I Tried Catching Them

‘I’m going to use Magic Transfer now.’

‘Yes!’

‘Magic Transfer—Magic Throwing Net!’

I transferred the magic to a nearby slime.

And then—

“Woah!”

“What!?”

Just as the magic activated, the two men hopped to the side.

They dodged it.

Apparently, these guys were pretty skilled.

“…Did something just come flying towards us?”

“Yeah. There’s no doubt about it. …It was a magic net.”

One of the men said as he picked the net up from the ground.

The magic net was made of thread that should have been difficult to see—and yet he noticed it in an instant.

“A magic net? Was it a trap?”

“The timing and aim were too good for it to be a trap. It’s as if some skilled sorcerer was hiding close to us.”

The man said as he looked around.

‘This man is scary!’

‘What if he finds us?’

The slimes sounded worried.

And so I said to them,

‘…Stay where you are for now. They might find you if you move.’

While I had cast concealment magic on them, they would still cause the grass to move if they went through it.

It would be hard for most people to notice even that, but these guys were different.

“…I don’t see anything.”

“No human sorcerer could erase their presence so thoroughly. If there is no presence, then there must be no one else here.”

“True. Let’s go then.”

After making sure there was no one around, the enemy started to move again. Having waited for this moment, I then activated my magic.

‘Magic Transfer—Magic Throwing Net!’

At the same instant—the enemy swirled around.

And he threw a knife towards the slime with precise accuracy.

“There!”

They had read my movement.

They only pretended to let their guard down so I would attack again.

—However, I had expected this as well.

‘Magic Transfer—Magic Throwing Net!’

I said. This time, I transferred the magic to a slime that was in a nearby tree.

The first net had been a decoy.

The slime in the tree was the true attacker.

“Gah!”

“From our blindside!”

No matter how skilled they were, they could not avoid a silent, magic net that shot at them from their blind spot.

And so both intruders were caught at the same time.

As for the slime who got stabbed…

‘AHHH! …Huh? It doesn’t hurt?’

While the knife had hit its target perfectly, their strong resistance to physical attacks and my defense magic had meant that the slime was unharmed.

The enemy had probably found the spot where the magic was activated, through sharp reflexes and good eyesight. But he had not known that the target was a slime.

And so he had used a physical attack that was useless against slimes.

“Damn it!—I can’t get out!”

“This isn’t a normal net! —It’s a magic net!?”

They shouted as they tried to cut their way out.

They looked very skilled with their movements…but all of their training was no good. As the fiber was magical.

And so it was not possible for them to cut their way out with swords.

Not only that, but the more they struggled, the more the thin threads bound them, and they were soon unable to move at all.

If was pretty nasty binding magic, to be honest.