Thinking of it, I didn’t use it at that time in the end, but it seems to unexpectedly reached the point where I can use it due to the approaching danger to myself.
『Master, it came out, the void magic』 as I was thinking that, my shoulders were shaken suddenly causing me to open my eyes.
“Boy, was your consciousness cut due to mana deficiency?” (Burkhart)
“I am sorry.” (Wendelin)
“No, you did move your body properly. Besides, there hasn’t even passed a second since your consciousness blacked out.” (Burkhart)
Before I knew it, I was on one knee, but just as before it was released from the palms of both my hands. It seems that I continued to fire void magic while I blanked out.
And, it was essentially magic power, but thanks to pushing back the dragon golem’s breath considerably, the necessity of a magic barrier has disappeared. Burkhart-san, placing both his hands on my shoulders, was in the middle of supplying me with mana.
“Burkhart-san” (Wendelin)
“Even I have used up all of my reserve magic gems. Now that it has become like this, there is no help but to transfer my mana to you until I faint.” (Burkhart)
“I understand” (Wendelin)
Burkhart-san and me don’t have that much of mana left anymore.
Will I be able to force back the dragon golem’s breath and destroy its head before we exhaust all of it?
If I am not able to do that, the now pushed back breath will annihilate all of us until only bones are left.
“Wend! If it’s mana!” (Luise)
“Luise, it’s useless!” (Wendelin)
Because Luis is a cornerstone of intercepting the golems, who are climbing up the stairs, wit will also be troublesome if she comes over here.
There is no point if we are overrun by the golems from the rear before destroying the dragon golem.
At the same time, Erw and Ina don’t possess mana to the degree of being able to share it with me either.
To begin with, even if they transfer all of their mana, it won’t add much either due to the conversion efficiency.
“I am currently calculating calmly. The mana might not be enough.” (Wendelin)
“At least concentrate on the front! Please take care of me after I have transferred all of my mana to you.” (Burkhart)
At the same time he says this, Burkhart-san ends up losing his consciousness and drops.
With this, it became only the mana that I am still possessing.
As I am continuing to emit void magic from my palms, I am slowly pushing back the dragon golem’s breath. By now there is around ten meters left until reaching the target, the dragon golem’s head.
However, the dragon golem sensing the impeding danger, increases the power of its breath attack even more. It also uses a large amount of mana for the sake of defeating me with that.
As I increased the used amount of my remaining mana, I became quite panicked within my mind.
I sense the mana gradually decreasing, but thanks to the training for two and a half years, I had reached a keen comprehension.
“(How unskilful! Anyways, I have to push it back completely even if it a second earlier!)” (Wendelin)
Even so, it isn’t something I can force back entirely no matter how impatient I get. As the creeping sense of danger is becoming stronger, someone is once again placing their hands on my shoulders.
“Wendelin-sama” (Elise)
Those were Elise’s hands.
“The time has come for the ring, you bought for me previously, to be helpful.” (Elise)
Which reminds me, right after the engagement I gave her a mana-saving ring as present. Now I remember it at last.
From Elise’s hands I can sense mana gradually pouring into me. It appears that I avoided the state called out-of-mana for now.
However…
“It’s not possible to push it back at all…” (Wendelin)
Although it was unknown whether the artificial personality has a mind of its own, the dragon golem increased the power of the breath attack by three times.
Perhaps it didn’t want to be destroyed.
Or rather, I wonder just how big is the magic gem embedded within?
With the cable, externally supplying mana, being severed, it has no choice but to persistently rely on the mirrors for gathering mana from within the air installed on each, the head and back.
Only that served as proof that there was a huge magic gem embedded.
“How unlucky! The mana is still… ” (Wendelin)
As Burkhart-san has already fainted and without knowing how much mana Elise herself has left, even if she is an expert at healing magic, I have heard before that she isn’t proficient at mana transfer.
Therefore, even if I receive a normal mana sharing from her here, it won’t be much of a help.
“Wendelin-sama!” (Elise)
“Perhaps it is being pushed back. Pull back Burkhart-san out of the line of the breath attacks fire range. Erw’s group as well!” (Wendelin)
If I force back the breath as it is, I will definitely be burned to cinders down to the bones, but I think I will be able to get the golems, climbing the stairs in my back, involved at the same time.