Volume 3, Chapter 38 – The Coincidence of Contradiction

“What… happened?”

Yisi’s blue eyes were filled with astonishment. From the current situation, it seemed that Tiffany had controlled the slimes to help in the fight, but the problem was that Tiffany had no skills to control slimes. Furthermore, given the current number—about thirty slimes—Tiffany’s mental strength would never be able to control so many at once.

To avoid disturbing Tiffany, Yisi secretly walked over to Camilla and Mary, who were sitting in the snow, breathing heavily, while watching Tiffany, who was commanding the slimes like a general.

“Miss Camilla! Master is back!”

“Onee-sama—”

“Shh.”

Yisi made a silencing gesture, then squatted down to be at eye level with Camilla.

“Camilla, what happened to Tiffany? Why is she controlling the slimes?”

“After you left, the defensive line formed by the soldiers quickly began to crumble because there were too many monsters. Even when the Flame Conquerors and we joined the fight, we couldn’t turn the tide. But just when we thought we couldn’t hold on, Tiffany suddenly summoned a bunch of slimes from a snowdrift, and then it became like this.”

“From a snowdrift…”

They must have been slimes that were originally hiding in the snowdrifts, but that still didn’t explain why Tiffany could control them.

She’d only know the answer if she asked Tiffany herself.

At the same time, Yisi had something else on her mind.

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For some reason, Suta, the leader of the soldiers, now had a dark and uncertain expression. The look in his eyes when he saw Tiffany was more of shock and suspicion than gratitude, as if he was trying to figure something out, or perhaps was utterly terrified.

Did he want to take advantage of Tiffany because she could control slimes?

She couldn’t rule out that possibility. She’d have to keep a close eye on Tiffany from now on.

Due to the continuous flow of slimes from the snowdrifts, the slime army commanded by Tiffany quickly overwhelmed the monster horde. By the time the battle ended, the thirty-plus slimes had grown to over fifty, and the monsters were either swallowed and dissolved by the slimes or thrown off the cliff.

“Get up! Hurry and get out of here!”

Taking advantage of the brief lull, the general named Suta waved his arms and shouted. The soldiers, including the Flame Conquerors, struggled to get up from the snow. Everyone’s magical energy was nearly depleted, and many of the wounded found it difficult to even stand, requiring others to help them.

“Lord Suta, our leader hasn’t come back yet!”

A Flame Conquerors adventurer called out.

Suta frowned with a grim expression.

“I’m afraid he won’t be coming back. You should know what the Nightmare Winged Fish means. Staying here is just waiting for death. Those who don’t want to leave can stay behind.”

“But…”

“Hey, look over there, what is that!”

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A Blue Sea adventurer pointed to a distant mountaintop and shouted. Like an avalanche, and accompanied by a faint rumbling sound, a gray mass visible to the naked eye was rushing down the mountain. The sound of chattering teeth could be heard among the crowd.

It was a new horde of monsters.

“Damn it, there’s more!”

“Wait, it’s the leader and his people! The leader is back too!”

“I’ll go meet the leader!”

With great effort, a few of the Flame Conquerors adventurers tried to go and meet Clementine. If they went, they would only cause more trouble for Clementine. Yisi stopped them in time.

“Let me go. You and the soldiers of this territory head down the mountain first. Camilla and Mary, you too, take Tiffany and go back.”

Saying this, Yisi quietly patted Camilla’s shoulder and whispered in a tone that others couldn’t hear.

“Be sure to protect Tiffany.”

“Yes, Onee-sama.”

“…Although I’m embarrassed to ask, Miss Yisi, I’ll leave the leader to you.”

“Trust me.”

Waving goodbye to the Flame Conquerors and Camilla as they descended the mountain, Yisi reopened her Omniscient Map. Clementine and his group were running out of stamina. From a distance, it looked like they were struggling just to walk. If left alone, they would be swallowed by the monsters in less than fifteen minutes, and at the same time, the monsters would continue to chase after Camilla and the others who were running down the mountain.

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“Carrying Clementine and the others by flying… it’s not impossible, but it doesn’t fit my level 10 persona. It’s better to just intercept the monsters that are chasing them.”

As long as she took out the monsters that were the source of the danger, Clementine would be able to get off the snowy mountain, even if he had to walk on his hands.

Thinking this, Yisi used [Short-Range Teleport] to appear in front of the vast wave of monsters.

Unlike the previous group, which had an average level of less than 7, these monsters, who lived deep in the snowy mountain, had a maximum level of 15 and a minimum of 8.

“This is endless…”

Sighing, Yisi opened her arms, ready to use her magic on the monsters that were rushing down. However, before she could, a chilling sensation suddenly surged through her mind. Almost instinctively, Yisi turned around.

—A red beam of light shot straight at her from the top of the Tower of Hermion.

[Absolute Defense]

Gaining 0.3 seconds, Yisi retreated and simultaneously cast three layers of defensive spells.

Boom!!!

The red light beam landed in the blink of an eye, followed by a cloud of dust that obscured her vision.

After a full ten minutes of this catastrophic scene, the smoke-filled mountaintop finally revealed the aftermath of the disaster.

As if a giant had smashed into the ground, the area covered by the red beam, including the snow, was a depression at least ten meters deep. The monsters on it were instantly vaporized, not even leaving behind a single hide or bone.

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The entire mountaintop was forcefully leveled, with the white snow replaced by black mud. The ground sizzled as if charcoal had been dropped into water, and waves of heat drifted through the valley, triggering a chain reaction of avalanches.

In the midst of the deeply concave terrain, the only thing standing was a stone pillar about ten meters high where Yisi had been standing. Thanks to her timely defensive spells, the area one meter around Yisi was unharmed.

It must have been at the level of an eighth-tier spell, right?

Yisi roughly estimated the power. The outermost of the three defensive spells she cast was the tenth-tier spell [Holy Barrier], which was still standing intact in front of her. In other words, the power of that attack had not reached the tenth-tier.

If Samael’s ultimate magic [Forbidden Moon] was equivalent to a fifth-tier spell, and [Empire’s Blessing] was equivalent to a fourth-tier spell, then considering the terrain damage and the extremely long attack range, the attack from the Tower of Hermion was probably somewhere between a seventh and eighth-tier spell. It was even less powerful than her own shouted [Explosion] spell.

“I’m safe for now… I remember the person controlling the Tower of Hermion is the Fallen Angel Ariel. Was that attack meant to clear out the monsters? But why?”

Yisi simply used [Advanced Teleportation] to enter the top floor of the Tower of Hermion. She felt a kind of repulsion, but it wasn’t impossible to enter. The Tower of Alexia probably had a barrier that prevented others from entering. Yisi didn’t pay it much mind.

The windy top floor of the Tower of Hermion was completely empty except for a giant floating crystal ball.

“Did he run away?”

The Omniscient Map showed that Ariel was now at the Hermion Count’s mansion.

“Never mind. I should go to Tiffany first.”

The look in Suta’s eyes before he left made Yisi feel uneasy. Without further delay, Yisi left the Tower of Hermion.