I Was Mistaken as a Genius Mage in a Game

Pass... ... !

Lightning flashed from Lir’s small staff.

The sound of steel clashing against steel came from Rex’s prosthetic arm and axe handle, and the sound of the bowstring expanding to its limit flowed from Trian’s longbow.

Boom!

With a huge vibration, the spider’s leg smashed open the door of the room we were in and entered.

“Ogiar de Astellaaaa!”

The barbarian with devout faith swung his giant axe while worshipping his god.

A mighty roar and a cracking sound of air ripping through the air spread everywhere.

Rex’s axe cut off the forelegs of the wolf spider covered in fur, but the monster didn’t even scream and pushed the severed legs into the room.

The blue blood soaked Rex's body, and the severed leg rolled to where I and Lir were standing. The wolf spider rubbed the cross-section of its leg against the floor and inserted its huge head through the crack in the door.

Whoosh!

Trian's arrow hit the wolf spider's eye squarely. The wolf spider hesitated with a big wound to its eye, but it continued to push its body into the room, unable to withstand the strength of the remaining spiders rushing in from behind.

The wolf spider's body hadn't even passed through the small door, when another spider's leg appeared through the crack in the door.

The wolf spider, still stuck in the crack, waved its blue-blooded leg in the air. The deep blue color covered everything.

The furry wolf spider twisted its entire body to escape from the crack, and as a result, cracks began to form all over the wall connected to the crack.

Whoosh!

Once again, Rex’s axe slashed through the wind. The wolf spider’s head split in half, and the life began to drain from its furry body.

The wolf spider’s corpse blocked the doorway like a barricade, blocking the other spiders’ path.

Boom!

Boom!

Like a horde of zombies, the giant spiders slammed their bodies into the wolf spider’s corpse blocking the doorway. Soon, the wolf spider’s corpse swelled up like a balloon.

I aimed my red crystal at the entrance and took a deep breath.

Immediately, the wolf spider’s corpse blocking the doorway burst, scattering its entrails and flesh into the room.

“Bolt.”

A pure white flash of light shot forward through the air from the tip of Lir’s staff. Two small spiders, covered in the corpse of a giant wolf spider, squeezed through the doorway.

One of the two small spiders began to stagger after being hit by the pure white lightning that Lir had shot. It seemed that he had adjusted the power in case thunder would ring out, so he could not kill the monster in one shot.

Trian shot his bow several times at the small spider that was staggering after being hit by lightning.

Five arrows hit the joint between the spider’s chest and stomach, and soon the second spider also fell helplessly to the floor, splattering blood.

I shot red crystal light at the other of the two spiders that had entered the room.

“Damn... ... .”

My vision was blurry.

My brain felt like it wasn’t getting enough air. My head was dizzy and the sensation in my hands and feet was getting blurry.

The aftereffects of being caught in the explosion had not gone away.

My body seemed to be protesting to my brain, asking why I kept moving when it was already too much to just heal the torn wound.

The damn hyperventilation is coming back.

I don't know about other times, but not now.

With that thought in mind, I held on as best I could, controlling my breathing.

A crimson flash of light passed by the spider's body in a straight line.

The distance was quite far, and the target was small.

Even without that, I wasn't used to the feeling of controlling an artifact, and now I was experiencing hyperventilation.

In this situation, it wasn't easy to accurately aim at a small spider that was quickly moving its legs and crawling.

The crimson flash of light only managed to tear off two of the spider's legs. As expected, the monster didn't scream, and it jumped in to put its fangs into Rex's neck, its legs clearly exposed, while touching the ground.

Card!

Rex put his prosthetic hand into the mouth of the monster that jumped in to take his neck.

He swung his prosthetic arm straight into the spider’s mouth and hit it against the wall of the dungeon, and the small spider, half the size of Rex, was turned to mush.

Rex swept the prosthetic arm away from the wall of the dungeon. The spider’s body was shattered into pieces as if it was being ground in a grinder, and Rex’s prosthetic arm turned a bright blue color.

“Bin, Bin... ...!”

Lir looked worried as she watched me breathe unsteadily.

“Swoop... ...! Focus, focus Lir!”

It was just hyperventilation at best. My head was a little dizzy and my vision was dark.

Compared to Rex, who had taken the brunt of the explosion and was guarding the front lines, this was nothing.

I shouted at Lir and urged her on. She was a few years older than me, but there was no time to use formal language because it was a battle situation.

“They keep coming! Wizards, stop fooling around and focus!”

Lir quickly turned his head away from me and focused his gaze back on the tip of his staff.

The red crystal on his shoulder was about to scatter. I focused my senses on the foreign substance near my heart even as the colors around me began to fade, barely maintaining the crystal.

I don’t want to cause any more trouble.

Boom!

The fight continued.

The giant spider boasting bright red eyes began to pull its legs and torso inward, just like the wolf spider had done before.

Rex raised his axe to cut off the leg.

At that moment, I felt a huge, inexplicable pressure from behind the cracked wall.

“This, crazy... ...!”

Sensing the change, Rex hurriedly brought the axe he had raised high into his arms and lowered his head.

The spider's legs, sharp as blades, passed over where Rex's head had been. Then, the wall Rex had been leaning against collapsed, revealing a spider's head with bright red eyes beyond it.

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The spider was planning to swallow Rex up with the crumbling bricks. Looking at its mouth full of fangs, Rex hurriedly rolled over, and Rex's melted flesh was exposed on the floor.

"Ugh... ... !"

Rex groaned occasionally, perhaps because it was quite painful. However, his body did not become dull from the pain.

"Bolt!"

The second flash of light that Lir released pierced the mouth of the giant red-eyed spider and blew out its internal organs. The red spider stiffened for a moment.

I aimed the red crystal at that gap without missing it. It was stiff and had a large body, so it wouldn't miss this time.

Concentration.

Even though my breathing was disrupted and my vision was blurred, I somehow managed to maintain my concentration with just my mental power.

It was a desperate struggle not to be a nuisance to the party.

The crimson flash once again stretched out in a ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) straight line, and hit the head of the red-eyed spider.

The attack hit perfectly.

However, the monster did not die.

Even with half of its head blown off, the spider continued to move. Rex quickly swung his axe, climbed up the legs of the dying giant spider, and swung the axe down on its head.

The red-eyed giant spider's skin was dirty and tough. Rex swung his axe at its head four times, and only then did the giant monster's body slowly collapse to the ground.

Another giant monster died.

But the battle did not end.

The red-eyed spider fell to the ground, completely destroying the hole in the wall. Another path was created between the room on the other side where the spiders were running wild and the room we were sieging.

A new bridge appeared over the giant spider's corpse.

Powerful magic is accompanied by noise, so it cannot be used in this situation. In order to effectively block many enemies with low firepower, it was necessary to limit the paths through which the enemies could enter.

That's why the situation where the wall collapsed and there were two paths for the monsters to use was the worst possible situation.

"Damn it, Rex, get behind me! I'm going to retreat one room and regroup! Wizards, come with me and cover Rex so he can run!"

We had to fight on the most advantageous battlefield possible. While the monsters were excellent, our wizards had to intentionally reduce the power of their magic for fear of thunder.

Rex started to back away, blocking the legs of the spiders rushing at him with his axe and prosthetic arm.

If he turned his back now, the spiders would pierce his body. Our wizard and archer had to somehow create an opening for him.

“This... ... !”

Trian’s arrows rained down like a baptism. His quiver was getting lighter and lighter. As Trian’s back got lighter, the colder he felt.

I slowly moved backwards, aiming my crystal at the spiders that started to climb onto the red spider’s back and come over to our room.

Chill.

I couldn’t help but feel that way as I watched the spiders rushing toward us with their eerie eyes.

It wasn’t just because they were more vicious and terrifying than I had imagined.

Numbers.

Yes, the numbers didn’t match up.

Before the battle, Trian had clearly said that there were seven spiders following him.

A wolf spider, two small spiders, and a giant spider with red eyes.

A total of four had died, and now there should be a total of three spiders left in front of us.

However, strangely, only two spiders showed up.

“... ... one.”

I don’t know how I could have detected this anomaly. I lacked experience in battle, and my brain was not receiving enough oxygen, so my vision was completely blank.

It must have been because of the [Calm] trait.

“Wait.”

A cold air grabbed the back of my neck.

Guided by instinct, I turned my vision left and right.

Was it coming in through the door, not the collapsed wall?

No, there was a spider’s intestines in the crack of the door.

Only one remained.

Where on earth is the other one... ... .

Thud.

Before I could even finish my thoughts, cold crumbs fell and tapped my shoulder.