Is this really just an RPG? !

My life seems like a joke.

It will always brake gracefully at some subtle times, making me mistakenly think that I can take a breath, and then go straight to a 180° sharp turn and then accelerate crazily, making me fall into a dazed look. State... Well, it’s like my current state. I can only maintain an indescribable expression throughout the whole process, and at the same time I am holding a girl and running back and forth between abandoned buildings, trying to get rid of the huge magic dog that is chasing me behind me. .

"Main task [Dog Killing Operation]

Mission information: In the middle of the night, you were attacked by a vicious dog. As a qualified brave man, for the sake of future generations, he should deal with this vicious dog that only threatens the lives of others.

Task requirements: 1. Use all methods to get rid of this big black dog (unfinished)”

Excuse me?

Please give me a practical plan of action before calling me to deal with the enemy!

"Aw!"

The roar of the magic dog came from behind, and the sound of the building being destroyed could be heard at the same time. I was suddenly a little thankful that this was an abandoned area, and there were a considerable number of vacant rooms that could be used as barriers to block the movement of the magic dog. Although the effect was not very good, at least it allowed me to keep a safe distance from it.

It's just that I can't seem to get rid of him.

As a magic dog, he has a keen sense of smell, and it is almost instantaneous to determine my position.

It's just that its eyesight is not very good, and it will always hit the building. Although these rather dilapidated empty houses would be shattered if they were hit, they effectively slowed down the magic dog, and sometimes even forced him to stop in place, howling in the air, unable to continue chasing me.

"Montgomery can only rely on the sense of smell to identify the enemy, it has no eyes."

Emily, who was in a baby state in my arms, suddenly spoke.

"That is to say, we have nothing to do for the time being?"

"Probably so, but only temporarily."

"call!"

I breathed a sigh of relief, but I didn't dare to slow down. Instead, I took advantage of this opportunity to distance myself from the magic dog.

It's best to get out of its smell range... although I think this kind of thing is unlikely.

However, along the way just now, I seem to have fled with a young female in my arms for so long without any pressure, and I haven't felt tired yet. For a person whose strength value is only F-level, it is indeed a very strange thing. Besides, I always feel that Emily seems to have no weight at all, which really makes me think of something, so I watched it subconsciously. Information on the screen at a glance.

"Props [Emily Childhood]

Props Information: Emily transformed into a childish appearance.

Props classification: important props.

Remarks: It's useless, find a place to throw it away, or a princess is more suitable for you. "

…………

Can I pretend I haven't seen anything?

This system is too unscrupulous!

"What's wrong?"

It may be that my facial expression has changed too much, Emily asked me with a puzzled expression.

"No no no no, nothing."

I really want to ask her what she thinks about "becoming a weightless and useless important item for the hero", but my intuition tells me that if I really ask that, the other party will not only be unable to hear Understand, and give me a fist in the waist.

Because I held her in a special way, the most convenient place for her to hit me was the waist.

"Well, senior sister, do you have a way to deal with that guy behind?"

If I continue to be chased like this, sooner or later I will be caught up because of my exhaustion. Furthermore, there was such a loud movement and noise, and it has been more than 20 minutes since just now, and no one has noticed the situation here at all! Even in the abandoned area, it should be within the monitoring range of the academy!

Did you all go to bed in the middle of the night?

"I think you don't need to think about external support."

"What?"

"When Montgomery is chasing prey, he will cover an area and become his own unique hunting ground. Although we will not be attacked by more guys, it also means that it is impossible for anyone to perceive our situation. Help us."

"so……"

I stopped and turned around to look at the magic dog that raised its head and howled towards the sky.

"We have to find a way to get this guy out by ourselves."

"How is it possible! Sister, you don't have any combat power at all right now!"

"So I leave it to you, Brave Neil."

"The brave are not obliged to undertake all battles! Besides, I can't fight!"

"Not enough LEVEL?"

The conversation suddenly turned to a strange place.

I almost didn't react, and slammed into the wall.

"You say yes, anyway, it's fine, I really can't solve that guy!"

I answered Emily almost in a self-defeating tone.

Because the facts are like this, the size gap is too large and my own swordsmanship evaluation is almost 0, which makes it impossible for me to use the dagger to fight the magic dog; the attack magic released by the magic scroll I carry has no effect on the magic dog at all, so I also gave up The method of using magic to defeat the opponent; in the end, only the supernatural magic that can cause large-scale destruction... However, that kind of magic has quite harsh environmental restrictions!

Even if it is released with the most complete chant in the current situation, the destructive power caused is not as good as an ordinary fireball.

All in all, I have absolutely no way to deal with the magic dog.

"Escape as much as possible, if you can find a way to leave this area, you should be able to find someone to help!"

Unfortunately, Emily immediately dismissed my idea.

"There is no way to leave. When this place becomes Montgomery's hunting ground, unless one party dies, there is no way to leave from inside."

"It's really outrageous. Is it the emperor of ancient Rome?"

"I'm not sure what country you mean by 'ancient Rome'. If you mean the emperor who likes to circle people...it's true," Emily replied solemnly, and nodded at the same time. , "By the way, the number of Montgomery is at least one hundred, so he is a family!"

"That is to say, there are more than a hundred emperors who just love others?"

"No, there are also a few of them who prefer the straightforward way, hide and run to you and slap you out with one paw."

"I don't understand at all what makes you think it's 'straightforward'!"

"After being fanned out, you don't have to think about the rest. After all, as long as you are human, most of them will die and can't die anymore, so it's straightforward!"

"What you said is very reasonable, and I have no way to refute it at all!"

"So you can be thankful that you're alive and kicking now."

"Yes, yes, thank God, you can tell me the truth... Ugh!"

The buildings behind me were shattered by the impact, and large and small gravels flew away. Although I quickly adjusted my posture to protect important parts of my body, I was still hit by a relatively large stone and fell to the ground. It rolled several times before stopping. When I got up enduring the pain, I found that Emily, who was always by my side, was gone.

"Senior sister? Senior sister!"

"The combat awareness is too poor."

The pile of rubble was propped open, and a light barrier appeared inside.

It seems that she used a magic barrier to protect herself the moment she was hit... Wait, can she use magic even when she's smaller?

"Don't look at me like that, cough cough!"

After Emily guessed my thoughts, she immediately denied it, grabbed her staff and swung it vigorously a few times, swept away the stones blocking the way, and crawled out from inside. She didn't have any wounds on her body, so she shouldn't have been injured, but maybe due to lack of magic power, she looks a little weak now.

"Magic can be used, but the magic power has been reduced too completely."

"it is as expected."

I went up to give Emily a hand and took her staff at the same time.

This large staff made of all metal has quite good conductivity, and the quality is absolutely reliable, because Emily's relatively simple and crude magic similar to Comet lunge [Comet Direct Strike] does not require a lot of magic. Power, but a weapon that can withstand a lot of power.

So this thing is very heavy, so heavy that I need two hands to hold it steady.

I really don't know how Emily can wave with one hand at ordinary times.

"Well, my previous weapon was a warhammer, which was twice as heavy as this one."

The girl next to her suddenly spoke.

"Why would you use that kind of thing!"

"Because the compatibility between light and Warhammer is better."

"I can't see where they can reflect the good compatibility between them!"

I growled at Emily and saw her suddenly look in awe.

"Lord Octavia once said that both light and warhammer can influence people, the only difference between them is that one is spiritual and the other is physical."

To put it bluntly, either listen to the preaching, or be subdued by violence.

"Anyway, do you have a way to deal with this big guy?"

I looked up at the magic dog that was temporarily staying in place.

It's not that I don't want to escape, but that there is no way to escape now. The buildings along the way did cause a lot of obstacles to the magic dog, but when the magic dog destroyed all these things, it became an obstacle on my way to escape, just like now, I can no longer avoid it, unless I What kind of magic can be released... Of course, I don't know, and I don't carry a similar magic scroll.

And, [Teleportation] and [Flash], the two running spells that I used more proficiently, were actually banned!

The reason is "cannot be used in the copy", but I still don't understand what a "copy" is.

"No, there is no way."

Emily raised her right hand, pointed to the sky with her index finger, and began to chant an incantation I couldn't understand. In terms of pronunciation, it is no different from Rune, but because the sentence structure is too weird, it is difficult for me to quickly understand what she said. In addition, Emily's speech speed is a bit too fast, I suspect that she just put too much The pronunciations are vaguely strung together.

However, the fact is not what I guessed.

She is indeed just pronouncing too fast, and I can confirm this from the fluctuations of the surrounding mana.

The rune is the password to trigger the magic net, and the only way to give orders to Mana...at least for humans. Mana cannot be controlled without clear and fluent language, so no matter how vague it sounds, as long as there is fluctuation of mana, it can be sure that it is a real spell.

It's just being chanted at high speed.

But if this is the case, isn't this series of incantations very long?

It has been almost two or three minutes since the beginning. With Emily's speaking speed, even a large-scale magic can be activated four or five times, and she hasn't finished singing yet.

The magic dog in the distance actually obeyed the inexplicable BOSS rule of "the opponent temporarily goes offline when releasing the magic with spectacular special effects", and stayed quietly in place the whole time, doing nothing except shaking its head from time to time. It's like waiting for Emily's spell to finish before acting.

…………

Should it be better to praise it for its dedication, or is it better to complain about this strange setting?

Wait, it shouldn't be a problem for me to escape openly at a time like this!

"Why are you still standing here in a daze?"

Emily, who still maintained the gorgeous special effects, turned to me and asked me as the spell chanting was not over yet.

"Wait until you finish reciting the spell!"

I answered as a matter of course.

"Why wait until I finish chanting! This spell has no effect other than the special effect of crazily burning funds."

"Then why are you still reading it!"

"Because generally speaking, the enemy members will temporarily disconnect when our members are making a big fuss! In this case, I can indirectly control that Montgomery, and you can handle the rest! No matter what Useless wood, don't tell me you can't even beat a wooden stake!"

"How can I beat it! The magic scrolls are all used up, do you want me to swing up the dagger?"

"Then go chop it! Do you know that no matter how low the attack is, there will be compulsory damage!"

"I don't understand what my sister is saying!"

"Compulsive damage, do you understand compulsory damage! As long as you keep cutting down 1 HP, you can always kill that big dog!"

"Don't talk about strange settings!"

I don't understand what this person is thinking. Under such circumstances, he can talk about unreliable things so casually.

"Aw!"

The magic dog over there didn't seem to be planning to wait any longer. He let out a long bark and ran towards Emily and me. Every time the four paws slapped the ground, they would cause vibrations. The magic dog shook its head and opened its mouth, and when it was about to bite, its movement stopped suddenly, and several pure white chains appeared out of nowhere to firmly control the magic dog.

"I'm not kidding, I'm just talking about that kind of plan." Emily pointed her right index finger at the wolf, "Montgomery is not an ordinary creature, and external attacks have almost no effect on it, so I call you to use a dagger Cutting is just for fun, to solve this kind of thing, we must start from the inside."

"internal?"

"You stand over here."

She waved at me and motioned me to walk into the magic circle.

It was only then that I noticed that the runes engraved on the magic circle were too complicated, and most of them I couldn't understand what they meant.

And... I always feel that the sentence patterns of these magic words are also very problematic.

"Montgomery is a family member of 'Warren' and a follower of 'Warren'."

"Even if the body of a fanatic is destroyed, it's useless. If you want to completely solve Montgomery, you can only solve it from the inside."

"so……\u0026#@%@#"

Another sentence that I don't understand.

It sounds strangely familiar, but I can't remember it.

But this is not important, what is important is that the surroundings suddenly dimmed.

I couldn't see the wreckage of the building, and I couldn't find Emily.

But I seem to know where this is.

I really wanted to go forward directly by feeling, but in the end I gave up this plan.

[Let’s find Emily first. 】

Thinking of this, I began to call out the name of my senior who always brought me unexpected developments in this darkness.

"..."

Wait, wait? What is her name?

※ ※ ※ ※

Strange places are always scary. There is nothing wrong with this sentence, but it is more accurate to add a prefix of "in most cases". At least, being in the darkness, I didn't have any drastic emotional changes, but I had a feeling of "that's all".

Speaking of which, what am I going to do?

It should have been a headache and I didn't know how to deal with the enemy, but the next moment I came to such an environment. Until now, I can be sure that I came to this kind of place for no purpose, but I can't recall why. What. It was as if he was about to say something, but it stuck abruptly, and then he was forgotten by himself.

Very weird and uncomfortable feeling.

My memory isn't so bad yet, right?

So what was forgotten?

"Can not remember……"

While talking to myself, I reached out and squeezed my temples.

There seems to be an elf with twin ponytails and a blond girl in memory. The former seems to be a long-time partner, and the latter is a friend I met for some reason. People who should be very familiar, but I can't recall the faces of those two people, and I can't even describe their general appearance, as if the things related to this part of my mind have been dug out.

"who……"

It always feels like someone is around, but without the light, I can't see anything.

Couldn't even turn his neck.

My strength began to drain out of nowhere, and I felt exhausted. I wanted to sit down and rest, but my body was so stiff that I couldn't.

"really."

Suddenly, a familiar voice came to my ears.

"Even a brave man cannot avoid this situation, and this term is no exception."

"……who?"

"I'm Emily, have you forgotten? Or have you forgotten yourself?"

"...Sister?"

I turned my head a little stiffly, and looked at the girl standing next to me and grabbing my wrist. She seemed to be looking at something, looking straight ahead. I followed her line of sight, but I couldn't see anything, it was still dark, but it was somewhat different from before, because I could see Emily.

"Montgomery will devour everything about the prey, including their identities, memories, existence, etc. After being devoured, they will turn into poor people who are devoured, and continue to lurk in the appearance of those guys, looking for the next prey."

Emily's tone sounded like she was explaining something to me, but due to the lack of information in her mind, even after listening carefully to what she said, she couldn't understand what it meant, but Emily didn't stop because of this, She is still working on the explanation.

"Even if I don't care about you, nothing will happen, but I need your help, Neil, so don't stand around stupidly."

"It hurts! It hurts! What are you doing!"

"Simple and rude method, a needle to wake you up, super effective!"

Emily's tone is still on the rise, as if she is very happy to see this situation.

After glaring at her, I rubbed my right arm and raised my head to look forward.

The darkness began to recede, and when it was completely lit up, I realized that I was in a corridor with walls made of stone on both sides, and torches were regularly inserted on it. No matter how you look at it, it's normal. It's just a very ordinary passage. The only thing that makes me feel uncomfortable is the maliciousness coming from below the ground.

"It's normal to feel malicious if you run into the opponent's body casually."

"...can you not read your mind?"

"No, it's just that you seldom hold back what's in your heart, Neil, especially when you get along with familiar and reassuring people, you always write all the things you think of on your face for others to see," Emily said. He made a serious evaluation, paused for a moment and then said again, "It's quite similar to my predecessor."

"predecessor?"

"The previous hero, Gary Noyce."

"Senior sister knows him very well?"

"A comrade-in-arms relationship."

Just that?

I glanced at the girl next to me several times, and felt that she didn't seem to want to talk about the former brave man very much, and that she would mention it purely out of emotion. Speaking of the previous brave man, it should have a history of more than a hundred years. According to Emily's tone, apart from the comrade-in-arms relationship between them, they should be regarded as very familiar friends. emotions in it?

Don't there often be such plots in knight novels!

[Forget it, it has nothing to do with me. 】

I shook my head, put aside the series of grievances and grievances between Emily and the previous brave man, and focused on the road ahead.

"where is this place?"

"Probably a road leading to somewhere!"

Emily answered me with an ambiguous tone.

"Eh?"

"how."

"You brought me here, but you don't know where this place is?"

"I know! A road to somewhere."

"Isn't that just ignorance! Any path can be explained with this sentence!"

"No, I mean, the name of the road is 'the road to somewhere.'"

"..."

I can't keep up with the rhythm.

"It's a very poetic name, but it's cumbersome to say and has no profound meaning. In most cases, it will be shortened to "Tongtong". Because this is your first time here, I will tell you the full name."

Emily began to explain deftly, as if she did this kind of thing often.

"By the way, Montgomery is a kind of 'virtual image monster', that is to say, whether it is its usual disguise or the form of a magic dog, it is a fictional illusion."

"Why did the topic suddenly jump to Montgomery?"

"Suddenly want to talk about it, and you are complaining about the wrong place!"

"Then what am I going to complain about... Oh yes, but that claw really smashed the house!"

"That's because it can only be done in the hunting ground!"

"Is that so... Hey, it's the door, it shouldn't be locked, right?"

"Neil, get out of the way."

After Emily finished speaking, she stopped, took out her staff, pointed to the doorknob, and then chanted a mantra. When the chanting was over, the front of the staff shone with white light, and there was a "click" sound from the door lock. Emily touched the door panel lightly with the staff, and the door shattered directly.

As if it never existed.

"We are going to the body part of Montgomery, which is a place similar to the spiritual center, so there will be many doors and the like on the road, which can be regarded as a protective measure for it."

"The explanation is really easy to understand."

Emily put away the staff and moved on.

By the way... I don't know if it's my illusion, but the staff seems to be getting smaller?

"Sister."

"Um?"

"What is 'Warren'? And who is that person we saw in the room before? And this...Magmaley? Anyway, what is this big magic dog?"

I asked several questions at once, hesitated for a moment, stopped and looked at Emily, and remained silent for a while before deciding to throw all the questions out.

"When will you be able to change back, senior? And, who are you? If you are just a 'believer of Octavia', this identity is too simple!"

"Simple is simple, but your guess is not wrong."

Emily readily affirmed my thoughts.

She raised her head and looked at the ceiling, thought for a while and continued to walk forward, showing no intention of continuing to answer. Without any reason to ask, I could only follow her footsteps and walked towards the so-called "Montgomery body" until the second door appeared.

"I am a follower of Octavia, former archbishop, Emily Thomas."

As she spoke, she worked on opening the door.

"Of course, a position that sounds powerful is actually mostly just a spiritual belief, not to mention that I am just an apostate who betrayed my own belief."

"But senior, you can still use Octavia's power."

"It's just that Octavia didn't blame me," Emily's tone suddenly sank, "Even if the gods can forgive me, even if I have all kinds of reasons to explain my actions, the one who can't forgive me the most is actually me Own."

Having said that, Emily raised her right hand.

Urging the mana to gather the water flow, and then lower the temperature, causing the water flow to condense into ice cones.

"Using magic is the right of Antony's followers. As a follower of Octavia, I used magic. Such behavior is equivalent to deceiving two gods at the same time."

It seems that this is the case.

The topic became inexplicably serious, and I subconsciously raised my head to look elsewhere. After waiting for a while to confirm that Emily had no intention of speaking again, I tried to change the topic. In fact, I'm not very curious about Emily's identity, but I just asked this question along the way. Now it seems that it is not a good decision.

"'Warren', and 'Age of Doom'?"

"Well, the former is a bit complicated to explain, but the latter... Neil, your history doesn't seem to be very good?"

Emily's tone returned to her usual look.

Although I'd rather she hadn't recovered better.

As soon as I came up, I complained about my historical performance, although it was really not very good.

After all, every class was skipped by me for various legitimate reasons.

"History class is boring!"

"Neil, if you listen carefully to the class, you won't be ignorant of the 'Century of Destruction', which was the largest disaster a hundred years ago. No matter where the classroom is, it will mention things about the 'Century of Destruction', and the culprit is the famous Organization for 'Warren'."

"Organization? A group of people?"

"yes."

"That guy in the room who was dressed the way he was for the winter was also a member of the 'Warren' organization?"

"That costume is their signature."

"Oh, then the place where this organization was established must be in the north."

I subconsciously spit out a slot, although this conjecture does not have the slightest credibility.

"Yeah, that organization's initial stronghold was indeed on an uninhabited island in the north, quite hidden."

"..."

It's really subtle and easy to understand.

"As for the remaining questions, let's talk about it later when we have time."

Emily dropped this sentence and began to concentrate on completing the work of opening the third door. Seeing that she didn't want to continue talking, I also gave up my plan to ask.

I don't know what's going on outside now.

It's better to be about the same as before you came in, otherwise, if you draw attention, the trouble will increase instead.

When I came back to my senses, the door had been opened by Emily, and the target we had been looking for was behind the door.

A gigantic huge crystal shining with dark green light, it floats in the air and rotates constantly, surrounded by white unknown creatures floating around the crystal, making miserable cries from time to time.

"Those are the poor souls that Montgomery devoured."

Emily walked me closer to the crystal.

"Is it okay to just rely on the past?"

"No problem, as long as you don't make any big noises, it's safe for the time being."

"That's it," I breathed a sigh of relief, and looked up at the crystal, "Then what we have to do is to find a way to break this crystal?"

"It's really going to be done, but in order, it's the last job."

"First item?"

"Get rid of these gray and white cotton first, otherwise it will be very troublesome."

"What?"

Before I could react, Emily took the first step.

Aiming at the crystal with the staff in his right hand, he chanted a mantra at high speed, and the tip of the staff gathered an electric current. When the mantra chanting was over, the current spread out uncontrollably, directly evaporating a large area of ​​wraiths nearby. Lose. After casting a spell, Emily didn't stop. She took a deep breath and chanted the spell again, without any intention of explaining it to me.

"Whaaaaaaaaaa!"

The sharp howls echoed around, and countless wraiths attacked Emily and me from around the crystal, as if they wanted to tear us apart.

But before they had time to get close, they were defeated by the second current.

"You always have a defensive magic scroll!"

"Ah, yes."

"Persist until all the wraiths are wiped out!"

"I'm fine, but can your magic power last?"

"It's nothing, anyway, it can be used repeatedly."

"It's really a convenient technique, I want to learn it too!"

"We'll talk about it after we're done, and the defense is up to you."

After Emily finished speaking, she immediately began to chant the third spell.

It's really unreasonable to throw the task to others.

I took out all the magic scrolls in my backpack at once.

The offensive ones were lost when facing the magic dog before, but there are still a lot of defensive ones.

But when it comes to dealing with things like wraiths...

"Shining Burn【火光】!"

The barrier formed by mixing two kinds of mana, light and fire, will burn enemies who touch the barrier while defending against attacks. Because it looks like the brilliance of the sun, the spell is named "burning light". Speaking of wraiths, my first thought was the sun, and then I naturally thought of this scroll.

After confirming that the wraiths outside would not dare to approach for a while, I was relieved.

You should be able to hold on until Emily cleans up the wraiths here!