A spike of blood flew toward me and I dodged it with another [Quickstep].
Channeling my Mana, I activated some spells to help me in this fight.
(Body reinforcement), (Speed enhancement), (Passive earth detection). .
Using three (tier-2) spells at one was difficult but, I was now confident in my ability to control this Mana and… I also had the cheat fruit.
And my spells were special.
Different spells activated at a speed that would shock normal magicians.
This was a spell activation method that only I can do because of my special mind that can’t forget anything.
As if already crafted spells, I created full memorized versions of some spells and stored them in my head as if storing a pre-coded magic scroll.
Though the amount of concentration required to make this was large and I could only use three such spells at a time, this was worth it.
This was a technique, and I had named it [Script Magic].
A script of spells that the mind had already processed and all the process has been already completed.
I wasn’t some genius in magic.
I can have unique ideas but, it limited them to my otherworldly knowledge.
If said in this world’s perspective, I was just a very good mage.
That aside, I cannot use Magic in the fight this quickly.
My processing speed wasn’t that unimaginable.
I was an enormous hard drive with a good CPU.
But, I was no supercomputer who can process spells on the spot and use them with very little concentration and will.
This type of magician was out there, and this wasn’t even the most horrific type.
The most dangerous magicians had an amazing affinity with Mana, that they just had to command it. Then Mana would follow their will without actual knowledge of spell or magic.
Those were the monsters that were the center of the magic community of this world.
Some people like them were also teachers of the magic academy… as well as students.
These students held great interest from the magic community but, those side things weren’t something to think about right now.
First, let’s escape.
[Quickstep]
-Booooooom.
An explosion rang and this whole place I was standing on, went into tatters.
These blood spears could now… blast?
“Fucking shit…” There was a reason for my endless cursing.
A bloody spear had just blasted near me and what would you think I would do in this situation?!
Well, that aside, the spear of blood was not some straight spick like a needle.
-Screeeeee…
It was a spear with multiple curves and this one, in particular, has just scattered small needles all over the place like rain.
‘Fuck…’
Looking at the hand that’s just been filled with bloody spicks, I bit my lips.
This was painful.
The poison in it was not effective to me but, the pain it induces was something that I could hardly bear even with my heart keeping me calm.
There was pain, and I was, thankfully, focused on this battle.
Aside from the unexpected factors like this one, I was fully ok.
[Shadow Dive]
Vanishing in the shadow after meeting eyes with that creepy smile of demonic slime, I was even more anxious.
There was no time in this battle and all I could do was hide for a bit and run as far away as I could before hiding again.
This fight… was dangerous.
But I had to do everything I could.
-Seeeeeeish.
I shot an arrow with wind attributes that were full of high Mana materials.
Something that created a small whirlwind around it and the surrounding air bent to its will.
Surprised, the slime extended his hand forward and a wall of blood and bones rose before it.
The bloody wall and tornado collided, and the arrow successfully pierced the wall.
This was something like…
A giant skeleton covered with red jelly rose in his hand, another crimson wall rose and the green winds around an arrow pierced it like a drill.
The blood from the wall rained and, my arrow worth a (Red) beast core and many materials, had… gone to waste.
The arrow struck the spot where the fake core was, but it didn’t penetrate its skin.
This very skin looked like some edible jelly but, it was blood red. Its toughness had far surpassed some thick, magical armor.
I had to find his real core if I wanted to kill this monstrosity.
This was slime and I at least knew that I can kill it even after those absurd stats.
The stats that it gained after losing all the natural bounds it possessed and becoming something that only looks after destroying the nature that it had stayed in all this time.
This was my first time seeing it but, when some beast accepts the negative energy and the dark things it carries, a beast that can do that… becomes a demonic beast.
A demon that destroyed nature but… this was no stranger.
I was before a creature that was using his demonic skills; nature was still strangely not as devastated as they mentioned it in books.
This was something I never knew why happened but, this entire forest was naturally opposed to this demonic energy.
Well, that aside, the core that I was so desperately trying to find was something that will take much longer than I can think.
That thing will never lose interest in me, not after seeing ‘me’ with a high natural affinity who carried natural treasure such as this golden pendant.
This was a demon that can feel at least my natural affinity if not the fruit.
What I had to do here was once again, very clear.
Just find the moving path of that core and then destroy it with a powerful spell or, if possible, the missile arrows that would be left after the fight.
-Boooooom.
Another spike blasted but, this time I had a wall protecting me.
(Earth Wall)
This spell was always effective but, even with all my boosts, I cannot use attack spells while still maintaining the auxiliary and enhancement spells.
I had to wait for my Mana to stabilize at a certain limit for as long as I could.
If that limit were to be crossed, it would mean the fight had entered a critical stage.
[Quickstep]
This fight was going to last the longest, but… I really didn’t want to fight this thing that I was sure to lose.
“Let’s run as fast as we can,” I said under my breath and started running.
Running was the only plausible option before me but, if I didn’t have a choice, I had to find that roaming core in his giant body and destroy it while keeping myself alive.
“I knew this hell was never going to be easy…”