Jobless Reincarnation: Sword, Magic Hat and Romance System

Chapter 71 Are monsters mindless creatures?

The massacre proceeded methodically, and the number of monsters in the valley was visibly decreasing.

No one had any intention of stopping, because the operation was going too smoothly.

While Paul was starting to feel tired, Allen remained full of energy.

"An hour has passed!"

Despite being immersed in the joy of vanquishing the monsters, Roltz remained calm and dutiful, immediately reminding everyone when the time was up.

Rudy felt the abundant magical power within him and then asked Allen under the tree.

"Are we going to continue?!"

Allen ripped apart the sparsely populated monsters in front of him with a single slash, then glanced at the valley.

Judging by sight, the number of monsters must have been reduced by half from the beginning, no, it looks like even less.

"Did most of them die from Rudy's magic? Area-of-effect attacks are definitely faster at clearing mobs."

He blinked, marveling at how many people had been killed in just one hour; it was somewhat unexpected.

That went so smoothly.

Allen smiled and looked at Paul, who looked exhausted but was still trying to stay strong. After a moment's thought, he spoke.

"Alright, let's call it a day. The number of monsters has decreased significantly. Rudy, do you have a count? Approximately how many have you killed?"

Rudy chuckled upon hearing this.

"Half, no, even more! These D-rank monsters are really easy to kill. Some of them just got grazed by magic and fell into piles of monster corpses on the ground, never to get up again. Are they just playing dead?"

"Playing dead is a bit much, isn't it?"

Allen chuckled as he looked at Paul, who was standing to the side, exhaling a breath of stale air and smiling.

"Shall we go home then, Uncle? We should be making good progress."

Paul was already exhausted. He had been in the outer forest for many days. When Allen mentioned home, he thought of his wife and children. He was suddenly energized and unleashed a gust of sword wind that blasted away the mountain of monster bodies piled up in front of them.

"Okay! Let's go home then!"

After saying that, he sheathed his sword, glanced at the monsters below the valley again, and then turned around and walked back the way they came with Roltz, who had jumped down from the tree and was also smiling. As Roltz took a step, he turned his head and looked at Allen.

Allen couldn't help but chuckle at their eagerness.

"Aren't you going to take care of either of your kids? Paul is one thing, he's genuinely exhausted, but what's wrong with you, Roltz? You were up in the tree; even if you're not very agile, couldn't you at least have brought your daughter down first?"

He shook his head, looked at the two little ones staring at him longingly from the tree, jumped up, and reached out to hug them and pull them down.

But just as he was about to reach out, Hilfi raised her hand to stop him.

She frowned slightly, looking at Allen's swordsman's uniform covered in flesh with some distress, and raised her hand to release a wind magic spell that blew on Allen's body.

The minced meat fell like red snow.

Meanwhile, Rudy, looking around at the densely packed monster corpses, wore a smug expression as he admired his spoils.

Allen looked down at Hilfi's serious expression. The setting sun shone on her soft, shoulder-length green hair, which danced in the wind as the magic of the blower scattered the strands, and her cheeks were tinged with the glow of the evening.

The two remained silent, with only Rudy talking to himself incessantly.

"I didn't expect hunting monsters to be so easy. I didn't feel anything when I sparred with Father and Allen before, but I didn't expect my magic to be so effective. Hmm? Am I seeing things? There seems to be something on the ground that Father just split open."

Upon hearing this, Allen was about to tease Rudy when a sentence suddenly flashed through his mind.

That's what Rudy just said.

"Half, maybe even more!"

"Some were merely grazed by magic and fell into piles of monster corpses, never to rise again."

A dense array of fleeting images suddenly flashed through his mind—the dark openings of the snow trenches outside the forest.

Deep and unfathomable.

Allen grabbed Hilfi's hand as she released the magic, startling her so much that she jumped up and turned sharply to look in Rudy's direction.

Under the sword energy that Paul had casually unleashed, black spheres were scattered across the exposed ground.

"Kanryu" brings a clearer view.

That wasn't some black sphere.

Instead, it was a dense network of pitch-black caves!

Just then, Rudy's questioning voice rang in his ear.

"It looks like a cave? Luckily, I sealed the ground with ice, otherwise this hillside would be in danger. Father is indeed experienced."

Allen's deep gray pupils narrowed to needles. As Hilfi stared at him with wide, adorable eyes, he pulled her into his arms. With his other hand, he grabbed the muttering Rudy and tucked him under his arm. He bent his knees, ready to jump, and turned to face Paul and Roltz, who were walking a short distance away and waiting for the three of them to shout something.

"Uncle! This isn't over yet, monster!"

"jump!!"

The earth-shattering explosion completely drowned out his voice!

A rumbling, trembling sound has already begun.

Allen stumbled, and the ground tilted!

No, it wasn't the ground that was collapsing! It was the hillside where the three of them were located that collapsed!

The ice beneath the spiked fortress remained unbroken by the monsters, who had destroyed the fortress's foundation!

A huge crack blasted open in the ground in front of the tree, spreading along the edge of the earth spike magic.

Allen stared in disbelief at Roltz and Paul, who had suddenly turned around with expressions of panic. They had reached the outer edge of the earth spike magic, and the crack separated them from Allen and his companions! His eyes widened in disbelief. He immediately bent his knees, preparing to leap, only to feel his lower body suddenly lose its support. His hair flew upwards and down his face as the entire ground plummeted down the ridge!

"ah!!!"

Rudy and Hilfi screamed in terror at the same time. At that moment, Paul and Roltz rushed to the edge of the crevice, looking at the ridge falling into the valley and shouting in unison.

"Eren!!"

The person being summoned experienced a surge of adrenaline. He was holding a small child in one hand, Rudy was still screaming, while Hilfi quickly covered her mouth and turned to look at Allen.

Allen bent his knees and jumped!

"Sure! Less than twenty meters, that's a distance you can jump onto the grass!!!"

As his body was lifted into the air, his toes almost leaving the ground, he saw countless demonic creatures swarming around the crack, beneath which lay a hollowed-out mountain ridge!

The monsters jumped up almost at the same time as Allen, creating a cloud of mist in the air that obscured the latter's vision. Just as the monster horde was about to crash into Allen, he instinctively wanted to swing his sword, but suddenly realized that he was holding people in both hands.

He didn't have a free hand to hold the knife!

The wind has died down!

Allen's pupils constricted, and with 'Sensory Flow' activated at full power, he roared in his mind!

"Dragon Saint Battle Aura, unleash it! Concentrate on your back!"

A warm current suddenly rose in his abdomen, and the Dragon Saint Battle Qi nascent core, which was the size of a walnut, suddenly shrank into a date pit, with the magic patterns on it almost shrinking to be invisible.

Then it expands!

The fighting spirit named after the dragon surged and exploded, wrapping around the person's body!

(End of this chapter)