All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 88

◈ Chapter 88

44. Devil or Whatever – 2

“Huk!!”

Only the one who had spoken to Ian amidst the lightning strike could have survived.

But even he couldn’t rest easy.

Because Ian was already upon him.

-Puh-wack!!

After slapping the bewildered man aside, Ian turned his gaze.

The dog struck by lightning was struggling to rise.

Its body, broken and festering with pus, now pulsed with a dark aura.

The immense malice radiating from it dwarfed that of any demon he had encountered before.

“It resembles the demon Voladi I saw before.”

As Kirke said, it was unlike Voladi, who was shrouded in shadows.

It was beginning to take definite shape.

The remaining silver fur was turning black.

The mouth, stained with blood, was becoming more elongated.

The hideous, pus-filled sores all over its body burst, and black energy surged from them like tentacles.

It was merely in the form of a dog, but its arms and legs were lengthening, transforming it into a bipedal form.

The claws on its forepaws grew as sharp as blades, and its injuries were gradually healing.

-Kuaaaah!!

The demon Meurivalees, having broken the chains binding its arms and legs, gathered its hands and slammed them down on Ian with all its might.

“Hmph.”

With a dismissive snort, Ian spun his sword around.

Heavenly Demon Art, Chapter of the Moon.

Moon Wheel.

The moment the moonlit sword drew a circular light, Meurivalees’ arm was severed.

-Kwaang!!

However, the severed arm turned into black energy and disappeared, and a new arm sprouted in its place.

As if it had taken no damage at all.

The dog-like mouth began to smirk.

“Krrr……”

In addition, its body was swelling up, perhaps trying to utilize the ogre’s characteristic immense strength.

As the enlarged Meurivalees tried to kick him, Ian lightly dodged and said.

“Still, it’s a shame.”

“I know.”

That’s how chimeras are.

Most of the energy they originally had disappears, and the same amount of miscellaneous things fills its place.

The traces of changing that demonic beast to keep it in this world made Ian quite displeased.

Staring at Meurivalees, he sheathed his sword.

He knew.

It wasn’t the first time he had faced such an enemy.

Meurivalees roared.

As the malice intensified and dozens of blade-like tentacles were about to extend from its body.

Ian’s eyes flashed.

His eyes turned yellow.

The movements of Meurivalees, who met his gaze, stopped.

-Eudeuk! Eudeudeuk!

The energies that Meurivalees had been controlling began to resist.

The muscles of its massive arms rippled erratically.

The flesh would swell up and then stop, and its movements would stutter.

The various energies within that chimera were rampaging, trying to escape from Meurivalees.

The demon Meurivalees tried its best to resist the rampage of the energies that had been dominated until now.

-Puh-ung!!

With just one more use of the Demonic Eye, its resistance became futile.

The muscles of its long arms swelled up and burst.

The legs supporting its massive body split apart.

Its back tore open, its abdomen burst, and its body collapsed.

Its two eyes burst, and its fingernails and toenails broke off.

Meurivalees, unable to hold onto the rampaging energies, could not overcome the backlash and collapsed to its knees.

“Keuh…… Keueh-heuk…….”

As Ian looked down at him, who seemed to have no strength to resist, he raised his sword.

Meurivalees, who had been breathing roughly, opened his mouth with difficulty.

“You… what are you?”

“That’s what I want to ask. Who called you here?”

“Keu…… Keuheuhe…….”

Hearing a rough sneer, Ian imbued his sword with the energy of the sun.

Seeing that, Meurivalees began to laugh even more.

“Hehehe! Hahaha!! Do you think it will end just by stopping me?! The great Seven Deadly Sins will soon come!! How long do you think this world, which is already over, will last…… Keuaaaaak!!”

He had attacked several times with anti-demon energy, but Meurivalees only writhed in pain and continued to spew curses.

Judging by his behavior, it didn’t seem like he would answer willingly.

Then it would be a waste of time to do more.

Ian reached out to Meurivalees, who was smirking in a miserable state.

“What… are you trying to do…….”

His hand reached his massive head.

For some reason, Meurivalees asked in a trembling voice, feeling an ominous premonition, but Ian did not answer.

He simply invoked the worldview.

“Sancte Miaden Archangele…….”

“Euh…… Euh-ah…… Euh-aaaa!!”

As he recited the prayer honoring the archangel, Meurivalees was horrified.

His body was scattering.

The remaining strength and existence itself began to disappear.

“S, stop!! Stoooop!!”

“Esto Presidia. Kel Karn…….”

His body trembled.

Meurivalees, who couldn’t even withstand a few verses, began to shrink.

When the demonic energy remaining in the chimera’s body completely disappeared, Ian slowly removed his hand.

“Amen.”

Ian turned his head away.

The leader of the assassins, whom he had knocked out earlier, was blankly staring at him.

“……You…… What the hell are you……?”

He had been in agony, but after seeing Ian fight Meurivalees, he couldn’t even speak properly.

They had sacrificed the body of a being of the moon and combined numerous energies to create a chimera where a demon could reside.

No, was that all?

They had even made it possible for the demon to manifest and fully utilize its power.

But.

“How could this happen!!”

Ian, slapping the man who was in a panic, said in an indifferent tone.

“You see all kinds of things in life. And.”

Grasping the collar of the man who was confused and unable to even complain of pain, Ian grinned.

“I have a lot of questions, so you’re going to have to explain them to me.”

Ian raised a sharp sword towards the terrified man.

“Of course, you don’t have to agree. Because I’m thinking of asking your body directly.”

“Ah. Okay.”

After finishing the torture, Ian snapped the neck of the man who was covered in blood and barely breathing.

He had already obtained all the information he needed.

All that was left was to hear Kirke’s summary.

At a nearby stream, Ian washed his hands and face as Myane approached Meurivalees’ corpse.

“Myaa~ Myamya!”

“Myane. What are you doing?”

“Myaa!”

She seemed quite interested in the corpse.

Myane, tapping the chimera with her white forepaw, jumped up.

Then, she climbed onto the chimera’s head and howled softly.

“Myaaaaaaa!!”

In that instant, light burst from Myane’s body, and her body gradually swelled slightly.

Her four legs lengthened slightly, and her ears perked up.

Her white fur became fluffier, and the golden patterns deepened.

When Myane, who had been sitting there howling for a while, came down.

The hideous monster began to transform into a giant dog with beautiful silver fur.

But unfortunately, the energy of the moon still did not exist.

“You knew how to do this?”

“Myaa~ Mya~.”

Myane wagged her long tail, feeling proud.

As she lightly jumped onto Ian’s lap and purred, Kirke checked Myane’s condition.

“You can absorb these miscellaneous energies too?”

Ian stroked the purring Myane and asked.

“Putting that aside. Is the summary finished?”

“Tell me.”

As soon as Ian’s permission was given, Kirke immediately began the report.

First.

Currently, Blue Moon has summoned demons and made plans to join hands with them.

And all of this was carried out by the order of the leader, Dolce Kawin.

Second.

Dolce does not stay in one place and is always on the move.

In addition, he always uses a pseudonym, and only a few people in Blue Moon, besides this vice-leader, actually meet him.

But once every three months.

There is a place that Dolce always visits, so you might be able to meet him if you go there.

Third.

Blue Moon decided to use this mountain by joining hands with Baron Brandon using the Pakirad Mercenary Corps.

They also know that the Pakirad Mercenary Corps is related to Blue Moon.

When they mentioned canceling the contract, they said they would pay more than ten times the cost.

The evidence of that contract is with Baron Brandon, so you can go and check it out.

Fourth.

He knows nothing about Pandemonium or the talent merchant.

However, Blue Moon’s leader, Dolce, occasionally said that he had to meet someone called ‘that person’ and had ordered kidnappings.

After confirming and organizing other minor information, Kirke reported, and Ian got up from his seat.

“Dolce made that and ordered it to be raised?”

“He doesn’t know as much as I thought. Should I catch Dolce after all? Kirke. Is it possible to locate Dolce?”

So, he is in the south for now.

Ian thought for a moment and asked.

“There’s no gate there, right?”

The Kilhart tribe is located at the northernmost part of the southern plains.

It’s a shame.

But hasn’t he found out one thing?

By that time, the exchange with the Imperial Academy will be over, so there will be plenty of time.

In addition, the capital of the Scarlet Kingdom has a gate right in front of it, so he could even make a day trip.

“Then let’s go there then.”

As Ian made his decision, Kirke reported the information he had just confirmed.

“Did support already come? That was faster than I thought?”

The Sun Order’s warhorses are far faster and tireless than ordinary horses.

The fact that they came riding them meant that the elites of the Sun Order had moved.

“It seems Priest Euri properly requested support.”

Ian nodded lightly and stood up.

“Myaa~.”

Myane, who had grown a little bigger than before, jumped onto Ian’s shoulder in one leap.

As they left the utterly devastated scene and went up.

Ian discovered the paladins and priests fighting the mercenaries and trying to enter this place.

“Ah! Saint Ian!!”

One of the priests who was giving blessings to the paladins shouted.

It was Priest Euri, whom he had met before.

“Are you alright?!”

Euri, relieved to see Ian without a drop of blood on him, was puzzled that he had come out alone.

“Didn’t you see inside? Many evil beings, and a monster……. What about Paladin Flat and the leader of the Sword Flower Squad?!”

Ian shook his head.

At his answer, Euri slumped down.

“Ah. Aaaah…… Oh, Sun…….”

As he despaired, misunderstanding, Ian comforted him.

“Ah. They are over there.”

At those words, Euri quickly turned his head.

There stood the leader and Flat, who was being supported by him.

Having regained consciousness thanks to Ian’s treatment, Flat was smiling weakly at Euri.

“Paladin Flat!!”

The leader, handing Flat over to Euri and slicing the neck of an attacking mercenary, approached Ian and asked.

“Did you go down there? What about the Blue Moon guys? Was that monster there?”

As he asked quickly, Ian answered nonchalantly.

“It’s not there anymore.”