I made one messenger summoning scroll each for Nanahoshi, Rudy, Ariel, and Doris.
This isn't because my relationship with others is bad, but because the materials for making such scrolls are very rare. Even though I have a lot of money, I only collected four sets in Sharia.
Additionally, I feel that only these four people are likely to encounter major events; others probably won't run into anything significant.
In my memory, when Rudeus was at the university, the Demon King of the Demon Race, Badigadi, once found Rudy to challenge him and ended up staying at the school.
However, throughout the entire Beast Race's mating season, I have been waiting for the Demon King's challenge. I even thought about observing this big boss who would later wear the God of Fighting Armor.
The result was quite disappointing; I never encountered this Demon King even after the Beast Race's mating season ended.
What came instead was a large number of Beast Race members coming to my door to challenge me. The reason for this goes without saying.
After all, I became the boss of Linia and Prusena, so during the Beast Race's mating season, a large number of Beast Race members came to Ranoa Magic University to challenge me.
It was truly annoying. The opponents weren't difficult to deal with, but there were just too many of them.
In a normal challenge, I felt bad about killing them. I don't know if that made those Beast Race members somewhat fearless, but they lined up in long queues to block my door from morning till night.
Finally, it got so irritating that I chose to give them a harsh lesson.
On the seventh day of the mating season, I communicated with the beastmen waiting at my door and told them to gather on a patch of grass outside the main gate of Sharia city in five days.
I would accept their challenges there.
The news that I was going to challenge the entire Beast Race quickly spread throughout Sharia.
The most anxious ones were the officials of Ranoa Magic University and the city lord of Sharia.
They were afraid I was preparing a spell to wipe out all these beastmen. After all, my past achievement of killing 500 chaotic soldiers at once when I went to the Bihiel Kingdom had already spread throughout the Northern Continent.
So they sent representatives to find me and notified me that I couldn't use lethal force, as it would cause diplomatic problems.
Linia and Prusena also heard the news that I was challenging all the beastmen and specifically came to plead for mercy for their compatriots.
Since you both know how to plead for mercy, don't you realize that you two were the ones who brought this trouble to me?
I gave each of them a flick on the forehead. If it weren't for Prusena helping me develop Fear Magic, I wouldn't have such a good temper. After agreeing to their request...
I unexpectedly discovered the secret of the female Beast Race during the mating season; they seemed to have grown a size larger in all aspects, and their faces were full of blushes.
After accepting their plea, I went to practice my secret skill.
The five days passed quickly.
On this morning, about a hundred members of the Beast Race gathered outside the southern city walls of Sharia.
Some of the more robust ones were there honing their martial arts, while some herbivore-type Beast Race members were practicing magic.
I arrived at the scene around noon.
I flew directly toward the field from the sky; upon reaching the site, I didn't land but instead hovered in the air, looking down at them.
I didn't bother with excessive pleasantries; there were too many of them, and if I spoke to everyone, we wouldn't even get to the match today.
I shouted loudly: "I'll give you one minute. Those who wish to challenge me stay within this circle; those who don't, leave immediately!"
I used Earth Magic to draw a circle on the grass with a diameter of 3,000 meters.
The Beast Race members staying in the circle looked at each other. A few sensible ones, seeing that I could create a 3,000-meter earth circle just by raising my hand, realized the gap in our strength.
They bolted away. About 100 Beast Race members remained within the circle.
Looking at the numbers, it shouldn't be too difficult. I softly said, "Let's begin," and used the wind to carry my voice to every corner of the circle.
All the beastmen immediately sprang into action.
Since I wasn't flying very high, the melee-type beastmen either chose to build human ladders or throw their teammates. Each found their own way to launch an attack against me.
Looking at it this way, the Beast Race really does have a lot of experience with teamwork. Speaking of which, Linia and Prusena often cooperate in their attacks, and they don't have the mindset that winning with superior numbers is somehow dishonorable.
To them, no matter how many people it takes, as long as they defeat the opponent, it proves their side's strength. Perhaps this is simply the nature of the Beast Race.
Moreover, canine-type animals should inherently have a talent for cooperative hunting.
After a few moments of reflection, I didn't let my guard down and cast the magic I had developed myself in front of my body: Bastion Guard Stance.
Although the Bastion Guard Stance was pierced by Orsted's hand-blade last time, it did succeed in diverting his attack. And that was Orsted's hand-blade; I believe even if my Water God Style teacher, Leda Lia, had been there, she might not have been able to completely block that strike.
Sure enough, I saw the lights of various magic attacks flickering in the distance, followed by various low and mid-tier spells colliding with my Bastion Guard Stance, erupting into explosions of various colors in the air. It was quite a sight!
After the explosions ended, powerful beastman swordsmen also attacked me. A swordsman with a monkey tail successfully bypassed my front by using his teammates as springboards in mid-air, flying behind me and launching an attack with a Water God Style Sword Throwing Technique.
There were also some swordsmen with immense strength who tried to slash at me by climbing human ladders.
However, such attacks were not worth mentioning. A Sword Throwing Technique is ultimately just a desperate long-range measure, lacking even the piercing power of a hunter's arrow.
The weapons were deflected the moment they struck my Bastion Guard Stance.
As for the human ladders, it goes without saying; I was standing still, but if I flew elsewhere, they wouldn't even have a chance of catching up.
Even when they did manage to land a hit, the slashes from their advanced swordsmen couldn't even pierce my wind wall.
Thus, I successfully blocked their entire first wave of attacks. The experimental data was quite good.
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