Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

Year 7444, Month 5, Day 28

"It will take time, around how much?"

If it's just several tens of seconds then I can probably earn it. If it's at that speed (the speed an adult and walk quickly) then if we just do a lap around the doughnut depending on the course we might be able to earn three or four minutes.

"Probably over 10 minutes.."

So it's no good.

Then how about this?

"Let's pull it closer and then throw the rocks with {Light} cast on them at it without letting them touch my {Anti-Magic Field}."

"Eh? I understand."

I'm sure she has some doubts about it but it's good she obeys right away.

Miduchi quickly picked up a random rock and used the spell {Light} on it. Simultaneously I threw the second {Long Duration Rock} I had into the center of the passage in order to secure light.

I guess because I had been standing still, the eyeball bastard had already approached to within 10m.

The rock with {Light} cast on it hit him right in the center of his muddy white eyeball with a thud. There was no change to the rock. It's HP didn't decrease and there's no change to the number of uses on Magic Reflection either. I guess it doesn't reflect low-threat magic?

We raised our speed again a bit and increased the distance. Something we can throw..20 throwing needles and a knife with a chipped blade. Miduchi has a total of 9 knives. 4 throwing darts. Blowgun. We don't have anything decent..If Bel was here we could have her shoot consecutive arrows from behind the anti-magic defense wall though...

Even if we try using the blowgun with wind magic instead of blowing into it according to Miduchi due to problems with the durability of it, the power can't be increased very much. Maybe I'll challenging the production of metal air gun when we get back. In the past I made several varieties but according to the stories I heard about crossbows it's power was below that. Due to problems with the shape of the ammunition there was too much air resistance. It ended up being single shot but I went through quite a bit of trial and error to prepare my bayonet.

I made an iron pipe and then put an exclusive arrow in from the back. Then put some cotton in the middle or back of the arrow and use your fingers to seal the remaining side and use wind magic from that finger. It will only fly about 40 meters or so and there's a limit to how much power it could have. Though because the arrow will have cotton on it, it will quickly decelerate. Even if you raise the level of wind magic your hand will come out of the pipe this time and it's pretty much the same in the end, since you can't aim there's no meaning to it. Integrally speaking it's a bit better than just blowing a blowgun with your breath but in the end I gave up on it.

In any case no matter what we throw that we have onus right now it can't do any damage to that eyeball bastard. If we were to throw ours swords and it hit right then it might be different but if throw it once it's over after all.

"It's fine already, next is..I'll get even closer to the inner wall. You hide behind {Anti-Magic Field} while making dirt walls in an appropriate location on the other side of him from the pillar. The height will be where I can hide from them and a width of 1.5m should be plenty... now, go!"

"Yes!"

After confirming that Miduchi had run off I glared at the eyeball bastard again. He's still looking atrocious as usual. I'm sure if I were to release {Anti-Magic Field} here even once I'd die an in instant. I really want to make fighting in close combat while holding my long sword and using {Anti-Magic Field} at the same time my last resort. After all his Magic Reflection takes effect around 50-60 cm from his body. Since I don't know what will happen if {Anti-Magic Field} touches it, I don't have any method of attacking while maintaining that much distance. I'm sure if I were to jump over the {Anti-Magic Field} even if I stab it, if a beam hits my hand I'd probably die. I raise my speed of moving backwards against thinking I should increase the distance to 30 m or so.

"I did it!"

I heard Miduchi's voice that she's finished the work.

"Alright, standby just like that. I'm going to move into the inner walls so you follow along it as well!"

I threw down the third {Long Duration Light}. Suddenly I looked the left where the pillar is acting as the core of the doughnut and I can see a passage just like here. The passage bends directly to the right and obviously I can't confirm the teleport crystal.

"I'm 5m behind you. I made the wall about 2m to my right."

Miduchi called out to me.

"Alright, pull back at the same speed as me. Just before you can't see me anymore stop. Once I'm hidden behind the wall count to 20 seconds and let me know."

"Yes."

A wall appeared in my field of sight. The eyeball bastard is about 30m ahead.

I quickly hid behind the wall and released {Anti-Magic Field} before using a new magic.

It's a spell I just had Karl teach me at the start of this month. I've still only practiced it using the standard amount of mana but it should be plenty.

"{Delayed Blast Fire Ball}"

Of course it's also possible to use this like a normal {Fire Ball} but it's true worth is that there's no need to fire off the warhead. Or to be more correct you send it flying but since you're just moving it about 1 cm it's not much different from not moving it. You can set the time on the delay before it explodes, and quite literally like a landmine, it's possible to match the timing up for when it explodes. This time I'm setting the time. After all I can't let go of {Anti-Magic Field}. I was able to create 10 of them in the 20 seconds before Miduchi gave me the signal. I set the timer on all of them to 5 seconds later and then used {Anti-Magic Field} once more before quickly retreating along the inner area of the doughnut.

It seems the eyeball bastard lost sight of me since I was hiding behind the wall but must have guessed I was behind the wall. Without floating around in that spot it kept moving without slowing down over here. It's already in a place about 5m away. 4 more seconds.

It seems to have sent off a beam of light towards me after I appeared from behind the wall and some lightning ran along the surface of my {Anti-Magic Field}. Oh~ I forgot to Identify. It's MP is 51 huh? Alright! Another 3 seconds.

With {Anti-Magic Field} still deployed I quickly retreat. There's only about 2 m between the dirt wall and the inner wall of the doughnut. The only way for it to chase after me is to follow along the outer side of the wall. Of course it could fly over it as well. If it uses Magic Reflection to reflect the wall then that would be even better. Another 2 seconds.

There's also 10m of distance opened between it and myself. Miduchi has grouped back up with me as well. Another 1 second.

Come!

I saw it fly over the dirt wall. The moment before it landed all of my {Delayed Blast Fire Ball}s exploded at once. Along with a loud noise the burning rocks were sent flying all over the place including my direction but were blocked by the {Anti-Magic Field} and disappeared long with the lightning.