Book 15 Chapter 16

Episode 57

As Rin was pierced by countless spears, the "Osarius Bibon" that was in her inner pocket fell out and rolled across the ground.

[Hee, hee, hee hahahahaha! Finally, finally, I have it in my hands!]

This book only deals with the basics of Osarius-style beast-humans.

In the first place, this book is not a complete work. It is a key and a component, or to be precise, it can be called a half.

Of Osarius' rosary (黙珠) that was sealing Zernix's coffin from the abyss.

[With this, I will get one step closer to being the strongest! Jullak! You won't be able to look at me with contempt any longer.]

However, the moment Zernix reached out his hand, a powerful electric current… 'Osarius' Electric Shock', which once plunged him into the fear of death, surged over the book and repelled his hand.

That crazy old man…

He's truly thorough. To interfere with me even after death, he even placed such a barrier.

'Still, it's no problem. I'll take it far away with a super-dimensional spell, analyze it slowly, and then release it.'

Just as he was opening a dimension, a sudden torrent of power (激流) that swept through severed the very concept of space.

Spacetime Annihilation (時空殲).

Everything that resides in a given space-time, an absurd power that obliterates it along with its very concept… Rishta Alter Shirpang's absolute sword strike.

"It's really okay to break everything, isn't it, Frida!"

"It all collapsed anyway, that guy rebuilt it, so it's fine!"

Rishta descended, weaving like a streak of lightning through a storm of dust that blocked sight and all five senses, amidst countless falling debris.

'All the fake hero women were just crazy monsters… but this one is particularly unusual among them.'

In that distant place, on the edge of another continent that unfolds beyond the great sea, cold sweat formed on the temples of Zernix's main body.

She's fast, too fast.

How many pieces does she split the time that people perceive as a moment, grasping it all by herself, as in this instant, she uses all those falling objects as shields and approaches in a flash.

'There's no time to complete the space-time magic. I must deploy the parallel line, the parallel line barrier…!'

The next moment, a drop of blood bloomed red from the tip of the holy sword.

Truly, it was by a hair's breadth.

If the parallel line barrier had been completed even a moment later, this puppet's neck would have been pierced instantly.

'To defeat this woman, no puppet will do, I'll have to bring out my main body…'

Zernix took a step back.

[This is troublesome.]

Through a dimensional rift, he retreated into a temporary containment space formed by geometric magic, and reappeared outside Rishta's range.

[This handsome young man no longer wishes to fight, so why don't you just let him go?]

Of course, he cannot run away.

His long-cherished wish, the culmination of 500 years of waiting, is now before his eyes.

"Rin, snap out of it. Rin!"

At that moment, Frida was urgently rescuing Rin, who was pierced by spears and hanging in the air like a stuffed animal.

Rishta saw that.

And again, she looked back at Zernix with an expression so cold and frighteningly calm…

Tremor (戰慄).

…The fear that one life form instinctively feels when confronting a more advanced life form seized his heart with an icy grip.

'The plan needs a complete overhaul. This puppet is to be discarded.'

The [Seven Souls], when possessed, were cultivated to draw out 40% of Zernix's magic power (or up to 50% in the case of Captain Kishua).

Of course, just because 50% of the magic power can be used doesn't mean that half of the main body's full power can be drawn out.

Because the puppets lack understanding of the elements compared to Zernix's main body, they cannot use [Secret Art: Elemental Deployment].

This Ken Selman, who supposedly participated in the [4-Star Selection], could only draw out about 30% of his magic power, but if he is to be used and discarded here, it's possible to forcibly draw out up to 50%.

'I'll use a wide-area magic spell to blow away this entire space, and in that chaos, I'll only retrieve that book and the rosary.'

As a result, the vessel's magical bond (呪結) ruptures, and the blood vessels that transport magic power also burst one by one, causing localized bleeding throughout the body.

"Frida, protect Rin."

In contrast to Rishta's utterly expressionless face, perhaps representing the true feelings behind that mask, the holy sword Shirpang was spewing dazzlingly brilliant sword light.

"I'm going to eliminate that wicked bastard with all my might."