Fake Saint Of The Year
Chapter 56 The Great Demon Octo (1st Half)
"Shadow" - Octo is the great demon who serves the witch Alexia.
The first knight Gonzalez, who once fought with the Virgin Alfreia, threw himself into the deep waters of the ocean, named the Gonzalez Sea, without light.
His race is called the Puppet Octopus and has a human intelligence of about three years old.
This octopus, which has a large brain compared to other octopuses, has a huge head and poor balance, and is slow to move compared to other octopuses.
Most notably its survival strategy, this octopus, which lacks combat skills, sneaks up on other creatures without sound, snatches itself away from the suction cup and manipulates it like a doll.
Then the manipulated creature can catch the prey and feed on it itself.
Other creatures turned into dolls eventually starve to death without being fed, eat such dead bodies again, and wander in search of new dolls.
That is the terrible habit of puppet octopus.
Griselda, the witch of the time, turned into a monster when the puppet octopus was accidentally caught by the waves and flowed to the shore.
That was Octo.
But Octo was intelligent, but he didn't like Griselda.
Manipulating other powerful monsters will give you the same strength, but you can only use them normally.
Manipulating human dignitaries won't help… but Griselda's forces were overwhelming enough not to feel the need to do so at the time.
Because the Virgin Lilia, who was supposed to defeat Griselda, died on her own.
Therefore, Griselda's witch tenure was longer than other witches, and she was able to increase her combat power and repaint the faction map.
So Griselda did not doubt her superiority, nor did she fear the Virgin.
... after all, Griselda showed no interest in Octo because she lost to Alexia because of this slowness.
I just turned it into a monster and let it go.
The demonized Octo started attacking humans without questioning their instincts as monsters.
But it's originally a weak puppet octopus.
At that time, I didn't even know the strength of the human I had seen for the first time. I mistook it as strong because it was bigger than my own, and manipulated a nearby fisherman to raid a nearby village... I was quickly captured by a rushing soldier.
Humans were also strong and weak, and the man he took over was much weaker than he thought.
If at least the bear or the tiger had taken over, the story would still have been different, but it was all a later festival.
Bringing him before King Aids and I Bilberry XIII, he was sent to the basement of the Castle of the Virgin.
Many monsters lived underground to kill Alexia, who eventually returned from defeating witches.
So Octo was trapped in a jar just filled with miscellaneous seawater... but by using his tentacles dexterity in the gap where the sentinel man was sleeping, he opened the lid of the jar and escaped and took the key from the man.
Using the software as it was, I went into the cage and turned the trapped monster into a doll, and the cage was opened with the key I got earlier.
I opened another cage and killed Octo-controlled monsters with another... Octo-eaten both exhausted monsters.
He knew instinctively that monsters would kill each other and become stronger by eating each other.
If only the awake sentry soldier had reported a reduction in monsters at this time, Octo's fast forward attack would have stopped here.
When I woke up, there were signs of monsters killing each other, and the number was decreasing.
Octo didn't even think about it.
But the guard soldier didn't report it.
If you report that the monster has decreased while you are asleep, you will not escape the scolding, and in some cases you may be literally decapitated.
So he made a false report and this anomaly was not communicated to anyone.
The incompetence of this guard soldier saved Octo.
And one day Octo met his destiny.
Alexia, who crushed the witch Griselda, was imprisoned under the castle as a new witch.
The monsters, including Octo, were unleashed to destroy her.
But Octo didn't attack Alexia.
Because I instinctively understood that she was the person to serve.
So Octo, on the other hand, took Alexia's side and tried to escape by stirring up other monsters.
At that time, Octo, who already had far more power than the ordinary monsters, became the leader of the monsters who were there, and there was no one to disobey.
Octo, who succeeded in getting Alexia out safely, has since become Alexia's closest associate.
Octo, who became the Great Demon after successfully completing the trials of the Great Demonization, also acquired the same intelligence as humans. By keeping the same environment as the deep sea around him at all times with the magic he acquired, he was able to operate for a long time without any problems on the ground.
And now.
Octo was moving quietly through the school to protect the Lord.
It is the contemporary Virgin Ellise who is now most afraid of the Lord.
Then Octo knew that killing this was impossible and that if Octo manipulated it, there would be no threat.
You won't even be able to touch Ellise from the beginning.
Even without the power of the Virgin, she is an out-of-standard monster.
Even if Octo tries to get tangled up, it is first blocked by magic and played.
Even if it is successfully entangled, it is I who will be blown away by magic before the poison turns around.
If she is sleeping, there may be a gap, but Diaz reports that there is Leila the Kintetsu Knight on the fifth floor, and that she has a barrier in her room while sleeping and no one enters.
I see, I'm also very vigilant about strange tricks and sneakers that target me while I'm asleep.
I am never too slow about high abilities.It's the hardest to do.
That's why Octo thought about turning her eyes away from school instead of targeting Ellise.
Ellise is currently in school because Alexia is staring at the school.
So change that assumption.
If a witch appeared elsewhere, Ellise would have to leave.
That's why, of course, we're not moving Alexia somewhere else.
Honestly, it would be best for Alexia to run away and hide on the teleport, but the Lord would have no choice if he hadn't.
Octo's aim was to send another witch besides Alexia... that is, to set up a shadow warrior to riot and escape on top of it.
To do this, he lurks in the darkness and searches for students who are as comfortable as possible as witches.
I like someone as arrogant and arrogant as Griselda can be and as disliked by others.
I don't like people around me.
She's definitely different!If someone suspects you, this plan will fail.
We need to find someone who thinks, "He wasn't crazy, even a witch."
After observing the students for a while, Octo found one.
The student running with tears is certain... yes, that stunning silver hair is certainly etherna.
A student with whom Ellise interacts, Diaz reports that Farah has once been a hostage.
Of course, it is not suitable for this operation at all.
If Ellise suspects that she is not a witch, she will fall.
But it might help us lure Ellise out.
The witch's shadow warrior is looking for something else... I'll get her too.
So Octo slowly sneaked up on Eterna.