Alchemy is Correct

6 - It's Not Magic (5)



“The original master of the Forest of Dark Night was the Twin Orc… but this seems like a completely different opponent.”
If it was an A-rank dimensional gate level, they needed to be a bit tense.
Of course, with S-rank hunter Seol Wolhwa present, major problems wouldn’t occur in most cases, but dimensional gates are places where you never know what might happen.
“Don’t use magical power detection. It might notice us and attack.”
“To think we’d have a boss raid after coming all this way… sigh…”
There’s no time now.
But if the dimensional gate has truly been activated, it’s dangerous if they don’t resolve it right away.
The longer an activated dimensional gate is left alone, the more its danger increases.
There might even be an escape phenomenon where internal monsters leak to the outside.
Above all, they needed to deal with it right now because of the reason for the anomaly.
This incident could only be seen as having occurred due to the magical power being scattered around from the disappearance of the S-rank dimensional gate.
Dimensional gates basically need to be reported to the world, and if it’s an A-rank gate, it will receive immense attention from the outside.
If they leave without resolving this issue, the investigation into the incident will eventually discover traces of the S-rank dimensional gate, making all their efforts to hide it meaningless.
Wolhwa gritted her teeth.
“We have no choice. Let’s deal with the boss as quickly as possible and leave.”
“It’s probably just a slightly stronger Twin Orc at best.”
“I told you to stop being so optimistic. This is beyond a dimensional gate. Besides, Wolhwa noona just said it’s completely different from a Twin Orc.”
“Tch.”
When Eunu tackled Eunyoung’s words, Eunyoung clicked her tongue.
It’s said that siblings naturally don’t get along well, but did they have to fight even in this situation…
“Hah…”
Gangchul looked at the two and let out a deep sigh.
“Huh?”
At that moment, Eunyoung noticed Silvia staring blankly in one direction.
‘She’s so cute…’
Because of the situation until now, she hadn’t paid attention, but Silvia was really…
So, so cute.
Tiny arms and legs, and hair like leaves mixed with light green and dark green reminiscent of a forest.
Her appearance, more beautiful than the average elf, combined with her young body, was emitting tremendous cuteness.
She had never seen an elf like this before.
Eunyoung, with a smile from ear to ear, carefully asked Silvia.
“What is our cutie looking at?”
“Would that be what you call a boss?”
“Huh?”
As Silvia raised her hand to point, Eunyoung turned her head to look in the indicated direction.
At first, it wasn’t visible well.
Since the Forest of Dark Night is basically very dark, it was difficult to examine with the naked eye.
For some reason, it seemed to be clearly visible to Silvia’s eyes, but…
“Lucia unnie. Could you cast a blessing on me?”
“Just a moment.”
As the blessing that dispels darkness touched Eunyoung, she looked in the direction Silvia had mentioned with improved vision.
And,
“What the… hell…”
Eunyoung muttered in an astonished voice.
What entered her eyes was not an ordinary monster.
‘A snake…? No, is it really a snake…?’
The form was that of a snake.
But its size was at an absurd level.
A giant snake large enough to casually crawl across tens-of-meters-tall giant trees.
A massive monster with a diameter that must be tens of meters was lurking between the giant trees.
‘What is that…?’
Is this really the Forest of Dark Night?
It felt like cognitive dissonance.
“I think Wolhwa unnie needs to step in for this…?”
Of course, it wasn’t that she lacked confidence.
If she faced it with her full power, she could handle that snake.
She could only handle it, not overwhelm it, but with Lucia providing blessings and healing, Gangchul drawing attention, and Eunu with his powerful firepower, it was a monster they could definitely catch.
It was just that they needed to handle it quickly and return now, which was the constraint.
“Is that all?”
“No, if we spend time, there’s nothing we can’t catch, but…”
Eunyoung made a troubled expression.
“Hmm… since we’re in a hurry now. I’ll quickly take care of it and come back.”
At Wolhwa’s words, Eunyoung made a disappointed expression.
“You seem disappointed.”
“W-who?!”
“Geez… what are you, a berserker?”
At Eunu’s words, Eunyoung puffed up her cheeks and suppressed her anger.
She would kill that guy after they got back.
It was while she was looking at her brother with fiery eyes.
“I have a way to deal with it immediately.”
Silvia, who had been quietly watching the boss, said to Wolhwa.
“Huh?”
“But this has to be kept secret.”
Secret.
If there’s a way to deal with a monster estimated to be at least A-rank in one go, and the condition is to keep it a secret.
‘We’re fine with that, but…’
Anyway, Wolhwa was planning to hide Silvia externally.
Unless they became strong enough to bite Cheonhwa Guild, Silvia showing too much competence might invite restraint from Cheonhwa Guild.
Until then, Silvia needed to be hidden.
‘That man…’
Wolhwa clenched her fist.
The Guild Master of Cheonhwa Guild.
That man wouldn’t hesitate even in war.
“I’ll do that.”
“… Then please wait a bit. It’ll be over soon.”
After saying that, Silvia moved forward.
Pajijik!
Surrounding herself with purple flashes, forming a magic circle.

You’re thinking of using that.
“Yes, since it’s a magical beast, it doesn’t matter.”
As I always say, you shouldn’t use it on people.
“I know. And I told you not to use magical power.”
For a nearly dead corpse to handle magical power.
With a look that seemed to say “Are you crazy to want to die?”, Silvia made Elrina close her eyes in fear.
All she could do was blink her eyes…
.
.
.
They thought she was going to fight directly since she stepped forward with magical power surrounding her body, but…
Scratch scratch scratch
Somehow, Silvia’s actions were different from what they expected.
“Ugh…”
Suddenly, she began to move around the forest here and there, forming circles on the ground.
“Pf, pfft…”
Unlike her serious demeanor when she stepped forward, Silvia’s appearance, lying on the ground and earnestly drawing pictures, was so cute that Eunyoung couldn’t hold back her laughter.
Not just Eunyoung, the rest of the group was similar.
Only Eunu was seriously analyzing the circle Silvia was drawing.
Looking down at the gradually completing circle, Eunu muttered.
“What kind of magic circle is this…? I have no idea…”
“It’s not magic.”
It was natural.
Because it wasn’t magic…
Seeing how she immediately denied it after catching Eunu’s muttered voice as he watched her drawing the circle with her small hands while struggling, it was quite something.
“For a size like that, I need to make the circle like this to be sure. Phew… this is tiring…”
Eventually, Silvia wiped away the sweat flowing down and put her hands on her waist, looking down at her masterpiece with an expression that, despite being expressionless, somehow overflowed with pride.
“I’ve completed it. It’s a magical power conversion circle.”
“A magical power conversion circle?”
“Normally, there’s no need to do this much manual work… but the opponent is too big, and if I make a mistake, it would be a big problem. Anyway, you’ll see when you look.”
The size of the snake had already been confirmed with their eyes.
If it just comes onto the circle, it’s clear.
“Could you lure that snake here?”
“Well… that’s easy enough, but will it be okay?”
As Eunu raised his staff and muttered, Silvia nodded.
“It’ll be over soon.”
At Silvia’s confident words, he reluctantly gathered magical power.
Then,
“[Pulse Fire]”
With Eunu’s shout, red flames shot high into the sky and spread widely.
The moment the magical wave, which spread widely like a shock wave, touched the snake.
Kugugugugung!
The tens-of-meters-large snake recognized us as dangerous beings and began to approach.
“Is it right to use a taunt spell for this…!”
“Step back! It’s coming!”
Just as Gangchul stepped forward with his great shield.
“Just block it once!”
At Silvia’s cry, Gangchul gathered strength in his great shield.
“Lucia! Blessing!”
“Yes!”
At Gangchul’s cry, a hymn flowed from Lucia, and at the same time, a golden protective barrier and light surrounded Gangchul.
“With this, I can easily block it!”
Simultaneously with Gangchul’s confident cry, a huge shadow approached at tremendous speed from far away.
Kwagwagwagwagwa!!
Kieeeeeeeek!!
Towards the snake that was approaching with its mouth wide open while smashing the ground, Gangchul enlarged his great shield and slammed it into the ground.
“Mountain Pressure Nail!”
“I keep telling you that’s a martial arts novel technique name.”
At Eunyoung’s words, Gangchul grinned and replied.
“It’s cool though.”
Romantic pass.
Kwaaaang!
“Kugh…!”
He blocked it!
Thanks to the shield of the barrier surrounding the great shield with Lucia’s blessing, which spread widely, they could avoid being swallowed whole by the snake.
Kwagak! Kung!
Gangchul was pushed back a bit as he successfully withstood the charge of the giant snake with a diameter of tens of meters.
“Done! Silvia!”
Instead of answering, Silvia touched the circle with her hand filled with magical power.
Jiing!
The magical power that flowed through the waiting circle headed towards the circles drawn here and there in anticipation of the ground being smashed, and as it flowed through the circles to activate multiple circles in a complex manner, a huge circle spread beneath the snake.
“I’ll make good use of your magical power.”
Shaaaaaaak?!
The snake, belatedly realizing it had fallen into a trap, was already too late.
The light bursting from the circle began to erode the snake’s body.
Though the snake writhed in pain as its body was converted, it only smashed innocent giant trees.
Soon, the light that burst largely from the circle drove away the darkness of the Forest of Dark Night.


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