Hellmode ~Gamer Who Likes to Speedrun Becomes Peerless in a Parallel World with Obsolete Setting~ Vol. 12 - Chapter 740 - War Against the Demon King Army (2)

«Arguehagaaaj......»

Under the shower of eerie light, the archdemon—though he had his head popped off a mont ago—rose to his feet once again, his head back to its pri state.

It was a resurrection if one would like to play it out like that, however the expression of resentnt and despair hanging on his face was a clear cut sign the resurrection ca at a price. From its mouth, drool dripped down as he fumbled around to pick up the wand he had dropped earlier when the arrow struck him.

However, the way he searched the ground made it clear he must be facing haziness before his eyes, or sothing similar, like vertigo. He tried many tis to feel for the wand, and often mistook the shattered piece of floor for the wand then threw it afterward. It took a while but it finally grasped the wand.

(H-hey, don't tell ...)

Allen gasped, recalling the nature of the enemy resembling the one he had slain a lot in the Ela Theocracy.

«Heurgen-sama. What's the matter with this?»

«We haven't heard anything about it. Mara-sama, pray tell us what's going on?»

«Yeah, we aren't here to turn into monsters...»

A wave of shock spread amidst the crowd of demons when they witnessed the transformation and demanded an answer. It seed they were stupefied by the situation, much like Allen and his team.

Perhaps because the ans of their leaders were going too overboard even for them, the demons and archdemons were seized in bafflent.

«Fufu, you all are so cute. Hey, Scree, wake up that boy as well.»

«Screee!!»

However, turning a deaf ear to her soldiers, Mara continued to have Scree revive the fallen soldiers. Once again, eerie radiance released from Scree's huge eye, illuminating the corpse of the demon.

«Graaaghh!!»

Dead demon's flesh wriggled, rapidly closing up as it got up with a ghoulish expression, a far cry from the expression of living.

(They're really making out to be the personification of evil god. No, wait. isn't that what they wanted? To make an immortal army, they'd been transforming the people from their research to gather their souls.)

The pieces of puzzles had started to fall in their places as Allen recalled the chaos in Prostia Empire; they'd used a similar evil god’s incarnation to gather souls to revive the evil god slumbering beneath crystal flower.

«So all of this research was to turn into your mindless weapon?!»

«W-we didn't co here to turn into monsters...»

(Oh, maybe this is our chance? Let's see if they listen...)

«Listen, all of you! As you can see, the only fate awaits you is to be turned into a monster like them! I can turn a blind eye if you were to imdiately turn back from this scene!!»

Since the Demon King's Army had split into three divisions, it fell on their shoulders to constrict the movent of two divisions at least. Allen tried to advise the hesitant opponents to give up on their arms with a threatening attitude, hoping they could avoid this fight here.

«Fufu, you really are foolish ones. Do you think you could've beco demon or archdemon had it not been the grace of Lord Demon King? Soon, the three realms shall be at the footsteps of Demon King to command. Consider this a trial to overco if you want a place among the executives of that supre force. Had not we all been re angels? But look at us, by our rits we are now the Fiend Kings!»

"Don't forget my research helped too!"

«Scree!!»

Shinonom, the Director of Monster Soldier's Research Division, also raised his voice from below the hole opened, making his claim that he had as much of a hand in increasing the number of demons and archdemons as much Demon King had. Scree raised its tentacle, seemingly affirming it.

«Alright, it's ti to make you choices. Will you follow the grace of Demon King, and acquire the unimaginable power in the Demon King dominated world, or will you choose to be the traitor and face the punishnt? Take your stand!!»

Mara spread her arms in theatrical gestures, and demanded the choice of archdemons.

It appeared her words had shown them the direction they must take as an expression of determination flashed across the demons. Maybe they cling to vague hope that they could be returned to their forr shape even after becoming a monster once their dominion is spread across the realms.

On other hand, they also must have realised they had no other options if they refused to fight here as well. What could they even go? One of them tightened their grasp on the weapon, followed by the second demon, then third, then fourth... and soon, the embers of motivation had re-ignited within them.

«That was one hell of a charade. But anyway, one thing is correct. Our turning point is just around us.»

The two-legged and four ard beetle shaped demon—Virdiga step forward as the sickle in his biggest arm glead with an ominous shine, preparing for the combat.

(It's not going to be easy with that eyeball thing around. I see, so this is what he ans when he said they don't need much force to deal with us.)

"W-what's our plan, Allen-sama?"

«Enemies can revive themselves. Formar and Luck, your role is to protect the integrity of formation. I and Leon will hold the frontline.»

At the verge of battle, Allen passed his instruction via Bird F's skill while having Kuwataro use his two eyes—the other two eyes were keeping an eye on the other demons via «Tracking Sight»—to cast «Appraisal Gaze».

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Na: Mara

Age: 187200

Race: Fiend King

Strength: 284050 50000

Attack: 195000

Magic Attack: 338000 100000

Endurance: 224250 50000

Agility: 221000 50000

Intelligence: 338000 150000

Luck: 156000

Elents: Nil, -50% Offensive Spell Cast Duration, -50% Cooldown, 50% Spell Damage

Resistance: Nil, Spell Resistance (Strong), Dodge Chance (Strong), Abnormal Status Resistance (Strong0

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Na: Virdiga

Age: 1289995

Race: Fiend King

Strength: 299000

Attack: 273000

Magic Attack: 247000

Endurance: 388700

Agility: 338000

Intelligence: 221000

Luck: 195000

Elents: Nil, 50% Critical Rate

Resistance: Physical Resistance (Extre), Breath Resistance (Strong), Spell Resistance (Strong)

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Na: Scree

Age: 105

Race: Ultimate Demon-Construct Weapon

Strength: 239200

Attack: 169000

Magic Attack: 143000

Endurance: 194350

Agility: 143000

Intelligence: 169000

Luck: 156000

Elents: Nil

Resistance: Spell Resistance (Strong), Infinite Endurance Recovery, Super Mana Recovery

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Na: Heurzen

Age: 8200

Race: Archdemon Incarnation (Supre Demon-Construct)

Strength: 89700

Attack: 67600

Magic Attack: 104000

Endurance: 74750

Agility: 91000

Intelligence: 104000

Luck: 39000

Elents: Nil, -30% Offensive Spell Cast Duration, -30% Cooldown

Resistance: Nik, Spell Resistance (Mid)

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Na: Grilmore

Age: 450

Race: Archdemon Incarnation (Supre Demon-Construct)

Strength: 56810

Attack: 45500

Magic Attack: 54600

Endurance: 47840

Agility: 49400

Intelligence: 58500

Luck: 15600

Elents: Nil, -30% Offensive Spell Cast Duration, -30% Cooldown

Resistance: Nik, Spell Resistance (Mid)

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[Shared Buffs and Resistances]:

Offense Buffs: 30% physical attack, 30% critical hit rate, 20% Spell Casting Ti, -30% cooldown, -30% Aria Casting Ti

Resistances: Spell Resistance (Strong), Breath Resistance (Strong), Strength recovery 100/sec, Mana recovery: 100/sec

Since the persuasion had failed, Allen quickly shifted the stance to battle the Demon King Army.

«That eyeball is the main opponent. We need to defeat it first or we will be locked into a never ending loop of battle!!»

(Virdiga is clearly above Andrey in strength, so we will have to leave him for later!)

Now, the mainstay in their battle was who to prioritise and with whom they shouldn't engage too much. It was helpful that the eyeball monster lacked any resistance against breath attack too.

«Gotcha. Extre Fla!»

«Scree!?»

«Hehe, I know you will choose that.»

Surprised to be suddenly at the brunt of soone's attack, Scree curled the tentacle around to protect itself, turning into a ball. Virdiga was expecting their opponent to target their weak link first, and plunged himself between them promptly.

The huge mass of flas slamd against Virdiga, and while it left a slightly burnt mark on his robust carapace, the special technique never made it to Scree.

Still, the superheated blast incinerated a dozen demons in the front line, buffed or not. They collapsed, charred husks before they hit the ground.

«Scree, sweetheart... Wake them all up for .»

«Scree!!»

Realising the breath attack was completely blocked, Scree opened its eyes wide, illuminating the area around with an eerie radiance. The charred remains of the demons wriggled and returned to their forr state within a blink of an eye as they rose up.

(Oh man, so it can raise 10 zombies at once? Then an area wide attack wouldn't cut in. We will have to sohow outpace its resurrection ability. But it would not be so easy, eh. We would have to at least reduce them to dust to prevent it seems.)

Allen pieces together his plan inwardly as he picks more details on their opponent.

«Mara. Recovery.»

«Evil Energy Rain!»

With Mara at its epicentre, jet black droplets started to rain down.

«Take your position, everyone. We are going to face strong breath attacks, so make sure you keep recovery and breath resistance up all ti.»

«Understood!!»

«Graargh!!»

As the Virdiga took the command, the zombi-fied demons imdiately pace themselves to create a formation, splitting themselves into vanguard, midguard, rearguard, supports et cetera.

(It's obvious which role they have from their equipnt.)

Whenever Kuwataro wasn't using appraisal gaze, Allen would have him use «Thousand Mile Gaze» for the duration.

[Demon King Army's Formation - Space-Ti God & Magic God Arc]

Commander - Mara, Virdiga

Archdemons - 15 vanguard, 15 midguard, 10 rearguard, 10 healers (50 all around)

Demons - 30 vanguard, 10 midguard, 5 rearguard, 5 healers (50 all around)

Extras - Shinonom, Scree

(A defensive-heavy formation... I wonder how long it would take for Space-Ti God's arm to be healed.)

«Space-Ti God. Would it be possible for you to keep the enemies isolated, and provide suppressive ranged fire?»

«O-of course. There's no way I would let them rampage around when Isiris is still here and do nothing.»

Space-Ti God had yet to recover from damage inflicted by Supre Commander Ordo. But given the situation, Allen enlisted his help as they couldn't afford to not use any of their cards.

«Aww man, this is going to be really exhausting, isn't it?»

«Sophia, and Tonis. I would like you to focus on recovery and cover fire. Use fire magic.»

«Understood. Leave this task to .»

“Hey, Kaka! Burn 'em all down!!”

“Got it! Oryaaaa!!”

Tonis, the great spirit of water, had also been stupefied at the sight of Zombie-esque demons.

Allen left the managent of great spirits and spirits to Sophia and Luck. With her skill strengthening, Sophia could now summon four spirits in tandem with four great spirits.

Receiving the command, Kaka, the great spirit of fire in bikini armor, enthusiastically plunged into the ranks of the enemy.

«RAAAAHHHHH!!»

«Too slow!! Take this!!»

«Gah!?»

She slipped past the swing of a demon wielding a massive axe and drove a blazing punch into his gut. But even after taking the hit, the demon didn’t go down. Instead, he dropped his weapon—and lunged at Kaka, grappling her.

«What the hell? Are you trying to hug ?! I will burn you to ashes!!»

«GYAAARRRGHHHH!?»

Kaka engulfed herself into a giant pillar of fire in retaliation, burning the demon.

"Wai—arg, my m-mana is..."

Luck felt dizziness assaulting him as his spirit consud all the mana he had conferred following their contract.

«Hey, Kaka! You're using too much of Luck's mana!!»

«Ohh, my bad. But you see, this atleast reduced one to re charcoal.»

*Tumble*

Kaka said, pointing at the fossilised body of the demon, and this ti, Scree didn't appear in intent to revive it.

(Oh, great. So it indeed can't revive them if they're completely burnt up huh.)

«Fufu, splending. It stands to reason why you're the biggest eyesore of our plan, Allen-san. Everyone, be careful, alright. A mistake would an forfeiting your dream to step into the glorious world ruled by the demons.»

The Fiend King Mara inspired the demons, guiding them to target Allen.

And thus, the curtain rises on the Allen Party versus Demon King Army battle.