chapter 16
After talking with Abne, I arrived at a field not far from the royal capital to carry out the quest with Erina.
I decided to deal with a horde of werewolves that were attacking me, and to observe her abilities, I decided to take a step away and watch her.
🥳! 🥳! 🥳!
“Kigging-!”
“Gagging!”
I haven’t watched her for a long time, but if I’m going to judge her by looking at her so far, honestly, she’s showing a good side.
Every time she swings her sword once, the Werewolves fall out one after another, turning into magic stones and tokens of their vows.
Assuming that a raw beginner without any equipment entered the game and created a character, it was usually possible to defeat each Werewolf by hitting at least 4 to 5 times.
So, considering that, for the first time, the specifications were quite good, and the skilled user nurtured additional characters, so the basic items were at a level.
“Is it because my heart is fluttering at the thought that this is the beginning of an adventure? I think I’m in good shape!”
Erina, who was lightly subjugating a group and collecting loot, threw these words to me at first.
“I’m glad, if we go on like this, I don’t think there will be any problems.”
The reason why Erina looks so good is probably because of her special abilities that Goddess Abne said.
According to her beliefs and will, she said she possessed the extraordinary ability to possess countless powers.
In other words, depending on how Erina controls her mind and her mental state, it can provide power to near-infinity, and sometimes even weaken herself.
For now, it seemed to take the form of a plus.
Erina’s ability seemed to provide stronger power compared to her basic ability, perhaps because she had just started her adventure and shared her oath with the goddess she was looking forward to.
However, you should not be relieved. According to Abne, Erina is so naive that she easily collapses. Even if the present moment is okay, when will her heart fail if she does not support her psychologically or achieve her inner growth? Rather, it can be seen as a state of a time bomb in which her abilities may kill her.
So what I can do is to encourage Erina as much as possible and help her grow both mentally and physically.
“End of this! Now, let’s go back to the guild hall.”
At the same time, he is about to leave with a magic stone and a token of the vow that appears with a certain probability in his sack…
“purr…”
An entity that was significantly larger than the Werewolf Erina had faced before was drooling, showing its teeth at us.
Is it a special entity?… As it was almost 2-3 times larger in size, it was a stronger entity than a normal entity, so it seemed unreasonable to deal with Erina alone for now.
“You’re the enemy of Mr. Harold! But don’t worry, this time, I’ll…!”
“Wait Erina!”
By the time I tried to stop her, it was already too late.
He jumped off the ground as if taking a big leap, rushing straight to the Great Wear Wolf and pointing his sword at it.
Whoops!
“Wow?!”
The Werewolf, who had accepted Erina’s sword orthodoxy, seemed to suffer with a strange roar mixed with surprise and pain.
But that’s all…
“Kreungleung…!!”
“What?!”
After all, it was still not enough for Erana to face the gigantic werewolf.
Thanks to her special abilities, she may have gained confidence and power up until now, but since her basic stats are low, the Werewolf was fine even after receiving her sword.
Rather, the Werewolf, who was wounded and enraged by Erina’s blow, became more ferocious, and the situation worsened.
“Kyaaah!!!”
“Shhhhh?! I can’t attack because I’m running so wildly…!”
Tuk!
“Hey!”
In the end, Erina fell off the werewolf’s body and rolled the floor violently, and her neat outfit was stained with dirt and scars.
“Ugh… I thought I could have cut it…”
Saying that, as if he had not yet accepted reality, he drew his sword again and ran towards the werewolf.
However, the Werewolf, who did not want to be hit the second time, raised a large claw and swung it at Erina, but jumped as if soaring, avoiding it lightly, and unleashed the sword once more.
Whoops!
I pierced the blade with all my might in the same area on the opposite side as before, but…
“Obviously, like before, I used all my power, but why this time…”
She also sensed something strange in the scars engraved more lightly than before.
“Ugh!”
The Werewolf, who was so flustered that there was a little gap, couldn’t miss the opportunity, and immediately counterattacked with his claws and cut Erina.
Seeing the three scars engraved on the chest through the armor made it painful for me to watch.
“No… I can do it!”
Even though she was already exhausted, she stood up, clenching her fists in pain, and once again grabbed her sword and attacked, but it was weaker than the stab attack she had done before, and compared to the first blow, the power was ridiculously weak.
“It sure worked well at first… Why…”
Although I was vaguely aware of it, I was able to confirm it only after seeing the attack that was getting weaker and weaker along with the loss of confidence.
He was now losing his mind to the fact that he could not defeat this werewolf, and was losing the power he had gained from his abilities.
Tuk!
“eww…!”
After being thrown to the floor once more and losing her confidence and power, Erina seemed to have reached the point where she could not get up on her own.
He tried to get his body up as he dropped his arms, but he had already reached the limit, so he fell again without a hitch.
“Aww!!”
Recognizing that the prey has weakened, the werewolf pulls out its ferocious teeth and tries to bite Erina.
“Ugh!!”
Now that there was no other way, all she could do now was to close her eyes tightly, cover her face with her arms, and prepare her heart for the shock.
Unable to stand by any longer, I pulled out my sword and jumped to the Great Were Wolf and mutilated the sword.
🤩🤩🤩🤩
“Gagging ㅡㅡㅡ!!”
With wounds all over our body, blood gushed out at once as if in a painting, and our sky was dyed red for a moment, and blood-red rain fell.
“Mr. Harold…?”
Looking at it again, I could only see an incomprehensible existence with my eyes wide open and my mouth twitching.
“it’s okay?”
He hastily casts a magic spell on her to heal all wounds in an instant. Dizziness comes over due to the depletion of magical power, but I’m starting to get used to it now that I’ve been using too much of my magic.
You can cast the highest level magic in any field provided by Eleanor, but only the highest level magic can be used.
So, I recently started as a secondary role as a prosecutor…. I drank a lot of the potion I received last time, so my strength is mediocre, but my speed is so fast that I thought I could deal with any opponent without any burden.
However, what I ultimately want is to increase the maximum amount of mana and use it without any burden, so it seemed like I had to keep practicing the method Eleanor taught me.
Anyway, he went over to Erina again, reached out to her, and raised her up from her seat. In the blink of an eye, he began to touch her body, as if amazed by his body.
“Thank you… Mr. Harold… And I’m sorry… I’m out of my mind…”
He lowers his head at the confidence that has been broken at times and speaks to me in a weak voice that seems to feel the afterglow.
“No, I also made a mistake of just looking around, so I should have helped you sooner.”
However, despite such comfort, he slowly shakes his head and covers his face with his hands.
“No… Mr. Harold certainly dissuaded me, but this is what happened to me because I was going my own way, so in a way it can be called karma.”
I felt like I was going to sink in a different atmosphere than when I caught common entities before the Great Werewolf.
“Isn’t my adventure job well suited to me? Mr. Harold dares to help me, but I don’t really do anything… Like me…”
As Abne said, he had a constitution that was too easy to get hurt. I’m really fine, but I was so disappointed that I even started to hate myself.
In the game, the atmosphere is generally bright, so I didn’t see the main character like this…. Because of his strangely strong twist, an unexplained vigilance grew in the corner of his heart.
“Ugh… I… I…”
Now that she sees her even exuding bad luck, she decides that she shouldn’t be left alone, so she has to do something to comfort her.
But no matter how kindly I am, I don’t know if it will stop…
Shall I say something a little bolder?
He floats a light bulb above his head with a novel and strange idea.
If the parents just recklessly comfort the crying child, they will only cry louder.
At that time, I’ve seen a few times where I’d rather get angry and force myself to stop crying because I thought that the child had done too much.
So, I think it’s a good choice.
“Erina! Listen to me!”
Suddenly, he raised his voice and grabbed her by the shoulder.
“What?!”
Fortunately, it seems to have worked, the melancholy mood is removed and the face begins to blush.
“Mr. Harold?! Now, your hand is on your shoulder-!”
“You did nothing wrong! So be confident! No matter how incompetent or weak you may be! You have me, right?!”
I used to say it strongly, but I didn’t have a devised sentence, so I randomly combined the key keywords that came to my mind and made a blunt statement.
“?!!”
At those words, her face reddened even more, and her eyes began to brighten again, and her red hair was gradually erected as if static electricity had occurred in her suddenly hot mood.
“That… that…”
He started to tremble as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn’t understand if he was too nervous.
“Uh…if that’s what Harold said…”
Then, as if embarrassed, he lowered his head in a different meaning from before and did not try to make eye contact with me.
“I mean… you have to take responsibility…?”
I don’t know what you’re talking about, but it’d be better to answer that you know first, right?
“Of course, whatever you do, leave it to me.”
When he answered that, he had a chic expression for a moment, but soon he turned his cheeks red again and started muttering to himself that he couldn’t hear well.