Chapter 16

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

Sasha’s scream rang out through the Though Transmission

.

Fumu . Have I gone too easy on them? There’s less impact than I thought and the castle has stuck in the ground in only a semi-ruined state .

They can still fight it appears but how will they get out?

As I slowly walk towards the Demon King castle I’m still hearing voices from Thought Transmission .

“…… . . I’ll use Flame Prison Annihilation Cannon

” .

Hou . She just said something interesting .

“Bu, but Sasha-sama . With the castle in this state even if you use all the magic power from the sorceress [mages] the success rate for

is less than 20%!”

“If it fails the castle will collapse!”

“Don’t lose your nerve! Recognise the power of our enemy . He’s a mongrel and carries the mark of the inept but he’s a monster! He threw a castle . Do you think halfhearted magics will work on him?”

The members uttering complaints fell silent at Sasha’s voice .

As I thought, she’s got quite the charisma . Though she’s still immature its a shame to keep her as an enemy .

“The highest level of flame magic is Flame Prison Annihilation Cannon

. Anything less will not defeat Arnos VoldiG.o.d . ”

No one else voices an objection . A subtle flow of magic power begins flowing through

which tells me what their decision is .

“The enemy side is one person and we have 20 people! We can avoid the shame of loss with this . Do your best and face death . Show that mongrel the best magic of your lives and the pride of royalty!”

“Roger that!” all the members shout out in one voice .

Magic particles begin to rise from the Demon King castle and a three-dimensional magic formation appears . The Demon King castle itself is turned into a huge magical focus .

Seven Castle Lords [Guardians] are building a spell formation that’s hard to construct . In order to maintain it, 10 Sorcerer’s [Mages] are pouring all their magic power into it and the two remaining Shamans will be responsible for aiming it .

Sasha Necron is at the centre of it all, organising the various magics to make it work .

She’s worthy of her name the Witch of Ruin . She’s got a rare talent .

Even though she’s borrowing her colleague’s power it is not easy to develop such a large scale magic .

Unlike origin magic that provides enormous power but with an attached risk, the highest level of flame magic

is a technique that can only be used by those with the skill and power .

It’s impossible with Sasha’s power alone but after training to use Demon King Army

for a week she’s now at a level where she could actually use it in a real war .

“Are you all prepared? All your power and all your feelings . Leave them to me . ”

“Yes . ”

“I believe in you Sasha-sama . ”

“Please use all my power . ”

“Let’s win… . . ”

“We have the power of royalty . ”

20 peoples feelings and power all converge on a single point .

This is the true meaning of Demon King Army

.

Taking advantage of each cla.s.s characteristic . A group magic that adds extra magic power . It increases it by a factor of 10 .

Even against a higher cla.s.s opponent, you will be able to retaliate .

The air itself strummed as if under tension .

In the next moment, Sasha yells out .

“Gooooooo!!

!!”

The magic formation hangs above the castle and takes on a gunport type shape, Magical power concentrates in its centre .

The magic power concentrates to its utmost then explodes in one go . A comet that looks like a black sun shoots at me .

Fumu . For something that only had a 20% chance of working everything’s gone well for them so far .

“How splendid . Let me give you a reward . ”

To attack

I hold my hand up to it and a magic formation appears along with a small red flame .

Thinking about it, this is my first time using attack magic in this era .

“Go . ”

The small flame that I fired collides with

and in the next moment, a hole appears in the jet black sun . From the hole, a red flame rapidly wraps up the black sun and devours it .

It only took an instant but the huge

was burnt without a trace .

“…… . No way…… . .

was cancelled……”

“Sa, Sasha-sama! It wasn’t cancelled! The other sides

is heading for us!”

The flame that I had fired plunged deeply into the castle and burst open . The castle is soon wrapped up in flames and burns down causing the walls and ceilings to collapse with a noisy rattle .

It collapsed almost instantly .

Sasha had a narrow escape . She escaped from the castle using Flight

while carrying two Sorcerers [Mage’s] .

Is her magic running low? She unintentionally made an unsteady emergency landing right in front of me .

“…… . . Impossible…… . all by yourself you can cast

?… . ”

Fumu . In the age of myths, it was natural to use

by yourself . Not that I can point that out here .

I’ve only got one thing to say now .

“You saw how I cast it . What I used was not

. ”

“… . . Eh……?”

Sasha’s eye widen in surprise

“But there shouldn’t be anything above

. ” one of the [Mages] protested

“No way……possibly… . origin magic!? A taboo spell that threatens even royalty! In that case, no wonder

was destroyed!”

Yare yare . They don’t get it at all .

“I’m sorry to disappoint you but it wasn’t origin magic either . ”

Sasha just quietly stares at me .

“It was Flame

. ”

“Wha…… . . Gre……ga…… . . ?”

Flame magic is ranked in order of power from the strongest first . Flame Prison Annihilation Cannon

, Scorching Black Flame

, Demon Blaze

, Grand Flame

and………Flame

.

“… . . No way……with the lowest level of flame magic… . our… . . Sasha-sama’s

was burnt down and our Demon King castle…… . . !”

Hopeless voices break out .

“Impossible! Such a thing is impossible……! There must be some secret……… . An evolved

!”

I’ve got nothing to hide so I’ll teach them a bit .

“The secret is the difference in our magic powers . That was the only thing different between you, me and the other 20 people . ”

The [Mages] head shook like it has been kicked .

“… . . What… . did… . you… . say… . ”

“Such a thing……”

“It’s not an odd story or anything . If there are differences in magic power then

could beat

for example . However, if the difference in magic power is huge enough then this is what happens . ”

As I finish speaking I take one step forward and the [Mages] begin to tremble all over .

They are crushed by despair and lose the will to fight completely causing them to lose consciousness .

I carry on walking over to Sasha .

“… . . Far superior……monster……”

A mutter reaches my ears from behind .

“Do you remember our promise?” I ask Sasha .

“………”

Biting her lip Sasha looks at me with a humiliated expression .

“Why didn’t you kill me?”

Even if she says that it’s not like we were really at war or something .

It’s not necessary to kill my cla.s.smates . Besides, its a pain to have to revive people all the time .

“You have potential . It would be a shame to kill you . ”

I hold my hand out to Sasha .

“Join me as a subordinate . ”

After thinking for a while Sasha reaches out to take my hand with no hesitation or fear .

Just before she takes it she glares at me and activates her

hitting me with their full strength .

“Die!!”

“I refuse . ”

I stare straight into Sasha’s

.

“Then kill me!”

“I refuse . ”

I hold out my hand to her again .

“How stubborn . It’s fine though . Join me as a subordinate . ”

“…… . Such humiliation . I’ll never forget this . Someday I’ll be stronger and when I am I definitely kill you……”

I laughed .

“Let me tell you something, Sasha . If the end of killing someone was only death then I’d have died 2000 years ago . ”

Sasha looked taken aback and then seemed to give up .

“Weird mongrel……” she sighed .

“……Fine . The present me cannot match you and besides, due to

I cannot go against you anyway . ”

After making up an excuse Sasha demurely put the tips of her fingers on my hand .

“However, please remember this . This is a contract . I do not remember selling you my heart . ”

“Aah . My best regards . ”

Sasha stared at me in wonder as I started laughing .

“Nee . I want to hear it once more . ”

“What’s that?”

“Did you invite me because of that girl?”

“Well yeah . I’m hoping you both get along . It would make Misha happy . ”

“I see . Hmph . ”

She doesn’t seem bothered and lost interest in me .

“Aah, there was one more reason . ”

“What’s that?”

“Your demon eyes are beautiful . ”

Sasha’s face was immediately dyed bright red .

She turns around and tries to run away .

“I’m telling the truth . I have never seen such beautiful demon eyes . ”

Even during the age of myths I never saw anyone with such pure, calm and undefiled eyes like hers .

If my eyes are to be trusted then she has great untapped magical power and talent .

Well, at the moment she’s still too immature though .

“Are you listening?” I ask Sasha who’s facing the other way . She turns to face me again .

“… . I didn’t hear it… . . idiot… . . !!”

Is she shy? I was only trying to praise her . (1)

(1)Tsuntsun and an airhead MC . This should go well