Chapter 514 – Illusion and Return

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While Cleon was engaged in a decisive battle with Poltuk’s magic armor inside the barrier, Darwin, who had been taken by demons, was called before Tamamo.

As soon as Tamamo saw her, he must have had no choice but to frown at her and bare her teeth her.

The stench of the hateful, false ‘order’ that emanated from her body.

Tamamo had been able to instinctively sense that she was a being who served the Father of all things through her years of experience.

As soon as her subordinates her, her yohos her, are separated from her, a flick of her fingers her conjures her golden cords of binding-type magic, tying her body and arms together.

“Why are you so savage? You guys, my father’s enemies.”

Darwin, whose body was restrained, continued to nag her as if he was dissatisfied with Tamamo’s behavior her.

“Savage? That’s what I’m talking about. You’re thinking of entering our brothel, fanatic.”

In response to that, Tamamo put on an expression of astonishment and fiercely shot at it.

“Of course, the sight of my father’s enemies killing each other bothered me.”

When he sees Darwin shrugging her shoulders while snorting at her reaction her, Tamamo tightens the restraints of her gold strings even more.

When she tightened herself up, her dress crumpled and she could hear a squeaking sound coming from her body to her.

Darwin ‘sighs’at the bondage and salivates from his mouth her, but speaks within.

“I’d like to make a suggestion to you guys… But it’s difficult to do this…”

Darwin raised the corner of her mouth and glared at her Tamamo, as if it would be her loss her if he did not listen to her, and Tamamo raised her voice along with her snort her.

“A suggestion?Haha!”

“…”

Darwin hardened her face at the sound of her laughter, and Tamamo looked at her with contempt.

“Do you think we will sit down with you at the negotiating table? I have already lost more precious things to you than my life…! I’m the enemy!”

When her anger her erupts, sparks of her magical power she shoots out from around her body her.

The young yohos around her nervously swallowed dry saliva at her behavior her, which showed the yoho’s elder-like appearance her, in direct contrast to the kind Tamamo who always greeted the children at the tea house.

“Then why don’t you kill me?”

However, when Darwin asked such a question, Tamamo glered at her while slowly suppressing the mana that surged from her body.

“Don’t you have something you want from me too? He probably does too. You are the elder of Yoho. You are a woman who values ​​’tribal interests’ above personal feelings more than anyone else. Do you know who I am?”

“…Darwin of Evolution. Officer of Regressors.”

As Tamamo spoke, she glanced at the bag she was holding in her hand.

“Yes. I am the one who brings ‘evolution of the species’ to this continent. I know what you want. The elixir of evolution that I have. If you want to grow the power of your race, you want to have it so that your hand comes out of your neck. That would be it.”

When Darwin said so, Tamamo slowly loosened the shackles of the ‘golden cord’ that had bound her body.

“…If you release this bondage and allow me to enter that barrier… I’ll give you what you want. Of course, one bottle won’t be enough, so if you promise to build a relationship of ‘cooperation’ ‘ in the future, it’ll be even better. I can offer you a lot.”

As if looking at Darwin whispering like a devil, loosening the hand that had been sealed to strengthen the power of the bondage, and a hesitant expression.

The Yohos around them looked at Tamamo with puzzled faces.

“At this level… Would you have thought of joining hands with me? ‘Elder of Yoho’. …No, ‘Golden Lightning’, Tamamo-no-Mae?”

As her darwin called her back by her moniker her, in her prime her, her tamamo slowly approached her.

It was as if he was trying to loosen a rope tied to her body.

Seeing her like that, Darwin couldn’t help but twist the corners of her mouth her.

As expected, the opponent was a savage subhuman.

If you stimulate her greed for power like this a little, she will follow you.

And, when Tamamo arrived right in front of her, put her hand on her on Darwin’s shoulder her-

“Thunderbolt.”

The moment Tamamo muttered that, a thick bolt of lightning fell from above her head, and she pierced Darwin’s body her.

Kurleung!

The light falls, and once late, the sound spreads far and wide.

“Kuhhh…!”

Darwin’s body his, which had been hit so hard that the smell of burnt smoke rose, was torn apart by a single blow.

And, looking at her like that, Tamamo quietly continued her own words.

“You want power? Ah. Of course I want it. If it’s power for our species to live in peace, it would be perfect…”

“Well, then, why… “

“How come… That’s right, to receive the strength to defeat you guys from you… It’s a ridiculous story.”

As Tamamo said so, she once again created a lightning bolt in her hand.

“Besides, I’ve already admitted my ‘mistake’ and swore never to repeat it again. To be forgiven by him.”

Saying so, Tamamo’s eyes her burned with murderous intent toward Darwin.

‘That, that’s… This woman is more difficult to communicate than that black horse’s clan…!’

Darwin misunderstood the person he was negotiating with—or rather, he misunderstood the character of his opponent.

I thought she was a woman who would do anything for her strength her, but she was far more unforgiving towards her enemies than she could have imagined herself to be.

A roaring light flashed once more from the dark clouds gathering in the sky.

Darwin flinched at it without even realizing it, but fortunately the magic could not be used immediately and continuously.

There was no lightning strike right on his head.

‘But- but if I receive that magic one more time… No matter how much I can, I will die… At this rate, I will really die…!’

Darwin twists his body to release the incantation and ropes that bind him, but he can’t do anything with his already shocked body.

“──Go away. Abominable scholar.”

When Tamamo said that, once more sparks flew out of her body-

The dark clouds above her sky flashed once more, her thick bolts of lightning falling towards her.

“No!!!”

Darwin screaming.

And-

Thinking that there was a flash in front of her eyes, everyone including Tamamo covered their eyes for a moment and then opened them.

When the sound of the thunderbolt spreads out once more, and when the light subsides, Tamamo looks at where Darwin had been standing-

In that place, only the ‘rope’ that had turned to ashes remained.

“It’s amazing, Tamamo-sama. To think that you can turn a person into ‘ash’ with just a magic spell that summons thunderbolts.”

“… No.”

At the words of her subordinate praising her own witchcraft skills, she shook her head.

“… Ran away, right before.”

“Eh…!?”

Tamamo accepts this.

When her eyes flashed with magical vision, ‘traces of space distortion’ remained where Darwin had been.

“The Exiled Church… Were you watching too?”

Perhaps, Darwin himself did not know.

“So, did the Exiled Church take her and run away?”

“Yeah. …But, this guy should have known. How foolish he is to target us. And how helpless he himself is.”

Tamamo said so, and in the middle of the redemption enclosure where the barrier spread out-

Then, she looked at the moon rising above it.

‘Kuzunoha… Inari. …I did not succumb to temptation this time.’

Please, wishing that she would forgive herself like this-

It was to pray that Kuzunoha would return safely.

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“Ha!”

Amelia reaches out towards Sasha and somehow manages to knock out her huge hand her with a shield.

However, as the impact travels through her shield her and into her arms her, a tingling sensation travels over her shoulders her and shakes her torso.

‘The blow is… Heavy…’

“Oh, are you okay, Amelia-sama?”

“It’s okay… Sasha! Never mind me, keep your distance and keep attacking!”

“Yes…!”

The sorcery armor that brought in and fused the wyvern and the muddy Poltuk was an annoyance itself.

I was annoyed that the Soul Eater Metal that was already wrapped around my body was regenerating like a living tissue.

In addition to that, as the weak point of the controller-Poltuk lost his reason, he really moved like a steel giant with the characteristics of a wyvern.

Originally, Cleon and Quon should have blocked the magic armor and kept it from going to Sasha’s side of her, but-

“Kuk…! These guys…!”

Cleon and Quon were also trapped by another enemy charging at them back to back.

It is the remains of a building fused with the ‘teeth’ that fell off the body of a dead wyvern.

It wasn’t just the magic armor that responded to the evolutionary leap, but those ‘teeth’ as ​​well, so they fused with the surrounding building debris.

It took the form of a dwarf-like human and intensively attacked Cleon and Quon, interfering with them.

In other words- should I say that the mercenary was made from the wreckage of a building?

The body is small and nimble, and the number is equal to the number of teeth.

When attacked, the part separated and reattached and attacked was disgusting.

However, to use a wide range of destructive magic, there was a high possibility of getting the other party caught up in it.

Only Galatea in perfect condition and Lyla in Avatar state are capable of such delicate control.

Actually, that Layla was busy flying through the sky with Kuzunoha and dealing with other pursuers.

“These guys don’t give me time to sing…!”

It was the ‘missiles’ that remained in the arm of the magic armor.

As it fused with the wyvern as a leap of evolution, it became ultra-small baby dragons (with self-destruct function), flying with an eye-disturbing trajectory, and pressurizing the two people in the sky.

If she stopped even for a moment to use avatar magic, she would end up in a beehive because of the baby dragons flying towards her in an instant.

Then, bang! When he hears the sound, Cleon’s gaze naturally turns toward it.

The Wyvern Armor hit Amelia’s shield, which was protecting Sasha, with a forceful blow, and Amelia’s magic shield was shattered by the ensuing intense series of attacks.

“No!”

When Cleon’s voice was shouted out loud, Sasha’s voice sounded dignified immediately.

“Hey Marang!”

When the arrows she shot turned into several ghosts of wolves at the same time, they grabbed Amelia and dragged her behind her, while the rest of them raged and swung their claws at her as if to block the vision of the wyvern armor.

However-

“GRUWAAA!”

The cry of the wyvern – that is, the ‘dragon’s roar’ that gives fear to those who hear it, although it is a sub-dragon, is applied without fail to the summoned illusions and makes them disappear on the spot.

In the end, the shock caused by the swinging arm hitting the ground caused Amelia and Sasha to roll on the ground at the same time.

“Kuh…!”

And that wasn’t all. Layla and Kuzunoha were flying at high speed while being chased by sub-dragons in the sky.

The moment I thought that I was somehow holding out with speed competition, the small sub-dragons opened their mouths.

From there, it shoots lightning and aims at the two.

“Wow! Barrier!”

When Kuzunoha is started by that, she reflexively opens a barrier to protect Laila and herself.

“Hey, wait!”

Layla and Kuzunoha, whose movements were conversely blocked by the barrier, stopped on the spot.

As if they were aiming for those two people, the small sub-dragons were all over the place! It was persistently attacking a part of Kuzunoha’s barrier to the point where the sound echoed terrifyingly.

“Mi-sorry…!”

“If you solve this, we’ll both be hives…!”

‘It’s dangerous…’

Cleon thought so while examining the battlefield.

“Haha…”

Quon, too, was breathing fast, perhaps because he lacked the basic stamina to engage in long-term battles with the holy sword.

“Quon. Don’t overdo it!”

“But… If it goes on like this…”

Cleon raises his voice, worried about Quon, but Quon shakes his head and straightens his greatsword.

It was understandable that she was worried, because the evolved Mado Armor was pushing her party alone, rampaging as if it really had no weaknesses.

‘I wish I had Galatea at a time like this…’

When Cleon thought so and bit her lip, Caliburn spoke into Cleon’s head.

[Cleon. Shall I bring her to her?]

[What? But… Galatea’s powers her have n’t returned to normal yet-]

[Yes. But- if she is more helpful than me in overcoming this situation.]

Hearing Caliburn’s voice her saying that, Cleon fell silent for a moment.

Looking down at her own sword, she nodded.

And-when Cleon raises the holy sword Caliburn, Caliburn emits an intense light and pours his magical energy into her blade her.

The light attracted the eyes of the dragon soldiers and the wyvern armor at the same time.

Perhaps he misunderstood that he was trying to use some powerful technique. When the mercenary soldiers rushed towards Cleon, Quon swung his Galatine to protect him as if he were protecting Cleon.

“Thank you, Quon!”

Quon seemed unable to even afford to answer, but he nodded.

Cleon waited patiently for the magic power to gather in Caliburn’s blade, and then-

As it was, he rotated his sword as if drawing a circle in the air.

It splits space, like cutting paper with a knife.

When a circular hole formed in empty space, a girl blinked and fell from there.

“What, what! Cleon?!”

Galatea, who had been waiting at home because she was not in perfect condition, fell into Cleon’s arms when she was suddenly summoned by Caliburn.

“Sorry Galatea! I need your strength!”

“Yes, yes, I want to help too… But right now I don’t have enough strength… !”

Galatea herself shouts like that in frustration, but Caliburn, which was in Cleon’s hand her, assumes human form and grabs Galatea’s hand her.

“I’ll help you. It’s not very efficient, but if I channel my magic power towards Galatea… Galatea will be able to display her original power her even for a moment…!”

“Wait, if you do something like that, this time you… Uh… Uh…!”

At the torrent of her magic that Galatea suddenly squeezed through the channel of her magic that she had created between Caliburn and herself, she trembled that little body and let out something like a moan.

“Caliburn’s hot magic… Forced its way into me…!”

Hearing a strange voice somewhere, Quon looked back and wondered what was going on, but Cleon quickly fired lightning at the mercenary soldier, aiming for such a gap in Quon.

“Ku, kuon! Front!”

“Ah, yes…!”

And- a change also happened to Galatea and Caliburn.

As Caliburn’s body gradually shrinks, it transforms into the original ‘child’.

Conversely, as Galatea’s body grows larger, she transforms into her original mature woman.

The clothes naturally return to their original state, but-

On the surface of Galatea’s body, the platinum color of divine magic remained subdued.

“I-I’m sure I can use my original power like this, but… After all, divine magic doesn’t suit me…!”

“This is not the time to argue about that… Galatea, please…Everything…”

With that last word, Boom! Then, as if Caliburn had run out of strength, she returned to the form of a sword without a word.

Cleon grabbed such a Caliburn and quickly put her back on her waist, looked at Galatea who met her eyes with herself as she was, and held out her hand to her.

“…It’s been a while since I’ve done my job…! Galatea. Let’s go!”

“…Recently, I haven’t been able to show the true heroine side… If I get a chance to play, I don’t want to miss it!”

As they shouted, Galatea and Cleon held her hands.

Then-her form her is enveloped in light, and her original form her is ‘sword form’.

It changed into the form of the demonic sword Galatea and was captured by Cleon.

“…Go, Galatea! With you- I can’t lose!”

Saying so, when Cleon blows her magic into her body her – Galatea’s form changes.

It was a translucent longsword with a black crystal-like body.

When Cleon strikes it at the dragon soldier that Quon is holding back, the sword shatters as if it were shattered, but-

“That black-“

Quon looked at Cleon and Galatea in surprise, but Cleon quietly said the name of the sword.

“Arondite…!”

When the scattered crystal pieces spread out in all directions and stop, they change their shape in the air.

As the area is expanded and regenerated, each piece is transformed into another sword.

Even if Cleon’s hand is out of reach, it dances in the air and sweeps up nearby mercenary soldiers.

Kwajik! The number of crystal swords increased each time the sound resounded from all directions.

The mercenary soldiers, at some point, the number reverses, and they are transformed into hedgehogs one by one by the crystal swords that aim at them in an unavoidable trajectory.

[Long time no see…! Having trouble with enemies like this, as expected, Cleon can’t do without me…!]

While saying that, Galatea displayed her power without hesitation.

At such a sight, did he perceive Cleon as the greatest threat?

The Wyvern armor changed its attack priority from Sasha to Cleon, then flapped his wings and soared up into the sky.

It was falling towards Cleon with fire wrapped around its thick arm her.

However, if the crystal fragments spread out in all directions come together and form like a huge shield to block it—

Quadruped! Despite the noise, the crystal wall protects the owner.

[What is this big lump…Then- this is it!]

The next moment, the sword in Cleon’s hand changes form once again.

It was shaped like a thread, and it untied Cleon’s thread as if dancing freely on his hand her.

As if the threads were caught in the rubble of the buildings that were still standing around them, and they moved—

Charrrr! With the sound of spinning threads, the silver thread spread like a spider’s web, not to mention the small sub-dragons floating in the air.

It was to catch the Wyvern Armor that was aiming at him.

“Is this- Bea’s Ariadne?”

Lyla, who was being chased by sub-dragons in the air, looked at the thread in a little surprise, then raised her mouth when she saw Cleon holding Galatea in her hand her.

“What, the secret weapon has arrived.”

“Is that-that oppa’s real skill?”

“Well- that’s right. To be precise – the real skills of those two. That’s it.”

At Kuzunoha’s words, Lila put her hand her on her waist her.

“Kaaaaa!”

A wyvern armor that twists its body to forcibly tear off the threads that hold it.

However, Cleon and Galatea were already preparing for the next blow.

[Galatea. To cut him down, you can’t use an ordinary ‘sword that cuts well’]

[I know- As far as I know, the sword that cuts the best except for me… As expected—]

In the next moment, Galatea’s breath seems to stop for a moment, and her body changes in her.

Just as the black sword and the pure white sword are mixed.

Galatea’s altered form of hers was like the sword hanging from Cleon’s waist of hers.

[I’m a little resentful of borrowing your help, to be honest!]

When Galatea cried out, Cleon lifted the corners of her mouth and jumped into the air.

And Galatea strikes the guy’s armor with the transformed Caliburn.

Pajijiji!! The force field spread over her body and blocks Cleon’s attack on her.

[Pour in all your magic power! Cleon!]

As Galatea’s voice her resonated in her head her, Cleon did as well, creating black magic armor over his own body her.

“Ohhhhh!!”

As the circulation of magical power accelerates, more magical power is poured into Galatea’s blade than necessary.

Then- the black and white magical powers covering the sword body gradually expanded its area.

Next moment-

Illusion as if the Caliburn, which was hanging from the waist of her, was reacting with a twinkle-

No, it’s not an illusion.

Thinking it was real, Cleon let go of his hand on Galatea and pulled out the caliburn from his waist her.

As if overlapping with Galatea, it strikes at the demon armor.

Then-

As if they were attracted to each other, Galatea and Caliburn instantly became one—

[──Whoops!?]

The next moment I thought I heard Galatea’s startled voice of hers.

With an intense flash, the force field of the wyvern armor was destroyed, and the invincible magic armor was the second time today.

Received an impact so intense that all of his armor her was blown off.

It was to be destroyed in pieces.

And- as the flashes brightened endlessly.

It was so bright that it blinded the entire party.