He started to move, just two blocks away from the end of the line.
　I pointed my finger in the direction of travel and muttered shortly, "Shield".
　Black Searcher] Follas starts to move as if he were being played, and he held up his shield to protect me.

　Almost simultaneously, with a high-pitched sound, Fallus' huge body retreats.
　It's Aerial-san's 'Wind Blade'.

''Well done.''

Ha.

　Fallus is a minotaur - 【Cowman】. However, while the average race of his kind was only [position (job)] that excelled in physical movement, such as combat and athletic types, he was a [black mage].

　Even though he was a [Cow Man] who was required to work as an incarnation of violence, Fallus was inferior to the rest of his race in that area.
　Even though he was fired from several dungeons, and while it wasn't uncommon for him to be paid at the door, he still didn't give up.

　Just like me, he continued to train and refine his black magic by 'continuing to cast black magic on himself'.
　And just like me, he trains his body even though he has no aptitude for it.
　We've trained together, and they responded quickly to our instructions.

　We keep our feet on the ground. There is only one block left until the end of the line.
　With a hand gesture to Foras, I point in a certain direction with my staff and mutter "contraption" while indicating the direction in which to hold my shield.
　Simultaneously with those movements, I jumped backwards myself.

　Immediately after, three 'wind blades' each attack the three of us.
　One is played by Follas's shield, and one ends up gouging the floor in time for me to evade it.

''Good~''

　And the other one was crushed by an axe spear (,) wielded by 【Unicorn Poet】.

　A spear that also literally had the function of an axe, a long-handled weapon that incorporated three elements: a sharp tip, an axe part, and a sharp projection on the other side of the spear.
　It could poke, slash, hook, and even strike like a blunt instrument against armor.
　With her aptitude for combat, when wielded by her, she can shatter even the slightest rock.

''Ufufu, I heard a cracking sound~''

　Her real job is 【Trainer】. She has succeeded in using plant-based animals, which are considered to be difficult to communicate with, and she herself has an aptitude for fighting.
　Furthermore, she can take on the form of both a man and a horse.

　She wears a loose-fitting cloth around her waist, as if it were draped over the body of a horse when she was transformed into a man-horse.
　And her axe spear wasn't her only weapon. She is equipped with swords, whips and throwing swords.

''Remegeton-sama, can you praise me too~''

Yeah, good job.

Yes, we do that a lot better, don't we?

　Although she has a strange atmosphere, she is also one of the people who volunteered for the tenth layer with the spirit to defeat 【Brave Man】.
　In fact, she doesn't even feel shy of the 【Storm Brave】's attack. She has already made up her mind.

''Let's go.''

　The attack just now was a minor investigation.
　It's not just me personally, but also the intention of confirming the coordination of the group consisting of these three people.
　Another thing is that I released my black magic ahead of time and responded with a 'wind blade' to return the greeting?

　The tricky thing about Aerial-san's 'Celestial Box Garden' is that it also affects the activation of black magic.
　If you think about it, it's very obvious.

　For example, if I could use the fire attribute magic fireball, I wouldn't be able to hit Aerial-san without knowing the correct route.
　Even if I released it at random, it would go through various blocks and end up crashing into a wall or ceiling.

　Black magic is only activated when the magic power released from you hits the opponent.
　That's why the resistance (resist) to play the magic power of others by wearing magic power makes sense.
　After a few blocks left, I finally released my black magic. I was so focused on going the right route that I finally had the luxury of time to do so when I got this close.

　Aerial-san is wary of me. He recognizes me as a considerable threat.
　Without the 'Celestial Box Garden', my friends in the field would be exposed to any kind of black magic at any moment.
　There are many [Black Mages] in this field, not only me, but also the demons from [Elementary, Beginning Dungeon], the two members of Ellie's party, and many others. Although it's not officially known, even Follas is the same.
　With a fierce battle expected, it's dangerous to leave them out.

　In fact, there are many patterns that when members of the Fenix Party and Nicola Party fall, they were instantly hit by my black magic.

''Come on, Lord Remegeton.

　But if there is one thing that bothers me.
　Even those things could have been solved by him jumping in on me by himself.
　Of course, I don't intend to lose easily, but most of us wouldn't doubt the victory of [Storm's Brave Man].

　Then why?
　The answer is surely simple.
　It's just that as the one leading this raid battle, I chose the more certain one.

'Oh.'

　At one point, he was moving in a way that reminded me (,) of his younger days by chasing me (,) but after his friends caught up with him, he became aware of the whole (,) again.
　I don't know if that change is good or bad for me.

　We finally step onto the block.
　Right in front of me, Mr. Aerial was there.

I'm impressed. You're the first person to conquer 'Heaven's Box Garden' in this way.

Well, how many demons are left to slay you?

'Haha, I've lost a lot. If you limit it to the last twenty or so years, though, it's zero.

　Aerial-san's first official loss was to his master.
　After that, he challenged the Demon King's Castle several times and fought to the death against the historical demons who were under his master at the time.
　Despite many failed attempts, the young aerial party had made it to the seventh level.
　That was the record for the highest human achievement.

　Thereafter, it was not broken until the Fenix Party reached the tenth layer.
　The Aerial Party had never challenged the Demon King's Castle after hearing the news that the then Demon King had disappeared.
　No, there wasn't. Until this raid battle.

''Then let us scar the twenty-odd years of undefeatedness.

Many have talked about it. But no one has ever been able to do it. I'm not sure about you.

We'll find out soon enough.

I'm looking forward to it.

　First, a point in our favor.
　One. I was certainly surprised that he was forcibly chasing me, but he was consuming a considerable amount of magic power himself by doing so.
　Even the magic organ has a limit. It's the same as not being able to continue running at full speed forever. As he ran, his maximum speed would decrease and he would eventually run out of energy.

　One. His holy sword is destroyed.
　The holy sword is a weapon that has the blessing of a spirit. Its durability and sharpness could not be compared to normal weapons. The fact that it was gone would be significant.

　One. That he has maintained the 'Heavenly Box Garden'.
　That alone is constantly consuming magic.

　One. Me and Follas are extremely talented 【Black Mages】.
　The magic power required for resistance (resist) is not ordinary. As a result, there isn't that much magic power he can turn into a battle with us.
　He has to focus his consciousness and magic power on maintaining the courtyard, resisting black magic, and fighting everything.

　Our disadvantage.
　The opponent is the world's number one 【Brave man】.
　It's so easy to erase a mountain of tricks with that one thing.
　That's how overwhelming the world's No. 1 is.

　The time it took to attack and defend him was a dozen seconds.
　In fact, it was probably only that long.
　So this was something that the extreme concentration stretched senses captured.

　Aerial-san moved. And then, Amducius' axe spear was cut off halfway through, and his right arm was impaled on her torso. It wasn't. The hand wasn't touched, but only the wound--the blade of the wind, growing out of the arm!
　Amducius immediately discarded his spear and grabbed his enemy's arm with his right hand, while drawing his sword with his left hand, changing into a human-horse state.

''Mu.''

　Just when you think you've stabbed a blade into a human's abdomen, she turns into a centaur. The change this causes is that her body length will be much higher than her human state. Aerial-san, whose arms are being held, will inevitably float in the air. Me and Follas go to join in while flying black magic with all our might.

　Amducius' sword hits Aerial-san's neck, but that's the end of it. The 'Air Armor' or even a smaller scale one, what should be called a pinpoint 'air plate', was deployed in the neck defense and the sword was played. At the same time, Aerial-san also wore a blade of wind on her left arm and severed Amducias' right arm. He tried to pull his own right arm out of her body.

　But then Amducias - starts to run. Because the target has moved forward, the arm cannot be pulled out in time. That's not all. His movement was delayed because our black magic finally came through.　
　'Slowing down'. To be precise, it is something that slows down the speed of the opponent by slowing down the speed of the brain to give orders to the body, resulting in a decrease in the opponent's speed. A large amount of magic for two people sent the magic flying towards his eyeballs.

　Even though it's a resistance (resist), it doesn't wear a thick magical force around its mucous membrane. This is because it's depressing for those who can sense magic power, and to begin with, there aren't many [black mages] who can aim at the eyes with pinpoint accuracy in the middle of battle. It is a complete waste of time.

　Even for a wielder as good as me and Follas, it's an extremely difficult feat. But it worked. In the instant that his movement stops with a snap, Amducius swings his sword again, and Fallus is in the flesh with his shield and the force of a collision, while I follow with my right arm covered in horn magic power.

''Wind Blade!''

　Before Amducius' sword could reach her, her body ripped vertically. Her body instantly turned into magical particles and scattered around her. Exit. She was hit by a huge 'wind blade' at zero distance.

　But that Aerial-san bothered to mention the name of a rudimentary magic, it's proof that 'slowing down' is working. Magic is a magical manipulation of images. Since it was slowed down to the time it takes for that image to take place, he was forced to practice the basics that he would learn in a training institution (school), which is to say the words and conjure up the effect from there.

　By this time, Fallus was closing in on him. With Amducias' exit, the one holding his right arm in place is gone and Mr. Aerial is in the process of falling. However, he swings his left arm into a horizontal cleave and intercepts Folus.
　When the [Black Searcher]'s shield was ripped halfway through, I saw that Folus had put his weight on the shield. I made him bite the blade (...). Aerial-san's body was pulled and the sword broke in the process. Aerial-san's stance is broken.

　Suddenly, our black magic was resisted (resisted).
　Aerial-san let out a spinning kick in the air. The kick swung blankly, but this was the same as the arm matter. He was wearing a blade of wind on his leg.
　Fallus's body split up and down and turned into magical particles.

　I plunged through it and jumped out in front of Aerial-san's eyes.
　At the same time as I landed, my right arm attacked Aerial-san.
　My fist cracks the deployed "air shield" like glass, and I advance.
　Did Aerial-san try to avoid it?
　I couldn't.

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　It was Alraune.
　The [Trainer] is only accompanying the demons. Even if the 【Trainer】 leaves, the creatures they use remain.
　They are beings that each have their own magical body (avatar).

　Alraune was carried in by Amdusias in the state of a seed, and she scattered it at the right time when she became a human horse. It wasn't all of them who had helped in the search for the route.

　The seeds sprouted quickly, twisting the ivy that stretched out to the man who had cut the precious Lord in half.
　Plant systems are hard to detect magic. It was too natural to sense the magic in the air unless it was very thick, and the ability to perceive it was too natural for them to catch it as a discomfort.

　The fist, finally.

　--This is the blow that we all unleash.

　It's a blow that only comes from the power of all the demons Aerial-san has defeated to this point.
　The magic power used to defeat [Hell's Watchdog] Naberius, [Demon of Love] Citry, [Thief Raven] Raum, [Sea Monster] Forneus, all of the bird people and aquatic demons, the dragon people, [Unicorn Poet] Amdusias, [Black Seeker] Pholus, and everyone else.

　Other than that, the magic power that went into destroying Fulkus-san's armor, preventing Ellie-san's attack, and activating and maintaining the [Celestial Box Garden].
　It's because of these things that they were able to lead to the situation where they had to deal with the three of us with little magical power.

　There's not a single thing that's useless. Even if it's like dust in the eyes of others, it's a victory for me.
　That it's okay for the demons who joined forces to win against [the brave man].
　I also give thanks to Alraune and the others who keep him on the ground and shake out my fist.

''Blow away, [Storm Brave]

　I slam my fist into his gut.
　With a snap, air is exhaled from his lungs and his body flows through space like a gust of wind.

　The ivy that Alraune and the others were tangled in shreds, and his body goes through dozens of blocks in an instant.
　Eventually, he crashes into the ceiling.

　--The 'Heavenly Box Garden' was released.

　His body falls as it is and crashes to the ground -- just before.
　He floats up softly and slowly lands on the ground.

''Kutu........hmph, hahaha......''

　'You're laughing.

'Excellent. The single-horned woman immediately moved to buy time for her companions based on the degree of injury from the first attack, and she thought about what would happen after her own exit and sowed the seeds. ''He was not your shield [Cow Man], but an extremely good [Black Mage] just like you. Furthermore, he was fighting while protecting you behind his back until the end. Alraune and the others were also completely unaware of it. Your black magic and fists were naturally superb too.

　His side is gouged by my fist. It should have been on a trajectory that drilled a hole in the center........

　--I must have deflected my fist, in that one moment.

　But that position.....

"I failed to catch my fist. The magic organ is no longer useless. That's why--

　Even if they could mitigate the falling impact with their remaining internal magic power, they wouldn't be able to fight any more.
　Of course, they still had a few options left. The Spirit Contractor still has a hand.

''Sylphid (,,,,,,,), I need your help.

　The atmosphere trembles. This feeling, is it too recent to be nostalgic? Not even a year has passed.
　I felt the same thing when the power of the fire spirit that Fenix called Sarah was released.

　Sylphid, who controls the four great spirits and wind, shared his power with the contractor at his request.
　Spirits. Supernatural beings who would sign a contract with any brave person they liked. Such spirits have their own personalities.

　The four great spirits in particular were famous for being difficult to handle. It is said that one of the reasons why contractors don't appear often is because the criteria for selecting the contractors of the four major spirits are unique.
　Wraith-kun's water spirits, for example, came along with the word to come if they wanted to come as a bystander.
　It would be difficult to get the attention of an ordinary [brave] owner to the extent of asking for their strength.

　Sylphid would only give his magic power when he acknowledged that the contractor's life was in danger.
　For example, he had responded to Aerial-san's call when the Demon King-sama was closing in on him.
　Now, the fact that the Wind Spirit lent his power to Aerial-san means that we have properly cornered him.

　So far, it was expected.
　There is a large scale spirit technique called 'Storm Impulse'. It is an attack that releases a swirling wind that looks like a condensed storm. If he were to use it at this time, it would be this one.
　Normally, he would have ended up being torn to pieces, but I saw an opportunity for victory there.

　I can hide this body from the camera by daring to plunge into the midst of that attack that has been scrambled to distort the landscape. After that, I release the remaining horns while wearing a high density of magical power and rapidly approach the wielder by following the trajectory of the technique in reverse.
　He strikes a quick blow and retracts the horns. The timing is difficult, but you can do it.

"'Ranten'

　Wha--
　It's not a storm. I've never seen this kind of magic before in my life.

Actually it was intended for Lucifer-dono. But, yes. Maybe you're the one who is worthy.

　The spirit art he had in mind to defeat his master.

　The sound of a storm. The sound of the wind whistling, heard even from a distance. The sound of the wind that grows louder and more unsettling the closer you get. It's the sound of fear spread by a natural disaster that one can never defy.
　The source of this was, what a human arm. Aerial-san's right arm, the storm is clinging to her right arm.
　There are many wind wizards with similar techniques, but when it comes to completely controlling the amount of magic power to this extent, there are no examples.

　--With this, the complete release of the horns.......

''I'm also a [Brave Man], I can't lose.''

　Think about it. Because it's the first time you've seen it. It's because it's unexpected. It's a genie in the bottle, so what?
　It's about winning.

"We'll crush your hopes for the next one.

　They clench their fists together.