"Hey, Kazuma, this fire... isn't it a bit too strong?"
Aqua pointed to the distant forest, the bright flames flickering in her eyes.
The temperature of the surrounding environment also suddenly increased.
"What are you thinking! Run!"
Satou Kazuma shouted and threw Echidna on the ground, then ran away in the opposite direction.
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble!
Maybe the whole Sanctuary will be destroyed this time.
What should I do, what should I do?!
Wait, wait, where's that useless witch?
Satou Kazuma turned his head and found that Echidna hadn't followed him.
He stopped and turned back to see Echidna controlling her small body and running as hard as she could.
"I am the Witch of Greed, Echidna, ahhhhhhhh!"
Echidna shouted with all her might, as if she would burn her soul and body.
But...
Even if Echidna tried her best, her running speed wasn't much faster than walking, and her awkward movements even looked a little funny.
In just a few seconds, Echidna was out of breath, as if she was about to pass out at any moment.
Echidna's athletic ability could be described as terrible, not to mention that she hadn't fully adapted to this body.
"Dona, Dona, are we going to die here?"
"Will, will, our, our souls... still be here?"
"You're the one who started the fire! Dona, you're the bad guy now, ahhhhhhhh!"
Echidna was focused on escaping and had no time to respond to the other witches.
"..."
At this moment, Satou Kazuma ran back to Echidna's side.
"Huh!"
Echidna's eyes lit up with a hint of expectation.
Could it be that Satou Kazuma was here to help her?
"As I thought, you're not even as fast as I walk."
Satou Kazuma walked beside Echidna, who was running wildly, staring at her as if she were a rare thing.
"..."
"Don't force yourself so much, you look like you're about to die."
"I, I, I'm not forcing myself, I just, just haven't exercised in four hundred years."
Because of her hurried breathing, Echidna had difficulty speaking.
"And, and, now is, now is, a critical moment!"
"Don't worry, I will protect you properly!"
Satou Kazuma threw Echidna over his shoulder like a sandbag and started running.
"Huh?"
Echidna was a little confused. This was the first time in her life that someone had carried her like this.
This is... too embarrassing!
Before long, Satou Kazuma and the others had rushed out of the edge of the forest and met up with the others.
"Hey, hey, what's going on?"
Otto looked at the distance in shock, the towering flames about to engulf the entire forest like a giant beast.
Satou Kazuma's brain was spinning rapidly. If he told the truth, Echidna would probably be executed by these guys, right?
Echidna is still very important to him!
Satou Kazuma gave the only answer:
"I don't know, the fire just suddenly appeared..."
Even as he said this, Satou Kazuma looked away guiltily and threw Echidna off his shoulder.
"That hurts!!!"
"What should I do! There's no time to evacuate now!"
Garfield's face was also filled with panic, not knowing what to do.
"Roswaal, do you have any fire extinguishing magic?"
Satou Kazuma asked immediately.
"Maybe I do, but..."
Roswaal raised his hand, the magic sealing stone handcuffs very obvious.
"The key, right, where's the key!"
Satou Kazuma quickly searched his body for the key, but found nothing.
"Wait..."
Satou Kazuma then remembered that he had just been killed by Echidna and turned into charcoal.
The key was probably lost at that time!
"Otto, get a saw quickly!!!"
"I, I don't have a saw!"
"Useless goddess, can you quickly make a saw with your hands!"
Satou Kazuma immediately turned to Aqua, suddenly having an idea.
"Huh!?"
Before Aqua could react, Satou Kazuma reached out and grabbed her shoulder.
Life Drain!
At the same time, he opened his other hand to the raging fire in the forest.
"Water Jet!"
Satou Kazuma used the magic to create water.
With Life Drain, Satou Kazuma could treat Aqua as a battery, constantly drawing mana from her body.
Maybe his magic could also be transformed!
As the magic was activated, water did spray from Satou Kazuma's hand—
But it was only a trickle.
It wasn't much stronger than a water gun.
No matter how fast the mana recovery speed was, it couldn't change the fact that Satou Kazuma's mana output was low and he only knew low-level magic.
"Hey Kazuma, what are you doing, are you playing with water?"
Aqua looked at Satou Kazuma with confusion, not knowing what he was doing.
Looking at the goddess in front of him, Satou Kazuma suddenly felt anger rising in his chest.
Speaking of which, isn't Aqua the goddess of water?
Besides spraying water at banquets, it seemed like this person hadn't done anything useful.
"You useless goddess, at least be useful for something, aren't you the goddess of water? Hurry up and make some water!"
"What are you saying! Be careful of being punished by the heavens! The amount of water I release can cause floods!"
Aqua replied angrily.
But her answer was just bragging in Satou Kazuma's eyes.
"Hurry up, useless goddess!"
"You're still calling me a useless goddess!"
"Aren't you supposed to be used to that title! Why do you care so much about it now?"
"That's true... wait, wait, what do you mean used to it!"
"Whatever, just hurry up and make some water!"
Satou Kazuma shouted loudly.
"Geez! Then watch closely! I'll show you what the goddess looks like when she gets serious!"
Aqua's eyes seemed to have teary light, then she raised her hands, and a blue light wrapped around her like a whirlwind.
"This mana?!"
Whether it was Roswaal, Beatrice, or Echidna, who should have known the most about magic in this world, their faces showed incredible shock.
They had never seen such a terrifying flow of mana in the air.
Not only that, even the micro-spirits were responding to Aqua's summons.
"No way, useless goddess, you're actually something?"
Satou Kazuma's face also showed an incredible expression.
Speaking of which, Aqua had already gained many followers in this world, so her power had exploded.
"All my dependents in this world, follow the command of the water goddess Aqua! Grant my request, fulfill my wish, and show your power to the world—Holy Water Creation!!"
The glorious declaration still echoed, the pure light around her instantly lost all its gentle form, as if a huge dam had collapsed in the air, and the accumulated power had found a gap!
In the sky, the clouds were directly torn apart, and a terrifying amount of water poured down like a waterfall, almost submerging the entire sky!
"What, what magic is this?! It's, it's amazing!"
Echidna's eyes widened, watching everything with great excitement.
Even she couldn't create such a terrifying flood.
The flames that were raging in the forest were almost instantly extinguished by the water that fell from the sky.
"Long live Aqua-sama!"
"Awesome, Aqua-sama!"
"Aqua-sama saved the Sanctuary!"
The residents of the Sanctuary raised their arms and shouted Aqua's name.
If it weren't for Aqua, the raging fire would have caused terrible damage to the Sanctuary.
"Hmph! I am the goddess of water!"
Aqua's face showed a proud smile, as if saying 'hurry up and praise me more'.
Satou Kazuma's face also had a smile at first—
But soon, his smile gradually froze.
The forest fire had been extinguished, but the water hadn't stopped.
Not only that, the terrifying amount of water had gathered into a terrifying wave, crashing towards everyone!
"Enough, enough, Aqua! Stop!"
Before he could finish speaking, Satou Kazuma only felt the solid ground under his feet suddenly disappear, and an icy and smelly force slammed into his waist, and the muddy water mixed with dirt, broken wood, and all kinds of weird things instantly knocked him down, and hit him with wild force.
He struggled in vain to grab something, but his fingertips touched nothing, the cold water got into his mouth and nose, and his vision was only churning turbid foam and chaos.
"Useless goddess!!! I will never forgive you ahhhhhhhh!!"
He used the last bit of air in his lungs to make a heart-wrenching, desperate accusation in the floating turbid waves, every word like a fragment forcibly squeezed out by the flood.
Satou Kazuma was merely a victim, and everyone around him was submerged in the flood in an instant - including Aqua herself.
Huge waves crashed over the residents' homes in the Sanctuary, smashing them to pieces.
Several desperate villagers were swept into the vortex, spinning wildly like in a washing machine.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
And the loudest was Echidna's heart-wrenching scream.
She couldn't do anything!
Echidna didn't expect that on the first day of getting her new body, she was almost beaten to death, almost burned to death, and now it seemed like she was going to drown.
"Useless goddess! Useless goddess ahhhhhhhh!"
In the water, Satou Kazuma saw Aqua next to him. He did his best to use the water flow and waves to get himself next to Aqua, grabbed her, and then rode on her back.
Although Satou Kazuma now wanted to strangle her, he forcibly suppressed the urge.
"Useless goddess, you can swim, right?!"
"Nonsense! I can do whatever I want in the water!"
"Then hurry up, so we don't have a tragedy!"
Satou Kazuma twisted Aqua's arm like he was riding a jet ski, and the latter started moving at high speed like a jet ski, even creating huge waves behind her.
"Betty!"
Satou Kazuma, riding Aqua, took the lead in calling out Betty's name.
"Bakazuma, Betty is here ahhhhhhhh!"
Satou Kazuma looked up and saw Beatrice floating in the air, with an incomprehensible expression on her face.
Aqua and Satou Kazuma... looked really weird now.
Beatrice had just been preparing to rush into the water to rescue Satou Kazuma, but fortunately, he was able to save himself in time with Aqua's help.
"It's good to be able to fly... Betty, quickly point out the location of the others! Echidna! Subaru! Elsa! Garfield! Emilia! And... who else is there! What's his name!!"
Satou Kazuma shouted loudly, calling out Echidna's name first.
"Otto... glug glug glug... my name is Otto, Kazuma-sama glug glug glug! I've said it three times, glug glug..."
In the distance, it seemed like Otto's desperate cries were heard, but they quickly turned into the sound of choking on water. Satou Kazuma also didn't know how the other person could still hear him from such a distance.
"Geez!"
Beatrice immediately flew to Satou Kazuma's side, and after hesitating for a moment, she chose to 'ride' on Aqua and assist Satou Kazuma in the rescue work.
It feels... a little disgusting...
But the most important thing is to save people. Beatrice used teleportation magic as soon as she saw someone, teleporting them to a safe place.
Her mana reserves were definitely not enough, but Satou Kazuma continued to use Life Drain, drawing mana from Aqua's body and transferring it to Beatrice's body, allowing her to use magic continuously.
Aqua was the battery, and Satou Kazuma was the data cable.
This super strong combination should, at this moment, was racking it's metaphorical brain over how to save people.
"Strange, why didn't I see Roswaal?"
Satou Kazuma asked Beatrice with a puzzled look.
"I don't know, Betty didn't see him either."
Beatrice shook her head.
"Wait..."
A bad feeling suddenly arose in Satou Kazuma's heart.
At this moment, at the bottom of the water, Roswaal looked at the magic sealing stone handcuffs in his hand with despair.
These handcuffs were too heavy, and dragged him straight to the bottom of the water.