I Don’t Want To Be the Main Character

47. Rudric hides his power

1.

Actually, if I were alone, I would just fly high and look down at the surroundings, and if there is a side that I met with a monster, I would just fly in that direction.

Unfortunately, Serene, who was chosen as my escort, was a pure martial arts knight who could not use magic.

Of course, in terms of physical ability alone, he would be much superior to me, but the problem is that there is no way to catch up with this one flying through the sky.

I couldn’t help it, so I just floated and flew away, a little strange shape, and Serene was busy watching the surroundings from the side.

“……Squad 1 headed northwest, so we should be able to catch up quickly.”

“Actually, there’s not a big difference between us and the departure time, isn’t it?”

“Yes. There’s not much difference in terms of time, so it’s probably starting to show… I can hear it.”

“Yes?”

I listened closely to Serene’s words, but I couldn’t hear anything.

I wondered how far away I could even hear the sound, but once I heard the sound, I calmly followed Serin for a few minutes.

As the distance narrowed, I began to hear the sound of fighting in my ears.

The sound of blades clashing with each other, and a scream that was clearly not human, was heard.

Greuk! Kiek!

This is the first monster I’ve heard since I was born.

Although our territory was located in a very small village, the security was not so low that dangerous monsters roamed around. Speaking of monsters that could be seen around them, they were all low-level monsters like goblins.

At least, it was hard to find nose plucking near the village once the guards came out regularly to clean it up, so for me, this is completely new to me.

“It’s just like an animal cry?”

I was expecting a sound more like a monster from a monster movie, but it wasn’t much different from the cries of beasts like tigers and lions I’d seen on YouTube in my previous life.

Even though I tilted my head, when I pushed my face through the dense bushes, I could see the knights fighting a monster the size of a house I had never seen before.

“Stay in line! If you are pushed back, you will get hurt, not you, but the comrade behind you! Keep this fact in mind and fight!”

A huge body that seems to be well over 5m.

And the dark green skin was stabbed and bleeding green from cuts.

Not similar to common animals, but a completely different heteromorphic appearance.

And the decisive feature is that the scars on the skin heal quickly enough to be seen with the naked eye.

“……Is that a troll?”

“That’s right. One squad of Imperial Knights can take it down without damage, but…”

Serene, who answered my self-talk, blurted out her words.

The number of monsters Serene identified as trolls was not one. Three huge monsters.

Compared by simple numbers, the number of humans was much higher since it was a fight of twenty people against three, but the problem was that the three of them were so huge that they could not compare with twenty humans.

“The opponent wasn’t good. If we hadn’t come, we wouldn’t have known the deaths, but we would have been seriously injured.”

“Well, let’s pretend it was a good thing we came here.”

I replied and looked at my sister sideways. In fact, it’s been ten years since I’ve seen his face, but he’s fighting with a nervous expression like never before, careful not to get caught up in the troll’s superpowers.

Even though there were at least five or six people attached to each animal, and as they continued to recover from their wounds, the fight seemed to drag on tediously.

To the extent that even I, a stranger to physical use, can understand it enough.

“The conditions are too unreasonable.”

“Yes?”

“Humans can inflict fatal wounds just by brushing against them, but trolls rely only on their resilience and don’t block moderate attacks.”

“I think it can’t be helped because the race you were born with is different, but would you like to join us?”

“It should be.”

“I will protect you. I can stop at least one troll, so don’t worry.”

As soon as I heard Serene’s boastful words, which were rather trustworthy because there was no addition or subtraction in her words, I stretched out my hand and began to concentrate my mana.

This is the first time I’ve used magic against an enemy in real combat.

Since there is no situation as embarrassing as an ally being hit and injured by blind magic, he was rather concentrating on controlling power rather than output.

‘…… Actually, I don’t know if it will work.’

As soon as I got into the actual battle, the expectations I had before disappeared, and it felt like tension and worry were filling the place.

No one else, but a court wizard from a country, even praised me for being the archmage superintendent.

According to what I read in a book when I started self-study, magic is the act of realizing an image in your head through the medium of magical power.

The first thing you should do is burn yourself.

I slowly draw an image in my head.

If you ask me what I need right now, I can answer right away without hesitation. A magic powerful enough to pierce the ignorant level of resilience of the trolls who are rampaging there, showing off their superpowers, and leaving fatal wounds in a single stroke.

Power, in other words, destructive power.

‘This is fire, needless to say at length.’

It doesn’t matter because you’ve already reached the stage where you can use magic regardless of attributes.

The first ‘fire’ pictured in my head is a gigantic flame that burns with the momentum to cover the world.

‘…… This can’t be The knights might get caught up in it.’

But I don’t have the confidence to control its power, so I pass.

The next image that came to my mind was a huge spear of flame striking down from the sky.

The spear of fire, like a flame gifted to humans by the gods in mythology, fell toward the ground and pierced the top of the imaginary troll’s head.

The confidence that I would be able to do it was a bonus.

‘Good.’

Nick the image you just conceived in your head. I went straight to the work of realizing the picture into reality.

The magic circuit, which had been quiet until now, began to rotate furiously.

The three stages of magic leading to cohesion, transformation, and manifestation.

The formidable amount of mana that has settled in my body is gathered toward the circuit and condensed, and in order to be manifested in the form of magic, the mana goes through the process of being refined and changed.

It is a lengthy process when laid out like this, but in reality it was a process that took place in the blink of an eye.

Even though I’m self-taught, it’s already been nearly ten years since I started learning magic, and as Princess Elena said, I came to the capital and learned what I lacked from my master, and my skills greatly increased.

The last step is expression.

“……!”

As soon as I opened my closed eyes, I stretched out my hand.

And.

Quguaguaguagwang!!

A spear of flame that fell from the sky pierced a troll from the top of its head in an instant. The troll, pierced and pinned to the ground as if it had been skewered, let out a scream.

Quaaagh!

It wasn’t the screams of attacking knights until now, but a scream that was like a real death on the verge of death.

But perhaps that scream was the last outburst, the whole body of the toasted troll shuddered and then stopped moving.

“Good!”

I succeeded neatly in the real battle, and I unknowingly clenched my fist at the fierce blow.

However, there was no time to feel a sense of accomplishment.

As if the first blow was an omen, the spear of flame that pierced the troll exploded violently instead of being scattered back into mana and restored in the air.

Quaaang-!

A storm of flames raged with a deafening roar.

The wind was so hot that I could feel it even from a distance, but there was no time to escape the heat.

“……No, I didn’t intend to use it this strongly.”

Obviously this wasn’t the picture I drew in my head…….

2.

To start with the conclusion, Ludrick’s magic once was enough to deal with the three monsters, and not just the monsters, but the trolls, who were definitely high-level monsters.

The first spear of fire pierced and burned the first troll it hit, and the second round of firestorms burned two other nearby trolls neatly.

The dark green skin had turned black as if it had been completely burned, not scorched, so the troll’s boasted resilience was meaningless in the face of such powerful fire magic.

The only problem was that the power of the magic was too strong even though it was controlled by adjusting the output.

“It stings…”

“……Sister, I’m really sorry. I didn’t do that on purpose. The magic worked harder than I thought.”

Serilla, applying her burn ointment, rolled her eyes as she wrapped a bandage over it.

A total of six people were injured in the first squad that fought a fierce battle with three trolls. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries, all minor injuries. The contents of the injury were burns due to intense heat.

Until Rudrick arrived, no one was attacked by the troll, but after Rudrick arrived and used his magic once, six knights close to the troll were burned by the heat.

Among those six were Serilla, Rudrick’s older sister.

“Rudric.”

“Obviously the image I imagined ended right at the window, but I don’t know why it exploded again…. I’m really sorry… Is your sister hurting a lot?”

Thanks to that, Serilla was in a strange mood.

Her cute little brother, who wouldn’t hurt even if he put it in her eyes, was apologizing with a teary face. She’s her arm burned, though it’s a bit sore.

We’ve only exchanged letters in the past, but seeing a younger brother whom we haven’t seen since childhood has grown up and is at a loss for what to do…….

‘Several women will cry.’

Serilla shook her head, thinking for a moment that she thought about something bad that her older sister shouldn’t do.

…… In fact, even though the rare scene of five women hanging on one Ludrick had occurred until recently.

Serilla, who did not express herself, sighed and tousled Rudrick’s hair.

“It’s fine. It’s just a slight sting at most. It’s not blistered or badly hurt.”

“……Sister, give me your arm.”

“Huh?”

Now that the ointment is applied and bandages are applied, simple first aid is over.

Serilla asked with her puzzled face, but Rudrick grabbed her arm tightly. And the flowing magic power.

A cold touch touched her burnt arm, followed by cold magic. And the feeling of the lacerations on her arms slowly beginning to heal.

“……Rudrick, did you know how to use recovery magic?”

“Yes. I need to learn.”

Serilla asked with her eyes of surprise, and Rudrick nodded her head.

Upon confirming that fact, Serilla scanned her surroundings with her eyes. The other knights also suffered minor burns that could heal on their own if they applied ointment and prevent infection with bandages.

“……Ludrick, do you have to hold on to the injured part like this to use the recovery magic?”

“That’s right. That way the mana flows directly into it.”

“……For now, let’s keep this a secret.”

As soon as Rudrick said yes to the question he asked for confirmation, Serilla made a gesture that seemed to quietly shut her mouth.

It can’t be helped if it’s a serious wound, but it’s a light wound anyway.

To be honest.

As an older sister, this was the reason I didn’t want to see my younger brother holding another woman’s arm and making physical contact.