The moment I struck down with my Chaotic Spear, black lightning shot out in a zigzag pattern from the center of the frozen land. It only took a moment before the pure white land turned black.
[Wooow!]
[What an amazing skill!]
āItās going to crumble soon!ā
I pushed Chaotic Spear deeper, and the blackened frozen land, with a crack running down the middle, began to crackle with fierce lightning. Although my original power might not have been enough to cause such a feat, with the Collapsing Ring I obtained recently, I could pull off such a miraculous feat! Even the demons who might have been doubtful were now beginning to understand what I was doing.
[Stop him! Thatās a skill!]
[Such a powerful skill! If only Lespina-nim was here!]
But this Lespina-nim isnāt here, is she!?
I shouted and pushed my spear deeper. In that instant, my skill activated completely. The huge sheet of ice separated into hundreds of thousands of giant pieces and rained down on the ground. The pieces were all strengthened to the limit with my mana and was imbued with the black lightning attribute through Gaia Busterās effect. It was a magnificent sight one would want to capture with his camera.
[Lightning filled with an evil curse! Dodge!]
[Thereās too many of them, damn it!]
Damn it? Thatās good to hear! I flew up using Talaria and looked at the magnificent scene I created. The icy boulders crackling with black lightning were all hurling towards the demons.
The demons resisted with their magic or weapons, but there were just too many to deal with. Furthermore, my mana, imbued in each piece of the icy boulder, prevented them from destroying them easily. Once a demon couldnāt defend against one, that was it, as several tens then several hundreds of icy boulders soon collected his life. Of course, Gaia Buster didnāt end just because its target died. The power of the black lightning lied in its final huge explosion!
[Kuaaaak!]
[Itās a disaster!]
[To think thereās a human with such a terrifying skill!]
[Im, Impossibleā¦ Itās the Demon God-nimās fury, Demon God-nimās fury!]
āIām not a Demon God! Iām Kang Shin! Uhahahaha!ā1
The black icy boulders raining down on the coastal area of New Zealand didnāt stop until the demonsā screams were no longer heard. Whenever demons appeared that seemed to want to say something, the remaining boulders exploded with fierce mana and silenced them.
With so much mana exploding at once, whirlpools of mana were created in several places. I quickly flew down and pulled them towards me with Peruta Circuit.
āWhew, Iām getting so much mana from these. Maybe itās because they were made from my mana! Sharana, Ruyue! Letās kill the survivors!ā
[Leave it to me!]
[Me too, me too!]
The two materialized elementals received the mana recovered by Peruta Circuit and shot out in different directions. With Talaria, I quickly soared across the half-destroyed New Zealand and looked for surviving demons.
[You cruel bastard, do you know how many of our kin you just killed!?]
One seemed to have a stealth type ability, as a blue-skinned demon suddenly shot up from the ground when I was flying close to the ground and tried to stab with a dagger. The demon moved quicker than I could detect him with my mana, but he had unfortunately underestimated my reaction speed!
āI might not know how many I killed, butā¦ā
With a swift thrust of my spear, I pierced the demonās neck. However, the speed of his dagger wasnāt affected in the slightest. Even as he coughed up a mouthful of blood, he forced his eyes open and shouted with a heinous laugh.
[His Majesty, the great Demon Lord, shall draw your blood as oblation!]
In the Luka continent, I had my fair share of experience with demons. One thing all demons had in common was their tenacious life force. Before his dagger could reach my neck, I ignited chaos flames and burnt up his entire body. Then, I finished my sentence.
āI know I can add another to the count.ā
[Kuā¦]
As if to erase even his death throes, chaos flames surged violently and burnt his body to a crisp. I murmured with a snort.
āYou massacred millions of humans and what, youāre curious how many demons I killed? Are you trying to make me feel guilty?ā
There was no such thing as justice. Everyone fought to survive. What was important was knowing the weight of oneās crimes and still taking steps forward. I long since had this resolve.
Frozen by the demons, carpet-bombed by black ice, and now burnt and crushed to the ground. The lands of New Zealand now really looked like a scene from a catastrophe. The corpses of the New Zealandās people from when the demons invaded had been buried in ice. Now, they were revealed under the cracked iceā¦ No, most were destroyed. Seeing them, I couldnāt help but think that my attack had damaged these corpses.
āThis damned demons, they dare to guilt me with human corpses lying everywhere?ā
No matter how dirty I felt, I couldnāt stop because of it. Even now, Guardian and Freedom Wing couldnāt even near the perimeter of Oceania. However, if we went crazy and forced the demons to come to us, Guardian and Freedom Wing would naturally gain a chance to enter. That would mean a quicker reclamation of land.
Though I was a bit ashamed of what I had done, I came here to protect Oceania. I came to prevent any more casualties from occurring. Rather than corpses of already dead people, the living was more important to me.
āHuuā¦ Okay, letās go.ā
I absorbed the mana released by the demonās body and created a black whirlpool enveloping my spear. At the same time, I roused the power of this mana and shouted at the top of my lungs for all to hear.
āTo all survivors, come! The Hero you want to kill so much is here!ā
[You used Provoke! All being in this land attacks you with intense hatred!]
From what seemed like a desolate land, injured demons suddenly began to rise. I most likely worsened their injuries with my provocation. It must be painful and vexing. There might have been demons with the ability to resist my Provoke, but most of them probably didnāt resist on purpose.
[Heās the Hero.]
[If we kill him, the Demon Lord doesnāt need to come!]
[Heās the one who massacred our kin.]
[Glory to the Demon Lord, Blessing of the Demon God to Lespina-nim!]
The demons began to gather towards me. Ruyue and Sharana busily flew around, creating pillars of ice and scythes of wind to bully the demons. However, their gazes were fixed on me. Looking at their hate-filled eyes, I grinned. At the same time, I roused the power of my Evil Eyes to the limit.
[Kak!]
[M-My bodyā¦!]
[The Hero even has Evil Eyes!?]
It was surprising. I expected the demons remaining in New Zealand to be weaker than the ones in Australia, but only about 30% of them instantly turned to stone. Most of the others only had their movements affected. Although I could petrify more of them if I surged up my mana to the extreme, it was quicker for me to just kill them directly. After all, even if I didnāt pour mana into my Evil Eyes, they were already restraining the demonsā movements.
āLetās fight!ā
[You cowaaaard!]
The strongest looking demon, a female demon seemingly about SSS rank in strength, charged towards me. In an instant, I roused my charm and shot it towards her. She immediately stopped moving. Her face flushed, while she roused her magic power to desperately resist my charm. During this time, she was revealing too many openings that I didnāt know where to begin.
[Youā¦!]
There was no need to hesitate. A whirlwind of white flames, formed from chaos flames and Heroic Aura, sent her head flying. Although her headless body remained standing for a moment, it soon scattered into the air as particles of mana. Peruta Circuitās powerful rotation immediately pulled the mana towards my spear and strengthened the enveloping whirlpool.
Although the demons had bountiful strength, their defenses were even worse than ordinary monsters. A single hit from them could be fatal, but they were equally likely to die from a single hit. I just had to kill them before they could kill me. How simpler could things get?
[Heāsā¦]
[Strongā¦!]
For a moment, silence descended. It seemed this female demon was really the strongest of the bunch, as the demons looked incapable of accepting the fact that she died so easily. With a smirk, I provoked them.
āWhat? Arenāt you going to attack?ā
[ā¦ Kill him!]
However, demons each had their special magic, and their black magic was especially annoying to deal with. If they attacked simultaneously, things became even more annoying.
[Burn!]
[This lightning even more powerful than your own will burn you to a crisp!]
The demons surrounding me all attacked me with malice. Without even a single delay, the wings of Talaria flapped. I instantly shot up into the sky, dodging their attacks. Then, I swung my spear once.
āO elementals, help me!ā
Like stars lighting up the milky way, countless elementals followed the trace of my spear. An unimaginable number of elementals were sticking to my spear.
[Answer to the Princeās fury!]
[Follow the will of this star, the will of the Prince!]
[Become a part of the light that keeps away evil!]
Eh? The elementalsā comments were different from the usual. Did they study philosophy in the meanwhile? Although I was a bit curious, there were already several magic spells flying towards me. Since the start of this battle, I was never late to carry out my thoughts to action.
Ruyue and Sharana flew in and blocked the magic attacks one by one, but I made them fall back. Then, I released the power of mana and elementals enveloping my spear.
āElemental Tempest!ā
[Critical Hit!]
[Kuaaaak!]
[Demon Lord Your Highness!]
[Damn it!]
The fury of the elementals covered the land, and, at the same time, dozens of scythes appeared in the air and sliced the demons apart. The death throes of the demons rang out, and a cool breeze soon blew. It was as if the power of the death god was following me.
āHuuuā¦ā
In the wake of Elemental Tempest was silence. I accelerated Peruta Circuit once more to refill my halved mana and retrieved my spear. At that moment, someone flew into my embrace.
āDaddy!ā
āOh, Ina. Youāre here, now?ā
āUn! I came back after cleaning up the blue flies in the sky!ā
Sorry, Ina. Forgive your father who can only teach you these thingsā¦
āThatās great. Letās work hard for a bit more. When weāre done, Daddy will play with Ina for a whole day.ā
āReally!? Okay! Iāll try my best!ā
Ina cheerfully clenched her fists. Following her, other members of Revival arrived. We entered New Zealand perfectly. The only thing left to do was to free this from the leaderless demons. I set my resolve and shouted.
āLetās go, everyone! Weāre going to finish New Zealand by the end of the day!ā
[Ueeeeekā¦ I canāt spin spin anymoreā¦!]
Good. Thankfully, there was one that failed his philosophy classā¦
1. Demon God = Ma Shin (ė§ģ ), which clearly is similar to the MCās name.