The Magician of Sound

The green poison that came out of the alpaca's mouth melted the ground.

Kai didn't blink as he somehow managed to create his Oscillation Shield and boosted its power a little bit. Normally, it would only reduce the impact coming from an attack, but because he poured more magic power, it was able to deflect the spat from earlier, throwing it back to the alpaca.

Unfortunately, unlike his Sound Blast, the Oscillation Shield couldn't blow it away, so most of the poison fell to the ground instead of hitting the alpaca. Nonetheless, the alpaca had died under Kai's blade, and he somehow managed to escape unscathed.

"Seriously?!" Kai took a few deep breaths before turning around.

Evan's heart skipped a beat when he saw that and felt he was pretty lucky to avoid that.

"Captain, are you alright?!"

"I'm good. Focus on defeating the rest first and head to the other two. I will explain later." Kai commanded while slashing the magical beasts.

Evan nodded and started picking up his pace, killing them at a faster rate than Kai.

In just three minutes, they finally finished dealing with all the beasts.

"How is your stamina?" Kai asked as soon as they finished.

"I am good." Evan nodded, assuring him by waving his hand nonchalantly.

"That's good then. Follow me. I will explain on the way."

"I understand."

The two then headed toward the southeast, where they would separate at a certain point to fight their respective battle.

"I am glad that your shield is fast enough. I am not sure if I can regrow something that has melted, you know."

"Yeah. That's why poison might be the most dangerous thing in the world." He nodded. "Anyway, my Oscillation Shield activation is faster than Sound Blast, so it's convenient. Unfortunately, it doesn't hold the same strength."

"I see. That's why you often use your shield instead of Sound Blast even though it's stronger."

"Their purpose is different too, so I don't want to be reliant on one magic."

"I can see that."

"Anyway, your enemy is over there. There is a chance that the enemy might ignore you and chase after me, so if you can, you should assassinate it at that time."

"I understand. Well, you only have fifteen minutes to kill the leader and the rest of the magical beasts. Do you think you can?"

"I am not sure now. From what I have seen, the magical beasts are becoming smarter than ever. I don't know what caused it, but that's the case. Just like earlier, where the dying ape released the last bit of its strength to grab my feet. The monster this time might be more troublesome than we expected."

"Hmm? But can't you avoid the movement by listening to them?"

"I can, but do you think I have prepared a scenario where they choose to bring me down together? At the very least, I can prepare a minimum counterattack, but there are too many possibilities on how to bring an enemy down together with a hundred beasts… At the very least, I need to make a simulation battle in my head first, albeit we don't have that much time." He let out a long sigh.

"I see."

"Anyway, it's time to go on our way." Kai reminded him.

"Good luck to you." Evan smiled and stomped the ground as he changed his direction according to Kai's.

Kai, on the other hand, kept running straight and only adjusted the angle of his direction a little bit to match the movement of the magical beasts.

Not long after, the group finally came into his vision as he checked on them first.

'Should I use my Sound Insulation Room so the magical beasts on Evan's side don't make an unpredictable move?' Kai muttered while observing the enemies.

The leader this time was a chinchilla. Just like the previous experiences, the chinchilla had the size of half-human, looking very ferocious.

And this time, the fur was red along with the eyes.

"Cruck!" Suddenly, a magical beast informed the chinchilla of Kai's position.

"I am found out?" Kai narrowed his eyes, seeing how it ordered the magical beasts to charge in his direction.

At the same time, it released a few fireballs toward Kai and had it explode around him, preventing him from going around.

"As expected, this guy is seriously becoming smarter… I need to prepare for the worst then." Kai let out a long sigh and checked everything in his surroundings.

Unfortunately, they were situated in the middle of a road, so it was hard to take advantage of the environment since there was nothing to be taken advantage of.

He jumped once to build up his momentum and charged toward the magical beasts, clashing with them head-on.

As he expected, the magical beasts were more ferocious than he expected. It might be due to the loss of the alpaca and grison, but he couldn't find any way that these beasts knew such a thing.

Unfortunately, he could think nothing as he kept swinging his sword while glancing over to make sure the chinchilla didn't do anything.

But to his surprise, the chinchilla had prepared an attack for him by summoning a few fireballs over his head.

"Does it want to drop it here? There are the beasts under him…" Kai exclaimed in surprise as he tried to leap out of this onslaught.

And as he expected, the moment he left, the chinchilla immediately threw all the fireballs at him.

Kai had prepared for this and used his Sound Blast to go one step faster, avoiding this.

He didn't dodge in a random direction. Instead, he went straight toward the chinchilla, trying to finish this as soon as possible.

Kai slashed his sword downwards, aiming at the direct head.

Suddenly, his sword was stopped by a wall of flame that received his Vibration Sword completely. Unlike the magic that had solid form, this one was intangible. The force that was bursting from that form somehow managed to stop his attack.

Every time he met a beast like this, it never ceased to surprise him. He needed to know the source of their power-up, but his teacher might be the one that could investigate it.

He raised his head when he sensed heat coming from above his head, finding three fireballs.

The three fell down.

'It dropped the balls?' Kai widened his eyes as he immediately used his Sound Blast to launch him to the sky before using the Sound Levitation to check his surroundings.

'Did it die because of its own attack?' Kai thought while hoping it was true. However, he couldn't sit still anymore because before the smoke was cleared up, many magical beasts used each other to leap to the air, trying to strike him down.

Due to this, he was forced to deactivate his Sound Levitation and fell down to the ground. He focused everything on his hearing and found the heartbeat of the chinchilla. It was weaker, so he didn't find it instantly after the explosion, and this might be the chance to eliminate it.

He leaped toward the chinchilla and slashed its head without further ado before he noticed a red-colored ball above its head.

The chinchilla used the last bit of its strength to create that unstable fireball that would explode as soon as it lost control. In other words, it would blow out when the chinchilla died.

Realizing this, Kai put out his Oscillation Shield as big as possible while preparing his Sound Blast to escape.

*Boom!*

The fireball exploded, and the flame would soon surround him. It was at this time the Sound Blast shone, sending Kai away from being surrounded by the flame.

With this, he managed to kill the magical beasts, but he didn't feel like a victor. Not only the beast kept pushing him back with all those suicide attacks, but Kai could only land a hit that didn't decide the match.

The smoke cleared up a bit because of the shock wave from the second explosion. Although it produced a new smoke, it wasn't as thick as the first one.

He couldn't find the chinchilla's body, so he confirmed it was dead and reduced to ashes.

To think he would kill the magical beasts with just a single opening, it felt surreal.

"Still, I have two jobs left." Kai glared at the magical beasts that he avoided once and started killing them as this was one of the jobs.

It took him a few minutes to get rid of every single beast that seemed to be scared of him as soon as the chinchilla died.

After killing them, he took a breather first and reassessed his situation and Evan's condition.

"The magical beasts' movements were too absurd. They immediately tried to commit suicide and drag me together without fighting back. It's like there is someone manipulating them to make such a move, but who?

"If I think about it, the only possible answer is the protectors, but I don't hear anything about them. And I think they are not in my range the whole time, so it's weird to see something like this. I wonder if the two armies are suffering from this?" Kai thought for a moment and let out a long sigh.

"Anyway, I can only investigate it later. I need to—" Kai suddenly fell silent when he listened to the battlefield. The soldiers pushed the magical beasts back. It even passed the place where he killed the alpaca.

"And this one is even more absurd. How easy it is to push them back?" Kai exclaimed in surprise before he found a single group with another one hundred monsters that separated themselves from the magical beast army and headed toward Evan.

With this situation, they might arrive soon.

"Not good!"