Riley was surrounded completely, front, back, left and right. Still, he was not batting an eye. Riley started to move his legs again.
“This looks like the same trick.”
There were claws coming at him.
There were teeth coming at him.
There were other corpses attacking Riley with swords or spears. However, Riley dodged them all leisurely. Occasionally, Riley tripped the corpses with his leg and made them fall over.
“At best, these are petty tricks.”
Soon, Riley knocked over even the ‘corpse wielding a spear’ like it was nothing. Having gotten past all of them, leaving behind the struggling corpses on the ground, Riley walked forward.
“If I’m to tell you my opinion of seeing it, it feels like a puppet show.”
The corpse, that used to be a pretty famous warrior for his spear in his life, fell down without being able to touch even the tip of Riley’s toe. The caped man ground his teeth.
“This, this can’t be!!”
The man flinched his fingers and raised even more corpses from the ground.
“Guuuurrrrr…”
“Kuuuaaak!!”
There were corpses of monsters among them.
“Now, what are these?”
Anyone would have turned pale from watching this happen.
It was because… each corpse possessed different abilities.
“Orcs, goblins, and there are ones that are even weirder?”
There were unidentified, strange monster corpses. Also, there were corpses that were shooting arrows or magic attacks.
However… it seemed that these were not enough to make Riley’s face turn pale.
“This was a bit more fun.”
The corpses were increased in number and kind, but that was about it. The corpses were, yet again, not able to touch even a hair on Riley.
“Guuurrrr…”
Having realized that they didn’t grab Riley, the struggling corpses turned their body around and charged at him.
“Well, it is intriguing that you can do this without using mana. It is too bad that all you can do with it is putting up puppet shows.”
There were dangerous things rushing toward him from all sides, but Riley’s movements or tone of voice were still as leisurely as ever.
“How dare… How dare you. You ungrateful! My curse… You dare to belittle the present given by the one!!”
It seemed the caped man had lost his mind. With his red eyes, the man glared at Riley like he was going to kill him. The man opened his arms wide and shouted on top of his lung.
“If you are going to do petty tricks…”
While Riley was leisurely mumbling, the corpses came right up to Riley.
“Guuurrrr!”
They were very close… It would have taken just one swing of a corpse’s arm to have its claws tear off Riley’s back.
“… you should show at least this much.”
Until now, Riley was maintaining leisurely atmosphere. However, now, it changed in an instant.
“…”
Corpses’ arms, which were raised high toward the sky, stopped all of sudden.
‘My body… it won’t move?’
Everyone, not just corpses, but Basilisk and others, were petrified from deadly aura choking their neck like chains.
“… Ugh… Kuuuu.”
The man wearing black cape, who was exposed directly to Riley’s deadly aura, glared at Riley with his eyes wide open.
“Since you are a mage, you have a rough idea of this, right? Just like you, who likes to do puppet shows, I did it without using mana. What do you think?”
Riley stepped forward and asked in a violent tone.
The caped man strained and opened his mouth.
“How… how dare…”
The caped man managed to move his mouth despite being crushed by the deadly aura. Riley, who walked all the way to the front of the man, asked as if he was impressed.
“Huh, are you holding on using your madness?”
“My life long wish… our life long dream…”
“Um… I can’t quite hear you very well.”
“How ungrateful… Our life long dream is still…”
The caped man struggled to say the words. As if he couldn’t quite understand the man, Riley furrowed his brows and mumbled in an uninterested voice.
“It’s fine. Just die.”
Thump.
“…”
To the end, the caped man was trying to do something with his hands which had black lights. However, his head fell.
“… Ah.”
At the same time, the aura from Riley changed to his usual leisurely form. Basilisk vacantly opened his mouth.
“I finally got him, this insect bastard.”
Riley mumbled, and the man under the black cape lost balance and fell to the front.
“Guuurrr…”
Along with him… the corpses, which were standing still, petrified, all became dust and slowly crumbled down.
“Let me live comfortably. Seriously.