to you."

And to the words I returned, I was shocked.

I can't tell anything at all about how it looks, how it sounds, how it talks.

... No, not exactly, the way you talk. The first white mouse, Al, had a stranger intonation of words. But I thought it was due to proficiency.

"Are you going to kill the eagles?

With this, Leo will be able to establish himself as the fourth faction in the current three-ways succession war.

To Al's words, I nod. I, the boulder, am not so popular as to be forgiven for being so far. Most importantly, I don't feel like I can tell with them at all.

"That's troubling"

White rats uttered exactly the same words as Al once did.

"I have a deal."

But what followed was a little more than Al.

"The eagles have food savings. Suggest an exchange with it"

"Savings is what you originally took from us."

"Right."

I thought, I sigh at the rat who nods without evil.

Again, you can't miss it. They have to be wiped out here.

"This is saving."

But a herd of rats carried it, and I opened my eyes.

"Dad!"

"Father!"

Amata and Yuki rush over with a screaming voice.

He was chewed up a thousand times all over his body, and he looked crippled. That is...... their father. It was amaga.

"There's still a lot more left. Do you agree with the proposal?

To the words of the white mouse, I bit my teeth. The ice room is too small.

There was no way everyone could get away with how many ice walls they erected and expanded.

Sick, child, old man. I wonder how many people have been late in the escape.

You can't blame Nina and Amata for evacuating so many people before the rats hit like Yunxia.

"It's okay. I still have breath."

Nina, who looked at Mr. Amaga, whispered to me.

"... ok. Don't hurt any more of the villagers. Free all the people in your hands."

"I haven't offered you a request yet"

White rats answer me that way when I make a tough decision.

"…… What? I told you I'd miss it.

"Affirms. But - the bargaining materials have increased."

By the time I realized Ha, it was too late.

The rats are surrounding us and entering the ice chamber.

Did you move to that gap distracted by Mr. Amaga's appearance?

"Go back to what people are like."

In this state, the rats cannot be defeated at once. The villagers get involved too.

If the dominance breaks down as long as the white rats are eliminated, the story is quick, but Al said he doesn't dominate the rats just because he can talk. Maybe that's true.

For example, killing a white mouse simply leaves no room for negotiation and the damage increases.

As I was told, I turned into a human being.

"So, what is the demand? Providing food as before?

"There is also that. demand not only the elimination of the possibility of exterminating us"

"The possibility of exterminating it?

"Of the mighty that can be enemies, it's murder."

Oh, you mean that. I suddenly wanted to laugh.

In other words, these rats are trying to make humans their livestock.

"You mean die on me?

"Deny"

Then I will be out of the way. When asked with that in mind, the white rat unexpectedly replied so.

"You recognize that you are useful in providing efficient food. He's a strong man, but we can't eliminate him."

- No way.

"Eradication of the individual known as the sword ministry. That's what we're asking."

"Don't be ridiculous!

I had a bad feeling, and when I realized it, I was screaming.

"There's no way you can accept that demand!

"Then kill the stockpiled food"

On the other hand, the white rat does not panic, and tells him so lightly.

"Brother."

Yuki called out to me gently, as she labored, losing her words.

"Kenbe is here to protect the village. I regret I couldn't protect you... but I won't spare your life."

"Yuki, but"

"…… I agree."

With a strange face, Amata continues to do so.

"If it's all three and the villagers, I don't even have to think about it. … Please, come back later"

Folding her big body in two, Amata lowered it deep to me.

Did you take that as consent, or the swarm of rats purposefully snarls around them?

Starting with those who seem small and weak, are you going to say that the black lump thrived as if it were a tsunami, and it hit Yuki.

"If this is the case...... I wish I had been sweeter without some weird hesitation"

Yuki's crying expression is covered in a swarm of rats.

The moment I heard that word, I was rushing out.

But her figure is too far away and my legs are too slow.

Just a few meters away was a desperate distance.

Every single mouse that opens its mouth and protrudes its fangs, even those drops of nebulous saliva splashing as it pulls the yarn, look clear.

The world moves slowly as if time had stopped...

I can't make it.

It won't arrive.

Anyone can.

I need your help.

"I'm..."

When I hoped so, it was too naturally poking my mouth out.

A chopped spell that even spares a sound of time: 'Me'.

And more than that, the reliable sound in my ear makes me mouth it.

"Sick!

Moments.

My body left the sound behind.

The scenery becomes a running stream of glowing lines, with skin twisted and drawn to the walls of gravity and air that can be tapped. Back to back with the view passing at a fierce speed, the fingertips of the stretching arms are heavy and dull as if in water, and I can still desperately put my strength into it.

Just her, definitely, something to get away with!

The next moment everything went back to normal and the bursting sound rang.

The world was moving slowly, flowing as fast as usual, and the black rats collapsed in pieces, and my body rolled unnecessarily to the ground and...

And the little girl stared at me as she lowered herself in her arms.

"Good...... no injuries? Yuki."

"Ugh, yeah………………"

As soon as she nodded in confusion, intense pain hit her. If you look, my right leg is broken from the middle.

This is what happens if you use reinforced magic to do everything you can.

My fortified magic, perhaps, exerts its power in the figure of a dragon. That's what I imagine, because it's the strongest state. Therefore, it makes no sense to use it in a dragon state.

There will be five or six tons of dragon bodies, even if they are estimated to be small. That power affects the human body around sixty kilometers. It was like loading a rocket engine on a bike, and that was decided to happen.

"Don't accept demands, do you mean?

"... sorry."

I apologized. That's not for rats. An apology to the villagers.

"I think this girl is more important than I thought."

I did something stupid, I think. My legs are broken and I can't resist Locke.

Most of the people in the village will be killed. No, depending on the number of people I'm dealing with, I might not be safe either.

But still, I didn't feel like pulling out of my arms embracing Yuki.

"If that's what the teacher says, I can't help it."

The look on Amata's face with her sword was clear, though.

"Until we run out of this, let's fight. … I prefer you."

He's not the only one. The villagers in the ice-room also stare at the rats by putting up something that is likely to be a weapon in their thoughts. The voices of dissatisfaction and criticism were not raised as one.

"Ha ha ha!

It was then.

The out-of-place laughter echoed loudly.

"There's a pity you're struggling with little creatures, lizard!

Husky voices, insolent things to say, and high tension when done.

There's only one guy I know who talks like this.

"I'm here to help you, drop zero!

"…… This village is over."

Nina raised her desperate voice, covering her face to the appearance of herd blue, an elf who proclaims herself exalted.

"Crowd blue, why…………?

"Why? Hun."

Why are you in this village? Why did you rush at this time? Why does it look so great? In response to my question, which conceived various questions, the herd blue answered in the same tone.

"... why?

No, I couldn't answer.

"What...? What the hell's the meaning of this?

For the first time, a white rat seeps emotions into his voice.

That's confusing. It's confusion about things I don't understand from the bottom of my heart.

For them, who are chunks of rationality, I guess the herd blue living with nothing but reason and momentum is totally difficult to understand.

Because even to me, I have no idea what she wants to do.

He came to help me... I know. Maybe.

But with one of her additions, it seemed like the situation couldn't be helped.

"Nina, is the herd blue strong?

Asking Nina just in case, she looks up to the sky and answers.

"…… incompetent."