Chapter 929 – The Straw Witch With Ten Hands and Four Faces

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The appearance of a witch who seems to have gone crazy with anger towards Cleon and his companions who are interfering with her.

And her companions had no choice but to step back to protect themselves due to the storm-like pressure of black magic emanating from her body.

Transformed into a scarecrow of straw and tentacles, she has an appearance and body that cannot be described except by the word ‘monster’.

A witch muttering, ‘I’ll eat you up’ and ‘I’ll absorb you’ in a wailing voice.

I don’t know how much obsession and resentment she has, but she doesn’t need to go along with it, and she doesn’t need to understand.

If we don’t stop her right now, she won’t be able to survive here.

[I won’t leave it like that. The execution squad already wants everything from you. Witch.]

At that time, as Chopper’s voice rang out, the scaffold’s sphere, prepared for execution while Cleon guarded it, opened.

I knew this because I had seen the execution scenes so far, but when the sphere opened and a hole appeared, the subject could not resist and was sucked into it.

[Everyone, be careful to stay where you are.]

And Chopper looked back at her group and gave them a warning.

The reason was found out right later.

Shuooooo…

The wind blows through the opened hole.

To be precise, the suction force, like a hole in the abyss, created from a hole began to suck in the surrounding air.

The wind gradually grew stronger and eventually became powerful enough to engulf the entire conference room.

The witch was a little far away from the execution platform, and since she was huge, the absorption power required for her absorption would have to be stronger than that of other targets.

＂Kuh…!＂

Cleon quickly pinned Galatea to the ground, while at the same time extending her hand to prevent the unconscious fox-nagi from being absorbed into it.

The others had no choice but to use their own methods to stay on the spot to avoid being hit by the force of attraction.

And Niniane.

She came in here and stopped next to where the door was, without saying a word about what was happening.

She carried the vibrator in her hand and the equipment of her companions on her back, without moving an inch from that spot.

And she stood in this storm without losing her pace.

As expected, there was no doubt that the reverberations of the Fairy King’s special power remained in her.

“It’s foolish… Who do you think created the magic and magic planted on that execution platform?”

The witch spoke like that and stretched out five of her ten arms that grew from one of her shoulders toward her execution stand.

Her hand was drawn as a dot, her star was drawn, and her magic circle appeared on her hand.

Then, as if surrounding the opened sphere of the execution platform, several layers of chains appeared and blocked the hole.

[Pfft… This is…]

Chopper’s distressed voice rang out.

It was not only because her power to suck the witch was blocked, but also because, through her chains, her witch’s will was trying to control her execution platform.

＂Chopper!＂

[By absorbing her Care Claw… Did she amplify her own control…!]

Fairy King Dorothea was clearly able to control the execution platform, but Careclaw, who was in a position to manage the fairies, also had control of the execution platform.

Of course, it was only a formality, and it was a power given to him from the Fairy King.

In order to regain the power she had given to her Care Claw, the witch absorbed her directly and integrated it with herself.

And looking at that, we can say that Lila’s prediction was correct.

＂Dorothea… Did he absorb her in that way and take over her body…!＂

“Ah…! Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to get close to the Fairy King and take advantage of her power! Because the ‘lake’ that exists beneath this abominable castle was blocking access to my original body!”

Having used her control of the execution platform to block the chopper, she seems to have become convinced that she will no longer be able to execute herself, and she looks back at the group.

“I’m tired of acting like idiots to you! From now on, I will trample on you with all my might and absorb you into my body!”

“Now he’s really just a monster villain…”

Cleon reacted to the witch’s words as if they were absurd.

If you ask me which one feels more dangerous, it would definitely be the current witch.

This is because even the slightest bit of ‘mystique of the Fairy King’ that Dorothea had disappeared, and she simply turned into a monster that tried to trample everything with her power and magic.

“Do you think you can beat me? When you first met me, you couldn’t do anything and fell under my spell.”

The next moment, a twisted smile appeared on her melted face.

Certainly, the moment she first met her – that is, the moment she first set foot in this fairy scent.

Unable to respond to her magic that suddenly appeared, Cleon and his group fell under the curse of swapping their souls and bodies.

And as she stretched out her hand towards her companions, another magic circle appeared above her hand.

Just like when I first met her, it was the moment when an intense light burst from her hand.

There is only one sentence that comes to mind of the group.

[As a witch, don’t forget that she can use magic to change a person’s body and soul…] ​​

It was a voice that flowed from somewhere.

Laila’s voice is powerful enough to erase other distracting thoughts and worries.

Her strong voice really made the group think of just that.

And when the light emitted by the witch disappeared, her expression distorted, and she looked at her companions.

“My magic… Doesn’t work?”

Cleon and the party were able to recognize through her words that his body had not changed.

Of course, when I first met her, I couldn’t resist and her body was changed by her, but this time nothing happened.

“You said it earlier, right? You use magic to make things we don’t ‘expect’ become reality. So, it was ‘expected’. You will use magic to change our bodies again.”

“What…? Wow…”

Lila explains while looking at the disintegrating witch.

“The way to block your magic is simple. Anticipate what you will do and share that thought with the entire group. It may be a shame for you, but I’m good at predicting other people’s actions in that way. And we are connected to each other’s spirits.”

That was a unique feature that other parties and humans did not have.

They have an ‘engraving’ engraved on them.

In other words, if Lila shares the image of the witch’s magic she predicted with the entire party through telepathy through the engraved, the witch’s ‘magic that turns unexpected things into reality’ will not work on the party.

“Wow, that’s amazing, Laila!”

When Sasha raises her voice in admiration, Lila hums her nose as if showing off.

＂The most difficult magic has been sealed… We will push through like this!＂

Knowing that Lyla’s performance enabled him to block her deceptive magic, Cleon rushed at her with increased momentum.

Kaang! As her body collided with the arm of the straw she swung, it sounded as if metal collided with each other.

[It’s solid! What is that straw! If it’s a straw, just like a straw, you can be cut by the blade!]

Galatea, who was being held by Cleon, complained like that.

No, it seemed to Cleon that the straw covering her surface had been cut to some extent by Galatea.

Otherwise, you will be wondering where the straws shaking and falling before your eyes came from.

“Caliburn. “What happened?”

[It seems like the tentacle inside the straw is repelling Galatea’s blade…]

It was just as she said.

Underneath the slightly cut straw, there was a gigantic writhing earthworm – no, snake-like tentacles were tangled and pulsing like muscles.

In other words, the witch’s tentacles are made of black magic, so they have the same properties as Galatea’s sword body.

Therefore, it had enough resistance to deflect Galatea’s slash.

[On the other hand, if it were a tentacle made of dark magic, it would be easy for me to cut it down-]

After hearing Caliburn’s words, Cleon swung his Caliburn and attacked the witch’s arm.

But this time, instead, a straw of her skin grew and gently wrapped around Cali Bun, preventing him from digging inside her.

[… Like this, I am protecting my body with straw, so the blade cannot reach the inner tentacles~]

＂In that case.＂

Cleon looked back at Laila and Kuon as he said that.

If the straw gets in the way of burning the tentacles inside, the best way would be to burn the straw.

“I know! Their witch! I’ll make you regret merging with something like a scarecrow! Let’s go, Kuon!”

＂Yes!＂

Lyla and Kuon’s response.

The next moment, Lila swung her hand, and the fireball created by her martial arts spear stretched out in a straight line and flew towards the witch.

The flying fireball seemed like it would reach the witch’s body, but-

＂Foolish guy…! You know very well that your magic is not for us!”

As she finished speaking, a fireball similar to the one created by Lila appeared from her hand and collided with the fireball flying towards her, causing it to disappear.

＂Tch…!＂

Lyla’s tongue clicked, and her acrid smoke rose from her exploded fireball.

Reversing the curse.

As expected, the one who can best respond to the wizard’s magic is the wizard.

But then, what about the Holy Sword?

＂Haaa!＂

The next moment, Kuon rushed in, cutting through the smoke.

She took a much more stable stance than before and charged forward with the fire sword spouting from her great sword, looking like a brave knight in battle.

Galatin, the holy sword of the sun that is both a holy sword and emits flames, may in some ways be the ultimate being for a witch who has fused with the scarecrow Careclaw.

The flames that Galatin emits burn the straw that can be said to be her skin, and at the same time, the sacred magic that makes up the sword tears apart the tentacle muscles of dark magic.

＂Where…!＂

However, it was fortunate for her that the one wielding it was Kuon, who was not used to close combat.

The witch balled up one of her many remaining arms and slammed it to the ground, and boom! As the sound rang out, the ground rose and stone fragments flew.

＂Kyaaaaa…!＂

Kuon’s body’s balance is shaken by the sudden impact, and he changes his direction to avoid hitting the rising stone fragment.

＂Quon!＂

Cleon called her name and raised his voice, but rather than saying he was worried about her, he tried to convey that there was no need to do that, but it was more like an exclamation because he was one step behind her. 〉

Now, thanks to her physical abilities strengthened by her holy sword and the armor that surrounds her body, even if she hits such a piece of stone, she will not be injured.

Of course, her momentum may have been broken a little, but if she had been able to continue moving in a straight line and swing her sword, she could have dealt the witch a fatal blow.

However, Kuon’s original position is not a front line wielding a holy sword, but a rear guard priest who assists the party with holy magic.

Because she was a Kuon who knew painfully well that if she fell, it would affect the odds of winning for her entire group, she was always sensitive to what she had to deal with.

It may be said that she has an excellent attitude as a priest, but it is not easy to change that attitude as if turning on and off her power switch when she is suddenly called upon to fight in her vanguard.

In the end, thanks to her change of direction, Kuon’s sword ended up not grazing the witch’s main body, but cutting off part of the end of her elongated body.

＂Keaaagh!!＂

However, with that alone, a holy sword is a holy sword, and a flame is a flame.

As the intense pain hit every inch of her witch’s body, she waved her arms and cut the burning part of herself from her body.

In terms of the human body, it would be part of her thigh or calf.

She couldn’t say her defense was perfect, since she had to cut off the part of her that the fire had touched.

“I won’t forgive you! I will not forgive you!!”

What is defended is accomplished, and what is injured.

They escaped her fatal wounds, but thanks to her getting angrier and more furious, the bodies of her group were unable to stand properly, as if they were in a building that had been struck by an earthquake.

Besides-

“That guy… Hasn’t he gotten bigger than before?”

“I thought it was just my mood!”

Sasha answered Cleon’s muttering while crying.

As Cleon said, her witch’s body had become 1 meter larger than before.

The body, which was barely able to touch the high ceiling of her room, was barely able to touch the ceiling.

＂… I can’t control the magic power that has been amplified by absorbing Care Claw. Because some of the Fairy King’s power was taken away.”

Lila spoke while calmly analyzing the situation, but that didn’t mean it was to her group’s advantage or anything like that.

As her growing body rises through the ceiling, her room will collapse.

If that happens, there’s a good chance her execution stand will be ruined, as she’ll have to take her power out of her.

So, before that, you have to defeat the witch or get her out of her room.

‘Take it out of the room?’

There, an idea passed through Cleon’s mind like an electric current.

His eyes turned to the ceiling, which seemed like it would be possible for a witch to pierce it just a little.

There was the surface of the lake reflected above the castle.

A lake, not the sky.

So, this castle is floating upside down on a lake, and they are now able to walk freely within the castle thanks to the influence of magic that reverses the gravity that affects the entire castle.

If you break through the ceiling – gravity will act in the ‘normal direction’ again.

And one more thing-

As if in passing, I remembered the story the witch had told.

The reason why she couldn’t approach the Fairy King in her original body.

If so-

＂Lila!＂

＂Why, did you come up with another strange strategy!?＂

When Cleon calls her by her own name, Lila raises her voice, knowing that she always does.

＂Right!＂

“Don’t answer that it’s right! … So what is it!?”

Cleon was looking at Lila and conveying the strategy through engraving to all of her party.

Then.

Everyone in the party looks at Cleon with an expression of bewilderment.

＂Seriously…?＂

“Okay. Common sense tells us that there is a problem with confronting and defeating this guy from the front, who has absorbed powerful fairies in addition to the four witches.”

Certainly, it may be as it is said.

Four witches, a fairy, and even the power of the fairy king.

The force that pushed the party back by swinging its 10 arms was not an opponent that could be easily defeated, although the party still had strength left.

“… Ah, really! Okay! Sasha! Just get the timing right!”

＂… Yes!＂

Lila raised her voice and stretched out her hands towards the ceiling as if she had no choice.

Then-

＂Flamer Explosion!＂

＂Autumn rain rewinds and rises!＂

At the same time as a powerful explosion occurred, the ceiling of the Fairy Council’s room collapsed.

＂What!?＂

The witch also seemed to be embarrassed by the act and raised her voice.

And, the many arrows fired by Sasha tied up the collapsing wreckage in the air.

Cleon and Amelia hit it and prevent it from falling on Chopper.

＂You are this way!＂

And in the meantime, Kuon swings her sword to block the witch from attacking the party.

＂What are you doing!?＂

Then, the witch will raise her voice incomprehensibly.

“I think this room is too small for you. I just made it a little more open.”

Cleon says so and smiles wryly.

Lila’s so-called ‘strange operation’ has only just begun.