Chapter 56

“[Meteor… Smash]!”

“[Shark Tornado]!!”

“[Earth Gravity]… 30x.”

Titan is literally just a rock on the outside, relying on magic for strength, using a giant aerial gauntlet.

But in the end, it’ll just be crushed by my fist.

Leviathan’s techniques are flashy, but it feels like she’s forcing herself to fill the gaps.

As for Gravity… she’s probably just trying to debuff me, but a mere 30x gravity won’t even scratch me.

Do you think I trained for nothing? There’s no way something like that would suppress my movements.

You’re gonna get it later, you know.

“My, my [Titan Hand]…”

“Guh…?!”

“…You’re still too strong…”

Did you really think you could beat me with just this?

Even so, you’re way off the mark.

In front of me, even an Emperor-Class gets torn apart once I release my abilities. There’s no way you guys could do anything.

I guess I underestimated you too much…

Well, since I always keep my mana control near perfect, it’s hard to gauge how strong I am at a glance.

“[Neurotoxin].”

“Useless.”

“Huh, how…?!”

“My body contains the poison of ‘Lunatic Poison,’ you see.”

“But that doesn’t mean my poison won’t work…”

“My senior’s poison is special.”

I erased Venom’s poison attack with the [Madness Extreme Poison] corroding my body, then kicked her away, knocking her out instantly.

You’ve come this far, yet you fight without even using [Physical Enhancement]? Isn’t that too careless?

The only ones even trying are Titan, Gravity, and Ignition.

“[Burning Brave]!!”

[Burning Brave]… you say, but it’s just imbuing your sword with fire and shooting it like a sword wave.

Ah, is imbuing the sword with fire the technique, and the sword wave is just a bonus?

Still, the temperature seems to exceed five digits, which is impressive.

But efficiency aside, ambushing from behind in this situation deserves some credit, but you shouldn’t shout like that if you’re going to do it.

Have you only been fighting monsters and demons head-on, so you don’t know the basics?

…No, this fight wasn’t designed for human combat in the first place.

Well, my goal is to teach you a lesson… dodge to the side and punch the solar plexus.

Next up… Leviathan again.

“Screw…?!”

“Don’t talk every time you put effort into a single strike.”

Grabbing Leviathan’s face as she charges again, I pull her in and knee her in the solar plexus.

At the same time, I spin her around and kick her upward.

That’s Leviathan out of the fight.

Two left.

Wait, Leviathan’s still conscious, so she’ll probably crawl back up in a bit.

“[Hecatoncheir’s Hundred Hands]…!!”

“I told you not to shout every time you use a technique.”

“Ugh?!”

Titan gets back up and creates 100 [Titan Hands], but I dodge inside her attack and cut her off with a knee strike.

It’s no fun when everyone gets taken out in one hit.

Well, I expected as much… but I didn’t think it’d be this underwhelming.

And why do you keep shouting your technique names when you’re not even fighting weaklings, not going for one-hit kills, and not using sustained techniques?

First off, you guys are fighting too safely, and since you’re not even considering human combat, your movements are full of panic and awkwardness.

I guess as times changed, you’ve only been fighting monsters and demons that you can easily handle, so you’ve never felt a sense of crisis.

Back in my day, we fought life-and-death battles in bloody wars…

Thinking about it, training my juniors in human combat myself was the right call.

…By the way, why is Gravity just standing there watching from afar after using one technique?

I get that she knows how strong I am and ran away, but… wait, did she run away knowing this would happen?

She’s quick on the uptake…

“……”

“Got anything else?”

“…Nope.”

By the way, even though I’m blocking all their attacks bare-handed, I’m not taking any damage.

Well, even a Grand Duke-Class couldn’t damage me, so it makes sense.

This just makes it look like I’m bullying them…

“Sigh~… You guys, stop. At this rate, it just looks like I’m beating you up one-sidedly. None of your attacks are working.”

“…What?”

After fighting for a few minutes, I’ve got a good grasp of their level.

The others are starting to realize the difference and hold back, but Leviathan… is she just an idiot?

This one needs some serious education.

“I’m not even using my First Ability, and you guys are struggling. What are you doing? Especially you, Leviathan. Don’t you realize the difference in our levels?”

“This is…!!”

“The others are starting to understand the difference, but you’re still charging in blindly. Do you know what that means?”

“No!!”

“It’s laughable that a magical girl is doing this kind of thing, but you, who still can’t gauge your opponent’s level and keeps rushing in, are a hopeless idiot. Are you really a magical girl who can solo Duke-Class monsters? Or did you just get carried the whole time?”

“……”

That hit a nerve, huh?

The others clearly grew on their own, but this one… seems like she just grew by finishing off monsters and demons that others weakened.

Still, seeing that she’s awakened her Second Ability, she’s not entirely hopeless.

“You need to fix that rotten attitude. How about this? You can either train daily at the Korean Zone training ground, or I’ll beat you to near death here and now. Which one?”

“Shut up… shut your mouth!! Shut up!!!”

“…A Medal, huh.”

So she did have a Medal… well, fine.

She’s unworthy anyway, and her motives for using the Medal are impure, so if she turns into a monster, I’ll just kill her.

“If it comes to it, I’ll just kill you all…! If I suppress the monster’s personality, that’s it!!”

…Well, killing her is decided then.

Since she declared she’d kill, I’ll make sure to kill her properly.

If I don’t, who knows what this twisted, inferiority-complex-ridden girl might do.

She shouldn’t be given any more power.

“Hehe~… Do you know what this is? It’s a Medal containing an Emperor-Class monster…!”

And the fact that she knows what level of monster is inside means she must’ve obtained it personally.

In fact, she must’ve judged and obtained it herself.

To beat or kill me.

How does someone with such a petty inferiority complex even come up with such an idea…? I guess rotten people can only think that far.

The others… are moving behind me in panic.

Well, good judgment.

But you should probably get a lot farther away?

“You guys, just take the [Gate] and go back. My abilities will catch you too.”

“Ah, okay.”

“Sure…”

“Tch… fine.”

“Delicious…”

“…You, come visit Korea again. I’ll treat you to something good.”

“…Promise, okay.”

“Sure…”

Magical Gravity… still a really weird one.

Well, Leviathan’s the bigger problem.

She’s still not using the Medal and just showing off…

…Huh? Wait, is that… a [Gate]…?!

“Ugh…?!”

What the…! While I was distracted, she stabbed Leviathan from behind…!

Wait, who’s that coming out of the [Gate]?!

She looks like a magical girl, but why is she attacking another magical girl…?

“…What did you do?”

“Huhu… I just disposed of her since she’s no longer needed. Now I have the Emperor-Class monster’s Medal… and Rampage is right here, perfect…”

“Chubby. Do you know who that is?”

“Uh… Magical Vampire! …Ah! That’s the magical energy from the Global Zone back then!”

I see… so that’s the one known as the strongest in Europe.

And if she’s the one eyeing the Global Zone, then it’s definitely her.

The so-called mastermind.

Well, someone who’s after Medals doesn’t deserve such a grandiose title.

At best, she’s just a mid-level lackey.

But if she’s doing something like this, the mascot won’t just stand by, right?

At this point, she should be stripped of her magical girl status… but it seems like they’re in cahoots.

“Chubby. Get Leviathan and take her away. If the stab wound is bad, she’ll die soon. Hurry.”

“Yes!”

Anyway, it must’ve been her who pumped Leviathan full of something weird, given how messed up her mind was.

She definitely looks like a bad person… and if she’s after the Medal to target me, she’s probably just another inferiority-complex-ridden idiot obsessed with attacking me.

In the end, they’re both the same.

“With this… I can kill you, who’s always first, and take your place…”

“Just for that, you’re doing all this?”

“…Just? No… this is everything to me. Being the strongest, the most popular… that’s my whole life…!”

“You’re really an idiot…”

“Hmph… see if you can still say that after I use the Medal…!”

“Go ahead.”

The Medal’s monster absorption has started.

Guess I should prepare too.

Let’s see… at least it’s Emperor-Class, so I should probably release my Second Ability.

“Second Ability… 「Physical Rampage」.”

The absorption… is it done?

What happened to her personality?

Whether the surviving personality is the monster or the magical girl, I’ll kill her either way, but I’m still curious.

“Hoo… well, the monster’s personality seems to be this much…”

“Oh, I’ve never seen someone like you before.”

“Of course… because that’s me…!”

To think she didn’t get consumed by the monster’s personality but instead consumed it herself… what kind of mental strength is that…?

Anyway, she’s attacking right after transforming.

But… her attacks are pretty heavy.

And this level of magical energy… it’s beyond even Emperor-Class.

This is too much for Earth.

I’ll have to take her to space.

But this… feels similar to Pandora’s magical energy.

Could it be…?

“Ugh…?!”

“Wait, let’s go to space.”

Anyway, while she’s still not fully in control of her power, taking her out of Earth and killing her there should prevent any problems.

So, I’ll open a [Gate] to space.

“Kuh… what… are you doing?”

“I can’t let Earth get damaged, so I brought you to space. Got a problem with that?”

“Hmph~… You just don’t want to show me losing, right?”

“Thinking that kind of taunt would work is laughable. Stop yapping and come at me. Even if you’ve transformed, it means nothing to me. I’ll make you feel the difference painfully before you die.”

…Hoh, the first attack is a massive magical energy-based omnidirectional blood weapon attack.

But it’s useless.

I can deflect all of these.

If someone who’s trained their body and martial arts to this level couldn’t handle this, that’d be more surprising.

“What, what kind of monster are you…?!”

“Is deflecting everything really that surprising?”

“Hmph, hmph…! Then how about this…!”

This next technique seems to gather something… like a blood cannon.

But that’s useless too.

If even an Emperor-Class couldn’t handle a rampage-infused [Energy Blast] with [Collapse]… no, there’s no way you could.

Even an Emperor-Class got one-shot overkilled by this.

No matter how strong you are, there’s no way you could withstand this, right?

Besides, I’ve trained in martial arts too.

No matter how strong you are, if your attacks can land, I can keep closing in and delivering countless strikes.

Combat skill is something you can never ignore.

“Haaah…!!”

“[Energy Blast].”

……As expected, I won.

This should settle it.

Well, sorry.

I didn’t know I was this ridiculously strong.

I haven’t even used my Second Ability, let alone my First Ability, and I’ve been fighting with just punches…

I guess I need to reevaluate my own strength.

“This can’t be…!! I absorbed an Emperor-Class monster… and I’m losing…?!”

“Got a good grasp of your level. Is this the level beyond Emperor-Class?”

Well… now that I know your level, it’s time to finish this.

Actually, I deliberately countered some techniques this time to gauge the magic power against my standards.

You have to experience things firsthand to truly understand, so I couldn’t just skip this.

“Ha…! Don’t think this is over…!”

This time, she’s turning her body into blood and attacking in an intangible form.

While simultaneously launching countless blood weapon attacks… she’s quite skilled.

That must be her original fighting style, her true form when serious.

…But she picked the wrong opponent.

I deflected the omnidirectional blood weapons while casually countering the intangible Vampire with explosive [Energy Blast].

And since I had the leisure, I occasionally slashed at Vampire with a light sword imbued with [Collapse].

The light sword’s attacks are energy-based, so even if she’s intangible, Vampire can’t avoid taking damage.

In other words, even if she’s intangible, she’s not invincible, and she has to avoid my attacks.

So, she’s getting sluggish and her movements are worsening.

I fired an [Energy Blast] at her while she was intangible, and she momentarily returned to her original form.

Seems like maintaining the intangible form requires a lot of concentration.

By the way, for someone so confident, she’s really underwhelming.

She hasn’t even awakened her Third Ability, yet she’s talking about killing me…

“Just this much?”

“…Huh?”

“Well, you haven’t even awakened your Third Ability, yet you’re talking about being first place… that’s just a joke.”

“W-what are you talking about…! There’s no way a Third Ability exists…”

“…Third Ability, 「Rampage」.”

“Third, 3… 3rd Ability…?! N-no way… something like that… such a ridiculous, dream-like ability… can’t exist…!”

“No, it does. By the way, my senior, Magical Paladin, only recently awakened hers. It’s not a ridiculous dream, but a real… true magical girl’s power.”

“There’s a magical girl who’s reached a level even I haven’t…? Lies…”

The level beyond Emperor-Class… I haven’t named it yet, but I’ve roughly gauged its strength, so there’s no need to hold back anymore.

So… I’ll kill her at maximum speed.

…「Chaotic Frenzy」, 「Domain Collapse」.

“M-my body…?! Why… is [Blood Form] dissolving…?!”

“Really… I’d usually feel sorry, but I can’t even pity idiots who do this kind of thing for such stupid reasons. You’re just pathetic.”

“Why… did I… absorb an Emperor-Class monster…?!”

“You know what? I obliterated that Emperor-Class monster in an instant with just my Second Ability. You were never a match for me. Well, I’ll give you credit for lasting this long against me.”

“Lies… lies…!!”

“Then, die.”

At this level, 「Domain Collapse」 alone won’t kill her instantly… but she’s slowly dying.

But waiting hours for that is bad taste, so I’ll just kill her now.

…「Ether Blast」.

“……”

The superior version of [Energy Blast], a technique exclusive to the Third Ability, 「Ether Blast」.

Combined with 「Domain Collapse」 and 「Chaotic Frenzy」, it automatically includes 「Collapse」 in its 「Rampage」 state, so the monsterized Magical Vampire was instantly annihilated without a single cell remaining.

It’s probably overkill, but it’s better than dragging it out.

“Sigh~…”

I guess that settles one big problem.

By the way… I should catch that mascot who’s been hiding.

The traces are still there, so I’ll chase her immediately.

“…Got you.”

“Hyung?!”

After returning, I immediately followed the magical traces, opened a [Gate], and chased down Magical Vampire’s mascot.

Whether she assisted or not needs to be confirmed, but punishment is certain.

No, the moment she didn’t retrieve the crystal after stabbing Leviathan from behind, she was already out.

So, I’ll restrain her and take her to the Fairy Realm.

“Let me go! Let me go!”

“Even if I let you go, other mascots will just capture and take you away. There’s no escape.”

“Let me go!!”

“…You, you assisted Magical Vampire in monsterizing and trying to kill me, right? Isn’t that so?”

“S-so what?!”

“I see… then I’ll take you to the Fairy Realm and have you sentenced to death. Or should I just kill you here and now?”

“Hyung…”

Then let’s head to the Fairy Realm.

I’ll tie her up tightly with restraints just in case.

“Let’s go, Chubby.”

“Yes!”

“Let me go~