Boom!
A series of light beams crashed down in the slum area.
The explosions of magic where these teor-like projectiles landed boasted such power that one had to brace for fatal injuries if hit directly.
Its not just a magical explosion. Its an attack with mass, amplified by gravity.
Targeting not the enemy imdiately but puncturing the enemy precisely with attacks tid to reach the target area by the minute.
Even soone ignorant of strategy would know how implausible it was to aim for such a thing.
But whats more annoying than the teor is the sequence of traps. Not directly operated remotely, but ti-delayed activation, making it difficult to predict the timing from my end.
Even if hidden, one could feel the traps magic and locate it by senses alone, but focusing only on such locations, one could be hit by a falling teor at any mont.
A strategy of driving one into ti-delayed attacks, not knowing when they would strike
Was it really possible, in a conventional sense, to grasp all the movents of a first-ti opponent and accurately hit them with ti-delayed attacks?
Are you a fortune teller?
The conclusion to the speculation ca when she was pushed back to the square.
rilyn began to compare the so-called fortune tellers she had once encountered with the adversary before her.
Yes, just as you said I am a fortune teller who reads the movent of stars to see the future.
The power they wielded, focused on prophecy, was not threatening in itself.
Given the years they had lived, which were no different from their appearance, their skills would also not exceed the limits of a human living only several decades.
However, the danger of the opponent lay not in their power but in their unpredictability. Indeed, she herself had been unable to counter effectively and had been pushed back this far.
Thats why I foresaw that you would co here, and I ca to exclude you from his side.
Though preparation might be necessary, if already prepared, they could persistently push even an overwhelmingly strong opponent.
Such preparation went beyond setting traps in advance. It continued even during this standoff.
Did you co here because you read the future where you would take my partner from ?
The power felt from the crystal ball in her hand
Must be emanating because, even during the conversation, she was creating teors in the atmosphere with her unique magic.
The Frenzied Jester, phisto Rage.
As she pondered how to respond, the woman glaring at her uttered her true identity.
She was briefly startled, but the shock was montary.
No matter how skilled in disguise she was, the adversary was a fortune teller.
To read the future, one must read the past that ford its basis, so identifying the disguised opponents true identity would be easy.
I pity you.
But the words that followed were completely unexpected.
The sympathetic face that appeared alongside her indicated that her current statent was not rely pretense.
Pity Are you referring to ?
Yes, even though you are a mber of the Demon Kings army, known for invading and destroying nurous dinsions Your purpose was not destruction or plunder but solely to please your Lord.
The concept of sin was created by humans to protect their society, but what use was it to adhere to human rules in a collapsing world?
If anything, one must first consider whether the target poses a threat to oneself.
In that sense, the person before her could be declared harmless to humanity, at least as long as she didnt interfere with her.
If, by any chance, he had chosen you.
Hence, Airi couldnt help but pity her.
Having lived in the void for an endlessly long ti, she could respect the sentint of cherishing soone who remained in her mory.
Even if I cant give him up, I might have accepted that he chose you. After coming to this world, he was starved for human contact, so he tends to react sensitively to any kindness shown towards him.
Even if the man she desired as a partner had a place in his heart for her, she might have acknowledged it, albeit reluctantly, if their eting was purely as a man and a woman.
But now, after eting you in person, I realize. You definitely shouldnt be by his side.
Ahaha~ You really are quite greedy. If you know what happened between him and , you surely must have read that he still harbors feelings for
You were planning to die with Woo Hyo-sung, werent you?
Snap.
The frenzied demon fell silent upon hearing the subsequent words.
Even amidst this silence, the lingering traces of magic in the sky intensified, but rilyn, undeterred, continued to engage in conversation with her.
Well, I cant say for sure. Coincidentally, even I am uncertain of how I will act.
Now, you call that an answer
Demons are beings faithful to desire. Once we obtain what we want, we simply do as we please thereafter.
As she said, she herself did not know what would happen next.
She only vaguely guessed that, had the woman not intruded, they would have indulged in passion as much as they could, regardless of what happened next.
Even if acting on a whim leads to destruction, can you accept that?
No matter the outco, the end will surely be happy.
Even if the end result was the extre choice she spoke of, her power had the effect of paralyzing the reason of those who indulged in it.
The pleasure derived from it was more stimulating and addictive than any drug.
Thus, the fate t while imrsed in it could not be unhappy.
Wouldnt it be better to end that way? No matter how desperately we live in a world thats soon to end, both demons and humans will live in despair equally.
A finality soaked in pleasure rather than a torture of false hope
So might consider it the ideal way to live in a world on the brink of destruction.
Indeed, if the empire had not developed the technology to mass-produce heroes, most people would have dreamt only of a comfortable death in a world filled with despair.
Theres no need to hear more.
But she was the last heir of the Haven family.
As soone with the mission to protect the future of destruction, she couldnt possibly sympathize with such nonsensical opinions.
You really must be eliminated here.
The man she wished to fulfill this mission.
She couldnt let him be manipulated by this demons tricks.
You speak quite confidently.
And the demon felt the sa disgust toward her opponent.
Soone capable of making such perfect predictions to corner her, surely wouldnt have failed to foresee the demise of this world.
It was not difficult to predict that soone facing such a future would transfer that enormous responsibility to a re human.
Even though I may be the weakest among the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon Kings army, I still have enough power to protect myself
Yes, the person before her must be trying to push him into a thorny path.
Such a goal was utterly incompatible with her own.
Promoting an impossible hope, suggesting living with it is, to the demon who spent her life in the torture of waiting for her lords return, an act of sin.
Sorry, but youve already fallen into a trap.
Therefore, for his sake, she had to eliminate this woman first.
As she was about to charge, the feeling of unease at her feet made her expression harden.
Crackle! Slice!
The attacks of sharp crystal formations sprouted up without giving her a mont to step.
She twisted her body to avoid the attacks as much as possible, but it was impossible to dodge them all.
Her clothes and skin were torn.
The traps, laid out over several hours since her arrival, succeeded in reaching even a being among the transcendent.
Peekaboo
At that mont, she felt a chill down her spine from that smile.
Kaboom!!
Before she could react, her body, thrown with full force, rcilessly crashed into the ruins wall.
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