Episode 160: Just the Beginning (10)
“The church moved in such a hurry?”
[That’s right. They are also acting as if they recognized this as their last chance.]
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I was a little surprised. Because the current religious power is also related to us. After hearing Lucy’s words, I searched for news of my own, but it had been some time since several awakened people in North America, including Liam, had already disappeared.
Others expected them to have a physical and mental rest period as usual, but they were wrong. Rather, he disappeared to fight more.
Because they are also sincere about the war taking place there. For them, that place was hope.
“… … But we can’t worry about the continent right now, can we? “The power struggle with the demon world is in full swing.”
[That is also true.]
I asked in a slightly worried tone, but Lucy naturally remained calm.
[But the battle in the demon world, according to calculations, does not take that long. Due to their tendency, they will never back down this time, and if so, this battle will actually have consequences for the entire Demon World.]
Even at this moment, Lucy was fighting fiercely in the demon world. A true war where each side risks their fate.
From what I heard, the devil is a being that can never coexist. Because the Demon King must be the pinnacle of the Demon World.
So, the person who wins that great war will eventually become the true Demon King and the master of the Demon World. For Lucy, it was literally a matter of finding true freedom by completing the mission left behind by those who called her to the other world.
“Ugh, how can this happen!”
Lucy turned the screen to show me the place. The sight of him fighting fiercely against the lords of the demon world, including the demon king Baal.
Baal, a demon with horns, was screaming and dripping blood.
The situation was no different for other demon lords. They were injured by the huge impact created by the collision of the powerful forces that each had raised with the determination to see the end to the end, and were shocked to see Lucy, just like them, broken and crushed here and there and bleeding bodily fluids.
“Are you just this scared? “Those who once risked their lives to catch the devil, now hesitate when fighting because they are worried about their own lives?”
On the screen, Lucy laughed and laughed at them, not caring about her injuries.
The heroes who once fought to the death with the sole purpose of catching the Demon King have long since forgotten all sense of mortality.
Even though my level and power had grown further than in the past, I didn’t have the spirit to fully bring it out.
“Everyone, shut up! What is everyone doing! “That b*tch was injured too!”
Baal, who must have been stabbed, shouted and urged the lords of the demon world around him. The devil’s command is absolute. They showed their displeasure, but their bodies moved on their own and rushed towards Lucy.
‘Are you going to catch Lucy even after throwing one or two away?’
Their intentions were so obvious that even I could read them.
As Lucy, as she intended, used the amplification of the colliding powers to inflict damage on everyone with an attack close to self-destruction, she intends to catch Lucy even at the cost of sacrifice.
If they had taken turns attacking each other and taking Lucy’s strength away, they might have won without losing, but they used a lot of strength from the beginning without thinking too deeply, and it ended up backlashing them.
“aaah! die!”
The Demon World lords, who could not refuse the Demon King’s orders, had to attack Lucy with her injured body.
A harpy with black feathers swings claws blazing with magic, a purple-skinned orc swings a large axe, etc.
However, Lucy did not dodge and instead countered the attack, inflicting more wounds on her body. Of course, in the process, my body also gradually collapsed.
“Foolish, did you really think you could win on your own?”
Baal smiled faintly when he saw that. It was obvious that he thought he had won.
But I’ve already seen this scene a few times. Because Lucy wasn’t hiding her true identity for no reason.
And today, maybe Lucy would reveal her true identity to them.
* * *
“Garp! Poras! “Finish it!”
Baal restored his strength, healed his injuries, and ordered the demon lords who had cornered Lucy to finish off.
In his view, Lucy’s condition was already at its limit. The same was true for the demon world lords, but they decided that even if they lost a few people here, it would be a gain.
“Ugh, wow!”
“Holy sh*t!”
In fact, it went as he expected. The demon lords, who could not refuse the Demon King’s orders, rushed towards Lucy with their injured bodies and used their last strength to attack, hitting Lucy’s body accurately.
The hard carapace is completely shattered, body fluids are sprayed, and body pieces, including one arm, leg, and internal organs, are scattered and crushed.
“aaah!”
“Poras!”
However, Lucy’s attack also hit their bodies. Longinus swung around and released energy, several demon lords were immediately split in half, holes were created in their bodies, and they fell to the bottom.
The vain deaths of those who won the great war and have reigned as rulers of the demon world until now. Baal saw this and gritted his teeth.
‘It is a sacrifice. ‘Sacrifice for the greater good!’
All I could do was think of it as a sacrifice that had to be made to achieve the Demon King’s long-cherished wish and grand dream of conquering the continent.
“Like a bug, your life force is strong. But this is the end. “The group of insects that have lost their leader will soon scatter in droves and disappear from this land.”
“… … “Do you really think so?”
Baal looked at Lucy, who had most of her body damaged and only her face left, and cursed her. However, Lucy remained calm even though she was clearly on the verge of losing her breath.
Baal’s calmness made him break into a cold sweat without realizing it.
“You got it wrong from the start.”
“W-what.”
Before they knew it, a high-ranking Orc/Delta approached the injured people and picked up Lucy’s broken body.
Baal, who was planning to kill me by immediately shooting magic, hesitated for a moment when he felt something strange.
“Look around you. “Who is the winner of this war?”
“What nonsense is that?”
“Your foolish actions also take a lot of credit for helping me, who was once just a small object in a small labyrinth, grow to this point.”
Lucy, who was held in Orc Delta’s arms, smiled and said to look around.
Baal’s eyes shook as he looked down at the battlefield without realizing it. Although it is fierce, they are clearly winning. It was a battlefield where a super-giant species that would turn the battlefield upside down appeared, but they themselves were showing their will by grinding their bones and flesh, and the power of the Demon King’s army that had gathered as one under the Demon King.
“You clearly obtained the powerful power and enormous resources of this world’s dominant species, but you threw them to the ground with extreme inefficiency. “I grew up here by eating them, so I cannot deny that the data of you and the demons plays a big role in the foundation of our allies.”
“Don’t talk nonsense. That’s it for you guys. This land, this demon world, belongs to the pinnacle of the Demon King!”
Baal lost his composure and shouted.
However, Lucy actually laughed at the statement that the Demon World belongs to the Demon King.
“It’s not wrong. The Demon World belongs to the Demon King. But not yours. “It belongs to this demon lord, Lucy.”
“Four years… … .”
Orc Delta, who was holding Lucy with both arms, used a pair of extra arms to grab his helmet. And when he took off the helmet, what was revealed was flowing black hair and the face of a beautiful woman.
All the lords of the demon world, including Baal, froze and watched.
The newly appeared Lucy stuck her hand into her original body, which had stopped moving in her arms, retrieved the core that had been lodged there, and absorbed it into her own body.
And the remaining bodies were thrown on the floor without hesitation.
“The fight never ends. “Because we have to determine who is the true devil.”
“Shut up, shut up. Shut up… … shut up!”
Baal was enraged by the word devil. Only he who possessed the devil’s spirit, the symbol of the devil, could be a complete devil. But he had actually been expecting this to some extent since the moment his control over Lucy stopped working.
“Kill it. “Kill that monster!”
“Traitors who betrayed the devil, shameless squires who want to become the devil. “Because of your ineffective actions, you will become extinct here.”
Baal, who was in a panic, ordered the entire Demon King’s army to kill Lucy, and Lucy launched the third strike that she had been waiting for, which happened at the same time.
The small snowball that started from the moment the demon world lords betrayed the previous demon king and became the victors of the great war has rolled to this point, and now it is trying to devour them in reverse.
“Try to keep resurrecting. “I’ll keep killing you.”
“Can you handle it?”
Baal attacked Lucy with all his might, splitting her body in half and grabbing her face.
Then he just crushed his face. It was not a properly made body of a special species, so it was weak.
But Baal himself knows. This war cannot be won by just destroying Lucy’s body.
[You can be proud. For me, we are the most powerful legion this demon world has ever created. Your contribution to that process is great.]
“Demon Lord!”
With Lucy’s voice ringing out, huge creatures flying across the sky entered the battlefield at once.
The ultimate meaning of biological species. These are ship-type creatures that Lucy created by imitating the space ships of space humans that she encountered on Invasion Island and Ravizda.
“We must retreat first. “We can’t beat those giant guys now!”
“no! “Aren’t you seeing the results now of what happens if you give them time?”
Others, overwhelmed by its overwhelming majesty, advised retreat, but Baal did not listen.
“We fight here. This will be the last time for those monsters! “We will never be able to defeat them unless we destroy their nest!”
‘I, I am the real devil. I!’
Baal gritted his teeth when he saw the Demon King’s nest visible in the distance. Now that he knew Lucy’s identity, he decided that he would not be able to maintain his identity as the Demon King if he backed down from here.
“It’s shelling. Stop it!”
And at that moment, gigantic ship-like soldiers approached from the sky and began blasting the powerful energy contained in their gigantic bodies toward the ground.
In order to block the blow, which was fired by condensing magical power without any magical techniques, the Demon World Alliance had to use their own fuel to create a shield.
“Tsk.”
The same goes for Baal. He went directly to the ground and used magic, catching the huge light cannon aimed at him head-on.