Grandpa had instructed me to come to the north gate.
　As far as I can see, there are probably more than 5,000 zombies that have been attacking us by surprise, and the number is still growing. They had probably bypassed the village.
　I regretted not using my detection, but figured it wasn't deadly yet, so I launched an attack.

'Firestorm!'

　Before the zombies see me, I fire three rounds of Firestorm, sending them near the front of the zombie horde into a sea of fire.
　But the back row of zombies won't stop moving forward as if they don't care about the sea of fire. At last, the fire disappeared before the amount of zombies in the back row.

''That's a messed up battle plan.

　Someone muttered. It's a mess, sure, but crushing the defense of a few in numbers, I thought, this is an effective move against us right now... whether the zombies think that far ahead or not.

'Grandpa told me to come and support you!

Oh, thank God.

　They exchanged short words and fired off a series of magic.

'Earth Needle, Fireball, Air Cutter!

　Use multiple attribute magic to reduce the number of enemies. But the zombies will come out later and later.

''There's no end to it.

　I muttered and fired 10 rounds of Firestorm into the center of the crowd, burning about 2,000 people in the center of the crowd, but there were still some zombies left.

　Even though they are 500 meters away, the hot heat wave reaches the fort.

''Temma! Stop wasting your magic power in desperation!

　A wizard catches up with me and warns me not to worry about it.

Everybody get down or get below. Hurry!

　And loudly instructed them. At first everyone was puzzled, but the wizard, sensing that I was going to use high-powered magic, immediately told everyone and acted immediately. With that in mind, I chanted a spell at the side.

''Tornado.''

　It wasn't a particularly unusual magic. If I had to say, it was quite a bit more powerful than normal, but it was still able to take out a hundred or so zombies in one hit... if it was a normal situation.


　In the past, about 40,000 of the approximately 105,000 people who died in the Great Kanto Earthquake were said to have been killed by a certain phenomenon (...).
　The phenomenon is said to occur when a large quantity of warmed air is blown up into the sky by a large fire.

　It is said that the disaster grows as it draws in the air around it, and the temperature of the tornado with its heat is said to exceed 1,000 degrees Celsius.

　Temma has used his magic to recreate the natural disaster.
　However, it was also a gamble, for the mechanism of the Fire Whirlwind was not completely understood, even in his previous life.

　Winning the bet, Tenma let the Fire Tornado slowly move in the direction of the zombies as they swarmed.

　The zombies tried to escape the whirlwind, but eventually they were sucked into the whirlwind and burned, carved and shattered. In a matter of minutes, the crowd of zombies that had been heading towards the north gate was nearly wiped out. Temma witnessed this and weakened the Fire Tornado with his magical power.

''Wow! The zombies are gone!
Suck it up!
All that's left is a failure to die!

　and a cheer from the guard at the north gate, putting a stop to the survivors. Tenma was inwardly relieved.

(I'm glad it worked~. It's very effective, but it's hard to use, and if I let go of the control, it's likely to come at me if I'm not good at it, and it requires magic power to erase it. (I'll have to be careful where I put it.)

　I chugged three bottles of the potion, thinking.

''Temma, I'm sorry, but can you hurry up and eat this and head to the West Gate?''

　'Yes,' one of the guards said, handing me water and the sandwiches that had been handed out just now.

'I understand,'

　And I tucked the sandwich into my belly as if I were pouring water into it and took off to the West Gate, my belly chattering with water and potions.


　The scene I saw at the West Gate wasn't much different from the one at the North Gate.

　To be exact, there are more zombies here than at the north gate, from the looks of it, but the wizards were doing their best to make up for it, so the zombie invasion had stopped.

　I found Uncle Mark, who was in command, and called out to him.

'I'm Temma. I'm here to support you.

"Tenma, thank God... and by the way, that pillar of fire you saw before, was it Tenma who did that?

Yes, it's my magic.

　Uncle Mark looked startled when I replied, "I'm sorry," and then quickly

Then why don't you do the same for us?

　I asked, looking at the zombies.

'We can do it. But we need other magic users to help us.

　I replied, "I'm going to have people who can use magic hit ten fireballs each around the center of the zombie horde, and I'm going to release five firestorms myself.

'Everyone please take shelter below!

　He instructed and chanted 'Tornado' just like the North Gate.

　The Fire Tornado attacked the flock again and swallowed most of the zombies, and by the time it was gone, the flock was wiped out.

　When the defenders saw it happen, they screamed with joy and were about to put a stop to the dying.

　Temma was about to report to the east gate once he saw it, when the next moment when he sensed a violently disgusting presence from the forest on the other side of the south gate, a thin black beam of light pierced the south gate.

　The rays of light reached near the center of the fort, and screams were coming from everywhere.
　The south gate had been blown off the gate and part of the wall around it, and it looked like several of the defenders had been hit.

'Dad, Mom!'

　I froze for a few seconds, then raised my voice and hurried to the south gate, praying for their safety.