The Ancient Treant was defeated, and just when the elves thought the crisis was over, a new threat has befallen them. The branches and leaves seemed to move with their own independent will, they separated from the fallen main body and turned into countless treants. Like cuttings, they have reproduced asexually.
“W-what a number!?”
“……T-they are still increasing in number! What if all those branches and leaves become treants!?”
Moreover, it was not only branches and leaves who became a new monster. One by one, the roots of the Ancient Treant also begin to move on their own. A slit formed at the tip, transforming into a mouth with sharp fangs. Then, before they knew it, a large snake made of roots are now appearing all over the place. Of course, there were still many insect monsters left.
“……T-this time, it’s our end….”
“There is no way you can defeat such a large number of monsters……”
“N-no! It’s too early to give up! Holy Mother is watching over us! A miracle may happen again! …..Let’s fight until the end and not give up!”
In the midst of such desperate situation, the elves somehow managed to pull themselves together.
And that’s when it happened.
“Tracking type Wide-Area Extermination Magic!”
The mysterious human baby appeared from the sky. He raised a staff that is modeled after a dragon and then countless light bullets were released from it. One after another, the light bullets hit the leaf and branch treants, root serpents and insect-type monsters. As if it had chosen only the monsters, all the light bullets neatly dodged the elves in the area.
“““…… Huh?”””
The elves can only stand dumbfounded at such unbelievable sight. Eventually, when the light subsided completely, all the monsters were motionless.
“H-hey…… If I’m not mistaken, it looked like the light was emanating from that baby……”
“……It’s as he had said.”
“That means……”
At this point, they finally begin to wonder if it was the mysterious baby who saved them. The meteorite from earlier also fell at the same time the baby appeared. It is hard to think that there is no connection to the two.
“.….It wasn’t Holy Mother……?”
Then, a new figure falls from the sky. It was a girl that the elves knew well.
“Everyone! Are you all safe!?”
“““Ryuna!?”””
She is a fellow elf who left to save the village, saying that she would seek the help of humans. Many of them hate humans. As a result, many objected on her idea as they want to keep the location of this village unknown to humans. However, she ignored the opposition of those around her and left the village on her own.
“So you’re back……”
“……Why from the sky?”
“I mean, …… you could fly?”
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=Reus’ POV=
(I never thought that it could breed like that.)
Just when I thought that I had defeated the Ancient Treant by breaking the trunk with two meteorites, a large number of countless monsters sprang out of its body. Even I was a little surprised, but I immediately used a wide-area extermination spell to annihilate them.
『Compared to when you used it on the goblin horde before, it’s much more powerful now. 』
(Fufun, babies grow up fast you see.)
『I am firmly opposed to the inclusion of Master in the category of babies. 』
By the way, who is the “Holy Mother” that the elves have been talking about?
“.….It wasn’t Holy Mother……?”
No matter how I look at it, I’m a cute little baby.
And then, Ryuna fell from the sky.
“Everyone! Are you all safe!?”
“““Ryuna!?”””
When Ryuna landed on the ground, she runs up to me.
“Thank you very much! I never thought that you could really save the village from peril so easily all by yourself ….…”
“More than that, I’m glad we made it just in time Oneechan.”
“Y-you’re right. If we had moved normally, the village would have been gone……”
The elves were dumbfounded for a while but one of them opened his mouth timidly.
“Ryuna…… do you know…..that weird human baby?”
Hey! That’s disrespectful of you calling me weird, you know!
“Uh-uhm…… Let me introduce him. This is Reus-san, an A-rank adventurer. Despite the sudden request, he accepted the request and came all the way to this village.”
“A-adventurer!? That baby…..!?”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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