Chapter 820 – 820. Demon of Indolence (1)
Appearance that does not differ much from humans.
However, the pair of goat horns sprouting from his head and the uneasy power flowing from his body proved that he was not human.
It’s the devil
[Quack.]
Along with the presence he felt with both eyes and skin, the devil’s thoughts echoed in his head.
Seeing them giggling and looking down at them, Gerard gripped his dagger tightly.
“Devil…”
Gerard recognized Belphegor’s true identity.
“Then that demon.”
The first time he tried to kill Raynan by swallowing the inner sheath of the Shinsoo and burning his own life.
It was the same as the power he felt from the demon possessed by Raynan’s body, which had been burned by a thunderbolt.
Dismissed! Paperweight!
As if to represent his feelings, Gerard’s thunderbolt, which had been burning with hostility, flew all over his body and threatened Belphegor.
Seeing Gerard ready to attack the demon in front of him at any time, Belphegor giggled and affirmed.
[Okay. Right.]
As if to counter Gerard’s thunderbolt that threatened Belphegor, he opened up his magic power and encroached on his surroundings.
Just as Gerard wanted to kill himself, Belphegor had been waiting for this moment to kill Gerard himself.
[I can finally repay the humiliation that was given to me at that time.]
It is said that he was only a mental body and could only use part of his power, but the fact that he dared to run away from humans was a humiliation that Belphegor could not bear.
Staring at each other like that, when Gerard and Belphegor were preparing for battle.
Illyana, who was observing this situation from a distance, was looking at one side where she could feel her gaze.
“I finally met you. A bitch like a stray cat who dares to prey on my husband without even knowing the subject.”
Nothing existed where Illyana was staring.
She was really empty, but the clear gaze she felt there didn’t seem to hide.
A contradiction that does not exist, but does exist.
Illyana was able to notice that because she was the same witch who could understand the opponent’s means.
“You have no intention of showing up.”
She’s probably another herself.
The Dimensional Witch spearheaded the plan to make this happen, but she seemed unwilling to go any further.
An observer’s point of view to really see how oneself and others resolve and rectify this catastrophe.
The reason she could be sure of that was because she was also another herself.
“If it were me, I would have stepped forward without any hesitation and wiped out her mage tower.”
Illyana was sure that even if she was herself, she would have done it without hesitation.
That’s why I was able to naturally guess why the ‘Witch of Dimension’ could no longer intervene in this situation.
Two possibilities immediately came to mind.
“Is there a restriction that prevents me from stepping out anymore, or is it gathering strength?”
Therefore, the only thing the witch of this dimension could do was ‘observe’.
Illyana laughed.
“Look carefully and judge. Can you beat me now?”
Illyana confidently moved her steps towards Belphegor, as if to assure her that even if you showed up in person, she would not be able to defeat her.
“Eleanor.”
“Ah… Miss Illyana.”
As she moved closer to Eleanor, who was cradling the body of her fallen Erin, Eleanor noticed her Illyana and turned her head away.
“What is the situation?”
“I knocked it down. But…”
Raynan, the leader of the invaders who invaded the city, is dead.
Not only that, but even those who invaded were all killed.
Even though all the people who were the culprits died, her expression did not ease.
Because the situation is not settled.
Instead of being sorted out, it got worse and worse.
The existence of the demon that appeared at that gate, which was created by absorbing the lives of hundreds of invaders and the lives of the dead citizens, still remained.
“Okay.”
Illyana did not take her eyes off Gerard and Belphegor, who were glaring at each other after Eleanor.
“How is your baby?”
Illyana watched them and asked about the condition of Erin, who Eleanor was holding tightly.
“The trauma has all recovered. As well as the serious internal injuries in her body. But… I guess I couldn’t completely recover her mental fatigue.”
Right now Erin was sleeping soundly.
Originally, due to her angel’s wings, the damage as well as her mental fatigue should have been completely restored, but Erin could not fully recover her fatigue even after receiving all the effects.
By that she meant that Erin was trying hard to keep Raynon at bay, but in other ways it also meant that she was trying too hard.
“Who do you really resemble? . Master and disciple are the same.”
“Iknow, right.”
Hearing Illyana’s small grumble, Eleanor also nodded her head with her wry smile as if she sympathized.
Perhaps this aspect of her Erin was most influenced by Eunhyun, who raised her up until now.
“Will it take a while before I wake up?”
“… Yes. I think it will take some time.”
“Okay. Too bad.”
It would really help her if Erin got up and joined her fight right away, but I didn’t feel like trying to force myself to wake her up.
She also had her frank mind that she didn’t want to let her bunch out here.
That much will put a burden on Gerard, but he has to cover that part somehow.
“Are you having a hard time right now?”
“… Sorry.”
It was the same with Eleanor.
She used all of her divine power stored in ‘Tears of the Goddess’ and maintained her strong spirit to prevent Ray Nan’s solo drinking, but now the bottom of her divine power has been revealed.
She couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed just by taking care of her Erin.
Kwaaang!
Finally, Gerard and Belphegor’s arms collided with each other.
The aftermath of the tremendous impact was scattered and the golden thunderbolts that began to swirl and the devil’s magic encroached on the surroundings.
The clash of two powers that tear and burn the air creates chaos just by existing.
“Nice… Ugh!”
The one who took a step back was Gerard, who was moaning.
It was true that Shinsu and Kirin’s thunderbolt was a powerful force that could stand up to demons, but its characteristic was extreme speed, not a power specialized in face-to-face power struggles.
Besides, there was one more reason Gerard had to step down.
“Just now…”
Gerard felt an indescribable sense of alienation.
The moment Belphegor’s nails collided with his own dagger.
Because the energy of thunderbolt contained within the blade of the dagger gradually disappeared.
“… You interfered with my magical power?”
It was clearly an alien providence itself that could not be understood in this world.
[Six digit upper magic]
[Prominence]
[… !]
“This… !?”
A bright red orb of prominence appeared in the sky and attacked Raynan and Belphegor in an instant.
Without any warning, it emits terrifying heat that burns and melts the surroundings.
The center of the heat, which is getting closer and closer, can be called the ‘little sun’.
The heat burned his flesh, and the air he inhaled was strong enough to melt his lungs.
Gerard contorted his face as soon as he noticed the little sun high in the sky.
It was because I realized who the magic was manifested by.
‘Is this older sister planning to kill me too!?’
Of course, with Gerard’s ability, he could have avoided it.
Gerard, who was covered in thunderbolts with the magic of a giraffe, was able to move at the speed of light beyond human limits.
But even taking that into account, I honestly wasn’t confident in escaping the attack range of that “Little sun” That engulfed the air around him and gradually increased in size.
When Gerard is so tinged with astonishment.
[Six digit upper magic]
[Blink]
In an instant, Gerard’s vision changed completely.
The bright red heat of the prominence and the sun were engulfing the surroundings from a distant location.
“Ah…”
Gerard realized it belatedly.
The prominences that radiate terrifying heat did not move.
It was he who moved.
“What are you standing around for?”
Hearing Illyana’s voice as if to awaken his daze, Gerard came to his senses and turned to his side.
“Who, sister! Didn’t you almost die! It would have been swallowed up by that prominence and there would be no powder left, let alone roasted whole!”
“So you moved it and saved it. You look fine.”
He was certainly safe as a result, but his body trembled with a sense of resentment when he imagined that he had been swallowed up in the red flames of the sky before his eyes.
In the aftermath of the prominence, the temperature in the surrounding area rose several degrees and felt like a steamer, but it would not be an illusion to be experiencing the feeling of being blown by the cold wind.
“That makes sense… ! Ha…”
Gerard sighed belatedly and gave up on his words.
As always, arguing with Illyana was a waste of effort, a waste of time, and a waste of emotion.
Now, I had neither the time nor the time to pursue it.
Because I have to deal with that demon in front of me.
“… Did I see it right now?”
“No. What you saw is correct.”
Sensing an unusual wave of magical power, the two old men, Red Elder and Blue Elder, among the wizards who followed belatedly, looked at the situation in front of them and put on a bewildered expression.
“… Double casting?”
“Haha…”
Other wizards who saw the double casting of Illyana, who maintained ‘Prominence’ and used ‘Blink’ magic at the same time, had similar expressions.
Double casting itself is not such a great skill among wizards.
For magicians of high digits who are skilled in magic, double casting is not too difficult if it is a magic of low digits that can complete and manifest a spell in an instant.
However, if it is an upper digit rather than a lower digit, is it possible if it is the magic of six digits, which is the highest hierarchy among the upper digits?
“That… Is it possible Master?”
With a dazed expression, Trev asked Aden, the chief who taught him magic.
In general, there is a myriad of gaps between low and high digit magic.
The amount of calculations that must be digested in the head, such as the amount of magic consumed, the formulas to be composed, the size of the magic that is manifested and the designation of the coordinates of the attack point, varies from several to dozens of times.
Therefore, the higher the magic hierarchy goes up, the more the difference between the time and the state required to activate the magic becomes overwhelming.
To put it simply, if the amount of computation required to manifest a single-digit sub-magic is 2.
It is correct to calculate the amount of operation required to double cast a sub-magic of the same digit by square, not by double.
It is natural to multiply 2 by 2 to get 4, but the higher the magic hierarchy, the greater the amount of calculations that must be handled.
If so, assuming that the amount of computation required to manifest a six-digit higher magic is 20?
In order to double cast the same number of 6-digit high-level magic, you had to endure the snowballing amount of calculations, not 40, but 400.
“Heh heh, unless it’s God…”
At least Aden was impossible.
The moment he tries to do that, Aden’s head can’t cope with the enormous amount of calculation, and the brain inside his head will burn, and the mana that composes the magic formula and gin will flow backwards, and his body will definitely explode.
But Illyana.
“… Will he be alive?”
“It will be alive.”
Illyana succeeded without any difficulty.
She replied calmly, as if asking something rather obvious.
I was thinking about the next thing, estimating the state of the devil swallowed up by the red flame.
“Sister. There’s something strange about that demon. I just interfered with the divine beast’s magical power in my dagger…”
“Know. I saw it too. It’s not ‘interference’, it’s ‘offset’.”
“Offset?”
“It neutralized your magic power. Apparently, that demon has the characteristic of cutting off the power of those who come in contact with its own magical power.”
Just like pouring water on a roaring flame makes it disappear, it is a characteristic that suppresses the opponent’s power with its own power and destroys it.
The opposite is a characteristic that affects the other person and destroys it.
The ability to reduce the opponent’s attack power just by existing is a unique ability that only Belphegor, the ‘demon of indolence’, has.
Demons each have their own unique characteristics.
Just as the demon named Bifrons, who manipulated the dungeon before and forced it to run wild, had the characteristic of ‘charm’.
Illyana, who watched the clash between Gerard and Belphegor from a distance, immediately recognized Belphegor’s characteristic.
“That…”
Gerard hardened his face.
If it had the ability to nullify even the mana of a divine beast rather than an ordinary one, how on earth should we deal with it?
“It’s fortunate.”
“Yes?”
“It’s not a perfect nullification.”
If it weren’t for that fraudulent ability, at least a breakthrough could have been made.
Seeing Illyana’s confident attitude, Gerard changed her gaze.
“Sister. Please give me instructions.”
“Okay. And…”
Illyana looked around at the wizards who had started gathering late, then looked at the two elders of red and blue, she asked.
“Would you like to help me too?”
“Hehe, it’s a request from a disciple, so you have to listen.”
“… What are we supposed to do?”
Apart from Aden, who smiled and agreed, the elder’s attitude of waiting for advice was astonishing even to the other wizards.
Putting aside that change of attitude, Illyana held out her palm forward, blooming on all five of her fingers.
“Five seconds. Help Gerard and last only 5 seconds. Then it will be over.”
The witch who proved her worth as the best wizard in name and reality declared with confidence.
Illyana confirmed that someone had arrived here through the gate she had set up beforehand.
I knew who it was without even thinking about it.
So she said Illyana she was herself.
This fight is their victory.
