I Was a Small Fish When I Reincarnated, but It Seems That I Can Become a Dragon, so I Will Do My Best - Extra Chapter 254
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9-2. Situation Assessment
It seems the person collapsed on the ground is human.
However, I recognized all of them—not by their faces, but by their clothing.
“Amariaz… These outfits…”
“Yeah. They’re the same as the ones who attacked us back then.”
I’ve never forgotten the day we first fought humans properly.
A human who controlled monsters from the Devil lands targeted Amariaz.
Fortunately, Uchikage-Ojiichan and the others rushed to the scene, saving us from a crisis.
It appears they were all wearing magical tools.
This cloak cuts off long-range attacks. Although there’s a limit to how many hits it can block, the fact that these are being mass-produced means that such facilities must already exist.
Could they be nearby…?
No, before that, I should be more concerned about the fact that there’s a dead human here.
But before I could act, Iubora had already started investigating.
Tekeris-san peered over from beside him.
“Magical tools, huh?”
“Oh, so this is it.”
“The robe itself has a magic circuit embedded in it. Circuits shouldn’t be able to be embedded into cloth, but it’s that Thekil, so it makes sense.”
“Humans have geniuses too, it seems.”
“He really was a genius, Nii-chan. I wish I could introduce you to him.”
“Oh~.”
Tekeris-san, seemingly impressed, picked up the magical tool and began examining it.
Seeing it in person piqued his curiosity.
While the two of them were lost in fascination with the magical tools… I wondered, who took these people down?
Judging from the wounds… their bodies were severely destroyed with immense force.
And… the blood scattered around hasn’t even clotted yet.
Who could have inflicted such wounds…?
“Houen-san.”
“This body was probably alive just moments ago. And these wounds… they look terribly familiar.”
“It’s Uchikage. These must be from his bear-like claws.”
Looking a bit farther away, I noticed a large tree had been snapped in two.
The tree also bore fresh scars, clearly made recently—it was broken just a short while ago.
It seems like a fierce battle had unfolded here just before we arrived.
The amount of destruction around is astonishing.
Uchikage-Ojiichan might still be fighting somewhere nearby.
But I don’t sense his presence…
Even though Amariaz is using Spatial Awareness to search, it seems he can’t find him either.
It might be best to rely on Ouren-san.
“Ouren-san, do you know where Uchikage-Ojiichan might be?”
“I’m looking for him, but I haven’t found him yet.”
“I-I see…”
“Don’t worry, Yuuzen-kun. Uchikage-sama is definitely alive.”
Kenra-san reassured me.
From the way he gripped the sword always at his side, it was clear he was feeling a bit uneasy.
I understood how he felt, since I was feeling the same.
We need to find him quickly.
Until Ouren-san finds him, I guess we’ll have to wait for now…?
In the meantime, I decided to ask about what happened in the Oni Village.
“Kenra-san. After we headed to the Kingdom of Garott, what happened in Oni Village?”
“A huge number of angels attacked us, and they used their skills to destroy the village all at once. The houses were blown away in an instant, but once the battle started, the angels were surprisingly easy to defeat. It’s all thanks to Ouren-san and Tekeris-san.”
Upon hearing more details, it seemed like quite a number of enemies attacked, just as Tekeris-san had mentioned back then.
They probably threw in whatever remaining forces they had.
But we had Tekeris-san, who was now free, and Ouren-san.
Tekeris-san, moving his gelatinous body skillfully, avoided damaging the village and grabbed the angels flying in the air, crushing them.
Ouren-san skillfully used his wide range of skills to swiftly deal with the angels, but when an angel named Fuuril showed up, he had to focus on handling him.
Since Ouren-san’s abilities are invisible, he created a water-based barrier to trap both himself and Fuuril inside, where they fought for a while.
“But…”
“Huh? Is there something else?”
“Those bastards… they just disappeared all of a sudden. It was like they were saying their mission was complete. And when I noticed, Uchikage was the only one who had been taken away. Kenra saw it happen.”
“Yes…”
Ouren-san added to the story.
He had trapped Fuuril in his “Water Flow Barrier,” but the angel suddenly vanished.
When Ouren-san dispelled the barrier, he realized the angels had retreated from above the Oni Village.
However, they had left behind some bodies.
Kenra-san witnessed the moment Uchikage-Ojiichan was taken.
As soon as a magic circle appeared at his feet, he disappeared.
It happened so quickly that Kenra-san thought Uchikage-Ojiichan had only moved, but that wasn’t the case.
Kenra-san remembered clearly that, right after she took down the angel who had used a teleportation skill, the other angels retreated.
“The angels were likely targeting Uchikage-sama… or perhaps it didn’t matter, as long as the person had skills.”
“We’ve heard about the Kingdom of Garott from Tekeris as well.”
“Huh, when did that happen?”
“He was talking to Abyss via telepathy. He told us when he came to get us.”
“Oh, I see…”
That guy definitely made that skill himself.
“By the way, Ouren-sama, have you found Uchikage-sama yet?”
“I haven’t. But instead, I found a strange structure.”
“A structure, you say?”
“There’s a barrier around it, and my Mist Manipulation is being neutralized. I searched a few hundred kilometers out, and there was nothing else. Uchikage is likely inside.”
“Please guide us.”
“Leave it to me.”
With Ouren-san leading the way, we began moving.
I wish we could have reached our destination without any trouble, but of course, that wasn’t going to happen.
Thunk.
“Huh?”
Something struck my head. Picking it up, it appeared to be a sharp needle, coated in some black liquid.
“Oh, is this a blow dart?”
“You should be more cautious.”
“I told you, I’m not good at detecting things when they suppress their presence.”
“Oh yeah, that’s right.”
Suddenly, I heard the heavy thud of something falling from a tree in the distance, followed by the sense of many presences surrounding us.
“Well, we figured this would happen.”
Ouren-san cracked his knuckles, bracing himself. At that moment, several ambushers leaped out at us.