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ck out parts that have some sort of value, stripping us of our skin, tearing off our wings, gouging out our eyes, desecrating our corpses.
We and our ancestors have been sacrificed for the humans’ greed time and time again.

Our master is right.
Just as he says, we cannot coexist.

Then, we shall give them the same treatment.
If they desire skin, we shall peel their skin off.
If they desire wings, we shall tear their limbs off.
If they desire eyeballs, we shall gouge their eyes out.

With a piercing cry, they dive towards the human city, Brandenburg.
This sky belongs to them, the griffins.
Nothing can stop them.

The battle has begun.

***

“Wisdom Shield.”

First, Alexia casts a barrier defense spell.
Similar to the Intelligence Shield that her teacher uses, it’s a support spell that creates a barrier which becomes stronger the more powerful your Wisdom is.
It’s a thin white barrier that forms in a dome around her.

Alexia’s sudden use of magic causes those around her to look towards her in shock.

“You’re a cleric?!” a young man asks from within the barrier, probably because he determined that it was some type of support magic.
Support magic is what clerics specialize in.

“No, I’m a mage. Addition,” Alexia says, casting another support spell.
Addition is a red veil in a dome shape, similar to Wisdom Shield.
It mixes with the white barrier to form a pink space.

“Everyone at the ready! All archers and mages, make sure to aim for the griffins!” the commanding officer says, and the soldiers hurriedly prepare the projectiles and nock their arrows.

In accordance with the information provided to them by the survivors from Eisenstadt, they prepared to counter air attacks, but it’s nowhere near enough.
The number of anti-air ballistas is limited, and not all of the volunteer soldiers can use bows.
As a result, those who can’t use bows can only throw stones to make the enemy fall back and keep them from approaching the city wall.

“Wait! Draw them in closer… Now, shoot!”

As instructed, they shoot magic and arrows at the griffins.
With hundreds of people attacking simultaneously, the barrage is dense.
Even so, the number of griffins that fall to this attack are few enough to be counted on two hands.
The other griffins flee high into the sky beyond the reach of the magic and arrows or flap their wings to create a gust of wind which collides with the arrows and causes them to fall.
Even when they just barely managed to reach the griffins, it’s difficult to cause a fatal wound with a single shot.

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The mage next to Alexia also follows orders and uses magic.
Since the griffins are quick, he uses a spell called Mana Sphere, which isn’t very strong but is easy to aim and has a high accuracy rate.
The strength of his spell is insignificant, so his strategy is to land a surefire hit on the griffins to make them flinch so that other attacks can make it through that gap in their defenses.

Just as he predicted, the pale Mana Sphere flies right at the griffin, as if it has its own will.
In addition, the griffin notices and makes a sharp turn to the left, exposing half of its body to the Mana Sphere.

Then, the Mana Sphere pierces its right flank, and it dies.

“Eh– huh?” says a bewildered voice which doesn’t suit a battlefield.
But it’s only natural, since something like that happened.
He himself didn’t think he’d have any chance of defeating it, after all.

“What is this, what the heck is going on?”

He isn’t the only one.
There are similar voices from those around him who were attacking the griffins.
The hunter also pierced through a griffin with only a single arrow.
As the pièce de résistance, the swordswoman next to the girl shoots down a griffin with the stone in her hands.

“Hey, this is way too weird, isn’t it?!” the mage shouts at the absurd spectacle before him.
This absurd spectacle is only happening around him.
No, to be accurate, it’s only happening to the people within the support spell the girl cast.

“Wait, is this the spell from earlier?! Is that a spell that strengthens your allies’ attacks?!” the mage says, and Alexia, who is in the middle of casting her next spell, replies with a nod.

To be accurate, the spell she cast, Addition, is a spell that strengthens the attacks performed by party members within a certain radius by adding the user’s Wisdom to the each stat value associated with the attack.
For the Mana Sphere from earlier, for example, its power is determined by Magic Attack Power, or, in other words, the Intelligence and Wisdom stats.
Alexia’s Wisdom is added to that Intelligence and Wisdom, increasing its power.
To put in concrete terms, if the attacker has 100 Intelligence and 50 Wisdom and the one who cast Addition has 100 Wisdom, the Magic Attack Power will be calculated from 200 Intelligence and 150 Wisdom.

Of course, since the example was magic, the stats involved were Intelligence and Wisdom, but other stats, such as Strength, can be similarly strengthened.
However, this is only limited to attacks, so it doesn’t strengthen the body directly like a cleric’s support magic.

In other words, the higher Alexia’s Wisdom is, the higher the attack power of those receiving Addition’s effects rises.
And, although she’s a failure when it comes to Intelligence, she has unrivalled talent in Wisdom.
If her Wisdom were to be quantified as an Another World stat, Chaos, who is the same level and allocates most of his stat points to Intelligence whenever he levels up, has lower Intelligence than she has Wisdom, so you can see just how incredible her talent is.
Her Wisdom is a cut above the rest.

Perhaps because the attacks stopped in their confusion and the barrage thinned, a griffin drops a red stone towards Alexia.

“Something’s falling this way! Get down!” the hunter warns, and the red stone collides with the barrier and causes a large explosion.
However, the barrier is unyielding, and even with the aftermath of the blast, those inside are mostly uninjured.
This proves that her Wisdom Shield’s defensive ability is far more powerful than the explosion.

After making it to this point, those within the barrier finally realize.
Their attacks will hit, but their opponents’ will not.
Strengthening their allies to give them the advantage in battle is the Sage’s fighting style.

“Hahaha, damn, this is a stroke of luck! You’re the best!”

“Seriously, little lady, if I didn’t have a wife, I would have fallen for you!”

The volunteer soldiers’ fear of the monsters, which looked like symbols of death, weakens, and suddenly, they’re bursting with energy, seeing hope of victory.
They resume their attack, taking the griffins down one after another, and gradually start overpowering them.

‘Was that explosion just now caused by an alchemically-made Explosion Stone…? Why would a monster…?’

Monsters do tend to form packs, but to be frank, it’s implausible that griffins would even use the tools necessary for advanced alchemy.
Alexia’s questions are only increasing, but she has no time to think of answers.
Alexia immediately ends this line of thought and switches to a different one.

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‘It really is a nuisance that they have control over the skies.
Though we’re overpowering them in this area.’

The griffins are being pushed back in the area with Alexia’s support, but they’re doing as they please in other areas.
At this rate, there’s a high chance that the rest of the front line will be crushed and they’ll lose.

The support magic Alexia uses has various limitations, unlike the support magic used by clerics.
One of which is that the effect is only present within the range of the dome centered on Alexia.
The second is that, unless your mana runs out or you dispel it, the spell consumes mana little by little for it to be maintained, so your mana will gradually dwindle unless you do something about it.
A cleric’s support magic doesn’t have limitations like this, but it has a time limit instead and the target is strengthened based on their own abilities, so there are advantages and disadvantages with the limitations of each.

However, this time, it’s a bit inconvenient.
Alexia’s are the only support spells that only affect a limited area of the battleground.
Even if they take control of the battle in this localized area, if they can’t do something about the flying enemies spread throughout the skies and turn this disadvantageous situation around, they’ll never be able to win.

In that case, she’ll literally drag the griffins down from their advantageous position in the sky.
This, too, is a Sage’s fighting style.
Alexia thinks back to her fight with the Lesser Dragons.

 

The first time she fought a Lesser Dragon, Alexia attempted to ambush it with Sleep Cloud as usual and put it to sleep before fighting it.
Her surprise attack succeeded on the Lesser Dragon, which kept flying low to the ground, close to her height.
However, it went slightly different from how she predicted.

Rather than falling due to being put to sleep, the Lesser Dragon was still floating in the air.
After the battle was over, Alexia, curious about the spectacle she had just seen, tried asking Chaos about it.

“Teacher, why was the Lesser Dragon still floating even while it was asleep?”

“Apparently, dragons use magic to fly.
The same is true for the dragons they use for Dragon Transport.
Well, birds aside, it’d probably be difficult to fly with that huge body.”

I see. In other words, the magic effect was still present, so it was still floating.
Thinking about it that way, it must have been in a state similar to when the effects of a cleric’s support magic remained.
As expected, it did fall when it died, but Alexia concluded that this was a type of support magic that is constantly applied to itself.

 

In other words, some flying monsters use support magic to fly.
In that case, what about griffins?

She begins casting.
Spells that strengthen allies aren’t the only spells that Sages know.
They also know spells that weaken enemies, such as…

“Erase!”

The spell evokes countless reactions.
At first, there isn’t much of a change, to the point that those around her mistake the spell to be a failure.
However, the effect becomes clearly visible.
The effect of Erase is to randomly negate several of the enemy’s support magic effects.
To take countermeasures against this, they would need to apply several support spells to spread out the dispelling effect.
However, the griffins have no such countermeasures, and flying magic is all they used.
In other words, this spell is entirely unavoidable.

Several of the griffins fighting in the skies above Alexia staggeringly begin to lose speed and stability.

‘What the heck is this?’ the griffins think in incomprehension.
Barings its fangs at them is a law of nature which affects all things in this world: the pull of gravity.
As if their wings were plucked, the rulers of the skies fall to the ground.

There’s a slight chance that this alone could have saved the day.
However, the red stones they’re holding can’t withstand the impact of falling to the ground.
There’s a thundering boom as an explosion occurs on the ground just in front of the city walls.
Thus, the griffins meet their pitiful end.