When someone saw something that terrified them, they would instinctively flee from it or push it away. That was a perfectly normal instinctive reaction, especially since the girl had been in an extremely distressed state at the time.
Yoru Machi leaned over and looked down at the cliff before them. It was only a few dozen meters high. That guy Shimada Yousuke knew "flight" magic anyway, so he would not die. Yoru Machi did not bother worrying about him anymore.
The lesson from the village's previous drought had not been profound enough. After going through this, that guy probably would not so casually court death again.
"Sir, will your friend really be all right? How about we go down the mountain and look for him? I know these paths well. I want to apologize to him in person."
The previously panicked girl had calmed down somewhat, and she spoke to Yoru Machi with a guilty expression.
As she spoke, the girl also observed Yoru Machi's appearance. Right now, she only felt that the big brother before her was truly incredibly handsome.
Without comparison, there could be no harm. After being frightened by Shimada Yousuke's bizarre appearance just now, Yoru Machi's already handsome face now seemed earth-shatteringly beautiful to the girl.
She even found herself thinking that if it had been Brother Yoru Machi who rushed forward to protect her and her little brother, perhaps she would not have pushed him off the mountain in her panic.
"There's no need. A mountain this high can't kill that guy, and you don't need to go out of your way to apologize either. It's good to teach him a lesson.
"Where was your original village? I'll go take a look and see how many half-beastmen are there."
The siblings clearly had an enormous psychological shadow regarding half-beastmen. Under normal circumstances, let alone taking the initiative to seek them out, they would be desperate to stay as far away from them as possible.
Yet for some reason, when the girl saw Yoru Machi's confident and calm demeanor, her face unconsciously flushed. Then, as if possessed, she led Yoru Machi to the village where they had originally lived.
When they arrived at the girl's village, the place had already become a living hell.
Many houses had completely collapsed. Human limbs and pools of blood littered the ground, along with numerous women in torn clothing who had clearly been violated to death.
Upon witnessing this scene, Yoru Machi finally understood why Shimada Yousuke, with his half-beastman face, was attacked by entire villages wherever he went.
There were many demi-human races in this world, but half-beastmen and goblins were the most numerous, the most savage, and the ones most likely to attack human villages.
They usually moved in groups and possessed a certain degree of intelligence. They attacked human villages to plunder food, and because they were demi-humans, they also took young women from the villages for reproduction. This was why their numbers continued to grow.
There was almost no sign of living humans left in the village, yet quite a few half-beastmen were still eating there. Others wandered through the village, attempting to find isolated prey.
"Wait here for me. I'm going to clean up some trash. I'll be back soon."
The moment Yoru Machi entered the half-beastmen's sight, he immediately drew the attention of several on the outskirts of the village. Seeing a lone human, they grabbed their weapons and charged toward Yoru Machi while making incomprehensible noises.
Facing the half-beastmen rushing at him, Yoru Machi merely held his sword in one hand and casually swung his wrist several times. The half-beastmen stopped dead less than a meter in front of him.
The next second, blood sprayed from their bodies like fountains. Their bodies exploded in midair and instantly shattered into several pieces that fell to the ground.
From beginning to end, Yoru Machi's expression remained utterly calm, as though he had merely done something trivial. Not even a drop of the blood spraying from the half-beastmen stained his clothes.
As more half-beastmen were drawn over by the commotion, Yoru Machi unhurriedly flicked the blood from his blade, sheathed it, then extended one hand forward as immense magic power erupted from his body.
"For trash mobs that need cleaning up, this method is indeed faster."
"Scattered bones of beasts! Spire, red crystal, steel wheels! Motion is wind, stillness is sky! The sound of clashing lances fills the empty city.
Hadō #63: Thunder Roar Cannon!"
As Yoru Machi continued chanting, immense magic power gathered in his hand at an astonishing speed. Violent golden arcs of electricity, like serpents of lightning, carved charred trenches across the ground.
In only a few seconds, an enormous golden sphere of lightning nearly five meters in diameter formed before Yoru Machi. Its golden Lightning Bolt even plunged the surrounding area into a blinding white glow.
The dozens of half-beastmen who had come out of the village upon hearing the noise had intended to swarm forward and kill the human before them. Yet when they saw the lightning sphere in his hand, brimming with violent power, they stopped their charge.
Half-beastmen were not particularly intelligent, but they were not completely mindless either. They feared death just like anyone else.
After sensing the terrifying aura of the Thunder Roar Cannon and the immense magic power radiating from Yoru Machi, the half-beastmen began to lose their nerve. After a brief hesitation, they turned and fled.
"As living creatures, you sensed danger and recognized the gap in strength, did you? But it's already too late.
"The strong prey on the weak, and only the fit survive. Just like the village you ravaged, killing you will be as easy as crushing ants."
Watching the dozens of half-beastmen turn to flee, Yoru Machi did not hesitate in the slightest. He directly thrust the gigantic Thunder Roar Cannon in his hand forward.
The massive Thunder Roar Cannon tore across the ground amid violent lightning, plowing a trench half a meter deep before crashing directly into the half-beastmen and exploding instantly!
BOOM—!
As a blinding white light instantly engulfed the surroundings, the entire village and the area several kilometers around it trembled faintly.
Even the thick-skinned, tough-fleshed half-beastmen could not withstand Yoru Machi's fully chanted otherworldly Thunder Roar Cannon. Violent lightning tore through their bodies as easily as swords, while the scorching heat incinerated their corpses in an instant.
The lightning storm raged for a full half minute. When everything finally settled, only a massive crater several dozen meters across remained, its surface covered in scorched earth. As for the dozens of half-beastmen, not only were there no intact corpses left—there was not even a trace of bone.
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