New Zealand was a nation 2.5 times bigger than Korea, but Australia was easily over 25 times bigger than New Zealand. Although I didnât think this huge country would be filled with demons in every corner, I still expected it to have more demons than New Zealand. When I thought about facing them, I couldnât help but hasten myself.
After leaving Daisyâs Laki to all aerial battles, we quickly began to recover regions of New Zealand. Unlike monsters that moved with their instincts, demons moved with a purpose and goal. It was to destroy human civilization and annihilate humans. There were practically no surviving humans in New Zealand with not a single building standing unfazed.
âCruel⌠Itâs only been two days tooâŚ!â
âMaybe I should have come even if I was alone.â
I began to feel rushed. I wondered if I made the wrong choice. If I knew New Zealand was wiped out, I should have gone to Australia immediately. At least, New Zealand and Australiaâs population wasnât too big⌠No, I shouldnât be thinking this way.
I put away my useless thoughts. The only thing I should focus on right now was getting to Australia as quickly as possible.
âAustralia might be in a better situation. Most of the population live in coastal areas. We wonât need to go deep into the continent.â
âI cleared Event Dungeons there, so I know that. But having the population close together means theyâre easier targets. Damn it. I hope Guardian and Freedom Wing are doing well.â
Thinking about how unreliable those two groups were for things like this, I sighed. There were definitely troops deployed to New Zealand, but we couldnât even catch a glimpse of them yet and we were almost finished. I didnât want to believe they were wiped out, but⌠perhaps the damages they received this time were too severe.
As I boldly claimed, clearing New Zealand only took us a day. With most of the demonsâ army stationed in Australia, we mercilessly bombarded the demons, only mindful of any potential survivors. We tried to melt the frozen land with Lakiâs and Hwayaâs power, but there seemed to be no end to it. In the end, we decided to look for another way after eliminating the cause of this situation.
[You will all bow before Lespina-nimâs power!]
âAnd you bowed before mine.â
[The difference between me and Lespina-nim is like that of heaven and earth! Donât think you can reach her level by easily subjugating us!]
âYeah, yeah, goodbye.â
I severed the demonâs head and sighed. With this, we were done in New Zealand. HoweverâŚ
No matter how hard we looked, we couldnât discover any specific details on this demon named Lespina. All we knew was that Lespina was female. When Hwaya found out, she wore a worried expression and looked at me.
âShin, sheâs a demon! Someone who executed a massacre of this level! If anyone finds out, Revivalâs public image will plummet. Got it?â
âHwaya, do you think I can seduce any and all women?â
âEhâŚ?â
Hwayaâs conscious-stricken face made me feel strange. I, who was once called an orc, was being treated this way by Hwaya Eleni Mastiford. Though, this was most certainly because of my charm stat.
âDonât worry. I wonât let a demon live no matter what.â
âY-Yeah. Good.â
âHuuâŚâ
I swung my spear and dusted off the demonâs blood before looking up at the sky. The aerial battle was also coming to a close with Lakiâs lava swallowing the demons. Every last demon in New Zealand was killed. It was the result of a tough day of work.
But what did it matter? There were too many irreversible damages. The land was still frozen, the buildings were crumbled, and the people were dead. No matter where I looked, ruin was the only word that popped up in my head. I asked in a murmuring voice.
âHow many survivors are there?â
âThere are still about 500,000 alive. New Zealand wasnât their main goal.â
â⌠Letâs hurry to Australia.â
Thanks to us drawing attention here, by the time we cleaned up the last remaining demon, Guardian and Freedom Wing could enter New Zealand. We made contact with them and left them to take care of the aftermath before immediately heading to Australia.
Although there were many small islands, Oceania was mainly comprised of the Australia continent. This Lespina should also be there. The plan was to kill her and prevent future harm. If the demons pointed their sword elsewhere, there wouldnât be disaster quite like it.
[Guaaaaaaa!]
Lakiâs roar rumbled far and wide. It was because of the countless number of demons waiting for us above the coastal seas of Australia.
[He is this worldâs Hero.]
[One who killed our kin.]
[Make it so that Lespina-nim doesnât have to come herself!]
âLaki, clean.â
[Guooooooooo!]
Daisy calmly commanded as she swung her whip. Immediately after Lakiâs roar rang out, a large number of flames shot out from Lakiâs mouth and attacked the demons. We also sniped down the demons dodging Lakiâs flames and dwindled their number. Even so, more and more demons were popping up.
[Finish it here!]
[Let us decide the fate of Earth, Hero!]
Although Lakiâs flames were endlessly scorching the demons, with their sheer number, we couldnât stop them from casting their magic. Among them were special demons who gathered to create a giant magic capable of threatening us. In the end, I jumped down from Lakiâs back and got on Lotteâs.
âYou guys charge forward!â
âWeâll take half too, Shin. You take care of the left side!â
Hwaya and Ina seemed to be thinking the same thing, as they both shot up into the air. I trusted the two of them. I nodded and began to charge forward.
âUoooooo! Try killing me!â
[The Hero has come forth!]
[Focus your magic on him!]
I roused Absolute Soulâs power to the extreme. Peruta Circuitâs spin created a whirlpool of aura enveloping my body, weapon, and even Lotte. A countless number of elementals and a boundless amount of mana layered the whirlpool as if to protect it.
âWind Kingâs Rage!â
I added wind and lightning on top of it. The demons sent innumerable magic flying towards me. Some of them looked powerful enough to make me depart this world, but I simply grinned and charged into the storm of magic.
âHaaaaaap!â
I clashed with them. When these destructive masses of mana detonated, the mana I absorbed with Absolute Soul overwhelmed the life force I lost.
âLotte, you can withstand it, right?â
[Iâm fine! Letâs kill them, Hero!]
When the demons saw me charging continuously without a pause, they became flustered and lost their formation. Although there were demons that continued to shoot magic towards me, unless they used a mass chant magic, none could pierce through my fierce whirlpool of aura. In fact, the moment they touched it, the mana composing them were absorbed by the whirlpool, only strengthening it.
[Heâs absorbing our magic!?]
[Could he be our kin?]
[Heâs too quick⌠Kuhuk!]
âIâll pierce right through you all!â
I shouted vehemently, coursing through the air with Lotte. We were like a giant spear. Looking from the outside at the whirlpool of aura centered around us, we would probably look just like it.
On the other hand, Hwaya and Inaâs magic power raged and disrupted the demonsâ magic. This was also a good method, and a much better method if one didnât plan on directly fighting with his body like me. However, for someone like me who was born stupidâŚ!
âCome, you blue monkeys! Where did your spirit from earlier go!?â
[That guy is crazy!]
[The magic of the demon race isnât working!]
It worked. It was just that I was using their magic power to regenerate myself! Peruta Circuit restored the parts of body destroyed from resisting their magic and energized all bodily functions. Just this wasnât enough to fill up my lost life force. Although I never learned it from anybody, I came to understand my bodyâs state, and when I became more skilled in Peruta Circuit, I could do this as easily as breathing!
âUoooooo!â
My charge became more and more intense. The whirlpool of aura whirling around me became so big that it was getting harder to manage it. The wind and lightning created from Wind Kingâs Rage also empowered the whirlpool. Now, average magic was ripped apart the moment they touched this whirlpool. The demons were no exception.
[Stop his charge.]
[Heâs truly the Hero! Contact Lespina-nim!]
âYouâll all die before that!â
The amplification of Wind Kingâs Rage already reached its peak, but I had no intention of stopping it. I tightly grasped onto the spear enveloped by the extreme energy that I might miss in a moment of carelessness. I fluidly changed my direction in the air and charged towards another group of demons with Lotte. It was at this moment.
[Stop!]
My body halted. At the same time, it felt like the energy pivoting around me was shaking. Why? I knew the exact reason. Was it because I became so used to feeling and wielding mana?
The corner of my mouth curled up into a smile. I urgently gathered the dissipating energy and scattered it in all directions. A thunderous sound rang out.
[Kuaaaaak!]
[Lespina-nim!]
[Damn⌠Kuaaaa!]
It was only then that I realized how immense the energy I was wielding was. It felt like a piece of the sky was being ripped apart.
The seemingly infinite number of demons filling up the sky disintegrated without leaving a trace, and my companions also fell back in shock.
It didnât take long until the great explosion of mana subsided. It was because Peruta Circuitâs intense rotation didnât leave the scattering mana alone and pulled it back in.
The energy created from the explosion was also sucked in, gathering in a single point, the tip of the spear I held out. With that, I regained a clear vision of the surrounding.
I was facing a demon. She was beautiful just like the power she held in her body.
âI didnât think Iâd meet you so soon. I thought you would be waiting for me deep inside Australia.â
[I canât let you freely decimate His Highness Demon Lordâs army any further. I planned on taking care of you lot when you were still in that tiny island country, butâŚ]
âThey were all too weak. Iâm not done yet though.â
I grinned. I compressed the mana gathered at my spear tip even smaller. The long-haired female demon gritted her teeth. She was also capable of wielding massive energy equaling me. I could tell just by looking at the longsword in her hand.
Furthermore, I could tell from the ability she used before that it was fatal to me, who had gotten my power from the dungeon. Since I was hit with it once, I could tell what kind of an effect it had, but I couldnât quite understand the mechanism behind it. Could she use her ability without knowing the principles behind it just like how I used the skills I had?
[Arrogant human⌠Someone who only relies on power that does not belong to you!]
âCome, Lespina. Iâll let you know whether this power belongs to me or not.â