I succeeded in freeing Veldora.
Basically, these were “Scorch Dragon” Velgrynd, the Emperor, and finally, the army uniform guy who had shot at Veldora.
But really, other than those first three, the others didn’t feel like a “danger” at all.
So much that, now, I could probably pack a punch against even Milim or Guy.
I will finish off all of them, leaving behind not a single drop of blood.
Well, as long as there weren’t any casualties……
I’ll worry about that later.
As there was an enraged Velgrynd approaching as we speak.
First, I think I should let Veldora come out using Storm Dragon Release.
But because Veldora’s power was overflowing into me, the circulation had caused a revitalization effect on my body.
Well, there weren’t any problems using large scale magic despite that, so I didn’t think too deeply about it.
Thinking that, as I was about to perform Storm Dragon Release,
(Wait. I requested that Wisdom Lord to enhance my Skills.)
《Alert. Currently in the process of synchronization of Master and individual: Veldora’s abilities.
Please delay usage of Storm Dragon Release until completion.》
Both of them stopped me.
She hadn’t informed me, so that must have been the case.
I guess it couldn’t be helped, and would be harder to do later, but then,
《Solution. From the analysis of individual: Veldora’s Skills, ability to evolve Ultimate Skill 『Storm King Veldora』confirmed.
Would you like to synthesize Ultimate SKill 『Stellar-Wind Lord Hastur』? YES/ NO 》
Wisdom Lord Raphael informs me almost as a side note.
To think of reconstructing Skills mid-fight, just how relaxed was she?
For now, it’s a NO.
Rather, to fight a “True Dragon” with only Belzebuth?
After this battle, along with my subordinates getting their Demon Lord ascensions done with, I guess I’ll also undergo a massive Skill overhaul.
Just what was I going to be made to become, I decided to think about it later.
Now then, what to do about this “Scorch Dragon”.
I was thinking of testing out these powers, and wanted to dive into battle, but as Wisdom Lord Raphael was in the process of refining Veldora’s Skills, close-quarters combat seemed like a bad idea.
I didn’t want any weird effects from damage.
This was strategy, not cowardice.
Though I say that, I didn’t really have many ranged attack options.
It was a fearsome power like Dimension Severance, so obviously it was restricted to a certain range.
So that leaves, Magic?
Among the Nuclear Magics, there was one emission type attack more suited to ranged combat.
It was relatively easy to control, so human Great Mages seemed to prefer it.
Furthermore, the cost-performance was pretty good too. Right now, my mana recovery rate was higher than its usage cost, so I could fire all I wanted without worrying about depletion.
This was an emission attack that used concentrated mana particles, but at the end of the day, it was a heat based attack.
It was the most powerful of the Emission type attacks, but it was useless if there was no effect.
Really, what to do……
It suddenly came to me.
Reconstructed from “Storm Blast”, it was an ability called “Storm Lightning”.
This may just work on Velgrynd from a distance.
I wanted to try out this “Storm Lightning” right away but ――
―― I happened to notice another thing I just had to try.
Bladed Storm: Crystallization, Transforming into a Blade Core…… ?
It’d been re~ally bothering me for a while now, what was this thing?
What in the world do you have to do, to evolve this overpowered Storm King Veldora into an Stellar-Wind Lord Hastur; I had not Idea at all.
Well whatever.
I’ll ignore it for now. I don’t even know what I’m supposed to crystallize in the first place.
《Solution. Ranged attacks possible with “Bladed Storm”.
Unlike Storm Dragon Release, which is being withheld to reconnect the Soul Corridor, it is possible to use this at present.》
So crystallization means, the power from releasing Veldora, is directly injected into a sword?
Which would mean that this sword represented all of Veldora’s power……
《Solution. That inference can be considered correct.》
Ok.
Since I decided not to relax, I’ll go for it.
I timidly attempted to perform the Bladed Storm.
《Alert. Individual: Veldora’s consent affirmed. Initializing Crystallization.》
Right then, the handle of my sword crystallized with a purple glow.
It seemed that the sword had become part of my body.
As I thought, it wasn’t the Summoning, but the Release that drained the 30%.
In other words, this sword was like the manifestation of all of Veldora’s Energy.
Along with the Bladed Storm, as if right on time, Velgrynd started to move.
Well, it was more a thoughtless flick of the wrist really.
It was likely a normal reaction for her.
But as a result, that very act of evasion saved her life.
A single swing of that sword had pierced the heavens, and split the seas.
Literally.
It’s strength still not waning, it split multiple Imperial Airships in two along its path.
The Energy of the swing even cut apart the ocean.
I couldn’t represent what unfolded below me in any other words.
The released Energy seemed to be further increasing the gap.
I think I had the right to think that.
Et Voila the result, I also felt a large quantity of my energy being used up.
《Report. Failure occurred in controlling “Sword of Tempest”. Energy usage was higher than predicted.》
Failure, huh…. That aint the problem!
Well, it’s certainly not good, but back to the point.
We literally broke the ocean dammit! Normal environmental destruction looks like a joke in comparison……
Plus, the range was super long, and the damage was unreal too.
It was so big, I probably needed to blacklist it.
(Kuahahahaha! My bad, my bad. Put a little too much umph into it.)
So he was the cause….
If this was in the middle of a city, it wouldn’t just be a town disappearing, there was enough power to endanger an entire country.
Does that mean, if i also wanted to attack, the output would be even higher?
This sword is too dangerous, it felt like a cheat item.
Look, even your big sis looks like she doesn’t understand what just happened, and is totally out of it.)
(That isn’t the point…… But enough, I’ll be controlling the output from now on.)
(Yeah, got it. No problem!)
Geez Louise.
Veldora had given the green light too, gotta keep the power down.
「B-bastard! What, was that? What the hell was that!!」
Velgrynd who came back to her senses, screamed at me, in a mix of anger and fear.
But, if i had to answer,
「Uh, Veldora Sword?」
I answered so.
With that single attack, it looked as if the battle was decided.
Multi-layered barriers were sliced through like a hot knife through butter, there was also nowhere to escape being out at sea.
The hearts of the Imperial soldiers filled despair, and those feelings became the most delectable “food source” for the demons.
And then….
「No way, why?
Why, was Veldora defeated?!
It was just a lowly Demon Lord, a puny slime!
How, could it consume it’s master, and take that power for itself!!
To get in the way of my plans…. Unforgivable, you lowly Demon Lord!!」(TN: Spaghetti status: DROPPED)
Emperor Rudra, was furious.
He had been ecstatic when he saw he could finally emerge victorious against Guy in their never ending game.
The cost of forgetting this ironclad rule, and being so careless, had now come back to bite him.
The ones who defended the Emperor, had no cards to play to deal with the situation at hand.
With no means to turn the tide in the present situation, the act now moved towards the finale.
Now for something off topic, but not totally unrelated.
But, the real cause was something else.
The Energy overflowing from that attack, pressured and pushed aside the seawater.
Thereafter great amounts of that Energy gradually spread throughout the ocean, causing ludicrous changes to the ecosystem.
In truth, the clash between Veldora and Velgrynd couldn’t have caused this much damage.
Of course, the location was obviously amazingly lucky, but there was no way it was planned by the perpetrators……
The point was, the resulting aftereffects of that single attack, would be the cause of headaches for future historians; but the truth of what transpired would never be known to the world.