Chap 140-A Quick Divorce

 

Alice’s finger points somewhere.

The direction is Luichella’s head.

Recognizing the direction, Luichella urgently pulls back and begins to move.

-Paaang!

The space where Luichella’s head had been a moment ago is completely frozen.

Alice has not only interpreted and replicated Luichella’s space teleportation formula but also Fira’s freezing ability.

“Hahahahahat! This is more convenient than I thought! Yah!”

Luichella’s ability is to transfer designated spaces and objects, and the magic Fira manifested by shedding the maggots in her body was a simple ability to control cold.

But it was effective because of its simplicity.

Fira’s cold self-destruction formula is not ordinary ice but freezes even mana and space, and if there is nothing to freeze, the cold automatically self-destructs, so destructive power is guaranteed.

Alice is just slamming Fira’s cold magic into the places her vision reaches, but even that is enough to make Luichella grit his teeth and concentrate on evasion.

“Such a brute…!”

“Explode!”

In an instant, hundreds of space teleports occurred around Luichella, and he gritted his teeth and tried to teleport his body to evade.

However, Alice had anticipated all of that.

-Thwack!

“Kuh!?”

Alice had already pre-emptively placed cold teleports on hundreds of Luichella’s predicted movement paths, and as soon as Luichella teleported to what he thought was a safe place, he had to feel a part of his brain and his left leg being blown away.

“This is impossible…! Unless you have hundreds of brains, you can’t manifest teleportation formulas so quickly and simultaneously… Could it be that the calculation ability that hacked and infiltrated the machines of the lower layer can be applied to magic formulas!”

“Ahahat! This is so damn convenient! Asking me to marry you is deeply unpleasant, but I’m really grateful for sticking this in my gut!”

[Cold Teleportation – Simultaneous Manifestation]

【Reduced to a diameter of 1 meter, 487 formulas activated.】

-Kwa kwa kwang!

Due to the space teleportation and cold self-destruction formula compressed to the limit, Luichella’s surroundings began to be devastated.

“Kuh-euhk!”

The cold spread through teleportation, and the spread cold shattered as if self-destructing on the spot, gnawing at Luichella’s body.

If Luichella were an ordinary human, he would not have been able to move from the moment his left face was destroyed, but it seemed that the human appearance was just a shell, and he seemed to be fine.

“Alice! You could have had a sound conversation with me! Are you really going to kill me and abandon the greater good!”

“It’s not the greater good, you just want to live well! How can someone who shouts for the greater good ask someone they’ve just met to marry them and ignore the people living in the present?!”

What was teleported was all the self-destruction cold that Alice had imitated. At first, it was a degraded level compared to the real cold caused by Fira, but as the formula was repeated and space teleportation and cold self-destruction occurred hundreds of times in a row, Alice had somehow begun to establish her own formula.

‘This is impossible. Just by having the space teleportation formula flow into the body once, she’s imitating it? Alice’s hacking ability and internal calculation system were supposed to be limited to machines and AI!’

On the surface, she was just pointing at Luichella as if playing with her fingers, but at this moment, countless synapses were overheating in Alice’s head, calculating the optimal magic formula and removing errors and buggy formulas that did not suit Alice’s body to implement the optimal ability.

“You dodge well? Ah, the Dunhill Family is said to have a lot of maggots in their bodies, even though they look like humans?”

“Kuh! Think carefully, Alice! This is the first step for the greater good! We don’t have to fight! Sacrifice is a natural part of the greater good!”

“Aigoo, where did you learn to treat and belittle the lives of the vast majority of ordinary people as mere sacrifices? I don’t value human lives that much either, but you shouldn’t be able to weigh the value of life!”

“With that kind of thinking, you’ll be stuck forever! Look at reality!”

“You’re the one who needs to look at reality!”

Saying that, Alice clenched her fist.

[Space Teleportation]

This time, she doesn’t teleport the cold.

Alice herself teleported.

Alice was in a good mood right now.

A new ability.

The moment she is hit by an ability, calculating the formula for that ability and immediately feeding it back into the combat system was similar to the exhilaration she felt when she became the Demon Lord.

So be grateful.

I’ll kill you cleanly without pain!

-Clang!

“…!”

Luichella’s eyes widened at Alice, who had appeared right behind him.

He probably didn’t expect her to come directly.

In the slowed-down world, the Mantis Blade stored in Alice’s arm was ejected with frost.

“Foolish!”

But Luichella is not a weakling either.

It was even better for him that Alice, who was only a Third Class Overseer, had come to him at close range, when he could immediately take the position of a high-ranking Overseer.

At first, he was flustered by Alice’s space teleportation and cold self-destruction formula attacks and was busy being chased, but if Alice came directly, Luichella wasn’t without a method.

-Kiiing!

Luichella’s body is instantly strengthened with mana.

Strong Aura, Strong enery, and even Sword Aura formed on his fingernails and parts of his body.

The maggots in his body simultaneously strengthened his body with mana, and Luichella looked as if he was wrapped in opaque slime.

In reality, it wasn’t slime but different forms of Strong Hwan and Strong Gi.

-Pat!

Luichella’s body disappears.

One of the maggots in his body immediately teleported Luichella’s body to Alice’s blind spot with a teleportation formula.

“Aha, so you want to play a game of wits? Good!”

“I am the original owner of this ability! Alice!”

“They say the noisy ones are the ones who are scared!”

[Teleportation]

[Teleportation…!]

In less than a second, Luichella and Alice’s bodies collided and disappeared in the air like a broken film reel.

The moment he stabbed the Mantis Blade into the attack path, Luichella’s body disappeared and aimed for the back of Alice’s neck. Alice also activated the teleportation formula as if she had predicted the attack, and slammed Luichella’s body down from the air.

And again, teleportation. Teleportation. Teleportation.

In an instant, the teleportation formula was used multiple times before each other’s fists and blades could even cross, and at some point, the two were no longer standing on the ground.

It was judged that fighting in the air was much better for freely moving around with the teleportation formula.

Luichella was confident.

Space teleportation, teleportation, is a complex formula, and ordinary casters or Awakened had to prepare in advance with time and effort.

Luichella’s formula calculation time was short thanks to the numerous maggots in his body, and even if one maggot failed to teleport, he had many other maggots, so he had far more options than others.

Compared to humans, Luichella had multiple brains and was capable of parallel thinking, so he naturally thought he would have an advantage in the space teleportation formula as well.

In less than 10 seconds, space teleportation was used continuously dozens, hundreds of times, and Luichella somehow felt himself being pushed back more and more.

【Predicted Path Calculation in Progress】

【Teleportation Point Identified】

【Attack Route Value Completed】

But Alice had a cheat key.

‘Damn it! Damn it! A calculation ability that not only covets the networks but also the magic formula…! I want it. I really want it…!’

There was the auxiliary personality Theresa, who made ordinary supercomputers look like toys. As long as Theresa existed, Alice’s calculation ability was not lacking.

And since Theresa was predicting where Luichella would teleport to and displaying it in Alice’s vision, Alice could have actually stabbed and killed Luichella in an instant from the beginning.

But the reason she didn’t was because Alice was overjoyed right now.

‘Aah! I feel so damn good…!’

Alice was so grateful to Luichella.

When he stuck the space teleportation formula and Fira’s self-destruction cold formula into Alice’s abdomen, not to kill Alice but to simply ‘suppress’ her, Alice was just happy even though one-third of her body was destroyed.

The first time a magic formula was properly slammed into my body.

Not an ordinary mass-produced magic, but the moment a high-level magic formula that could reach the sky infiltrated her body, Alice instinctively began to draw its beautiful formula in her head.

There are almost no old memories.

But the instinct remains.

The instinct as the Demon Lord.

The feeling from back then, when she once ruled the world and was the master of all demons and devils, automatically led Alice.

It would have been impossible with a simple android body.

Alice, who had ground True Ancestor’s Blood, Gaia’s life force, and even fragments of the Holy Sword and Demon Sword into her body, was able to do it.

‘Ah, I see it.’

The more she uses the formula, the more her old memories and habits return.

She sees where Luichella is going.

If I teleport the cold there, he’ll die.

If I teleport slightly above and just swing my sword, his neck will be cut off.

Ah, if I shoot liquefied breath there, his lower body will melt completely.

Can I respond to the mechanical tendrils that even use teleportation?

In an instant, dozens of ways to kill Luichella came to Alice’s mind.

“Thank you.”

But she doesn’t do that.

Because I’m grateful in my own way.

Because I’m really grateful.

Asking me to marry you was truly unpleasant, but you gave me such a gift?

But trying to justify the sacrifice of the lives of people living in the current world with the greater good is truly not my taste.

So, unfortunately, I can’t cooperate.

“And you have to die here.”

Alice’s body disappeared again with teleportation.

-Clang!

The mechanical tendrils that popped out of her spine were embedded in the walls and floor, fixing Alice’s body.

Alice’s hand distorts.

Not her body, but the space she is holding in her fist begins to distort.

She is using the space teleportation formula.

‘What I can use. Teleportation, liquefied breath, self-destruction cold formula, Gaia’s life force.’

As she put her thoughts into it, something began to emerge from the distorted space.

Energy is being sucked out drastically.

The sucked-out energy was forcibly filled with Gaia’s life force, and the filled life force was forcibly converted into mana and energy by Theresa.

In Alice’s fist, a space distortion the size of a soccer ball was compressed.

“I’ve gained quite a lot since I fell into the Ark, you know?”

All the abilities and powers that Alice had collected in the Ark were compressed inside.

“I put everything in.”

It’s a kind of respect.

It’s all of me.

“With gratitude. Goodbye!”

“…!”

【Space Compression Formula – Ejection!】

Luichella felt an ominous energy and hardened his face.

The attack coming towards Luichella like a huge wave would be life-threatening even if it grazed him.

“Foolish…!”

But Luichella used teleportation with a sneer.

It’s a visible attack like an energy beam.

Just use teleportation to evade it.

By pointlessly loading up a huge amount of energy to shoot, Alice was in a state where she couldn’t use teleportation for a moment because so much energy was being sucked out.

[Teleportation]

-Pat!

“Did you think that a straightforward attack that is visible would work on me, a teleportation user!”

No matter how strong the attack is, it’s useless if you evade it with teleportation.

Luichella, who had teleported behind Alice to evade the space compression formula, threw a fist filled with Strong Gi at Alice with a face of certainty.

It’s truly unfortunate that he has to hit his wife, but since the situation has become like this, he can’t hold back.

I have to end it here…!

-Thwack!

But Luichella’s fist didn’t reach Alice.

It’s not that Alice did something.

Alice was standing still.

“I told you. I put everything in.”

The space compression formula that Alice ejected automatically chased Luichella, who had used teleportation.

It wasn’t just simple guidance.

The space compression formula itself automatically used teleportation to cleanly destroy Luichella’s body.

“…Ha.”

All of his body except for his left arm and part of his head collapsed.

Some were melted by liquefied breath, and others were frozen and exploded by the cold self-destruction formula.

When he tried to recover by touching Gaia’s twisted life force, his body rotted instead.

“Unbelievable.”

“Don’t worry.”

Alice lifted Luichella’s head.

The few remaining maggots fell from the cut surface.

Thanks to the space compression formula that Alice shot, the remaining maggots weren’t in good condition either.

They will probably die soon.

“It was a blessing that you came to me.”

“There…there could have been another way.”

“What way is there when you’re trying to justify a massacre in the name of the greater good.”

Alice grinned and opened her mouth.

Behind her, Theresa’s mechanical tendrils were flashing their thorns, loaded with energy Drain.

“I’ll enjoy this.”

“To be eaten by my wife, what a terrible ending.”

“I’m not your wife.”

-Thwack!