Gacha Kingdom Buildi Chapter 107: The Demon Queen's War (04)

I felt bad for her, but she had lost as soon as the battle started. While my citizens are strong, my allies are sothing else entirely.

Is it cowardly to call upon an ally after ganging up on a single opponent? Absolutely.

Do I care? Not so much.

I would've loved to see this through its end by myself but given how ridiculously strong the Demon Queen proved to be, this was impossible from the beginning.

Still, I've been calling for a while, and with no response or signal, I was starting to get worried.

For a second there I thought I was purposefully being toyed with, but...

rchant: "Haha! Sorry, I was a bit occupied... I also tried to reach this place without using my Gift, but without a thread to follow it was no use... Still, I'm here now, so you can relax. Just point

the one you want dead and-"

Demon Queen: "M-rchant?"

rchant: "Eek! There's a torso talking to... No way... Elizabeth...?"

... Hm?

You can't be serious right?

These two have the sa enemy, so I guess their knowing about each other makes sense, but...

rchant: "...I'm assuming this is your doing, Miwen? I swear, you brats can't behave for a single second..."

The Traveling rchant leaves, the place where he once stood now was empty, and I see the Demon Queen's face being filled with confusion.

It was the sa for

as well, but in the next mont, everyone that had been scattered around the kingdom appeared behind , the rchant touched my shoulder and I could feel most of my injuries being healed, as well as a sense of calmness that started to perate .

rchant: "...I'll bring soone who is better with healing magic later. The witch girl's situation is a bit more complex and it might be risky since it requires a great level of precision and I'm not really famous for that."

Well, that's because you're only famous for being an idiot.

Still, I'm glad that the girls are out of danger now.

I hate to admit it, but having the rchant took away all the stress and worry I had. I almost don't even care about the Demon Queen's presence anymore.

Demon Queen: "So that's how it'll be? I should've never trusted a coward like you."

rchant: "I don't want to fight you Liz, but I can't have you hurting them either..."

I would really like for him to fight her though.

But it seems like the circumstances between them aren't as straightforward as being on the sa side, it's clear from their words that these two have so history together.

Now, she did call him a coward to his face, and while I'm all for dunking on this guy, we should at least keep it to reasonable insults, and the rchant certainly doesn't seem like a coward to .

I an, he fights Gods on a daily basis, not to ntion, who would he even be afraid of? He's among the strongest beings in creation.

The fact that the rchant is not denying her words is a bit worriso though. Not to ntion, he seems incredibly nervous right now.

Demon Queen: "Once a traitor, always a traitor. Now that I think about it, I should've killed you much sooner. With your Divinity and Demonic Power paired with my Gift, I could even-"

rchant: "You would lose all the sa. And you would also doom creation. You should know better, Liz."

Demon Queen: "Should I put that to the test?"

rchant: "Haah... So you're just frustrated huh... Look, these guys miraculously took away all of your Demonic Power and Divinity and for so reason, your level is incredibly low... Isn't it ti to move on Liz? You were never ant to... No that's not right...

We never... wished for you to..."

Stumbling on his words, until the very end the rchant tries his best to talk to her.

I wasn't wrong when I thought he seed nervous, he's... sad and anxious, it looks to

like he's on the verge of a breakdown without even a fight.

I don't want to think that the rchant is actually incredibly weak but... he actually never seed too fond of fighting, and treated it more like child's play whenever facing us.

But even then... there's no way he would lose...

Unless his feelings get that much in his way.

Just in case, I ask Licia to give

the dagger.

If it seems like he's not gonna be able to do it, I'll finish this.

Apart from the rchant, the Queen's mind also doesn't seem to be in the best spot it's ever been.

She seems ntally tired, as if she just wants to end it all.

But sothing in the words of the rchant seems to have triggered her. Which is a sha given how hard he was trying to find the right words to express himself.

Still, her entire body starts sparking electricity once again. It's a sight I've beco quite familiar with, and from my experience, this ans sothing big is coming.

The sa lightning bolt that took down Licia in one hit was launched towards us. This ti though, there were dozens of them, going in every direction.

This wasn't an attack... it was like the very electricity that leaves her body, except that each spark had beco lightning capable of lting walls.

This girl... If she had done that in our battle... we would've all died in the first contact.

The very ground burned even though these things didn't touch it directly, but whenever one of them was actually about to hit us, it would simply be t with a barrier and disappear.

At the very least, it seems there's so valor in being under the rchant's protection, and while it's hard to see now given the amount of smoke...

Demon Queen: "Don't you dare talk about him! Don't you dare talk about ! I don't want to hear you. I hate you. Hate you! Loser...

Coward! Traitor!"

The rchant stood there, completely fine, not even dirt had touched his clothes.

Given his deanor, it's easy to forget it, but that despairing figure, an untouchable man, a force that cannot be opposed... that's what the rchant will always be, no matter how he acts.

Still, just like a kid throwing a tantrum... the words coming from the Demon Queen couldn't be trusted... tears were flowing from her eyes, and I doubt she could even see what was in front of her anymore.

She flew high into the air. A aningless action against the rchant but... it beca hard to see her face, which might've just been her objective.

A proud woman to be sure.

rchant: "Miwen... I'll give you a taste of a battle between the strongest... well, in her case, forr strongest. In exchange though... I want an honest explanation of what happened here."

Miwen: "Sure... Just so long as you win."

rchant: "Pfft... That's not even a question."

No, that wasn't

trying to crack a joke.

The demon that flew toward the sky had her arm raised, an entire storm covered the entire sky of the kingdom.

Granted, the sky here is not as big as Earth's but it's still a big ass storm.

The lightning coming from that was either purple or straight-up black. Not only were they stronger than anything she had used up until now, but they might also be faster. If not for them continuously falling down, I wouldn't even be able to tell their color. Well, they are flashing the sky in their color whenever they fall though, so I could use that to determine it.

Miwen: "Seriously... how far can she go? Does her mana have no end?"

rchant: "Well, yeah. Her Gift is literally [Infinite Mana]."

Pardon?

That was such a shock to hear that even the "what the fuck" that my mind would usually go to didn't feel enough to express my confusion.

Infinite Mana cannot be a Gift... that's like... that's like cheating.

It makes the rchant's Gift seem like shit.

Miwen: "I'm on her side now... your powers with that Gift would just be unfair."

rchant: "Right? Even if alone, she's worth an entire army. And she used to be so much more powerful too..."

And yet, she still lost...

The more I hear about the war against the Gods, the less I want to take part in it. I an, this girl lost to them, and she held back a lot against us.

The sa girl is calling the rchant, perhaps the biggest threat to the Gods, a coward, and a loser, so I can only assu that their side is quite the underdog.

More importantly... I thought her Gift as a mage would influence the amount of mana she wasted but... that's just too much. The idea of infinite mana would've never crossed my mind.

It's just incredibly unfair. It ans that there was nothing we could do without an attack that managed to go through all of her magic at once.

Well, soone like the rchant seems to have no trouble with her though.

He would stop each bolt of lighting by extending his open palm.

Not to ntion that when surrounded, he would simply avoid them. And not by teleporting either, in the fraction of a mont the rchant would tilt his head to the side or simply move his body.

It goes to show that his Gift is actually a bit of a waste in a fight since he's already so fast that it might as well be teleportation.

rchant: "Is that all? And I thought I could finally exercise my body a bit... So disappointing..."

He appeared behind her in the sky, grabbed her by the neck, and planted her face on the ground, which quaked enough to make

lose balance while the earth around them erupted, making a crater where they stood.

rchant: "Now... can you stop with the barriers? It makes it really hard to apply the right amount of strength..."

"A fight between the strongest". Yeah, right.

This wasn't a fight at all.

Nothing that the Demon Queen did hurt the rchant. I almost felt pity for her given that I found myself in the sa place once before.

While still immobilized, she continued to pour down her lightning attacks, hundreds of them all aid at them.

As that proved to be insufficient, she paired her lightning bubble with fire magic.

Giant wind tornadoes fell from the sky and quickly approached them.

The kingdom's river was redirected and compressed into a thin stream, no thicker than a man's head. It might be a weird way to asure it, but given how it was directly hitting the rchant's head, I could tell for sure.

The soil kept erupting earth lances that tried to perforate the rchant, fell back, and then erupted again repeatedly.

That wasn't just a display of multi-magic... each of those was of a different elent and on an incredibly high level.

The control required to maintain two different elents at the sa ti is already high, and while you can cheat by simply throwing the spell and giving up control of it so that you can use another one, I could tell that wasn't the case here since her magic attacks never stopped coming to the direction she wanted them to.

Not to ntion... she's doing all of that without even looking at him since she still has her head underground.

This... it was like the whole world had turned against the rchant.

The flowing river, the skies, the ground... even the very air was weaponized against him.

And still, there he was, not a single drop of blood. Not one piece of cloth shed or torn.

He wasn't smiling. This wasn't fun for him. Even though the outside wanted him dead, what was causing him pain was what he felt inside.

After so ti, the rchant threw the girl to the sky.

It's not because he was feeling any pressure from the outside but... she was probably going to suffocate if he kept her there...

It seems like she doesn't have Divinity or Demonic Power left, so oxygen deprivation would be a valid way to defeat her.

Judging by the power of her magic, she must be of a high level, so she can probably survive a while without breathing but, yeah, the rchant didn't seem keen on testing out how much she could hold since the risk of killing her this way was quite high.

Once she found herself back in the sky, the lightning storm ceased for a second.

All the rest continued but... they were distractions.

They had to be.

I refuse to think that anything she did could be more powerful than what I was seeing.

Once again, the entire sky of the kingdom was blocked by lightning, this ti, they kept redirecting one against the other, and...

Demon Queen: "Fuck! I hate this shithole! There's not enough fucking space to do anything!"

...

Well, I'm not gonna lie, that kind of hurt .

But boy am I glad that I didn't buy more slots.

If this girl had more space to work with... I think the giant black thunder tiger she's creating in the sky wouldn't be the only one coming down at us right now.

rchant: "Don't tell her but... that one might actually dirt my clothes."

Boohoo I'm so sad for you.

rchant: "Also, sorry, but I'll have to strengthen the barrier, so you won't be able to hear anymore."

..ing from him, these were quite ominous words.

But like he said, I couldn't hear anything going on anymore, but I could still tell what was happening.

Her attack ca crashing down violently, the wall of the kingdom lted without even being touched, and the entire sky was so black that it looked like the night had fallen early.

The speed of that thing was also inconceivable to , but... that trendous figure disappeared in an instant.

The rchant had lifted his arm and pointed his finger at the tiger coming at him.

Then... trendous wind dissipated everything in its way.

That was all I could tell.

His hair, what was left of the walls, the fucking river, all the trees in the forest, chunks and chunks of the ground, alongside every single house and rubble in the kingdom.

Everything was sent flying up at what must've been hypersonic speeds.

Nothing remained, the whole kingdom was a ss... and neither the houses nor the trees or the wall ca back to the ground.

Plants and grass were nowhere to be seen.

If this kept going... the kingdom wouldn't last.

The distance to the core is not that great.

With these guys destroying the ground like this I thought we would end up reaching it in two or three more attacks.

And to my surprise... this wasn't their strongest.

The tiger.

The fucking giant black thunder tiger.

That was the distraction.

She needed ti to chant.

That's all that was.

rchant: "You know... with a proper sky, she can do thousands of those at a ti."

Miwen: "Neat. If I had any points left I would double the amount of plots just to see more of that."

rchant: "Well... even if this place was 10x bigger... you would still see just one... She's making it very small in order to be able to use it."

Small...

It was a dragon... made of black lightning... on bright blue fire... Its body kept circling through the kingdom multiple tis, to the point that even though the end of its tail was incredibly high up, its head was just slightly above the ground.

That thing ca at the rchant like a train, and though unstoppable as it seed, the rchant didn't flinch for a second.

Once again, the sound outside was completely cut, so I knew he was going to do sothing but...

For the first ti, I saw the rchant throw a punch.

I couldn't see if he had enhanced his fist with magic or not.

All I could tell was that it was over.

He didn't even hit the thing.

The air pressure enough was alone.

And while it had a giant body that continued to co toward the rchant, it still wasn't enough to fight the very air in front of it.

I was sure he hadn't used fire magic, at least that much I would be able to see, and yet, the ground still lted around him. Perhaps due to the energy that had been used close to it.

His punch didn't have any form to it, but at the very least, he seed serious when doing it.

Was that because for the first ti, he exercised strength, or was it because he didn't know how to throw a punch and had to give it his all not to look goofy? I might never be able to tell.

rchant: "...Blood. She'll get serious now. Sorry Miwen, she'll start hurting herself with blood magic and arcanum, so I'll have to end this before she does sothing stupid."

Miwen: "...I've seen enough for a lifeti, feel free to do your thing."

Not like I can oppose this monster either way.

Hell, I don't even want to think about what I saw here today.

I thought I was seeing the world ending multiple tis.

It is a bit dreadful to see these guys fight on this level.

Perhaps I oughta trust the rchant's words a little bit more when he refuses to tell

things saying they would only bring

despair.

rchant: "...You should've also had enough by now..."

Lightning that looked like the bars of a cage surrounded the Queen and danced around her. Perhaps this was her strongest form of barrier but...

With a single touch, the rchant broke through it, his hand approached her.

She seed scared as she looked up to face him.

While she wasn't crying anymore, her eyes were still teary.

The rchant lifted his fist upward. And like a hamr falling down, he hit her head.

That was enough.

Her chanting was cut right in the middle, not a word left her mouth anymore, nor could she muster the strength to remain standing.

All the magic she had been casting stopped and the girl who managed to recover from having her head cut from her body was truly defeated.

Miwen: "I don't get it... how co you defeated her without even drawing blood when she managed to recover when we literally cut off her head?"

rchant: "This girl is a bonafide prodigy. You need to make her unconscious or else she'll just recover. For that, a direct impact to the head works better since if you cut it off, she'll have a mont to will her body back into shape, which will be enough to get her back on her feet."

...That's absolutely ridiculous.

She's almost invincible.

As long as she gets a single mont to think, she'll be able to recover infinitely thanks to her mana pool...

rchant: "Now... I think there's a lot for us to discuss. But first, I'll bring soone to look after them. Don't try anything funny, especially with what you have on your hands."

...

I really wanted her dead for what she's done but...

It is more obvious than ever that I can't risk making the rchant angry.

It's a sha, but I'll have to let her go.