"Old man... how many countries have agreed by now?"
"I would say about half."
"Damn it, half of them still believe they can win even now...?"
"Most of the small countries have joined in. I believe the large countries with powerful militaries would be more stubborn, however."
"Well, ours is as well, isn't it? Anyway, you're certain the hardliners in the army haven't found out about this?"
"I... would not say they absolutely haven't, though I do believe they are currently much too occupied for that."
"At any rate, we don't have much time. Continue with the plan."
"Understood."
The presence of a person vanished from the hidden room. The man remaining behind leaned deeply back on his chair. He sighed, whispering a name.
"...Shedy."
***
I'd entered the Central Continent. I continued on my route to destroy the Saplings starting from the north, all the while dodging Fiorfata's attacks.
"―́́͠―∴̀́͟≠∬̶͢†̡͟‡∝͟∮̢͡―̡―̧"
Fiorfata's magic surged, and the night sky fell. The wide-ranging meteor shower tore apart the forests and the geography.
"—[Absolute Nadir]—!"
My mist of extreme cold froze the scattering earth and trees. Then Fiorfata just swatted it aside.
"Gah!"
Our powers clashed. I crossed my arms to protect myself from the shockwave several kilometers away that was racing toward me.
I took damage, but not as much as before. With Absorption evolving to become Consumption, I could now convert even a portion of the damage into magic power and take it in myself, giving me more power to fight.
The small country Dixseld was virtually empty of people by now, and I freed its Sapling. Then I headed toward my next target, Quinze Kingdom. It was the large country that had been sending its battleships at me multiple times, and perhaps that had been the reason why it no longer had any firepower to resist. The whole capital city of Quinze disintegrated as it got swallowed up in my battle.
[Shedy] [Race: Bunny Girl] [Archdemon Lv. 70][Magic Points: 218,000/232,000] 12,000 ↑[Total Combat Power: 241,200/255,200] 13,200 ↑
And then, in my expanded perception, I felt several flying battleships.
...four of them? Judging from the direction they were coming from, they must belong to Vingtuit and Battrol, the two countries that had also attacked me multiple times as Quinze had.
The humans were still thinking they could do something even now, were they...
Iron bolts were fired from the ballistae set up on the ships' decks. They didn't do anything to Fiorfata, of course, but they were also no longer effective against me as I was now.
Fiorfata ignored the battleships to continue attacking me. I did the same, putting the ballistae and magical artillery out of my mind to focus on my dogfight, dodging only Fiorfata's attacks. One of its stray projectiles downed a battleship.
The humans' military was nothing but a hindrance now.
"Leave!!" I shouted at them, pouring magic power into my voice. The remaining battleships abruptly stopped moving. One of them then charged forward at full speed, as though they'd lost their calm.
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Apotheosis of a Demon - A Monster Evolution Story
FantasyA back-to-basicsmonster evolution novel. A new VRMMORPG, World of Yggdrasia, was recruiting beta testers from all over the world. Ten thousand testers began their journey of swords and sorcery in a new realm, one that was as large as Earth. At the...
