Chapter 159
All Out
The first target is the top of the mountain where the enemy demons, whom
I sensed with Magic Power Perception, are resting. The spear of
lightning I unleashed advanced while roaring with a crackling sound, sweeping
away everything as if licking the surface of the mountain from left to right.
Because the distance was too far, I could only hear faint death agonies.
But it seems that even if there is some distance, I can finish them off as long
as it's Gungnir.
「Wh-What
the!? What is happen... guh!?」
「Impossible,
a grand magic of this magnitude...!?」
Then, I approached them during the timing when they were glued to the
suddenly appearing magic, and meticulously hunted them down one by one with my
sword.
Exactly as the information I had heard beforehand stated, the demons
flying in the sky simply had wings growing from them, and there was absolutely
no kind of regularity to their races.
There are bird-like demons, bat-like demons, and even fluffy, cloud-like
wingless demons among them.
Using my limit-broken Agility, I didn't struggle at all, lopping
off heads and snapping wings with a single strike.
The demons who seemed to be flying using their wings began to free-fall
to the ground after having one wing broken. It was the same during Sigurd's
time, but as expected, breaking that part seems to remove their ability to fly.
Although they are somehow desperately trying to fix their posture, there
is no way they can survive being dropped from this height.
At the timing when I had slashed and killed about ten demons, the demons
also realized they were being attacked and began to be on guard.
The demons flying in the sky were each keeping a certain amount of
distance, and they were too scattered to hit with powerful magic.
「Light Arrow Rain」
Therefore, I used an AoE attack first, unleashing a massive amount of
arrows of light in a curved trajectory. The rain of light falling in an arc
poured down onto the demons flapping their wings in midair.
「...They are
certainly strong.」
But what differed from the Zwaarth Demon Territory was what
happened after that. Naturally, there were those among the demons who perished
or fell, but about half of those who took the attack immediately activated
defensive magic to weather the attack, or continued to fly in place even after
taking a hit.
It seems that with a normal AoE attack, some will leak through. ...But
well, I guess that doesn't matter. Thinking about what's ahead, I can't go
around recklessly using grand magic either.
At a quick glance, the dragon demons haven't come out yet. And
besides...
I took aim at random and continued to spam Light Arrow Rain just
like that. A massive number of demons either fell or became completely
defensive and stayed in place. And they did not overlook that moment.
「All troops,
charge!」
「「「UOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!」」」
Yes, and besides... if I just whittle them down, the people of Dragonia
will likely take care of the rest. Without missing the golden opportunity that
suddenly fell into their laps, they headed straight toward the demons while
flying through the sky.
While using Magic Power Perception to distinguish individuals
that looked strong and individually shooting them through with Lightning
Bolt, I advanced further as if threading through the space where the Dragon
Knights and demons were fighting.
Then, a grim-looking group, who seemed to have come after catching wind
of the commotion, came into view.
Unlike the other demons, there was a sense of uniformity to them.
Although the color of the scales on their body surfaces differed, they all had
lizard-like heads and wore the same black mantle-like clothing.
（That is
probably the dragon demons.）
I used Ice Fold as a foothold and immediately raised my altitude
further so as not to be seen by them.
It seems the range of their Magic Power Perception isn't that
wide, so there shouldn't be any issues as long as I keep a slightly distant
range.
Alright, let's actually test out just how much the dragon demons, who
are considered powerful, amount to.
「Double Ice Dragon」
Since I had the chance, I decided to pit a dragon against dragons. I
created dragons of ice and made them attack the top of the heads of the demon
group trying to make their move below me.
When they raised their faces at the giant shadow that suddenly emerged,
there were figures of dragons opening their jaws, intending to swallow
everything whole.
「――Wha!?
Enemy attack――!!」
As expected, it was difficult to defend against a Tenth Tier Magic
that suddenly appeared, and the two dragons bit through the defensive magic
they instantly deployed, swallowing their bodies whole.
Their bodies froze while making cracking sounds, and were then shattered
by the impact from the inside.
However, the attack range and speed of Ice Dragon itself wasn't
all that fast. It couldn't completely catch the entire group, and I ended up
letting a few escape, starting with the leader-like man who fled immediately.
（Being able
to switch to auto at times like this is convenient.）
There are two points where Ice Dragon differs from other Tenth
Tier Magic.
One of those is that its trajectory can be changed by my manual
operation, and the other is that I can let go of the operation at any timing
and switch it to be used as a normal magic just like that.
For the time being, I flew both Ice Dragons to the backside of Mount
Gainarick, where a massive amount of demons were, and used Ice Fold
to approach the dragon demons.
「Mash, Garl, Sophoress... You bastard, how
dare you do that to our brethren OOOOOOH!!」
When I approached to cross swords with the remaining demons, they
suddenly started hugging their own bodies.
Then, in the blink of an eye, their bodies enlarged, and their humanoid
bodies began to transform into dragons while making cracking sounds.
So that's the Dragonification skill that Hosen-san was
talking about. It seems they become even stronger when they turn into dragons,
but... I have no obligation to leisurely wait for such a transformation.
「Gungnir!」
Since the time to transform was less than a few seconds, it probably
wasn't much of a problem in battles between dragons.
But from my perspective, possessing fast-casting magic, it was far too
big of an opening. The Gungnir I fired completely turned the demon who
seemed to be the dragon boss into cinders, and pierced through the demons
around him all at once.
I finished off the remaining demons by firing Lightning Bolt at
them.
There were individuals among them who didn't go down in one hit, but
interestingly, the moment they took a Lightning Bolt, their Dragonification
stopped, returning them to their original demon forms.
I see, so the stun effect of Lightning Magic can also stop the
activation of transformation-type skills.
「Well, I've
annihilated the dragon demons for now... shall I ravage them from the inside
out?」
I've used many shots of magic, but there's still plenty of time before I
run out of gas. However, I want to finish this with room to spare, so let's
quickly strike the enemy's main camp, which should be deep inside.
If they are making such a full-scale invasion, there's no way the person
in charge would be hiding away in the back, anyway.
――At that time, I had forgotten. That such a thing as 100% does not
exist on the battlefield.
Even though I had raised all my magic to LV 10 and had even conquered a dungeon to limit-break my status... I myself was still an existence far from being the strongest.
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