Chapter 22
Satou here . Falling into ruin from trying to harness powers beyond their capacity has been the staple course of villains found in stories from long ago to today's . If they're going to ruin themselves, then it's whatever, but since these kinds of villains usually get innocent people dragged into their mess, there is no choice but to deal with them .
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『I'll show you the forbidden power deprived from demon god!』
God Zaikuon raised his hands heavenward, then from the moon that had eclipsed the sun, something black fell down .
--This is bad .
Crisis Perception skill is blaring fiercely hard .
--Bad, bad, bad .
I haven't got this much sense of looming crisis since dealing with the [Demon God Offshots] .
God Zaikuon caught the fallen black sludge-like thing with a golden chalice that came out of nowhere .
Considering the scale, the black sludge fell down at unbelievable velocity .
It's like trompe l'oeil, it just ignored the distance in a three dimensional world .
A bit of black sludge spilled out of the golden chalice due to momentum and touched the earth .
--It's rotting?
Goes without saying plants are, but even the ground below the vegetation is slowly turning into some bubbling thing .
I'd like to stop God Zaikuon from whatever he's doing, but acting carelessly here may result in that black sludge directly spilling to this land, turning it into an uninhabitable zone for sure .
I even have a hunch that the black sludge would eventually encroached to human dwellings were that to happen .
The safest option here should be stowing the black sludge away into my Storage once it's all inside the golden chalice .
--No .
It'd be bad if my Storage get encroached from within, I'd just erase the black sludge along with God Zaikuon's arms once it's inside the golden chalice with the Divine Sword .
"Nymphs!"
God Zaikuon called the nymphs .
However, they too fear the black sludge and won't get anywhere near him .
"This is an order, nymphs! Assemble under me!!"
Commanded by the enraged God Zaikuon, the nymphs hesitantly gathered around him .
--Just a bit more .
The last drip falling from the moon has fallen into the golden chalice .
--Now .
I transform into Hero Nanshi, and jump out of the Dimensional Ship I was riding .
Then right as I changed my title to [God Slayer], I moved next to God Zaikuon with Flash Drive and draw Divine Blade out of Storage to obliterate the black sludge along with the golden chalice .
Check-- .
My view blackened out right as I was about to say mate .
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Malice .
Murderous impulse, indignation, grudge, hatred, enmity, venom .
Repulsive negative emotions are gnawing on me from all directions .
After noticing that it was a type of mental attack, I invoked mind magic mental defense [Autic Shell], but it only managed to block out the negative emotions for an instant before they come assaulting me back .
And for some reason, Unit Arrangement isn't working .
Only dense jet black fog is reflected in my view .
. . . This is bad .
I don't think I can keep my sanity for long if this keeps up .
I'm losing sensations of my body too .
--ish .
A slight tremor transmitted down my right hand, the last part of my body that I could sense .
--<<PERISH>> .
It's coming from the Divine Sword I had in my right hand .
"I see, Divine Sword should--"
I put my bet on the last glimmer of hope and recited the Scripture .
"--<<PERISH>>"
The world turned upside down right in that instant .
The malice that had been gnawing on me is perishing .
Thick fog that's shrouding the area around me disappears, darkness the Divine Sword created is filling it up instead .
I noticed that I was falling toward the ground from the floating sensation .
Looks like I've used up all my mana to recite Divine Sword's <<PERISH>> and lost the ability to maintain Sky Drive .
Since I don't feel God Zaikuon's presence around, I put Divine Sword away in my Storage .
"Presently at--"
Checking up my Map, I found out that I was in one of the Safe Points, an uninhabited island that I had been trying to reach with Unit Arrangement .
Looks like Unit Arrangement worked just fine .
『Master! I heard you screaming super loud, are you okay? Can I go there along with everybody to help?』
Arisa's Familiar Link contacted me .
『Nah, there's no need for that . 』
『What a relief~ . I couldn't get a response no matter how long I kept calling . 』
Seems like I made her worry .
『Looks like I got caught in God Zaikuon's trap for a bit . 』
『Okay, we really should be going there . 』
The worrywart Arisa asked me to, but I can't exactly bring them to a battlefield where a god and his familiars are rampaging around .
『It's fine . I'm not into getting caught in the same trap twice . 』
I got a bit shaken up, but after thinking it through calmly, I've come up with several ways to deal with them .
Judging from Map's clock, it hasn't even been a minute since I got hit by the mental attack .
『But--』
I interrupted Arisa's rebuttal .
Guess she won't be satisfied with just words?
『Well then, time for a revenge match . 』
I made that declaration through Familiar Link and teleported to where God Zaikuon was with Unit Arrangement .
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『Gyahahahahaha』
『The strongest strongest strongest』
『Invincible, Invincible, Invincible』
Jet black humanoids with dark yellow contours are going round and round near God Zaikuon while screaming in high tension .
Looks like God Zaikuon has done something to them using the black sludge he gathered in the golden chalice .
『Enemy attack!』
『Destroy enemyyyyyyyyyyyyy!』
『Get wreckeeeeeeeeeed!』
These nymphs have lost their rides, but it appears that they can move as fast as their leaf boats thanks to reinforcement from the black sludge .
They're even coming at me using short-range warps .
『Surprise strike~~!』
I block the nymph who showed up in my blind spot with space magic [Super Isolation Wall (Hyper Deracinator)] and push away the nymphs who were coming frontally with force magic [Giant Shield] .
The Hyper Deracinator cracked, the transparent Giant Shield became muddy with black color .
Right as I activated Unit Arrangement, the Hyper Deracinator broke apart while the Giant Shield crumbled into nothingness .
The instant I had teleported away, Crisis Sense skill informed me of a nymph coming from behind, but an impact had reached my back slightly faster than I could react .
『GOTYAAAAAAAAAA!』
My body got blown away at tremendous speed, rolling on while gouging the ground .
Apparently, she had predicted where I would teleport away .
『HECKYEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!』
The nymph who hurled herself on me is doing a victory lap by making the black sludge wrapping her body wriggle around .
Since I had put Mana Armor on my back right before the impact, I did not get encroached by the black sludge nor receive any real damage . It just hurt a bit .
『Strongest, strongest, strongestgest』
『Invincible, invincible, invincibleeeeeeee』
The other nymphs are hurling flames, lightnings and such at me while screaming in high tension .
As I made my Clone flew out with Flash Drive, my real body moved above with Unit Arrangement .
I saw the nymphs ramming my Clone and attacking it with their whip-turned black sludge .
Then as the Clone bounced on the ground, the nymphs hurled meteor-like gigantic explosive flames at it .
--Man, they're merciless .
In between the explosions, I stealthily exchanged the Clone with a scorched black dummy puppet .
It's the high performance kind equipped with biological response and mana .
『Crushing defeatttttttttt!』
『Weak, weak, weak, too weakkkkkkkk!』
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