111 Episode 111: Cooperation Operation.txt




 While being swayed by Sakura's horse, which is leading the reinforcement force, Alexia begins to prepare to launch the second large crossbow (Scorpion).

 The main body, which is the size of a human child, is lightly held by the 【Weight Reduction】 skill, and by moving the cocking lever next to the main body back and forth, the internal spring mechanism is activated to quickly squeeze the hard string.

 Then she cocks a short spear-sized arrow and fires it at the giant's left shoulder.

 Despite being a rather unstable riding shot, the arrow did not miss its target and hit the left shoulder, causing a small magical explosion from within.

 Not long after the impact, reinforcements arrived and Sakura and Alexia dismounted in front of me.

''I'm sorry for the delay. I didn't think that was one of the four demon generals I've heard about ......
'Yeah! But I thought that guy was defeated by an adventurer!
''It's a joke, but I hear the demon general might come back to life in some way.
Ha, foul ......!

 Sakura pulls out her light red sword beside a shocked Alexia.

'Luke-dono. Do you know the location of the surgeon? If you cut him down, the effect of the jutsu should be cut off as well.''
They've been prepped. Vestri is swimming around underneath a giant clay figure. Even if Garnett cuts both ways, it won't work.

 I'll briefly tell you what we've found out so far.
 Once again, the situation is really quite tricky to put into words.

 How in the world can we defeat him?
 The first thing that comes to mind is to destroy the entire behemoth with a single blow, but this is highly unrealistic.

 It's also possible to pinpoint the location of the main body, Vestri, and kill it with pinpoint accuracy, but this is just an empty theory unless you have both the means of identification and attack.

 Expecting them to run out of resources is now just a matter of luck.
 It's not even fair to call it a strategy, as it will instantly collapse just by having the means to store and continuously supply magical power such as magic stones.

''But if we don't, it's obvious that we're going to be impoverished. If his goal is to buy time, we need to break the situation even more quickly. ......)

 It is the duty of those in the safe zone, regardless of talent or ability, to consider the means from an objective perspective.

 Those fighting on the front lines don't have the luxury of time to do so.

''Does the Vestry Titan have any weaknesses? (Something ...... something to take advantage of: ......)

 It seems that the earth giants can't restore and generate at the same time, so while they are restoring the damage caused by Garnett's attacks, they can't continue to generate their lower bodies, and they stop with only their hips and upper body growing out of the ground.

 But on the flip side, Garnett and the knights are forced to continue attacking without a break until their strength is exhausted.

'Wait ....... This should work, right?

 A certain flash of inspiration runs through my mind.

 Grasping Vestri's current position with [Analysis] and communicating it with minimal time lag to make him attack with a pinpoint attack - a means that might make this strategy happen.

''It's worth a try, isn't it ......! Sakura, communicate what I'm about to explain to Garnett and the others in [shrunken place]. And Alexia, I have a request for you as well.
Okay. I'll take care of it.
If it's something I can do, I'll try ......!

 I quickly conveyed the details of the operation to Sakura and sent her to the front line, and she and Alexia observed the battle situation from the rear.

 After receiving the message from Sakura, the way Garnett and the others fought changed.

 Until now, they had been attacking in pieces and were eager to stop the creation of the lower half of their bodies anyway, but they switched to breathing together and attacking in a common procedure.

 We would start the total attack from the part close to the ground and gradually shift the attack location upwards.

 Confirming this, Alexia and I also move on to execute what each of us must accomplish.

'Activate the skill, maximum output [analysis] begins!
Let's go! Scorpion deployment!

 I thrust my hand into the ground in the same way as the previous [Analysis] and hang [Analysis] on the surrounding ground and inside the earthen giant.

 As usual, the inside of the giant's interior is badly hampered by magic power inhibition, but no matter how noisy it is, as long as you can get a hold of Vestri's whereabouts, it's no problem.

 Then Alexia deployed and transformed her large crossbow (Scorpion), dramatically increasing its power, speed and range.

 The locks on each part of the bow are released at once, the body as a crossbow is extended, the bow portion is widened, and the string is drawn out longer.

 The Scorpion became nearly one size larger due to an elaborate mechanism that an outsider would have no idea how it worked.

 In addition, Alexia unfolded a metal coffin-like storage case and turned it into a base, to which she fixed the Scorpion and prepared a sniper's position.

'The arrows (bolts) are magic armoured bullets co-produced with Noir! Well, I just wrapped the spell around it tightly and secured it! And I couldn't modify the unit because I didn't have time!
Enough! Give me some serious firepower!

 I focus my nerves on maintaining [Analysis] while responding to Alexia.

 Inside the giant, Vestri is escaping upwards and upwards as he escapes from the destruction caused by the onslaught of Garnet and Sakura and the others.

''(If you say you can hunt them down to the head and finish them off, then that's a good thing. ...... It's not going to be that easy!

 The moment Vestri escapes to the head a step earlier, the earthen giant fires up both arms to shake off the humans around him.

 Normally, he would have taken this opportunity to escape from the head to another location and ruined everything, but--

Shoot!

 --I have the means to stuff the one move that is missing right now.

 The magic ammunition released from the Scorpion pierces the earth giant's neck and creates a terrific explosion.

 The earth giant's head is torn off and blown high.

 I continued [Analysis] at that moment and immediately confirmed that Vestri hadn't escaped to the torso.

''Garnett! The head!
Oh!

 If that thing was allowed to fall to the ground, Vestri would definitely dive into the ground and disappear.

 Aiming at the parabolic falling head, Garnett unleashed two slashes of magical power in a crisscrossing manner.

 The earthen giant's head was severed into four pieces and shattered.

 Among the flying earth and sand was the figure of an old dark elf, cut in two by its abdomen and sprinkled with fresh blood.

''Gah, ah, ah!''

 At the same time as the disintegrated head fell to the ground, the earthen giant's torso also stopped moving like a puppet whose strings had been broken.

 Then it disintegrated little by little from the end, crumbling down in tatters and returning to mere dirt.

 After a moment's pause, the knights' cheers echoed.

 As I finished [Analysis] and slumped to the spot, Alexia jumped up to me and shook my shoulder violently.

''Yes! We did it, Mr. Luke!
All right, all right, all right. Don't talk in my ear.

 He said this with a casual demeanor, but he couldn't suppress the sense of accomplishment that was bubbling up from deep within his chest.