Chapter 111
Demon
Translator : PolterGlast
The maid's body
trembled violently, and two wings protruded from her back.
They were black and
angular, closer to bat wings than bird wings.
Then, with a crackling
sound, a scorpion-like tail with a sharp tip emerged from her lower back.
"Hiss!"
The maid glided
towards me.
I wondered if she had
a weapon hidden somewhere and braced myself, but then I saw the tips of her
claws extending like sharp blades.
I wondered what kind
of creature it was, since it had both human and monster reactions... so this is
a demon.
Just before her claws
were about to pierce my throat, I activated Jaunt again.
I used short-range
teleportation and flew directly above the demon.
"First, I'll take
those wings."
I hadn't yet mastered
the flight magic that the wind guy used.
I didn't know how to
fight in the air, so I decided to deprive her of her flight ability for now.
In my hand was the
white sword that the Knight of the Holy Corpse had used.
I didn't know the
opponent's strength, so I decided to use the strongest weapon I had.
Apparently, she didn't
expect me to come directly above her, and her back was completely unguarded.
I swung the sword down
at her back.
The wings fell off
without any resistance, as if I were cutting butter.
"Gahhh!?"
The demon groaned in
pain, unable to comprehend what had happened.
I had swung the sword
with too much force, and I had descended a little too far.
I wondered if I should
try various things as practice for aerial combat.
I was also curious
about the demon's strength.
The demon tried to fly
towards me.
However, without
wings, her movements were much slower than before.
She raised her hand
towards me.
Was she trying to use
magic?
The moment I felt the
surge of mana using Mana Perception, I used Jaunt to get behind the demon.
Then, in the corner of
my vision, I saw a red-black explosion.
That was probably...
fire magic, right?
But it felt a little
different from the ones I used... was there a difference between the magic that
humans and demons could use?
Just as her tail
twitched, the demon turned back to me with a surprised expression.
Her senses were quite
sharp... did she also have the Mana Perception skill?
"Lightning."
First, I used
Lightning, the weakest of the lightning spells.
I would probably fight
demons many times in the future, so I had to check their durability to some
extent.
I intended to send a
small bolt of lightning at her.
But when I actually
used Lightning... a white lightning bolt about fifty times larger than I had
imagined flew towards the demon at an incredible speed.
"Gah!?"
I had intended it as a
test... but after taking just one hit, the demon woman looked like she was in a
lot of pain.
Smoke was coming out
of her entire body, and she was clearly suffering significant damage.
Wait, what... this was
supposed to be a beginner spell learned at LV1, right?
I was in the middle of
a battle, so I used it normally as I did in the beginning... but now that my
magic attack power was so high, it was a completely different thing.
Due to gravity, my
head was facing down.
Before I knew it, the
ground was very close.
I activated Jaunt
again and teleported near the ground to land.
The demon woman, who
was too injured to do anything, collided with the ground headfirst.
Dust flew up, but
thanks to Mana Perception, I didn't lose sight of the enemy.
I took out a coin from
my pocket and prepared to fire a railgun, but there was no reaction.
When I used wind magic
to clear the smoke, I saw...
"Kyuu..."
The demon woman was
completely knocked out by a single Lightning strike.
Um, was it possible
that... I had leveled up too much with the Knight of the Holy Corpse?
"..."
When I looked a little
further away, I saw Empress Emilia surrounded by guards.
She was staring at me
in astonishment.
...Well, I succeeded
in showing her my power!
I hardly used any
offensive magic, and I didn't overdo it!
Yeah, so it wasn't a
failure, it wasn't!
"..."
I sweated profusely
under Miku's gaze, which was looking at me as if she wanted to say something,
and I tied up the demon with a rope that I took out of my item box to somehow
smooth things over.
...What should I do?
I was starting to get
scared of what Empress Emilia was going to say...
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