## Chapter 810 – Winter in the Capital

“Propulsion exceeding the producer’s expectations by farrrrrr!!!!”

—Screeeeeech!!!!

The speed is considerable. If I hit the wall like this, it’s gonna hurt like hell, so I curled up to protect my head. It’s okay. I won’t get seriously injured from this much impact.

Is this the first time I’ve been sent flying?

“Katt-nim!!”

Right then, I heard Hilde’s voice.
What!!

—Flap!

Hilde, with her wings spread, caught me!!!

“Kuh…!”
“Hey, hey! Hilde! Are you okay!!!”

The thought that Hilde might get hurt made my anxiety explode! No, she didn’t have to catch me!!! If she gets hurt catching me, I won’t be able to hold back my tears!!

“Yes…! I’m fine! More importantly, are you alright, Katt-nim!”

Hilde answered, panting.

“I was just tapped, so I’m fine! Are you hurt anywhere!!”
“Aww… Are you worried about me! I’m fine! I’m a succubus, after all, so this is nothing. Don’t worry. I’m more worried about you, Katt-nim.”
“That’s a relief…”

Hilde safely set me down on the ground. Still, I flew quite a distance, so the impact must have been considerable. I’m not sure if she’s really okay.

“Anyway, Hilde. You saved me. Thanks.”
“You’re welcome!”

I immediately thanked Hilde and checked my body. I’m fine. Except for a slight tingling in my fist, there’s nothing wrong.

That damn Spirit King’s punch is seriously strong.

Whether it’s strength or destructive power, it’s incomparable to mine. Still, the combined evolution has its power. I need to get my equipment serviced when I get back.

And Hilde’s condition… She says she’s fine when I ask again. I almost had a heart attack. I don’t mind getting hurt, but I can’t stand seeing my women get hurt.

“Blackie, are you okay!”
“Are you not injured anywhere…!”
“Father!”
“I was just tapped, so I’m fine!!!”

After loudly answering that I was okay to their successive worries, I looked for Karin. Karin flew off a few seconds before me, so she couldn’t have been fatally injured, right? I believe she’s definitely not.

“Karin!!”

There’s no woman stronger than Karin.

“This one caught her!”
“Oh! Risha, thank you!!”

Fortunately, Risha seems to have caught her. When I immediately checked, Karin was standing over there, catching her breath. I ran over right away.

“Sis!!”
“Ah, fuck… This is so embarrassing. I’m fine. I just got pushed back by strength. I’m not hurt.”

As I approached, Karin frowned and put her hand on my head, saying that. There are no visible external injuries.

“Really?”
“The Witch caught me, remember? I don’t get hurt easily. I appreciate the concern, but save it for after the fight. We need to crush that bastard first.”

That’s true.

“…Yeah, you’re right.”

Anyway, we gathered in one place and stared at the Spirit King who sent me flying. Risha was no longer firing the Death Beam.

“I should conserve my strength now. I will use it to support you at the right time, so keep that in mind.”
“Okay. Thanks, Risha. I’m making you push yourself too hard when you’re tired.”
“It’s alright. Isn’t this also an experience?”

Risha smiled.

And so, we looked at the Spirit King. He was standing still for a moment, looking at us, wondering what to do.

Was it just for a moment?

—Kuuuuuung!!

The guy who kicked off the ground flapped his ice wings and charged at us. He closed the considerable distance in an instant. Was he preparing to take a running start!

I should block it with Karin—

—Zhiiiiiing!!

Risha immediately created a barrier. We stood behind the barrier, with me on the left and Karin on the right. We completed that positioning in just one second.

—Kwaaaang!!!

Collision.

The inhumanly flying Spirit King struck down with his ice sword. Fortunately, the barrier didn’t break, but Risha seemed to be struggling slightly. And Karin moved first and shouted.

“Now!!”
“Yes!”

We pounced on the Spirit King who was slashing at the barrier. Even in this state, a combined attack would definitely work!!

“Tricks won’t work anymore!!!!!”

The Spirit King, who kicked Risha’s barrier, spun his body and swept the space with his sword. I immediately lowered my body to avoid it, and Karin also dodged similarly before slamming an attack into his chest.

—Kwang!

Fragments flew up, and I also put all my strength into Vügal on his exposed back. —Kung! Even with the sword aura, the sound was dull. Karin’s attack then landed again, and the moment the Spirit King turned his body to attack me again.

—Screeeeeeeeech!!!

Claudie appeared.

“Claudie!!”
“…!”

The Spirit King’s side, as he was trying to turn his body. Claudie stabbed her sword into that spot very accurately.

—Kwang!!!

She followed up by slashing with the stabbed sword. She followed up by stabbing again. I couldn’t follow the attack with my eyes. An inhumanly exhilarating barrage of attacks!!! That violence overwhelmed the Spirit King!

—Chwajajajak!!!

Each time Claudie’s curved sword flashed, ice was ground away as if making shaved ice, and the Spirit King’s body was pushed far away.

“Kroooooooo!!!”

He screamed, but he was helpless!

That bastard can’t handle Claudie!!! I immediately flew, and Karin had already moved in front of him. With that, the three of us, me, Karin, and Claudie, formed a formation to surround him.

Just like it was an opportunity for Claudie, it was an opportunity for us!!

From now on!!

“It’s ganging-up time, jaaaaaaa!!!”

I slashed my sword. —Kung! When the Spirit King tried to respond, Karin’s powerful strike landed, and when I got a chance to attack, Claudie attacked at the same time, pushing his body away.

“Keuh! You! Insect-like—!!! Keuheuk!!”

The body was pushed away, and the moment he lost his balance, all resistance was thwarted by Karin. In an unstable state, he couldn’t block or counter her attacks. Karin’s Rare Metal Sword pounded on the twisting ice armor. —Kwagang!!! A resounding roar.

“Krooooooo!!”

And a resounding scream!!

“Blaze Beam!!!”
“Death Fire!!”

—Pachichichichik!!!

Following that, magic flew towards his head. Blaze Beam and Death Fire. And even Risha’s Death Beam. Now, me, Claudie, Karin, Risha, Winia, and Hilde all had a chance to gang up on him!!

“You fucking bastard!!! There’s no match for a gang-up, you son of a bitch!!!!”
“Keuhheuk…!! Dare to do this to me, a Spirit King…!!!”

The Spirit King was being inhumanly ganged up on by six people, excluding Aria and Liz. I just focused on hitting and stabbing with my sword. No matter what he tried to do, Karin would hit him once, and if Claudie stabbed through the gap, all resistance would be nullified. That’s what a gang-up is all about.

—Chiiiiik!!

And the magic that exploded there.

This Spirit King bastard has considerable magic resistance, but if he keeps getting hit by those attacks, no matter how high his resistance is, even his mom will explode.

—Kung!

The Spirit King, who was being ganged up on like that, finally knelt on one knee.

“Full damage!!!”

If he showed weakness, we just had to bite and tear him more mercilessly!!!!

“You son of a bitch—!!”
“Evil Spirit King, just die already!”

Karin and Hilde shouted.

“I, I’ll stop guarding the surroundings and start hitting him too!!!”

Liz, who had been blocking the ice knights that were appearing from behind, also joined in. Thus, the greatest and most overwhelming tsunami of violence surged.

“Die! Die!”
“Just die!!”
“Blackie, move your feet! I’m gonna shoot a beam at his head!!”
“Destroy him quickly!!!”
“Haaaaap!!”

—Kwagagagagang!!

The couple destruction squad, engulfed in madness, slammed in all their respective powers. The Spirit King was no longer a Spirit King, but just a mess. The body of the guy who had already fallen was not only collapsing, but being destroyed like trash in a shredder.

—Haa…

It was a kind of violent banquet. A banquet filled with madness. The talent of women who had a knack for destroying and breaking things was on full display. We were already feeling the victory.

We had won against the Spirit King!!

No matter how strong he was, there was nothing we couldn’t destroy if our couple destruction squad was dispatched! I calmed down my excitement for now and spoke to the Spirit King, who was completely wrecked.

“Don’t talk about proper strength!! Strength you can’t use isn’t your strength!!!”
“…”

Suppression complete.

“Humanity’s victory!! You spirits will be hunted until the last individual is extinct, just like you’ve always been!!! Spirit King, you are the beginning of that!! Now that the Spirit King is dead, all the ice spirits will disappear!! As a beacon of war, your head will be cut off and hung high on a flagpole!!”

I spat out what I had guessed appropriately.

“Katt-nim is right!!”
“Kyaaaa!!”

Hilde affirmed, and Liz cheered with a shout. She had relatively preserved her strength.

“…You’re making a ridiculous mistake.”
“What?”

But the Spirit King spat out those words in a completely wrecked state. Is he bluffing now?

He continued.

“Just because I die… doesn’t mean the ice spirits will disappear.”

In an extremely calm voice.

“Also… just because I die… doesn’t mean the Ice Spirit King will disappear either.”
“You bastard!! Are you resurrecting!!”
“The next Spirit King will just appear.”
“…!”

A new king will be elected from beyond that spirit realm…!

“The boundary has weakened. I am not the only Spirit King. If I fail, then the next one. If even the next one fails, then the one after that…!”

A passionate voice.

His expression seemed invisible because of his crushed helmet. He stretched out his arm, with only a part of it remaining. As if he could see the ice sun in the sky above. Has he acknowledged his death? I said to him.

“But there will be no ice in that place. The next Ice Spirit King will be weaker than you, and it will take a long time to gather the strength to invade. So the power of the spirit realm will remain weakened. You can say it’s a victory for humans.”
“Hehehe… Do you think time belongs to humans?”

A mocking tone.

“Ah, fuck, that’s right.”

That’s true.
These bastards have plenty of time.

“Anyway, so, Spirit King-sama. Any last words for Arquina?”
“Keuh… Keuheuk…”

A groan escaped.

Is this the end soon? I want to get more information, but this bastard’s condition is terrible. Compared to this Spirit King, who is completely wrecked, a hundred-year-old man who is living day to day can be said to be so healthy that he would immediately fly up and bench press.

Above all, even Risha, an expert in black magic interrogation, seemed exhausted.

There’s nothing I can do in this state.

“The gate… won’t open…”
“What?”
“Even so, I can tell that the boundary has become blurred… The next one and the one after that… will return to annihilate you humans…”

He spoke incoherently, like someone on drugs.

“Be intoxicated with victory… All you humans can do… in the time you have left… is that…”

He dropped his arm as it was.

He’s dead.

“You crazy bastard!!!”

As I scolded him, pointing my finger at the remains of the Spirit King who had lost his strength, the Spirit King’s body soon began to melt like water. The melted water didn’t pool anywhere and soon disappeared.

On the floor where everything had melted away.

An ice heart remained.

“This is.”

—Saaaaa.

An inhuman chill was seeping out from that heart. It was frozen so delicately that it could be mistaken for a glass craft. I could instinctively tell. This is the spoils of war.

The essence of himself that the Ice Spirit King left behind.

It will definitely be very useful.
Above all, it’s precious.

—Thud.

Only then did I collapse.

Ugh, damn it, all my strength is gone. It was an opponent I was pushed back by, even though I fought with all my might for the first time in a while. If I had fought alone, I would have been cut to pieces long ago. I won because I ganged up on him with my wives.

As expected, the Spirit King is the Spirit King.

He’s inhumanly strong.

“Haa…”
“Ugh, fuck. That was seriously tough, really.”
“I feel like I’m gonna die…”
“I’m so tired…”
“…You’re tired.”

It wasn’t just me who collapsed. Claudie, Karin, Winia, Hilde, and Risha all collapsed in their places. Everyone used a lot of strength. They all look tired.

Only Aria and Liz were standing.

—Clap.

“Um… Good job. You finally won?”

Liz clapped once and smiled.

“Yes… Congratulations. Everyone worked so hard, but I didn’t do anything…”

Aria seemed to be very concerned about this.
It’s okay.

“Hehehe, ah. I told you it’s okay.”

I stretched out on the spot.

Soon, Aria brought the backpack that she had left outside the door.

“Anyway, we won!!”

We’re catching everything from great demons to spirit kings.

It felt like I was personally stopping the extinction of humanity with my own hands.

Anyway, the battle between the Spirit King and the Stamina King ended with the Stamina King’s victory.