173. Will vs. Cardinal (2)

Seeing the tail of Tenebris starting to move, Jema called out to me via telepathy, almost shouting.

『Will! Will you be okay?』

『Please leave it to me. To be honest, I am glad they are not targeting the wounded.』

The injured students were barely alive.

If the tails of Tenebris targets them, we would have to protect them with all our might.

It would be very troublesome.

Jema and Rubeum must have been injured due to that scenario.

If Jema worries about the tail of Tenebris attacking me, then she would not be able to focus on the Cardinal with all her might.

Therefore, I have to take on both of the tails of Tenebris with a carefree look.

The basic attacks of the tail of Tenebris are its sharp claws, fangs, and golden magic bullets.

These two were stronger than the tail of Tenebris I fought last time.

However, I can read their attacks better than before and it was easy to surpass their movements.

The growth of a child’s body seems to be fast indeed.

『I can handle them both. You and Arti should quickly kill the Cardinal, Jema-sensei.』

『You don’t have to tell me that twice!』

Jema rained down slashes on the Cardinal with her sword, but he deflected the attacks with his bare hand clad in mana.

Jema was fast and powerful, but not enough to push back the Cardinal.

Arti rushed at the Cardinal from behind.

It became a two-on-one. Jema and Arti’s attacks finally began landing on the Cardinal.

However, there was still carefreeness on the Cardinal’s face.

I also have two tails of Tenebris targeting me, so I can’t afford to look away.

While weaving through the attacks of the tail of Tenebris, I slashed with my dagger and cut them down little by little.

Magic is kind of troublesome because only one attribute will be effective on the tail of Tenebris.

Besides, you can’t know which attribute is effective until you actually use it.

The two beasts probably have different effective attributes.

Therefore, I changed the attributes of my magic shots one after another.

And then, I found that ice and flame were effective on the two tails of Tenebris, respectively.

At the same time, innumerable thin Soil Lances shot out from the ground under the Cardinal soundlessly.

「Huh?」

It was Tina who conjured the Soil Lance.

A number of Soil Lances pierced the Cardinal’s legs from different directions.

Even dozens of Soil Lances piercing into his body does not cause a fatal injury to the Cardinal.

However, the Cardinal’s movements were stopped.

「Small fry! How dare you!」

The carefreeness disappeared for the first time from the Cardinal’s face.

Aiming at Tina, the Cardinal tried to shoot magic.

「Your opponent is me!」

But Jema blocked him.

Thanks to Tina’s magic, the battle between the Cardinal, Jema and Arti began to tilt in our favor.

Then, in my immediate vicinity, I heard the sound of something cutting through the air.

Passing by the side of my face, an arrow pierced into the forehead of the tail of Tenebris in front of me.

Almost at the same time, a second arrow pierced into the forehead of the other tail of Tenebris.

While Jema and Arti launched an onslaught on the Cardinal, the tails of Tenebris and I were engaged in a fierce battle.

Rosetta completely concealed her presence and shot arrows when there was an opening.

A single arrow is not fatal, of course. But Rosetta kept shooting arrows without pause.

「GOOOOOAAAA!」「GAAAAAAAIIAAAA!」

To defend against Rosetta’s arrows, the tails of Tenebris roared and developed a magic barrier.

In other words, their defense against my attacks will become weaker.

I won’t overlook that opportunity. I have to kill the tails of Tenebris in one fell swoop.

If you try to defeat the tails of Tenebris with physical attack, you have to keep slashing them so much until their recovery cannot catch up. That was the method that Regina and Xenovia used.

But that would take too long for me to pull off as I am now.

Therefore, I aim to destroy the core with magic while attacking with the dagger.

The tails of Tenebris will die if the core inside their bodies is broken.

The position of the core inside the body is difficult to find.

When I defeated the tail of Tenebris before, I made it swallow a waterball, and searched for the core from inside the body and destroyed it.

However, the effective attributes this time are ice for one and flame for the other.

The previous method cannot be used.

I fired Strike Nova and Absolute Zero magic at the same time. Two different Great-series magic simultaneously.

The tail of Tenebris which was hit by Strike Nova was consumed by flames and burned to ashes.

The other tail of Tenebris, which was hit by Absolute Zero, froze completely and broke.

「Two highest level magic at the same time?! Are you a monster?!」

The Cardinal exclaimed as he witnessed my magic.

“Aren’t you the monster here?”, I thought inwardly, as I shot more fireballs and ice arrows at the tails of Tenebris.

The bodies of the tails of Tenebris became a large mess of fire and broken ice.

Even so, both of the tails of Tenebris were still alive. However, their cores were finally revealed.

「Rosetta!」

「Leave it to me!」

Rosetta’s double-shot arrows accurately pierced the cores of the two tails of Tenebris.

After confirming that, I rushed at the Cardinal, who was fighting fiercely with Jema and Arti without a break.