Chapter 351: translated
I Killed the Demon King. It was a Mistake.
Chapter 351
Magic rained upon Count Vex.
As the smoke cleared, Count Vex's figure was revealed.
Count Vex had curled his tentacles around himself for protection. Ice spears were stuck in the tentacles, and there were traces where they had been torn away as if gnawed by mice.
Between the holes in the tentacles, Count Vex's purple eyes were glowing. Count Vex came up by driving his tentacles into the control tower and buildings.
"B-Block him!"
Bullets flew toward him, along with spears and magic spells that had not yet been fired, but Count Vex scattered them with his sword or blocked them with his tentacles as he charged forward.
Boom!
Count Vex, who finally reached the top of the building where Raven was, glared at her. The knights who were guarding Raven instinctively blocked his path, but they fell like autumn leaves before Count Vex's tentacles.
When no obstacle remained between Count Vex and Raven, he swung his sword.
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The sharp line made of aura approached boldly as if it would split the world in two. When a magician faces a knight alone, the best course of action is to escape using the Blink spell.
It's important to create distance or escape from the knight's field of vision to buy time to prepare the next spell.
A magician of Raven's caliber would have already escaped using the Blink spell from the moment he came up. But Raven didn't do that. She was just waiting, reciting a long magic incantation. She didn't have Barre or Caesar to protect her, but she had the disciple that Caesar had left behind.
Clang!
Gloria blocked Count Vex's sword strike by standing in front of Raven.
A thick blood scent was rising from the Blood Moon, and Kos was bleeding.
Count Vex didn't think much of Gloria who had blocked his sword. More precisely, he didn't think at all.
For Count Vex, the most threatening person was Raven, and to deal with her, he only thought that he needed to deal with the blonde woman in red armor. Count Vex's sword flew toward Gloria's head as if to split it. Gloria barely saw Count Vex's sword. It was practically impossible for Gloria to fully catch the speed of Count Vex, whose devilization had been completed. But Gloria's arm moved.
Clang!
Count Vex's sword collided with the Blood Moon.
The posture with which she blocked the sword couldn't have been more perfect. Following that, blood flowing from the armor soaked the blade.
Boom!
The blood exploded, engulfing Count Vex.
Count Vex fell backward. But he wasn't much damaged. This was because his tentacles protected Count Vex just before the explosion.
"Thank you, Kos."
Following that, Gideon, Pio, and Aurora stood with swords and shields.
"Come if you dare."
Count Vex charged like a beast.
"No, I've bought enough time now."
Raven's magic unfolded upon Count Vex.
Swoosh!
Count Vex, who was charging with his tentacles extended, suddenly disappeared with a teleportation spell.
"Huh?"
Aurora looked at Raven with a deflated expression.
"Where did Count Vex go?"
"He'll be somewhere about 70km to the west. Probably in the jungle in the Pruna border territory."
"...What?"
"It's better not to deal with difficult opponents if you don't have to."
Raven looked at the approaching devils.
The devils were overwhelmed by the white flames Raven had created. Devils that ran avoiding the white flames died en masse, unable to respond to the magic.
Between them, Raven saw Andras standing upright. The two faces of Andras, directly visible to Raven, were distorted in an unsightly manner.
Gideon, while hiding his body, glanced at Andras and said:
"What is Andras' ability anyway?"
Pio answered promptly.
"It seems to be an ability that inflicts the same wound on the opponent when he harms himself."
"But why isn't he using that ability now? If I were Andras, I would have targeted Lady Raven first."
"There must be certain activation conditions."
Gloria stood proudly next to Gideon.
Pio and Gideon were shocked to see Gloria boldly making eye contact with Andras.
"Lady Gloria, it's dangerous. You shouldn't reveal yourself to Andras."
"I think I know the condition."
"Could it be that you've figured out the activation condition for Andras' ability?"
"Yes. It's blood."
"Blood, you say?"
"Yes. There have been many attack incidents targeting knights and magicians recently, right? While chasing those devils, I discovered this."
Gloria took out a blood-stained bandage from a small bag she was carrying on her side.
"The infiltrated devils have been bringing the blood of knights and magicians to Andras. That's why Andras couldn't use his ability on Lord Yugar right away."
Pio nodded and said:
"Come to think of it, I saw Andras wiping Lord Yugar's blood with a handkerchief."
"I think that's when Andras became able to use his ability on Lord Yugar."
"So if we don't give our blood to Andras, we won't be affected by his ability."
After figuring out the critical condition of Andras' bizarre ability, the four people could look at Andras with confidence.
Andras was looking at the four people but wasn't activating any ability.
Moreover, Andras wasn't taking any measures even though the devils were dying.
It must be because there's no one here whom he can use his ability on.
"Why is that guy smiling on one side? It's so unlucky."
Raven tilted her head.
"Smiling, you say?"
"Yes. The front face seems angry, but the right face is smiling?"
Raven was already feeling uneasy.
The appearance of the devilized Count Vex was unexpected, but it was strange that he came to attack Homigraph with this level of troops.
This is the land of magicians. It's a place where they cannot be overwhelmed in terms of firepower when a frontal battle is initiated.
'Did they think they could win if they brought many Spell eaters?'
They had already confirmed that Raven's dragon language magic doesn't work well on Spell eaters.
Is Niflheim, which devoured the entire kingdom of Dior, that weak? At that moment, a low rumbling sound erupted from behind.
Boom!
Raven looked back.
One of the three magic towers symbolizing Sapientia was collapsing.
"What is this......"
The magicians, including Raven, were speechless and could only stare blankly at the collapsing magic tower.
***
Bassago came ashore.
"Ugh! Ugh!"
The magicians who had been guarding Sapientia had all been purged by devils with fins and gills.
A devil with a shark head who had swallowed a magician's head whole glared at Bassago and said:
"Bassago, what are you doing? Come up quickly."
Bassago's eyebrows twitched. There were 5 horns on its head.
"You seem a bit short with your words?"
The shark devil stood in front of Bassago, spitting out a tooth. His body was about 1.5 times larger than Bassago's, naturally blocking the moon in the sky.
"Even though the King has forgiven you, you are still a traitor to Niflheim."
The shark devil bared its teeth in front of Bassago.
"I would like to chew your head right now, but the reason I'm holding back is because the King has decided to use you. If it weren't for that, you would have been sliced by my teeth."
Bassago looked at the other devils around.
All the devils with fish heads were glaring at Bassago with hostile eyes.
"Go and do your job now. Bassago."
Bassago stared at him for a while before backing away.
"I will do that."
When Bassago backed down obediently, the shark man snorted.
He was only scary when Bassago had 7 horns on his head, but now aren't they equals? If they were to fight right now, he would clearly be no match.
Bassago walked toward the magic tower.
"Wait, we need to go to the Arch Great Library. Don't you remember the plan?"
"Go by yourselves if you want to go. I'm going to the magic tower."
"We need to interrogate Noah Arch to find out why he is collecting so many magic stones in Sapientia. Don't you know that's why we're here?"
"You guys take care of that. I don't have any business there."
"You...! Are you betraying us again?!"
"What betrayal? I just don't want to die like a dog, so I'm not going."
"Die like a dog?"
Bassago snorted and said:
"The Great Library is not a space that can be magically interpreted. Going in there just like that is nothing short of suicide."
Bassago pointed to the magic tower.
"It would be much faster to interrogate the tower masters who are showing off at the top of that magic tower. Someone of a tower master's level would roughly know what they're doing with all those magic stones."
"Fine. I was getting tired of cleaning up after you anyway."
The shark man headed toward the Arch Great Library and said:
"When we return, I will report in detail that you refused the Lord's order. Bassago."
"Do as you please."
"Let's go!"
The fish devils followed behind the shark devil. Not a single devil remained by Bassago's side.
"There it is! A devil!"
"Kill them all!"
The magicians and knights who were waiting rushed in, but Bassago felt freedom rather than fear.
Bassago placed his hand on a building. The wooden building rotted and collapsed.
"It's, it's falling!"
"Get away!"
The magicians backed away, while the knights bravely charged forward even in front of the collapsing buildings.
Knights stood in front of Bassago, enduring the building debris with their solid armor.
The knights swung their swords toward Bassago.
"Die!"
Splash.
"Huh?"
The knights felt as if their legs had become heavier. There was a rotten swamp at the knights' feet, and their ankles were sunk in it.
"Aaaaargh!"
Following that, a horrible pain like being burned by fire rushed up from their ankle skin. The greaves that had sunk into the black swamp instantly corroded and broke apart. The knights plunged their faces into the swamp.
"Aaaaa!"
Bassago smiled grimly as he watched the knights struggling in the swamp of decay.
"Why are you all struggling so much when everything will rot away anyway?"
Whoosh!
Following that, magic from the magicians flew in. Bassago avoided it by immersing himself in the swamp.
Boom!
The swamp of decay gradually grew in strength and began to devour the surrounding buildings.
"Wha-what is that?"
"Hurry and escape!"
The swamp of decay did not remain still but advanced toward the magic tower.
The first place Bassago headed was the Cork magic tower where he had been in the past. The Cork magic tower was full of servant devils that magicians had tamed or modified.
"Wha-what is that?!"
"Stop it right now!"
The servants' horses couldn't bear the foul smell flowing from the swamp and ran away. Even the servants' horses with less developed sense of smell reacted sensitively and became excited by the strange atmosphere flowing from the swamp.
Bassago revealed himself from the swamp of decay. The Cork Magic Tower was still so tall that one had to endlessly crane their neck to see it.
The white-haired wizards were horrified when they saw Bassago.
"You are...... Hippen?"
"That's right. That is Hippen."
The wizards all murmured at the sound of Hippen.
"Are there still wizards alive who remember me?"
"How dare you come here, you fiend?!"
Bassago looked at the old wizard who shouted. The old wizard was wearing a white robe, the symbol of the Tower Master.
"Oh, so you became the Tower Master? Dial."
"Shut up! Hippen. My teeth still chatter when I think of what you did in the magic tower."
Dial waved his staff. Then the servant horses covered with thick scales emitted killing intent.
"Because of that horrible atrocity that turned your assistant and master into devils, the 34th floor of the Cork Magic Tower is still sealed! You cruel and merciless bastard!"
"Have you lost the founding purpose of the Cork Magic Tower? Dial? The purpose of establishing the Cork Magic Tower is to create a perfect species. To give birth to the strongest transcendent being that does not age, overcomes death, and can perfectly handle the magic that exists in this world. And that being is, of course, the Main with these beautiful horns."
"Shut up! You devil! Because even breathing in the same space as you is horrible."
Breath began to gather in the mouths of Dial's servant horse.
"Oh, are you imitating dragons?"
"Die, Hippen!"
The servant horses simultaneously exhaled their breath toward Bassago.
Bassago dug into the swamp of decay. When the breath struck the swamp of decay, the swamp began to boil.
The size of the swamp began to shrink in an instant.
"No matter who you are, you can't withstand the power of dragons!"
The swamp of decay, which had shrunk to the size of a fist, bubbled and boiled.
"Bassago, surrender now! If you come out even now, I'll give you an easy death!"
"That was always your problem. My friend."
The swamp of decay spread out instantly. It devoured the nearby servant horses and wizards in an instant. The servant horses were no exception.
"Aaaaargh!"
"Wh-what is this?!"
Bassago walked out of the swamp of decay, approached Hippen, and smiled.
"You were so obsessed with fame that you pretended to have real breath and real dragon scales when they weren't."
Bassago grabbed both of Hippen's hands. Hippen's hands rotted away and disappeared in one breath.
"Aaaaargh!"
"You might be suitable as a Tower Master, but as a scholar, you were hopelessly inadequate."
Bassago pushed aside the screaming Hippen and stood in front of the magic tower.
"It must be because you were obsessed with such futile things that you didn't achieve success as either a scholar or a wizard."
Bassago slowly began to corrode the magic tower.
The walls of the tower became rotten, crumbled, and tilted. Hippen trembled with his mouth open.
"N-no."
Hippen tried to stop it with magic, but with both hands that couldn't even hold a staff, there was nothing he could do.
Eventually, the Cork Magic Tower, which had boasted a 200-year history, collapsed, leaving traces as large as a giant.