Brain God

The black armor scatters.

It returned to the shadows.

Just as Chocolat could hide in shadows, the armor returned to the shadows as well.

[Death Knight 3] widens the distance while shedding the black armor as if escaping from mud. He revealed the contents within, possessing gray eyes.

Gray eyes.

Dark skin.

Short black hair like a soldier’s.

Muscles as if raised in the wild.

After removing the armor, the only clothing left was something like white leather wrapped around his waist.

[Death Knight 3] was a feral young man, a handsome youth with an ordinary good looks, but strangely resembling a primitive man.

“You, what’s your name?”

Amel gathered electricity in both hands.

As she gathered it, she spoke.

“I’m called Americano. If that’s hard to say, you can call me Amel. I like you, so would you mind telling me your name?”

“(….)”

[Death Knight 3] drew a new sword from the shadows.

The electrical signal couldn’t be detected, and there wasn’t even a blade.

Ah, that was it.

A mana sword.

“(I don’t have anything like a name.)”

“Then just tell me what you’re called.”

“(…Force.)”

Force.

“No wonder you’re strong.”

[Death Knight 3].

[Force] drew out a blade of magical power from the mana sword.

Blue magical power.

It wasn’t black mana.

The [Sword God]’s eyes captured the blade of magical power and saw its nature, but it wasn’t the black mana that [Death Knights] or [Dark Knights] commonly emitted.

A blade condensed from ordinary magical power.

Did it also see through the nature of anti-magic power?

“Alright, Force. I’ll tell you one thing for your sake. Call it my arrogance if you like, but right now I’m in a very good mood. So you know.”

Amel generated electricity with an output equivalent to level 70 magical power.

Amel, who had been charging even while conversing.

Her body fills with electricity, sparks flying.

Crack.

Crackle.

BOOM!

“Run away. Or you’ll die?”

Amel still didn’t know her full power.

While hoping [Force] wouldn’t die, her reason mixed with the need to kill him immediately.

If she couldn’t kill him now, there was no telling how he might return later.

Not knowing how long the [Sword God] would last, you see.

So,

‘Die.’

The electrical ability was released from her will, and electric light burst forth.

The electricity that shot out ran through her body, and the electricity that ran out soon connected to the ground through her floating feet.

The electricity connected to the ground writhed like a snake, scorching the earth black.

No, it wasn’t electricity.

This was the movement of electrons according to the magnetic field.

The electricity searched for the most conductive ground, its senses on high alert.

Minute electricity stretched out like tentacles, pioneering a path.

When it touched the minute electricity extending from Amel, it finally became lightning,

Accompanied by thunder and a flash.

Once.

Twice.

Thrice.

It wasn’t enough.

The electricity filling her didn’t diminish at all with just that.

With each strike, the range of electricity radiating in all directions widened.

At first, just her feet and the ground beneath.

The ground at a distance equal to her height.

It reaches even farther ground.

The minute electricity from afar came closer and connected into one as time passed.

The minute electricity spread further and in all directions, seeking materials more conductive than the ground,

And there was [Force].

Though a dead body,

It conducted electricity better than soil.

Minute electricity that had spread out imperceptibly emerged like smoke from [Force]’s body.

[Force] felt that tickling sensation and immediately moved away, but,

Evasion impossible.

Electricity was Amel’s attack method that [Force] knew about in advance, but he hadn’t heard it could be used so indiscriminately.

Still, he had heard of a countermeasure.

[Eighteen]. Unlike her, now called Chocolat, he couldn’t use magic, but,

He manipulates the magical power inside his body to create a pathway for the electricity to flow.

And,

BOOM.

Amel discharged her electrical ability in all directions with full power.

The electricity that started from her body began from the ground at her feet, reached [Force], and extended further to touch the wall of the hurricane.

With each flash, dozens to hundreds of electric lines tore through the air, connecting earth and sky.

BOOM.

BOOM.

KABOOM.

KRAKAKAKAK.

KRRRRRRRR.

But,

‘Explode.’

All of that was nothing more than minute electricity for a single powerful strike.

Amel, who had reached the hurricane, connecting the wall of clouds with electric lines.

At the end of that was the sky.

Dark clouds.

There was electricity accumulated there until now.

Minute electricity connects to the crown of her head.

Crack.

Crackle.

BOOM.

Through all the paths the electricity had struck so far,

A flash and thunder several times more intense burst forth.

That entire process took just 1 second.

In normal time flow, it would have looked like the electricity flashed simultaneously.

“Phew…”

Amel gently lowered her body that had risen high due to magnetic force.

She looked down at the ground while slowly following gravity,

Looked up at the sky,

Checked the state of her magical power.

She understood her full power.

And,

“Haha.”

Look, you’re alive.

[Force].

He had hardened his body and was protecting it with magical power.

Though lacking physical defense, he guided the magical power to become a pathway for the electricity to flow along his skin to the ground.

Electricity was powerful but had strong weaknesses.

But he wasn’t completely unscathed.

The heat generated when conducting electricity had burned [Force]’s skin.

It was scorched black.

[Force] opened his eyes,

“….”

“(….)”

Their eyes met.

Amel saw potential in [Force].

Ah… I could capture him.

I want to capture him.

I want to [Possess] him.

Crack.

She raised her electrical ability.

[Force] kicked off the ground.

He moved quickly but was slower than electricity.

BOOM. The electricity reached [Force], but it flowed from his skin to the ground through the magical power coating his body.

[Force] ran away with his tail between his legs.

[Force], whose swordsmanship had been far superior to hers.

He couldn’t withstand the electrical ability.

“Ha…”

Amel,

“Hahah!”

Was intoxicated with power.

She hadn’t been tested for her awakened ability’s rank in reality.

Originally, she had planned to go get tested when she had time after finishing the game, but unfortunately, she got trapped in the game and didn’t have the chance.

When creating a character, you receive bonus points by checking your real-world magical power.

Calculating according to the strategy sites, Amel was born with magical power equivalent to at least an A-rank awakened, at the very least.

That is, the magical power of a newly awakened ability user.

That was the evaluation before her magical power was fully charged.

Right after awakening, magical power is used for bodily changes (immunity to awakened abilities, etc.), so it’s very common for magical power to be measured low.

At least A-rank.

Estimated S-rank.

Amel had used her awakened ability at full power for the first time.

She unwittingly fell into the pleasure of power that high-ranking awakened often fall into.

Moreover, the discharged electricity didn’t disappear but was stored in the hurricane.

Rumble.

Rumble.

As the clouds surrounding the hurricane and the dark clouds in the sky thundered,

Amel, floating in that sky, felt as if the world was in the palm of her hand.

[Sword God] interfering with nature’s magical power.

Electrical ability controlling electricity.

It was enough to cause such an illusion.

“….”

Amel stretched out her hand.

She raised her index finger.

Current flowed to the tip of her index finger.

As that tip pointed towards [Force], lightning struck not from her finger but from the sky.

It couldn’t be avoided.

It could only be conducted.

Though she struck down lightning, [Force] only staggered for a moment.

But the world inside the hurricane was in the palm of her hand.

“Kuhehe.”

She laughs ominously.

She raised her hand again.

With her palm facing up, she floated a magic circle above it.

She recreates the magic circle Win had used recently, entirely with the flow of electricity. Amel, who could convert electricity and magical power.

The flow of electricity became the flow of magical power, completing the magic circle.

Activation.

Slowly. Splash.

Water Sea.

Receiving even the [Sword God]’s magical power, the Water Sea quickly raised its water level.

She clenched her fist.

The water surface rippled.

Waves rose,

And crashed over [Force].

Electrical ability.

Lightning strike.

As it fell into the Water Sea, all the water froze solid, freezing [Force] along with it.

Crack.

[Force] broke the ice with his mana sword to escape.

Lightning strike.

BOOM.

It froze again.

Lightning carrying [Frost].

[Force] quickly wrapped his body in magical power, but the electricity froze the magical power itself.

She could have just frozen him without using the Water Sea, but that would have only frozen his skin.

While freezing the magical power,

“(..!!!)”

It penetrated into [Force]’s interior.

He receives a fatal wound.

The [Sword God]’s eyes saw the magical ice that had taken root all the way to his heart.

Looking at the frozen [Force], her left thumb itches.

That’s right.

She had the Bronze Arm, didn’t she?

The power of [Possession].

Just the power of a demon.

If seen through the [Sword God]’s eyes, she might know how to use the demon’s power more strongly.

She looked,

And knew.

To draw more on the demon’s power, she needs to suppress the demon’s will with anti-magic power. It was the first time she learned there was such a thing as will, but,

She can erase the demon’s will with anti-magic power.

Why didn’t she know this simple thing before?

The Bronze Arm itself was already in a state of being infused with anti-magic power.

She had been operating the demon’s power more with a sense of using a tool rather than her own power, so it took a while to notice.

The Bronze Arm, infused with even stronger anti-magic power after becoming the [Sword God].

The demon’s power had become as powerful as it had ever been.

Then.

[Spoiler] suddenly activated.

[The King of Death is strongly interfering.]

What?

At that moment, she felt,

A magical presence.

A bit far away.

[Death Knight 2] creates a [Sword Aura].

What happened to Chocolat?

Following the sensation in her thumb, she found Chocolat and had an “oops” moment.

No.

No, you.

What are you going to do if you get hurt?

Chocolat is being electrocuted.

Where did you sell your skill of conducting electricity from when you fought me before?

More than that, that…

‘Is that Sword Aura?’

The form of the swelling magical power was undoubtedly [Sword Aura].

[Death Knight 2] charged the [Sword Aura] with a long 5-second interval, and as the size of the magical power grew,

Sharp magical spikes sprouted one by one on his back.

Then he held up the [Dark Sword],

And pointed it like a baton.

The [Dark Sword] pointed towards Amel.

The magical spikes that had sprouted on his back aimed at Amel, the designated target, and ejected countless spikes like a flower in full bloom.

So many spikes in an instant, enough to be surprising.

All of them were in the form of swords.

Mana swords.

Countless mana swords poured out from [Death Knight 2]’s back,

Creating a hail of mana swords, flying fiercely with an impressive scale.

It was magnificent.

‘Pretty.’

But,

She extends her hand.

Actually, the hand gesture was just for show.

Current flowed between her fingers.

BOOM.

BOOM.

KABOOM.

Electricity stretched out to intercept the mana swords.

Shot down.

But,

“Well, this is…”

She learned another weakness of electricity.

Speed rivaling light.

Casting to match that.

Absolute accuracy.

Power that can be easily increased.

But easily guided,

And as it’s targeting, only one at a time.

One at a time.

She tried to aim for a chain reaction, but the mana swords didn’t have magnetism.

Thinking of the zigzag shape of lightning, it seemed like it could hit multiple targets simultaneously with numerous roots,

But in reality, it couldn’t.

As it’s targeting, it takes time to aim, so the rate of fire was surprisingly slow, and since the mana swords didn’t have magnetism, they were hard to hit with simple discharge of electricity.

BOOM.

BOOM.

KABOOM.

“….”

Amel shrugged with a smile.

She’s swept away.

Mana swords.

Easily tens of thousands.

Still increasing.

The energy contained in each mana sword surpassed the single strike of something like [High Knight Evga]’s [Sword Aura] and was much more refined and aesthetically pleasing.

And there were tens of thousands of them.

Tens of thousands of mana swords.

The [Sword Aura] formed by those gathered together.

It flew towards her fiercely, drawing dazzling curves like a snake.

Just as she thought it would plunge down vertically, it lowered its head nimbly to the ground,

And swept over her from the front.

Amel was pushed back.

Carried away by the mana swords,

She was pinned to the ground.

She sprawled on the ground in a large shape, and her body was pierced, slashed, and stabbed by the mana swords, becoming tattered.

But it wasn’t over.

Above her, tens of thousands of mana swords, linked like the form of a snake, rained down intensively.

Tudadadadadak.

Chaejaejaejaejaeng.

Chwaralalalalalak.

A mountain of mana swords piles up.

“(….)”

[Death Knight 2] came up to the frozen [Force] and peeked at Amel’s condition.

A silent atmosphere.

A faint sense of victory seeping through.

He spoke a word in anticipation.

“(…Did we finish her off?)”

At that moment.

Rumble.

The mountain of mana swords shakes.