Chapter 181 (1/2)
Volume 2
The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 5 Chapter 32
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Seeing the maelstrom of highly concentrated magical power that shrinking little by little, Vermudol opened his mouth.
「……It’s trying to make something, isn’t it.」
「Just what can it do……?」
Gordy muttered that.
「I don’t know. But, it’s probably something that will likely try to use the piece known as Ykslaas even if it has to throw her away later.」
Gordy, who was still in Vermudol’s arms, raised her body up, and slowly stood up.
「Kuh……At any rate, I am quite disappointing. To think I would cause you trouble, Demon King-sama.」
「Don’t mind it. It would have been more absurd to tell you to deal with that thing that was like a suicide bomb attack.」
「The scale might be different, but I endured it.」
That was the voice of a familiar Maid Knight. Ichika and Nino appeared engulfed in Transfer light.
Ichika was expressionless as usual, and Nino was making a face that looked like she was a bit uncomfortable.
「Well, don’t say that……Nino, what’s wrong? You’re making quite the rare face for you.」
「She seems to be regretting not having prevented the damages done due to that man called Brutus’s transformation.」
「That would have been unreasonable to do……Don’t mind it, Nino. Not even I would have been able to do something about something like that.」
「……Un.」
Having her head patted by the wryly smiling Vermudol, Nino made a small nod.
The Demon King Castle was certainly broken, but something like that would be fine if they just repaired it.
「More importantly, the fact that you all are here means……」
Ichika and Nino made bitter faces at those words Vermudol said.
「……No. It would seem that his power was swallowed up by that maelstrom of magical power. The enemy is unconscious down below.」
「Nino’s opponent is the same. He suddenly returned to being a Majin.」
「……Hou?」
It seemed that more power was being collected than he expected.
However, in regards to the black knight that was Ykslaas’s companion, he had received a report that Fainell had already annihilated him. In that case, did that mean that they prevented that portions worth of absorption?
「……It’s coming out.」
Sancreed, who was closely observing the maelstrom of magical power, calmly muttered that.
At the same time as that, the magical power shrank immediately, spread light into the vicinity, and golden armor that emitted a dull brilliance had appeared.
That armor, which had its interior filled with darkness, held a silver sword that emitted a brilliance of purity in its hand.
At a glance, it looked like a Magic Operated Armor, but it felt quite different.
「……What is that.」
「Dunno.」
As if replying to Nino’s mutter, Vermudol invoked Status Confirmation Magic.
Name: Holy Armor Soldier
Race: Shinzoku
Rank: B
Occupation: ???
Equipment: Exorcism Sword
Holy Armor
Technical Skill: ??? (Concealed)
Perfection A
Magical Power Perception A
Chant Disposal A
???
「……What the heck, is this.」
The words “could it be” felt like they would leak out from Vermudol’s mouth.
Holy Armor Soldier. Shinzoku.
The information that stood out way too much were lined up next to each other.
The shadow of the Gods that had continued doing secret maneuvers up until now had now suddenly become more pronounced.
Why? Why, was it with this timing?
Vermudol thought about it, but there was no way the answer would come out.
Sancreed had already started running towards the Holy Armor Soldier.
Ichika and Nino stood in front of Vermudol and took up defensive stances.
「……Sancreed, be careful! That thing is most likely a vanguard of the Gods!」
「Yeah, understood.」
Darkness magical power dwelled within Sancreed’s sword.
He swung the sword towards the golden armor, however, the brilliance of the repelled Magic Sword was lost.
「……Mu?」
Aiming at Sancreed as he looked at his sword seeming puzzled, the Holy Armor Soldier’s sword was swung down.
However, there was no way that sword that was swung so half-heartedly would hit.
Sancreed easily evaded it, and this time, he had Light magical power dwell in his sword.
The swung sword made a direct hit on the Holy Armor Soldier, but like before, the Light magical power vanished from the sword.
Sancreed repeated that action several times with the Magic Sword of different elements.
「I see.」
He didn’t know what the theory behind it was, but it seemed that the Magic Swords were being negated.
「Freeze Lance!」
Thinking “in that case”, he fired magic, but that was also repelled on the Holy Armor Soldier’s armor and vanished.
It seemed that techniques using magical power wouldn’t work on it. This was far from a disadvantage for a Magic Swordsman.
However, Sancreed gazed at the Holy Armor Soldier, and once again, he started to knead magical power.
「……O Fire.」