Chapter: 504
Luca swings his attack, but I block it. The strike imbued with the Evil God Agra’s energy gets deflected by the shield filled with the Divine Grace of God.
I meet his red, bloodshot eyes with my own.
You won’t understand. You can’t possibly make sense of it.
Why am I not crumbling, I mean?
Luca, tainted by the Evil God’s energy, overwhelms me on all fronts.
His strength is at a level where comparison feels meaningless.
His speed is such that keeping up with it visually feels like a stretch.
The sheer power behind each of his attacks makes me certain that even if I lose an arm, I wouldn’t be able to keep up.
So, logically speaking, it makes no sense for me to stand my ground against Luca.
It’s impossible.
But…
“If you’re gonna play, at least do it properly!♡ If it’s this monotonous, it’s no fun!♡ Is your brain so small it’s hard to think?♡”
Reality is what it is.
Chaeeng!
Luca’s attack once again meets my shield.
Hoo~ I really feel like my lifespan is being drained in real-time.
Just thinking that I could get crushed by that axe makes it downright terrifying.
A boss whose every pattern could be an instant kill!
Isn’t this game just a shoddy mess!?
Sure, I can’t say much since I’m responding to each of his moves, but can we at least get some balance here!?
Shoddy God! I’m talking to you!
Chaeeng!
A slight shock passes through my shield.
Did my timing get a bit off?
Damn it. Looks like there’s even more energy piling on.
Objectively, what I’m doing right now is a sort of acrobatics.
It’s a stunt on a tightrope with no safety device.
Risky business, where one slip could send me crashing down.
And the rope at my feet? It’s getting thinner by the moment.
…How long can I hold out? How long can this act last? When will I even reach the unseen other side?
I suppress my rising unease and watch as the spearhead comes flying toward me.
Energy gathering at its tip, waiting to explode.
Then it happened.
A sudden change arrived.
The energy at the spearhead trembles.
As a result, Luca’s attacks lose their sharpness.
Using the shock from his attack, I quickly back away and turn my gaze around.
Adri, cheering that the control of the phantom has returned.
The bewildered Followers of the Void.
The darkness around me gradually fading.
My divine essence naturally spreading without any added effort.
Has the Sleeping Prince finally awakened?
Maybe he finally realized that no one is going to kiss his smelly lips after pretending to sleep for so long.
Snicker snicker, I divert my gaze from the surroundings and look back at Luca.
The darkness surrounding him is gradually crumbling.
As the magic circle that maintained the Power of Void loses its strength, the power granted to Luca also begins to fade.
The Evil God’s anger hasn’t subsided, so the Evil God’s authority still clings to him, but that’s all.
Luca is no longer as overwhelming as he was moments ago.
Lord Armadi. Thanks for the swift balance patch. It’s way more fun to play around now.
“Why are you standing still?♡ Isn’t this supposed to be a trial for me?♡”
I let my shield down slightly and grin openly.
“Did the pathetic, cowardly loser Agra run away?♡ You’re a shoddy coward who can’t do anything alone!♡”
As the barrier crumbles, the Followers of the Void are falling apart. The remaining focal point is no longer them; it’s Luca.
If I can take down that guy, who’s empowered by the Evil God Agra, they will completely disband.
“Or is it?♡ Is the trial supposed to be about not making fun of a loser who’s clueless, premature, perverted, and an idiot?♡”
So I provoke him. I nibble at Luca’s sanity once again. I distract him from thinking coherently, speaking without engaging his brain.
Why even think about how to rile him up? I can poke at anything, and he’ll certainly get heated.
“Huhaha♡ If that’s the case, there’s no way I’ll let it through!♡”
As the darkness thickens, Luca’s eyes reveal bright red blood vessels.
“I’m sorry,♡ Perverted Professor~♡ I’ve lost~♡ Your trials are just too hard for me, I can’t do a thing!♡”
Luca’s muscles bulge as he grips the halberd’s shaft.
“What will you do now?♡ Are you going to force your perverted tastes onto me?♡ Huff♡ With those red eyes devouring my body, I’m just too scared to do anything!♡”
Luca prepares his stance. The same posture as in his first attack. It’s the same as in my memories.
“Wow♡ Look how excited you are, just because I adjusted to your tastes!♡ Pervert~♡ Gross♡ Go die somewhere!♡”
Watching his attack come my way, I raise my shield. Tracking back to memories past. I recall the me on the other side of the monitor.
I remember the efforts I made back then.
Then soon, a fresh sound resonates in my ears.
Having successfully parried, I plunge into the exposed inner side of Luca’s body.
Steeling myself at the shock evident in his glance, I raise my mace.
Alright, Luca. I’ll use you as the first test subject for the new skill I just got.
You should feel honored.
If you have even a bit of a mage’s resilience, you’ll be able to laugh after enduring the power of a bear.
Right?
Just as I think of using the skill, raw strength far beyond humanity pours into my arm.
I swung the mace, pouring all that power into it without wasting a single bit.
Even amid all that, Luca attempted to block my attack with his arm, but a fragile human’s arm can’t withstand the power of a beast.
As my strike tears flesh and crushes bone, Luca’s body for a brief moment flies through the air, escaping gravity.
In an instant, Luca, who had momentarily defied gravity, falls to the ground, rolling several times before sprawling out.
…He can’t be dead, right? That would be a problem!?
It’s true that he’s a piece of trash that deserves to die, but he still has things he needs to see!
Rushing to Luca, I check for signs of life and let out a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness. I almost left him to perish thinking he’d achieved mental victory.
*
The first to sense the change was Joy.
Doing her best to analyze and reinforce Erginius’s magic circle, she immediately recognized the transformation happening within it.
The massive energy that had been flowing into the magic circle was cut off.
Why? What change occurred? Did I fiddle with something improperly?
While concerned that she might have done something silly again, Joy paused when she saw the magic circle losing its power and rushed to infuse it with more magic, only to suddenly stop.
No, there’s no need to protect the magic circle.
That magic circle is empowering the Followers of the Void right now.
If it crumbles, the immense power sustaining the Followers of the Void will vanish as well.
Realizing this, Joy actively assisted the magic circle’s collapse.
She shattered the structure of the magic circle, working to disrupt its emergency power while erasing the core elements of the magic circle.
Under normal circumstances, Joy’s abilities wouldn’t have been able to disassemble the magic circle, and even if she did, it would quickly restore itself, but not now.
The magic circle, stripped of its energy, could not respond to its own collapse, and as a result, it fell apart rapidly.
Various changes emerged from this, but the most noticeable was the barrier.
The barrier.
The one that engulfed the entire Soul Academy.
The barrier, tainted black by the Power of Void.
The barrier that couldn’t protect the students and had been handing power to the Evil God.
It began to crack from the top, little by little, dropping shards made of magic energy as it crumbled away.
Before long, the warm light of the sun shining from above entered the academy, pushing back the darkness.
“No!”
Seeing this, the Apostle of the Void hurriedly tried to grasp the barrier, but the cracks only widened.
“No!”
The Apostle’s earlier display of near-omnipotence was because Erginius’s magic had granted him boundless strength.
With that omnipotence disappearing, all the Apostle of the Void could do now was watch everything crumble.
“Thank you for your hard work, Ducal Young Lady Partlan.”
As Yuden, touched by the sun’s rays, spoke with a relaxed tone, the Apostle’s veins bulged in anger.
“No! It’s not over yet! The judge left by the Void still remains! We have not been defeated!”
Yuden, ignoring the Apostle’s voice, looked upward. The Apostle was indeed right.
There was still the black-scaled dragon lurking in the void.
However, the sense of menace emanating from the dragon was nowhere near as powerful as before.
Stripped of everything sustained by the Evil God’s authority, the dragon was just an ordinary creature.
“Is that so?”
And if it’s just an ordinary creature, a lizard that has lost most of its power, then that being cannot present a trial for Yuden.
In the gradually brightening scenery of the academy, Yuden draws her sword and pours everything she has into it.
The final strike, her lethal blow, crafted to clash with the strongest man she can think of.
With her life reflected in the sword, she beheads the dragon with the clouds.
“So now you’ve lost, huh?”
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