*CRAAASH!*
*SLAAAAAM!*
*SLAAASH!*
Michael confidently trades blows with Sylvia, dodging her powerful magical attacks while taking physical ones on the chin, much to the chimaera's annoyance.
All the while, he stabs, cuts, and slashes the hermaphrodite's large snake-like body. Much of it was made of machinery of course from her absorption of the artifact, but even then the damage was quickly piling up.
Bits and pieces of metal and wiring hung from the large scuff marks of her body, like a mechanical disembowelling. Her organic parts weren't doing much better either, with one eye missing from a large cut that extended from her hairline to her jaw, half of her nose missing, to her arm that'd been entirely degloved of its flesh, leaving it looking skeletal, sinewy, and incredibly vulnerable. (FYI don't look up 'degloved arm'...)
"What's wrong!? You're not looking so good!" Michael asks while flicking blood from Derflinger.
"You've tired her out already, partner! I thought she would have lasted longer for someone who bragged about her prowess!"
"Maybe she was only confident against Kazuma? Even then, I'm not impressed."
Sylvia doesn't reply and instead begins backing away, like a tiger caught in a cage. All of her attempts to kill her opponent had failed spectacularly, and any magical attacks that had connected were either brushed off or absorbed by that annoying sentient sword. Her only real option as of now was the retreat to the Demon King's castle and help him prepare for when this man decided to invade... He was certainly capable enough with how he'd toyed with her.
Michael wasn't going to let that happen however, raising Derflinger up high as the sword shouts "WULD NAH KEST!"
His form blurs as he suddenly appears at the base of Sylvia's massive body and Derflinger begins glowing as the sword prepares to unleash the magic he'd stored from Sylvia's spells.
"Take this!"
"Derflinger Special Suuurrppppriiiisssseeee!!!" the sentient sword screams as Michael makes the attack, causing a bright light to blind everyone watching. Sylvia would have been blinded too... Had she not just been bisected in two.
The two pieces fall to the ground, dead.
"Deflinger Special Surprise?" Michael asks with a dull look.
"Eh, a work in progress... I've been inspired by these Crimson Demons, you've gotta admit, they've got the flair down... Eh, parter that's this?"
Behind them, Sylvia's bisected body had begun bubbling, and soon enough it'd dissolved into one large pile that'd seemingly started reconstructing her body... This time however she was much, much larger, with a higher density of magic.
"III WIIIILLLLL NOOOOOTTTT FALLLLLLLL HEEEREEEEEE!!!!!" she roars with three other voices overlapping her own. She doesn't notice the large magical circles gathering over her head, her previous death having released everyone else from her magical suppression.
Derflinger uses the Whirlwind Sprint shout again to get Michael out of the way just as the spells launch.
"SAAACRED EXORCIIIISM!!!!"
"EXPLOOOSSSSIOOOON!!!!"
"EXPLOOOOSSSSIIOOOON!!!!"
"EXPLOSION!"
Aqua, Megumin, Yunyun, and a couple other Crimson Demons who'd had the balls to return to the battlefield all exclaim. Aqua's godly spell covers the Demon General in a blinding golden light, destroying any barrier she had now that Sylvia had absorbed demonic aspects from whatever powerup she'd received.
Then, the explosions landed.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!*
*WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH!*
If people thought Megumin's explosions were big before, they'd be horrified to see what her improved magical abilities combined with the rest of her clan could achieve. Yunyun was no slouch in this field either, so all of these spells combined made it seem as if a Nuclear bomb had just gone off.
A huge wave of dust washes over everyone from the subsequent shockwave, luckily this was mostly harmless due to the magic lacking any radioactive element... Otherwise, people's skin might just start melting off, or they gain superpowers.
*Cough! Cough! Cough!*
"W-why don't we just do this to the Demon King!? If he can survive this then I'll jump off of a cliff right now!" Kazuma mutters in the fog of dust.
"He's got a barrier around his castle, remember Dumbzuma?" Aqua retorts.
"And we're friends with the person who helps maintain the barrier you idiot! Let's just tell her to switch it off for a bit while we bomb him!"
...
"That... Might work..."
"Eh? No, you can't do that!" a nameless Crimson Demon clan member argues.
...
"Why?"
"Uh... Because..."
"Tell us, or are you a traitor that serves the Demon King!?" Kazuma exclaims, still blind due to the dust
"Ah, well... If you'd also kill the Demon King's daughter!... We have a device that allows us to... Spy on her."
...
"Device?"
"Oh, you mean that telescope that lets you see into her room?" Yunyun innocently asks.
...
"Perverts." Megumin mutters, never having heard of this before despite previously living here.
"Definitely perverts. I bet these guys are Lolicons too, how old is the Princess?" Saya asks.
...
"Er, Eighteen?"
"You sound very unsure of that." Saya dryly remarks.
"Oh, look at the time!" the clan member says as the sound of him quickly shuffling away under the dust cloud becomes audible.
Soon enough, the cloud of dust fades, allowing everyone to see the massive crater that'd formed where Sylvia had been. There wasn't any trace of her left either, not even a drop of blood... Though, unbeknownst to everyone, Michael had scooped up any debris in the fog, he was pretty sure the remnants could be used to do something interested. Plus potentially healing Darth from his foot form which was an eternal embarrassment to him.
Michael sheaths Derflinger and cracks his back while walking towards the group, "So, anyone hungry? I've worked up a bit of a sweat." he says, wiping a stray droplet from his forehead... Not because of any exertion, but simply because he'd been warmed up from being in the vicinity of the explosion.
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With Sylvia dealt with, the only thing left for the Crimson Demon Clan to do was clean up the lesser demons that'd been milling around in hopes of Sylvia returning for a third time. A barrage of stupidly high-level spells shot like machine-gun fire swayed them from this however, leaving the village more peaceful than it'd ever been before...
This had actually disappointed a few clan members due to the absence of their usual target dummies, but winners couldn't be choosers, as the saying probably went?
Michael and his group spent the next week vacationing in the village, Megumin spending most of her time with her family which'd found themselves remarkably richer with the things Megumin had given them to sell, not to mention the bit of gold Michael had leant so that they could keep Komekko well-fed and happy... What? That girl was too cute to be eating the slop they served him earlier. Plus, his generosity had been reciprocated by Tiffania who'd found it 'Incredibly hot' that he'd support her Familiar's family...
Kazuma and his group also stayed around, the neet actually asking Michael for some lessons, which he eagerly accepted, mostly to get revenge for the guy staring at Tiff's chest...
He didn't forget to use [Spell Steal] on Aqua's resurrection ability either, though, there were some problems with it once he'd begun testing it.
First, it took was absolutely ridiculous amount of mana to cast. Like, a hundred Laguna Blades combined into one. He could cast it only if he sat and channelled it while sipping many Mana Potions for a couple hours...
Second, it actually took percentage points from his [Spark of Divinity] every time he cast it... He'd only resurrected a rabbit with it thankfully, but it'd drained him by 0.0001%, which was an eighth of his total. This unfortunately meant that he couldn't go around resurrecting folks willy-nilly, not unless he wanted to radically reduce his chances of stepping into godhood.
He was pretty sure the reason for this was Aqua's status as a goddess. She'd use part of her divinity to cast the spell, which explained how she could use it despite having less mana capacity than Michael.
Regardless, he was happy enough that it worked as intended... It also gave him a couple ideas on how to deal with Charlotte if everything fell through... Could he kill her and resurrect her to steal back her soul? There wasn't really any way to test if this would work without actually trying it..l.
There were some other problems with the spell he hadn't mentioned, including the fact you required a piece of the person's body to revive them. Also, you couldn't revive any undead or 'evil' person, whatever that meant.
While touring around the village they took the time to access the 'Adventurers Guild', specifically the place where you acquired an Adventurers Card which acted as a status board you'd see in video games.
Megumin accessed it and was amazed to see that all her abilities had updated, it listed all the spells and skills she'd learned in Tamriel, also recording the increase in her magical strength and mana levels...
There was also a new skill that surprised some and confirmed some things for Michael...
[Boon of the Source : Aetherius] : Grants the ability to learn and use the mystical arts. Passively increases the efficiency and effectiveness of magic...
There were more listed, like the passive effects that caused fire to deal more damage, frost to drain stamina, and shock to drain magicka. This skill was the thing that gave people in Tamriel to use magic, the link through Magnus to Aetherius passively bathing everyone in Magicka from the ascendant realm.
When Michael and the others tried to gain an Adventurers Card however, it failed completely, only producing a fully inked-out card. It wasn't like it didn't detect them, as they'd just produce a blank card instead of a completely black one.
Michael suspected the cause was their foreign nature to the gods that were involved in the skill process... He wasn't really interested in fixing this either, to him it wasn't all that valuable to those already competent.
A week later and it was time to leave this world. They had been asked to assist in dealing with the Demon King but Michael refused, it was simply just something he didn't want to get involved with, plus he couldn't really justify it to himself after hearing some stories about the 'Antagonist'.
The Crimson Demon Clan made it out like he was evil, but anyone who took five minutes to look through the basic history made it readily apparent who was at fault... The Demon King only declared war after the clan began using his castle and territory as target practice... Which sounded kinda familiar now that he thought about it... Deja vu?
Anyway, after saying their goodbyes to everyone and taking some souvenirs, Michael, Tiffania, Megumin, and Saya stepped through the next Dimension Gate, leading them to a wartorn-looking modern street that was both familiar and not to Michael and Saya.
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Black congealed blood covered much of the scuffed-up street, and the nearby buildings composing the Business District of the city had all been heavily fortified with wood, metal, and other random things being used to barricade doors, windows and even parts of the street.
There weren't any corpses, aside from the occasional body part that'd been ignored and left in the street, but the signs of 'civilisation' were visible despite the carnage.
Atop the business district's buildings were large makeshift scrap windmills that looked half ready to fall apart. They slowly spun, creating a whirring noise which meant they were either being used in the traditional sense to grind grain, saw wood, etc. Or the more modern way, to generate electricity.
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