Re:Zero: Starting from the Great Transformation

Including the snow buffalo that attacked me just now, it was now following the herd and fleeing at a very fast speed.

After paying a huge price, they seemed to have decided that I was an invincible opponent.

So I chose to retreat.

"..."

I watched the snow buffalo gradually leave.

It was not until their figures completely disappeared into the depths of the forest that they collapsed on the ground as if hollowed out, gasping for breath.

All his clothes were soaked in blood.

The scars from the hard horns had the blood on the surface frozen in the cold wind. I had countless wounds, big and small, and I didn't even have time to treat them during the battle.

My physical strength has reached its limit.

If the Snow Buffalo don't retreat...

I might even be exhausted to death.

even so.

I still struggled to support my body with the sword and staggered towards the center of the snow buffalo herd.

Adventurer: 37, Light Sword

In the almost suffocating smell of blood.

There was a mountain of bones.

The bones came from prey eaten by snow buffalo.

I staggered to my knees in front of the pile of bones and began to search through them with an expressionless face.

Snow buffaloes have the habit of leaving leftover food together with bones.

The purpose is to place leftover food here so that the smell can attract other animals and monsters, and then hunt them for food.

My body was exhausted, but I still started searching.

The snow buffalo might come back someday.

Must confirm as soon as possible...

"Tsk..."

After removing a particularly large bone, my pupils constricted slightly.

It was a human head with some flesh residue still on it, and his identity could be vaguely identified.

Mimir.

【Counter Arrow】's healer.

Although Timothy had said before that he had identified his body, seeing it with my own eyes still made my chest ache.

I knew this was a possibility.

Why didn’t you remind me proactively?

If I had reminded myself, perhaps such a result could have been avoided.

We didn't really talk much.

But even so, he came to celebrate when I was promoted to Grade A, and he congratulated me with a smile that night.

"..."

I put his head back on the ground.

I'm a swordsman, and once I'm in battle I don't have the luxury of carrying luggage, so I couldn't bring his body back.

The dead are dead.

There is no time to mourn him now. What matters is Sarah who is still alive...

I continued to rummage through the bones.

However, even after searching through the entire pile of bones, Sarah's body was still not found. Although some ornaments similar to those Sarah was wearing were found, the body was not found.

That means...

Sarah is still alive.

I subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, everything was still in time.

Just as I was thinking this.

"boom--!"

Huge chunks of ice fell from the sky.

The pile of bones that had been piled up into a small hill suddenly exploded and scattered.

Although I retreated quickly at the first moment, the sharp bones still scratched my body, leaving scars.

However, I didn't bother to treat these wounds and suddenly looked up at the sky above.

A mountain-like shadow appeared before my eyes.

The lush branches and leaves are so dense that they almost cover the entire sky, the thick trunks are so thick that they can almost be called solid walls, and the huge roots are as thick as a human body, gradually approaching here.

Ice-falling magic tree.

It is different from any magic wood I have encountered before, even the magic wood in the Demon Continent cannot be compared.

With such a huge body, it must have lived for more than a thousand years...

Why has it not been conquered so far?

Could it be that it has never been discovered?

Or... people have lost the ability to fight it and can only let it act freely.

Can't win.

My body instinctively told me that I couldn't win.

The thick trunk was covered in ice armor, and even Rudeus couldn't easily penetrate it. The appropriate strategy was to retreat, gather intelligence, and then hire more troops to defeat it.

I am very clear about this.

However, before I could make the decision to retreat, my body had already rushed forward.

At this point, there is no point in retreating.

In the three years since I came into this world, I have been working hard every moment to become stronger.

As for the reason for becoming stronger,

That is, if one day in the future my strength is needed to complete a mission, I will not be powerless.

Now is the time to use that power.

Risk your life.

Even if you can't win, you have to win!

"boom--"

Huge blocks of ice fell from the sky again, hitting the ground with a loud bang.

A big hole was created on the ground by the ice.

Once I am hit by such an attack, I will definitely die unless I have the fighting spirit of Orsted.

However, although this attack is very powerful, its attack route is very monotonous.

Will not change direction.

It takes some time from charging to releasing.

The power of the attack comes entirely from free fall, without any acceleration.

It works.

With my speed, even in this dark environment, I can...

"Bam—"

A terrifying force attacked from the front.

It felt like I was hit in the chest by a battering ram; I could even hear my ribs crack.

As I looked up at the demon tree's ice attack, it swung its branches and hit my chest with such force that I was blown away.

"Ahem——"

While still in mid-air, I suddenly coughed up blood.

correct.

The attack mode of this magic tree is to use ice blocks to smash, and in the gaps between the condensed ice blocks, it swings branches to attack.

It's simple, but it means you have to deal with two attacks at the same time.

The moment of landing.

I poured magic power into the magic tool at my fingertips, and my body began to recover. But a broken rib wasn't a minor injury, and before it could fully heal, the magic tree's ice attack arrived.

I used all four limbs to dodge to the side, while approaching the magic tree at an extremely fast speed.

And quickly search for the root location with your eyes.

"found it!"

I saw a human figure entangled by the roots at the root of the magic tree.

That was a girl with short golden hair.

No one knew where the clothes on her body had gone, and her fair and delicate skin was completely exposed to the air. Her slender figure was well-proportioned, with the right convex parts and the right concave parts being well-proportioned.

She closed her eyes tightly, entangled by the roots of the magic tree and unable to move.

"Sarah!"

I roared at the top of my lungs.

no respond.

It looks like he has fainted, or maybe he is dead.

but no matter.

There was no longer any doubt about what should be done.

"Shh-"

As I stride forward.

The demon tree waved its branches at me again.

This time I didn't dodge, but swung the sword in my hand to face it head-on.

The secret of the Sword God style.

The sword of light.

The experience accumulated from countless battles so far.

He kept thinking about how to make his sword faster, more accurate, and more efficient to knock down his opponent. Every time he swung his sword, he was prepared to knock his opponent down with one blow.

Don't imagine the possibility of failure.

The only thing that came to mind at this moment was the image of the branch being cut off.

Long-term persistence.

Bloom and bear fruit at this moment.

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