That was scary."

　Alisa mumbled. Chika nodded in agreement. I keep my eyes fixed on the evil god and let my quiet voice echo.

'Keep that fear in your heart. If you continue to be an adventurer, there will be many times when you will feel fear. If you let it stop you or make you run away, you may die. I believe that those who can stare down their fears and keep going will be the ones who survive and thrive."

　I don't know why he said that. Maybe it was not something he said to Arisa or Chika, but something he said to himself. That is how much fear the evil god was creating.

　Hearing my own words, I myself was freed from the curse of the evil god. I came this far to find out what the evil gods are capable of. I have to do what I have to do.

You two wait here.

　I brought Elmore out of the shadows and took out my hover cannon.

'Are you sure you want to go through with the meeting?'

'Yeah, we'll see how they respond to life magic, and then we'll try attacking them with hover cannons.'

　Elmore flies away on the hover cannon and I ride the battle wing formed by activating the "Boomerang Wing".

Be careful."

　Alisa said with an anxious look on her face. I nodded and jumped up. I wanted to smile at her to make her anxiety disappear, but I couldn't do it with my strong face.

　I jumped up into the air and aimed at the evil god. The closer I got, the stronger something ominous was emanating from the evil god. What is this?

　Looking down, we see Elmore flying a hover cannon. I activate the "Magnetic Barrier" and hang a D-particle magnetic core around his neck.

　I overtook the hover cannon, and from a distance of about 300 meters away, I activated "Crash Ball" in succession to scatter D-particle vibration balls toward the evil god.

　I often use this technique. This way, I try to see if the enemy can sense the D-particles.

　The evil god looked at the D-particle vibration ball with a giggle. Then he let fly the 30-centimeter-long hairs all over his body.

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　The hairs, which flew like countless arrows, pierced the D-particle vibration ball. A spatial vibration wave should have been emitted, but nothing happened and the D-particle vibration ball collapsed.

What do you mean?"

　The "crash ball" is supposed to emit a spatial vibration wave upon impact, but ...... the magic was forced out of it?　If so, those hairs are nastier than I imagined.

　The next moment, arrow-like hairs flew toward me. I hurriedly deployed a magnetic barrier around me. The moment the hairs hit the magnetic barrier, the magic power contained in the magnetic barrier is stripped away and a hole opens.

　The evil hairs seem to have the power to strip away the magic; the D-particle magnetic core automatically plugged the hole, but the D-particle magnetic core became visibly smaller.

　I activate "Torpedo Dough" and fire a D-particle torpedo. Without checking the result, I turn and descend to the hover cannon. In the meantime, the D-particle torpedo, which flew toward the evil god, became entangled with a net-like thread.

　Wielding a string, the evil god slams the D-particle torpedo into the ground and detonates it. This is unlikely to hit anything but life magic at close range.

　I switch to the hover cannon, activate the "projection barrel" to form a magnetic generating barrel, and join the hover cannon and the magnetic generating barrel.

'Life magic doesn't seem to work, does it?'

That evil god is formidable. I hate that he's only a follower."

'This is no time to be weak. The evil gods are coming after us.

　I look behind me and see the evil god approaching at great speed. The hover cannon accelerates to open the distance from the evil god.

'I want the hover cannon facing backwards.'

Copy that.

　Elmore tipped the control stick and turned the directional rudder. The hover cannon rotates and the tip of the magnetically generated barrel points toward the evil god. Feeling the backward inertia of the plane as it began to fly, I maneuvered the magneto-generating barrel to aim at the Evil God.

　When Alisa and her team took down the sand gigas, they called out to each other and fine-tuned the direction of the hover cannon to hit the target, but the original method of use was to directly move the magnetic generating barrel to take aim.

　When the trigger is pulled, the shell flies out at supersonic speed and flies toward the evil god. The Evil God could not respond to the tremendous speed. It aimed at the Evil God's head, but the shell deflected to the upper left and hit the Evil God in the buttocks, where it exploded.

　The explosion destroyed part of the evil god's outer shell and caused damage. However, it is not something that can be killed with a single blow. Still, the evil god, surprised at being wounded, slows down.

　In the meantime, he adjusted his sights and pulled the trigger in succession. The shells hit the evil god here and there, causing him to bleed. However, none of them were fatal.

　The evil god begins to whimper and an enormous amount of magical power spills out from its entire body. Realizing that it was about to launch some terrible attack, I instructed it to turn and deploy a magnetic barrier.

　As Elmore knocked down the control stick, a black breath spewed from the mouth of the Evil God. The breath passed by the hover cannon as it began to turn. I somehow sensed what the breath was. It was magical power tainted with evil.

　In terms of physical destructive power, the dragon's breath is superior, but it is likely to cause damage to the psyche if exposed to that kind of breath. However, the range of the dragon's breath seems to be short, about 200 meters.

　We dragged them across the plain and pulled them apart while the evil gods ran after us. We succeeded in escaping.

　We made a big loop around the plains and returned to Alisa and her family.

'Thanks for your help. What was that bracelet?"

　Chika asked. Alisa is staring at me. Her eyes seem to be checking for injuries.

It's evil, unclean magic. If you were exposed to it, I suspect you would suffer psychological damage."

Was Dr. Grimm all right?"

　Alisa asked.

I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm sorry I worried you. I'm sorry.

　Alisa and I discussed the evil gods. Alisa and the others, who were watching with binoculars from afar, could only see the general movements of the god, but they felt that it was moving quickly.

　We returned to the surface and reported to the Adventurers' Guild. We told them about the "projectile barrel" and the hover cannon, only that they had accelerated the metal to supersonic speeds and attacked.