51-Twenty-fourth episode: The assassin reveals




 I run towards the pack of demons.
 Epona was following me silently.
 The promise I made, 'I'll prove I'm strong enough to stop Epona', to see it through.

As soon as I started running, I started chanting.
 ........There's no way I can beat that army if I fight normally.
 That's why I'm going to use the strongest wide area annihilation magic I have.

That is the Divine Spear 【Gungnir】.
 Its weakness is that after rising to an altitude of 1,000 kilometers, it takes more than ten minutes to land due to its free-falling nature.
 Hence, it is nearly impossible to hit the spear with a pinpoint accuracy.
 However, if it's not a heroic monster, it can be killed without a direct hit.

In order to strike the crowd of demons, I shoot a tungsten spear into the heavens.
 That's it, in succession.
 My magic power is more than a thousand times greater than that of an ordinary person.
 My instantaneous release is at most ten times greater than that of a brave man, and I can't demonstrate the same level of strength as a brave man, but I can continue to strike with inexhaustible magical power.
 He continued to release his divine spear while running towards the crowd of enemies.

He stopped when he was only five hundred meters away from the enemy crowd.
 If he got any closer, he would be caught up in [Gungnir].
 The swarm of orcs and goblins are starting to march in.
 We must draw them towards us, even if we are prepared to take the risk.
 If they advance any further, they will involve the friends of the academy who are building a defensive line beyond that point.
 This is the final line where we can do our best without involving our allies.

''I won't leave anything out!

From the pochette, he takes the foul stone and puts his magic power into it to criticality. He creates a bow and arrow with magic and attaches the foul stone to the arrow attachment and releases it.

''Ick!''

The string, which was recklessly zhang strong, based on the premise of strengthening physical abilities with magic power, would release a foul-stoned arrow more than five hundred meters away.
 It landed on the front row of the orcs that had started to march in and exploded.
 The magic power in the foul stone was 70% fire attribute, 20% wind attribute and 10% earth attribute.
 This ratio is the most destructive.

Flames ran from the ruptured foul stone, the wind fueled the flames, which became an explosion, and the blast sent pieces of iron flying around.
 Orcs and goblins are slaughtered by the dozens.
 An explosion with the magical power of three hundred people is not an honorable thing.

He stops and fires one foul stone arrow after another.
 Like the first shot, I go to the front of the line.

Aiming at the center would probably kill more demons, but my goal is to stall them and not let them get any closer to the school. That's good.
 And this is also a warning to the people in the school. Don't come over here. If they come near us, they will kill our friends in their next mission.

As I had planned, the march stops, and with a strange voice, the army rushes towards me who caused this catastrophe.
 The foul stones in the pouches are used up.
 It needs to be replenished from the crane skin bag.
 But before that, my real mission will come.

''Eat it, divine spear-[Gungnir]''

From heaven, the spear of God descends.
 The earth splits open, creating a radial crater so deep you can't see the bottom, causing a tsunami of earth on land.
 Far away, in a free fall from 1,000 kilometers above, a hundred kilograms of mass accelerates to 4,000 kilometers per second, making it the most powerful mass weapon in the world.
 The United States has tried to develop a conventional weapon with more power than a nuclear weapon.
 It is a magical recreation of this weapon, the most powerful special move of all.

Demons within a hundred meter radius of the point of impact would be left with no trace of themselves. Even demons away from the point of impact would be crushed by the shockwave, stone and earth tidal wave.
 Even a single shot was it.
 Two, three, four, the remaining nine divine spears that had already shot into the heavens rained down.

I calculated the landing points so that I wouldn't make an escape route.
 A tidal wave of dirt arose from all directions to strike the swarm of demons, not letting even one of them escape and overrunning them.

''This is the true power of a rogue, even I would do something like this.

Epona's voice, mixed with even trepidation, can be heard behind me.
 It would be proud to have a brave man say so.
 However, it means that you have shown your hand to the person you are going to kill.

One thing, every time you use your power, it makes it harder to kill this brave man.
 I know that.
 Still, it's necessary to protect what's important to me.

As for the small fry, even I can defeat them.
 But the demon tribe can't do that.
 If Epona doesn't stand up for herself, there's nothing I can do.
 I want to protect Dia, the tart, and this school.
 If that's what it takes, I'll at least expose my current hand.

I didn't think there were any demons that could survive this.

Demons crawled out of the earth.
 There were a total of eight of them.
 It is a special individual with a power that sets it apart from other orcs.
 This is the advanced demon that we've heard so much about.

This is the trump card of the demon race orc generals, considering that I never saw them before coming here.
 These guys must have had a substandard power that would only kill them if it was a direct hit.
 However, even that was to be expected.
 I take out the crane skin bag.

''[Installation]

I took out the turret, which was hidden in the crane skin bag.
 The gun I used earlier to rescue the hostages is also a toy in comparison to this one.
 The turret, which is the size of a 120mm tank gun, is fixed to the earth with spikes.

Inside that huge tube is not foul stone powder, but the foul stone itself, which is filled with the magical power of three hundred normal people.
 The prototype gun, even with this thickness, was only able to withstand my all-out explosive magic.
 But this new model is different.
 It's even thicker, alloyed and magically strengthened, making it a monster that can even withstand the explosion of a foul stone.
 It takes a lot of time and effort to create, so it can't be created by instant chanting, but it can be used with a crane skin bag that can be stored and carried around.
 This is also an advantage of the crane skin bag.

''[Aiming]

A turret is pointed at the eight surviving senior demons.
 The orcs turn towards us with a slow and sluggish movement.
 Are they so confident in their own defense that they do not take evasive action.
 ........I can also see that they are confident in their defensive abilities.
 Even though it's only an aftershock, it was able to withstand 【Gungnir】.
 However, that's overconfidence.
 Let's have you pay for that.

[Simultaneous bombardment]

A round of fire from the guns.
 The entire foul stone was used as gunpowder.
 In other words, that meant that three hundred people's worth of magic power would be converted directly into destructive power.

Unlike slamming into an enemy as a bomb, the power is concentrated in a single shell.

Although it is no longer a ranged attack, the cannon is a few steps ahead of the power to a single person.
 It is the most powerful magic that is easy to handle.
 Therefore, they boast absolute toughness and can crush even the most advanced demons into tiny pieces.

The demons in front of me were annihilated.
 I single-handedly laid waste to those who had been tormenting the school and opposing it with all their might.
 I turn around and smile at Epona.

'I've been hiding my abilities due to circumstances. This is my seriousness. If you go out of control, I will do my best to stop you. Do you believe me?

Epona opens her mouth to reply.
 And then ... I jumped backwards as fast as I could.
 A huge gold rod was swung down at the position I was in.

The one who wielded it was the Demon Orc General.
 Although it had a fearsome huge body and power, it disappeared from sight and dove into the earth, advancing underground and striking a surprise.
 Despite being a single-celled orc, this guy is very calculating.

I thought I could kill it. I thought I could kill you, you little bastard, you have no chance.
You have an open mind.

The assassin is not to be trifled with.
 No matter how much you try to distract them, these eyes can see the magic in them.
 I could see this guy approaching from within the dirt.

And since I could see and know, I also prepared a counter.
 He threw the foul stone that he had made critical in the mouth that he opened like an idiot.
 The foul stone exploded in his mouth.
 That's the power of the foul stone. Even though they are demons, they should not be safe.
 The top of his neck has been erased.
 But..........

If you were a brave man and not an immature female, we would have lost. And yet you are only a man.

The blown head instantly recovers.
 Regenerative abilities are not such a small thing.
 It's something more different.

........This is the reason why only a brave man can kill demons.
 The demon race has a body, but it is embodied in the power of existence.

If you don't reduce the power of existence, you can restore as much as you want, including your body, and the only thing that can reduce the power of existence is a blow from a brave man.

'Epona, fight! You still can't believe me after all that time I've shown you how strong I am?
But I don't.
In the heat of battle, there's still time. You'll be sorry.

With the idiotic power characteristic of orcs, they swing huge gold rods like large trees in all directions.
 Its speed is out of the ordinary, and even if you can see it, you are just barely able to avoid it.
 The attack seems monotonous, but it's not.

Normally, the only way to get a momentum that would allow you to shake it off would be to stop it with your muscles and turn back. Attacks are unpredictable and nerve-wracking.
 If I had just given it my all, I would have been caught long ago.
 The only reason I was able to respond just in time was because I used a drug to remove my brain limit.
 By injecting a special medicine, he removed the limiters and strengthened his physical abilities with twenty times the magic power of an ordinary person.
 This is also essentially a trump card for the opposing heroes.

.........This kind of recklessness, I won't be able to hold out for so long.
 He was swung full in front of me and ducked, but the wind pressure blew him away.
 As a recompense, I threw a poisoned titanium knife into the thigh.

I didn't know that there was a poison that could make even me immobile. But if you throw out the meat with the poison, you will see what happens.

He rips off one of his own legs and rushes forward, regenerating in an instant.
 I'm really sick of it.
 Physical exhaustion [super recovery] will heal you. But how long will my concentration last?

........This battle isn't between me and the Orc General.
 It's a battle to see if I can convince Epona of my strength.

Let's show Epona that I am strong enough to fight her before she turns me into minced meat.
 This one is going to be a pain in the ass.