Chapter 4: Extremely Masochist Crusader
After Megumin ate her fill, she was brought on the field with the giant frogs.
Megumin: Explosion is the strongest offensive spell. On the other hand, it has a long casting time. Please keep that frog at bay until I'm ready.
There was a frog at a distance on the plains that already noticed them, meanwhile another frog was coming from the opposite direction.
Alex: Aye… Hey Aqua, you go to target the frog further away. How about showing what you're made of?
Aqua charged toward the nearer frog in frustration with her fist clenched.
Aqua: You're just frogs that are strong against physical attacks! Let me show you the power of a goddess! Alex, watch this carefully! I haven't done anything great yet, but I'll definitely succeed today!
*Nom*
Alex: ...As expected of a "Goddess", sacrificing herself to buy us time.
Megumin: ...Goddess?
Alex: She is just a pitiful woman claiming to be the Goddess Aqua, don't mind her.
Megumin looked at the slowly-being-eaten Aqua with sympathetic eyes.
And then, the air around Megumin started to tremble, for safety, Alex created a Phoenix Blade of Nulgath and stabbed the ground, using it as a shield.
Megumin: Darkness blacker than black and darker than dark, I beseech thee, combine with my deep crimson. The time of awakening cometh. Justice, fallen upon the infallible boundary, appear now as an intangible distortion!
This is the mightiest means of attack known to man, the ultimate attack magic! Explosion!
Her red eye shone with a brilliant light, and a light flashed through the plains. That light hit the frog approaching them dead on. Since Alex was using his Phoenix Blade of Nulgath to protect himself, he didn't see the dazzling light rduing everything to dust.
Even the Phoenix Blade of Nulgath, that was quite heavy, was trembling from the shockwave.
Alex: Amazing… So this is magic…
He quickly came out from the hiding place and looked at the disaster caused from the explosion with an amazed face.
Suddenly, another frog slowly climbed out from underground, probably awakened by the shockwave and sound of the explosion. Even if it was near Megumin, it was very slow.
Alex: Megumin! Let's retreat for now and attack from a distance!
But… She was lying face down on the ground.
Megumin: Hmph… Explosion is my ultimate spell. It's powerful and uses a lot of mana. Simply put, the mana I used exceeded my limit, so I can't move. Ah, to think that a frog would appear out of nowhere… No good, I'll be eaten. Sorry, please save me… Hya…!
Since the other frog ate Megumin, both that frog and Aqua's one had their movements sealed, and Alex used this chance to kill the frogs with the Bloodletter of Nulgath.
[Later]
Aqua: Ugh… Ugh… *Sniff*... It smells… It smells like fish…
Megumin: It's smelly inside the frog, but the warm feeling isn't too bad… I gained some knowledge that I'd rather not know… Cool sword by the way…
Aqua was following Megumin and Alex, who was carrying Megumin on his back, both of them covered in slime.
Apparently, if someone used magic that exceeded his or her mana capacity, it'd drain his or her life force to make up for the difference… Well, a nuke for day won't hurt the party.
Alex: From now on, explosion magic will be used only when there is an emergency. Please get by with your other spells from now on, Megumin.
Megumin: ...I can't.
Alex: ...You can't?
Megumin: ...I can only use Explosion, I don't know any other magic.
Alex: ...What?
Megumin: ...I'm an Archmage that loves Explosion. What I like is not detonation magic, but Explosion. So I used all the skill points I had for that magic.
Alex: …
Aqua: …
Alex: ...You will be forbidden to cast Explosion unless the target is too strong for us. If you break this contract, you will be kicked out from the party.
Megumin: ...Yes sir… Anyway, how did you create those swords? Are you an Archmage too? Or a Magic Swordmaster?
Alex: I'm a Void Highlord.
Megumin: Oh right, you said something about that… What is it?
Alex: Hard to explain, but I can control demonic weapons to my pleasure when I am strong enough.
Megumin: ...Neat.
Alex then shooed them off to the bath house while he went to the counter of the adventurer's Guild.
Apparently the girl that gave them the adventurer's cards was called Luna.
Luna: Alright, everything's in order. I've confirmed that your team has finished the quest of defeating 5 giant frogs in 3 days. Good work.
Alex got back his card and saw his levels, he defeated 4 frogs by himself, raising his level from 3 to 7, he heard that the frogs were great for novice adventurers to grind levels. And with that, he gained 8 skill points, arriving at 9 in total.
About skill points, he heard that the more potential a person has, the more skill points they start out with, and normally a person would gain 1 skill point for each level, but maybe because the Void Highlord is a special class, he gains 2 skill points for each level.
Now that he has 9 skill points, he used 5 to buy the second level of Summon Weapon, and left 4 skill points.
[Summon Weapon]
>Level 2/4
>Cost: 10 Skill Points
>Can summon two weapons with minimum cost of mana.
>Weapons that can be summoned:
**Normal weaponry
**Darkblood Nulgath Blade
**Bloodletter of Nulgath
**Phoenix Blade of Nulgath
*[new]*Shadow Spear of Nulgath
*[new]*Oblivion Blade of Nulgath
*[new]*Champion Blade of Nulgath
Luna: Well then, turning in 2 giant frogs, in addition to receiving the bounty for completing the quest, comes to a total of 110'000 Eris. Please take this.
Well, at least he felt satisfied from the amount of money, while he went to the table, where Aqua and Megumin were waiting, he checked his skills.
The one that costed less between every skill he could see are: Summon Weapon LV 3, Weapon Mastery LV 2, and Unsurmountable.
[Unsurmountable]
>Passive Skill
>Level 0/1
>Cost: 10 Skill Points
>Every time your attack connects, you have a small chance to apply Unsurmountable to you, which increases your vitality by 50% and slowly regenerates your wounds for 1 minute.
This would be a useful passive skill, but he felt like buying Summon Weapons, so he can create more weapons, and more powerful ones too, when he played Adventure Quest World, he saw animations of swords levitating, and since there isn't any skill related to it, maybe it would be a bonus for LV 3 Summon Weapon.
Alex: Alright, we will continue with this type of job until we are strong enough.
Aqua: What?! No!
Alex: Shut up, I am the leader here, we will get stronger by killing frogs, it is your fault that you are getting eaten, at least Megumin can kill one or two for each day.
?: ...Excuse me, may I ask…?
Alex turned back, and was speechless when he saw the person talking to him. It was a really beautiful female knight. She looked back at Alex with an expressionless face.
She was a beautiful young woman around 1,70 meters, she is well-endowed and also has light blue eyes and straight, long blonde hair kept in a ponytail tied with a braid and red hair clips secured on both sides of her bangs.
She is in a black, white, and yellow armour, with a metal shoulder plate on her left side, and a wing-like cloth perched upon her right shoulder.
Alex: I-Is something the matter….?
?: Um… The team that put up this recruitment notice was you, right? Are you still looking for people?
She showed him the notice they forgotten on the board of the adventurer's guild.
Alex: We're still hiring, although I wouldn't recommend you joining…
?: Please pick me! Please let me join your party!
She suddenly grabbed Alex's hand, surprising him.
Alex: Hold up! Our party has plenty of problems, one can cast a magic for each day, another is completely useless and I am still too weak to go against strong monsters. Because of that, my two companions were covered in slime-Ouch!
When he mentioned the slime, the female knight tightened her grip on his hand, christ, her strength is enormous!
?: I was right, those two covered in goo were your comrades! What happened, how'd they end up like that…!? I-I also…! Want to experience that…!
Alex: ...Huh?
?: *Ahem* No, I phrased it wrongly. For the two young girls to experience that at such a tender age… As a knight, I can't stand by and watch. My job is the Top-Tier Crusader, so it should fit your recruitment criteria.
...What is this dangerous feeling creeping up on Alex's mind?
?: To be honest, I'm confident in my strength and durability, but I'm not too agile with my hands… So I can't hit the enemy… So you don't need to treat me as having a Top-Tier job; I'll just charge ahead without care, so abuse me like a shield.
Alex: Wha-
Suddenly, she shoved her pretty face in front of him, making him shut up… That excited expression… This girl wasn't useless, she was rotten to the core...
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