Chapter 174 Task Complete

'What the f*ck? You want this princess to protect the kingdom and the mainland??? I don't even know if I can protect the kingdom!' Shiro thought to herself as she suppressed the urge to flip a table.

"Is there a problem?" Redir asked in worry seeing Shiro furrow her brows.

"Just a small one. Follow me and I'll take you to the place I was before coming here. You need to see this." Shiro shook her head and lied to the trio. She was going to take this chance to kill the three of them outside of the demon camp. This was so that the demons would be confused about whether the generals were alive or not.

"Hmm… Are you able to tell us where it is?" Redir asked. He didn't want to leave the camp unattended since the demons need constant commands.

"It's a secret. But I can say that after hearing about what you've just told me about, there's a definite link between the two." She replied.

"Or could it be that you're suspecting me." She said with a frown.

Feeling her anger slowly increase, Redir quickly bowed.

"That was not my intention. The demons cannot be left without a leader since chaos will break out within the camp. The three of us can't go at the same time."

"Hmm… fine. Zeriks, why don't you stay behind and I'll bring your brothers to the location." Shiro suggested.

Zeriks pulled a difficult face since he was curious about what Shiro was talking about.

"Zeriks, you can go if you want. I'll stay behind." Pildrum grinned and smacked Zeriks on the back.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah go for it." Pildrum nodded. However, deep inside, it was because he was slightly scared of Shiro. Previously, she was able to freeze half of his body in an instant even though his brothers tried to help out.

Coming to an agreement, both Redir and Zeriks would follow Shiro to the location she mentioned.

Upon leaving the camp, Shiro started to dash towards the Hallow's Edge with the duo following behind her. Once they were far enough from the camp, Shiro smiled slightly and narrowed her eyes.

*BANG!

Slamming her palms into the ground, a giant magic circle expanded out as an ice palace formed around them.

"What's the meaning of this?!" Redir frowned as he and Zeriks quickly created some distance between them and Shiro.

However, she didn't respond as she tapped her necklace and summoned Ataraxia.

Five silver swords floated around her as she reached out and grabbed one of the swords.

'So another element means one more sword for me huh. Interesting…' She thought to herself.

When the swords upgraded themselves, from consuming the wyvern's soul, Shiro didn't check the visual changes due to the fact that she wanted to kill the generals first.

However, quickly glancing at the swords now, she was surprised to see neon red markings on the guard of the blade along with black spines that decorated the sides. But that wasn't important right now since she had to kill these two quickly.

Rift Walker!

Flickering into the rift, Shiro flashed behind Zeriks since he was the weakest.

Asura Sword Path!

Zeriks wanted to dodge but ice chains had locked him in place.

*BANG!

Just before her sword could cleave into Zeriks' body, a barrier glowed around him and protected him from harm.

'So it's the big brother.' She thought, looking to her side. Redir had a magic circle in his hand that was fuelling the barrier. Even though her sword had managed to disable some of the mana used in the spell, it still wasn't enough to penetrate.

Reaching out with her spare hand, Shiro gritted her teeth and tried to clutch her hand into a fist.

Frozen Hell: Frozen Slumber!

*CRRR!!!

Redir grabbed his greatsword and tried to parry off the chains. But the moment they made contact, a part of his sword would be frozen over.

"Zeriks!" Redir shouted out as the situation was dire for the both of them.

"Life Essence Unlock!" They both shouted out as their body's enlarged substantially with black runes spreading through their body, originating from the heart.

"HAAA!!"

*BANG!!!!!!!!

The duo slammed their swords against Shiro who quickly erected an ice wall that was unable to block the strikes.

But before their joy could sink in, it was instantly turned to dread as they saw Shiro's body fade into snow with her swords still floating around her.

"CAREFUL!!!" Redir shouted out as he felt a deadly amount of mana being gathered just above them.

Slamming his palms into the ground, a triple layered barrier was erected with each layer revolving in a separate direction.

Shiro, who had been charging up her strongest attack since the start of the fight, narrowed her eyes at the barrier and let go of the bow string.

Calamity Dragon Arrow!

*BOOM!!!!! PING PING PING!!!!

Breaking through all three layers of the barrier in one go, the arrow pierced Zeriks and ended his life instantly. Unlike the wyvern, who was able to survive two shots due to his tenacity, Zeriks didn't have anything to save his life.

"Che, only one." Shiro clicked her tongue.

Redir launched himself towards Shiro as he twisted his body and slashed his sword towards her.

He already knew Zeriks was a lost cause so he wanted to take this time to deal some damage and make the most out of his brother's death.

While Shiro knew her power output was outrageous right now, she still understood that she was a glass canon. Therefore, there was no way in hell was she about to take his slash head on.

Rift Walker!

Flicking into the rift, she dodged the slash.

*BANG!!!!

"We're both monsters! Why are you attacking us!?" Redir shouted out as he kept his guard up.

"It's nothing personal. I just need to kill the three of you for a bigger reward." Shiro laughed out as she flickered behind him.

All five of her swords were glowing slightly and created copies of themselves before slashing towards him.

Redir spun his body around to deflect the swords but widened his eyes when he felt no contact.

'Another illusion?' He thought.

*PUCHI!!!

"GAH!!"

The swords dug into his torso and started to eat away at his flesh while his eyes were filled with disbelief.

"HOW?!" He cried out in confusion.

Shiro didn't reply but instead reached out with her arm and created a shotgun.

But before she could even fire her shotgun, his body split into two and created some distance between them.

"Doppelganger type skill huh." Shiro narrowed her eyes.

Crouching down, a magic circle appeared around her legs.

*BANG!

The floor cracked apart as she charged towards the closest doppelganger.

Redir grinned as his body glowed red.

"Self destruction!" He shouted out as Shiro widened her eyes.

Stomping down with her foot, a giant magic circle expanded out from under Redir.

Ice Drake's Feast!

*URAHHH!!!!

A shattering roar exploded out from the circle as the drake appeared and swallowed him up.

However, she wasn't done yet. The ice drake was only there to try to reduce the effects of the self destruction.

Rift Walker!

*BOOM!!!!!!

Making some distance between them, Shiro left the rift and furrowed her brows.

"True Demon Manifestation." Redir grinned as his body started to shrink.

*BOOM!!!!

"Ku!" Shiro was launched back from the aura that was released from Redir.

*BANG!

Crashing against the wall of her ice palace, she couldn't help but cough up some blood from the impact.

Quickly activating life fire to heal her wounds, Shiro looked up with some difficulty and saw Redir in his new form.

'M*therf*cker… Two berserk skills???'

Measuring around 6ft 3, black skin and red hair, Redir grinned from the power he could feel coursing through his body.

"HA!!!!"

Releasing an ominous aura, Redir started to walk towards her.

Shiro narrowed her eyes from the pressure since it made her feel slightly uncomfortable. Just slightly.

"This is the power the demon king had given me. Now prepare yourself." Redir grinned as several tier 3 magic circles appeared around him.

Flexing her fingers, Shiro quickly made two hand cannons that had mana disruption bullets loaded into them.

*BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!

Even though she tried to break all of the magic circles, there were simply too much for her to destroy.

"Futile!"

Glowing with an ominous light, the magic circles reformed themselves and launched waves upon waves of attacks towards her.

Rift Walker!

A rift appeared in front of her as she attempted to enter the rift.

However, Redir grinned and snapped his fingers.

*PING!

"Analysis complete." He muttered, destroying the rift in the process.

Widening her eyes in shock, Shiro gathered the mana around her and slammed her hand down onto the ground.

*KRRRR!!!!! BANG!!!!!

Unfortunately, her ice wall wasn't able to completely block the attacks.

Retreating once more, Shiro clutched her torso in pain and glared at Redir.

"As the strategist, don't you think it's apart of my skill set to analyse skills and shut them down?" Redir chuckled as his confidence started to soar.

"That's not what I call a strategist. I call that a pain in the ass." Shiro retorted as she healed herself.

Narrowing her eyes, she created a glacial ice spear and dashed towards Redir.

"Hmph." Scoffing slightly, he waved his palm and shattered her ice spear.

However, it was a part of Shiro's plan since there were threads of nanotech wire inside the spear.

With a single flex of her fingers, the wires wrapped around him.

"Analysis com- Wait what?!?!" Redir cried out in shock as he realised that there was nothing he could reference her nanotech wires to. No records of anything similar could be found.

"What? Can't analyse something that doesn't exist yet? I'll tell you this now, every one of these wires can advance technology by a huge leap. Refined by the minds of many talented scientists, it's not something you can simply analyse in a few seconds." Shiro grinned.

It was like showing a kid high level math problems. Sure, they'll be able to read it, but it doesn't mean they could decipher it.

When the demon analysed her ice magic successfully, it was due to the fact that he had prior knowledge to study from.

Anyone could solve a maths question if they've already been taught the method and knew what each number means. But if they were to be given a question that they had no knowledge about, then they wouldn't even know where to start. That was the current predicament for Redir.

He could see the fine inner workings but he didn't know where to start dismantling since there were no gaps for him to exploit. Every time he dismantled a part of the wire, it would fix itself in an instant. It wasn't something he could brute force his way through.

Nanotech Wire + Calamity's Will.

Coating the wires in a thin layer of mana, her augmented shadow element started to eat away at his flesh.

"GR! ARGH!!!" Struggling as much as he could, he tried to break out but failed since the wires started to dig deeper into his body. It was to the point that his bones could even be seen.

"I refuse to die!!!" He shouted out as he bit his tongue and spat out a droplet of blood into the air.

'Oh sh*t!' Shiro widened her eyes as she recognised the move instantly.

Tier 4 ritual spell: Life conversion.

The spell would use one's life in exchange to summon a tier 4 monster that will attack the enemy with everything they've got.

If a person didn't know what the attack was, they would be too late to stop it.

However, as a person who had already experienced this skill several times, she knew one of the many ways to counter the attack. Coincidently, it was also the only way she could stop the ritual right now.

Kill the caster before the spell can!

With the lack of a sacrifice, the spell would collapse on itself.

Twisting her body, Shiro created a sword using her nanobots and slashed towards Redir.

But rather than slashing, the sword broke into shards and latched onto Redir's body.

"Consume!" Shiro commanded as the nanobots entered a frenzied state and started to eat away at Redir.

"ARGGG!!!!!!!!!!"

Blood started to pour out from his body as he writhed in pain.

Gritting his teeth, Redir tried to use mana to destroy the nanobots but all of his mana was fuelled towards the summoning ritual.

"Hahaha, if you didn't use the summoning ritual, I wouldn't have been able to let the nanobots consume you from the inside. By using this ritual, not only are you forfeiting your life, but you're also giving up on the mana you own. Once this ritual starts, there is no turning back. How unfortunate." Shiro grinned sadistically, digging her hand into his torso in order to release more nanobots into his body.

"URG! What are you!!! HOW DO YOU HAVE THIS TECHNOLOGY!?!" He shouted out in pain.

"I'm just a Nanomancer from another world." She replied while ice spread out from her hand and started to crumble him away into frozen dust.

After a short moment, Shiro stood up and dusted her hands. Looking at the pile of dust that was once a demon, Shiro collected his corpse and looked at her rewards.

"Hmm… Armour, greatsword and some miscellaneous crafting materials. How unfortunate." She muttered.

Naturally, part of the rewards she got from slaying two demons were their heads since she needed to present them to the king after all.

'How did I get his head when I reduced him to dust?' She wondered to herself.

Shaking her head, she dashed towards the demon camp since there was still one more demon she needed to slay.

"Sari, Anvi, Nifir, Caos, Tridim, Ulpir, Mano, Kari, Eril, Ymik." Chanting out the 'key' she required to unlock the barrier on the champ, Shiro made her way towards the main tent.

As for how the fight went…

[Pildrum's Humiliation]

One of the many victims fallen to method beloved by a certain user. Thankfully, it was done quickly so no one witnessed it. (It was humiliating since he enjoyed it.)

"The f*ck?"