I, who was reincarnated as the villain character in a game, was secretly enjoying my role as the villain while pulling off heroic moves behind the scenes. However, my actions were exposed to my fiancée, who absolutely despises me - Episode 31

Episode 31

“Gyaaa!?”

Even the tough wood of the Ultra Treant was easily cut through by Dark Fang.

The Ultra Treant swung its massive body and whipped its wooden tendrils to disguise the pain. But I dodged all of its attacks and kept slashing with Dark Fang and the mithril knife.

As its body accumulated more wounds, the Ultra Treant began to stagger. The initial air of confidence was gone. As if taunting it, I smiled and lunged forward, swinging my short swords.

This should finish it.

As my strike tore through the Ultra Treant’s tough wooden skin, a cry of agony echoed out. …Even a single blow seems to inflict significant damage, but I still have some margin.

After finishing the battle, I collected the materials and withdrew from the area.

Another monster is approaching the area where I had just been fighting. …As expected of monsters from the fourth level, their reactions are quick.

Since I don’t have the luxury of continuous battles yet, I’ll let it go for now. But well, at this rate, I should be able to handle battles in the fourth level somehow.

Next is hunting higher-ranked monsters. With my spatial magic, even higher-ranked monsters can be dealt significant damage.

To test that, I’ll head to where the Ultra Golem is.

Found it. There are two types of Ultra Golems here: those that wander around and those that camouflage themselves as rocks and sleep.

The one I found this time is the one disguised as a rock. It won’t move until it notices me, making it easy to launch a preemptive strike.

It’s originally a slow-moving monster… and it’s likely susceptible to spatial magic.

As I charged my magic, the Ultra Golem started to move.

…As expected, being a monster from the fourth level, its magic detection ability is high. The Ultra Golem, which quickly identified my location, approached, but I aimed for its legs with spatial magic.

“Gah!?”

The spatial magic aimed at its legs severed them from the Ultra Golem. The Ultra Golem rolled heavily, but soon tried to get up.

It still has some magical energy left.

I followed up with another strike, using spatial magic to gouge out its core, the heart of its body.

…How about that?

The Ultra Golem, struck by my blow, abruptly stopped moving. Then, the light in its eyes faded.

…Afterwards, like mist, the corpse disappeared, leaving only materials behind.

It went well. I had disabled its legs just in case, but if it didn’t work, I could have fled immediately. But with this, if I destroy the core embedded in its heart in one shot, it should be fine.

If you can destroy the core, you can defeat golem-type monsters, so it might be good practice to aim precisely with spatial magic.

Shall I practice magic with golems and swordsmanship with others?

There’s a possibility of defeating higher-ranked monsters in one blow.

With this… I might be able to handle the monsters in the fifth level without any problems.

Well, it’s risky to try just because there’s a possibility.

In games, you can save before attempting something like this. But this isn’t a game… it’s meaningless to recklessly die.

For now, my magical power will naturally recover, so when it’s replenished, I’ll continue defeating Ultra Golems.

While earning experience points from hunting in the fourth level and special monsters, I had someone else gather different information for me.

The information they’re collecting is about the orphanage.

If things are as they are in the game, there should be a child there who can use appraisal magic.

There are many orphans in this world, and among them are characters who can be recruited as allies.

In this game, some fixed characters become allies as part of the story, but others need to be scouted by yourself.

Even characters you can recruit outside the story are all excellent, so I definitely want them as allies.

It’s to strengthen Validor itself.