278 Episode 0278



Time goes back a little.
 Ray and Sett were jumping out of the thicket and climbing up and down.
 A monster flying in the sky first flies to an altitude that is impossible to reach, and then goes up as if it were still not enough.
 Atmospheric pressure and temperature drop as altitude rises, but it is Ray's body created by Dragon Robe and Zepyle. Furthermore, since it was a set of glyphons created by Ray's enormous magical powers, he managed to maintain consciousness in spite of the severe environment.  
 Still, Ray is dancing in the sky telling her will by caressing Seto's neck, wondering if she can't afford to talk when she comes up to this height.

(Now, even if we were to create a fire whirlwind, which is a combination technique with Seto, would we have to go down to the ground for a while? At times like this, if Sett's skill level was high, he would be able to attack from outside the range with more leeway.

 Regardless of Ray's magic, the windy hand, which is also a skill of death size, has an Lv of 2 and an effect range of about 150m. On the other hand, Sett's tornado, which can be said to be the key to creating a fire whirlwind, is only about 1m in size with an Lv tornado.
 It's a tornado that can be said to be the basis, core, or center of a fire whirlwind, so in order to do what Ray was going to do, it was necessary to create a tornado on the ground, and to do that, he had to go down to the ground once.

(That's why it's so high.) Even though they are Dragon Knights, they won't be able to find Seto far above themselves. ...but this is the only time I can use it.)

 a raid carried out at a higher altitude than the presence of ordinary dragon knights and flying monsters It's certainly effective, but once it's known to have such a means, it's a surefire tactic. Strangely enough, the raids used by Ray and Theoreum were similar in that they were highly effective at the first time, but easier to detect after the second time.
 No, a surprise attack from a high altitude is possible because of the special presence of Ray and Seto, and in terms of versatility, its application is significantly less than that of a surprise attack on Theoreum that anyone can do with a metastase.

"Glu".

 Ray hears the sound of Seto, wondering if there is any problem with his activity at this altitude.
 When I heard the voice, I turned my eyes to Seto and found him nodding softly.
 Looking beyond Sett's gaze, Ray can see the two figures at the center of the two forces facing each other on the ground returning to his own forces.
 It was obvious what it meant.

(In other words, the war begins!)

 I recall stories from Reno, knights, or neutrals. The beginning of the war began when representatives of each other's forces advised their opponents to surrender and they refused to do so and returned to their own forces. That is to say...

(But now!)

 When Ray muttered so inwardly, the war might have actually started on the ground. The vanguard forces of both the Royal Army of Milliana and the Imperial Army of Bestia begin to move.
 On both sides, the army of the Kingdom of Milliana totals 100,000 versus the army of the Empire of Bestia 150,000. However, the main force of the Royal Army of Milliana, which was the royal faction behind the scenes, remains intact, and there is no sign of advancing at all. Still, the formation and preparation to fill the gap as soon as the vanguard falls is proof that Arius, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Army of Milliana, is far from incompetent.
 By contrast, the main force has already moved, following the vanguard. I had anticipated the slow movement of the main force on the side of the Royal Army of Milliana from the beginning, and it was a move to counteract the slow movement.
 As he watches, Seto ploughs straight into the vanguard of the Vestian Empire. At his back Ray had already taken his death size out of the mistling and was ready to shake at any time.
 Of course, the Imperial Army of Bestia must not have noticed that they were acting so ostentatiously. But Sett was too fast to deal with the action.
 Of course, there was also a Dragon Knight, whom Ray considered a tough opponent. However, the majority of the Dragon Knights were assigned to the main unit as trump cards to determine the battle situation, and they were still on the ground without flying, so it was impossible to deal with Seto.
 And even the Dragon Knight, who had been assigned to one of the few vanguards, had little way to counter Seto, who had descended directly from a high altitude. A few flying dragons barely spat out flame bullets from their mouths, but that's all they can do.
 Or if this was a historical dragon, not a flying dragon, it might have been possible to deal with it with an attack on the firebreath line, rather than an attack on the point of firebreath. However, there is no Dragon Knight who can ride such a dragon species, and eventually the firebombs fired by the flying dragon can't catch the set falling to the ground like a meteor, so they go in any direction.
 No, I would still have been lucky to fly in any direction. Some of them were so confused that they were influenced by the rush of the Dragon Knight that they hit the vanguard of their own troops.
 Implied by the chaos that erupted shortly after the start of the battle, Seto drops at a high altitude...and then flaps his wings to speed up and land in the center of the Vestian vanguard.

"Oh, my God,"Ahhhhuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

 Noticing Seto and Ray suddenly descending from the sky at a tremendous rate, the soldiers of the Vestian Imperial Army scream and flee from the point of descent.
 It is because I instinctively understood that if I were to be hit by an existence falling at that speed, I would never win.k.a. chance of winning.
 But the soldiers' worries end in utter concern. for the Gryphon, falling like a meteor from above, spread its wings wide just before it crashed to the ground, killing most of its speed, and largely ignoring the rest of the impact as it did when a cat landed on the ground.
 The moment when the people there were still more incredible sight than they could see with their own eyes, the moment when they fell silent. It was actually only a few seconds, but for Ray it was perfectly fine for him to take the next action.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

 Rolling down to the ground from the back of the cet, it also wields its magical death size wide.
 Cut it!
 At one stroke, nearly five soldiers and adventurers divide their torso into upper and lower bodies, scattering blood and organs around them.
 Ray screams sharply with a returning blade as the strong rusty smell rapidly sets in around him.

"Fly off!"

 Even among death-size skills, the range is wide and easy to use. This skill is used to attack soldiers and adventurers who were out of range of death size, and their torso is cut off from the horizontally mowed blade.
 More than ten people's lives were cut short in an instant.
 And the next moment the soldiers, adventurers, and knights around them were about to come to their senses.

"Set!"

 Instinctively aware of what Ray wants, Seto is greatly moved by his sharp cry.

"Gul-gulping.

 The moment you hear the voice, those around you are forced to stop.
 King's intimidation: Although he has no direct offensive power among his skills, he is the most powerful skill in terms of hindering enemy movements. And above all, Ray's comfortable use was that he could not see anything as concrete as a firebreath or a wind arrow. It's Seto's voice that gets released, and if Seto's roar, which is the Gryphon of Rank A Monster, it's understandable that his arms and legs shrink. It is, therefore, the most appropriate move to prevent Seto from being recognized as one of the Gryphons.
 Seto's shout stops the movement of the Westians around him. That moment is the space to use the trump card Ray was looking for.
 Ray turns to Seto for a moment and confirms his intention silently. After confirming that Seto understands what he thinks, Ray magically begins to spin a spell.

"'Fire, manifest thy blazing force as a whirlpool,'

 Spinned spells transform the world, bringing flames to the death-size buttocks. Ray then mow down the death-size stonemate, flying a flaming block forward to where the soldiers of the Westian Empire are gathered.

"A whirlwind of fire!"

 The moment Ray spun the words, a tornado shaped by fire appeared by magic.
 Soldiers, adventurers, knights, and others around the tornado of flame instantly burn their limbs, burn where their armor touched, burn their faces, and their eyes become white and muddy with heat. The very sight of being burned alive, which could be called a scorching hell, spread around the flame tornado, but only in the limited space of the flame tornado. If it had been used by ordinary wizards, only those caught in the flames and those around them would have been the ones. But...
 The set of eyes weeps towards a tornado of flames.

"Ringling!"

 At the same time, Ray again makes a meaningful gesture of death.
 The next moment, a tornado of wind appears overlapping a tornado of flames. Confirming this, Ray straddles Seto's back, thinking he doesn't need to be here anymore, and Seto, who is waiting for it, also runs up into the air, bouncing off the soldiers.
 Then, as soon as Ray goes up, he exercises a new skill of the wind's hand. From a death-size handle, the wind tentacles extend into overlapping flaming tornadoes and wind tornadoes. At the same time, even though so many arrows, or magic, were flying from the Westian Imperial Army, Sett kept his wings moving as he wanted, flying all around the sky to avoid attacks.
 The fire was eroding into a wind tornado because Ray's magic was more powerful, but the wind hand extending from the death-size handle touches the two tornadoes, and at the same time Ray's magic flows through the wind's hand into Seto's tornado. The wind tornado that was about to be swallowed by a flaming tornado became more powerful and overlapped with a flaming tornado…the next moment, the flaming tornado and the wind tornado merge into a flaming wind tornado.
 Yes, a fire whirlwind was created just as Ray had been aiming for. at the same time

"Phew, set!"
"Ringling!"Perhaps it was impossible for Seto to continue to avoid the attack from the surrounding army of the Vestian Empire, but an arrow sharply cuts through the sky at his torso. However, Seto, who responded quickly to Ray's voice, demonstrates the effect of a wind-operated bracelet, a magic item that prevents flying tools, and blows the arrow with the wind.

"Get up!"

 When Seto reached the sky above Ray's voice... the earth had turned into hell.
 The temperature around the fire whirlwind, which is created by magic and exceeds 100 meters per second, reaches over 1000°C, and burns down the lives of all present.
 Even those who manage to survive the tornado of fire created by Ray are instantly burned to death from the outside of their bodies, and their bodies, like charcoal, are sucked into the tornado and shattered. In addition, even for those who are far from the fire whirlwind, the respiratory system burns to death by inhaling high-temperature gas and flames, and the internal organs are burned from the inside of the body as they suffocate to suffocate.
 It was a disaster. With overwhelming death and destruction beyond the power of individual magic, the fire whirlwind reigned on the scene at a height as if it were striking heaven.
 The reason for the further damage at this time may have been that soldiers, knights and adventurers were concentrated as a vanguard to intercept the army of the Kingdom of Milliana. Because a fire whirlwind was created in the dense center, the surrounding area was overflowing with human beings, so it was hard to escape and the damage was spread.
 Burn to death by fire, cut to death by a sharp wind blade released from the tornado itself. The two alone kill more than thousands of people and cause several times as many injuries as the Vestian army's vanguard.
 And... Ray's actions were not over yet.


"Setto! Up! Up so high that you can't be affected by the fire whirlwind!"
"Gurling...Gurling!"

 Seto nods to Ray's words and tries to raise his altitude to the sky, but he realizes that he is coming toward him and he cries at will.
 The Dragon Knight in the headquarters of the Vestian army rose above, wondering if he would be able to escape the Gryphon that had caused this situation.
 Many of the Dragon Knights in the vanguard unit were burned to death in a fire whirlwind, so these Dragon Knights who flew out of the headquarters were free to fight in the sky of this battlefield.

"Don't worry, I'll finish it first, and they won't be able to do anything about it."
"Grull!"

 After hearing Ray's words and glancing at the Dragon Knight, Sett flapped his wings again and rose further up into the sky.