Chapter 92

It wasn’t as if I didn’t have any combat experience .

Before I entered the royal family, my family made a living through hunting animals . I didn’t have the skills and couldn’t be compared to adventurers, but I learned what I could wherever possible .

That’s why I came to this dungeon by myself without a single attendant .

But this person was on a completely different level .

「Just what is… . 」

I was shocked by the scene before me .

The wings were clipped, and a leg struck a distant wall, becoming nothing but a lump of meat .

The shark who was just about to eat me, no longer had a head .

I slightly shifted my gaze and lied down nearby, with a look of disbelief on my face .

I saw it, but I couldn’t understand what had just happened .

What I saw was Akira-sama readying his two black daggers, one in each hand . After that, before I knew it, the wings and leg fell down, and its head went flying .

Even though things may appear this way, my eyes were not bad .

Even so, my eyes couldn’t catch anything .

「Akira-sama defeated it?」

「Ha? Was there anyone else?」

I unconsciously asked this, and then flipping over, Akira-sama, who was spotless and didn’t have a single drop of blood on him, furrowed his brows .

Certainly, there was no one else .

Yoru-sama did not move either because I was riding on him .

Even I understood that it was Akira-sama who defeated the monster, but to send the head of a monster who nullified magic flying, I was a bit doubtful . The boss of the eightieth floor was so easily defeated, my mind was a mess .

「Um, I thought it was impossible to cut through that monster’s neck with daggers like those . It’s as thick as a tree . 」

At this point, what was normal?, I was slightly panicking .

It seemed like my own common sense was easily overturned, and it was somewhat frightening .

『Master-dono, I am familiar with it, so I can kind of see it, but for normal people, Master-dono was too fast and wouldn’t be able to see it . 』

Yoru-sama considerately helped me out .

He was a monster who was known as “Adorea’s Nightmare”, but in the last few hours, most of my fear had dissipated .

As expected, rumors were not to be trusted .

He certainly had terrible power, but the Yoru-sama right now was Akira-sama’s loyal cat .

「Is that so?」

Perhaps he was not aware of it, I nodded when Akira-sama tilted his head .

Akira-sama explained as he climbed up Yoru-sama .

「I wouldn’t be able to behead Poseidon who had a magic nullification ability with just these daggers, but that’s not the same for magic power, right? Because it’s magic nullification and not the nullification of magic power . 」

TN: ok, truth be told, I usually translate magic power (魔力/maryoku) as magic, because it’s easier that way and no one gets confused, but they kind of explain the difference between maryoku and mahou in this chapter . In a nutshell, magic power is what is on their statuses (MP) and is quite similar to what is called ‘mana’ in fantasy novels . Magic power is used to create magic, so the use of magic needs magic power but using magic power is not dependent on magic . For example, it can be used in other ways besides forming magic, perhaps coating a weapon with it to make it stronger, which is probably what Akira did to kill Poseidon .

I still didn’t understand .

Or rather, I’ve never heard of something like using only one’s magic power .

Magic power was the fuel that allowed people to use magic .

It’s much like starting a fire; in order to ignite the fire, wood is needed or there would be no spark . Similarly, magic power is needed or there would be no magic .

However, the fire will not start with just the wood alone .

Both need to be present in order to create magic .

「Magic needs to have magic power, so when magic is nullified, I thought that magic power would be as well . 」

「That’s correct, but magic power is magic power, while magic is magic . No matter how much magic power it’s composed of, magic is a separate phenomenon . By that logic, I concluded that magic nullification should only cancel out magic, not magic power . 」

In other words, don’t think of magic as something that contained magic power, but as an existence that was created after using magic power, or something like that .

If that’s the case, it would make a lot of sense .

「I see . However, direct manipulation of magic power, something like that, how did you train for that?」

Was it self-study .

The manipulation of magic power, if I remember correctly, should be considered the skill that was the first hero-sama’s forte .

It was a skill that many people had challenged, but in the end, no one could do it .

That’s right, no one achieved it .

「I didn’t train or anything like that . When I overdid it, I just happened to be able to do it . 」

This was the first time, I’ve met a genius .

Involuntarily, my jaw dropped .

「I, is that so . 」

To begin with, it’s because Amelia said something like defeating the White Bat without using『Shadow Magic』, he was muttering something like that .

For him to just happen to be able to do the same thing as the first hero, this meant that he had the same potential as him .

「Akira-sama, are you really an assassin?」

There was a rumor that the hero who was summoned this time stayed within the castle and did nothing .

That’s why I couldn’t forgive the hero .

I could understand the fact that the people of this world had selfishly summoned him .

However, it seems that he received the occupation of a hero and just stayed within the castle without doing anything .

Like this, my dead family would be turning in their graves .

Fortunately, Akira-sama was one of the heroes . Thank God .

「I am an assassin . …certainly, I haven’t killed anyone, and it’s not very assassin-like, but I am an assassin . 」

With sharp eyes, Akira-sama looked at me and declared this .

I felt like those eyes, were making sure of something .

「We’re going . 」

Even if we had instantly killed the eightieth floor boss, that light continued to shine .

Even though he was someone who possessed strength that could not be rivaled by anyone else besides the demons, he was most likely making a face that said that it was still inefficient .

「You…where are you going?」

TN: alternatively, this could also mean, what is your goal, or what are you aiming for .

「Home . 」