Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne? Chapter 313

I wanted to use the {resist} spells but I was at my limit just using them on myself.
Sorry about that.

The automatic door was descending at the extremely slow speed of 5 cm per second or so.
It seems to be breaking down somewhere from age.
It's pretty shaky.

The moment I identified the top of his head I quickly took my left hand off my bayonet and started making a {Delayed Blast Fire Ball} with 10 times the power.
The delay timer is set to 2 seconds.
At the same time I gave out the order to everyone for them to crouch down and maintain a low posture.
Basu and Jiru were one breath later than the others but they still crouched down right away.

"..Really, even though it's troublesome for me to have to cut the security every single time.."

I can hear the grumbling voice of an older man complaining from the other side of the door.
It seems he's still misunderstanding.
Judging from the details of his announcement just now, I guess from inside he can only determine that the "defense system activated"?
Either there's nothing like observation equipment or a camera setup in the hallway where the sentry gun was or I guess even if there originally was they've already broken down from aging.

If that's not the case then our ident.i.ties should have been exposed the moment the defense system activated.
Also, the activation switch for the security system is definitely near this door, most likely on the other side of it.
Since he probably came over to hit the switch and opened the door in addition to that.
His kindness towards his subordinate(?) ended up backfiring on him.

"Wazumun. Either you've got some bad taste or you're pretty patient..this light..take off the preys equipment before you.."

It seems he can feel the light coming from a weapon with {Grave.Strike} cast on it.
How carefree~
Although, I don't know if it's several hundred or several thousand years but I'm sure no one other than his subordinates has made it this far.
It's not unreasonable for him to misunderstand and be a bit careless.
I just need to take advantage of that.

The mana continues to gather in my hand and becomes a crystal almost like diamond a bit smaller than a fist.
It's done.
The moment this thing explodes it'll turn into a giant {Fire Ball} with a diameter of 50 cm.
It'll then send countless burning stones flying in every direction.

Whether it was faster that the other side noticed me or faster that I threw my grenade to the other side of the door like "Enjoy~" Of course the moment I threw it in I didn't forget to use {Anti-Magic Field} and create a defensive wall.

"Wha!!?"

He raises his voice in shock.
Well, I'm sure.
It seemed like he wasn't expecting an attack after all.
Soon after a large explosion echoed out and a few burning stones flew through the half open door before bouncing off the ceiling and flying over here.
I had expected it but this door is pretty st.u.r.dy.

Soon after the stones were offset by my spell I stood up, quietly walked over to the door and put my left hand on the top of it, then jumped over into the room.
Of course I'm still maintaining {Anti-Magic Field} all the while.

On the other side of the door a hallway continues for roughly 30 meters and beyond that seems to be another T shaped split.
I guess this hall is the base of the T.

Along the wall just before the end of the T shaped hall.
I can see the shadow of a person that must have been blown away.
His clothes are completely in tatters though rather than saying they were blown away by the {Fire Ball} they seem to have originally been pretty worn out.
I can see quite a bit of gray hair growing out of his lowered head but considering how he was exposed to the {Fire Ball} it's probably been quite a while since it was taken care of either way.

With his back to the wall he has his arms crossed in front of his face as he takes a defensive stance.
Including his arms there's stones embedded into his entire body almost like bullets as smoke rises from them.
He seems to have been blown away but it doesn't seem that he was smashed into the wall.
I was able to guess after seeing the top of his head from the other side of the door but he's probably about 20 cm shorter than I am.
I can't really tell his physique because of the worn out clothes but judging from his forearms he doesn't exactly seem to be like a dead tree.

HP: 0+367(498) MP: 508+50(558)

But I'm surprised.
Even though he took a direct hit from a {Delayed Blast Fire Ball} with 10 times the power he still isn't dead!
Though he's taken some serious damage.

He quickly lowered his crossed arms to their original position then raised his head to look over here.

Below his hair was the wrinkled face of an old man just as could be imagined from his voice and his eyes are giving off an evil red light.

Honestly speaking there's a variety of things I'd like to try asking him about but right now there's more important things I need to think about than conversation.
In the first place I'm sure anyone would be pretty p.i.s.sed at someone who suddenly hit them with an attack spell when they were off guard.

I can hear the sound of several people jump through the door behind me.

The wrinkled old man's face twisted into a sneer.

I understand everything. These people are unexpected intruders.
Or at least that's sort of expression he made as he stretched his hand out.

"It's coming!!"

I gave out a warning and continued maintaining my {Anti-Magic Field} while charging forward.
Now, come!
I'll take on all of your attack spells!

The old man made a slightly surprised expression seeing me run over while maintaining my spell but soon after electricity was fired from his hand. It's a narrow hallway so it's probably {Chain Lightning}.

The electricity gave off a crackling noise as it cut through the air and was received by my {Anti-Magic Field} before disappearing with a small discharge.

Even though his own attack spell was erased the old man just made a slightly impressed expression.
Without panicking he fired off another attack spell.

A giant stone spear was fired from the old man's hand.

This is, {Stone Cannon}!?

But, if it's just this level then I'll you I can take it even easier than the {Chain Lightning}!
I adjust the position of my {Anti-Magic Field} that's floating in front of my left hand and took the hit.
The head of the stone spear gave off purple flashes off light as it was swallowed by my {Anti-Magic Field}.

During that time the distance between the {Vampire Lord} and I continued to shorten.

Now~ what do you plan to do next?
No matter what spell you use I'll take them all.

And, suddenly the vampire lord jumped to the side and disappeared.
Wind Magic is it?
I was able to kill off a larger portion of the wind but I can't erase the air that was pushed by the air produced from wind magic with {Anti-Magic Field}.
The speed I was running at was slowed down by a bit.
From where I'm looking the old man vampire lord took off running to the left.

Further down the T shaped hall, it seems the left side leads into a room while the right side leads into a dead end about 10 meters ahead. Though it might not be a dead end but just a closed door.

Down the hall near the entrance to the room the vampire was bent over with his left hand to the ground as he knocked on a portion of the wall with his right hand.
Behind me I can hear the same sound as when the door opened just before.

"You all, protect me! Earn me some time!"

The old man ordered someone before using wind magic once more and retreated further into the room.
I guess he intends to come back when he's ready.

In that case.

While looking over my shoulder I cancel my {Anti-Magic Field}.
Right after I cast the spell {Acid Cloud} with 20 times the mana in front of the door that started to open.
Down the hall is filled with 5 meters of yellow gas.

I still don't know what was hiding behind that door but it would be good if this can slow it down for a bit...
Even if they're vampires there's no way they can pa.s.s through highly corrosive acid gas without taking any damage right?

"I'm leaving the rear to you! Team up and take out everyone that comes out!!"

Now, the real thing starts here!
Those eyeb.a.l.l.s, I've already got a reservation on them!

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The room was 20 meters or so wide and about 50 meters long I guess?
Most likely it's the vampire lords living room.
Chairs made of bones and skin.
What seems to be lighting magic tools are embedded all over the floor so it's pretty bright.
Even though the hallway was bright from just the ceiling, it seems this room has magic tools embedded at fixed intervals.
With just the light coming from below these vampires have bad taste.

Inside of this room I'm engaged in life or death combat.

Both of us are using wind magic to instantaneously move at high speeds while firing off attack spells with the missile effect added to them almost like throwing knives.

However, it's absurd to do that with my normal living body, there's no way for me to keep it up.
Now I'm standing in a place about 5 meters from the entrance of the room where there's no furniture as I deploy an {Anti-Magic Field} in front of my left hand and wait for the vampire lord to run out of MP, that sort of conservative fight.

The vampire lord was making light of me with movements and stamina that are unimaginable from his appearance..and seems to intend on continuing?
No, that's wrong.
The expression on his face is impatience.

HP: 0+997(498) MP: 164+50(558)

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Several minutes prior, just as I was charging into this room following after the vampire lord as it escaped.

From behind I heard Zulu's shouting voice say, "Basu, Maruso, and Mekku you all act to split them up!! Advance! Stay on the defensive and don't let them reach master! Henry and I will block them here! Rubi, Jesu calm down!?" It seems Zulu is skillfully taking command disregarding Basu and Jiru. At the same time I can hear things like, "Come on!! " and "Slow them down! Aim for the legs! I can't hit!" and such but I have no leeway to mind it.

The reason being that my opponent isn't just the vampire lord that retreated into the room but there's three others as well.
The three people in the room that seem to be vampires(they have red eyes and fangs) don't seem to fall behind the vampire we just killed on the 4th floor several hours ago. Furthermore all of them are geared up.

One of them seems to be a middle aged Hyumu woman.
She's wearing the remains of leather armor that's so damaged it normally wouldn't be useful at all and has a round s.h.i.+eld and long sword in her hands.

The next one seems to be a male tiger-race in his late 20s or so.
Just the same as the woman, he's wearing a set of banded mail that was probably pretty high quality at one point but is now completely damaged, as well as holding an ellipsoid s.h.i.+eld in one hand and a large sword in the other.

And then the last one. Wearing a set of splint mail armor that could be considered a wazamono with a long sword specially made from Fuggusu sword shop in his right hand and a custom made spiked buckler with it's surface dyed in a brilliant emerald green color in his left hand, it's a middle aged elf. Miduchi called it a "Rikugan s.h.i.+eld" or something like that. With this it's been confirmed my bonus is up in flames.

These three are standing at the front showing a frightening level of cooperation as they earn time for the vampire lord to use some kind of spell to heal his wounds. Since the vampire lord is an undead he doesn't seem to be using healing spells but some other kind of spell to heal them but he doesn't seem to be used to it so it's taking him some time.

Properly practice your recovery spells.
Though I'm sure he's never actually been injured before now.

At first I was able to freeze both Viruhaima and the middle aged woman with good timing.
During that time I stabbed the tiger-man twice with ym bayonet as well as landing one hit with {Stone Bolt} and was fortunate enough to deal quite a bit of damage.
I ended up taking a single good hit as well and while thanks to my armor I wasn't directly injured, the force of the impact broke a couple of my ribs on top of sending me flying into the entrance wall. Obviously I immediately healed it and erased the damage though.

In any case, while I was playing with the tiger-man like that either Viruhaima or the woman used {Anti-Magic Field} to erase the ice. Since it would probably take quite a bit of time for Viruhaima to concentrate in order to use {Anti-Magic Field} it was probably the woman.
Though I don't have any time to use identify so I can't tell.

Seeing that I panicked for just a moment(they used {Anti-Magic Field} in less than 20 seconds or so) but on the contrary since I was able to cool my head I was able to calmly use spells.

When the tiger-man started swinging his sword down towards me I used {Disintegrate}.
Of course, against the sword that is.
These fellows aren't vampire lords so it would have been fine to just quickly use {Disintegrate} and turn them to dust but as expected the amount of MP required to change an entire person into dust is too huge.

The tiger-man had the sword he was swinging disintegrated and then tripped over after making an empty swing in a flashy way.
I guess even for a vampire he couldn't gain his balance right away after something unexpected happened.

At that moment I used the spell {Vacuum Blade} and sent it flying towards the back of his neck.

The tiger-man's head was sent rolling on the ground without any blood spraying out.
As expected it seems even undead can't survive with their heads cut off.
What was it again?
Miduchi mentioned it.
Ah, Durahan or something like that.
If they aren't one of those then they'll die I guess.

After facing the woman who erased my ice and Viruhaima I fired off a {Flame.Strike} to keep them in check.

It seems Viruhaima opened his eyes in shock for a short moment but soon after laughed in scorn as he brought up his s.h.i.+eld to deflect the baseball sized {Fire Ball}.
However, in a hurry the woman blocked all three of the shots flying at her with her s.h.i.+eld and body. Since she's an undead she obviously should have taken quite a bit more damage than normal.

?

Did she not want her masters bedroom to be set on fire?
Or does she want to commit suicide?

"That's dangerous! Put it out!"

The woman ordered Viruhaima with a strong tone of voice.
After nodding once Viruhaima stopped moving towards me and started concentrating once again.
As if spells from someone of your level could offset my spells!

In that case I'll just fire countless more.

{Flame.Strike}!

This time the woman didn't try to use her body to block them but jumped over the fire b.a.l.l.s and started coming at me from head on.
I guess it's Viruhaima's turn to sacrifice his body?

Now then, this woman, how should I cook her up?
Since she's not the naked vampire she shouldn't use paralysis or whatever else for as long as she's using the sword.
Though her skill with the sword itself should be quite superior just like the tiger-man vampire thanks to the increases in their physical abilities but against a weakened vampire that's taken two hits from small fire b.a.l.l.s...

In that case!

After firing off the spell I immediately went on guard with my bayonet and charged towards the woman.
At the same time I used {Iron Skin}, {Stone Skin}, and {Bark Skin} one after another.

My body is covered in the blue light from the spells.

On top of that I twisted my body so that her long sword would hit my shoulder guard in order to reduce the damage and then from a close distance that can't be dodged shot 8 {Fire Javelins} straight through her.

Huh?
It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would.
Or rather, I don't feel like I took any damage at all.
This, could it be pretty useful?

I brought my bayonet covered in sunlight up as I sliced the woman from below her jaw and cut her face in half as I thought it was strange and looked behind her.

Why? Because I couldn't hear the sound of my {Flame.Strike} exploding.

I was so surprised I thought I might fall over but Viruhaima was deploying the purple colored power field that I'm used to seeing. How in the world is this possible!? That old man, he was able to deploy an {Anti-Magic Field} this fast? Was it the old man who erased the ice just before?

"Fus.h.i.+~!! Feels good..Greed, you seem useful, come over to this side!"

Viruhaima said that while laughing to himself.
You sure are taking it easy even though I just defeated your senior.
Also, he seems to have lost his human emotions.