Chapter 606 (1/2)

「Even the Divine Attribute… That’s not… fair…」

Like a crucified saint, Zelyse, with his hands stretched out to either side, spat out a large amount of blood and fell backward to the surface of the lake.

But I felt something was odd with my slash. I aimed my blade at his heart, but it collided with a hard object on its way from his left shoulder to his right side.

If I were an ordinary sword, I might get caught in his spine or ribs. But what we just unleashed was a killing blow from the current Fran…

Her slash should have been able to cut through not just bone, but even some hard metal like tofu. So, there must be something inside Zelyse that was strong enough to withstand our blow just now.

Actually, I remembered a similar feeling to this. It was during the incident in the Royal Capital of the Kranzel Kingdom.

It was the same feeling as when she slashed someone who had the pseudo fanatic sword stuck in him. However, there should be no way that Zelyse had a pseudo fanatic sword stuck in him――.

「…So, this is it, huh…」

With a slamming sound, Zelyse’s body fell into the lake. The blood that flowed from his body then dyed the surface of the lake red.

And it wasn’t just blood that was flowing out. It seemed as if even the life force within his body was dissolving and vanishing into the lake.

The light and fervor drained from Zelyse’s eyes, and his presence faded rapidly.

「Aah… Goodbye――…」

Zelyse smiled at the last moment when his life force was entirely gone. Immediately afterward, his body swelled from within, swelling several times in an instant.

With that momentum, Zelyse’s body spewed out a purple mist from within. No, it wasn’t from inside the body. But Zelyse’s body itself turned into a mist and dispersed.

Bushwooohhh!

『This is bad!』

My danger detection started to ring like crazy, but I didn’t even need it to know that it was something that we should never get close to.

『He won’t just simply die, isn’t he!?』

Urushi and I hurriedly used teleport to get some distance. We were more than a hundred meters away, but my danger detection was still ringing. But I guess it couldn’t be helped. We could see a waterfowl between us and the spot where Zelyse had fallen, thrashing and suffering to death.

『Let’s hold it back with wind!』

I enclosed a large area with my Wind Magic and then narrowed the wind wall as if I were compressing it. It seems that I’ve managed to block out all the poisonous fog with my Wind Magic. At the very least, the purple mist was not in the visible range.

There’s nothing we could do about the amount that had dissolved into the air and water, but since my crisis detection was hardly reacting anymore, it shouldn’t be a problem.

In the end, I would just devour them all with my Poison Absorption Skills. Even if it was a skill like a vampire that turned his body into a poisonous mist, he shouldn’t be able to revive once it was all been absorbed.

『Wait, was Sierra okay?』

「Over there」

『Ooh, so he’s safe…』

Before I knew it, Sierra had also distanced himself from it, and he didn’t seem to have been poisoned. It seemed that Zelyse’s last attempt was in vain.

「…Did we win?」

「Woof?」

Fran and Urushi looked somewhat unconvinced. I too felt the same way.

『Is this the end?』

It seemed to be a suicide attack. An attack that assured him that he could pull off an eventual comeback even against a superior opponent.