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I watched the girl, who was completely tense and in a fighting stance.

Following the energy I had chased just a moment ago, a girl who had sprung up from the shadows.

She seemed to use a strange talent to move through the shadows.

Just a moment ago, while returning to the lodgings with Kyle and Duber, I felt a gaze as if someone was watching.

The problem was that the end of that gaze was just one of the large shadows that had grown as the sun began to set.

And that a very familiar and unpleasant energy seemed to be gathered within the energy.

In nature, there are places where energy naturally gathers, like dragon veins, but energy is gathered in the shadow of a building on a main street in a human city that is being actively developed?

Moreover, the feeling of the energy was similar to the suspicious energy I felt in the east, which was one of the reasons I left the forest.

Feeling the strangeness, I cast my gaze at the place where the energy was gathered, and just as I was about to consider how to deal with it, the energy in the shadow began to move away at an incredible speed.

‘This world really has everything.’

Compared to the Central Plains, the ridiculous giantess Martial artist mother Elf Pragion, who requires the use of ‘li’ units to measure distance and even directly created the creature called Elf.

A giant wolf with a height of 8 Elte (8m) and a length of 20 Elte (20m), and various wild gods comparable to it.

A giant flat lizard that can devour a large deer like Rudolph in one bite from the river.

Giants of 8 Elte (8m) in size.

At least what I had seen before were living things, but now even the shadows are moving alive before my eyes.

Moreover, she moves between shadows so quickly that the energy was fading away so far that I barely had time to leave a word with Kyle.

Since it was an existence that could not be discerned visually, I immediately used my lightness skill and followed after her.

And at the end of the energy I was chasing, the girl who sprang up from the shadows was right in front of me.

If she were human, she would be about 14-15 years old?

Black hair, red eyes, white skin.

A girl with very little fabric covering her body, which looked sexually appealing even though she still had a childish air about her, as if she wasn’t even embarrassed.

Coming to this city, it is true that women’s clothing is less modest compared to the Central Plains, but this was a very unconventional outfit.

Moreover, she had been secretive when she was in the shadows, but the dark and somehow eerie energy that was emitted without any attempt to hide it would have earned her the title of a vixen in the Central Plains.

“First, let me ask, are you human?”

“On the contrary, I want to ask you. What are you?”

“Answering a question with a question is not a very good attitude, but yes… to introduce myself briefly, I am Araya, an Elf from the west.”

“Elf…? And the west? Not the east?”

I pointed at the girl and said.

“Something similar to the energy you have within you occasionally flies in from the east. It’s not a very friendly or amicable energy for us Elves to feel. I left the forest as a representative to find the cause.”

“Then-“

“First, I answered you, so it’s only fair that you answer my question, isn’t it?”

“From the eastern continent… Lamia, who crossed the sea.”

“That’s not a complete answer.”

“What?”

“I also asked if you were human, didn’t I?”

“…Well, what if I said no?”

“Then I’ll have a few more questions to ask.”

Lamia seemed to be probing me, not hiding her hostility even while speaking.

I can satisfy my curiosity through conversation, but well…

I don’t particularly dislike beating down an opponent who is trying to attack me with hostility.

With that conversation as the end, there were no more words from my side, and the tension between us, or rather, only on Lamia’s side, began to escalate dramatically.

“Ra-jin!”

Unable to withstand the tension, Lamia was the first to launch an offensive.

With a shout, a sharp shadow spear rose from Lamia’s shadow and rushed towards me.

Araya Style

Mirage

Evading the spears aimed at my face, solar plexus, and legs, I moved to Lamia’s eyes in one step.

Something rose up again like smoke from Lamia’s shadow, who seemed flustered by my sudden appearance in front of her, trying to wrap around me.

As soon as I judged that there was no need to gamble against something unidentified, I kicked off the air and distanced myself again.

“Kyaa!”

‘Wasn’t it a type of spell cast through the mouth? The caster doesn’t seem to have reacted.’

I thought, looking at the shadow that popped out, unlike Lamia, who reacted to the attack much later.

Is it a method of recognizing and intercepting differently from the caster?

「Oh… oh… Great Spirit… how can it be so terrible.」

The form that popped out of Lamia’s shadow made a bizarre and pathetic sound, repeatedly scattering and gathering like smoke, unlike the shadow spear from the beginning, whose form had collapsed when the attack failed.

“That’s amazing, does it have intelligence?”

「Lamia… what is that terrible being? How can there be so many spirit traces…」

“Spirit traces? I don’t know, it suddenly came and is causing a ruckus.”

“…I don’t think those who exude ominous energy should be saying that.”

I laughed in vain and said, pointing to the smoke that was repeatedly disappearing and gathering around Lamia.

“What’s that again?”

“Rajin, the spirit of darkness. Is this your first time seeing a spirit?”

“I don’t remember ever seeing a spirit itself.”

「Don’t lie, slayer. The spirit traces left by the primordial spirits remain all over your body.」

“I don’t know what you’re seeing to say such a thing, but I don’t particularly remember seeing things like you.”

The appearance is like those of the Demonic Sect, what nonsense is Regulator Elf being evaluated as.

Judging that only meaningless conversations would increase, I decided that it would be faster to subdue her first and then ask what I was curious about.

「She’s coming!」

The moment I moved, the spirit called Rajin puffed up its smoky body like a pufferfish and then scattered it all around.

I tried to use my true energy in my eyes to see through it, but what Rajin, the spirit of darkness, created was not a natural fog, so I couldn’t see properly.

Araya Style

Soaring Vortex

In an instant, I spun my body like a top, and the small storm of true energy created by adding centrifugal force soared upwards, blowing away all the area of fog created by Rajin.

「Ugh! What!」

I thought it didn’t have a proper form, but is it receiving an impact?

I organized the newly acquired information in one corner of my head and turned around at the same time as sensing a presence behind me.

Lamia, who seemed to have been caught in the aftershock of the Soaring Vortex, was looking at me in an awkward posture as if she had stopped attacking when I turned around.

「Lamia!」

At that cry of Rajin, who still seemed to be scattered, shadows soared up from the surroundings at the same time, trying to trap me like a barred prison.

In response, Lamia waved her hands, her bloodshot eyes shining.

Originally, claw techniques are a method of scratching the opponent by surrounding them with trained fingers, but at some point, Lamia’s fingers had become physically sharp and long like the claws of a beast.

Some of the Internal energy in my dantian is unleashed at once and begins to run through my body.

“…Ah!”

Did she feel the sudden increase in energy?

Lamia, who was rushing at me, let out an exclamation like a sigh.

Using Mirage, I passed through the bars of the shadow prison that were trapping me at the same speed and crashed into Lamia.

Before Lamia’s claws could even be brought down, her solar plexus was struck by the explosive force from my shoulder, and she was sent flying upwards.

“Cough…!”

Lamia’s body, which was flying away while vomiting blood, suddenly began to slow down and then stopped in mid-air.

“Bat wings on a human body… horns and a tail too.”

“Hoo… hoo… bastard!”

Wings the size of her torso on one side sprouted from Lamia’s body and were flapping, and small goat horns on both sides of her head, and a smooth black tail like a cow’s tail, had sprouted.

Moreover, the atmosphere itself had become more intensely erotic, to the point where I felt like I was smelling something sweet.

Lamia’s eyes, which had risen into the air, began to emit an eerie red light under the moonlight.

‘Soul enchantment?’

The moment I looked into those eyes, my mind was momentarily disturbed.

However, it didn’t feel that strong, so it wasn’t difficult to break through.

“My charm so quickly?”

Rajin urgently said to Lamia, who was flustered by the failure of the soul enchantment at the same time as it was attempted.

「Let’s run away, Lamia! We can’t handle this monster!」

“Ugh… okay!”

And as I watched Lamia, who was about to attempt to escape by flapping her wings, I clicked my tongue.

The air is annoying.

Kicking off the air and rising is a method that consumes a lot of Internal energy the longer you stay in the air.

In comparison, that bat girl was flying away, increasing her altitude without much difficulty with wings that seemed capable of aerodynamically flying without consuming Internal energy.

It was a so-called racial difference.

It’s not that I can’t chase her if I want to, but there’s no need to waste energy by recklessly chasing her while leaving unknown enemies behind.

I looked around.

Among them, one thing caught my eye.

I found a broom that seemed to have been left out to clean the rooftop.

As I reached out my hand to the broom, it was sucked into my grasp.

I aimed the broom at Lamia, who had risen even higher and was nearly hundreds of Elte (hundreds of meters) up, and then threw it with force.

At the same moment, I kicked off the ground and soared into the air, climbing onto the flying broom.

Soon, I felt strong air resistance, but I stood balancing on the narrow area of the broom as if I was used to it.

“Ah!”

Lamia turned around, startled, when she noticed the presence that was suddenly beginning to be felt in the sky above, and saw me flying on a broom.

「Get off!」

Rajin, whose area seemed to have shrunk because there were no shadows, rushed in to intercept in the air, but the blue energy began to surround the flying broom, and it avoided him by changing its trajectory as if performing a stunt.

Sword Flight.

It was a bit disappointing that it lacked style because it was cast with a broom instead of a sword.

The moment the broom looked at Lamia, I lightly leaped.

As it was, the broom flew like a ray of light towards Lamia, tearing through her right shoulder and one wing, shooting her down.

“Kyaa!”

Following Lamia, who was beginning to fall hundreds of Elte (hundreds of meters) below, I retrieved the broom and lightened my body with the lightness skill, and I too slowly began to fall.