How To Suck Honey With Extras [EN]: Chapter 205

228. Planned Escape (4)

To summon a highest-grade spirit in one go.

“And you added a trick on top of that.”

“Oh my, did you notice?”

Before I knew it, Executive Pemalt, who had similarly flown into the air and was confronting me, let out a low chuckle.

Even after summoning a spirit of that magnitude, her mana didn’t seem to have decreased at all.

That means…….

“You didn’t summon it with your own magic power… Aha, I see. From the city, huh? You gathered it from there.”

Considering what might have happened to the rest of the city’s residents besides the 10,000 who could fight, there’s no other logical answer.

“You gathered and used the magic power of the city’s residents?”

“That’s right. Ohohohoho.”

She speaks as if praising a child for solving a puzzle.

“The amount of mana each individual has may be insignificant, but the total amount from the residents living in a city cannot be ignored.”

“……Indeed.”

Every little bit helps.

Even a highest-grade spirit can be summoned with that amount, huh?

“The idea that only spiritists can summon and use spirits is just a boring prejudice. Conversely, one of the best ways to counter a spiritist is with an equally powerful spirit.”

Fight fire with fire.

“……I didn’t want to be in a position to hear that.”

However, there’s no time to relax.

The moment the summoned ice spirit spotted me, it began to wail.

-Khaaaaaaaaak!

With a screech, the ice spirit’s carapace [protective shell] glittered.

I soon realized that it had shattered the ice on its carapace and fired it off.

Like missiles, countless ice bullets rained down.

“Tch, just because you’re a giant monster doesn’t mean you have to act like one.”

I quickly gained altitude to evade, and the missed ice bullets fell in all directions.

Kwagagagagagagag!

The area echoed as if a bombing was taking place, and a mix of dust and ice particles rose up.

“……It’s a complete battlefield.”

The places where the ice fell froze and shattered.

Each and every one of those contains the ice energy of the spirit.

Each shot is as powerful as a high-level ice magic.

Even with my resistance, I could get frostbite just by touching it.

Even I can’t handle it easily.

“Attack! Everyone jump in and surround it!”

I command the guardians who were on standby.

For now, let’s use them as shields and decoys as intended.

But, as expected.

As expected, the ice spirit froze them with a burst of cold air as if they were annoying, and they shattered.

‘Weak!’

Annihilated in one blow.

Is this the power of a highest-grade spirit?

In the end, the only thing I can rely on is my own skill.

“Let’s try it out…… Salamander!”

Fire is the best thing to test against ice.

The summoned Salamander circled around the ice spirit and released a large amount of flames.

The swirling flames engulfed the ice spirit’s entire body and exploded.

“……Tch.”

But I clicked my tongue.

The ice spirit simply shook its body slightly, and the flames easily scattered.

‘Should I try a different flame? No… it won’t work because the firepower is lacking.’

The Salamander’s current grade is intermediate.

Even though its firepower is superior to other intermediate spirits thanks to my spiritism, it’s difficult to have an effect on a being that is two ranks higher.

Moreover…….

“……There’s one more annoying thing!”

Right behind me, eerie and sharp arrows of light poured down.

It’s Pemalt’s attack.

I activated Transfer again to evade and clicked my tongue.

There’s the spirit over there, and if I focus on that, she’ll aim for my blind spot and launch a surprise attack.

In reality, it’s a 2-on-1 situation.

What is this?

“This is a bit troublesome, for sure.”

I didn’t expect her to summon and use even a highest-grade spirit to attack.

More than anything.

“……I really don’t like the methods you come up with.”

It’s annoying.

“Oh my? It seems you’ve noticed.”

“Of course. Well, you’re calling yourself a spiritist, after all. ……You’re planning to use and discard that spirit, aren’t you?”

Spiritism is a method of summoning spirits, making a contract with them, and synchronizing them with your own spirit energy to exert power.

There are no exceptions to that principle.

But the state of the spirit that woman summoned is contradictory.

She only summons it but doesn’t make a contract.

Even if the mana she’s supplying is the spirit energy squeezed and converted from the city’s residents, it’s still strange.

How is that woman using the spirit?

“Spirits are basically mental entities, so if you’re skilled in mental interference magic, you might be able to interfere with them.”

“That’s right. There’s no difference between humans and spirits. Interfering is very simple.”

My spirits have my unique spirit energy residing in them.

In other words, my resistance is equally exerted on the spirits, so they can’t be easily attacked with mental interference magic.

But.

It’s different for wild spirits without a contractor.

You can manipulate them however you want.

Even without a contractor, the only free beings in this land are the Spirit Kings.

“If you treat a spirit like this, that spirit will be destroyed.”

Mental interference will have a negative impact on spirits, which are pure mental entities.

If left like that, the elements that make up its existence will collapse and disappear soon.

Even now, it can’t control its power properly, so it’s not fully utilizing its potential.

“Huhu. Are you worried about that spirit? Your heart is admirable, but I don’t know if you’ll have the luxury to do so.”

She pours out attacks while sneering mockingly.

Her magic power expands and turns into blue flames that pour down.

As I respond, the ice spirit launches a cooperative attack towards me, as if aiming for that gap.

Flames from above, and a large number of ice bullets from below.

‘What a handful!’

That woman’s magic is threatening enough, but it’s even more so when combined with the attack of a highest-grade spirit.

‘First, I have to do something about that spirit.’

The method is surprisingly simple.

Just eliminate it.

It was forcibly summoned, and its components are unstable, so if I fight in a way that induces collapse, I can somehow manage.

‘But I don’t want to do that.’

Still, I’m a spiritist, so it’s a method I don’t want to choose.

First, to buy some time to think about a plan, I summoned Undine and poured a large number of water arrows on both sides.

Executive Pemalt smirked and distanced herself, avoiding the barrage of water arrows.

The ice spirit remains unchanged.

The water arrows shatter, and the freezing water droplets only sparkle.

Tch. It doesn’t work.

Well, it doesn’t matter since water arrows can’t do any damage, but it’s a bit frustrating.

“Tch.”

While I was clicking my tongue.

-That one’s pitiful.

Undine tugged at my pants.

She knows instinctively.

“Pitiful?”

-That one hurts a lot.

“……I know that too. Well, I’ll help, so don’t worry. But you’ll have to put in some effort.”

-Okay!

Undine answered, and although I couldn’t hear them, the energies of the other spirits seemed to respond as well.

Indeed, this is the right thing to do.

“Then the remaining method is to purely suppress that spirit with force and undo the spell cast on it…… Oops!”

There’s no time to leisurely analyze it.

The ice spirit’s eyes seemed to turn towards me, and then it emitted a blue light from its entire body.

As I quickly used Transfer to evade, the missed blue light fell into the forest.

After the light faded, all that remained was a scene of white particles scattering.

Everything caught in the cold disappeared.

“……It used ultra-low temperature cold to freeze and turn everything into powder.”

As expected of a highest-grade spirit.

If I were hit directly by that cold, even the toughest monster would be fragmented into cells and scattered like snowflakes.

If the battle drags on, the surrounding area will be damaged.

Even if it’s rough, let’s focus on suppression.

“Undine, water! Gather as much water as possible in the sky and drop it!”

Undine begins to summon a large amount of water.

The water created by changing my spirit energy soon became as large as the spirit itself.

“There’s no point in fighting a firepower battle against a highest-grade spirit anyway!”

So I have to use tactics that are unrelated to the power of spiritism.

The water summoned by Undine reacted to the cold emitted by the ice spirit.

It immediately froze and soon became a giant iceberg.

The iceberg, which lost Undine’s control, fell as it was.

“Mass attacks have nothing to do with spirit energy!”

Have a taste of iceberg!

I applied gravity control to the falling iceberg to further increase its speed.

Kugugugugugugu!

The sight of an object of overwhelming size falling is enough to make your heart race just by looking at it.

Belatedly, the ice spirit instinctively realized the danger and raised its head, but it was too late.

Kwaaaang!

The sound of two icebergs colliding echoed, and the impact strongly struck the surrounding air.

The shock was enough to make my heart pound.

The ground below sank with a rumble, and at the same time.

-Keeeeeeeeeeek!

For some reason, the ice spirit seemed to be screaming.

Well, I must have misheard.

I’ve created an opening with this attack, so it’s my chance.

‘If I’m going to face that head-on, I have no choice but to use that.’

In that short moment, I drew out a complex magic formula and created mana according to that formula, then activated the magic.

The opportunity to use it in real combat has finally come.

“Atom Metamorphose.”

I began to cast the magic I obtained from Ashilla.

Operating high-level magic is a very complex and profound task.

Even a small mistake could be irreversible.

Of course, my movements will inevitably become relatively slow while calculating that formula.

“Gap!”

In the meantime, Pemalt aims for my gap and pours magic from behind.

For now, Undine and Sprite scatter water and lightning arrows to restrain her, but they are barely offset.

That side is also annoying.

“……Okay, if you wish, I’ll deal with you first.”

The calculation is already complete.

That woman is just right as a test run opponent.

The pure white light, created by the gathering of countless local magic circles, stays on my arm.

The light that promotes change.

Suppressing the strange sense of elation that rises up, I threw myself into the air.

Accelerating as much as possible through wind and gravity control, I jumped right in front of Pemalt.

The only thing I will use is one thing.

A fist.

“What are you doing?”

“I just wanted to punch you once. ……It’s the glorious first opponent of the lost magic. Take a hit.”

It’s not a complicated martial art.

Simply extending a fist.

To block my fist, Pemalt put her staff forward and created a barrier.

Kwaaaaaang!

The atmosphere echoed with the impact, and the barrier she created was shattered by a single punch, and even the staff couldn’t withstand it and was split.

Seeing the fragments of the staff scattering in the air, Pemalt’s eyes were swallowed by astonishment.

“Wh-What…… what?!”

The fist that pierced through the defense struck her torso with the force to crush it and blew her away.

Pat!

Dust is faintly rising, perhaps because she was thrown hundreds of meters away.

I couldn’t even see her flying.

“It’s quite useful?”

I looked closely at my transformed fist and fell into a happy mood.

Currently, my arm has changed its shape up to the elbow.

The skeleton has become stronger, and the arm is covered with red scales like armor.

Like the arm of a monster.

It’s the result of using magic to tamper with some of the body’s components.

‘But at this point, it’s almost in the realm of human body modification.’

Is this really okay…….

With that thought, I activated the magic again and returned my arm to its original state.

“……But this is the limit.”

Apparently, the body structure of living things is complicated to interfere with.

Ashilla used this magic more diversely when demonstrating it, but this is my limit.

It’s probably because my calculation ability and the vessel for wielding magic are still incomplete.

‘I can’t use it easily.’

I need to improve further.

‘But it’s useful enough.’

Its value lies in application rather than single use.

With this, I can increase firepower enough by combining it with other forces.

While I was convinced of that, the ice spirit spotted me again and began to pour out attacks.

How hasty.