Zana, withdraw while protecting Jeff's back!"
"Understood!"
"Blum-baasan too, quick!"
"Who's a baasan!"
They're still struggling hard even while being surrounded by three-meter tall demi ogres wielding pitch black axes. Unfortunately, another one of the luminous points disappeared.
The old female magic warrior called Blum aims for the demi ogres legs' tendon to slow down their pursuit using a greatsword with blue blade.
I thought it was a holy sword for an instant, but since it's emitting red light, it's probably a kind of magic sword.
"Torin and Silje, fight with me against these axe monkeys."
"You serious."
"I got the short end of the stick."
"I'll give you one bag of gold coins for every ogre you defeated, get on to it!"
Now then, I'm sorry for them who have gotten fired up, but I'll clean this up quick.
I mark the positions of the demi ogres on the map.
Invoke intermediate earth magic [Iron Toss].
Telephone pole-sized iron cones appear from below the demi ogres, skewering them one after another.
Hoarse screams of the demi ogres are echoing in the hall, but it doesn't look like I'm getting any language skill.
"Wha, magic?!"
Looking at the screaming demi ogres that raised cloud of dust and the iron cones beyond the dust, Ms. Blum turned to look behind while voicing her surprise.
Yet none stops their feet moving toward here, probably to get themselves away from the carnage.
The screams disappear before long, I see skewered bodies behind the cloud of dust.
....Gross.
It's not a scene I really want to see, so I extend my [Magic Hand] and collect their bodies along with the iron cones into the Storage.
I left the bodies of demi ogre guards that they've defeated and demi ogre lord that should have been defeated alone.
"Did you defeat them?"
"That's right. It might have been an unnecessary meddling, but I have some business here you see."
"No, you really saved us."
Ms. Blum Julberg talks like a man, but she's quite a beauty.
She's more than 88 years old, I'd have loved to meet her 60 years ago.
According to the map info, it seems she's the mother of Zeff Julberg, the chief of Shiga Eight Swords.
"Are you the new apostle or the new hero of Saga Empire?"
"No. I have a question too, are you not the attendant of Hero Hayato?"
"Hahn? Me, that brat Hayato's attendant? What a joke."
Apparently, I've guessed wrongly.
"I'm an attendant of the previous hero."
By previous, that means the one who fought the demon lord 66 years ago.
Still being in active duty when she's nearing her 90, that's amazing.
"Hou, one of the heroes who exterminated the demon lord huh--are the others still active too?"
"No way. The only ones alive are the saintess Riri and the elf Sea. Riri has grown old that she rarely goes out of the holy sanctuary, Sea is fine but she's retired now and should be working to earn her keep. That girl never liked fighting after all."
By Sea I wonder if it's Sebelkea of the labyrinth city?
The head miko of Tenion temple said that she was an attendant of the previous hero, so the saintess Riri must be her. She probably got the name, [Yu Tenion] when she became the head miko.
When I was considering such a thing, one of her companion reservedly called her.