I Have been Reincarnated As a Lazy, Arrogant Noble, but When I Destroyed The Scenario Through Effort, I Became The Most Powerful With Extraordinary Magical Power - 80

Chapter 80 – Imitation Demonkin

Good people don’t imitate demonkin.

That’s something everyone knows.

That’s why there’s no sympathy, no holding back in exterminating them.

But in the sudden turn of events, nobody could move.

Except for Cecil.

“Everyone, deploy defense magic, I’ve confirmed it with magical perception, you need to touch him for the explosion to happen. In other words, his abilities won’t activate unless he touches a monster.”

She instantly gave us a perfect response that was calm and reassuring, excluding Cecil.

She must be knowledgeable about imitation demonkin as well.

Honestly, I can’t help but feel inadequate compared to Cecil.

She expanded her telepathy ability’s range to the soldiers as well.

Seeming surprised by the first brain announcement, she quickly composed herself. She began moving to drive the monsters away from the imitation demonkin.

Imitation demonkin possesses quite a bit of magical power.

Even so, it should be relatively easy for me right now to defeat him.

However, I sensed something was off.

Alan rushed over to try and kill the imitation—.

But I intercepted Alan’s sword, almost as if protecting the imitation.

“Wait, Alan!”

“!? Weiss, why stop—”

“Don’t you find this strange? Why would he appear so defenselessly?”

He suddenly appeared.

And he caused the monster to explode so obviously.

Telling us his weakness like this is as if he’s teaching us.

He indeed has no ego. However, it’s too polite for that.

Perhaps—.

“If we cut him, there’s a possibility he’ll explode.”

“…What?”

This is nothing more than speculation.

But we should consider the worst-case scenario.

The demonkin are cunning, with a sinister mind.

To make you think you’ve beaten them, only to crush you in despair, that’s quite common in Noblesse.

“Agaagaga!”

The imitation demonkin can apparently use explosion magic even by themselves, gathering magic in the air and blowing away the soldiers.

Alan was desperately holding himself back, but I strongly stopped him.

“For now, stop them from attacking. Alan, don’t you dare kill him.”

“Understood.”

“Cynthia, Lillith! Don’t let the monsters get close!”

“Understood!”

“Yes!”

And then Alan and I charged.

The imitation demonkin reacted to our movements, using his hardened hand to block Alan’s sword.

But it’s still strange. He’s avoiding being cut, yet deliberately leaving openings.

If he’s just a bomb, how can we defeat him—.

I tried to convey this to Cecil, but even she couldn’t come up with a solution immediately.

For now, we need to seal his attacks and buy some time to think.

Beryl’s increase in stats is tremendous, and as an imitation demonkin, his attack power is high due to his loss of self.

Alan has taken several hits, unable to defend himself completely, bleeding.

“Agaagaga!”

“Step back a little, Alan!”

“…I’m okay. But what are we going to do? While he’s holding us back, the monsters—”

As Alan said, because we’re so focused on him, we’re falling behind in dealing with the giant monsters.

Everyone is doing their best, but there are just too many.

…Wait a second.

Using Flash Time Lapse, I utilized more magic than usual to examine his body.

He’s constructed with a magic technique that seems explosive. I don’t know the extent of its power, but someone lacking defense resistance would be killed instantly.

However, he also seems to have the imitation demonkin’s magic technique integrated. And the answer derived from that is—.

“Alan, can you use Flash Time Lapse?”

“…Yeah, but only for a few seconds.”

“Hah, an imitator, as usual.”

But it’s good news—.

“Fancent-kun, perhaps—”

“Yeah—”

At the same time as Cecil, I realized.

…Hah, it seems like I’ve grown too.

To defeat him, we need to destroy two different magical techniques.

It’s a real pain, but it’s also—.

“Alan, I’ll destroy his explosive technique. You cut the imitation demonkin’s technique. If the timing is even slightly off, he’ll explode. But there’s no other choice.”

It’s easy to say, but it’s a life-or-death conversation.

If we fail, many will die.

“Got it.”

However, Alan didn’t show any signs of fear and answered with determined eyes.

Yeah, you really are the best protagonist after all.

“Cecil, let everyone know—”

And I entrusted a message to Cecil and started moving with Alan.

Since the plan had spread to everyone, it was time to start.

I was surprised that everyone agreed to it so quickly, even though it might cost them their lives.

Was it because they were watching me and Alan all this time, or did they trust us?

Well, I can’t be anything less than a man to meet those expectations.

“Everyone, give it your all!”

Boudic boosted the soldiers’ morale once again.

As expected of him.

“But, Agagaga!”

However, the imitation demonkin seemed to realize this was a crucial moment. He aimed at the two of us and unleashed his explosion magic.

There’s no way that’ll hit us.

But he had another trick up his sleeve. He waved his hand as if it were nothing, and the monster… was drawn toward it.

The enormous monster’s hand attached itself, and then the switch was flipped.

The magic-saturated monster swelled so much it looked like it might explode at any moment.

Furthermore, the monster charged toward us.

It’s a self-destructing attack of its own power. We can defeat it, but it seems the imitation demonkin realized his end was near. He started chanting a spell to explode himself.

Damn, time is running out—.

“Magic Binding – Magic Vantage.”

“Ice Binding – Ice Vantage.”

At that moment, Shari and Cynthia simultaneously bound the monster on the verge of exploding and turned it into ice with all their magic power.

It swelled up and dispersed immediately, but due to the ice and binding, there was no damage.

However, both of them used a considerable amount of energy with their reckless instantaneous casting and slumped on the spot.

But—

“Well done. Now, it’s our turn… Alan.”

“Yeah, leave it to us.”

To halt the imitation demonkin’s chant, Alan and I brought down both of its arms.

But that’s when the explosion magic and the imitation demonkin’s spell activated, and its body began to glow.

“Now!”

In that moment, Alan’s and my eyes glowed with black and light.

Hah, mimicking bastard—.

“Flash Time Lapse.”

The swords of darkness and light entered the imitation demonkin’s body, destroying the spell.

Flesh tore, reached the bones, and an indescribable sound of magic being destroyed reverberated.

“Goodbye.”

And the imitation demonkin—without exploding—scattered and collapsed to the ground.

“Phew.”

“Huff… huff…”

We looked at each other—.

“Grrrooaan!”

“Damn, they’re persistent.”

The monsters hadn’t vanished.

Without exchanging words, we hurried to exterminate the monsters—.

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“We… we won…”

“So… tired…”

“We did it…”

After a long battle, the soldiers collapsed on the spot.

The ground was piled with the bodies of enormous monsters. The soldiers and all the Noblesse were drenched in blood.

There were those who were slumping, those who were shouting in victory, those hurrying to use recovery magic—various reactions.

But—we won.

I expanded my magical perception, but there was no strong magical presence around.

It seems the main demons are gone.

Karta descended from the sky, but she seemed quite tired.

However, I couldn’t help but feel an indescribable sense of excitement from the fact that the Noblesse exercises and everyone had become stronger.

Each day isn’t wasted. That’s what I’ve come to understand.

We’ve grown stronger overcoming the Cataclysm.

“Cynthia, sorry as always.”

“Haha, I’ve never been bored since I met you.”

And I called out to the blood-stained yet still beautiful Cynthia.

Even if her fair skin isn’t visible, she’s more beautiful than anyone.

“Lord Weiss, Lady Cynthia, are you both alright?”

“We’re fine. Thanks as always, Lillith.”

Cynthia stroked Lillith’s head, who had run up to us.

Lillith fearlessly stood at the forefront, not showing any signs of fear.

The finest maid.

And—

“Devi, come.”

“De-Devi.”

I called Devi down from the sky and patted his head.

“Devi?”

“Why are you so surprised…?”

Am I usually this cold…?

“Tired, nyaa.”

Nell also collapsed on the spot.

But just as it seemed like everything had ended, an explosion echoed from far behind, in the direction of the Bruno Kingdom.

Everyone exchanged glances in surprise.

Could it be that there’s more left!?

“Cynthia, stay here!”

Alan seemed unable to move due to side effects, but I left everyone behind and hurriedly went.

At the entrance of the city, there were piles of large monster corpses.

There weren’t as many as we had defeated, but there were still quite a number.

Using Flash Time Lapse, I sensed remnants of concealed magic power.

Is the second wave trying not to be noticed by us…? Who would do something like this? No, more importantly, who defeated them—.

At the center of it all, as if nothing happened, the “Goddess who went too far” was sitting at a table, holding a teacup.

“What are you doing…? Eva Senpai…”

“I’m a fan of this country’s tea. —So, what’s this about the monsters?”

Official bug cheat… Seriously, the Noblesse development team went overboard.