Fairy Tail: I Don’t Want to Be the President

Chapter 70 Village Defense Battle

"A herd is coming. With this rhythm of ringing the bell, there may be a lot of them."

The village chief explained the meaning of the bells and said calmly, "But the walls of our village are very strong, so don't worry."

"No, it is our mission to conquer the wild beasts and protect the village. We cannot pretend that we don't know when the other party comes knocking on our door."

Natsu stood up and clenched his fists, "I'm already on fire, Happy!"

"like!"

Happy understood, wings sprouted from his back, grabbed Natsu and flew out.

Natsu in the air said: "Let's go first. If we are late, you won't be able to get there, Rhodes!"

Rhodes was too lazy to answer, "I wish I didn't have a share in it. I provided you with mounts along the way and helped you deal with the aftermath. It's very tiring, okay?"

"Mr. Rhodes, the herd is in danger. Your companions..."

"Don't worry, Natsu is very strong." Rhodes said, "I have to take the first step."

"Excuse me!" The village chief was worried that he would fly away at once, so he hurriedly stopped him, "Is there anything we can do to help?"

"...So, there is really one thing." Rhodes thought to himself that he had to remind the village chief to remember it. He was too careless and was almost led astray by Natsu.

"Please feel free to say so."

"Please organize the villagers and prepare more water, sand and other things that can be used to put out fires."

"What?"

Rhodes said: "Natsu uses fire magic, which is powerful but also prone to accidents.

So please inform the villagers in advance. It is best for every household to be prepared. "

"I see." The village chief nodded. He didn't know much about magic, but fire magic must be very powerful when used to deal with wild beasts.

"Answer the call, Crimson Sharpbill!"

Rhodes summoned a crimson sharp-beaked bird, mounted it and flew towards the entrance of the village.

…

It feels very different to fly in the sky and see the ground below, especially riding a strange bird.

Although he didn't fly high...it should be said that fortunately he didn't fly high. Rhodes knew that he wouldn't die if he fell from this height, otherwise he would have to carry an umbrella bag anyway.

The villagers had been alarmed by the ringing of the bell. Some ran towards the village entrance with weapons or farm tools in hand, while others ran towards the village chief's home.

Rhodes passed the running villagers in the air and attracted the attention of many people.

I heard that the village chief hired a magician, is that the one?

But soon, their eyes were attracted by something else.

In the direction of the village entrance, a red fireball fell from the sky and landed in the center of the herd.

Rhodes saw Natsu's figure clearly and criticized him from the bottom of his heart. It was too unsafe to jump directly from such a high place.

He jumped onto the arrow tower from the back of the sharp-beaked bird, and let the sharp-beaked bird fly out to attack.

"Mr. Sorcerer!" The person guarding this arrow tower is Bit Barr, one of the two people who welcomed Rhodes and the others into the village earlier.

The unlucky kid was forced to work overtime even before his shift changed.

"Thank you for your hard work. The one who got angry is my companion. You have seen him. Please tell everyone not to shoot arrows randomly."

"Yes!" Bit agreed, then worried, "But your companion rushed into the middle of the herd alone, is that okay?"

It was dark, and Rhodes could barely tell that the size of the beast group exceeded fifty, but it was difficult to judge the specific species of beasts.

Through Natsu's firelight, he could clearly see that the few people surrounding him were wild wolves and leopards.

The one hit by the bolide falling from the sky just now was a tiger.

"Don't worry about him. If you want to help, bring more torches...and prepare some water by the way."

Rhodes arranged some chores for the villagers without permission. However, this obviously did not make them feel at ease. Many people still carried bows and arrows, climbed up the arrow tower, or set up long ladders and leaned on the wall.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

"The hook of the fire dragon!"

Natsu had fun outside the wall, punching away a wild wolf, and kicking away a cheetah.

As if he thought this was not enough, Natsu opened his arms, and the flames spread from his wrists into the air, forming a pair of flame wings, and flapped them like a fire dragon:

"Fire Dragon's Wing Strike!"

The five wild wolves were thrown away by this move, their hair ignited with flames, and they fell to the ground wailing and rolling.

"So strong, so strong!"

"That's magic, that's the power of wizards!"

"If we have this kind of power, we don't have to worry!"

Naz's active performance opened the eyes of the villagers and made them confident.

After completing the task of releasing Naz, Habi flew to the arrow tower to find Rhodes: "Rhode, aren't you going to fight?"

Rhodes said: "I'm fighting."

"Liar, you are obviously standing here."

Rhodes shook his head and sighed: "Who said that only those who stand in the light are heroes?"

"We don't understand."

Rhodes pointed to a slightly dim place. In fact, a group of his Sharpbills and a group of Shadow Wolves were already fighting.

The crimson sharp-beaked bird used a move called "Flying Feathers" to shoot a brown bear into a dartboard with its flying knife-like feathers.

It's a pity that after the same attack hit the rhinoceros, only half of the feathers were able to penetrate, so it couldn't cause too much damage.

However, the Crimson Sharpbill lives up to its name as a ‘sharp beak’. After flapping its wings and sprinting, it can penetrate the belly of a rhinoceros.

The performance of small sharp-beaked birds is poor, but they are enough to deal with wild wolves and the like.

As for the shadow wolves, they are currently holding down a fighting giant python and biting it. The python's body is dripping with blood and it can only make a death struggle.

"I'm a Summoner. It's not my job to fight on the front line. Do you understand?"

Happy realized that Rhodes's fighting style was far less conspicuous than Natsu at night, and his wild monsters might be regarded as wild beasts to attack by the villagers.

"But since you don't want to fight on your own, why do you want to learn fighting from everyone else?"

"To give the enemy a surprise when he thinks he can easily kill me by bypassing the wild monsters."

"So cunning."

Rhodes grabbed Hubby's face and said, "How can you use cunning to describe one of our own? He means smart and cautious!"

"Love~"

Rhodes let go of Habi: "Besides them, I also sent two river crabs to patrol around the village wall. I'm very busy."

After all, no one stipulates that wild beasts can only attack the main entrance. Other directions are also worth paying attention to.

Habi looked at it quietly for a while, and then asked: "Why don't you send out those stone beetles as well?"

"You have a lot of questions." Rhodes said,

"If you let too many wild monsters out to fight, my magic power won't last long, and I'm very tired today."

Releasing all the wild monsters at once can only result in a burst, just like the magician who sneaked up on the two ghosts that day.

As long as he had enough magic power to protect himself, the continuous combination attacks that day were considered to be Rhodes's strongest explosive combos.

If you want to fight a protracted battle, two or three groups are most appropriate.

Thanks to the efforts of Natsu and the wild monsters, the number of incoming beasts decreased rapidly. This was the first time that the villagers participated in such an easy defensive battle - they just had to watch.

(End of chapter)