Chapter 86 (1/2)

My body shook with the thunderous explosions Fiorfata's ical blasts rained down to create craters dozens ofh the De to the final city on this small continent, the small country of Oisanonze

”We're nearly there!”

My sleipnir gave an affirle direct hit of Fiorfata's blasts, while I'd be daed quite severely The only reason why I was still without a scratch was thanks to his speed, and also because Fiorfata hadn't gotten serious yet

Even when I'd known Fiorfata was a Deht that I could handle it, if only barely I'd thought that I could grind down its h time, even if it had six times mine

In retrospect, I had been ht a vastly superior eneic power they possessed directly tied into their coic froe to Fiorfata, while an attack of the same cost from Fiorfata would take away over 5000 of ap in power, in pure power, between us Furthermore, Fiorfata had existed for millennia, while I hadn't been a deic power far outstripped mine

I'd ht the weapons of Earth, being without ic, would have been useless to Fiorfata, but I hadn't expected this level of toughness Even if the hu the Demon Lord would still probably take several tens of thousands of shots

It seemed I had no choice but to deal with it myself And I would, no matter what it would take

”There it is…”

Far off in the distance, a city surrounded by tall walls of stone appeared inready to break the ic barrier with my Di, I changed h”

My steed gave an insistent whinny

”Please, listen to ical barriers whenever we caets to let the sleipnirs in, but my steed was already at his limits from all the shockwaves of Fiorfata's attacks I pulled on his e his direction, and I ju in mid-air to blast cold mist toward Fiorfata behindThe Dee it if it wanted to, but Fiorfata just charged right through it Theto it

But it was enough to deal with the dark pixies gathering around the De ging the huht with the De the dark pixies in

The De tens of thousands of dark pixies moved into my mist The tiny creatures froze the et me, Fiorfata!” I shouted and dove into Oisanonze

The sleipnir I pulled aas still trying to come to me even when he already looked dead on his feet I shot off a bit of weakallies who could joinhoas already forcing the living beings of this world to sacrifice theht… if someone had to be hurt… then it'd be better if it was justa 'demon' and the 'individual named Shedy'

After its de beings in the material world other than the kins I'd bonded with and the secret alpha testers that had been my fellow victims

It hy I'd ruthlessly killed, why I'd stained my hands with the blood of my enemies I understood that to defeat Fiorfata, there'd be many, many more sacrifices

But all the same… the part of me that had lived for twelve years as an individual still lived on Even when it understood what must be done, it still balked at the idea of an excessive waste of life

Was this the price I had to pay in abandoning e to surrender myself to the madness of a demon Instead, I continued to flounder, trapped in ideals that would never be realized

”There it is!”

Oisanonze's soldiers had noticed ical artillery fired at us froht to have driven the sleipnir away He had suffered, had been wounded in his pure determination to protect the world, and I didn't want his of the same world After all, I was still here

A sudden chill ran down ht

Fiorfata was already out of ical blast It passed aboveOisanonze's walls and the artillery on top of it in an explosion dozens of meters wide

Just as the attacks stopped, I dashed through the hole in the walls

Oisanonze was also in theattacked by dark pixies

Yet despite that, none of the people had evacuated They only realized danger was near when they saw the walls blowing up, and h the populace

”YOU!”

Soed to an old man who'd jumped out He was armed

”Y-you're the Dark Lady! If only you hadn't co out a wide-ranging cold mist to kill only the dark pixies

”So run if you don't want to die!”