The slaughter proceeded in an orderly manner. The number of monsters in the valley was visibly decreasing.
No one had any intention of stopping, because the operation was going too smoothly.
And while Paul was already starting to feel tired, Allen was still full of energy.
"An hour is up!"
Roles, who was immersed in the joy of exterminating monsters, remained calm and dutifully reminded everyone as soon as the time was up.
Rudeus felt the ample magic power within him and asked Allen below the tree.
"Should we continue?!"
Allen's sword tore through the now visibly thinned-out monsters. He looked at the valley.
A quick glance showed that the number of monsters had probably been reduced by half, no, it looked like even less.
'Most of them were killed by Rudeus's magic, right? AOE is indeed the fastest way to clear mobs.'
He blinked, amazed at how many they had killed in just an hour. It was a bit unexpected...
It was going so well...
Allen smiled and looked at Paul beside him, who was also looking very tired but still holding on. After a moment of thought, he said.
"Alright, let's call it a day. The number of monsters has been reduced a lot. Rudeus, do you have a count? How many did we kill?"
Rudeus chuckled.
"Half! No, even more! These D-rank monsters are so easy to kill. Some of them fell into the pile of monster corpses after just being grazed by magic and never got up again. Could they be playing dead?"
"Playing dead? I don't think so."
Allen smiled and looked at Paul, who had let out a breath and was also smiling.
"Then let's go home, shall we, uncle? This should be enough progress for now."
Paul was already exhausted. He had been in the outer forest for many days, and the thought of his wife and children at home gave him a jolt of energy. A gust of wind from his sword sent the small mountain of monster corpses in front of them flying.
"Alright! Let's go home!"
He sheathed his sword, took one last look at the monsters in the valley, and then turned to walk back with Roles, who had also jumped down from the tree with a smile. As Roles walked, he glanced back at Allen.
Allen found the two of them's eagerness to leave amusing.
'Are you two just going to leave your kids behind? I can understand Paul, he's really tired. But what about you, Roles? You were just in the tree. Even if you're not a good fighter, you could at least carry your own daughter down first, right?'
He shook his head and looked at the two little ones in the tree who were looking at him with hopeful eyes. He jumped up into the tree and was about to put his arms around them to carry them down.
But just as he was about to reach out, Sylphie raised her hand to stop him.
She frowned slightly, looking troubled at Allen's swordsman uniform, which was covered in minced meat. She raised her hand and cast a wind spell on Allen.
The minced meat fell like red snow.
Meanwhile, Rudeus was still looking at the dense pile of monster corpses around him with a look of admiration for his spoils of war.
Allen looked down at Sylphie's serious expression. The setting sun shone on her shoulder-length, soft green hair. In the wind scattered by the wind spell, her hair danced, and her cheeks were flushed with the color of the evening clouds.
The two were silent, with only Rudeus muttering to himself beside them.
"...I never thought hunting demonic beasts would be so easy. I didn't feel much when I was sparring with Father and Allen before, but I didn't expect my magic to be so effective... Huh? Am I seeing things? The ground that Father just split open... it looks like there's something there..."
Allen was about to tease Rudeus when a sentence suddenly flashed through his mind.
It was what Rudeus had just said...
"Half! Even more!"
"Some of them fell into the pile of monster corpses after just being grazed by magic and never got up again..."
A dense flurry of images suddenly appeared in his mind. They were the dark burrows in the cross-section of the snow trench outside the forest.
Deep, dark, and bottomless.
Allen grabbed Sylphie's hand, which was casting the spell, startling her into a jump. He then whipped his head around to look in Rudeus's direction.
Under the sword aura that Paul had casually unleashed, black spheres were scattered on the exposed ground.
'Flowing Sensation' brought a clearer vision.
They weren't black spheres.
They were dense, dark burrows!
At this moment, Rudeus's confused voice sounded by his ear.
"They look like holes? Good thing I froze the ground, otherwise this slope would have been dangerous... Father is indeed experienced..."
Allen's deep gray pupils constricted to pinpoints. As Sylphie stared at him with wide, dazed eyes, he pulled her into his arms, tucked the muttering Rudeus under his other arm, bent his knees to prepare to jump, and at the same time turned to shout at Paul and Roles, who had walked some distance away and were now turning to wait for the three of them.
"Uncle! It's not over, the monsters—"
"BOOM!!"
The earth-shattering explosion completely drowned out his voice!
A rumbling tremor had already begun.
Allen staggered. The ground was tilting!
No, it wasn't the ground tilting! The slope they were on had collapsed!
The ice layer beneath the earth spike fortress had not been dug through by the monsters; they had dug out the 'foundation' of the entire fortress!
A huge crack opened up in the ground in front of the tree, spreading along the edge of the earth spike magic.
Allen saw the horrified expressions on Roles and Paul's faces as they suddenly turned around. They had already walked outside the earth spike magic, and the crack separated them from Allen and the two children! His eyes were wide with fury. He immediately bent his knees to jump, but felt the ground beneath him suddenly give way. His hair flew up past his face as the entire section of ground plummeted down the slope!!
"Ah!!!"
Rudeus and Sylphie screamed in terror at the same time. At this moment, Paul and Roles rushed to the edge of the crack and shouted in unison as they watched the collapsing slope fall into the valley.
"Allen!!"
The one being called had a sudden surge of adrenaline. He was carrying a child in each arm. Rudeus was still screaming, while Sylphie quickly covered her mouth and turned to look at Allen.
Allen bent his knees and jumped!
'I can do it! It's less than twenty meters, I can make this jump... Damn it!!!'
His body was in the air, and just as his toes were about to leave the ground, he saw a dense swarm of monsters. They were gathered around the crack, and below the crack was the hollowed-out ridge!
The monsters leaped at almost the same time as Allen, creating a cloud of mist in the air that obscured his vision. Seeing the monster swarm about to collide with him, he subconsciously wanted to swing his sword, but then he realized both his hands were holding people.
He didn't have a free hand to hold his sword!
The wind fell silent!
Allen's pupils constricted. With 'Flowing Sensation' at full power, he roared in his mind!
"Dragon Saint Touki, come out! Concentrate on my back!"
A warm current suddenly rose in his abdomen. The walnut-sized Dragon Saint Touki core suddenly shrank into a jujube pit, the magic patterns on it becoming almost invisible.
Then it expanded!
The Touki named after the dragon surged and exploded, enveloping the person's body!
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