「———Hahaha! This is fun! I can still get even stronger!」
“I’m not having fun at all…!!”
Void Lord, laughing loudly, fires countless magical blasts, each infused with the property of “corrosion.”
To nullify the corrosion, you’d need to pour in enough magic power that it can’t be completely eroded, but that requires a considerable amount of energy.
…Damn it… I’m barely holding the balance right now, but there’s no doubt that the longer this goes on, the worse it will get for me.
Yet, I can’t think of a way to defeat him. No, actually, there is one way, but the problem is that I don’t have the time to charge it up.
“If only there was one more person…”
“———Then leave it to me.”
With those words, a massive tornado suddenly appears between me and the Void Lord. The tornado swallows the corrosion and turns pitch black.
“Arthur!? How are you here!?”
“There’s no time for explanations, Shin. First, we have to take down the enemy in front of us.”
“Y-yeah, you’re right.”
While releasing countless lightning bolts, I cast additional defensive magic on the cumulonimbus clouds protecting the academy. This time, it’s not to block his attacks, but to prevent the aftermath of my own attacks from reaching the academy.
“You have a plan, don’t you, Shin?”
“Yeah… I do have one, but it takes too long to charge up…”
“It’s okay. Aura and I will hold him off somehow.”
As Arthur declares confidently, Aura manifests in this world. The tornado that had been on the verge of collapsing regains its strength, swallowing surrounding clouds and lightning, growing even larger.
But—
“Tch… I didn’t expect it to be this strong… a bit beyond my predictions…”
The tornado is swiftly corroded by dark magic and dissipates. At the same time, a dark magic blast targets Arthur at a speed no human could avoid… but I intercept it, neutralizing it with lightning.
“Thanks, Shin———Divine Wind Blade!!”
“Divine Wind Blade! This is really unusual… Why does a god of evil possess such power…?”
Arthur and Aura, swapping places with me, release divine wind blades that cut through everything.
In that instant, the invisible wind becomes visible due to the concentration of magical power. The wind blades cleave through my lightning, the clouds, and even the Void Lord’s magical blasts like they were tofu, heading straight for the Void Lord.
“This is bad…”
The Void Lord, for the first time, stops smiling and dodges instead of taking it head-on.
But the wind blades don’t let up.
“!?”
The two wind blades sharply change direction at a right angle, pursuing the Void Lord. Surprised for the first time, the Void Lord—
“Don’t underestimate me!!”
—erupts with dark magic from his entire body, forming layer upon layer of shields to protect himself from the wind blades. The blades cut through many layers, but they dissipate around the tenth layer. However, the dark magic doesn’t stop and begins corroding the very space around it.
Furthermore—
“Come forth———my servants.”
From the corroded space, numerous evil gods, seemingly absorbed by the Void Lord, appear. Their strength varies—some can be wiped out in an instant, while others are as strong as the first evil god we encountered, and some are even as strong as Loki.
The only silver lining is that none of them have any sense of reason, all falling into a frenzy.
“Shin…”
“Yeah… The game didn’t have an attack like this… Don’t pull out something entirely different in a pinch…”
I control the thunderclouds and annihilate the weak ones. Thunder roars, and lightning rains down like a storm. The power is overwhelming, enough to instantly kill mid-level evil gods.
“Gaahhhhhhh———!!”
The evil gods scream hideously as they disappear, but these are only the weaker ones. The stronger gods don’t die from the lightning, and even regenerate in the blink of an eye.
“Damn it… this is such a pain…”
“Wind bla—!? Arthur!!”
Just as Arthur tries to cast a spell, a magic blast fired by the Void Lord pierces Arthur’s shoulder. Blood spurts out, and Arthur grimaces in pain. I try to go to help him, but magic blasts are being fired in all directions, preventing me from reaching him.
In the midst of this, the Void Lord closes in on Arthur, aiming to pierce his heart with a spear hand.
“———Arthur!!”
“Ugh…”
“With this, one down———Gah!?”
Just as the Void Lord is about to impale Arthur, a silver light blows him away. At the same time, a girl with flowing silver hair appears in front of me. From her, I could sense a power equal to mine.
“Haha… As expected from my favorite character…”
I turn my gaze to my magnificent idol, who succeeded in merging with the spirit at the last moment.
“———As long as I’m here, I won’t let anyone die.”
Hera, dressed in a silver gown, glares sharply at the Void Lord.
