511 Figh (2/2)

I could sense that behind the endless undead army, far in the distant mountains, a powerful soul blazing like the sun had her attention on me.

”Hey, old acquaintance. If you don't like it, why don't you come out and play?”

However, she didn't respond to me at all. The only reaction from her was her restoration of order as the undead army slowly began proceeding forward again.

”Tsk, as expected, she wasn't fooled so easily…”

An Undead Emperor with her entire plane's worth of undead was a fighting force more than enough to destroy any country. There would be countless undead units under her command. Nobody would ever win a battle of attrition against the undead. There was forever only one method that was the simplest and the most effective when fighting the undead—directly killing the undead's leader.

Although it was a nearly impossible task to ignore the entire undead army while slaying an Undead Emperor, it would still be far easier to kill her first rather than first destroying her entire army before finally taking down Conservation herself—at least in theory.

But, it was quite evident that Undead Emperor Conservation, who had changed her name from Zero for some reason I didn't know, had no intention of personally coming here to deal with me. She just kept sending endless amounts of cannon fodder to die.

”Has she already seen through the weakness of my dimension…”

That was right, there was a weakness to my dimension, and an incredibly obvious one at that.

Compared to common Soul Worlds, my personal Hell dimension's advantage was that it actually affected the real world, and it could even be used as a storehouse and a base. My dimension wouldn't be rejected by Eich's natural laws, and maintaining its existence didn't even require me to pay any mana expenditure. But if I wanted to fight with it like a real Soul World, there was one huge weakness.

”My Hell dimension isn't a real Soul World. It's a new realm of its own that's outside the rules of existence. Although it has borders, it's unable to stop others from naturally walking out of it.”

I chose to summon my personal Hell dimension here at this chokepoint precisely because I hoped the narrow mountainous terrain would limit the undead army's possible vectors of invasion. That was also why I had Mars and his army standing behind me to block any scattered forces that got through.

But, it was only natural that the enemy would see through my world's weakness. After all, my personal Hell dimension could only cover a limited area. It would be impossible for me to drag the entire undead army into my dimension. And, the moment that an undead managed to exit my dimension simply by crossing the border, the enemy would instantly learn that my dimension had no way of stopping anyone from exiting.

But of course, I couldn't stand by and simply watch the undead breaking past my personal dimension. Mars was also far too much of a novice to fight by himself against the full forces of an Undead Emperor. And so, I used yet another ace card of mine, an ace card that I had prepared several years ago.

”…Although I can't hook the big fish, it's nice as well to catch a few small shrimp. Appear, Yongye City!”

The clouds in the sky suddenly parted as a floating black city descended through the opening.

This city was enveloped entirely in black mist. This city was where Mars resided, and where my undead rested. And, the most obvious trait of this city was that numerous tall towers could be seen within it. And, the tallest tower of them all was giving off an imposing aura, with mana wavelengths indicating that it was far more powerful than any SemiGod archmage. If you only looked at its mana reserves, even a Titan wouldn't be able to compare.

”Silly cat, get ready. Three, two, one, super tactical spell… Death to the Undead!”

My voice combined with my magical pet's as Harloys who sat in the strongest tower's control room strengthened a black ball of magical light with the mage tower's magical pressurizer. The entire city's magical power served to power this spell up. Finally, a tremendous black ball of magic appeared in the sky, resembling a black sun. Death to the Undead, a common low-level undead magic spell used for killing low-level undead, had been upgraded to become a super forbidden spell!

A pitch-black light showered the battlefield from the top of the tower. The black sun slowly descended. Just the outer bounds of where the black light reached had immeasurable killing power against the undead. Any undead that came into contact with it was immediately vaporized into dust. Those souls finally received freedom, and joyfully escaped the battlefield.

That was right, Yongye City, this floating city was my personal mage tower!

*Boom!*

Suddenly, a beam of light came from far behind the undead army and directly struck the tip of the tallest tower. Although this beam of light didn't break through Yongye City's defenses, it created a tremendous explosion outside of Yongye City.

”This was from a distance of several dozen kilometers. Just how did she accomplish it from such a great distance? Her long-distance magic attack spell actually didn't have a high cost associated with it?”

Another beam of light arrived right after, proving that the first direct hit was no coincidence. It seemed that Conservation was indeed capable of surpassing the limitations of space to use a super-long-distance magical attack.

*Boom!*

But, this time, her beam of light directly exploded before even reaching Yongye City. The city's mage tower defense mechanisms had been activated, and shot fire lasers that ignited Conservation's beam of light.

”It would seem that she's even stronger than the last time I fought her.”

Although I was astonished at how powerful she had become, a mysterious excitement caused my blood to begin boiling. As expected of an Undead Emperor, she was capable of overturning all normal magical theories upside-down, turning the impossible into reality.

This was such a familiar battlefield situation to me. Cannon fodder would fight each other on the frontlines, while the archmages shot spells at each other from a great distance. This was the classical undead mage fighting style.

”Last time, neither of us was at our strongest. This time, let us have a good fight in the style of Undead Emperors.”