Chapter 23 (1/2)
Volume 1
Chapter 26: The Hero, Destroys the Mage 1
The place was full of the splashing sounds you heard when walking across puddles after a bit of rain .
Those sounds of course, did not come from such a wholesome activity .
“HURRDS, ID HURRRDS” “GOFHFH, URGHH” “BLERGH, ERGHGH” “MY ARM, I GOT NO ARM, MY LEG, WHARRR?”
The gentle night wind carried the stink of rust, the brilliant moon shone on the many pools of blood spread all over .
Their convulsing bodies were flopping around, maybe from pain, maybe from bodily reactions, and this generated those splashing sounds made in their own blood . This scene of humans broken apart, crying out in sheer agony, was simply perfect as a prelude to Yumis’ downfall .
All these people had after all walked down the path of trampling over others along with the green haired mage .
That said, these men were also merely pawns to Yumis, if they broke, she just had to get rid of them .
“The hearth of hell shall reduce to ash, and demonic flames shall plunder all, Demon’s Fire . ”
With a flourish of her hands, Yumis released a torrent of dark flame that swallowed her incapacitated troops .
“HODD!? AM BUHHRR-GOAHH!!” “Aah, warm, I can die, n…” “BUAA…”
“Aww, you killed them . Well, they were going to be dead in a bit anyway . ”
The bastards I’d de-limbed, I made sure they wouldn’t die quickly and while avoiding their major arteries, I instead tore up their meat and broke many bones .
Minnalis and Shuria weren’t as skilled in their technique so their prey would’ve died after 30 minutes or so, but mine, I’d carefully made into meatbags so that they’d live for another 2 to 3 hours . They could’ve even been saved if they got treatment within the first hour .
Then again, pawns who lost could be called useless anyway, so they’d meet the same end regardless was what I thought .
“Oh but it is much more, these Hearth Flames of Hell can…”
“I don’t need the expo . From the way you’re talking, looks like my backup copy theory was correct . The main you seems to still be the 2nd run version . ”
If she’d been overwritten, she wouldn’t have tried to explain a spell that the old her knew that I knew .
She now had her knowledge from another world, from the future of it no less . Which basically meant that my soulblade didn’t store and paste her entire soul in this her .
It was great for my revenge if she could remember, but this also meant granting her access to more power . Right now, Yumis had all the knowledge of the spells I helped her develop .
“ Demon’s Fire or Hearth Flames of Hell, a spell that combines spirit, fire, and earth . It’s used to make a Tenebris Ignis Giant, a chimera-fied combination of Flesh Golem and undead creatures using corpses, earth and fire as catalysts . I know your tricks well enough . ”
The soldiers who were enveloped in the black flame became pitch black skeletons and started merging together .
“-! Why, you cannot do a thing even if you know, can you? Myself of the future seems to have found you quite the pain with how you played the runaway buffoon . Let me make it up to you for her, and burn you into nothingness right this instant . ”
“Oi oi, you sure about that? If you kill me, how ever will you find your sweet precious Sori-chan?”
“That is a non issue, I could use simple ‘necromancy’ to reap all the information out of your soul . Though I am interested in your alien corpse, I simply cannot let you exist in this world for laying a hand on my Sori . You, that beast-kin and Shuria . Do you not expect me to generously free the world of you trash?”
Yumis shrugged her shoulders as she snickered .
But under that calm exterior lay an unimaginable rage towards us . All the better for us, we can enjoy our revenge much better like this .
“GBOOOOOHHH!!”
“BGOOOOOHHHH!!”
Two flaming golems rose up, roaring unintelligibly .
They were manifestations of the defilement of many corpses .
The blackened bones of Yumis’ troops had gathered together to form these 5 to 6 meter tall monstrosities that were lit in violet fire . Rather than sturdy golems that protected their master, these two looked like a pair of demons summoned from hell .
Due to the coating of violet flames all over their bodies, or maybe the ominous presence they gave off, these golems of bone looked bigger than they actually were .
“Alright, I’ll be taking those myself, like we planned . Minnalis, Shuria, can you take care of the prep for later?”
“Very well, goshujin-sama, but please take care not to over do it . ” “Yes Kaito-sama, please don’t kill her accidentally, okey? We need to break her together okey?”
“… C’mon, can’t you girls trust me some more?”
“It’s because we can feel your vengeful rage already . ” x 2
… … … They weren’t wrong .
The【Holy Sword of Vengeance] is great at making sure no one’s going to betray you if you form the vow with them, but it gets problematic at times like this because all the rage gets shared around . Neither they or I can hide that sort of feeling . I can’t play dumb basically .
“Ahh, just go already . I’m still sane enough to know when to stop . And I’m not so inconsiderate that I’d start eating the meal before it’s even cooked . ”
As I jokingly went ‘shoo shoo’ with my hands, Minnalis lifted up Shuria and leapt away to the back .
“Ok then, let’s get this show on the road . ”
“Was that alright? You relinquished your 3 fold advantage of numbers just like that; are you trying to imply that your weakened present self can stand against me alone?”
“Sure I am . If you don’t recall, you’re weaker now too . It’s not as if a few new memories will give you level or stat boosts . ”
(Though your Technique did shoot up apparently)
Her hidden status window showed it at B+ right now .
Since she’d stolen most of Shuria’s elemental talent, her magic skill had evolved far beyond what was appropriate for her level, it’d gone from Magical Arts to the higher level skill Sorcery .
The skill’s level was still low, but it was without a doubt strong .
But this wasn’t even near what I couldn’t handle .
“Plus, I don’t see you chasing after them . Isn’t that cause you also want this slight advantage?”
“… Conceited aren’t you, I seem to recall you getting captured and killed by us because you stayed alone, just like this . ”
“Oh yeah? Then how come, in the 1st run, after I killed that maniac assassin Gorde you brought along, your side always brought 4 or more people to hunt me down? If I was so weak, how come you never came with 3 or less to finish me off?”
After the princess bitch Alesia told me the truth and I went on the run, I’d let go of all pretenses about my status and techniques, my every hesitation about killing creatures of this world, of murder, completely disappeared .
I’d come to accept that I needed to kill my enemies as something natural .
The mage and the assassin .
Those two probably thought that they could take me head on from our then disparity in status . This mage bitch had teamed up with the assassin, Gorde, and came to hunt me . She likely planned to have the highly dexterous Gorde hold me down as she completed her chant for a high level mind control spell . She might’ve succeeded too, if I wasn’t already desensitized to the act of killing .
At the time, I still had that powerful status down curse put on me from Alesia’s firebolt . Not quite what I’d call tip top condition .
Looking at the results though, I’d completely turned the tables .
I had overpowered Gorde even in that condition, and he couldn’t fulfill his job of buying time for the spell .
Not only was he faster than me in terms of pure speed, he supposedly had a mastery in rogue skills in addition to excellent techniques in assassination . He could’ve been described as roughly my equal .
But he was, in the end, still sub-par .
His sword hand was slow and his feints were too easy to call . From his line of sight, to his breathing, to the flexing of his muscles, to the flow of his mana, I could use all that to anticipate his moves . His skills of deception had turned into childish swordplay for me .