Chapter 204


Chapter 204 Strongest Sage, Whittles Down Life Force


There is no way I could master magic combat if I couldn"t get out of this little predicament .


My goal, the s.p.a.ce monsters, are incomparably way more powerful than this demon .


Even if my sword isn"t good enough anymore, I shall make sure to survive somehow .


Steeling myself, I blocked Zaridias"s sword while whittling down my life force .


Nothing has changed outwardly .


Feigning like this is one of many fields I"m good at .


I predict how Zaridias is thinking and move in a way that deceives him .


Even if he"s well experienced in battle, he can"t possibly notice my state right now .


--But that"s only if he doesn"t know 『The objective of my fight』 .


I"ve noticed the existence of one demon in the city from its mana reaction .


Once that demon realized Ruli and Alma"s goal and reported it to Zaridias, that moment would be when he realized that I was buying time .


And it seems that time has come .


" . . . Mu?"


Zaridias turned his focus away from our fight for an instant .


It looked like he had just talked to someone who isn"t here .


I deployed a barrier magic in that opportunity, but Zaridias broke it apart with his magic .


And then--the demon changed his stance .


Before, his stance was of that of one who sought victory while thwarting any counterattacks for certain .


Right now, he"s taking the stance of one that will try to end the fight quickly even while taking the risk of counterattack .


" . . . Haaa! Gu . . . Nunn!"


The fight became many times fiercer than ever before .


I"m losing my life force at a tremendous rate, my sword and magic are gradually losing their strength .

There is a limit on overcoming gaps with skills alone .


And that limit is coming fast .


It"s taking me everything just to parry his sword, I can"t even afford to check on mana reactions in the surroundings .


--Right at that time .


I could hear a voice from the direction of the capital"s great barrier .


『Take it!』


--Alma"s voice . Ruli must have used comm magic to make her voice reach me .


And then, Alma threw the magic sword as it flew off her hand .


These girls must be trying to throw the sword while hiding it from Zaridias .


However, there"s no way the demon didn"t notice comm magic that wasn"t even magically disguised .


Zaridias concluded that I shouldn"t be allowed to get the sword, took some distance away from me in an instant, spread his wings and began to supply them with mana .


He"s trying to s.n.a.t.c.h the magic sword, to destroy my rope to victory for sure .


If I let him did it, my chance of victory would vanish in a puff .


In such a situation--I use amplification magic and shout out loud to Iris in dragon language .


『Iris, fire the second breath!』


Hearing that, Iris peeked her head out of the barrier .


"--!?"


Zaridias who noticed Iris"s movement stopped trying to pursue me and made a u-turn .


Zaridias probably understands dragon language . Since I didn"t use comm magic, in all likelihood he must have heard what I told Iris .


And that"s the whole point .


I clearly saw Iris"s state after she shot the first breath .


--Iris cannot shoot the second breath . This is a done deal .


However, Zaridias has no idea about that . Thus this bluff worked .


And using the chance, I accelerated toward the thrown magic sword .


Making use of the time I gained from the bluff, I accelerate using mana converted from my life force .


Zaridias who noticed that Iris wasn"t going to shoot her breath, flew off toward the sword, but my acceleration that came at a price of my life force did not allow him to overtake me .


And I won the speed contest against Zaridias .


I tightly grasped the magic sword Alma threw in my hand .


--A moment later .


A huge sword went through my heart .



Zaridias had never set his sight on the magic sword .


He fully intended to get me the moment I took the sword .


"Fool . Showing your back on your opponent, you"re just asking to get killed . "


Even if the magic sword is needed to win the fight, showing your back on the enemy in this kind of fight is like asking to get killed .


--That"s right . I was asking to get killed .


"Yea . You"re exactly right . "


I slashed Zaridias at point-blank range as I said that .


The strongest blow I"ve done so far, buffed with eight kinds of magic .


Zaridias who never in his wildest dreams imagined that he would be attacked couldn"t manage to parry the slash .


Zaridias whose neck was shallowly cut looked absolutely shocked .


I took the sword that was lodged in my body and took a slight distance away from him .


"H . . . How are you moving with that wound! Humans cannot possibly manage that!"


Zaridias uttered intelligible words for the first time . That"s just how much this shocked him .


Understandable .


" . . . Beats me . "


This magic sword is disposable .


Among all magic swords I created in the past, this sword had been poured with the most advanced techniques I knew, yet at the same time, it can never be used again once it demonstrated its effect .


That"s exactly why this sword makes the impossible possible .


The requirement for activation--its user"s death .


Its effect is the user"s revival, and a supply of enormous amount of mana .


That amount of mana is such that if I even make a slight mistake controlling it in my current state, an explosion that would instantly obliterate the entire region of the royal capital will occur .


However, there"s no chance of me making any mistake in the control .


The experience from my past life and the mana control prowess of Disqualified Crest .


There"s no way I would err in mana control with these two .


I"m especially well versed in managing a vast amount of mana in my experience of mana control .


"Tch . . . "


Zaridias tried to get away after seeing the enormous mana .


However, I won"t allow him to .


I bind Zaridias with binding magic that makes use of my mana amount .


And then I slash at him with a sword buffed with multiple magic .


The amount of buff magic is not many, but the mana put into them is in a different league altogether .


This should manage to wound Zaridias even with the reduced strength of my sword due to the whittled down life force .


Zaridias attempts to stop the sword, but I"ve already foreseen his every moves .


The sword clad in an enormous amount of mana accurately hit the vital point on his neck .


"Guh . . . !"


Even while groaning painfully, Zaridias tried to counterattack without slowing down .


However, right now I"m faster than him .


I forcefully move my listless body using mana .


Then I slip through Zaridias"s counter and strike another blow .


The battle is one sided now .


I"ve lost most of my life force, exhausted to the point that I can"t move my body with my strength alone .


The only thing I"m still managing is mana control, converting the mana I got from the sword into attacks on Zaridias .


On the other hand, Zaridias still hasn"t given up trying to find a chance to kill me .


However, his attempts all end up in vain, and he"s finally at the last of his strength .


" . . . This is it huh . "


Zaridias muttered while looking at his left hand that was turning into ash by my magic .


Then he makes a declaration at me .


"I admit my defeat . However, I am not the only 『Chaotic Demons』 left in this world . . . Now then, I wonder if you"re capable of eradicating every last one of them?"


To that, I ready my sword while keeping silent, and pour the highest amount of mana so far into it .


Normally, you"d think that this was a trap, but my intuition tells me that it isn"t case .


--And then, my sword lop Zaridias"s head off .


The fight is over now .

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