Volume 3 Chapter 9 (1/2)

Ancient Elf stood up and raised her magic power; she was completely in battle mode.

She then checked out her state her surroundings as well as her own. Firstly, her main weapon, an anti-materiel rifle, was currently submerged in the water tank. Her side-arm, an automatic firearm she hid in her clothes, was rendered useless by the mucus that got into it. That meant she had to win her way out of this ordeal unarmed.

”AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! My hand! It's gone!! You, I won't forgive you!! Naughty children must be punished! Let me show you I care by correcting your ways!!!!!!!!”

Screamed the [Evil] Demon Lord Morax. He was so enraged that the tentacles between his legs that had been threatening to pop out of his pants finally did.

He had no idea why the mucus had so little effect on her. That being said, he knew there should still be some effect on her and that should be enough to hinder her in battle, enough for his monsters he had to win over her.

I'm going to torment you; make you beg for your life as I violate you.

He then took out the monsters within his [Storage]. Each was born out of a different captured female adventurer—a warrior, a beastwoman, an elf, and a magic user. All of them would rival a B rank monster in battle and were thus his personal guards.

”The enemy's just a weakened elf. If you close the distance, she won't be able to do anything!”

She might be a strong elf but unarmed and drugged, she won't be able to make use of her strong suit which is long-distance fighting.

Thus the four monsters charged in and challenged her in a short-distance battle. Using her weakness against her, they knew they wouldn't lose. In what Morax perceived as cheekiness, Ancient Elf didn't seem to fear her predicament. However, in truth, she was just analyzing her enemies. Nonetheless, Morax was irritated further.

”Go, get her!!”

The first ones to charge in were the monster born out of the female warrior and the one born out of the beast woman.

[Evil]'s ability was vile and powerful. With it, he could make a woman pregnant with a demon monster. This demon would inherent the best qualities of the mother and be stronger than her. The stronger the mother, the better the monster was.

Of course, this ability had limitations.

The first of which was that Morax had to lust from the bottom of his heart.

Another concerned the burden of the monster's birth on the mother; unless the mother was an immensely sturdy individual, she would become broken and of no use after giving birth once.

Due to their mothers being humans and demi-humans—beings that possessed high intelligence—the monsters that Morax took out of his storage were cunning. They approached Ancient Elf from her front and her back resulting in a pincer maneuver.

”You seem to have three misunderstandings here.” sneered Ancient Elf.

She moved herself closer to the warrior-type monster that approached her from her front before it could swing down its sword and then launched an attack with the heel of her palm. In her palm though was a lump of wind that had terrifying power as though it was a compressed typhoon.

At the same time her palm hit the monster, the wind was released resulting in the monster's body to be torn in half and blown away.

The other demon, the one born from a tiger beastwoman, then attacked her from the back with the claws it had inherited from its mother.

”I see you”

Without even turning around, Ancient Elf narrowly avoided the attack and then, still not facing the demon, hit it with back of her hand wrapped in wind, bursting the beast-man demon's head like a melon.

Meanwhile, the elf demon nocked an arrow into its bow and readied to fire but, in the end, never got to as the sword carried by the warrior demon was thrown and lodged between its brows thus killing it.

The only one that remained was the demon born from a magic user. In the middle of its chanting, it was suddenly in pain. It turned purple and dropped down. The cause for such was Ancient Elf emptying the surrounding area of all oxygen.

It was a massacre. In less than a minute, all of [Evil] Demon Lord's elite guards had fallen.

”Hii!!”

Morax fell down on his bottom and squirmed himself away in an effort to distance himself even if for only a little. Watching that scene convinced him that he completely misread this monster's might.

I have to get away! I have to use transfer and go to my crystal room.

”If you're planning to use transfer, I suggest you stop. While your mouth was hanging open, completely like an idiot, I threw a lump of compressed wind into it. The moment you stray from my area of control, the wind would explode in your stomach. There are better ways to die, right?”

Ancient Elf said so to Morax with a smiling face. And with that, Morax halted the transfer.

”N-no way.”

”If you want to find out, be my guest. Just know that you'll die immediately once you do transfer.”

It was then that Morax accepted the fact that he couldn't run away. On the other hand, he couldn't even wound Ancient Elf. He was checkmated.

No, wait, not yet. I'll focus on surviving at all cost. No matter how strong she is, she's still a girl; there will definitely be a chance.

Upon his silence, Ancient Elf spoke.

”It seems you've understood you couldn't escape. Let's chat for a while, shall we? Before the fighting broke out, I said that you misunderstood three things,” said Ancient Elf as she held up three fingers. ”First, you believe you've caught us in a trap but in truth, my master is the one that caught you in his trap. I've actually detected the monsters that tried to hide. Considering your inclinations and your ability, it was obvious you would try to isolate and kidnap me. We then decided going along with that was faster than exploring the long and winding maze you made.”

Those words were enough to crush Morax's last few remaining pride. He held on to the notion that he lost to Procell in terms of their subordinate monsters and their Unique Skills but now he learned that even in their strategies, he lost.

Also, Procell's side conducted some intelligence gathering. [Evil]'s ability left lasting impressions on its victims. On top of that, he rampaged too much. That made gathering information about him quite simple.

Then, during their dungeon exploration, Ancient Elf felt a malicious glare on her and informed Procell about it, leading to the formulation of this plan.

To make Morax think that she could detect only the things that were perceptible to the eyes and ears, she had no choice but to act as though that was the case but if for some reason the hiding monsters didn't aim for her and instead eyed Procell, she probably would have killed them then and there.

”Second, I certainly do excel in long-distance fighting but that doesn't necessarily mean I can't hold my own in short-distance battles; I'm also great in it, you know.”

Through the wind, she could sense everything from every direction. She could feel where and when an attack was going to be made and immediately respond to it; there was no front or back for her. Furthermore, by cladding herself with an armor of wind, she could improve her movement and offensive capabilities.

Ancient Elf was a force to be reckoned with even at close range.

In the first place, if her enemy was a creature that needed oxygen to live, she could just suck out all the oxygen in the surroundings as was demonstrated earlier. Alternatively, she could increase the oxygen in the area for the enemy to experience oxygen intoxication, thus rendering it unable to fight.