Chapter 119 – Fat Man
Next day.
I was lying in bed with the sunlight penetrating between my eyelids, forcing me to wake up.
“Turn it off…”
Perhaps it was because I had been drinking with Demon King-sama for quite some time the night before, but I still had a hangover.
“Did you cough?”
“Uh…Camilla?”
I was stunned when I saw an unexpected person next to me.
“It’s honey water. Have it.”
I took the honey water Camilla gave me and ate it.
After drinking all the contents of the glass, returning the empty glass, Camilla put the cup back on the tray.
“Why are you here? What about Ozma?”
Then Camilla replied with a slight tilt of her head.
“I served Ozma-nim until Kaldrash-nim returned. Vanessa-nim, who originally served as Ozma-nim’s lieutenant, returned, so the role naturally changed.”
When I heard it, it was right.
The reason Vanessa came with me in the first place was to assassinate King Oscar.
After hanging out for quite some time, it seemed like it was natural to have Vanessa by her side instead of Camilla.
“Are you tired of me waiting on you? If so, replace with someone else…”
“No, I don’t mean that!”
“It’s a joke.”
Camilla said that with her expressionless face, then lifted the hem of her skirt with her hands and bowed her back.
“Then, thank you again. Mr. Kaldrash.”
“…I’ll take care of you too, Camilla.”
“Then, I will tell you the message from the demon king as soon as possible. The demon king said that if Kaldrash-nim coughs, after noon, use all available methods to destroy the walls of Constantinople.”
“That’s embarrassing.”
“Should I tell the demon king that you won’t be able to do it?”
“No, not to that extent.”
I got up from the camp bed and put the robe on top of the box around my upper body.
“But what time is it now?”
“It’s 11:30.”
“…I’ll just wash my face and leave. Even the Demon Lord will forgive me for that much, right?”
“Of course. The Demon King is not so inflexible.”
After hearing Camilla’s answer, I grabbed her towel and headed to the nearby river.
***
Noon in the morning.
I walked towards the walls of Constantinople alone, with all the forces of the demon king lined up behind me watching.
The items he currently possesses are the Storm Bringer, Unlimited Power, and a pair of knuckles.
Actually, this was enough.
It’s because the defense side can be taken off with infinite mana.
I used loudspeaker magic to talk to the Kingdom Army, who didn’t seem to have any intention of crawling out of the wall.
『Ah, ah, microphone test』
A humming voice with moderate echo.
When the strange guy suddenly jumped out from the demon king’s army and tried to do something, he could see it wriggling even on the top of the castle wall.
Perhaps it was shot as a taster, an arrow flew towards the head, but it bounced off without even touching the body due to the wind curtain that had been turned on a long time ago.
I put on a dog-shaped mask, which I have been using very well since long ago, and said with a low voice.
“I won’t talk too long. If I surrender now, I will not touch the walls of Constantinople. I repeat it again in case you didn’t hear it. If you surrender now, I will not disturb the walls of Constantinople.”
Then, after a while, I heard someone’s voice from the top of the castle wall using the same loudspeaker magic as me.
『Since we intend to defend this wall until the end of our lives, you would do well to surrender. Before the big nose injury.』
Perhaps one of the military mages answered.
If you are a wizard belonging to Oz, you must be from the Emerald Tower, but our junior is a bit spicy.
Why would you refuse to give up and be punished?
“Don’t regret later.”
『No.』
Okay, that’s how it comes out, right?
My head was slightly heated, and I immediately started chanting the 5th tier magic, Little Boy.
Ether x ether x ether x ether x ether
5 stacks of artificial elemental ether.
Since ether is what compresses normal mana to the limit, it is characterized by consuming about three times as much mana even if it is a magic of the same hierarchy as existing elemental magic.
It was also a magic that could not be used at all in actual combat, where one minute and one second went by quickly, because a high level of mana control was required to avoid a reaction.
But the story is different when there is no check like this.
The soldiers of the Kingdom Army on top of the wall were now on their guard.
For nearly 700 years, relying only on the defense of the walls of Constantinople, which have never been breached.
I’ll have to experiment with the firepower of ether magic right now.
It’s because I’ve only developed it, and I’ve never had a chance to use it with all my might.
Pong!
The spheres of light fired from the fingertips began to fly toward the walls of Constantinople.
Watching that scene, I took the sunglasses out of my pocket and put them on my face.
Immediately after,
Kwaaaaa!
Reacting to the automatic defense magic of the walls of Constantinople, the etheric crystal swelled with a tremendous roar.
Truly, Myeong-dong.
The pseudo-sun that suddenly appeared in the sky emitted an intense light to break down the walls of Constantinople, the guardian spirit that had protected humans for hundreds of years.
However, as time passed, the size of the sun gradually decreased, and when it finally disappeared completely, the intact Constantinople walls were revealed.
The soldiers of the Kingdom Army, who were watching the scene from the top of the castle wall holding their breath, hugged each other and cheered.
“Did you see it! This is a miracle from God! Since the Heavenly Goddess protects us, Oz will never be conquered by you demons!”
In a voice that clearly showed signs of great excitement, the wizard who had just provoked me shouted through the megaphone magic.
‘That’s noisy.’
I picked my ears and thought so.
Anyway, now that I know Little Boy won’t work, it’s time to drop something bigger.
Ignoring the soldiers of the Kingdom Army, who were busy singing hymns praising the goddess as they embraced each other, I began to concoct the ceremony from the beginning.
Hexagram on base.
The Pentagon is certainly not bad in terms of balance, but the magic circle with hexagons was itself a symbol of the goddess of wisdom called the Star of David.
Continuously replenishes mana into the 6 tips that touch the circle that traps mana.
Then, mana is gradually crystallized and changed into ether, a processing element, and the six ethers become complementary to each other to obtain stable output.
In the process, a level of mana incomparable to normal magic was sucked into the magic circle, but it was still within the expected range.
This is because the total capacity of mana has increased significantly since he rose to the 7th rank not too long ago.
Like a hippo drinking water, by the time the new magic that endlessly sucked mana was completed, almost half of my mana had already drained.
If the normal little boy ate nearly 3 times the magic power of the original hierarchy, the magic he is using now sucks in 5 times the magic power of the original hierarchy.
Truly unconventional
Since it was a magic that had only been created in theory and never had a chance to be used in practice, I was slightly curious about how it would be implemented.
Eventually, the magic was completed.
Placed in the palm of my hand was a sphere much larger than Little Boy’s.
Little Boy is by no means small, but this one seemed to be nearly three times larger in diameter than that.
I shot the completed magic at the still standing walls of Constantinople.
An orb of light that flies very slowly.
‘Should I step back and look around?’
Because I instinctively felt something ominous, I hurriedly started flying toward the Demon King’s army with a fan blade wrapped around my limbs.
The soldiers on the wall ridiculed me for running away in fear.
As I watched them last, I made the sign of the cross without my knowledge.
In the name of the Father and the Son.
“Fat Man-“
***
On this day, the huge mushroom cloud that rose over the walls of Constantinople was deeply imprinted in the minds of all Oz citizens who peacefully strolled through the streets.
Part of the walls of Constantinople, like the guardians of Oz, which had protected them from invasion by foreign enemies until now, completely evaporated before their eyes.
Fortunately, Fat Man was a magic made up of pure mana, so there was no secondary damage, radiant heat, or radioactive fallout like a real nuclear weapon. The current head of the Kingdom of Oz, Prince Tippetarius, who had watched everything, handed over an unconditional letter of surrender to the demon king’s army, believing that there was no more hope.
It was the day when the battle between humans and demons that had been going on for a long time came to an end.
