Chapter 219: If Magic Doesn't Work, Defeat It With Physical Means

“Hup!”

Having found the reaction of the monster swarm with search magic, I circled around to the front of the swarm before emerging above ground.

Then, I found myself right under the nose of the Village of the Spirit Tree.

“It seems the World Tree is safe.”

Phew, it looks like I made it in time somehow.

“Bro!!”

Turning towards the voice calling me, the figures of Jairo-kun and the others were there.

“Sorry to keep you waiting, everyone.”

“W-We were tired of waiting, ah, no… W-What the heck, you came back already? Even though we were planning to blow the boss away all by ourselves!”

“What are you talking about? You were about to lose just now, weren’t you.”

“I-I was not! You were whining about your magic not working too!”

“I-I didn’t say that! I just thought it was a bit troublesome!”

I rushed back in a panic, but I’m relieved to see everyone seems the same as usual.

“Yes, yes, that’s enough from both of you. It’s a huge help that you came back, Rex-san. We’re in a pretty troubled situation right now.”

“A troubled situation?”

As expected of Liliera-san, she instantly switched the mood and entered information sharing.

“The monster boss appeared, but magic doesn’t work on it. The same goes for physical enhancement magic. If you get close, it’s forcibly dispelled.”

I see, so the Yggdrasil Eater is a type of monster that absorbs magic.

The theory for dealing with this type of monster is physical attacks or hitting it with non-magical effects generated by magic, but…

“I tried floating rocks with magic and smashing them into it, but its shell is too hard and it barely took any damage.”

“Apologies, His Majesty Honorary King Rex. It is too large; we can inflict wounds with our weapons, but cutting it in two is…”

“Apologies, Master Rex, our spirit magic didn’t work either. Even stopping its feet with the Earth Spirits was nullified.”

It seems everyone thought of the same things, and reported that those strategies ended in failure.

A type resistant to both magic and physical attacks, on top of simply being a large monster, huh. A troublesome opponent.

“In that case, attacking with the basics is the best after all.”

” ” ” ” ” ” “The basics?” ” ” ” ” ” ” “

Everyone tilted their heads in unison as if asking what I meant.

“Watch, everyone. I’ll show you the basics of dealing with an enemy that magic doesn’t work on.”

Checking the surroundings with search magic, there was an unnaturally large hole opening in the space filled with Yggdrasil Eaters.

And in that place was a single giant monster, covered in dirt and flipped over.

I see, I couldn’t tell because it was nullifying the detection of search magic.

But in this situation surrounded by underlings, conversely, a place with absolutely no reaction clearly gives away that it’s your location.

“But why is it flipped over?”

Ah, could it be that everyone cooperated to flip the Mother Yggdrasil Eater over to buy time?

I see, since attacks didn’t work, they focused on stopping its movement by manipulating the surrounding terrain!

Not bad, everyone.

If attacks don’t work, you use your ingenuity in a way suited to that.

This is exactly the wisdom of adventurers!

“Alright, I can’t let them beat me!”

“Eh? What are you talking about?”

I readied my sword and stood in front of the boss, the Mother Yggdrasil Eater.

Then, I regulated my breathing and took the entire body of the Mother Yggdrasil Eater into my field of vision.

“Inhale… Exhale… Inhale…”

At the same time, the fallen Mother Yggdrasil Eater got up with the help of its underlings.

Its gaze was directed at me standing in front of it.

“Gyuruaaaaaa!!”

It must be angry at having been delayed so much by everyone.

The Mother Yggdrasil Eater raised a roar of anger and continuously spat clumps of acid at me.

“I saw that in the town of Togai!”

With sword wind, I deflected the clumps of acid so they wouldn’t hit everyone or the World Tree.

“You’re kidding, right!?”

“He deflected the attacks without even using magic!?”

“Gyuruooooo!!”

Realizing projectiles wouldn’t work, the Mother Yggdrasil Eater thrust out its giant arm pincers to chop me to pieces.

“Hup!”

Riding the gale whipped up by the opponent’s giant body, I surrendered myself to the flow and leaped onto the giant arm.

And then, I unleashed my blade along with sword wind into the joint between the carapaces.

“Double Wind Severance!”

The pincers of both the Mother Yggdrasil Eater’s arms were smoothly severed.

“No way!?”

“How!?”

“And then…”

Using the severed pincer as a foothold, I leaped towards the Mother Yggdrasil Eater.

From the top of its head, all at once…

“Waterfall Drop!”

I sliced its body vertically in two, and landed while warding off the impact of the fall from high altitude using martial arts.

“Phew…”

As I sheathed my sword while maintaining zanshin (lingering awareness), the Mother Yggdrasil Eater split in two without a sound, and crumbled to the ground with a rumble.

“Well, it’s something like this, I guess. If magic doesn’t work, you just deal with it using pure sword techniques.”

” ” ” ” ” ” “…………” ” ” ” ” ” “

And then I turned back towards everyone and announced.

“See, it was a simple method, right?”

” ” ” ” ” ” “It’s not simple at aaaaallllll!!” ” ” ” ” ” ” “

Eh? It was a standard countermeasure in my previous life, though.