Kuro no Maou

Episode 540: Beyond Trials

"... the swamp disappears"

Fiona did not hesitate to let go of 'The Golden Sun (All Soleil)' in order to sweep away the army of copies that emerged. The sun that has fallen to the ground bursts just around the middle of the swamp. Both blunt and heavy copies were erased without a trace.

When a single blast and heat wave subside, instead of slime in front of me, the swamp itself turns into a crater to expose vain burn marks. The amount of water for one swamp evaporated instantly, and even another drop of water was gone here.

"Secured. I'll take care of it later."

Phew, and exhaling like a job done, Fiona began to gab at the magic restoration potion she had removed from her hat like a sports drink.

Now 'The Golden Sun (All Soleil)' doesn't drain as much magic as falling in one shot, but it still doesn't make a difference to follow in a significant amount. Given the backup of the operation, replenishment at the stronghold is important.

"Saliel, start prepping me. Do you know the direction?

"Pride gems do not currently use inherent magic (extras) such as cover-ups. If there are so many signs, it can be detected even ten kilometers away. There's nothing wrong with this distance."

That means you were grasping signs when you went into the woods. If it's the sharpness of the sixth sense, it's a complete defeat for Sariel.

"Me and Fiona guard our surroundings. Early, please."

"Yes, master. We'll finish it in forty seconds."

Like Shiloh, Saliel turns to the right with his partner from the Apostolic Age, the Cross Spear, the "Holy Cross Spear (Grand Cross)" and the "Rebellion Cross", and to the other with a thick scroll (scroll), in a direction in the woods without straying.

Saliel stares ahead, yeah, definitely at the point where the Pride Gem stands somewhere. God assures me that the red dots of the trials are clearly visible in that direction in my left eye.

"Ready."

"Oh, exactly forty seconds."

Thanks to the display of the helmet displaying like a digital clock, I was able to count the exact number of seconds. Nothing, I wasn't counting with the intention of putting an ass on it. It appeared on its own.

"Even sheep can count for about forty seconds!

That's not what you mean.

Anyway, shall I leave the crap chatter around there? From here on out, on top of Miss's unacceptable one-shot battle, it's almost a big bump in the production.

"Do it, Sariel"

With the acknowledgement, Saliel put up a spear.

At her feet, a scroll of dragon-skinned paper is spread like a single path. Is it about ten meters at a distance?

"..."

In an unfamiliar melody, Saliel's chant begins.

Responding to her voice as streamlined as she sings, the paper of the scroll and the additional surgical formula of the hurricane, written directly to the ground with the stone clash of the spear, begin to glow blurry. It used to be a white light, I guess. Now, some demonic purple glow colored the magic formations that spread to the ground.

"Ticket"

Entering the second verse of the chant, Saliel finally takes a step over the scroll. The footsteps moving forward are light and there is no standing one footstep.

"Product"

The glow of the magic formation has increased with every step, and now bursts and purple electricity are scattered there.

I just walked as far as the inside of the scroll, and the movement was sudden. Smooth one rotation of the spear in your right hand. Switch to backwards, keep it up, take charge of it. And run all at once.

"Coupon"

From there on out, in a moment. It just breaks in an instant, such as a distance of about five meters.

Finally, intense, from the magic formations, there is light, and -

"Order"

At the tip of the lifted cross, a black thunderbolt lights a blade against God. Lightning by black magic, colored by black, red, and two-colored flashes.

Saliel finally reached the edge of the scroll with a black cross spear that housed enormous amounts of power converging at one point, swung thoughtfully.

At that moment, I felt the power of a small, luxurious body but like a wild dragon. And I'm convinced.

Oh, I see. Even if we throw this from Fortress Alsace, it will reach Fortress Galahad.

"-" Heavenly Thunder Spear (GUNGNIL) ""

An original martial art that boasts Sariel's ultra-long range, unleashed. Instead of the holy light, it houses a disastrous thunderbolt, and the 'Rebellion Cross' flies. He left a thunderbolt like a bundle of thunder, running straight through the deep woods.

"Landing Confirmation"

"All right, now you've cleared the way"

Black thunder wipes out all the trees in the woods and all the slimes that would have lurked there in large numbers, opening them like cavities in front of me. It's as if a giant passenger plane had decided to land its torso in this forest and scraped it to bits on the ground.

I didn't know that a single spear could do so much destruction, but after all, Saliel is made to realize that even if he loses the power of the Apostle, he remains a monster. You're on my side now, and it sounds really good to be honest.

"Let's go, Miriam. Fit it well."

"- Chaos Main Engine (Omega Drive) - Liberation (Ignition), Spirit Propulsion (Elemental Booster) - Startup (Open), Fast Manoeuvre Form (Afterburner) - Transition (Set)"

I realize that my magic will be sucked away with twice or three times more momentum than ever before to armor. Most importantly, it is insignificant compared to Ursula's drain attacks, so even in this state it will be able to remain in combat for quite some time. Well, more than when I was drained and pinched by Cyprus, I'm still growing up, even in a magical way.

"Well, after all, I'm not used to this weird floating feeling."

An armor that doesn't even make you feel heavier makes you fuzzy and lighter as if you've completely forgotten its weight now. Just a step in and feel like it's going to go for meters.

I feel like I can rush out at a hell of a speed, and I also feel the horror of flying away in an unmistakable direction if I take a step wrong.

But if you're not used to this, you can't travel fast at will.

If you spray the booster in this state, you will certainly be able to manoeuvre as peaky as I did with Miriam, ignoring inertia. But I'm still not familiar with that control.

Well, it would be better because you don't have to use boost travel to run and fly and jump to the same extent as you were born, so it won't interfere with the fight right now.

In the meantime, if we can just go straight now, that's fine.

"Come on, let's go -"

I'm ready. Fiona secures the starting point, and Saliel paves the way. And wrapped in a piece of steel called Maximilian, I turn it into a single shell now.

"- Fly," Storm Demon King (Oversky) ""

Fifth protection, activated.

For a moment, my vision is blurred. The surrounding scenery flows with tremendous momentum to the speed at which it rushed out. One beat late, I can hear the main booster on the back roaring.

I'm sure Fiona and the others would have seen me spraying crimson phosphorescent light from the booster so that the rocket would fly away correctly.

I mean, this is the operation. With the speed of the fifth reinforcement, The Storm Demon King (Oversky), which has the effect of superior speed enhancement, it's about packing a distance in a flash and beating in a painful blow before the Pride Gem does something to decide the battle. If it catches on in one shot, it doesn't give other adventurers a gap to follow. The reward for the emergency quest is now our total.

"Ku... Gu..."

But as if to mock my happy thoughts, the pressure that my body is still going to fall apart can be tapped. Nothing, I didn't get attacked. That's what this is called, it costs a G.

The "Demon King of the Storm (Oversky)", which presides over the Wind attribute, is a blessing that, as expected, enhances speed.

But if you actually run, the effect is more than you can imagine. It's unclear how many kilometers are actually out there, but it's definitely reaching a speed that doesn't even end up with martial arts or magical overlays of linear speed enhancement systems. Extremely, I still can't imagine how fast it will go.

Regardless, the effect does not remain just the maximum speed. Like when Sariel was an apostle, this convergence also brings with it such acceleration that he has already almost reached the top speed from the first step. Normal people, of course, even swordsmen who are confident in their kinetic vision may not be able to outrun me because of their simple speed.

However, it is horribly out of control. Even without the booster of "The Tyrant's Armor (Maximilian)," if activated, it will feel like it's flying directly to life, carrying a rocket engine. A hell of a rampage horse. Fifth protection, Koitz, will be useless if it is not ever more, more proficient and able to be controlled.

Still, in battle, speed is an important factor alongside power. I don't remember struggling fast enough.

However, I do not rely on speed in such parts as flirting with enemies, avoiding powerful attacks, etc.

What we need now is the destructive power brought about by the transcendent speed. Thus, it is a progression.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Start running, two or three seconds. Soon, the goal will be visible.

A giant like a mountain, what can I say, the same as Gratney Octo? Does the look of the Pride Gem feel like, well, the lake just moved out?

As for the whole picture, it just looks flat round like it made the slime huge. The color was also watery, and it also seemed like the slime was just swarming. For what I saw, that sounds like the most normal trial monster I've ever seen.

The reason I feel a little swallowed up like that is because right now he's got about Sariel's tight blow in his stomach and his flesh is making a big decision.

Pride Gem's body is even a giant slime, but just like my copy, it absorbed numerous weapons into its body. However, it looks like a dragon that saves treasure, but it floats in the body as a cluttered piece, so it just looks like a heap of trash.

But it also looks like this pile of garbage has become the armor that protects the core. It's just around the middle, and you can't see the core in any other position, so you're sure to think it's in there.

The physical structure of the Pride Gem is roughly as expected here. Then let me keep going.

"-" The Flaming Demon King (Overdrive) ""

"Fast manoeuvre mode (afterburner) disarmed, impact absorption mechanism (absorber) activated"

The giant body of a soaring Pride Gem is already in front of you. Thanks to Sariel, there's no obstacle, and the other splinters are blown up, besides his body is pretty choosy. All you have to do is jump in and get the core.

Unlock Storm Demon King (Oversky) and switch to Fire Demon King (Overdrive) for attack, but the super acceleration once on doesn't stop so easily. The momentum to just break through the flesh of this fragile slime is enough already.

I jumped in like a shell, and the body part of me that decided how to react at this time waves into Russia and starts to crack.

In a moment, Sole tries to twist out a copy that mimics what I look like - but it's too late.

"'Fist of Wrath (Lars Impact)'!

Slap a blow of red lotus in the face of the copy that was out to the upper body. I hardly feel it's handy. But the burning destructive power hidden in his fist did release him.

A blowing blast. It is not black smoke but bright white vapor, which would be a reaction only because the flesh of the slime, which is mostly moisture, evaporated in large quantities and instantly. In an instant, my vision is closed with white darkness.

Even if you can't see it, you can see your body is flying rather than moving forward and forward with accelerated momentum.

How about it. I've succeeded in striking a blow at Pride Gem, but it doesn't weaken the momentum any more than I thought. What should I do when I land?

"Sounds like a shock absorption mechanism (absorber) for that, right?

In the corner of my head, a sheep answers my questions.

That means he's like the creepy man meat jelly on the inside of this armor. I've heard before that it has the ability to absorb physical shocks significantly by temporarily increasing and further activating the amount of this, which means…

"Wow, I feel safe falling off my head with this!

After all, at the same time, a strong shock runs across my body. It is understandable that he has zero vision because of the smoking vapor, but has now been slammed straight to the ground.

With all this momentum on the boulder and the posture immediately after the martial arts were rolled out, then my vision was also sealed, I lacked the ability to achieve a magnificent landing with just my sense of balance and physical control.

"Ugh... I think I'm going to turn my eyes"

Normally, I throw up.

Even for me, I rolled down the earth pretty hard like I've never experienced before. I broke some trees and at the end of the day I hit a fine big tree and the movement finally stopped.

For now, my body feels no pain or paralysis. Should it be called System All Green?

"Cucumber, no more sheep."

Only the maid system seems to have a red alert on, but, well, this time, it's no use staying put.

"What happened to Pride Gems?"

"Hostile reaction, vanishing. Disablement Confirmation"

Standing up a little flirtatious, Miriam just told me.

"Oh, you did it"

In front of me, the sight of the flesh of Pride Gem, which has lost its core and boasts an enormous amount of water, begins to drool and collapse. The round flesh was pierced and pierced with great holes, just as shells were punched in from the side, and the walls of the armaments protecting the core were also blown away, the majority of which were turned into mere iron scum.

The circular flesh, raised high enough to reach the tall trees that grow around it, gets lower and lower with the melting body of the slime. It was as if it had collapsed back to just a pond that it was here.

I don't think it's slime. It's like a grand death, but now I'm more concerned about Core's whereabouts than that. I don't think I've ever had too much momentum and splashed all over the wood dust...

"Target enemy - sensory ant, eleven o'clock direction, distanced approximately seven meters."

Picorn, along with the mechanical outgoing sound, a red arrow lights up at the edge of the sight. At the root of the arrow, it says something in ancient language, but unfortunately I can't read it at all. But I can imagine it would be a notation that feels like a target or a target or something.

The handy feature of attention, even if I can't read the text, allows me to discover a large blue crystal that is rolling right over the ground.

"I don't think I'm wrong about the Nucleus of Arrogance."

Blue, rather than blue, is a deep shade of treasure. I have about a volleyball. For a big body, the core seems to grow proportionally.

The core of the Pride Gem is quite stubborn compared to that of the regular slime. He said he jumped out of the flesh with quite a shock, but he didn't scratch one on a surface like a polished sphere.

He is still alive because he can feel the signs of magic clarity. At the next moment, the atmosphere is not strange if the normal-sized slime body starts to regenerate and resume its activities.

In the meantime, Miriam assures me that she's powerless... but she can't eat dead bodies like Slowsgill. Again, let's thoroughly stab the todome and then think about retrieving it.

So, to scratch into this stubborn core, I took a step with a little worries about whether I wanted the best cleavage, or a bad diet that could absorb magic, that's when.

"... now you're shaking?

The question would have been spoken of once if one lived in Japan, an earthquake power. When you feel a faint shake on the ground, could it be a seismic intensity, or is it your fault? To be sure, I ask unexpectedly.

"Yeah, I knew you rocked," or "Uh, I didn't feel anything," that kind of physical answer often returns -

"Warning, unknown hostile reaction (anno un) confirmed. Hazard Determination - Extreme"

Urgent earthquake alerts and tense voices in my brain. My body reacted before agreeing to the thankful warning that Announcer Miriam gave me.

Already the ground swing increases in acceleration, and instead of feeling the swing, it becomes so big that it becomes suspicious that it is time to stand.

At that time, my decision was not to pick up the core that rolls right in front of me, but to jump out of the spot with all my might.

It's a shame. But I don't regret it. Because if you don't fly here, you're going to get a surprise attack from a blind spot called Foot by someone who's trying to get out of the ground.

Gawwwwwwwww!!

A splash of dirt and sand rises with a growl that just pinches my ears. From the mud curtain gap, I saw a nostalgic figure there.

"Is he... larspun!?

A distinctive long ear for a wolf-like sharp and fierce face. And a giant body, rightly to be called a warcraft, covered in swollen muscle armor, with fuzzy fur. The silhouette is an angry warcraft, Larspun, who never forgets, has become the opponent of the first trial.

It should be a monster of rare mutations, whether it appears once every decade or not. The idea that a new unity would emerge so soon - looks at the right arm of the most characteristic guy and realizes it was an error.

"Is he the undead Saphir bastard who let him go?"

I feel nostalgic now, but about six months ago the battle at the ancient castle of Ischia. At that time, Will told me that 'Wing Road' had left the castle and set up an ambush to punish Greedgor, the general of the Monster Legion.

Of course, I know very well myself for crusading Greedgore that their operation ended in failure. Anyway, 'Wing Road' was robbed of Saphir's manipulative larspun undead by example parasitic abilities when he attacked Gleedgore. Opponents of a powerful parasitic larspun. 'Wing Road' eats a vain but stoppage on the spot. Only Nero left and came back to the castle somehow, as I know.

After the battle, I heard from Lily and Fiona, who had rushed away, that the parasitic larspun had escaped. Perhaps in time, just after I defeated Gleedgore, or even Throwsgill.

At that time, he escaped because he was hit with his best balls, only to think about it. The original body is undead, and most importantly, I don't think the minute body can live that long beyond Slowsgill's death. In fact, if there wasn't any damage from Larspun afterwards, there wasn't even any sightings.

But it has now been proven at this moment that it was a mistake.

The Raspun that appears, its right arm, is a silver mechanical arm (machine arm) that glows like holy silver (misrille). I remember Will telling me that instead of the right arm that I cut off, he wore the ancient golem that Saphir had in his possession and the hinge of the machine.

When Saphir was exercising himself as an undead, he just said he was acting as a stubborn steel prosthetic... but now there's a bright purple line running in a polished silver hue, like Blaster Mode in The Grid. Besides, he told the story of bees and violet electricity scattered around his arms, where huge amounts of power resided.

What a wack, now Larspun seems to be unlocking the functionality hidden in the ancient golem arm. No way, even though he was a wacko who was caged and trained in the back of the mountain.

Even so, why did the monster show up in a place like this at this time... and the monster can't even tell you why in people's words.

But I get it.

"Hey, Lord Pun. You're trying to get away with it."

In the right hand of Larspun, raised high toward heaven, a 'nucleus of arrogance' is gripped disappointingly, emitting a deep blue light.

He jumped out of the ground without shaking his sides and grabbed the nucleus that was rolling. It can't be a coincidence, and from the outset he just seems to have been after it on the ground.

You know what I mean or not, he reacted anyway. the room for the winner with the treasure of purpose, and slowly looks back here, as though

Gruggle, Geggegeye - with that voice, Larspun laughed, I felt like it.

His face facing the front is a little different than when he saw it before. It was odd-eyed, just like me. The right eye is purple as it reflects the thunder attributes of the Throwsgill. The left eye is the original red color of Larspun.

If my face was different, my body had a change. Because I cut his right arm, he no longer exists the crimson crystal Fist of Wrath, which is the nucleus that creates powerful flame attributes. But once again, he was producing the treasure of the flames I offered to God. The opposite of the right arm of the machine, on the back of the left hand, which is still alive, the same as then...... no, the 'fist of anger', which would be even bigger one turn, was indeed embedded.

He's stronger than the regular larspun he fought before. That's enough to convince you.

He's not just a parasitic body that took over anymore. From the red giant body, which stands majestically in front of his eyes, there are signs of intense magic and the scent of a quiet curse.

Forced to death by my hand, Larspun was crusaded by 'Wing Road' not too long before he escaped. He is then used as an undead by Saphir's hand, and at the end of the day he is taken over by a parasite. I'm sure these experiences led to a complex mix of the original resentment of Larspun and the systemic parasite that moves the dying flesh, cursed and self-born.

So, he's not Larspun or Slowsgill at the earliest.

The first trial, the flame, and the lightning and soil that will be the second and third trial, and now we have the water of the sixth trial.

The incarnation of anger evolved into something completely different with three more major sins.

"Remember me?

No response. There can't be any.

But as he showed off, he ate the 'nucleus of arrogance' he had plundered. The blue treasure balls, which fell over the bellows and long tongues, were swallowed up in one bite as they were.

After all, shall we take it in? The power of Pride Gems.

"I'm sorry, but you can't give up Soytz."

No, this is already my thing. With that said, he rocks his big, burning rocky body and leans toward me.

One, two steps. Every time he steps in, something like black flickers into his sight. In the third step, Sole appeared clearly in shape.

"Sand iron, or... after all, do you also have the ability of a greedgore"

Black sand iron armor that turns it into an iron wall and makes it a deformed self-defense. The Gleedgore bragging armor that tormented me covered Larspun's red body. As opposed to me wrapping "The Tyrant's Armor (Maximilian)," he also made me try on a full body armor of pitch black.

"Superior, I'll be your opponent - 'Demon King of Fire (Overdrive)'"

Fight head-on, take it and stand. All I'm saying is that, he gently steps into time, shaking his left arm high from the top of his black sandy iron armor, causing a burning red aura to burst.

The moves rolled out are the same as each other. Straight punch all over you, all over you.

"-" Angry Fist (Lars Impact) "Huh!!