Chapter 221

"Let's go subjugate Snow Spirits~"

On a winter day roasting by the fire, after Broly returned from the Adventurer's Guild, he proposed an outing.

"Eh, so sudden?"

The girls were a bit surprised.

"I heard at the Guild that as long as we subjugate Snow Spirits, spring will come sooner. I want spring to come sooner."

Broly stated his own reason for wanting to subjugate Snow Spirits.

"Subjugating Snow Spirits to make spring come sooner, isn't that just a rumor?"

The weather was too cold; even Darkness didn't want to go out.

"No, this really isn't a rumor. Seasonal changes and magic power are closely related. Snow Spirits are fairy existences condensed from winter magic power gathering on snow. If we subjugate a sufficient quantity of Snow Spirits, it might truly make the climate in some areas warm up early."

As an Ice Witch, Wiz has a deeper understanding of ice-type magic power, and she popularized the science to everyone that the rumor of subjugating Snow Spirits bringing early spring has theoretical basis.

"So it's true."

Yunyun's eyes widened, and Huihui pricked up her ears.

"Theoretically it's true, but the quantity of Snow Spirits needed to subjugate to change the climate is too enormous, so much so that practically no one would actually run outside to subjugate Snow Spirits in the dead of winter."

"Then what about the Snow Spirit subjugation quests hanging on the Guild's request board?"

Darkness couldn't help but ask.

"Those commissions are usually put up by people hoping for spring to come early. Just like someone hanging a Sunny Doll by the window on a rainy day praying for the weather to clear, they're all just symbolic behaviors expressing the expectation for certain things to come true."

At the side, Aqua supplemented, saying that she usually mixes around home, the marketplace, and the Guild, and her understanding of this world is long past what it was when she first arrived.

"Then are we going to subjugate Snow Spirits?"

Yunyun asked. Honestly, with the weather being relatively cold, she also wanted to stay in a warm house and didn't want to go out.

"Broly, since these future wives of yours don't want to go out with you to subjugate Snow Spirits, how about just me and you go subjugate them together!"

But Huihui on the other side suddenly spoke up.

"Huh?"

Yunyun was a bit surprised by her enthusiasm, then heard Wiz at the side say: "Miss Huihui is preparing to make spring come sooner so she can find a job early, right?"

"That's right, exactly like that. Do you have any objections?"

"No objections, just a bit worried about your personal safety."

"Hah, it's not like I haven't seen Snow Spirits before. They're just little snowballs; you can melt them away with the warmth of your palm. What danger could there be in subjugating them?"

Huihui was a bit confused.

"The danger of subjugating Snow Spirits doesn't lie in subjugating the Snow Spirits themselves, but in the possibility that subjugating too many Snow Spirits might attract the ice monsters behind the Snow Spirits."

"What's that?"

"Legend has it that it's a special monster active in the wind and snow, a Super Grudge Spirit composed of the departed souls of countless lives frozen to death in the ice and snow. Its strength is unfathomable. Already many adventurers who didn't believe in evil and ran off to subjugate Snow Spirits in the dead of winter have perished in the ice and snow because of this..."

Wiz spoke seriously about the legend of Snow Spirits, making Huihui break out in a cold sweat even in the warm room. The girl was a bit scared.

"Of course, these are all just legends. No one has verified the authenticity of this information."

Hearing this, Huihui exhaled.

"However, it's also possible that's because the people who tried to verify it are all already dead."

But the Lich lady's next sentence directly made Megumin's face turn solemn again.

"Although they're legend stories, one thinks every legend story isn't groundless. For safety's sake, Broly, I feel you still shouldn't go out to subjugate Snow Spirits."

After the continuous failures finding a job in Axel, and undergoing Aqua's various nitpicking and grinding in the Annex, Huihui has grown somewhat, and will avoid risks she cannot handle.

"Oh my, this wouldn't be the parasite lady freeloading in our house using fear as a reason to openly continue freeloading in our house, would it?"

At this time, Aqua leaned over with sarcasm.

"Aqua, I'm not afraid at all. This is for Broly's safety."

Huihui gritted her teeth and retorted.

"My cute disciple is very powerful. Even if there are terrifying monsters behind the Snow Spirits, he can easily deal with them, and doesn't need you to worry about his safety."

Aqua said very confidently, then turned to Broly to express her stance: "Broly, Master agrees to the matter of going to subjugate Snow Spirits. It just so happens I also want to go catch some Snow Spirits to bring back.

As for a certain someone who's afraid, if you don't want spring to come sooner so you can hurry up and find a job, you can also not go. It's not like you're one less anyway."

Aqua killed two birds with one stone, and under her final decision, the people in the large Annex all ended up participating in this subjugation quest together.

The women wearing Winter Cold-proof Suits, together with Broly, arrived at the depths of the snowfield outside Axel.

Snow Spirits, this kind of fairy, are only easier to discover in places covered by heavy snow where human traces are rare.

Not long after reaching the depths of the snowfield, Aqua, carrying a Butterfly Net, found Snow Spirits hiding in a patch of snow. They looked like white Glutinous Rice Balls, appearance very cute. "Caught it!"

Aqua just swung the net once and caught a Snow Spirit trying to fly away. She took out a Glass Bottle she brought and stuffed the caught Snow Spirit into the bottle.

"If you pour milk and add sugar into this thing and stir it, depending on the stirring technique, you can get a Milk Ice Smoothie full of magic power, or a Milk Ice Cream full of magic power. Broly, when we get back, Master will make this delicious stuff for you~"

Aqua, hugging the bottle containing Snow Spirits, said this. In a certain sense, she's a Goddess who knows food and can cook for herself.

She has outstanding talent in the aspect of enjoyment. Her only shortcoming is that without external pressure, she presents a relatively lazy state.

However, under pressure or when wanting to pressure someone, Aqua becomes much more normal. Now her gaze looked somewhat provocatively at Huihui.

Huihui was a bit angry, yet helpless. Food temptation — for her who can't cook, there's simply no way to deal with it. And Broly just happens to be a sucker for this move.

"Hmph, don't forget he wants spring to arrive earlier. And to make spring arrive even earlier, we need to subjugate more Snow Spirits. That requires my Explosion Magic."

"What use is Explosion Magic that can only fire one shot!"

Aqua sneered.

"Who said I can only fire one shot? The current me can fire two shots!"

Benefiting from often working part-time as a Blaster at the Axel Quarry, Huihui's Mana Capacity has already grown.

But being able to support firing two Explosion Magics is a lie. If she truly used two Explosion Magics, she would faint directly from having her magic power drained empty.

Broly held the net bag Aqua Master had given him when he came out, then looked again at the little Snow Spirit floating before him, unaware of danger.

He thought for a moment, opened his mouth, and with Connor's guidance on the motion, directly ate the little Snow Spirit; there was no special taste, an icy cool sensation, texture comparatively dense and tending toward soft fluffy marshmallow, and incidentally a strand of icy Magic Power rushed into his Body Internal, but it was quickly digested.

Broly carefully tasted/experienced it, and did not think this thing was delicious.

"Explosion!"

Over there, under Aqua's verbal needling, Huihui took out her staff and released Explosion Magic at the place where Snow Spirits gathered.

She wanted to prove herself on the aspect of helping with Monster Subjugation, prove that she was absolutely more useful than Aqua this guy.

With a boom, the accumulated snow in the depths of the Snowfield was flung up, and dozens of Snow Spirits were melted together.

"Did you see, with just one strike I subjugated this many Snow Spirits."

Huihui used her staff to support her body, forcibly enduring the impulse to collapse, and provocatively said to Aqua.

"Crest Worms Miss is powerful, but let me see how you respond to the Monster that will Appear next."

After the explosion, the originally windless Environment began to blow, a Blizzard abruptly moved over from that Distance.

"It's here, the Monster behind the Snow Spirits!"

Wiz took out her staff, Yunyun was the same.

Before long, a humanoid Monster in the form of an Ice-armored Samurai appeared in the raging Blizzard.

"So it's true, Winter General Existence exists~"

Darkness drew her Sword, her face Expression had some Expectation.

"However, this doesn't seem to be Dead Souls, right?"

"Indeed not Dead Souls, but People's Cognition captured by Magic Power fairies, after satisfying some Conditions, in winter would be Manifested by large numbers of Snow Spirits using Magic Power as a special Monster."

Aqua actually knew more about this kind of rumor, and the Origin of the ice-snow Monster before them was probably created by a Reincarnator she had Reincarnated before.

First create a Legend, then spread the Legend, after This World's People Acknowledged the Legend, This World's Magic Power would Produce a reaction, truly able to create some special Monsters.

And in fact, the Principle of Native God birth is also roughly the same situation, only needing Long time Cognition accumulation, Magic Power accumulation, until forming Divinity.

"Come, Crest Worms Miss, you as the person who Eliminated the most Snow Spirits, have now been completely targeted by that Winter General Existence.

Now is the time to launch your second Explosion Magic, Solve that Ice-armored Samurai opposite, Premise is, you really still have the capability to launch a second Explosion Magic!"

Huihui: "..."

Cast a help-seeking Gaze toward Yunyun.

"Aqua Miss, now is not the time to say this."

Yunyun didn't want Huihui to have an Accident, persuaded the yin-yang sarcastic Aqua.

Other Side, Winter General moved, speed very fast, Rushed toward Huihui This Side.

"Don't Worry, I will Protect you!"

Darkness face carried three parts determination, seven parts joy, launched Taunt Waza.

Made the Winter General Rushing toward Huihui Direction directly turn a corner.

Clattering sword strikes quickly rang out, but it was not Darkness easily withstanding Winter General's offense, rather Winter General with incomparably swift Sword Waza Suppressed Darkness down.

(Chapter End)