'Giya ya ya ya!

Huh!

　A black ball that raises a voice that is painful to hear like a demise. The soldiers around me are also frozen in place, looking at that black ball in a daze.

　When I look at that black ball, I also feel sick. I don't know why. But that bloodshot eyes and that desperate scream that makes everyone who hears it tremble. My body doesn't stop shaking.

　While I was looking at it that way, the black ball began to show something strange. Until a moment ago, it had been floating in the air in a round shape, but all of a sudden the surface of the black ball began to bob and move.

　The soldiers were alarmed to see it. Both Mari and I quickly prepare ourselves to move. If that black ball absorbed tens of thousands of demons, it must be no ordinary thing.

　We defeated all the S-classes, but there were other A-ranked and other near-S-classes, as well as subspecies. There was no way that was just a black ball. And that black ball began to move.

''Gaaaaaaaah!''

　The moment the black ball let out a different scream than the one before, a large number of black tendrils, like black vines, began to grow from the bottom of the black ball. The black vines continued to grow incessantly from the black ball. The vines stabbed into the ground one after another.

　Some of the vines stabbed the ground and others wrapped around each other. And now the vines began to come out from the sides and the top as well. The black vines that continue to grow from up and down and left and right, either sticking into the ground one after another, or wrapping around each other and changing their shape more and more.

　The result was a huge tree. It would be about 100 meters tall. It was about the height of a skyscraper. The thickness of the tree is unbelievably thick. Such a black tree had grown up. And the next moment

　Gigolo!

　The same bloodshot eyes as before widened in places in the black wood.

''The Thousand-Eyed Tree.......my original.......and on top of that, it's a hybrid with the power of a demon god-sama.

　That tree demonーーOne of the seven demon generals who descended on the Thousand-Eyed Tree, Lilith. The moment that Lilith moved her finger, the black tendrils wrapped around even Lilith.

''Ko, begin the attack!

　Then President Oberman gives the order for the attack. Yeah, yeah, we don't have time to watch this. We have to attack and take them out before they do anything!

　The other soldiers must have felt the same way. One after the other, they start releasing magic. The magic hits one after another, but it only scrapes the surface of the thousand-eye tree a little. Immediately, new vines wrap around it and fix it.

''d*mn, it's troublesome!　The Dragon King's Roar (Dragonix Roar)!

　He thought he couldn't cut it off with normal magic. Anima-san releases the dragon king's roar. Senkanju doesn't avoid it, but takes it as it is, and a cloud of dust rises up. From the soldiers, oh!　The crowd cheered. What happened to this?

"....it's useless ...that's not enough to defeat ...

　But what I heard wasn't the sound of Sen-eye Tree falling over, but a voice with no inflection, but a confident voice. Out of the smoke, Bwong!　And something was waved to reveal a thousand-eyed tree that had been blown off by the dragon king's roar, which was blown off by 30% of the tree.

　Normally, I would be happy if I inflicted that many wounds on the enemy, but the other party is a tree that doesn't know if it has the sense to do so. On top of that, a new black vine grew out of the center of the tree and went wrapping around it anew as if to repair the blown off area that was lost.

'This is a real pain in the ass,'

　Mr. Dorothea also seems to have to chuckle. There.

Doro-chan if you come back now I'll take care of you, demoness and what do you think?

　A woman's body appears in the center of the Thousand-Eyed Tree with only the upper half of her body coming out. That's........the absorbed Lilith. The lower half of her body is buried in the Thousand-Eyed Tree, as if it were one with the Thousand-Eyed Tree.

''Don't be ridiculous. I'm not going back. I've decided to fight on this side.

　Ms. Dorothea crisply refused to answer Lilith's question. Lilith says a single word 'yes' and then glares at Dorothea-san.

''Then Dolo-chan is an enemy I'm going to kill you, even though it's a pain in the ass.

　The moment Lilith says that, Chigane Tree begins to move. All the eyes of the goggles and the thousand-eyed tree look at me. And when Lilith waves her arm, a black vine that grows at once.

''Magician Squad, put up a barrier!

　Under Vice President Hiller's direction, the wizards put up a barrier at once. The black vines are played by the barrier, but they attack immediately. What are the numbers?　Hundreds of vines are slammed against the fort.

"Gunnyu.....

　Both Mari and I are mixed up in the activation of the barrier, but it's a tremendous force. We've managed to endure it, but if we continue like this, we'll be pushed for sure.

''........endured......then how about this?''

　Lilith seems unhappy that we withstood the attack of the vines. Then she twists the vine she was swinging down and turns it into a single bundle. Well, no way....

Oh, no!　This is not good!　Mari, I'm leaving here!

'What?　Oh, um, yeah!

　I pull Mari's hand and run over the fort. President Oberman has noticed, too, and tells the soldiers on top of the fort to run.

　The soldiers on top of the fort run away too, but

Go out of business.

　A huge bundle of vines is swung down at once. It is swung down to the fort, buzzing like a whip. The part where the vine was swung down was shattered and became just rubble. And so do we.

Fluffy?

What the hell?

　The impact of the vine being swung down blew me away from the fort. Hey, if I don't do this, I'm going to fall and die!　D-d-d-don't you see, what are we going to do?

Asama, Mari!　Ugh, let our bodies float!

Okay, okay!　........what magic do I cast!

　You can't ask me that!　In the meantime, the ground is getting closer. Dodo, what do I do!　When I thought that.

'Fluffy!　Or did it float away?

　My body and Mari's body floated in the air. I thought that Mari had succeeded in her magic, but I guess not, because she too had a blank expression on her face. Then who was it?　But I knew right away who it was. It was

"Are you all right, my friends?

Anima!

　The king of the wind attributes, Anima-san, saved me with magic. The soldiers who were thrown out of the other forts were floating in the air as well. Good, thank goodness.

　As it is, we are given a ride on Anima-san's back. Dorothea-san was also riding on her back.

"Well, we've got a problem.

Do you know what that is, Dorothea?

''That's a new demon created by Lilith's level 9 dark magic 'fusion'. That was created by Lilith by mixing all the tens of thousands of demons that were there before and creating a new one.

　That's why the demons that were there so much have disappeared.

''So how do we defeat those?''

"...Cana, you need to fix my arm. I'm serious.