173 Episode 66: A Long Night Comes (3) (1/2)

”Herd...!?”

”Oh, I've come this far and gradually figured it out. The stampede is caused by multiple demons coming to devour us! There's more than one sign I can feel from the fog, just like this one! It's obviously too different from a normal demon to be obvious!

I frowned at Al's cry. In other words, there are multiple vampired and strange demons in front of you, and the fact that their ”flock” drove the demons away must have caused the stampede.

”Al, how many!?”

”... one hundred... at least there are as many as I can confirm!

”Ha!?”

Acrylic screamed as he opened his eyes when he heard a response from Al. You think there are at least a hundred demons that are highly regenerative and not easy to kill? That's too bad.

”Hundreds of them... the boulder is gonna take me a while!? I need to crush the demon stone first!

- No problem.

Worst case scenario...... would be unhappy for them too. That I'm here.

The opponent is a vampire, specializing in regeneration and eating up other demons. From its appearance, it is good to see that it has the nature to take in predators. Time only benefits them.

- Then we won't allow it to play, and we'll get it all done right and quickly.

”Let's shake, brothers, hear my voice from the abyss of sleep.”

I hold the arcane shell on my chest and take a prayer stance with my hands against the blade. The air shook to my voice.

”” Gather, my compatriots. Give it what it looks like in this world if it responds. My wish, fulfill my wish. ”

Light lights around me like a precursor to magical activation. A magic formation is drawn in the air, and that formation begins to spin on the spot. The circle speeds up the momentum of rotation and transforms itself into a sphere of light.

”-” Spirit manifestation ”

Swing the arcane shell across your chest. My hair floated fluttering as my strength gathered to swirl into the sphere of light.

A crack ran and crushed so that a claw entered the sphere of light as I moved. It appeared with the light overflowing from inside - what flames and light pictured a woman.

To parable, the figure is or rather a female knight. I float with a blazing sword in my hands, trying to hold it aside from me.

This is my trump card - ”Spirit manifestation.” The magic of acting independently would be the exact place. Instead of just harnessing the power of the Spirit in the form of magic, it gives the power of the Spirit more orientation and serves ”my magic”.

”I'm not going to extend the forest, but it's best to burn it down. - Do it.”

As per my decree, I flew to a demon vampired by a lady knight of flames who shook phosphorescent like a tail. The demon also tries to intercept the Female Horseman of Fire by making a deafening scream.

But the Female Knight of Fire is made of flames all over her body. If you try to touch it, you'll burn it. In that moment of hesitation, a lady knight of fire stabbed through a demon with a blazing sword.

Even if a demon stabbed with a blazing sword screams, I send more will to the Lady of Fire Knight.

- Burn it. Burn it.

Spirit manifestation, originally magic. And the magic on which she was founded - exploration.

She is the one who originally gave form to the magic that burns down by the flames of burning, so that she can act herself. Therefore, even if the power is given form, it will not change.

Flames shake from the tip where they stabbed the flaming sword and burst inside. It spreads to ravage the body, burning down even the demonic stones in the body. Slowly, as the demon fell without screaming, the fired demon from the inside turned straight into ash.

I exhaled softly, making sure there was no sign of regeneration. ”She stops moving and stands waiting for my instructions.

”First of all, what the hell is that?.................. hmm?

So I felt my gaze. Turning to the gaze, there was Al looking at me with a look like his emotions had fallen out and Acrylic pointing fear emotions at me with his drawn face.

”... then, the carbide...”

”Oh, not at all... I forgot, long time no see”

”... No, wait. This is part of the magic we're currently working on, and, you know, it's not scary, is it?

Sure, it's about me and Llumi who can control it on such a scale so far. But if it's small-scale, whispering magic, it's not like anyone other than me can do it, is it? There are also examples of manifestations by demonic instruments......

I tried to appeal from that thought, but the acrylic just packed a step away and shook my neck left and right with momentum. My ears are upside down, but my tail is curling and shrinking.

Al, who was watching such acrylics, sighed deeply and said this as if he'd given up.

”Acrylic, never mind. This guy's a monster, but he won't take it and eat it.”

”What do you think people are?”

”It's a monster. I get a headache with alignment.”

”... hon! Not if we're talking about this, Al! Acrylic! I'll be there next!

Now, if we talk about this, it will take time. So I'm behind you now. Anyway, a vampired demon...... did Anis call it a chimera? We have to finish the chimera anyway.

”... Al, I feel so sorry for Al right now...”

”... oh, I'm glad you understand”

I am! I haven't heard anything!

Then I decided to get back on my mind and crush the chimera from one end by my manifested spirits. The Sovereign will be Al, so I will concentrate my consciousness on the Spirit's service on the Chimera opponent. The crusade went smoothly because the other demons coming towards us were finished by Acrylic and Al.

As I was tailoring the chimera with almost a blow, I felt the gaze directed from the acrylic was becoming more and more cloudy, but when I said I should count to fifty, I had the same dazed eye as Al.

”... Isn't this guy the strongest in this country?

”What do you think? I think you'll lose to Annis.”

”... Anisphere is stronger than you even though you can't use magic?

What's that acrylic talking about? He asked me with a look like that on his face. Sure, Anis can't use magic, but when you combine physical enhancement with magic props from the dragon's magic... you can't.

”It takes too long to invoke the Spirit in spiritual manifestations. It's over if you're suppressed in the meantime, and even normal magic can't be used flashy if you show a gap, or it'll end up cut off by small-handed magic, right? It's a good battle with acrylics in terms of speed. So I guess acrylics have eyes that beat me, too, don't they?

”... you just have eyes to win, don't you think you can win? It's not a premise to run into it head-on. You wouldn't let that happen if you were serious, would you?

”... Come on, what do you think?

I'm not saying I'm a samurai, so I'm not going to choose the means to the extent that it's not unethical.