[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 82: Attacks (3)

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" ……… We have found the target, but ... Where should we attack? "

Noelle confusedly asked everyone while continuing to stare at the insect monster.

Not a single person there could answer that.

They just stared at the monster with stunned looks.

"It's getting more troublesome because we have to be careful not to destroy his body for the sake of information gathering … "

"Stop that, Noelle. You're making us even more confused here" Cryll said, showing a resigned face.

"What can you do, right? I mean, that insect monster– call it 'Sage Mantis', has a much larger size than the one in the report! "

A detailed report on the mission given to Noelle explained that the monster had a height of approximately 20 meters.

Meanwhile, the Sage Mantis before him currently had a height that could easily reach a height of 50 meters.

The monster's head was soaring too high that Noelle and the others had to hurt their necks to raise their heads up.

"Mhmm .. It is difficult to find a gap when considering the abilities possessed by the creature," Noelle said with a bitter smile.

They continued to look at the Sage Mantis without taking a word from their lips.

"Hey, what are we gonna do? Go back and make a report on this? Given the information Terneth gave us had a lot of errors, I think Terneth would have understood."

Noelle continued to speak as she looked at the Sage Mantis with the weapon in her hand.

He then turned his head towards Norman and Dyland, waiting for their decision.

"I will follow whatever Your Majesty decides, but .. I think it would be better if we go back and report about this to Terneth."

Norman looked puzzled for a moment and narrowed his eyes at the suggestion of Noelle san Dyland, but he quickly shook his head.

"No, we continue like this. If there is a village here, it does not rule out the possibility that there will be other settlements. We have to save them all."

"As Your commandments."

Dyland bent his body and replied to Norman firmly, although his face clearly showed an uncomfortable expression.

(Ahhh shit .. )

Although in her heart she was eager to complain over Norman's dangerous decision, Noelle prepared Aligma and prepared to attack with a large destructive shot.

"That Mantis Sage doesn't feel our presence at all, so it's better that we make the opening attack as quick and powerful as possible."

As they spoke to each other to make a decision, the destruction of the forest area continued to be carried out by the sage mantis and some other humanoid-type monsters such as cyclops, orcs, and scaly humanoid monsters whose appearance was predominantly lizard-like.

Noelle suspects that it is a monster named Blafard who lives in the swamp area. He had never seen it in person, but its features were similar to those in books he had read.

"Can I give you a first strike? " noelle asked as she showed Aligma in her hand.

"certain. It's annoying to admit it, but right now you're the only one who has a way to launch a strong attack" Dyland said, shrugging.

Noelle did not say anything more and nodded, then she immediately took a few steps back and made a sitting position while pointing Aligma's muzzle upwards.

(Too high ... Can Aligma reach it? It's starting to doubt .. )

If he intended to make a fatal wound with just a single strike, a powerful attack was required that was directed right towards the vital part of his target.

And the head is the best part of it, though,

To make the most perfect shooting position, Noelle had to retreat even further so that the distance between the height where she was with the height of the sage mantis head became more stable.

As soon as she finished ascertaining the distance between her and the sage mantis, Noelle immediately returned to where everyone was waiting and gave an explanation with a frustrated face.

" … The wind and gravity pressure could have blocked the trajectory of the magic bullet and made my attack miss, so I would have taken a better position. Our communication might be disrupted later, so we better design everything while I'm still here" Noelle said.

Everyone nodded their heads seriously.

(Seriously, how Terneth could have made a very rash decision to include the heirs of the noble house .. )

The sound of gunfire produced by Aligma would probably be quite deafening, so he asked everyone to be careful.

"In addition, right after I shoot that damn mantis sage, you guys should be prepared to face an attack from the shocked monsters."

After saying that, Noelle then took out Langen's black sword from its sheath, then gave it to Cryll.

"Geist abilities won't be very useful against the creature, so you can only fight with a sword. Langen would indeed not bring out his special ability when used by others, but at least it would not be destroyed so easily."

"Mhmm ... This is pretty good help, but .. I'm a little troubled by this size … "

Cryll looked at Langen in his hand with a worried look.

After all, Langen could only be used by Noelle, so he adjusted the size according to Noelle's comfort.

Langen's size was now almost 2 meters, it was a size that was a little too long for Cryll.

"But ... Yahh .. Somehow I'll handle it," Cryll said as he swung Langen a few times to get used to its size.

"Mhmm, that's good. And Charl, since Centipede won't be very useful, try to support everyone with your magic. You can use water magic to help Livia save her use of magic power."

"OK~"

Charlotte cheerfully answered him. Noelle tilted her head in confusion as she looked at Charlotte's slightly different mood than usual, but she immediately shook her head to erase those insignificant thoughts.

"Then ... Livia and Chloe .. Yahh, you just have to adjust to the others."

" … I guess I'm the only one who's useless here … "

Noelle ignored the sad groan of Stella whose head was being patted by Cryll.

(Maybe I'll find Folger Bow for her later .. )

While saying that in her mind, Noelle turned around and faced the Norman group that was already waiting for her.

"For you .. Yahh, I'll leave the arrangement to you alone."

Dyland easily nodded.

Since Noelle knew nothing about the power the princely group had, she could only leave her planning to Dyland who was the only adult with a lot of experience in their group.

"Then, be prepared. The shot from me was the sign" Noelle said as she turned and ran away leaving everyone behind.

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"I think it's enough here … "

After running through the forest to find the right shooting position, Noelle finally stopped and watched her surroundings.

There was no change of scenery, only lush trees filled his view.

After making sure the place was safe, Noelle focused her eyes and looked towards the sage mantis she was in.

Although the distance was already quite far, the sage mantis still looked extremely large even to Noelle.

"With such a measure ... Eisen will be instantly destroyed … "

Noelle had a headache just thinking about it.

"Well, somehow I'll handle it later … "

Noelle irritatedly ruffled her hair, then jumped as high as possible into the air.

"《Bloody Path》"

After reaching the height she wanted, Noelle used her ability in controlling blood to make a foothold in the air.

"Now … "

Noelle narrowed her eyes and pointed Aligma's muzzle right at the head of the mantis sage that was still silent for some reason.

Using the reinforcement on his eyes to aim, Noelle immediately inserted as much mana as she could into the magic stone that was on Aligma.

(The distance is a bit problematic, but .. I think I can set that up with wind and gravity magic .. )

Two magic circles with colors of green and purple each appeared right in the magic circuit of Aligma.

After entering a large amount of mana, Noelle quickly readied her finger to pull the trigger and fired a super dense energy ball filled with Noelle's magic power.

"Eat 20% of my power, damn it! "

Saying that as the trigger, Noelle immediately pulled the trigger and shot out all the energy stored within Aligma, he said,

When Noelle pulled the trigger, she fell for a moment and smashed several fingers of her hand due to the crazy recoil effect.

The explosive sound that was so deafening even if heard from far away had blown Noelle's eardrum off, yet it instantly regenerated shortly afterwards.

The blood dripping from his ears and the corner of his eyes fell down and fused with the foothold of blood he had made.

Explosions of aurora rays continued to gush from Aligma's muzzle and hit the head of the mantis sage.

The sage mantis remained motionless and seemed to ignore Noelle's attack.

It was painful to see it, but the attack Noelle launched using Aligma still did not seem to be enough to break through the energy shield defenses of the sage mantis.

"Suckers! It was really similar to AT Field! "

Noelle screamed when she saw the energy shield she had seen in a certain mecha genre anime. He endlessly continued to add a large amount of magic energy into Aligma.

As if responding to it, the burst of light that Aligma released became larger and turned into a destructive beam that was even more powerful than the polar light that attacked it earlier.

Noelle gritted her teeth to withstand the shockwave emanating from Aligma's snout.

His originally gray eyes had now turned red without him noticing.

Noelle painstakingly tried to take the most optimal firing position, but the shockwave coming out of Aligma continued to block her.

"Ahhh shit! This is really a weapon to eat sir! "

Shouts of complaint came out from Noelle's lips that had dripped blood from her corner.

Soon, the sage mantis energy shield began to crack because it could not withstand the intensity of the super-massive energy shot from Noelle.

"A little more! "

Noelle who noticed the change immediately shouted and increased the amount of magic energy she put into Aligma.

Nausea and dizziness began to control Noelle's stomach and head because of the expenditure of mana in large quantities that occurred suddenly.

The cracks on the sage mantis energy shield were increasingly spreading and looked like they would disintegrate at any moment.

"Curse you guys."

Noelle painstakingly opened her eyes to keep her focus so that her shots wouldn't go too far.

The crack in the shield was caused because Noelle continued to fire large amounts of energy right at the same point without the slightest change in target.

Rather than having to attack with an enormous force to destroy his shield, it would be better for him to focus all of his attacks on one point.

And just as Noelle thought, the crack grew bigger and slowly, the light shield was shattered.

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"No matter how many times I saw her, she was completely insane … "

Cryll muttered with a dumbfounded face as he looked at the super massive energy beam shot Noelle let out.

Although he was astonished, Cryll kept his focus on the monsters that began to move restlessly due to the explosion Noelle caused.

A second later, the energy shield was shattered, and Noelle's attack smoothly crashed into the head of the mantis sage.

The Sage Mantis cried out in pain as his huge eyeball exploded due to the attack from Noelle.

"! Now! "

With Cryll's words as a trigger, Dyland immediately threw his shield towards the wildly running blafard monster.

His shield smoothly hit the blafard head and blew it up.

As if getting the timing right, Cryll immediately coated his body using Sword Geist and started killing many monsters at once with his lightning strike as he swung the Langen Noelle lent him to kill the monster.

Not only Dyland and Cryll, the people in the Norman group also began to prepare their respective attacks and finish off the monsters that were in front of them.

Olivia and Charlotte move in tandem to use ice magic and freeze the legs of the Sage Mantis who is still rebelling in pain.

The sage body of such a huge mantis could not be held back completely by Olivia's ice magic, but Charlotte took out a golden-black chain and began to bind the part of the leg that was starting to break free from freezing.

"That chain ... What is your power as an angel? "

"That's how, I'm starting to be good at controlling it."

Charlotte answered Olivia's question with a smile.

"Well, besides, I can do this too."

After saying that, Charlotte created a magic circle in her palm and pointed it at the sage mantis.

"《Aqua Purpose》"

As soon as he finished saying his magic name, the magic circle on Charlotte's palm started to glow and spurt out a large amount of water and wet the foot of the sage mantis.

"Now freeze it! " callotte chanted.

Olivia did not say anything and answered him by taking out ice magic and freezing all the parts moistened by the water from Charlotte.

While she helps Olivia to use ice magic, Charlotte also swings Centipede with the moves Noelle has taught her.

Centipede's sharp, spiked blades wiggled and wiped out all the monsters he passed by.

On the other hand, Cryll with a movement that could not be followed by the eyes of a normal person swung Langen to slash another leg of the mantis sage while using Geist to attack other monsters with a lightning strike.

Even though Cryll was unable to use Langen's special abilities, Cryll could still give a slash wound to the mantis sage even though it was a bit.

If a monster approached him without him noticing, an arrow would appear and stick it in the monster's head.

The one who fired it was of course Stella who quickly used her bow and finished off all the monsters she saw.

(Damn it! If it continues like this .. We will not have time .. )

Cryll frowned in frustration as he realized that the situation was not improving at all.

He had already finished off many monsters while continuing to attack the sage mantis, but the number of monsters that came was not reduced at all, and it was increasing more and more.

In the corner of his view, he could see Dyland painstakingly killing all the monsters with his sword and shield, while Norman also slaughtered many monsters using his sword.

(Ahhhh .. Where Noelle is now .. )

"Hey, Rico! Can't you be careful with your weapon?! "

"Whispering, it's better than doing nothing like you, Kaira! "

Kaira and Rico continued to shout at each other while relentlessly finishing off the monsters around them.

"What can you do, right? My ability is to read someone's mind! It was useless against a mindless monster! " Kaira yelled back at Rico while thrusting her spear into the head of the fallen cyclops.

"Ughhhh jerk .. My ability is not so useful against monsters! " cry Rico.

"! Rico! Behind you! "

It was too late for Kaira to shout that, because a cyclops had just appeared and was about to slam a tree to kill Rico.

Just before his attack reached Rico's head, the cyclops body suddenly caught fire with a rope wrapped around his body.

"Tali? No, it's a whip! "

Kaira smiled brightly as she saw that whip had burned the body of the cyclops completely.

In the next instant, the person using the whip appeared before Kaira and Rico.

"Can you guys stop playing around? You better do something about this or I'll burn your brains."

Iris with a condescending face reprimanded Kaira and Rico with the handle of the whip in her hand.

" " … Okay." "

"《Hecross》!!"

As Kaira and Rico were silent before Iris, the sound of Dyland's screams echoing in the forest quickly garnered the attention of all the monsters to her.

The sword and shield Dyland used had fused together to form a shining axe.

Dyland slammed his axe's sword– into the ground while saying the name of his skill.

Next, a dazzlingly shining giant cross pattern appeared on the ground and drowned all the surrounding monsters into that sea of light.

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