Tensei Shite Inaka de Slowlife wo Okuritai - Chapter 519

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Al's Earth Magic

 Baghdad gave a short reply and lumbered away to take some distance. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

 I also took some distance in the opposite direction from him.

 And after I have walked a certain distance I stop and turn around.

 There, Baghdad stands about 20 meters away.

 No matter what country it is, it seems like this is the distance for magicians to face each other.

 Oh well, if it gets any closer than this then it will just turn into a close-quarter combat.

 Eleonora-neesan’s physical ability has been improving more and more recently, so it’s kinda terrifying for her to even close this much distance in an instant.

 Salva and Shanaria are watching us from a safe distance.

 There won’t be any damage reaching that place and even if by any chance something does happen, Shanaria would be able to protect him.

「Please use your defensive magicー」

 I called out to him as I was ready. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

 I won’t be able to cast my magic with peace of mind if he doesn’t deploy his defensive magic first of.

 Baghdad nodded - probably hearing me calling out - and folded his arms in front of his chest.

 Then, the sand around him starts moving and shaking zuzozozozozo.

 It’s a stable chantless magic casting. Of course. Tons of sand covers the entirety of Baghdad’s body.

 However, the sand still didn’t stop even after I couldn’t see him. A larger amount of sand is collected and steadily covers his body.

 I could see the sand gathering and being compressed with a huge amount of mana on his body.

 Before long, the sand gathers and Baghdad’s appearance changes into something like a knight.

 His entire figure is around 5 meters with his upper half being abnormally large.

「Ueeeeh, to think he would use Earth magic like that……」

 What he does is simple. He just solely collected the sand and compressed those with mana to make armor.

 I had never thought of using magic like that. As expected from the country of sand, they have an interesting approach.

 The sand must have been compressed with a huge amount of mana many times and now has an absurd level of hardness.

 It would require quite a lot of mana, but it won’t be a problem for someone with a large amount of mana like him.

 It will be incredibly heavy if you were to compress that much sand and wear it on your body.

 I think he’s probably using it together with a Body Strengthening magic, but still, his physical specs are absurd.

 If he were to move and come to me in that state, any magician or swordsman would have no choice but to escape.

「You can start anytime」

 Baghdad’s voice echoed from inside the sand armor.

 I’m curious, just where did the voice come from and how it echoed, but right now is not the time to find out about that.

 In order to be taught the secret recipe passed down in Baghdad’s family, I have to penetrate that defense of his.

 The most magic attribute I’m confident with is my non-attribute magic. But, now that he has shown me such a level magic, it makes me want to compete with Earth magic too.

「Yosh, let’s also try using Earth magic」

 What I’m making right now is a large rock.

 It’s not something formed using Earth magic as it is, but something I created after compressing a rock five times to increase its hardness. Furthermore, I add rotation to the rock to increase its power.

 I had never thought of using such powerful magic on a monster. Despite that, directing such magic toward another human is scary.

 But, it is said that Baghdad is a magician with the most amount of mana in Lazur Kingdom. And in reality, the mana infused into his defense magic in front of me is extraordinary so I know that a half-hearted magic won’t get through it. Still, it’s scary to think of what would happen if it could penetrate through his defense magic. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

 It may be because I lack experience that I’m thinking about these things, but I guess this is also proof that my personality is not suited to fighting.

 I won’t aim for the middle of that appearance where his main body is likely to be, I’ll aim at the abdomen part, a little to the left.

 I would be fine there even if something were to happen.

「I will do a test first」

「Aah」

 

The moment I heard a reply from Baghdad, I fired the rock at him.

 A byuun sound of something cutting through the air resounds, and the rock flies straight while rotating.

 Then it made a direct hit at the left side of the sand armor Baghdad is wearing.

「!?」

 The rock clashed with the sand armor, but after a few seconds the rock crumbles.

 The hardness of the sand armor seems to be much higher than I thought as the rock couldn’t withstand it.

 Baghdad moved slightly backward due to the impact from the magic, but the left side of his armor was only slightly dented.

「I knew it, it’s hard」

 That wouldn’t be considered piercing through his armor. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

 Well, I know that I won’t be able to win with this level of magic so I’m not particularly surprised.

「Can I, ask you something?」

「Yes, what is it?」

「You magic just now, how serious you were?」

「Hmーm, I’ve never cast a spell with such a strong power before so I don’t understand it well myself, but I wonder if the power will increase by at least ten times more than the attack earlier」

 If I increase more mana into the magic, change its shape for the purpose of piercing something, and compress the mana, then I should be able to increase the power even more.

 All that’s left is the problem of whether I can properly control and release such a high–powered magic.

「I see. It’s more than I expected. I’m going to get more serious too」

 After saying that, Baghdad cast Earth magic.

 It’s like the whole area around here became something like an antlion’s pit as the sand flowing towards him, rose into a dome shape.

 Once the dome has grown big enough to cover Baghdad, more sand will rise and wrap him again as if to form another dome to cover the previous one. The same thing happens until the third, fourth, and fifth layer dome is complete and they continue to layered themselves on top of each other.

「……matryoshka?」

 A state of being a hikikomori where he doesn’t even think of moving at all.

 But, the multi-layered barrier dome would probably have incredible defensive power.

 Even though he already had such an amazing defensive power with the sand armor, now he went that far, it’s so childish.

 Maybe he felt that it would be a shame to teach me the recipe for curry. As it’s his family’s secret recipe.

 I can understand why he becomes stubborn and wants to protect his family recipe.

 However, I want that recipe.

 After saying all those things and reaching this point, he still refuses to share the recipe even after all the trouble.

 I used to be somewhat hesitant to fire my magic at Baghdad, but being treated so mean like this really pisses me off.

「I will increase the power a little more this time, okay」

 I cast Earth magic again despite being angry.

 But the mana I use this time is several times more than before.

 For now, I gather as much sand as I can control to gather to me and then I quickly compress them all with mana and harden it.

 The gathered sand that was around ten meters was being compressed, five meters, three meters, and in the blink of an eye it became one meter.

 After it became small, I gathered sand in the same manner and compressed it again like before.

 I don’t know how many times I’ve been compression it with my mana anymore. That’s how many times I’ve compressed it. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

 Before I knew it, a rock of around 1 meter had formed in front of me and maybe it was because of the influence of mana that its color had darkened.

 This much should be fine for the time being. I can still compress it, but I’m afraid it suddenly turned into a high-powered magic.

 Once I’m done compressing, now I change its shape. Make it as sharp as possible in order to pierce through armor and walls.

 I gave it spiral-shaped grooves in order to improve its penetration and stability.

 Then, I spin it at a high speed.

 It was spinning so quickly my eyes couldn’t follow it, it was making a high-pitched sound *kiiin*.

 If I increase its power to this extent then I think it will be able to break all the barriers, I guess?

 All that’s left is to make a final adjustment so I can make it penetrate his armors once fired.

「Here I go!」

「…………」

 I call out to him be he doesn’t respond.

 But I probably couldn’t hear his responses even if he did because of the barriers.

 I’ve judged that it’s fine now since I’ve given him enough time.

 I instantly send my mana into the rock to accelerate it and the black rock is fired.

 A few seconds after the black rock was fired, a high-pitched kyuiiin rang out.

 The shot rock quickly penetrated through the dome Baghdad deployed.

 The enclosing dome collapses in one breath and Baghdad stretches both of his arms to catch the rock.

 However, perhaps the rock’s power was too strong as Baghdad continued to retreat a long way.

「Nuuuooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh!」

 Baghdad is trying to stop the rock by injecting mana while roaring.

 Eh? Was the power too powerful than I thought?

 There’s also the spectating Salva and Shanaria in the path where Baghdad is being blown away so I’m worried.

 He can stop it, right?

 My worries were in vain as Baghdad's armor instantly burst, exposing his whole body.

 I see Shanaria using Sand Walk bringing Salva along with her trying to escape from the path, but I feel like they won’t be able to escape in time.

「Not good!」

 I thought Salva and Shanaria would also be in danger - not just Baghdad - so I changed the rock’s trajectory in great haste.

 And perhaps it’s thanks to Baghdad’s defensive magic that the power has decreased that I was able to change its trajectory easily and the black rock flew off into the distance. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

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