Chapter 201
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 201
Chapter Title: Lesson 40. No Alien Allowed - 1
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'So, what now.'
He'd struck an imposing pose, but with Ceron—who had always reliably stood by his side—gone, a growing sense of pressure started to weigh on him.
His familiars were following orders and attacking the orc fleet from the outside, but compared to the holy light magic that had wiped out millions in an instant, their progress was like ants crawling.
It was absurd to think Ban Yu-won could take out that many orcs alone, and if there was any possibility, it lay in destroying the Relic at the heart of the orc wave—but that was right in the center of the horde, making a solo charge equally impossible.
'Which means all I can do right now is hold back their advance as much as possible from here and wait for reinforcements to arrive before striking the Relic together.'
Fortunately—or perhaps not—it wasn't hard to spot the Relic.
Right at the fleet's center floated a massive hunk of rock, like an asteroid roughly sanded down into a gigantic ship.
Of course, the orcs weren't wearing spacesuits or anything civilized; they were hurtling through the harsh void of space with their bodies fully exposed, at terrifying speeds. It was mind-boggling how they endured it so brazenly, without Ban Yu-won's Origin Spirit or Vajra Body.
Even accounting for the orc fleet's overall scale, those aboard the Relic made up less than 5 percent, with the rest crammed into ships...
'The ones on the Relic are probably the elite.'
Ceron's Starlight Shower had targeted the Relic precisely, yet the explosions had only taken out innocent ships around it.
As long as the Relic remained, the orc wave could regenerate endlessly—
That was why they sacrificed their underlings without hesitation.
Ban Yu-won fired photon magic lasers for sniping while telepathically checking with his best marksman familiar.
'Tike, think you can hit it?'
―Whiiiing, eeeeng.
Yeah, too much to hope for.
For a simple no, it sounded oddly whiny. Thinking about it, Tike must have believed it was his turn for the Myriad Change this time.
But it went to Ceron as if it were obvious, leaving him shocked and disheartened... Disheartened?
Ban Yu-won honestly hadn't even considered it.
Were they all treating this like some special reward?
...Surely not all his familiars thought that way?
'Next one I get goes straight to you.'
―Whiiiing!
Of course, Myriad Change was an extraordinarily rare top-tier concept.
One Ban Yu-won couldn't even imitate temporarily...
That made it hard to handle, so what was Tike even thinking?
He shuddered at the momentary image of all his familiars gaining Myriad Change and turning into Lillis clones, but decided that couldn't be.
With no telling how many more familiars he'd make, adding a new worry each time would be unbearable.
'Sssit, sisisit.'
'Yeah?'
Eve, who had been freely swimming through space to find an angle into the orc fleet, had eavesdropped on Ban Yu-won and Tike's resonance and sent him a message.
...Even after gaining Myriad Change, did this guy have to stick to snakespeak when he could speak Korean?
It felt like chatting with Harry Potter, which wasn't bad.
'Got an idea, Eve?'
'Sssit.'
Eve nodded confidently and laid out his plan.
Among his familiars, Eve was always the one delivering the clutch blow in critical moments.
It sounded plausible this time too.
'Alright, you're on. Go get 'em, Eve!'
'Sisisit!'
One of Ban Yu-won's familiars, wielded as a weapon, slimmed down its body and shot forward like an arrow.
The other familiars read its intent and exaggerated their movements to create an opening, letting Eve slip into the orcs' midst.
How? By transforming into an orc!
With Starlight Shower instantly shredding 20 percent of the fleet and sowing chaos in their command structure, Eve planned to exploit the gap and slow them down however he could.
It was a ridiculously bold move, unlikely to fool a highly intelligent race, but against orcs? Eve and Ban Yu-won agreed it could work.
'Eve's more about versatility than raw firepower.'
He kept firing lasers while slowly closing in on the fleet himself.
Meanwhile, the spaceship Lilith had become charged toward the orcs.
From within, a phoenix—and a massive four-legged beast that could pass for a fox or wolf, with nine tails—leapt into space.
'That fox is Lucelle... and the phoenix Kiira must be from the Ten Thousand Calamities Follower's authority? She's wielding it freely even without the contract.'
Ban Yu-won had patted himself on the back for moving freely in space thanks to his concepts, but that seemed basic for those two.
Especially Lucelle, who had fully awakened the blood in her veins—she turned space into her domain in an instant, absorbing mana and moving at will. Her divine beast blood was beyond imagination.
'Trying to grant Deification to someone who'd awakened their divine blood on their own.'
Lucelle's parents, Lucia and Kanid, would scoff at that.
Thanks to it, though, Deification and Myriad Change were left over, letting him give Myriad Change to Ceron...
So what about Deification?
'Can't use it on myself.'
Give it to Eve?
He'd absorb and master it perfectly...
But it was a concept he'd only gotten once, and wasting it lightly felt wrong.
'Hold onto it for now.'
Surely a moment would come when he needed it.
As Ban Yu-won snapped out of his thoughts and looked up, the massive beast Lucelle had become was right in front of him.
[Master, ride me!]
"Sure."
Her will pierced straight into his mind.
He gladly accepted the offer from someone even more adept in space than him, and the phoenix flying up behind whined enviously.
[Aw, I wanted to do that too!]
Maybe the vastness of space distorted his sense of distance—once atop her, Lucelle's shoulder height was nearly 30 meters.
She was burning through her pent-up wildness, and this battle would bring her massive growth.
Especially since savagery was a core concept of these orc foes...
"I'll pour savagery on you asteroid-scale. Look forward to it."
[Hehehe... Thanks. I love you, Master.]
[You two flirt like that all the time as a gag, or is it real?]
An endless battlefield fueled eternally.
With Lucelle there, they wouldn't tire first.
The issue was that this wasn't a free hunting ground—it was a front where they had to staunch the enemy...
'Leave that to Eve...'
Incredibly, his ploy was working; the fleet's advance was already slowing.
No expectations of touching the mothership (asteroid), but buying time like this set perfect conditions for their sabotage.
Alright, then.
'Lilith.'
[Ready!]
With passengers out, Lilith no longer needed ship form.
Core-transformed, she sliced through space straight at the fleet, conveying her resolve.
[If I survive without dying, give me that whole Relic!]
'No guarantee it'll end up in my hands, but I'll do what I can!'
Frost Fortress, Hell Awl, Sky-Piercing Cannon, Radiant Tide, and Black Wolf—each wrecking ships to their size—raised their heads at Lilith's signal.
Then, as she flew in to block the fleet's path, they hurled themselves in sequence for combination!
The instantly formed combiner robot Abel strutted its heroic form on its true stage, but alas, the orc wave's ships were too vast to block.
But it wasn't over.
[Master!]
'Take it!'
Ban Yu-won granted Abel every Giant concept he'd gotten from solo tower runs.
The language magic expending fixed concepts permanently synergized fantastically, swelling Abel's size at least tenfold!
[Only 5 minutes max!]
'Don't push it—bail when you can't hold!'
Lilith sounded apologetic, but for Ban Yu-won, two extra minutes was a breather from last time.
"Lucelle, let's follow behind!"
[Yes!]
[Wait, what the hell is that?!]
Kiira panicked at the prime view of combiner robot Abel—complete with tokusatsu giantification staple—but no time to explain!
"Kiira, charge! Abel will make the opening—we dive through!"
[Tch, fine!]
The giant robot raced across space, plugging the fleet's vanguard!
The massive land-beast and sky-beast following claimed right and left flanks, unleashing powers that even made the orc wave hesitate.
If he could just watch this insane clash on a monitor, it'd be pure thrill-fest applause material—but how'd he end up in the thick of it?
"Wipe 'em out—use every concept we grab right here!"
[Got it!]
Forcing a name on Lucelle's current form: maybe Nine-Tails Devouring Divine Wolf?
No such beast existed with both nine-tailed fox and divine wolf blood fully awakened—so Lucelle was just Lucelle.
―Boom! Kwarrrng!
Abel, Lucelle, and Kiira rampaged with giant swords, lightning, and flames, shattering the fleet's front in horrific mana clashes.
Ban Yu-won absorbed all those concepts—plus the 20 percent sniped from afar earlier—and instantly granted them to the group.
Even the four core concepts: Life, Body, Magical Power, Soul—all expended!
'Orcs are orcs anyway—no real permanent growth from absorbing this. But use it as language magic? Burn it for this moment?'
He didn't expect Lucelle's savagery core efficiency.
But the concepts from countless dead orcs fueled them on-site, becoming superb energy for Abel, Lucelle, Kiira, and Ban Yu-won to rampage tirelessly!
[Master, activity time extended! Core concepts are efficient!]
[Wha—what is this? What?!]
[Master... Savagery for me too!]
Unprecedented, but the efficiency was top-notch.
Ban Yu-won rediscovered why his authority was cheat-tier.
He'd focused only on stockpiling concepts before, never this lavish on-the-spot burn.
His power shone brightest on enemy-swarmed battlefields!
"We got this... Tike, you filming right?"
―Whiiiing!
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Ban Yu-won granted the savagery pouring from a shattered orc ship straight to Lucelle and bellowed.
"Damn orc bastards, Earth is no aliens allowed!"