Ch.267262 – The Demon King’s Horn

[▶NoName vs Katsuhata Emika]

[▶Map: Random – Dacant Desert]

[▶Play Round: ∞]

[▶Time: 02:48:23]

“KYAAAAAAAH! SOMEBODY SAVE ME!”

ZIIIIING-

Between the two horns, mana that had exceeded the Necessite critical point condensed into a single point before extending into a straight beam.

KWABOOOOM-!

“KYAAAAAAAH!”

The clear clouds parted like the Red Sea.

Crimson sparks crackled and popped from the barren ground where the beam had swept across.

[System: Scroll Item]

[5th Circle Cast: Akashic Record]

[Innate Magic – Demon King’s Horns]

5th Circle-based innate magic “Demon King’s Horns.”

This was the innate magic NoName had developed in her previous life based on the Akashic Record to fight against those who tried to cut off her horns.

NoName’s horns, once despised as symbols of demon-kind and sin, now displayed their might amid wild cheers.

CRACKLE-CRACKLE-!

“HUAAAAAAH! PLEASE LET ME OUT! STOP! STOOOOOP!”

-KOREA FOREVER! KOREA FOREVER!

-Japan.Fanboys.Destroyed.

-This is what a WoA endgame character feels like LMAO

-Sword fighting only matters in level 1 lane phase~

-Can you feel the overwhelming power difference?

-Demon Lord NoName holy crap

-But how does a beam come out of horns that are just character customization?

└ Maybe they can be controlled like prosthetics.

└ By what principle?

└ No clue

└ Isn’t this what NoName briefly showed during the Mephisto fight?

-If she went to tournaments with this character, it would’ve been absolute chaos lol

└ Balance? What’s that? Throw it to the dogs wwwww

“Magic is cheating! Using magic is cheating!”

“You broke the rules first and used magic, unnie.”

“I surrender! I surrender! Where on earth is the exit button?!”

“Then let’s just play for exactly one more minute.”

[‘ChagamVillain’ donated ₩10,000!]

-Add 10 minutes.

-LMAOOOOO

-Are we really seeing this angle? lolololol

-How can you resist when a cute girl is rolling around like a dog!

-Setting the rate at 10 minutes per 10k was so natural.

-Recharging my wallet lol

-Today’s VTube preview: Emika’s fan recruitment video

-Can’t believe only the Japanese knew about this cutie

At first, viewers were worried whether the collab would go smoothly given Emika’s serious attitude, but now they were clearly enjoying themselves.

But Katsuhata Emika was an idol to young Japanese mage aspirants.

There were those who couldn’t bear to watch their idol being so thoroughly destroyed.

[‘TeddyBear’ donated ₩10,000!]

-Please subtract 10 minutes. (Translated text.)

[‘ILikeCateMatesBest’ donated ₩200,000!]

-Add 200 minutes.

-A manager with suspiciously deep pockets…

-This world is ruled by furries.

-Seriously what are those horns? NoName, can you make us a scroll so we can try them too?

-No matter how I look at it, the power seems garbage compared to the MP cost lol

With the donation, NoName’s MP was completely depleted.

Just as she was about to hit the reset button to start over,

[‘Aichika’ donated ₩300,000!]

-Please subtract all the time. I’m begging you! (Translated text.)

At the earnest request of the Japanese viewers, NoName pressed the one-on-one exit button and left the dueling open world.

“Haah… it’s over…”

“I was just getting warmed up, isn’t it a bit disappointing to end now? Or maybe after the stream ends-“

“No no no! NoName, I have a busy schedule today so I can’t spend any more time!”

Emika tied back her disheveled hair while reflecting on her three-hour ordeal.

Unlike Emika, who complained of extreme mental fatigue as if her brain had been thoroughly stewed, NoName still seemed unsatisfied, licking her lips while rewatching the battle highlights.

-Parenting difficulty: ★★★★★

└ LMAO

└ Our NoName doesn’t bite, she shoots!

└ Woof woof! No, I mean pew pew!

-Thank goodness my niece doesn’t play games like this.

-NoName’s gameplay is always impressive. Truly a devilish talent.

-Even in a game, dying that many times would break someone lol

-Emika is really an insane player too. How is this her first WoA game?

└ Taking a set off NoName in just 10 matches proves she’s a genius for sure.

└ WoA is definitely a game where talent is everything.

└ But NoName created an endgame character on her first try, right?

As the environment changed to the waiting room, NoName’s avatar returned to normal.

Now a seasoned one-year streamer, NoName skillfully created the atmosphere for seeing Emika off while setting up the stream ending.

Viewers expressed their disappointment, clinging to NoName’s pant legs.

[‘JustGrabTheHorns’ donated ₩10,000!]

-Is the beam coming from the horns related to magic, teacher?

“I was curious about that too. What kind of magic is that? The mana was moving like particles.”

Emika was now more interested in this than developing Adella’s magic.

The magic circle pre-engraved on the game scroll had a visibly complex structure.

Magic that transformed the body itself was extremely rare worldwide.

‘I’ve heard of magic or aura manipulation methods secretly passed down among descendants of South American Indians or African minority tribes…’

But even those were limited to enlarging hands or feet, or making nails long and sharp.

Emika stared at NoName with sharp eyes.

‘She’s quite perceptive, huh?’

NoName put her index finger to her lips and said:

“Shh. It’s still a company secret. But I’ll tell you separately later, Emika.”

* * *

What’s the fastest way to make a lot of money?

If I said ‘rob the treasury of a small nation,’ Hiasen would rage from the afterlife.

Let me rephrase: what’s the fastest way to make a lot of money ‘legally’?

‘Business is the only answer.’

In a world where knowledge equals money, we can’t ignore how easy it is to steal knowledge.

Even with Adella, plagiarized works using similar principles were already spreading in Japan.

That’s why I don’t release the molecular formulas recorded in the Akashic Record to the public.

There’s nothing more hollow than powerless honor.

So I decided to first gather capable people and build sufficient power when I have enough capital.

Getting 40% of Baek Hochan’s startup shares was truly unexpected good fortune.

I’m not sure if Baek Hochan has good business acumen yet, but he seems reasonably intelligent with abundant management knowledge.

Since he has family to support—Baek Minwoo and Baek Arin—I don’t need to worry about betrayal.

What made me value him highly was his attitude of not caring about sunk costs.

He remained cool-headed and resolved issues through dialogue even when his hundreds of billions in cryptocurrency assets turned out to be fake—he must have been born for business.

Aside from his slightly flighty personality, he had few flaws.

“So this magic is undisclosed technology owned by your company? How can you be a CEO at eight years old?”

Emika asked, slightly biting her lower lip.

“I’m not directly involved in management, so I’m just the majority shareholder, not the CEO… Anyway, the company is called ‘Bio-Akashic.’ If you’re interested, I’d love for the Katsuhata family to invest.”

“Investment? I don’t know much about that yet…!”

“Aren’t you the heir? Don’t you receive education about this?”

“Major family matters are decided by the council of elders. The head gives final approval.”

“Your school has a complicated system.”

I’ll need to restrategize to convince them instead.

Currently, Baek Hochan’s startup ‘Bio-Akashic’ was sailing smoothly while focusing on developing a treatment for ‘multiple sclerosis.’

However, we agreed not to make treatments our main source of income.

It was for a deeply personal reason that made my heart ache a bit.

Perhaps because in my previous life, I saw too many patients dying from that disease.

So as an alternative, we decided to supply the medication at a low price to maintain the company’s public image.

I never intended to leave Bio-Akashic as just a pharmaceutical company anyway.

[Business expansion requires reinvestment, but if we don’t make enough profit from our first venture, where will we get the capital?]

Baek Hochan’s opinion was valid.

That’s why we created the innate magic “Demon King’s Horns.”

“Emika unnie.”

“Yes?”

“There is a way to use Adella alone. By using these horns.”

“Horns? Eeeeh…?”

A distinctly Japanese exclamation escaped in a high pitch.

Emika stared at me with suspicious eyes. I wasn’t trusted at all.

“Just wait patiently for a moment. Give me time to organize my thoughts.”

From now on, Emika is our company’s customer.

I’ve never done sales before, but the advantage of a capitalist society is that transactions occur when there’s a satisfactory exchange relationship.

“To understand why Adella can only be used as a combination spell, you first need to properly understand its magic circle structure.”

“It’s because of the rune language, right?”

The clever Emika was already making assumptions before I could explain.

I was just about to mention that.

“That’s right. Arhen controls time in an inertial reference frame, while Hyprit controls time in an accelerated reference frame. Do you understand what this means?”

“Umm… no?”

“Magic containing both rune languages can’t be cast simultaneously. Why do you think that is?”

“The times overlap.”

“Exactly. The magic circle won’t activate with just one mana attribute.”

“Ah, I see.”

This is one of the slightly exceptional rules of rune language.

Unlike aura, which takes various forms depending on the person, mana is just mana with only one attribute.

A contradiction arises right here.

That’s why mages forcibly set different mana attributes by using different casters, facing the limitation that it’s impossible to cast with just one person’s body.

“To solve this contradiction, we have ‘joint casting,’ but then Japan already has plenty of useful joint casting spells, right? So there’d be no need to use Adella?”

As the content deepened, Emika pressed her temples firmly.

It’s content that can’t be fully understood at once anyway.

I continued my explanation without concern.

“But you know what? One of the functions of these horns is the ability to purify mana.”

“Why purify mana?”

“Originally, high-concentration mana has toxicity. Right now, this magic is classified as 5th Circle because of the Akashic Record, but if you somehow use the dimensional descent method and simplified casting, you can lower it to 3rd Circle.”

“Toxicity… dimensional descent…?”

In this world with scarce mana, it’s not a major issue.

It’s like talking about global warming to people in the 17th century Little Ice Age.

“The key is that purified mana can be treated as having a different attribute from regular mana. So you have mana injected through your hands and mana injected through the horns, right? Ta-da, Adella complete.”

“I think I kind of understand…”

“I might have explained too broadly so it’s a bit vague, but that’s okay. There’s a way.”

CLAP-!

I clapped my hands to get the girl’s attention.

She doesn’t need to understand everything.

I gently massaged Emika’s crown with the end of the simplified magic circle writer.

The scent of bamboo shampoo tickled my nose.

Woong-

I recorded the magic circle and forcibly drew in sparse mana to complete the form.

[Simplified Cast: Akashic Record]

“Seeing is believing. Unnie, just go back to Japan, find that wooden sword or whatever it is, and destroy them all. You must have learned something from today’s training, so you’ll do well from now on. I’ll be cheering for you from across the sea.”

[Innate Magic – Demon King’s Horns Continued – Purification Horns]

* * *

“For ID verification, could you please remove your hat for a moment?”

“What? Um… j-just a second!”

Suddenly, Katsuhata Emika gathered her hair into a strange hairstyle like a scholar with a topknot.

The immigration officer tilted his head as if he’d seen all sorts of strange kids and checked the girl’s face.

“Haha, you don’t need to try so hard. Just one more fingerprint scan here. Yes, Ms. Katsuhata Emika, your inspection is complete.”

“Phew… thank you.”

After passing through the automatic screen door, Emika put her black beret back on her head.

“Wow! Miss Katsuhata, you look pretty! Where did you get that hat?”

One of her attendants from the Katsuhata school complimented her hat.

“Thank you. I picked it up while exploring the market last night.”

“As expected of you. It suits you well!”

Emika slightly bowed her head, holding the hat with her hand to prevent it from falling.

Through the hat, she felt something hard, sharp, and stone-like against her palm.

Her full figure was reflected in the duty-free shop’s glass wall.

She secretly approached the wall and lifted her beret to check.

On both sides of Emika’s head were adorable navy blue horns,

About one or two finger joints in size, protruding from her head.