The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

The miasma exhaled by the evil dragon enveloped the area around the mansion.

Seeing this scene, Usato shouted to Nair to run away and jumped into the noxious air.

Usato has healing magic, so he'll be fine, he's strong. As he watches the situation, a black figure leaps out from above the mansion, which is enveloped in the noxious air.

It's Nair.

She had inhaled a small amount of the evil dragon's miasma, and was looking into the miasma with a puzzled expression on her face, coughing and shedding tears.

"How absurd ...... to drag me into this ......."

...... don't have time for that woman right now.

I'm going to turn my attention to the miasma. I wonder what is happening to him now that he has entered a space so poisonous that no normal person can stand it.

Then, the upper part of the noxious air shakes slightly, and something pops out.

Out came the huge arm of the evil dragon. But when he saw what was in its hand, he felt a chill that froze the blood in his body.

"Usato!

Usato was grabbed by the evil dragon.

I was upset to see him unable to move, but in the next moment, that upset turned into fear.

The evil dragon swung him up as if he were a pebble and slammed him into the Western-style house.

"......A"

He was thrown onto the roof of the Western-style building with an extraordinary force, and he went through the roof, the third floor, and the second floor, and hit the ground with a huge impact on the first floor and an earth tremor that echoed all the way down to here.

There is no way a human being could have withstood that.

A human being would have been torn to pieces if he had been hit by such a thing.

Usato is dead?　---He falls to his knees, unable to accept the reality before him.

"No, I didn't see this. ...... Usato couldn't have been hit in a place like this. ......"

I did not foresee his death.

I have not yet encountered the scene I predicted.

As if to myself, I spin my words and try to move toward the Western-style house where he might have fallen.

But Bulrin, who was watching the situation with me, stops me.

"Bulrin ......?"

"Guh!"

The emotion I felt from the man in front of me was neither anger nor sadness, but something akin to trust.

"Don't you worry?"

Bullin nodded his head in agreement and turned toward the Western-style house where Usato had been dropped. He nodded his head in agreement and turned toward the Western-style house where Usato had been dropped.

I have only heard stories about how Usato and Bulrin met. It was said that he and Usato fought a snake demon that killed Bulrin's parents in a place called Ringle's Darkness, and in the end it was Usato's master who put the final blow to the snake, but it was still a spectacular encounter.

Perhaps it is because they have been through the ordeal together that Bulrin understands this.

Usato is not the kind of person who will be killed so easily.

"That's right. I shouldn't be upset. Usato will be fine, he won't be beaten up like that."

I've only known him for a short time, but I've seen him do amazing things. He may have moved in ways that were very un-human, he may have had sudden personality changes, he may have done mean things, and he may have been a bit of a jerk, but he never once betrayed me.

It's the same now.

I have to trust him.

I have to trust him to do what I have to do.

"Thank you. "Thank you, Bullein, that calmed me down."

If we go near the mansion where the miasma is spreading now, we will be poisoned.

Even if Usato is safe, we will disturb him. Therefore, I will stay here to protect Mr. Aruk with Bulrin while foreseeing the movements of the evil dragon.

Trusting that he will be safe, I stand back and look at the evil dragon surrounded by the miasma from the Western-style house. Near the miasma, a bewildered Nair is staring at the spot where Usato was knocked down.

"V......v,gah,gah,gahi."

At the same time as the deafening voice is heard, the miasma is blown away and an evil dragon appears. On its back, only one of its wings is spread wide, indicating that it has blown away the surrounding miasma.

The dragon looks at the Western-style house where he had hit Usato, clears his throat happily, and raises his arms in the air.

After such an attack, he still wants to attack Usato ......!　Any more and his survival would be doomed.

"Stop it!

I almost shouted to stop him, but Nair, who was flying in the sky, stopped the evil dragon before I could.

At the sound of her voice, the dragon froze as if it were in bondage.

"You are forbidden to attack any further without my permission."

"V......vvv."

"You've done it with such flair. I'm a mess. I think I'll sleep in the village today. Hmmm...first we have to treat Usato...?　Shall we bite him first? ......"

She looks thoughtful as she points her magic-filled hand at the motionless evil dragon.

She turned her head toward the evil dragon again, tilting her head quizzically and shining more suspiciously with the magic power in her hand.

"......It's true that they are different from ordinary zombies, but that's all. As long as you're under my control, you're just my puppet. Once I release your powers, you'll be nothing more than a corpse."

The body of the evil dragon convulses. Then purple magic power, the same as Nair's magic power, flows from the Evil Dragon's body back to him.

It is as if the fetters holding the dragon's body together are disappearing. Necromancers manipulate corpses by putting magic into their containers.

If we follow this principle, can we assume that Nair is now returning his own magical power that he injected into the evil dragon to himself?

In about ten seconds or so, the evil dragon's body is drained of its magic power, and its twitching body movements are completely silenced. Nair, who saw the evil dragon returned to a mere corpse, exhaled loudly after looking at it for a while.

"Huh---. What the.... It's just a corpse after all. What's with the evil dragon, Usato? You've got me all worked up. Now let's go get him!

She turns her back to the evil dragon and I look at her and look at Bulrin.

Without the evil dragon, all that's left is Nair and the zombies, and that's enough for me and Bulrin to take down. From the looks of it, it would take a lot of magic for her to turn the evil dragon into a zombie again, and there is no way I can beat her up in the meantime.

...... I can't help but feel that I'm thinking a bit like Usato, but I think this is the best solution for the situation we're in.

I go to the Western-style house without her noticing.

But while I'm doing so, the evil dragon's one-eyed eye behind Nair comes into view.

"......!"

Jet-black eyes reflecting the moonlight.

As soon as he saw the eyes gleam, the arm of the evil dragon suddenly lifted up and grabbed Nair, who had turned away from him.

"---!　Why?

"The fetters are gone. The magic is out of the way. The hero was killed!"

He spoke ......!

More importantly, Nair should have de-zombified the evil dragon. How can the dragon still be moving?

"Thank you for the spirit of death. If you don't revive him, he'll be rotting for another 300 years.

"Resurrect me! ...... You were a corpse!　A dead body has no soul!　You don't have a soul ......!

"I don't know. It doesn't matter. I'm here, and that's all that matters.

Holding Nair in his hands, the evil dragon stood his large body upright and looked around in a certain direction. Nair, who was in the Evil Dragon's hand, also saw something in the direction the Evil Dragon was looking, and her face turned pale.

There is a village in the direction the dragon is looking.

It is the place where Neah used to spend her days as a village girl.

"If I am revived in this world, there is one thing I will do. Destroy them and kill them all equally."

"Stop ......!!!"

Why?

"Oh, that place is mine, please don't do anything."

Nair said this to the evil dragon, who tilted his head.

"You think humans are food for you?　Your father and I are aware of your village. A place where scum waste their lives like cattle, waiting for their turn to be eaten."

"......, yes. That village is mine. It's my pantry, so I don't want you to touch it.

Nair looked as if she was biting a bitter bug when the evil dragon told her so.

However, Evil Dragon laughed snidely at her words, and put strength into his hand that was holding hers.

"Ugh,gu......"

"I don't care, Koros, you'll destroy my village, my country, my continent, everything!"

"Don't ...... touch me. I'm the one who brought him back from the dead, remember?"

"V, gah, gah, gah, gah, ...... know. You're a bat.

The evil dragon laughed unpleasantly and threw Nair down to the third floor of the Western-style stairwell as if he were throwing away trash. The evil dragon grabbed her and, unable to move, slammed her to the floor of the third floor, and she disappeared from sight.

I don't know, nor do I want to know, what she was feeling when she defended the village.

I don't need to worry about her, since she is the root cause, but now that Nair, the only means to stop the evil dragon, has been killed, the situation is hopeless.

What should we do?

I see nothing but the end result of being killed by the evil dragon, even if I try to predict how to face it.

When the evil dragon looks at us, it looks at us with black eyes, and our bodies become motionless as if we were in bondage.

The moment the word "killed" crossed my mind --- the wall of the first floor of the Western-style house where Nair was hit just now blows out from the inside, and something comes flying out.

The something raised a spear with a blade attached to it and slammed it down on the evil dragon's lower jaw.

"!!?"

Payback for what you just did to me!

The dragon tilts sideways.

A white trouser suit that is swept away by the wind.

In his hand is a spear with an axe-like blade.

He lifts the long spear lightly and turns around as he lands on the ground.

"Are you all right?

I am happy that he came.

But when I saw his face, I let out a word other than joy.

"Oh my God!

His face was covered with blood and his eyes had turned into a horrifyingly swarthy look.

I was so scared.

The evil dragon slammed me into the pavilion, and I managed to stay conscious despite the tremendous impact. Looking down, I saw my body buried in the rubble, and looking up, I saw a pavilion that had been blown sky-high.

I had been hit by a magnificent blow. My body hurts all over, and I can't move at all.

I move the debris out of the way while continuing to cast healing magic, and as I stand up, I feel a pain in my right shoulder, which has not come up since a few minutes ago.　

"Ouch!"

I must have dislocated my shoulder from the impact of the fall earlier.

I've experienced dislocations several times in training with Rose, but this one hurts the most. It doesn't heal by itself even if I use healing magic.

I put my left hand on my right shoulder and grit my teeth to endure the pain.

I put all my strength into my left arm, and as soon as the bone is re-fitted, I immediately use healing magic to heal the injured shoulder and its surrounding area.

"Ggghh......"

While turning his arm around, he checks for any other major injuries besides the shoulder.

There are no other significant injuries. He has a small cut on his head that is bleeding, but nothing serious.

Having experienced the same kind of force in my training with Rose, the blow I just received is still in the range of being okay.

...... is not funny. It's not funny at all.

"My body is fine, but I don't know if I can ...... take him down."

Poison is nasty, but he's smart too.

I have learned the hard way that there is little chance of winning by a straightforward attack when my attacks don't work. I wish I had a weakness or something. .......

Suddenly I remember the notebook I took out of Nair's study.

I heard that the previous heroes defeated him by jumping into his mouth and piercing his heart with a blade from inside. In other words, the attack from inside should be effective.

But the evil dragon is a zombie. Their internal organs can't be moving."

And it's a corpse that's been sitting there for hundreds of years. Their internal organs may have gone beyond rotting to crumbling.

---No,

"Wait a minute. Then why did I hit him when I ......"

...... need to check it again.

Perhaps we can slay the evil dragon in the same way as the last hero.

If that's the case, let's go outside right away.

As I move the debris from my feet and head for the exit leading outside, my armor, which was barely holding its shape, collapses beside me, and the long spear in my hand falls to the ground with a high-pitched clang.

"...... this."

The halberd is more than two meters long. It must have been used by a very large man, and when you hold it, you can see that it is quite heavy, as if it has an iron core inside.

I guess you have to be prepared for such a thing against a ...... monster.

Fortunately, it's just the right weight for me to wield...?

What the hell?

As I pick up the halberd, I hear a sound like something falling above the building.

Thinking "No way," I entered a nearby room and looked out the window to see an evil dragon right under my nose. Moreover, Amako and the others are right in front of his eyes.

"This is no time to be leisurely. ......!"

That son of a b*tc*, now he's going to try to touch one of mine. ......!

He steps away from the window and clutches the halberd on his shoulder with both hands.　

I can't afford to go through the doorway. I'm going to destroy it!　

He swings the halberd sideways with all his might. Glass and walls shatter with a loud shattering sound, and I leap out of the way without looking at them, readying my weapon again and leaping at once toward the evil dragon.

"Payback for what I just did!

And then, I slam the halberd into the side-facing Evil Dragon's lower jaw with a full swing. Perhaps the unexpected blow had an effect, for several sharp teeth shatter from the Evil Dragon's lower jaw, and it falls to the ground.

"Are you okay?

I call out to Amako and the others to make sure they are safe, but for some reason she turns pale when she sees my face.

"Oh my God!

I don't think that's a good reaction to see a person's face.

I was a bit irrational about her reaction, but I immediately turned to the evil dragon and tried to attack it.

He had already gotten up and was staring at me with eyes full of hatred, spewing miasma from his mouth.

"Are you still alive, you brave warrior?

"Ha!　You've become so talkative!　You little lizard!

He dodges the angry claws and slams the halberd held in both hands into the dragon's side. However, it is also bounced off just like a fist, and has no effect.

I guess even a blade won't work, how hard is this thing?

"With this!

Switching his weapon to his left hand, he throws a series of healing magic bullets generated in his right palm at the Evil Dragon's eyes, destroying its vision. With a small burst of sound, the Evil Dragon, whose vision has been destroyed, cries out in confusion and swings his arms around wildly.

However, I, who was immediately behind him diagonally, was not hit.

"Hey!"

I kick the evil dragon in the back leg, knocking it off balance and making it fall down.

With a thud, the ground shakes, and the huge body of the evil dragon falls down. At that moment, I saw that the Evil Dragon's chest was exposed in an unprotected state, and I thrust my halberd into the ground and close in on the Evil Dragon with no hands on the ground.

"If I'm right ------!!!"

Unlike the first time when I had struck with my fist, I strike the bottom of my palm into the Evil Dragon's chest.

It doesn't have much effect because I don't put that much power into it, but... the sure heartbeat I feel in my palm makes me change my suspicion into confidence.

After all, his heart is beating.

I don't know how, but what I do know for sure is that this thing has a definite weakness. Then we can defeat him by entering his body and destroying his heart in the same way as the previous heroes did.

Then let's get on with it. ......

The moment he tries to move to the mouth to avoid the limbs of the evil dragon struggling to get up, he loses strength in his legs and his body loses its balance with a jerk.

I guess I still haven't completely healed ............!!!

I've used too much healing magic and physical strength up to this point, or perhaps the effectiveness of the healing magic and my judgment have become too dull!

"You!　I'm just like him!

......

And now he knows our plan. It's a tactic he used to beat himself. He must have realized what I was trying to do at first glance. It's just a pain in the ass to be so simple-minded and clever. ......!

I clucked my tongue at the evil dragon, which began to emit even higher concentrations of miasma from its mouth, probably to prevent it from entering my body, and retrieved the halberd I had stuck nearby and moved away from the evil dragon, down to where Amako and the others were.

"Are you all right?　Usato!

Amako runs up to him.

He kneels down and replies to her words while reapplying healing magic to his body.

"......I'm not too okay, to be honest. ......"

Maybe the poison and the earlier injuries have affected me more than I thought. I still have some time to spare, but my speed of recovery is definitely slowing down. The evidence of this is that my leg, which I thought was completely healed, has developed an abnormality.

This makes it impossible for me to enter the body, which is filled with the highest concentration of the noxious gas. Perhaps my healing magic will run out before then and I will die.

"What about ...... Nair?"

"She was hit by an evil dragon and went to the pavilion. ...... I don't think he was able to stop it."

"Oh, yeah. ......"

She didn't make it either.

In the meantime, I'll just tell Amako and Bulrin quickly about the dragon's weakness. I'll have to figure out my next move before he's alerted to my presence.

She frowns when I tell her that the Evil Dragon's weak point is the heart, even though it is a rough description.

"I know the heart is the weak point. But how do we attack it ......?"

"That's the problem. Look at him, he's ...... being cautious because he knows I'm going for the heart. On the other hand, it's probably the most important part, but I can't go in through the mouth, which is the only way to get in, because he's too careful."

The truth is, it should have been decided a while ago,...... I really hate my lack of precision.

...... can't help but feel sorry for myself. I'm going to attack his heart somehow.

"I'm going to shove it in his mouth with a poisoned mind, one way or the other. ......"

"Even though you're exhausted enough to let me know ....... Don't take a method that you don't know will save you. ......"

"But I can only go over the poison ...... no, I'm sorry."

Amako looks at me sadly and changes her mind.

We must not take the easy path of self-sacrifice. For her sake and for mine, I must live to continue my journey again.

Besides, I don't know what Rose will do to me if she finds out that I'm about to give up my life. Even if I go to the other world, she is going to beat me up.

We should try to find another way, since they are going to make a move soon, and we should try to find a way to fight and make our way as always...,

"Usato, Tono ......"

"!"

Suddenly, I heard a voice behind me.

I turned around to see Mr. Aruk getting up with Bulrin as his support.

Perhaps he had been freed from his brainwashing, but there was a definite light in his eyes.

"You're awake!　Mr. Aruk!

"Yes. ...... I know what's going on. I was vaguely conscious while I was being manipulated. ....... I also understood the seriousness of the situation when I heard what you just said.

He then took off his armour and stood up, looking at me with eyes that showed a strong will.

I have an idea.