“…Magic Creation . ”

There were two things I wanted from the magic that I would create .

The first was that it could destroy all of the monsters surrounding the town .

The second was that I would be able to protect the town from such immense power .

—It was easier said than done .

However, there was no time to waste . And I would just have to take a chance on the methods I had thought of on the spot .

Considering the amount of MP depletion, it would not do to raise the effect of h.e.l.lfire of Death any further .

And so I would have to kill as many monsters as possible with limited power .

So one way would be to tighten the area of effect .

‘Hey, are they any monsters among our enemies that can fly?’

I asked the slimes .

They replied immediately .

‘There aren’t!’

So none of them could fly .

In that case, it would definitely be more efficient to limit the area of effect to the ground .

Perhaps I could do that by using a barrier as a ceiling .

…And then I thought of a good idea .

Up until now, the barriers I had made were used to absorb magic .

But if I made barriers that reflected magic, it would reduce damage to the barrier while also allowing the magic force to be concentrated efficiently .

Currently, I had no magic that would allow me to do this, so I would have to create it… But, thankfully, I had the necessary ingredients with me .

‘Anti-magic Barrier,’ and ‘Magic Transfer . ’

As a test, I took some of the code from ‘Magic Transfer’ and used it to replace a similar line of code in ‘Anti-magic Barrier . ’

And named it…

‘Magic Reflect Barrier . ’

I called out the name, and then the barrier appeared in front of me .

It looked exactly like ‘Anti-magic Barrier’…perhaps I should test it first .

“Fireball . ”

I tried unleas.h.i.+ng a fireball on it .

And then the Fireball rushed towards the barrier—and disappeared just before making contact .

‘Woah!’

‘Something just came flying here!’

‘Yuji! Did you transfer magic?’

A second later, I heard the slimes start to shout in surprise .

It seemed that my magic had not been reflected, but transferred to where the slimes were .

It was probably set so that the magic would be transferred towards them .

‘Ah . I’m conducting some experiments . So it might happen again . ’

I said . Then I started erasing and adding lines of code to see if I couldn’t change the location .

However, the coding of the magic was not so simple, and I couldn’t get it to work .

However…after thinking about it, it wasn’t actually such a bad thing .

There was no need to force it to reflect .

As long as the magic that tried to leave the barrier was sent back in, then it was fine .

If I stationed the slimes just outside the barrier, then the magic would be transferred close to them, and my goal would be reached .

The problem was knowing which slime it would come from…

‘Hey, the magic that went flying just now . Which slime did it go to?’

‘Me!’

‘You’re going to have to be a little more specific . ’

I didn’t even have a way of telling the slimes apart .

Did such a method even exist?

‘Uh…I’m on the Proud Wolf now!’

‘Alight! Thanks for telling me . ’

Apparently, it was set so the magic would be transferred to a single slime that was looking in this direction .

In other words, once I was able to make the barrier after the slimes arrived, I just needed to have the slime stay there .

I could also have that one slime wear the dragon skull .

“Things are bad at the west gate! Send reinforcements!”

I heard a guild worker shout as he came running .

‘…Proud Wolf . How much longer?’

‘Uh…8 more minutes!’

‘Alright . I’m going to go and help them buy more time . ’

I said as I started running to the west gate .

We only needed a little more time, but there were so many enemies .

Still, it was just 8 minutes . We would bear it, no matter what .