The Birth of the Legion – 5
As I overturned the battle by focusing my Flas of Destruction on Barbatos, an attack blasted towards . Perhaps due to my heightened reaction ti, I could face it by turning my head away at the last mont. My body was moving by itself.
[Die!]
It wasn’t from Barbatos, who was struggling with the flas, but rather it was an arrow.
“Myu!” As soon as he completed his mission of killing Plauros, Solas had returned to my side and imdiately recognized the situation through our shared senses. He jumped in without hesitation towards the deadly arrow aid for my head, just as heavy as any of Barbatos’s strikes.
“…Reraje!” I shouted the na that went to my mind urgently. Just before Solas, surrounded by the mana of Jinma, hit the arrow, its strength was noticeably reduced.
[Shit!]
A man appeared from the direction the arrow was shot from, wearing a green cloak and hat in imitation of Barbatos. It was the demon sharpshooter Reraje, who was wielding a bow instead of a gun. He had apparently been waiting to snipe while I fought Barbatos, but when I put him on the defensive, Reraje had beco impatient. The power of a demon was warring with the elf inside him, weakening him now after I called his na. He had taken precautions so that it wouldn’t kill him right away, though.
[Fuck! King, why would you return when we don’t want you?]
“What a curious expression.” I grabbed onto Solas, who blocked the arrow with his teeth. The arrow had apparently been poisoned, and now that was rotting through his body. I burned the poison away with the Fla of Destruction.
[Ahhhhh!]
“Canis, go aid the others.”
[Gaooooo!]
Canis, who reached a bit later than Solas, let out a brisk cry but ultimately obeyed my order. His fighting style wasn’t suited for aerial combat, especially not against two ranged fighters, even if his strength was considerable. I needed him more on the ground, aiding the situation there.
[This place has already lost its forr glory.]
“I wonder who is behind that.” Reraje stepped up to provoke , and I wondered if he was trying to buy Barbatos ti to recover. Of course, it gave ti to let Solas recover, so I didn’t really mind.
[Ha…that fla is a dangerous combination.]
[I know, Barbatos. I’ll be more vigilant than you.]
The abilities of these two matched up pretty well, just like Andras and Plauros. I wondered if that was why they dressed so similarly, too.
“Solas, are you okay now?”
“Myu!” A red thread spewed out of his mouth, emitting heat. I could see that he was also learning how to use the flas in his own way.
[Nothing will defile the Devil’s Hand. You will die here today.]
“Solas, I’m going.” I used Ubiquitous to step through the air once more. Of course, arrows and bullets flew to the place I stepped in to face , and the Goddess’s Touch, combined with my Predation, stopped them. At the sa ti, a Fla of Destruction blood in the air next to Reraje to strike him in the head.
[You’re wielding sothing that doesn’t belong to you!]
He shouted angrily as he raised his bow to stop the fla. Barbatos jumped through the air to help him but found himself in the spider web Solas had set for him.
[Huh?!]
“Myu!” The webs aggravated his wounds as a strong fla enshrined inside the thin web began to burn him.
[Gyaaah!]
[That spider!]
Arrows sailed through the air, hitting the defensive magic Solas had activated in preparation. That alone wasn’t enough, however. Even though the arrows were weaker than the bullets, they contained a deadly toxin. I reached out, and the Goddess’ Touch reacted by bursting into pieces of crystal to create a shield in front of him. The arrows failed to pierce the shield created by my artifact, which repelled the energy back at Reraje. I rushed straight at Barbatos. He was exhausted from the continuous hits he had taken.
[No way!]
“Now!” Reraje tried to shoot an arrow to stop , but Solas was faster. His spider web filled the air, aid right at him.
[Annoying!]
“Myu!” The arrow was caught in the web, deflected, and Reraje suffered serious wounds as the spider web containing the Fla of Destruction surrounded him. By the ti his movent was halted, I was already in front of Barbatos. The Annihilation in my left hand flashed out.
“That’s it.”
[Huh…don’t you dare laugh, one favored by the Devil!]
Barbatos’s body, engulfed by the Flas of Destruction, shone white. Like when he had put the muzzle in my mouth, he moved beyond the range of my cognition. He was heading right toward L, who was silently watching us.
[If I can secure her…!]
[Don’t be stupid!]
[It’s no use, he’s already awakened!]
I couldn’t clearly explain what happened. Despite being aware of the impending doom coming right for her, L didn’t deviate. She was leading the flow that could be called the order in this battlefield and couldn’t stop for a single second. She continued with the absolute belief that she would be alright.
At so point, then, I noticed I was moving like Barbatos.
[Ubiquitous beca Lv7. You will be harder to stop when moving.]
It was like I could see my own back moving faster before like I was projecting a future into the present. I was running to get to my destination, but it was like I was already there as well. Barbatos’s entire body had turned into a strange arrow-like shape as the flas greedily licked at his body. However, before he could reach L, A had stood before her with hands spread wind to protect her. Before he could reach them, I was already swinging my dagger at where he would show up as if I had been there all along.
[Death.]
No one said it, but rather it was the will of the countless souls inside of Annihilation united as one. It pierced through Barbatos’s head, and a scream that did not co out as a voice filled the battlefield.
[——!]
All of the demons on the battlefield stopped moving, unable to figure out who was screaming.
[You gained 645,918 experience.]
[You have received 439,271 gold.]
[You obtained Death Whisper.]
[Your level has risen multiple tis.]
[Evolution is now possible.]
Only
[No!]
Reraje shouted out with his eyes wide open. The elves who had been climbing out of the hole the two created looked at the sa way.
“No way…already?” Sowhere on the battlefield, Rain muttered sothing like that.
[Evolution cannot be reversed. The closer you are to what you reached in the past, the more you will lose what you have instead of gaining more.]
[Will you still move forward?]
I devoured Barbatos’s body whole.
“Of course.”
My next evolution began.
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