『Guu…… What was that just now….?』
Six wings float behind the statue of the goddess. Lill face contorts as she was struck by lightning from one of them.
“Those wings can cast magic. Moreover, each of the six wings can cast a different kind of magic.”
『How can a statue do something like that……!?』
It’s something I made in my previous life. Its wings come in six colors: red, blue, green, yellow, purple, and black, and each color can cast a different spell, such as a flaming spear, ice arrow, tornado, lightning strike, poisonous rain and a gravitational field.
“J-just how can it wield a sword so fast and still be able to use six types of magic!?”
“…… How do we beat it?”
Even my disciples at the time had a hard time with this statue. I made it so that after fighting a few times, they’d gradually understood the strategy.
(You can’t become a member of the Great Sage’s Tower unless you at least pass this hurdle.)
『So at that time, this was the world’s best magical research facility. But Master, aside from some geniuses, most of them seem to have taken on the challenge and broken through with a large number of people.』
(Eh? Really?)
『You need assistants for your research, and of course, you need staff to support the lives of the magicians here. There were also regular airship services, and frequent travel between the city to city. It’s impossible to store decades’ worth of food in a subspace like Master can after all.』
Uh- I left such details to my disciples……
“Well, I guess I’ll join in for today.”
Lill can’t deal against it and I don’t think Fana and Anje can go against it right now so I decided to fight with her.
“The theory is to break those wings first.”
I cast multiple spells at the same time to attack the wings of the statue. The trick to destroying them quickly is to use magic with the opposite element, such as water into red wings, fire into blue wings, meteorites into green wings, and so on. However, it is not so easy to hit directly. This is because each of its wings moves freely and takes evasive action.
“However, my attack has tracking function so it’s useless to run away.”
Even if the wings dodged the attack, my magic automatically follows after them quickly. Then, one after another, magic bullets landed, and the wings were chipped away more and more.
Not wanting to be defeated like this, the goddess statue takes aim at me and attacks, but Lill jumps in from the side.
『I won’t let you do that!』
Lill’s lunge blows the statue away. In the meantime, the statue continues to receive magic, and the wings behind it are already in tatters.
“Let’s attack.”
“Y-Yes! We can’t just watch!”
Fana and Anje immediately attack the overturned statue of the goddess. Almost at the same time as the six wings were completely destroyed, the statue itself seemed to have exceeded its tolerance for damage, and it stopped moving.
(This statue will come back to life later if we leave it alone. But to think it is still working well without being out of service since then…… It really is one of my masterpieces huh.)
『……Are you praising yourself? But Master, I think it is partly because there hasn’t been anyone visiting for a long time.』
After defeating the first difficult enemy, we headed for the upper part of the tower.
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“……That party doesn’t look like they are coming back at all, are they?”
Earlier, we fled for our lives and came back, the Tower of the Great Sage. But those who came in immediately after that show no sign of returning.
“Could it be that they are still fighting that statue……? Don’t tell me they defeated it…… No, no, it can’t be. Even we were powerless against it. Then, in the end they have been beaten huh…… No. It’s all because they did not listen to our advice at all.”
Even though we knew the dangers firsthand we told them that.
“At the very least, let’s retrieve their body. I’m sorry, but can I ask you to do that?”
“…… Got it.”
My friend, who specialize in stealth, enters the tower again. However, he soon returned in a panic.
“What’s the matter? There are no bodies left?”
He shook his head at my question and then replied timidly.
“…… T-the statue of the goddess had been destroyed.”
“Huh?”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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