Oswald catches Sabrina and leaves the battlefield and joins Sabrina.

'We've completed the evacuation,'

Nice work.

What's going on?

As you can see, it's a mess.

The mage's corpse is visible even from there.
It's a wonder they're holding up.

"Why are there students here?

Oswald asked, calming his impending mind as he breathed.

'He has a contract with the Spirit King...'

What?

Sabrina hadn't told her about Patrick's case.

'The Spirit King.......just like Master Brahms.......'

I'll have him cover us from the rear.

Sir, I'm free!

Then Patrick rejects the idea, saying he can do it.

"Not now. How am I going to explain to Arnold when you're dead?

Arnold is Patrick's father.
He is the current king of Rashausen.

'As long as we have enough magic to spare, we'll be fine.

Don't be overconfident.

Then Oswald calmly denies it.
This fight is hard on my old body.
He no longer has the energy to be angry.

Brahms over there is a spirit mage who is under contract to the Spirit King. But...

Even now, Brahms was fighting with the Kaiser in the sky.

"Demons are different. It's different from fighting humans and beastmen. It's a different story with demons than with men or beastmen. And do what Sabrina tells you.

Then Oswald simply said, "I'll leave the rest to you," and went back to the battlefield.
Because while he was doing so, the mages were being killed.
They couldn't rest.

At that time, I saw that the 'Pillar Giant (Aulgor)' that Brahms had summoned had been killed.

'Come on!　We're coming too!

Yes.

And the two of them also join the battlefield.

''The Guardian's Vine (Amustology)!

Sabrina summoned a blue sword blade vine as she ran.

Just then, Sarah and Yui appeared in a floating state on both of Patrick's shoulders.

'Patrick?'

Understanding the situation, Sarah quickly confirmed her intentions.

"Yeah, I'll do my best, you two!　I need your help!

And just as they nodded, blue and orange flames and then red flames enveloped Patrick's body.
Then Patrick gradually adjusted the flames and ran to the battlefield.

'Almost there.'

Sarah pours more blue flames into the base of Yui's orange flames.

'Okay,'

Patrick listens to Sarah's advice and accepts the blue flame.
At that moment, a red flame lit up in his right hand and an orange flame in his left.
And.........

Sir!　I'm going right in!

Patrick wants to go it alone, despite all the times I've told him to cover you.

'I'll cover you,'

This was not the time to be arguing in front of the demon race.
Sabrina had no choice but to swallow the proposal.

At that moment, blue flames erupted from Patrick's entire body.
Patrick accelerated and instantly moved faster.
Flames in both hands. This is how he controls Sarah's flames.

Then Patrick chants a magic.

''【Spirit King's Flame (Salamandra)!

Then the blue flames that erupted were steady and entwined into Patrick's entire body.

'Sarah!　Yui!　Let's go!

The two of them responded to Patrick's voice.

''[Fire]........''

At that moment, the blue flames that had clothed Patrick stirred and gathered around his chest.
Then Patrick held his hands over the flames at his chest, and the steady flame took shape, and Patrick scooped it up with his right hand.
Then the steady flame took shape and Patrick grabbed it with his right hand to scoop it up.

--The blue flame in its stable state burns in Patrick's palm.

Then Patrick crushed the flames in his grip.
The crushed flames then covered his right hand like it was overflowing, and immediately afterwards, Patrick swept his hand away at the horde of demons.

Three shots in one swing. Patrick did that three times in a row.

--a total of nine blue flames.

The Spirit King's flames cut the wind with a roar that burned the air, and then brilliantly hit the demon tribe.

''Gyaaahhhhhh!''

The demon tribe's screams echoed across the battlefield.
Immediately after, the flames spread throughout his entire body, turning the demon tribe to ashes in an instant.

--I can do it!　This will work!

Patrick had a definite realization.
And again, the blue flame lit up all over Patrick's body.

'Wait!'

Then Sabrina stops Patrick's well-timed gait.

'Stay here,'

....

'You'll eventually reach your limits with the magic you're not used to using. The only thing that can burn is fire. You're in danger now, no matter how you look at it... right?

Sabrina asks Sarah and Yui, beside her, to agree.

'Patrick, she's right. You're still immature right now, and your life expectancy will be shortened if you live fast enough. We should just stick to back-up.

Sarah convinces Patrick that he's a good friend.
Patrick, who was a good listener, accepts it after a beat.
He trusts Sarah.

'All right. If Sarah says so, I'll do it.

A bond has developed between Sarah, Yui, and Patrick.
Sabrina sees a surprising side to Patrick, who is the complete opposite of Nito.

But that's when it happened.

Suddenly, Patrick feels a great magical power, but when he realizes it, it's too late.
But by the time he realized it, it was too late.

''Gahaha!''

Suddenly, it flew out of nowhere and delivered a merciless kick to Patrick's stomach.
Patrick was caught off guard, and there was no time for him to be passive.

"Patrick!

Patrick!

Sarah and Yui run up to Patrick, who is blown backwards.

There was a dark-skinned demon with two horns sprouting from its forehead.
Its eyes were red and its appearance reminded me of a demon.

Sabrina immediately grabbed the guardian's sword and attacked the demon tribe from behind.
But.........

I'm not here for you.

Ka-ha!

The demon tribe flips Sabrina's sword off with his hand and gives her a side kick to the gut.
Sabrina was sent flying away.
And as soon as it left your hand, the Guardian's Vine disappeared.

"Patrick?

Uh ... okay.

Patrick gets up, clutching his belly and struggling to breathe as Yui takes care of him.

'You're a strong wizard. Are you a spirit mage?

The demons are getting closer and closer.

"We can't let them kill any more of our people. We only came to save Toatrika-sama. I'm sorry to say that people like you will die.

The black demon tribe turned its three white red eyes gleaming on its black skin.
With that alone, the opponents will no doubt be terrified.

As soon as Patrick got up, he got into a fighting stance.
Then, with Sabrina, who was flown far away and stunned, at his side, he generated another blue flame.

I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this as well. They are truly foolish creatures.

It's not domination. It's about mutual respect. You wouldn't understand.

I don't want to know. I don't even want to know. That's what you people do.

At that time, the demon tribe moved.

The demon tribe draws out the sword carried at the waist and wears a thing like a black mist.
I don't know what it is.

Then Patrick set fire to them.
In response, the demon tribe flicks the fire with the sword.

''As expected of a spirit.

But the sword soon became useless.

"How could you let a new sword get like this?

The demon tribe threw away their swords and produced black wings from their backs, from which they suddenly accelerated and approached Patrick.

''Patrick!''

Oh!

Then Patrick built a pillar of fire in front of him.
The blue pillar shot up into the sky, sending sparks of fire all around it.

'Patrick!　It's flight magic!

Sarah says urgently.

'You can't do that yet!'

Just go!　It's now or never!

Patrick looked unconvinced, but he didn't have time to think about it, and immediately deployed the flames.

'Yuy!'

Yes!

Then, in response to Patrick's voice, Yui sprayed Patrick with orange flames.
The flames enveloped Patrick and gradually concentrated on his back.
Next, Sarah also sprayed the flame there.
Then the flame splits in two on Patrick's back and forms a shape as it erupts.

--Wings.

It was wings that grew on Patrick's back.
The wing angle located at the top of the wing was an orange flame.
And the wind cutter located at the bottom of it was made up of blue flames.

'Alright!　Let's go!

Although he was practicing his magic, Patrick immediately flapped his wings and flew into the sky.

Patrick moves his wings, controlling them to keep the flames from being extinguished.
Sarah and Yui follow him with their Salamander wings, flapping their wings.

They spread their wings and the black demon tribe chases after them.
Patrick is chased by the black demon tribe.

The demon tribe releases magic and tries to shoot Patrick down.
Patrick struggled to escape.



　Brahms watches from the distance.

''Master Voluto, that wasn't supposed to be........''

''There's no doubt about it. It's the Fire Spirit King Salamander's 'Souen'.　

So that means...

"The one running around is a contractor of the Spirit King.

....

Brahms gives a grim expression in response.

Two spirit mages who happened to be there, two spirit mages.
And both of them are under contract to the Spirit King.

"Does this mean that 'that time' is approaching..."

I don't know.

Neither of them look too good about it.

'Don't look at me like that!

Then Kaiser releases a spear of fire and a tornado into Brahms.
There is a reason they are demons in the untimely barrage of magic.
To them, magic is not a special thing; it's a natural thing.



　And Oswald, on the other hand, saw the moment Sabrina was sent flying.
But if he left this place now, the mages would die.
He couldn't even go to the rescue with a rogue.

Then Oswald took out two wands from his pocket.

''You guys!　Use this!

In the past, when Oswald was still an adventurer, he was known in the world as the 'Guardian Alchemist'.
His profession was an alchemist. Although he was not an advanced alchemist, the magic tools Oswald made were unparalleled and first-class.
With a magic tool that encapsulated magic in an object and allowed anyone to use magic freely at any time, Oswald was able to handle a wide variety of magic, and there was nothing he couldn't deal with, whether it was recovery and support or attack and magic from other professions.
And at some point, Oswald became known as the 'guardian'.

Then Oswald handed his staff to two mages who were in the vicinity and galloped off.

To rescue Sabrina.





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　Everyone was already exhausted.

Even though the magic power is about to run out, Ichijo unleashes explosive magic on the demon race.
And Fiora is covering Ichijo.

Patrick struggles with the one-sided attack.
It is hard for Patrick, an inexperienced spirit mage, to deal with the black demon race that is approaching from behind while focusing his attention on the wings on his back, and it's a painful experience for him.

The unconscious Sabrina was being healed by Oswald's recovery magic.
There was no one to help Patrick.

The surviving mages used the magic wand they received from Oswald to each heal their wounds.
But there is no time to rest, as there will be gaps in their recovery.
The wand did not work well.

Brahms is in the middle of a battle with Kaiser, but they have yet to be defeated.
At that time, in The Three Legged Waterfowl Pub, Kaisel was easily bound by Nito, unable to use his magic and unable to move, but his agile movements and variety of magic both annoyed and bothered Brahms.

Each of them was exhausted and perilous in their separate places.



　Mages and adventurers were being cruelly killed during this time.

''Let's get some distance for once!

A mage suggested that to the adventurer next to him.
But right after that, the head of the adventurer who should have been there flew off.

''Nah........''

The mage opens his mouth as if the words were taken away, bites his back teeth, and misrepresents his frustration.

''Gyahahahahahaha!　Humans are so weak!　We can't even rely on Lady Kaiser's information!　We've put all this on the line for this scum!　You're such an idiot!　Gahhahahahahahaha!

The demon army laughing foolishly.

It is likely that Kaiser, who couldn't do anything to Nito, then returned to the demon kingdom and informed the king that he found Toa and the situation.

--that there is an abnormal person among the humans who is not just a person....

But that was only for Nito.
Kaiser did not know that.

Kaizel asked King Cassandra for permission to move his army.
And the king honestly believed Kaisel's words as a senior officer of Chastain.
It was impossible not to believe the words of Kaiser, the king's bloodline and executive.
The result is this.
Kaizel regretted a little bit that it might have been better to be a small elite.

''Gwaaaaah!''

The mage's body burst open due to the cunning magic of the demon race.
There were only three mages left.

''Whoa!''

A large number of adventurers, travelers, and merchants were also present at the match.
But of course, there were very, very few who were willing to lend a hand in this situation that had nothing to do with it.
The three mages left here now were the survivors of those who had lent a hand out of good will.

At first, they were able to cover themselves with courage.
But as their numbers dwindled, their fears gradually grew.
And now, the mages' fears had reached their limit.

''Whoa!　Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

One of the mages, who couldn't bear it and went crazy, left the battlefield.

''Gyahahahahahahaha!　Oh, my God!　He's getting away!　Gahhahahahaha!

The demon tribe laughed with glee and belly laughs at the situation.

Following the departure of one of them, two more left behind also left.
There were only Brahms, Ichijo, Fiora, Patrick, and the barely alive Golden Knight and Schneizel on the battlefield anymore.
Many of the gold knights have been killed as well, and there are only a few left.

The situation was moving in a completely bad direction.



　Meanwhile, Sabrina had regained consciousness with Oswald's magic, but had she hit her head when she was kicked away?　He was still wobbling when he got up.
It was no longer a battle.

　Everyone was exhausted and things were bad.
The only one with a chance of winning was Brahms, but Brahms was stranded and unable to help the others.

The next possibility was Patrick.
The Spirit King's magic is still intact.
Even so, the only reason why he can only run away from the demon race is because Patrick is not yet able to handle Sarah's power.
Patrick still couldn't do it, including attacking while flying.

''Just running away?　The "human

The black demon tribe provokes you.
But I don't have time to listen to such words.
He had his hands full just to keep the flames of his wings steady.

''Sarah!　Let's get out!

I can't!　If we go down to the ground now, we'll be out of range again in a heartbeat.　Next time, you won't just get kicked!

The ability is there.
But at the moment, Patrick had no chance of winning.
If he couldn't use such a great power as blue flame, it was useless.
It's not just a matter of time before you'll be able to get your hands on a new one.

--But that's when it happened.

Haha!

Suddenly, I heard a voice behind me.

'What?'

Looking back, Sarah was surprised and confused.
With that expression beside her, Patrick also looked back once to the back.

Then, there was the figure of a demon tribe that was bleeding profusely from its mouth and chest.

Patrick stopped moving and stared at the black demon tribe.
Then the demon tribe met Patrick's eyes and smiled for a moment.

'What? ...What does that mean? .....

When Patrick said that, he dropped to the ground from there.

Sarah, Yui and Patrick looked at each other and descended to the ground.
Then they ran to the fallen demon tribe and confirmed their safety.

''He's dead........''

The black demon tribe was doomed.
When he looked, he saw that the demon's chest had been hollowed out.

Then, to his surprise, Patrick, who had been alerted to the area, found what looked like an organ that was twitching a little further away from it, falling down.

'That's....'

Patrick looked at it with a question mark on his face.

'It's the heart,'

Sarah answers first.

The demon's heart is falling.
But why?
Patrick looked around, as if seeking answers.

And then he found it.
He appeared in the middle of the battlefield, well....

--a red-black mage.