Saikyou Juzoku Tensei ~Cheat Majutsushi no Slow Life~

Chapter 190 - Episode Sixteen - Live Fogg (6)

Finally, they were able to come to the point where the Levi Churchers had found the Live Fogg when they moved to the Pargas Village.

There was a three-pronged spear symbol carved into the tree.

According to Augen, this is a sacred mark in Levi Church, indicating Levi’s spear.

“Levi was once proclaimed to be the strongest of the four great gods of creation, thanks to the power of his spear that pierced even Kudor. When Levi appeared in the dreams of the High Priests, he was also holding that sacred spear in his hand. The god-like shape of the spear is solemnly claimed by Nelgliffe-sama that he remembers it every time he closes his eyes.”

“Heeeeh…… that’s amazing.”

The spear comes to his head more rather than his God……

Well, I don’t know how the Levi followers take it in that area, and I don’t need to ask them carelessly.

You could step through a land mine.

That’s how important the spear is to the Levi Church.

…… Just as the myth goes, Levi, who had the strongest spear of the four most powerful creator gods drilled into Kudor, was swallowed up by Kudor right afterward. ……Well, I dare not go into it!.

“Okay, this is where it gets really tough. We can’t let another Ogre-sheep swarm come through here.”

Kamla’s body trembles.

It looks like he had it in a bad way before.

I decide to get off the Ortem, thinking that I won’t need a mobile Ortem for a while.

I waved my staff and chanted the teleportation magic “Transport” and summoned the Ortem into my hand. [Note: I decided to change the chant carry to transport because it’s more fitting for the spell chant of teleportation magic.]

Alright, now all that’s left to do is to let this Ortem follow a trail that seems to belong to Live Fogg.

“Oh, that …… that wooden puppet, where did you get it from ……?”

Sophia asks me with a drawn-out face.

Earlier, she seemed to be dazed from walking tired and dazed, but after resting for a bit and slowly drinking water, she seemed to feel much better.

“Oh, these are the ones I left in the Pargas village.”

“…… It’s quite a distance away from the village of Pargas, but is that wooden puppet …… a magic tool with quite high magic conduction?”

“No, it’s just a guy made from those trees. The trees in the Fage territory have decently higher than average magic power. The trees in my hometown had higher properties such as possessing magic power and magic conduction, though.”

What is it? What do you want to talk about?

Kamla, who was watching from the side, was also suspicious of Sophia’s condition and called out to her.

“What’s wrong with you, Sophia. Do you know anything about that wooden puppet?”

“No, teleportation magic’s magic power increases as the distance between them increases…… so at a distance of this magnitude, unless you have a tool that is a good conductor of magic, it wouldn’t be easy to shift…… An animal the size of a human should be able to move at least 50 meters, and an ordinary instrument shouldn’t be more than a kilometer away.”

“Well, teleportation is not very fuel-efficient. I’ve tweaked it a little bit from the basic formula to make it a little bit better, but even so, I don’t want to use it too much.”

Sophia’s face pales and she turns from me to Kamla and beckons him to join her.

“…… Um, this is out of our control ……”

She was saying something in a whisper, but I couldn’t hear her well.

Kamla tried to listen, but stopped midway through, staring at Sofia with his mouth twisted up.

…… What, what’s going on?

“Sophia, Kamla, you need to moderate your stand-up talk and be aware of your surroundings!　Because you never know when the Live Fogg will show up!”

“Oh, yeah, I guess so.”

Kamla said quickly, moving away from Sophia and slightly ahead of the path.

Sophia smiled amiably as well as deceptively, and moved away to look for Live Fogg.

“…………?”

As I was wondering what they were doing, Augen laughed and tapped me on the shoulder and called out to me.

“…… Actually, you know, those two guys are dating. They’re both popular in the Church, so don’t tell anyone.”

“What? Re-, really?”

If you ask me, I think I’ve seen a gesture like that before…… or not.

Mea who’s been listening to the exchange between me and Augen, and looked at the two of them with suspicion as they hurriedly went ahead and looked for Live Fogg.

“Well, you guys, too, get down to brass tacks and look for it. Once we find it, then we will form up and search for it. There’s a rumored formation that’s easy to get caught in Live Fogg’s teleportation point……”

Hmmm …… but that’s a way you have to keep looking for it for three days and three nights ……

I’m sorry, but I’m not very confident in the physical game.

I wave my wand and draw a magic circle as the World Tree’s Ortem follows the magic traces related to the teleportation magic.

Since I just used it, I left my magic crests out of the target so that they wouldn’t become noise.

“Puppet, Lead the way”

As I chanted, Ortem’s eyes lit up and he bounced to the ground all by himself.

Then he began to scamper around and prowl the area.

“Wha-, what?”

“It’s like a universal magic detector.”

“If I could track it down with something like this …… I’d have no trouble, but, well, try it.”

I, along with Mea and Augen, followed the Ortem’s progress.

Sophia and Kamla are also within a short distance of where I can call out to them quickly and loudly.

When the Ortem reaches the halfway point, he stays, goes around in circles, and then searches for his next destination.

This is how they are chasing after the teleportation destination.

“This is moving in a haphazard way ……”

“N-no, not at all! He’s going after it properly!”

“My, my bad …… But if you can easily pick up the magic traces of certain magical phenomena without any error at all, the magical societies of the world would be turned upside down……”

At the edge of a small cliff, Ortem stopped moving.

A river flowed gently beneath the cliff. Nearby was a modest cliff.

“Hey, we’re a little too far away from Kamla and Sophia. Let me go get those two for once.”

“Yeah, I got it…… Oh”

Along the river, there was a lone little fog.

It was a beautiful, slightly pale lapis lazuli color, and its slimy body surface reflected the light of the sun.

It was about the size of a bullfrog.

It had only three legs. One of them is squeezed like a tail, and it seems to grow out from the middle of its crotch.

So this is what the deformed fog is all about.

The three legs certainly do not remind me of the shape of Levi’s spear.

“What’s the matter, brother?”

“But first, would you mind checking that? Um, that thing by the river……”

“Hmm? Yeah, that’s the Live Fogg. Then I’ll go get those guys, just hold on.”

“I understand.”

Augen turned his back to me and took two steps before he looked back at me vigorously.

“Li-, Live Fogg!?”

“No, you said it yourself earlier……”

“Ha, we’ve got to hurry and surround it. Brother, get down gently so as not to provoke them!　I’ll go get Kamla and Sophia right away! We’re going into the formation I just described!”

“Ah, Okay……”

“What? Tha-, that …… can really follow the traces of magical phenomena cleanly!?”

“I’ve told you so many times.”

Apparently, he didn’t believe in the performance of the Ortem detector at all.

“If you have one of these, it’ll be a lot easier to search again every time! If all goes well, we could really catch them today!”

…… If it works, is it still today?

No. Wouldn’t it be easy to catch it if you lured it inside after setting up an incomplete ward and then closed them up after making sure it is inside?

After setting up a larger ward, you can re-set the wards to make them narrower and narrower.

It’s a bit of work, but this should be a sure thing in five hours.

“Augen-san, I have a plan. When two of them get here, instead of the formation you had earlier, why don’t you try to move as I say?”

“Mmm …… It’s a decades-old common sense that this is the most likely way to catch Live Fogg……”

After saying that much, Augen looks to Ortem at my feet.

“Well, that is what brother says. For once, we’ll give it a try. I’ll remind those two to follow brother’s instructions.”

Augen laughed modestly at the Live Fogg and ran towards where they were.

“It’s an odd shape…… Is that really edible?”

Mea was making binoculars with her hand and looking towards where Live Fogg was.

“I suppose it’s different from whether it’s good or not……”

“If it was Abel, you could usually get it, couldn’t you?”

“If we can catch them so easily, the Levi Church won’t be ruined by a flock of demon sheep after three days of being attacked by them. As far as I’m concerned, we’ll just have to aim for the moment right after the teleportation. And I’ve heard that there’s no case of a sleeping Live Fogg being discovered.”

“But why don’t you give it a try?”

“I’m sure they’d be pissed if I touched it carelessly and got away……”

I stretch my neck a little and bring the Live Fogg into view.

Live Fogg catches me with her glazed eyes.

Completely, the other side is aware of us.

I’ve been told by Augen to get down appropriately, but …… in no way seems to be an opponent that can be tricked so easily.

It can be seen to be reasonably intelligent.

If not, though, it wouldn’t be able to continue to play around with the Church as its opponent for three days.

“…… it is weakened, even with the wards, it will be quite difficult once the other side realizes our intentions.”

“Veoh, Veoh.”

As I was mumbling to myself, Live Fogg puffed out her cheeks and squealed as she mocked me.

I was annoyed.

What’s the point of being quiet either, if they’re aware of it anyway?

Let’s give it a little scare.

I take out the Lapides Sword from my pocket and put some magic power into the hilt.

Light gathers on the extension of the hilt, and in the blink of an eye the blade is complete.

When I let go of it from hand as a reminder, the Lapides Sword floats softly in the air.

“There, go.”

When I point my finger at Live Fogg, the blade of the Lapides Sword shines.

It spins around in place and then flies at an unnoticeable speed to the river where the Live Fogg is.

“Ve-.”

The Lapides Sword came to rest once in front of Live Fogg, then took aim and cut Live Fogg in both directions.

Live Fogg flew in two halves with its head turned upside down, and each one struck its body against a different tree, sticking to it.

Something like organs is dripping out from the body.

“Geh……”

Huh, I didn’t need a …… formation, warding, or time to hit it normally.

What was that Church doing for three days?

What, by any chance, am I the skipping steps?

Was there anything I had to do?

Or rather, I thought I wouldn’t hit it, so I cut it in half as hard as I could.

Avoid it …… Eh, huh, that’s bad by any chance?

“…………”

For a moment, there is silence.

“Hey …… mea, was it a good idea to kill it?”

“Well, let’s see…… I also think I’ve heard banging their head with a sword or some other dangerous thing as well, so it’s fine, right?”

“Some organs are showing, though…… They’ve been exposed to the greatest amount of air, though…… Didn’t Nelgliffe say they were deteriorating fast? Ma-, maybe that’s why Levi Church was having such a hard time not killing it to catch it…”

Modestly, three footsteps approached.

Turning around, it was the three Levi followers.

“Hey, hey, is Live Fogg still here?”

Kamla called out to me.

It’s a voice full of anticipation, something that drives me to feel guilty.

“…… It-, it’s already gone far away. You know, in terms of distance of life.”

“What do you mean by that …………?”

Kamla put the Lapides Sword stuck in the ground into view, then slowly ran his eyes over the area, catching sight of the Live Fogg’s cruel form.

“…………”

“Wha- what Brother, so you messed with it. I guess I didn’t explain myself well enough… although I tried to tell you. It’s said that Live Fogg, you know…… has set up a little thin warding, so that when the warding is impacted the teleportation magic will automatically trigger. In other words, the only way to do it is to attack before setting the warding back up immediately after the teleportation. I’m sure you’re confident in your magic, but being fast isn’t enough for the Live Fogg…… huh?”

Once again, an awkward silence overtook the scene.

The Levi Church trio’s gaze focused on the Live Fogg, who was cruelly split in two and stuck to a tree.

“H-, huh…… by any chance, was that bad to do. I’ll take it …… alive, if I find the next one.”