Chapter 22

"You, the unfamiliar magician standing on this field ravaged by divine beasts, let me ask you this: that big fellow wasn't summoned by you, was it?"

The girl questioned the unfamiliar magician before her, her hand resting on the hilt of her sword, ready to fight if he admitted to it.

If he really was the culprit who summoned the divine beast, then she would have directly caught the ringleader.

Even if he denied it, she would still find him suspicious, to be honest.

The timing was too coincidental.

As for being mistaken as a suspect in summoning the divine beast, Su Mo didn't care much; instead, he glanced at the girl before him.

"You are?"

He had already guessed the girl's identity, but he still needed confirmation.

"Erica Brandelli, Great Knight of the Copper Black Cross magic society."

The girl named Erica announced her name openly and honestly.

"Let me say this in advance, if you really are the culprit, confessing now will get you leniency!"

The girl revealed a fox-like smile, trying to entice him.

If a criminal were to actually believe this and reveal everything, they would immediately experience the harshness of the world.

Unfortunately, such tricks were useless against Su Mo.

Not to mention, this incident had nothing to do with him in the first place.

"Unfortunately, you've suspected the wrong person; this incident has nothing to do with me."

Su Mo spread his hands, then looked at the divine beast boar in the distance.

"Although, I do intend to get involved now."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Erica's expression was quite surprised.

"You mean, you also want to resolve the divine beast issue?"

Then, before Su Mo could answer, Erica immediately shook her head.

"Sorry, I'm not in the habit of teaming up with people; besides, as a knight guarding Italy, I can't ignore this divine beast."

Seeing the divine beast destroying more and more buildings, Erica was clearly anxious.

Even though the crowd had been evacuated, the economic value of those buildings was astronomical.

"Sorry, please stay here for now!"

"No need to worry, my uncle has fought against several divine beasts before; although I haven't reached my uncle's level yet, dealing with one shouldn't be a problem."

Saying this, Erica didn't wait for Su Mo's response and directly activated the magic [Hermes' Boots].

Like a light bird, Erica instantly leaped onto a building dozens of stories high, rushing towards the divine beast boar.

"Reinhardt!"

While running, the girl summoned her magic sword.

She was prepared for a difficult battle.

Erica didn't truly have no habit of teaming up with people.

The reason she rejected Su Mo was simply because she didn't know his background.

In this level of battle, fighting with a teammate you can't trust requires you to spend energy guarding against their betrayal, which is a path to death.

Rather than that, she preferred to fight alone.

As one of the most renowned geniuses in the magic world, Erica reached the rank of Great Knight at the young age of sixteen, inheriting the title of "Crimson Devil," and was a veritable powerhouse.

Because of this, Erica was very confident in her own strength.

Although she knew that she hadn't reached the level of Paladin yet and was still somewhat inferior to her uncle Paolo.

However, she didn't think this was an insurmountable gap.

Since her uncle was able to protect Princess Alice from six divine beasts.

Then, as his niece, she should at least be able to deal with one divine beast to be worthy of the title "Crimson Devil."

Not to mention.

She had just made a bold statement in front of that unfamiliar magician.

If she failed to subdue the divine beast, where would she put her face?!

The young Erica thought this, charging forward with indomitable spirit.

However, what she didn't know was.

The current boar was not the kind of ignorant divine beast avatar in the original story that hadn't been provoked.

The [Boar] avatar, which had fought to a draw against the [Wind] avatar earlier, had been directly enraged.

An enraged boar was three times more ferocious than usual!

So, Erica bravely charged forward.

Erica bravely drew her longsword.

Erica bravely slashed at the boar.

However, before she could even touch the divine beast boar's body.

"BOOM—!!"

The boar roared wildly, and a shockwave erupted directly from its mouth.

The shockwave, accompanied by a storm, raged out indiscriminately.

"—!"

Erica was directly blown away hundreds of meters by the aftermath of the shockwave.

Then.

With a "thud—" sound, she fell to the ground, rolling several times.

Just as Erica managed to get up from the ground and wanted to tidy up the dust on her clothes.

She raised her head and saw a familiar figure in front of her.

It was the magician she had just made a bold statement to.

At this moment, this handsome, black-haired, black-eyed magician was looking at her with a strange gaze.

Erica recalled the bold statement she had just made.

She couldn't help but blush, wishing she could dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it.

Too embarrassing!.

031 Inflict Divine Punishment on this Boar

Awkwardness, visible awkwardness.

Just now, she was imposing and acted like a powerhouse.

Unexpectedly, in less than twenty seconds.

Erica had turned into this dusty mess.

Forget her previous arrogance and conceit; she was simply ashamed and wanted to jump off a building.

"Are you okay?"

Fortunately, Su Mo wasn't someone who liked to mock beautiful girls.

Not to mention, Erica was fighting the divine beast out of responsibility as a knight to protect public property, and Su Mo didn't think it was something to be laughed at.

Offering a hand, he helped Erica up from the ground.

"Uh… I'm fine."

Seeing that Su Mo didn't say anything, Erica said somewhat awkwardly.

"I didn't expect this divine beast to be so strong."

Although it was embarrassing, since the other party was so considerate and didn't bring up the previous matter, Erica naturally pretended that nothing had happened.

Although she had been blown away hundreds of meters, Erica hadn't been hit by the shockwave directly but had only been disturbed by the aftermath, so her body wasn't injured.

"This boar is one of the incarnations of the Heretic God of War, and can be considered a manifestation of authority, so it's naturally much stronger than ordinary divine beasts."

Su Mo nodded, agreeing with Erica's words.

Hearing his words, Erica's expression became very incredulous.

"The Heretic God of War, do you mean Veleslana?"

"You mean… what appeared this time wasn't just a divine beast, but a god of disobedience has manifested?!"

Hearing Su Mo's words, Erica's eyes widened in horror.

If it were the previous her, she would still have some fantasies in her heart, thinking that with her ability and intelligence, she might be able to slay a god and become a godslayer or something.

However, the previous battle with the divine beast boar had completely destroyed her confidence.

Letting her recognize reality.

Erica realized that her strength was vastly different from that of the divine beast, let alone compared to a god of disobedience, which was simply on a different dimension.

"Why at this time of all times!"

As if thinking of something, Erica's expression was somewhat desperate.

"The Sword King has run off to Antarctica, the Nordic Wolf King is not around, the one in North America is busy protecting the country on the West Coast, and the other few can't be contacted… There isn't a single godslayer around!"

Only godslayers can fight against gods of disobedience.

However, at this moment, not a single godslayer could be contacted.

The Sword King who originally protected this area had run off to Antarctica, and by the time he returned, it would be too late.

Thinking of this, Erica felt that this port city was probably doomed.

If the situation worsened, the entire island might sink.

Su Mo didn't pay attention to Erica's words.

He looked around and felt something was strange.

"Logically speaking, Veleslana should be recovering this incarnation now, so why hasn't he made a move after just the [Wind] incarnation was defeated?"

He had seen the scene of the [Boar] incarnation defeating the [Wind] incarnation before Erica.

It was definitely Veleslana's doing.

Since he was already prepared to subdue [Boar], with his personality, he shouldn't give up just because [Wind] was defeated.

After all, he was the god of war symbolizing victory, so how could he be willing to be defeated like this?

No matter how violent the [Boar] incarnation was, it wouldn't be a match for its own master.

Since it wasn't that he couldn't win…

Could it be—

"Did that guy see Erica wanting to challenge the boar, so he deliberately left this incarnation unsubdued?"

Su Mo couldn't help but guess.

Since ancient times, there have been legends of gods giving trials to humans and rewarding those who complete them.

Su Mo wasn't too clear about the temperament of gods, but if it was that god of war who was good at fighting, it wouldn't be strange to have such thoughts.

"So, leaving the boar incarnation as a trial…"

Thinking of this, Su Mo smiled.

Seeing is believing.

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