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Chapter 61
Rumble, rumble, rumble...
There were no cries, only the growing roar of monsters advancing.
“Hard, you say?”
“Harder than I thought.”
Maxwell tightened his grip on his sword, nerves evident in his stance.
Wе b̊ n о̃v́ е̄ l̂ Ë n̂ũm_а̇
“Stay sharp.”
Through the massive cloud of sand, the silhouettes within gradually grew clearer.
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“Is that... crabs?”
“Giant spider crabs—they won’t be easy.”
Their long legs and claws, out of proportion with their bodies, stirred a strange discomfort, and their size was almost that of a person.
“They’re not the strongest of monsters, but we’ll need to be careful.”
En̄u mа̀ .id
“Wait... how many of them are there?”
Chloe stared blankly ahead as she muttered.
At a glance, their numbers were far beyond a few dozen.
“They’re colony creatures.”
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Hundreds of giant spider crabs charged toward us as if they were one massive entity.
“Hhhup!”
W̄ ѐb.n ӧ v̇ е̌ l̂ .Е n u m̄_а
Blue flames began flickering around Chloe’s body.
The undying flame—Azure Hellfire.
She must have judged this wasn’t something to take lightly.
Crustaceans were weak to heat, so it wasn’t a bad choice.
“Rose, Viola! Cut down their numbers first!”
There was still quite a distance before the crabs would reach us.
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Even if Chloe and Maxwell held the front, there was no way the two of them could stop hundreds of monsters alone.
“Didn’t need to say it—we’re on it!”
Rose shouted back, and with Viola, began to unfold their magic circles.
Blue energy gathered, then took the shape of crystalline snowflakes before shattering lightly.
Crashhh!
In the next moment, ice pillars erupted from the sandy ground, freezing dozens of crabs where they stood.
Е n̄ ūm̈а
The Frost Prison.
A fifth-tier freezing spell, notoriously difficult to cast due to its precise coordinate targeting.
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“Damn it, there’s not much I can use underwater!”
Fire spells couldn’t ignite, lightning would affect us too because of the seawater, and even the Cribel twins’ specialty—poison magic—would only disperse uselessly.
The twins’ choice had been the best possible one.
Sheer numbers had to be handled by the mages.
Е ñùmа̌
The vanguard’s job was to keep enemies from reaching them.
That was the usual strategy against many foes, but not this time.
“Enough. Save your strength for now.”
This much was already sufficient.
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By rough estimate, that Frost Prison had cut the swarm down by about twenty percent.
“Maxwell, you can handle a Frost Gale, right?”
Ё ñ ǔm ă.і d
The third-tier spell Frost Gale.
Not as powerful as Frost Prison, but at this stage, Maxwell could only manage up to tier three.
“Cast it now.”
Maxwell unleashed a flurry of snow-laden winds at the spider crabs.
They didn’t freeze solid like with Frost Prison, but their advance slowed drastically as the cold seeped into them.
“Don’t stop, keep it going.”
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At my words, Maxwell nodded firmly.
“Then let’s finish the rest. Their shells are tough, so aim for the joints.”
I drew my dagger as well.
Even slowed, there were still too many for Maxwell and Chloe alone.
I had to do my part to thin them out.
‘Feels like I’m always fighting on the front line!’
Е nǔ m̀ ӑ
[Warning detected]
[Trait: Isaiah’s Prophecy has activated.]
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Dodging their attacks along predicted paths, I struck at the joints of the giant spider crabs.
Once the legs were broken and their movement slowed, I finished them by driving my dagger into their mouths.
It was tedious, but the most reliable method.
In truth, I only had to take care of the ones Chloe and Maxwell missed, so the numbers weren’t overwhelming.
Е̊ ṅum̂ а̃
Chloe swept through them with her Azure Hellfire.
With each swing, the heat alone toppled two or three crabs at once.
‘And Maxwell...’
He kept casting Frost Gale without pause, all while calmly cutting down the crabs.
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‘That’s a protagonist for you.’
Though he took minor injuries here and there, Shane healed them immediately from behind, so there were no real problems.
Ӗň_ū_m̄ӑ
“Phew...”
As the battle dragged on and their numbers dwindled, Maxwell began to complain.
“In battles like this, you really need to use mages more aggressively.”
He looked exhausted.
Individually, the giant spider crabs weren’t especially strong, but facing a swarm was a different matter.
When endless enemies pressed in, even weak ones would wear you down.
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‘Numbers are everything in the end.’
“You’re right, but this is different.”
In the original story, the Secret Pursuit Club handled this situation by letting the Cribel twins’ magic wipe out the swarm...
Crashhhh!
The ground shook violently, a massive movement twisting the very earth.
“Colony creatures always have a leader.”
Еn ūm̂а .і̀ d̃.
Boom!
A gigantic claw burst out of the ground.
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“What the—!”
Chloe shouted, stumbling back in shock.
Just the claw alone dwarfed several grown men.
It was the leader of the giant spider crab colony.
Е n̊ům̄а̀ . і̌ d̂.
“At that size, ‘giant spider crab’ is the only fitting name.”
Like an undersea mountain rising, its body slowly emerged.
Slow only because of its sheer size—its speed was far from sluggish.
The leader’s bulk was comparable to a building.
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Whummm!
“Dodge!”
Еn̊ŭ m а.. і̂_d
Boom!
With a single swing of its claw, the surroundings were torn apart.
The sudden strike scattered our formation.
“Drek, get Shane out of here! Cribel twins, prepare maximum output! Chloe, Maxwell—hold on as best you can!”
Drek immediately hoisted Shane onto his back and sprinted away.
Protecting the healer was the first rule of battle.
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As long as the healer survived, regrouping was always possible.
“How are we supposed to hold against this thing?!”
Even as Chloe shouted in frustration, she fought back against the leader’s massive attacks.
At best, she could deflect them slightly, but to even do that against such a monster—only Chloe and Maxwell among academy students could manage it.
Rumble, rumble, rumble...
More giant spider crabs swarmed in behind the leader.
W̃e b nо vӗ l Е n̈ u m å
“I’ll take care of those.”
I sheathed my dagger and charged into the swarm.
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I was far separated from the others now.
But in truth, this distance suited me better.
‘At least this way, they won’t get caught up.’
I reshaped Iblis’s Reverse Scale into the form of a mask and put it over my face.
W̄ѐ b̄n̆.о.vе̃_l̆ Ё ṅù ma
Shhhhhh!
I exhaled Iblis’s poisonous miasma.
I didn’t swing my dagger.
I simply avoided the crabs’ attacks using Isaiah’s Prophecy, spreading poison with every breath.
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The giant spider crabs weren’t very intelligent.
All they did was charge at the enemy in front of them.
Е̂ n̂_u m̊а̄ .іd
They didn’t even realize their own bodies were failing as they recklessly lunged at me.
Krrrrrk.
With strange noises, their movements slowed down one by one.
Even underwater, their breathing sounded ragged, and foamy bubbles spilled from their mouths.
‘That takes care of most of the small fry...’
“You damn shells are really starting to annoy me!”
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At Rose’s shout, massive ice pillars shot up.
The fifth-tier spell, Frost Prison.
It was the same spell as before, but on a much larger scale.
Pillars big enough to freeze the leader’s claw solid.
‘Tch... still not enough.’
It wasn’t satisfying.
Ӗ ň u ṁ а
In the original story, the Cribel twins had wasted too much mana on the first wave of giant spider crabs and couldn’t freeze the leader.
‘That’s why I told them to conserve their mana...’
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The one-year gap in growth between the original second-years and our current timeline was bigger than I thought.
By my plan, this single strike should have been enough to finish the leader.
“Maxwell! Same as the others—go for the joints!”
“I don’t need you to tell me that.”
E_ñúm̊ а̊
Maxwell’s body shrank for an instant—then vanished.
No, not vanished.
He had focused every nerve and muscle, moving with not a single wasted motion.
His technique—‘Control.’
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Crashhh! Crack!
With a deafening roar, Maxwell reappeared.
Е nú ṁ а̀
“Damn it...!”
He spat out a curse under his breath.
He had aimed to sever the frozen claw completely, but the attack hadn’t delivered the expected result.
The giant claw shook violently but didn’t break off.
“Chloe!”
Tap-tap-tap-tap!
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The moment I called her name, Chloe was already racing up the leader’s claw, as if she had known her role all along.
Maxwell’s strike might have fallen short, but it wasn’t without effect.
He had cracked the joint, leaving a gap.
“Now break off, damn it!”
Chloe swung her blade into the gap.
The Azure Hellfire seeped into the fracture Maxwell had created.
Еñ.u m̂ã ..і́ḋ
“Krrrrrrrk!”
The leader let out a grotesque sound it had never made before as its body convulsed.
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Crunchhh!
The enormous claw fell away.
Boommm!
The leader thrashed wildly, but it didn’t last long.
Ẇе b̂nȯvе̃l Е n̊ ǔm a
“Ignition.”
Chloe drove her blade into the exposed flesh where the claw had been, and blue flames roared inside the hardened shell.
Fwoooosh!
The shell that had once protected it now became a prison that trapped the fire inside.
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The leader collapsed and never rose again.
“So much for me saying I was glad this would end peacefully—I take that back.”
E n̆ úm̄ӓ
Chloe slid her sword free as she spoke.
“I never said it would end peacefully.”
At my words, Chloe sighed and nodded.
“Is everyone okay?”
Shane, still perched on Drek’s shoulder, looked at us as he spoke.
“Anyone badly hurt?”
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“I’m fine.”
“I’m fine too.”
“Looks like no one’s down.”
“Thank goodness...”
Shane patted Drek’s arm carefully.
“Would you mind putting me down now...?”
Enu m̊ a
“Oh, sorry.”
Drek scratched his head awkwardly as he set Shane down.
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“Rose, how about you?”
“Exhausted!”
Her booming voice made it clear she wasn’t in serious danger.
“If we were going to run into something like that, a little warning would’ve been nice! That damn Sea King, what bad luck.”
W̊е ḃn̂ о̆ v е̃ l Еn ŭm̌á
Rose flopped onto the sandy ground, drained after expending so much mana.
“I doubt the Sea King knew.”
“Huh?”
“Giant spider crabs are docile monsters by nature.”
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They normally only preyed on smaller animals and never attacked humans unless provoked.
For even the regular crabs, let alone the leader, to turn aggressive against people—it was anything but ordinary.
En ümа̄
“Leon Jodrick, next time give us a heads-up.”
Maxwell’s eyes glinted sharply as he stared at me.
“That means something drove the crabs into a frenzy, doesn’t it?”
As expected of the protagonist, Maxwell Willard was piecing things together even though I hadn’t explained anything yet.
“What the hell is up ahead?”
Whatever could drive the giant spider crabs into madness—was also the greatest obstacle standing between us and the Aegis Shield.
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“There’s nothing good in knowing beforehand, but if you really want to hear it, I’ll say it now.”
One of the vanished 72 demons.
“Do you know the name Decarabia?”
The 69th-ranked demon—Decarabia.
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