Chapter 65
Satou here . I often found myself getting absorbed and lost in thought when I encountered something that piqued my interest . Usually it's no biggie, but it gives me many troubles if I do it when I'm with my friends or my loved one . . .
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"This is kind of amazing . "
Arisa muttered while watching the heroes .
Before her eyes, Hero Meiko is engaging the lich demon lord in a high speed battle while three rings of flames are flaring up around them as if encircling them .
"Meiko! I'll burn down all the blood and pieces of meat! Keep slashing at it without worry!"
Hero Yuuki shouted at Hero Meiko .
"Gotcha!"
Hero Meiko replied curtly, but the corner of her mouth lifted up in glee as she switched from full-on dodging to attacking .
"Give it your all, Meiko! That's the real body of the split demon lords! My Unique Skill tells me that!"
Hero Seigi shouted out loud from outside the rings, but it didn't seem to reach Hero Meiko who kept slashing at the demon lord in ecstasy .
There's nothing that differentiate it in my AR reading, but Hero Seigi's Unique Skills, either the [Evil Search (Where's the bad one)] and [Justice Eye (There's only one truth)], must have seen through it .
In fact, the demon lord that's fighting Hero Meiko does move far quicker and fight more skilfully than the rest .
Hero Meiko herself is even better and faster than the demon lord though, thanks to the dodging skills assisted by her Unique Skill, and her battle sense .
"Yuuki-sama! Some pieces of meat flew off!"
"--Great Forge!"
Hero Yuuki's attendant discovered a piece of meat that was starting to transform into a sludge-like feeler while regenerating mid-air, responding to that, Hero Yuuki evaporated the meat piece with an advanced fire spell that would even melt magic metal .
"Yuuki! Some fell out behind the flame! Burn it down before it regenerates!"
"Tch, easy for you to say! --Great Forge!"
Hero Seigi who was emitting blue light pointed out a piece of meat behind the flame rings that had started to regenerate .
At a glance, Hero Seigi may look like he's not doing anything, but it appears that he's playing an important role in this demon lord subjugation as well .
However, at this rate, Hero Yuuki's mana would run out-- .
--Oh? Hero Yuuki's mana hasn't decreased as much as I thought .
Checking with Mana Sight and AR readings, looks like Hero Yuuki's attendants are supplying their mana to the hero .
Attendants who have run out of mana cancel the link to Hero Yuuki and take mana recovery medicine, and once their mana has recovered enough they link back to the union, such is the routine .
"Hero girl is doing her best nodesu . Let's cheer for her together nodesuyo!"
"You can do it~"
Pochi and Tama cheer for Hero Meiko .
The innocent Lulu and Nana joined them too . Lulu has put away her gigantic Floating Fort in [Garage], Nana too has changed her broken golden armor .
"Sa--Nanashi-sama . Is it alright, should we not help them?"
Zena-san is looking at Hero Meiko and the others with a worried look .
Even for Hero Meiko and her perfect evasion-type Unique Skill, fighting one-on-one against a demon lord seems to be quite taxing, sometimes she dodges too far away consuming her stamina, other times she evades too narrowly, breaking parts of her armor .
She suffered small wounds whenever her armor got torn off, but Hero Seigi's attendants healed those wounds even without me giving a hand .
"It's okay, don't worry . "
Right when I said that, Hero Meiko made a mistake and chopped off the demon lord's wrist .
"Meiko you dunce!"
"Seigi! Can't you use your flame yet?"
"I told you not yet!"
"Damn it--Great Forge!"
Hero Yuuki attempts to burn down the wrist with the conflagration, but apparently larger parts regenerate faster than the flame could burn them, it's gradually turning into a new demon lord .
"Uwaaa, what do we do . "
"Shut up! Great Forge! Great Forge!"
"Yuuki! Stop your magic! I'll grind it down into a size that can't regenerate!"
Hero Meiko got away from the demon lord's main body, and unleashed a furious rapid assault at the regenerating wrist .
"I won't let you get to Meiko-sama!"
Hero Yuuki's wingkin attendant blocked the main body's way, but her shield and armor broke apart in a flash and she suffered wounds all over .
"She shouldn't have-- . <<Dimension Pile>> . "
"Shadow Stitch~?"
Arisa's space magic and Tama's ninjutsu stitched the demon lord's body in its place, stopping its fist as it was about to blow away the wingkin attendant's neck .
"O-oh thank god--I thought Michael was gonna die there . "
"I would have never imagined Yuuki-sama to worry about me . Also, my name is Mieka . "
The wingkin attendant came back flying outside the flame ring unsteadily, and Hero Yuuki hugged her, looking glad to see her safe .
Hero Yuuki muttered in a small voice, [Thank you], and the wingkin attendant gave her thanks to me and the golden knights .
After several more of such small events, Hero Meiko succeeded in literally slashing the demon lord down into nothingness before she ran out of energy .
"We did it! We beat it!"
"Something came out!"
Mixed among the black mist that came out of the demon lord's corpse, the usual dark purple light orb--[God's Fragment], showed up .
Even thought it had three Unique Skills, only one [God's Fragment] showed up .
And it's acting differently than the usual fragments .
『……』
Usually they would be grumbling about some wicked-sounding stuff here, but today, it only floated around anxiously before it began to silently ascend to heavens .
I don't plan to let it get away, but the people who should perform their role here, the heroes' attendants were quarreling about [whose attendant should seal it], so I gave them a warning, "It'll get away if you don't act soon . "
That apparently would be bad, the attendants took their [Divine Talisman] from their bosom in a fluster and pointed them toward the God's Fragment .
"""O Divine Talisman! 『Seal』 these evils away!"""
The purple light was wrapped in blue light and got sucked into a Talisman the wingkin attendant held that was double the size than the others .
Hero Meiko's attendant looked frustrated, but during Hero Meiko's fight against the demon lord, he was simply watching from the safest location without even healing her, so I think he's not really qualified to complain here .
"Hey, master . "
Arisa pulled my sleeve and asked, "Did you see these heroes' titles?"
After looking at it as advised by Arisa, I got what she was trying to say .
None has gotten the [True Hero] title .
With the pattern so far, a hero who has defeated a demon lord should get [True Hero] title .
With Hero Hayato, right about now should be the time for lights to descend from heavens wrapping up the heroes, but there's no sign of that happening .
"Maybe the gods can't see what's going on here since we're inside Yuika's barrier . "
Arisa reminded me of the barrier that the Little Oni (Goblin) Yuika, a reincarnated person, put up to prevent gods from peeking here .
"--Ah . "
Whoops .
There's no way the return offer would come if the gods didn't know these heroes had defeated a demon lord .
I brought everyone back to the sanctuary site while ruminating a way to apologize to the heroes .
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"Why am I still here! Didn't you say that Parion would return me home if I beat a demon lord!"
Hero Meiko pressed on her attendant with a threatening attitude .
"I've got no 『True Hero』 title either . "
"Sure missed our chance to power up . "
Unlike Hero Meiko, Hero Seigi and Hero Yuuki didn't seem like they have any intention to go home at all .
"Hey, let me back! Let me go back to my home!"
Hero Meiko grabbed and pressed her head on the attendant's clothes .
Her sorrowful scream originated from my careless mistake stung my heart .
"Nyu~"
"Hero girl is crying nodesu . "
"Cheer on~?"
"That's right nanodesu! Pochi will present her with Pochi's especially reserved whale jerky nodesuyo!"
"Oh, great~"
Tama and Pochi took their snacks, whale jerky, hidden in their golden armor, they were going to cheerfully walk to Hero Meiko before Liza caught and lifted them under her arms .
"We can't~?"
"You can't . "
"There's no kid who wouldn't cheer up after eating whale jerky nodesuyo?"
"There are kids where that does not apply too . "
"Ga~n"
"Bummer nanodesu . "
The two fell dejected and took on corpse poses after Liza admonished them .
"Master . "
"Yeah--"
Urged by Arisa, I step toward Hero Meiko to tell her the truth and take the blame .
"Nyu?"
Tama who was enjoying playing as a corpse looked up with perked up ears .
"The sky feels weird nanodesu . "
An unnatural dark cloud hangs over the holy city .
It's weird for such a thick dark cloud to appear in holy city that's practically in the desert area .
--ZRWEEEAIYTTTZH!
A howl that felt like a frost blade stabbing your soul resounded in the dark cloud hanging over the holy city .
And from inside that dark cloud, a wraith lord with a swelled up presence--Pope Zazaris showed up .
Its body is clad in a flowing vestment made of what seemed to be an embodiment of darkness and resentment .
"That's the former pope right?"
I affirmed Arisa's question .
"How did he turn into a demon lord?"
Demon Lord Zazaris has two Unique Skills that the lich demon lord had, [Unparalleled Pulverization (Nothing that cannot be pulverized)] and [Unlimited Regeneration (Rebirth)], its level has also exponentially increased to 70 .
"It's probably--"
I narrated my guess to Arisa .
Wraith Lord Zazaris probably took a group of lich demon lord with it to the Realm of the Dead when the lich demon lord greatly multiplied itself in the City Core Room, then Zazaris probably used [Life Drain] and [Soul Drain] to snatch their levels and exp, eventually it took the demon lord soul with [God's Fragments] into itself, transforming into a demon lord .
"Zazaris! First you did something foolish and lost Parion-sama's favor, now you even desecrate the holy city as a demon lord!"
The middle-aged Parion Temple Miko-san who had been ignored all this time censured demon lord Zazaris that was laughing loudly above the sanctuary .
"--Demon lord?"
Hero Meiko overheard the middle-aged miko and lifted up her tear stained face .
"Oh look, there's one here . "
Hero Meiko looked up to the sky with a sickened look on her face .
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"Demon looooooooooord!"
Hero Meiko bounced up toward the demon lord while creating footholds in the air .
It's probably Sky Step skill, not Sky Drive .
--ZRWEEEAIYTTTZH!
Hero Meiko easily dodged the rain of [Ice Javelin] that demon lord Zazaris poured down on her .
--ZRWEEEAIYTTTZH!
Demon lord Zazaris immediately switched to [Ice Storm], but Hero Meiko cut through it with her holy sword clad in her Unique Skill .
She's acting quite reckless, her body is covered in innumerable wounds, the Ice Storm is getting painted in red .
--Aqua Heal .
As an apology for earlier, I healed Hero Meiko's wounds with an extended range recovery spell, and supported her with [<<Enchant Spirit Protection>>], and [<<Enchant Physical>>] .
"--Amazing . "
Hero Meiko let out a small voice of admiration at the physical enchantment that far exceeds the extra mode installed on Pochi's golden armor .
"I can do it now!"
Hero Meiko looked up straight at the demon lord and climbed up the sky at a speed that far exceeded hers before .
She cut up demon lord Zazaris that should have had the physical resist trait from its Wraith Lord days .
Chopped arm disappeared into black mist, and a new arm grew in its stead .
"Oy, Seigi . Did you see it?"
"Yea, I did . This guy ain't multiplying . "
Hero Seigi and Hero Yuuki who suddenly get all pepped up support Hero Meiko from afar .
Hero Yuuki with fire magic, Hero Seigi shoots cover fire with a magic gun he snatched from his attendant .
" . . . ■■■■ <<Sacred Turn Undead>>!"
Silver Knight Holy, aka Sera, unleashed holy magic on demon lord Zazaris, but it gave no real damage besides a miffed scream .
"We will burden the sin of Parion Temple ourselves . Tenion temple personal over there, please refrain from interfering . "
The middle-aged miko who saw through Sera's magic to have originated from God Tenion gave a warning to Sera .
"Heroes! Keep that traitor that's turned into a demon lord in check just like that! We shall utilize this chance to seal the demon lord with the miracle brought upon by our artifact!"
The middle-aged miko and her companions took out a rainbow colored orb from Item Box and held it up high .
The main temple personnels who've come along with her put their hands on the orb and pour their mana into it .
I'll be watching over them, I'll leave them alone if they're going to help Hero Meiko and her friends, and expel them if they look like they're going to get in the way .
A light magic circle appeared in the center of their group, then it piles up into 20 circles .
"That's quite an unusual spell . "
"Difficult . "
Mia frowned and groaned .
"Master, did you get it?"
"I think it's a sealing-type spell based on holy magic--"
First I've seen this spell . Truly fascinating .
Magic circles of holy magic only have one symbol that signifies a god, but for some reason this magic circle the middle-aged miko and her cohorts have created carry eight symbols that signify gods on them .
There's one symbol that looks unlike any of the seven pillar gods' symbols I know .
--ZRWEEEAIYTTTZH!
Demon lord Zazaris noticed the magic circle the miko produced and tried to get away into the Realm of the Dead, thus I got next to the opened portal with Flash Drive and destroyed it .
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