Chapter 166 – Flowers in the Snowy Field (2)
Snowflakes, full bloom.
Flowers have bloomed. A snow flower bloomed, beautiful enough to blind people. That figure, an aura crystal in the shape of a snowflake that formed in the air following the sword’s trajectory.
「⋯!」
Savnak’s eyes trembled in disbelief. Even that did not last long and stopped as if frozen.
A blue flower of aura blooms on Savnak’s body cut by Anna’s sword. As if to prevent regeneration, it slowly covered the demon’s body from the cross section.
One song, one song.
Blooming snow flowers took over the space. As if even the space had been frozen, even though it was inexperienced, the area centered on Anna was engulfed in cold and stopped.
A secret skill that is impossible with just pure Aura, and is completed by combining Aura and swordsmanship.
It is the very essence of a sword that is so lofty as to be far away.
It was a success that was nothing short of a coincidence. Even Anna, who had swung her sword as if possessed by her, was bewildered by the trajectory she had unfolded with her own hands.
‘Just now…?’
The feeling left in her fingertips is awkward. Even if I tried to do it again, I had an intuition that it would be impossible even if I died and woke up in my current state.
At first glance, it was different from the master’s level, which seemed like it could be reached by her fingertips.
A sense of distance far beyond that, like the realm of ‘Grand’.
“Uh, uh, how did you do that?!”
“Me, am I okay too?”
Eileen shouted, her eyes wide open. It could be said that it was a careless action in a situation where the battle was not over yet, but not only Eileen, but all eyes on the battlefield were focused on Anna.
Anna was equally bewildered, so she looked down at the sword in her hand with her blank face.
‘⋯No matter how miraculously probable it was by accident, to show that child’s talent piecemeal at the point where it was possible even by chance in the first place.’
Even Leticia, who was watching the situation on the battlefield most closely and keeping her tension on, couldn’t help but admire Anna’s talent.
“I don’t know if I’ll catch up sooner or later…”
Not only her hero, Iris, but even Anna is terrifyingly following.
While she is happy that more people will fight for Scarlett in front of her, it is also true that she is worried that she will be overtaken in this way.
Shrrr.
Waves of dark red blood that swept across her battlefield returned to Leticia.
“⋯⋯Coming again.”
Quaang!
Simultaneously with Leticia’s chanting, Savnak’s body, which had been frozen as if trapped in a barrier, shattered.
Space freeze. It is a miracle of a level comparable to the power itself to twist the world and force one’s will as it pleases, as would be the case with a ‘grand’ class existence.
Perhaps, after a little more time, in the frozen space, the devil will stop even thinking.
If so, what should the demon——Savnak, who was struck by such an incredible miracle do?
The answer is.
「Aaaaa—!」
Offer yourself as a sacrifice—is.
There is no way to get out completely at the point of being hit by a grand power, but there is no way.
“I, this me… !”
The entire frozen space is used as a ritual sacrifice to summon higher-level demons.
Since he was summoned in his true form, offering himself as a sacrifice would mean his own extinction.
「Ah, Your Majesty… ! This disloyal Sabnak leaves first! Please, Your Majesty will do a great job—!”
Savnak.
A faithful and blind fanatic of the Demon King, he chose to sacrifice himself before even his thoughts were frozen, rather than being confined in an eternally frozen space.
The one who sacrificed the forty-fourth demon in the order is——.
「——Ah. I have heard your advice.”
A woman with long pink hair and narrow golden eyes.
With an ornate bow in her hand, honoring the will of a demon to whom she gave herself.
“I, Sitri, accept Savnak’s wishes.”
Half-opened red eyes turned to Anna.
“… Damage!”
Fain!
Leticia exclaimed. However, her cry alone was empty, and she intuitively realized that no one in this room would be able to block or avoid the indiscriminate attack of the top 10 demon.
‘Keukssuk… !’
Chow ah——!
Blood flow. The power of the Vampire Princess unfolded. A barrier that spreads out in the form of enclosing the demon to block the shapeless shockwave spreading around Sitri.
Bang! Unfortunately, Sitri’s shockwave was blocked by Leticia’s barrier and lost its power. At the same time, her barrier, which had fulfilled her role, was also taken in and permeated into Leticia again.
“Hmm.”
The demon brushed up her pink hair and stared at Leticia with her half-open eyes. Based on the traces of Savnak, who had already been sacrificed and absorbed into her, the cause of Savnak’s death must have been ‘freeze’.
「Only one half-ripe girl has the property of “Freezing”… ?」
A voice that murmured in puzzlement. A grand-level power that even freezes space… As a result, Sitri himself, the highest rank among the beings of the class that could appear here as a sacrifice of Savnak, descended on purpose.
“No… ?」
A ‘grand’ class existence.
At least that vampire who had just blocked her simple attack was a worthy opponent to some extent.
The power of ‘freeze’ that sealed Savnak seemed to be wielded by a human girl with azure hair over there…
“You won’t be able to open your eyes because you used too much power…」
Except if so.
Other than that, there is a wizard girl who tries to improve her physical condition by pouring her magic beside the fallen girl.
Even if I didn’t do that, the ice girl wouldn’t die, but Sitri agreed to understand.
Except for that kid anyway.
Then…
In the end, the only thing that catches Sitri’s attention is the vampire princess.
Brilliant golden hair, red eyes and pure white skin just like Sitri herself… Sheetri liked it. How can such a beautiful creature exist?
She was in charge of negotiating with Nosferatu, and from the demon who sponsored them – Lera Jie, she was fed up with the beauty of a high-ranking blood demon.
She wished to see the real life of that beautiful high blooded noble once, one day, listening to the bragging, not the bragging.
I never thought I’d meet you like this!
The 12th place in the ranking, the Great Devil, felt like a girl who met someone she longed for.
“Since I came assuming a single digit in rank, a higher-level existence that even corps commanders find difficult to deal with, I came to this place with some tension…」
The corners of Sitri’s mouth went up. Properly, she wanted to say hello to the beautiful blood demon in front of her eyes.
“Shall I greet you again?”
The demon bowed with an elegant gesture. He lightly covered his chest with the palm of his hand, while holding the hem of his skirt slightly raised with the other hand.
“I am the demon of lust who received the twelfth seat from His Majesty——Sithree. Please take good care of me, human beings who eat rubbish? And, a beautiful blood demon woman?”
Apparently, the higher the rank, the more the devils are the ones whose brains are spinning.
The sight of Sitri, who greeted calmly and spat out abusive language with a noble face and tone, was enough to make me feel that way.
“…”
It’s just that, no matter how calmly Sitri spewed out the verbal abuse, no one in this room would dare to even think about moving their bodies.
‘Not good…’
As Sitri admitted, Leticia, the only one who could match her, bit her lip and looked at the situation.
The fight against the Legion leaned toward victory on our side. It would be different if Sitri summoned his legion, but…
‘Since the twelfth was summoned as a sacrifice to a demon in the forty ranks… , There won’t be enough resources to bring in an army.’
It was just speculation, but it was close to the truth. Since it was to bring a high-ranking demon into his ‘true body’, no matter how much Savnak called Sitri in exchange for his own annihilation, there was no way that the resource would be enough.
Even if it is inevitable for the already summoned Sitri to fully display their power, it will still require more charging to summon her own legion in the demon realm.
Only.
‘It looks like that monster alone can turn the tide of the war.’
Anna retires to make a transfer that goes beyond her limits. Eileen would be helpful, but she would be desperate to protect the fallen Anna.
Count Robert and Marquis Rufeld, who showed off their presence by leading the battlefield, are also unfortunately not meaningful.
Putting that skill aside, first of all, like Anna and Eileen, there is no way to hit the devil.
‘How should…’
「Ah——.」
Her body, so tense that it could move reflexively at any time, even flinched at the drowsy voice the demon spat out as if it were bored. Kwak… , Aura flowed down the red spear I was holding.
To jump out at any moment and pierce the demon in front of your eyes.
“Huh. Nice to meet you? There, blood demon?」
Ignoring Leticia’s bloody reaction, Sitri smiled. If she wasn’t the devil, no, even though she was the devil — including those who didn’t know they existed but shuddered at the ominous sight — her laugh was charming.
Sitri just wanted to get a proper reaction from Leticia, who ignored her greetings.
“… What?”
Leticia asked without letting go of her guard. A slight sarcastic expression was melted into his tone. Sitri didn’t mind that. Rather than he didn’t care, he felt like what it was.
She knew very well that the situation was not in her favor in the first place.
Instead.
“Ever since, I wanted to meet a high-ranking demon at least once… It’s very unfortunate to meet you in a place like this under circumstances like this.”
Shit, shit. With Sitri as the center, the entire area slowly distorted. Like a broken mirror.
“Simply the release of chi… !”
Putting Leticia’s astonishment behind, Sitri lamented as if she was regretful.
“Lera Jie, she gets so jealous every time she talks about the high-ranking blood demons she met… She used to regret that I should have been the negotiator with Nosferatu. Seeing you like this, it must have been all for this moment! It’s a little disappointing that I’m of the same sex, not the opposite sex!”
“Crazy bitch… !”
Words out of context. As Leticia spread her wings and flew away with a look of disgust, at the same time she stretched out her shadow, wrapping others around them and launching them into the air.
“To be honest, I was a little scared at first. Even so, I know very well that it will be difficult for me to save my life against a grand class opponent. Fortunately, I’ve never had that happen.”
Maybe die Although he responded to Savnak’s earnest call, Sitri did not want to die either. Especially if it means immortality.
So, now that she knew that there were no enemies who could threaten her here, Sitri decided to release her desire.
“Ah, if it had been a man instead of a woman, I might have given you my first experience…」
“First experience?”
Pop.
Sitri and Leticia both stood still as if they had hardened. Leticia’s mouth shut as she tried to argue with anyone who gave her first experience to someone else’s man.
Sitri too felt his goosebumps goosebumps, and unable to turn his head, he could only hold his breath at the presence he felt right behind him.
“The twelfth great demon, the first experience of the demon of pleasure and lust? That’s kind of interesting.”
A voice muttering in a slow, languid voice. Despite the tone without any tension, the space occupied by Sitri was being gnawed away.
‘Gyeok’ that digs into and devours other people’s territory just by being there.
“‘Grand… ? No, no. Something is not enough to be called grand. But what about this price… ?'”
Sitri, who could grasp the presence of that power in detail, was more confused than anyone else.
Calling it ‘Grand’ is not enough. However, if you look at the status, it is different from ‘Grand’.
No, maybe more.
“Who the hell… !”
If you move freely, you die. Ignoring even such an instinctive warning, Sitri turned her head and saw what she saw.
“Okay. Do you like it?”
“Ah.”
Brilliance. Light. No, because it’s a vampire, it’s dark. No, but it’s completely light.
“I, Mr. Nang… ?」
“Really, whoever wants——!!”
Leticia, who gulped down her saliva and watched the confrontation, exclaimed.
