Demonic Rule (2)
The world is all black
Volcanic gas rising from various places mixed with volcanic ash and spewing out red soot, and dazzling lightning flashed inside the volcanic gas charged by the friction of the ash.
This phenomenon is called volcanic lightning.
Such a rare sight could be seen from all directions.
And what unfolded in front of me was the appearance of the paladins and priests who fell into the lava after the ground collapsed.
Except for the mounds of the ground raised by lava eruptions, the entire surface of the Demon Realm was made up of black wilderness.
The plains made of basalt formed by cooling lava spread endlessly, and the ground could not withstand the weight of the paladins summoned on it.
Aww!
The paladins, who fell onto the terrifying pool of lava, let out a painful scream.
Fortunately, these are the groups with the most healers on the Radiant Continent.
Even if the armor the paladins were wearing right now was shriveled, crushed, and melted, no casualties occurred.
Even if the skin melted and the flesh peeled off the bones, new flesh immediately sprouted on the spot and returned to its original shape.
But on the contrary, it made it even more painful.
It is painful to death, but it is impossible to die, and the nerves damaged by the high heat of lava are immediately restored, so they cannot forget the pain.
It was a sight like hell.
And were you drawn to that scream?
Fish-like monsters soared up from the lava like piranhas flocked to the smell of blood.
It was a C-class monster, Saberlin, with blade-like fins and a long upper jaw like a spear.
If you were to pick a similar-looking creature, it resembled a marlin, but its color was red.
It was a monster with the ability to slither through the ground like a drill, with its upper jaw and mucus secreted from its body corroding substances and melting the ground with its fins as sharp as a blade.
“Kuh huh!”
Those saberlins pierce through the abdomens of the Paladins and soar into the sky.
A speed so fast that the armor of a paladin, reinforced with aura to resist lava, was pierced at once.
Surprised, the priests raised their wands and aimed at the saberlin, but they could not fire the magic.
If you make a mistake, the paladin stitched on the man’s upper jaw might be right.
Instead, the priests swallowed their saliva and opened their mouths to begin singing.
A hymn to a god without lyrics.
The holy power responded to the melody and strengthened the paladins, and the paladins who managed to escape from the lava rushed towards the saberlins who started free fall by gravity and swung their mace.
However, in the process, the ground collapsed once again.
Since the ground was made of solidified lava, it was impossible to withstand the power of the paladins spurring the ground.
On the other hand, the saberlins swam very quickly in the lava, pierced the ground at once, and pierced the paladins and priests at once.
It was a mess from the start.
“I was kind of worried.”
As a believer who serves God, it is good not to fear death.
However, if we were to challenge an unfamiliar environment, we needed a minimum level of vigilance.
How many sacrifices have already been made against only C-grade monsters?
Leon entered battle mode at once.
The sky covered with volcanic ash, the black land made of basalt.
A ray of light rising in the middle.
The eyes of the people around her were focused on one body, and Leon immediately manifested her powers.
“Astrafe Gungnir!”
The spear of lightning thrown by Leon pierced the ground and split, subjugating hundreds of saberlins at once.
However, the area where Leon’s power can reach is about 800 meters in radius.
Hundreds and thousands of saberlins were still coming to the place outside that range.
“Now! Let’s get out of the lava, clear things up, and let the lava cool down to stabilize the ground!”
As if everyone had agreed to Leon’s instructions, the Paladins and Priests moved in unison to get out of the lava and form a line.
And pouring divine magic.
Priests belonging to the Order of Water performed a tsunami-causing magic to quickly cool the lava, and the priests belonging to the Church of Wind evaporated the tsunami at once, thereby taking part in the entropy of water vapor and solidifying the lava.
But it’s not over yet.
Although the ground has been stabilized so that the Paladins can properly fight, the saberlin is a monster that can swim freely even in ordinary ground, not in lava.
Melting the hardened basalt and rising up, the saberlins attacked, but the Paladins and Priests were no longer suffering.
Paladins belonging to the Earth Church raise their huge Warhammers and strike them at once.
Kwagwagwagwang!
Incontinence, like a spider’s web, stretches out on the barely hardened ground and breaks apart.
A shock wave like an earthquake shook the whole land, and what appeared in it was the appearance of the saberlins who could not control themselves properly as if they had fainted among the broken pieces of basalt.
And the flames are pouring down on them.
The priests belonging to the Flame Church, who were controlling their power, were pouring their strength into it, lest the unstable ground would collapse.
A single ray of light is pouring down there.
In the basalt that the light touched, bubbles were generated, then it could not melt and evaporated, causing a huge explosion.
It’s a kind of water vapor explosion.
Naturally, the saberlins caught in the explosion were torn without a trace and had no choice but to evaporate.
A volcanic eruption occurred once again at the mounds stimulated by the explosive power.
The pressure of the lava was increased by the vapor explosion that occurred underground, and the volcanoes connected to it started to erupt.
Lava and volcanic bombs formed by solidifying the lava started pouring down from the sky.
Although the surface was hardened, the lava was still boiling inside, and the internal pressure was increased by the heat energy, causing natural bombs, volcanic bombs, to fall like hail.
In response, the priests of the Earth Church raised their staffs and unfolded holy magic.
It spread the barrier of defensive magic and blocked the pouring lava and volcanic bombs.
“Even if we are specialized in defensive magic, it is difficult to sustain this state for a long time! Let’s get out of here!”
Hearing that voice, the conquest army hurriedly regrouped and started moving.
It was a simple formation in which the priests gathered inside, guarding the outside in preparation for an unexpected attack with the Paladins.
Among them, voices of dissatisfaction were heard.
“Why the hell was the initial summoning place set like this?”
“According to the report, it is said that it is a place where strong monsters do not inhabit.”
So, it was judged that it was a suitable place for the first entry, but when too many conquests came out at once, the ground could not withstand it and collapsed.
In the first place, the ground was unstable because the lava was hardened and plants did not grow, so it was difficult to form an ordinary ecosystem, and it was a terrain where large, heavy, powerful monsters could not live.
So, which land is outside the volcanic terrain?
As soon as Leon recalled the question, the priest of the Sky Church shouted aloud.
“Detect reaction to detection magic! Minimum spirit of approaching enemy!”
Upon hearing that report, the Paladin looked around and exclaimed nervously.
“Can’t you just report it? direction? distance?!”
“The distance is 500 meters! The direction is…!”
“The direction is all-round!”
As soon as they left the volcanic area where the ground was unstable, they were surrounded by monsters from all directions.
It was a different story from Monster Wave.
A monster wave is a phenomenon that occurs when the number of monsters increases and the ecosystem is destroyed.
To put it another way, a monster wave is a wave that rises from the sea and rises to the shore.
Then this is the sea.
The barren ecosystem itself where monsters live.
An environment in the sea where the waves are constantly raging.
To them, fragile humans were mere prey, and monsters began to entangle them just like ants were entangled by the smell of sweet candy.
“Move! If you’re surrounded, it’s over! We have to keep moving and break the encirclement of the demons!”
“But where!”
You can’t go back the way you came.
A volcanic area with a weak ground is usually a peaceful place where monsters do not live, but the demons who smelled human had already lost their eyes.
Even if the conquest team evacuated to the volcanic area, the demons would be frantic and chase after them.
Then it’s over.
Even the demons won’t survive, but the Paladins and Priests will eventually be buried in lava and die when they exhaust their Auras and Holy Power.
“Once this has happened, we will have no choice but to move on to our destination.”
“If it’s your destination……!”
“Go ahead and enter the nest of corrosion!”
The humus nest was a topography consisting of a labyrinth-like cave like an ant’s den.
The original conquest army was to establish a base camp on the ground near the nest of decay and secure safety before entering it.
However, the environment of the demon realm was harsher than expected.
Venom Queen is a monster that infects a demon and reborn as a monster with poison.
There is no way the demons wouldn’t use the Venom Queen’s characteristics.
If you infect the powerful demons with Venom Queen’s magic, they will receive a new weapon called poison, so the demons were sending their troops to Venom Queen and armed with poison.
That’s why there were so many monsters around the nest of decay.
When one of the cardinals who participated as a member of the conquest army made a decision, it was the Church of Lightning that came forward.
At the same time as the Black Cloud Priests began to sing, a black mist erupted around them, and lightning soon began to strike from the black mist.
True to its name, Black Cloud, it summoned a black cloud and placed a barrier of lightning.
Whenever lightning strikes in the dark cloud, the screams of the monsters and the shadows of the monsters from the flash floated above the clouds.
The White Lightning Knights ran out into the mist.
With their whole body covered in white lightning, they are truly a legion of gods.
Thunderbolts from the black clouds eluded them, and white lightning struck the demons, opening the way for them.
A woman walks along the fierce battle.
The Blind’s Nightmare, Lana Cromwell.
The moment she put her hands together and opened her mouth to sing a hymn,
Quarreung!
Lightning fell from the sky and lodged in her body.
Its appearance is similar to that of Leon, who developed an incubation brainstorm.
As she raised her finger to point at the demons, a flash of light from her fingertips ran through the air.
All the monsters that existed in the orbit evaporated, and the monsters that were even a little closer to the orbit were electrocuted by the flash and shivering.
At that scene, the conquest army ran out and crushed the demons.
The demons that appeared only then were those with chitinous insect-shaped carapaces.
However, it is difficult to assert that it is an insect-type monster, because the forms of the monsters were very diverse.
A chitinous carapace was added to the appearance of the wolf, and venom was spewing out of its claws, while the tail of a monster with a lion’s mane was divided into several joints like that of a scorpion and pierced with its stinger.
In addition, monsters that shoot poisonous stingers like arrows, monsters that spit out proteins that corrupt proteins, etc. have come in common, but they are all strengthened with chitinous carapaces, so they are sturdy and use poison.
Perhaps these monsters are the ones that have evolved with the abilities of the Venom Queen that I have only heard of.
But it’s no use.
Obviously, poison is a powerful weapon.
Poison is a chemical weapon developed by creatures that lack physical abilities to fight off creatures more powerful than themselves.
To that extent, the chemical properties of poison are diverse, and in order to detoxify using it, you had to use an appropriate potion according to the nature of the poison.
But the conquest army didn’t care.
Among the poisons used by demons, there were types that act on the brain to confuse the mind, making it impossible to use mana, or acting on the nerves to inflict pain and disable the use of auras, but nothing could stop the conquest army.
The choral chant sung by the priests of the Order of Water in harmony with each other resided in the body of the conquest, and the holy water neutralized all the poison.
Above all, no psychoactive substance could confuse the spirit of the conquest army enough to damage their devotion to the god, and no pain could cause them to fear death.
Even if the mana and auror were broken, if there was only devotion and hymn to the gods, the divine power would inhabit their bodies and dispel all the poison.
But the process was never one-sided.
The poison was quickly neutralized by the healers, but the spirit of the conquest army was exhausted, and the body was tired.
All they can do is desperately take a step and press the monster in front of them and move forward.
And when they barely arrived at the nest of decay, there was a huge monster standing there waiting for the conquest.
giant snake?
giant centipede?
It was such a vague monster that it was difficult to distinguish between the two.
However, when Leon saw it, the first creature that came to mind was neither a snake nor a centipede.
It was similar to the blue dragon that Leon saw in the media of modern Earth.
A green chitinous carapace was protecting the whole body, and deer antlers were sprouting above the head.
It had a long body like a snake and a centipede, and two pairs of legs resembling a bird of prey.
The man’s chest swelled after he had loosened his arms and stood up, and immediately a poison dance was poured out from his snout.
If it is an ordinary poison, it cannot inflict lethal damage to the conquest army.
However, it was by no means an ordinary poison, and the poisonous dance that spewed out of its snout decomposed everything it touched like powder, regardless of the enemy.
aa…
The conquest army, engulfed in a dictatorial dance, spread a scream, but the screams were faintly scattered before the death could come to an end.
It neutralized the poison and had no time to do anything, and it was scattered all over the body together with the armed armor.
A poison that breaks down substances.
Leon already knows a similar scene.
In the past, the dark miners they met in the mining city of Aios used to deal with the aurors that corroded the material to obtain energy.
However, this is a bit simpler.
Unlike the Dark Miners, a poison specialized in decomposing matter without considering obtaining energy at all.
And Leon could understand the nature of the poison.
Shin-an, who foresaw fate, and Leon, who had learned the magic of future vision, ordered dice from him and always looked at the surrounding matter in elementary particle units.
and found it
The form of lightning bolts like a volcanic lightning in the poison mist emitted by that monster.
The poison was depriving the material of electrons by breaking the interaction between protons and electrons by acting on the electrical properties of the material.
As a result, the lightning that became free electrons swirled in a single smoke, and the matter that lost electrons became plasma and scattered.
“Then the method is simple.”
Neutralizes poison.
However, unlike other poisons, this time it is neutralized with holy lightning instead of holy water.
A thunderbolt is poured down until the poison can no longer absorb free electrons.
Quarreung!
“Halo furnishings.”
Leon, who raised the ‘nemesis’, sprinted towards the dragon, the poison dragon, who wore a venomous dance.