Book 1 Chapter 881
881.
As Seneor, the commander of the Legion of Pain, who had raised his right hand, put strength into his hand,
Thud-thud-thud-thud- Thump-
An eerie sound of bones echoed.
Whoosh-!
“Hmph.”
As Psykhia let out a lewd laugh, countless magic circles were created in the air.
Crackle-crackle-crackle-crack-!
Gohn, the King of Demonic Beasts, created a summoning circle and summoned Gigantes.
'If I classify them by class, are they a knight, a mage, and a summoner?'
Leo, who had grasped the tendencies of the newly appointed legion commanders, tilted his head from side to side.
The sight of him loosening his body in the form of a newborn baby outwardly evoked laughter.
However, if the contents of that newborn baby were Leo Flobe, it couldn't simply be called a humorous situation.
Crackle-crackle-crackle-crack-!
Gigantic dark magic began to spew from Seneor’s body.
“Well then…”
Malicious killing intent and hatred flickered in Seneor’s eyes.
Kyle, the Hero of the Beginning.
The most detestable existence to the demon race.
The sworn enemy who brought about the gods’ demise.
“Let's see just how great the Hero of the Beginning is.”
Thud-! Crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle-!
As Seneor took a step, the ground beneath him caved in.
And the ground shook and cracked as if an earthquake had struck.
“Let’s take a look!”
Crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-!
Seneor exploded with dark magic and, moving at an invisible speed, reached right in front of Leo's nose and threw a punch.
The space in the illusion, stopped by the punch filled with terrifying destructive power, shattered like glass fragments and scattered in all directions.
Seneor’s eyes widened.
The longsword, which had appeared in front of Leo at some point, blocked Seneor’s punch like a shield.
Leo’s face, right behind the blade, didn't even twitch.
Not the slightest impact was transmitted.
Certainly, Leo's current body was not suitable for combat.
But even so, the power of mana that Leo had accumulated did not disappear.
Whoosh-!
A gray aura erupted from the blade of the longsword, Posteritas.
“Tch!”
Seneor hastily retracted his fist.
Growl-l-l-l-l-l-l!
Above Leo’s head, Gigantes’s massive fist slammed down.
Clang-clang-clang-
Leo’s barrier magic emitted noisy sparks.
Soon, the barrier magic crumpled as if about to burst.
No matter how powerful Gigantes was as a demonic beast and how much it was enhanced by a demonic beast tamer, its destructive power far exceeded Leo's expectations.
‘It’s not just a simple Gigantes.’
“Oh-ho…”
The skin of its fist was like rock.
It was the outer shell of Dark Stone, a demonic beast with strong defensive power.
Sharp thorns protruded densely from various parts of its outer shell.
These were the teeth of the Mana Eater, a top-tier phantom beast that gnawed away at mana and exuded venom.
“Hmm?”
That wasn't all.
He felt a power that far surpassed what an ordinary Gigantes could emit.
Leo raised his small hand.
Wham-!
Then Posteritas, influenced by Leo’s willpower, erupted with an aura and sliced through Gigantes’s forearm.
Wham-!
The sharply cut forearm split open, revealing muscle tissue and bone.
‘It’s not Gigantes’s bones and muscles, is it an instant chimera?’
Leo, with an amused expression, spread his left hand and aimed it at Gigantes.
Whoosh-!
“Gravity magic?”
Gohn, who was riding on Gigantes’s shoulder, curled up the corners of his mouth.
“Do you know how heavy this Gigantes is?! Plus, it’s protected from all sorts of curses! If you cast gravity magic, your own head will overload instead?!”
Thud-! Crackle-!
“…!”
Gohn, the King of Demonic Beasts, widened his eyes.
An unusual sound emanated from Gigantes’s body.
‘It’s not simple gravity magic.’
He added aura to the gravity magic.
As gravity magic itself is a force that exerts physical power, its fusion with aura explosively increased the magic’s potency.
Of course, this was an area that ordinary magic swordsmen could never imitate.
This was an area only possible with mana control abilities on the level of a Great Hero.
“This is insane!”
The King of Demonic Beasts, Gohn’s face was filled with horror.
Thud-! Wham! Wham-!
Growl-l-l-l-l-l-l!
Gigantes’s body unnaturally twisted.
“Hmph! Haven’t you forgotten about me?”
At that moment, a massive magic circle appeared above Leo’s head.
“No matter how strong a being is, if they take a direct hit from magic, they won’t even be able to collect their bones!”
Leo’s eyes twitched as he recognized the magic spell.
Confirming his reaction, Psykhia burst into laughter, "Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho!"
“You noticed! Hero of the Beginning! That’s right! This is the magic of the Progenitor of the Nebula! Magic that cursed the end!”
Psykhia unleashed terrifying dark magic.
“I turned the strongest magic into the strongest dark magic! And added a curse to it…!”
Leo ignored Psykhia and closed his right eye.
Then, a hexagram magic circle formed in his left eye.
Snap-!
“What…!”
Psykhia looked shocked to see her magic dispelled in an instant.
Psykhia hastily conjured dark magic, attempting to deploy another spell.
At that moment, Leo's left pupil gazed at Psykhia.
Psykhia, whose eyes met Leo's, realized that all the magic and curse spells she was constructing were being neutralized.
Psykhia's face was filled with horror.
“This is a curse! How can a human use a demon’s curse?!”
[It’s nothing much.]
Leo sent Psykhia a message as if mocking her.
The magic circle formed in Leo's left eye was the magic circle of his unique magic, Bible.
The ultimate magic that could use all magic existing in the world, with the exception of a few special ones.
And the 'curses' used by the demons of Tartarus also fall into the realm of magic when viewed broadly.
Of course, since Leo was not a demon, it was impossible for him to use a wide variety of curses.
However, he could create curse spells that fundamentally nullified dark magic and curses themselves, whose spell formulas were interpreted through the Bible.
The terrifying thing about curses was that they were simple to activate and lasted indefinitely until the curse was broken.
Leo’s curse was activated merely by looking.
[Indeed, dark magic and curses are terrifying.]
Leo put more strength into the hand maintaining the gravity magic.
Creeeaak-!
Aaaaargh!
Gigantes’s waist bent backwards.
[But if they aren’t activated, they aren’t particularly threatening.]
Of course, there was the drawback of having to constantly keep his ‘gaze’ on Psykhia, but.
Leo was a warrior who perfectly controlled 'super senses.'
“Haa-a-a-a-at!”
Seneor, enveloped in dark magic, charged at Leo.
A charge attack with power that seemed to tear even space itself.
It was a level of strength entirely different from when he had blocked it with aura just moments ago.
Just before Seneor’s attack landed.
Flash-!
“Spatial movement?”
Leo's body moved to another location.
Even while doing so, Leo’s gaze remained fixed on Psykhia.
By sacrificing one line of sight, he completely neutralized one powerful enemy.
Thud! Crackle-crack-crack-!
Kiiieeeeek!
A cry of pain burst from Gigantes’s mouth.
The body of the Chimera Gigantes, whose mere existence could wipe out hundreds of thousands of troops, was mercilessly crumpled.
Its magic resistance had reached its limit, but resistance was impossible before Leo's magic.
Gigantes’s body, crumpled and contorted, eventually became a round sphere.
“Insane…”
Gohn, the King of Demonic Beasts, had a distorted face filled with horror.
“Don’t make me laugh! I can just summon more demonic beasts!”
Countless summoning circles appeared in the sky.
Crackle-crackle-crackle-!
Soon, hundreds of grotesque demonic beasts appeared.
While he preferred Gigantes, true to his name as the King of Demonic Beasts, he could summon and enhance countless demonic beasts.
Leo, seeing the hundreds of summoned demonic beasts, chuckled and summoned spiritual power.
Whoosh-!
Then a small summoning circle appeared in front of Gohn, the King of Demonic Beasts.
‘A spirit?’
Gohn’s eyes twitched.
What was summoned before his eyes was a spirit of darkness.
The beautiful spirit, with black hair and a white dress, looked at Gohn, then smiled sweetly, slightly lifted her skirt, and greeted him demurely.
‘He thinks he can stop me with just one spirit…’
Wham-!
The moment he thought that.
The demonic beast standing behind him crushed the King of Demonic Beasts with its grotesque claws.
There was no pain.
But the King of Demonic Beasts’s face was filled with horror.
“What…?”
The body of the demonic beast that attacked Gohn was trembling.
It was a movement as if it was resisting some power controlling it.
Kiiioooooh!
Another demonic beast tore off the neck of that demonic beast.
Kiaaak!
The demonic beast, gushing blood like a waterfall from its neck, trembled violently.
The body of the demonic beast that slaughtered it also began to tremble.
Thud! Crunch! Wham!
Kiiioooooh!
Growl-l-l-l-l-l-l!
A horrifying massacre began among the demonic beasts.
It was as if an infection had spread, and more and more demonic beasts slipped out of the King of Demonic Beasts’s control.
Suddenly, Gohn found a commonality among the demonic beasts that had escaped his control.
‘Their shadows…’
Their shadows were connected.
Confirming that, Gohn soon found out where the end of the connected shadows was.
Gohn’s gaze slowly turned towards the spirit, Elsi.
The shadows spreading from Elsi’s toes reached the demonic beasts.
As Gohn’s gaze fell upon her, Elsi shyly wiggled her toes.
She appeared innocent, but Gohn felt an indescribable terror from her.
Crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-!
Seneor, the commander of the Legion of Pain, charged at Leo without stopping.
The authority of the Berserker was activated.
He was catching up to Leo, who had used spatial movement by predicting his trajectory with sharp senses.
Little by little, little by little.
Seneor, who had narrowed the distance with Leo, grinned.
No matter how terrifying the abilities he wielded, his true body was a fragile, fragile newborn baby.
“If I can just touch him…”
[You think you can win?]
Wham!
Along with the mocking message that appeared before his eyes, Posteritas pierced Seneor’s back.
“Hmph!”
It was an attack filled with vicious power, imbued with aura.
But Seneor snorted.
A terrifying blow.
An attack that would slaughter even most high-ranking demons, but he was a legion commander.
Seneor pulled out Posteritas, imbued with gray aura, and threw the sword to the ground.
Whoosh-!
But Posteritas rose again and aimed at Seneor.
Swordsmanship unfolded as if it were held in a hand.
“Mere skill…”
Seneor curled up the corners of his mouth.
“Is simply powerless before overwhelming might!”
Crash-bang-!
Seneor parried the sword and said, looking at Leo.
“It’s impressive that you sealed Psykhia’s dark magic and curses with magic, and captured Gohn with spirit magic.”
A dense fighting spirit flashed in Seneor’s eyes.
“But can you face me with that milk-scented child’s body? No matter how great a hero you are, you haven’t fully recovered the power of your past life, have you? Besides…”
Seneor curled up the corners of his mouth.
“It seems your mana is running low?”
He could have unleashed overwhelming sword attacks, but Leo was purely fighting Seneor with skill.
[You have good observation skills.]
“How long can you maintain your composure?”
Seneor clenched his fist.
“Until your neck is torn from your body?”
As Seneor chuckled.
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-!
Bang-!
A gigantic battle-axe flew from Leo.
Seneor parried it and snorted.
“You think changing weapons will allow you to face me?”
[I didn't change them.]
“What?”
[I increased them.]
Around Leo, daggers, two-handed swords, axes, arrows, spears, scythes, etc.
Countless weapons began to appear.
And those weapons, wielding techniques as if Leo himself held them, pressured Seneor.
The skill contained in each weapon was that of a master…
No, they showed movements as if they had reached the pinnacle of martial arts.
They flowed past Seneor’s overwhelming power and counter-attacked.
Thud! Crackle! Slice-!
“Guh-huh?!”
From a certain moment, the weapons moving according to Leo’s will began to slash Seneor.
Wham-!
“Kyaaaah!”
A scythe grazed Seneor’s eye.
As he unknowingly clutched his eye and screamed, a flying dagger pierced the back of his hand and burrowed into his head.
“Aaaah-a-a-a-a-a-ak! Ugh!”
The scream bursting from his mouth was blocked by a flying spear.
Woosh-! Thud-!
A battle-axe cleaved Seneor’s neck.
Thud-!
A battle hammer crushed Seneor’s head, which had fallen to the ground.
In an instant, the weapons turned Seneor’s body into pieces of meat.
Roooaar-!
But it was far from enough to sever the life force of a legion commander.
“You damn old geezer-a-a-a-a!”
Slice!
“Keck!”
Seneor, who had restored his body, spat out his rage, only to have his neck sliced.
As he coughed up blood, a flying club struck Seneor’s shin, forcing him to his knees.
[Now that I think about it.]
A message appeared before Seneor’s eyes.
[You said pain was enjoyable, didn’t you?]
“What?”
[Then let’s see, shall we? If you go crazy with enjoyment…]
Suddenly, Seneor felt goosebumps all over his body.
His instincts screamed.
That he had to run away.
The moment that thought dominated his mind.
Wham-!
A flying sword pierced Seneor’s thigh.
[Or if you go crazy with agony.]
Pain assaulted him.
[But all the demons who said that, like you, went crazy with agony.]
As if an interesting experiment had begun.
Leo’s weapons began to mutilate Seneor’s body.
“Aaaah-a-a-a-a!”
[Let’s see if you’re different from the other demons, as you said. Commander of Pain.]
The time of horrific pain began.