292 Elf Village Battle

I see the Demon King off, and while at it instruct each of the Puppet Taratekts to move according to their own judgement. If I need to keep moving in step with these guys, I wont be able to take action freely. Based on the ability of the robots seen just now, even these guys should be able to deal with them. Well, theres no way I can think of these robots as being the most dangerous things in his armoury, so it wouldnt be at all strange if something terrible turns up though. The Puppet Taratekts are as smart as anyone else anyway, so Im sure that if they feel that its too dangerous then theyll withdraw. Hmm. Go ahead and raise hell. Meanwhile, Ill do as I please.

That being said, what shall I do first? The top pick would be to go out and secure the reincarnators. For the moment the reincarnators dont seem to be in any danger, but if I secure them then Ill be able to guarantee their safety.

The second pick would be to keep reducing the elven forces. Basically to go around and whack every last one of the robots. To put it simply, I feel that would be the best. Apart from the robots, the normal elven forces are on a level where just the Imperial Army and Demon Kings Army can manage. If the robots arent here then the elven forces are not much different from normal humans with a bit more magic ability included. Even though they have the advantage of location, while they are fighting with the Imperial Army, once they receive a surprise attack from the Demon Kings Army from the side, theyll be helpless. Or rather, the Demon Kings Army has vampire girl, oni-kun and Mera anyway. Just those guys alone will be able to trample down the elves.

And so, for the elven forces apart from the elves themselves, in other words the robots hidden underground, I think Ill go exterminate them. If I can manage that somehow then weve basically won. As for the reincarnators, well, since the bile sisters are there, itll be fine to leave them alone for a while. Now then! Its time for some R-O-B-O-T H-U-N-T-I-N-G!

And the moment I think that, the ground starts splitting open all over the place, and a large number of robots come out from there.

Crank, crank. Erm? Isnt that a lot? Yeah, loads! With a quick glance, theres definitely at least 10,000 of them though!?

Woah. I thought they were fragile, but they were mass production general purpose robots then huh. Having 10,000 robots that are each about equal to a dragon, that sure would be a threat to the people of the world. The violence of numbers is scary.

Anyway, a certain familiar jijii is receiving an attack from those robots. Yep. Its the well-known jijii from the Empire. That jijii is without doubt the strongest human in the Empire, or rather, hes strong enough to be nearly the strongest human around, but it seems that even he is having a hard time against those robots which are about as strong as a lower class dragon.

Hrm. Whats to be done here? While he could be called an acquaintance, its not like I ever had much to do with him anyway, so I dont have to help him. Well, whatever. I need to scrap all the robots that have come out anyway, so Ill just do it in passing, just in passing.

I activate magecraft on all the robots surrounding the jijii. Instead of choosing the darkness magecraft from last time, I selected space magecraft. The robots are swallowed into another dimension, and there my waiting clones will start disassembling them. In doing so, Ill chew up all the energy from the power source that propels the robots. Its precious energy for a start, so Ill have it collected in order to utilise it properly. It sure seems that absorbing external energy is one of my strong points. Apparently, its not normally possible to readily absorb wild energy. I can do it though so Ill use it.

The jijii was able to defeat one robot, but hes suffered such a serious injury that its almost a double knock-out. Ive come this far, so just in passing I quickly perform treatment.

Oohh! You are!

!!

The jijii shouts out something but I ignore it and go on to hunt the next set of robots. Yep. I had remembered. That once that jijii starts talking he goes on forever. I dont have time right now for such a long talk. Therefore, ignore, ignore. Ive consumed pretty much all the robots in the region around the jijii, so Im sure hell be able to return by himself.

I go around tossing every last robot that I come across into the other dimension. Kusama-kun was being chased around by robots so I rescued him. Theres robots appearing around the Taratekt squad, but the Queen is there so I can put off doing something about them.

Then, while Im doing my best dealing with the robot army, I spot the scene of vampire girl and oni-kun bullying Yamada-kuns party. What the heck, guys. Yamada-kun seems to be holding his head and floundering around or something though. Eh? Doesnt that look bad? The way he seems to be suffering looks rather abnormal, so did vampire girl and oni-kun do something to him? On top of that, I took my eyes off him for a minute and Natsume-kun has died! What the heck!? I had planned to knock him down later so that sensei could punish him properly though!? Why is he dead!? It rather seems like a bunch of unexpected things have occurred, so I guess Ill go take a look.

I move to where vampire girl and oni-kun are by teleporting. Thereupon, theres zombies rampaging around that are probably being controlled by vampire girl, and Ooshima-kun and Kuro who are fighting hard trying to protect Yamada-kun who has collapsed and is convulsing.

Wakaba-san.

While moaning, Yamada-kun notices me, and utters that name. Then, like a puppet having its strings cut, he loses consciousness. It doesnt seem like hes died, but considering his state just now I cant be careless. Anyway, I better check his condition, and treat him.

Thinking that, I take a step forwards, but a certain person stands in my way. With the fallen Yamada-kun behind her, thrusting a sword before me with a desperate expression on her face, is Ooshima-kun. Hrmm. Im basically trying to save Yamada-kun here, but if you come at me with that Ill die before letting you pass! attitude, its troubling. Right next to the strangely acting Ooshima-kun is Kuro, but when I glance my head towards him, the bastard ignores me. Instead he lines up along-side Ooshima-kun. Like this, instead of Kuro, I guess hes acting as Hyrinth in this place? Hrm, hrmm. If Kuro is taking that attitude, then I guess its okay to assume that theres nothing urgently wrong with Yamada-kun that requires action?

In which case, I guess theres no need to rush things. First of all, I guess beating down the ringleader behind this chaos comes first, yeah.

I wonder why? Is it just my imagination or is there a really bad aura coming off of goshujin-sama, I wonder?

Its not your imagination, my dear vampire girl. I bet youve done something unnecessary! Come on, spit it out quickly! What did you do!?

Please dont make such a reproachful expression. I havent done anything, okay? Goshujin-sama, I dont think its good to one-sidedly decide that whenever something happens that its my fault.

No way!