It’s Not a Meeting, It’s an Invasion! 9

A tidal wave crashes in.

It wouldn’t be right to call it a storm raging from the sea, but rather a wave of blood and flesh.

[Over there-!]

[I’ll keep my promise!]

[I’ll kill you all!]

[Stopppp!]

“God damn it…!”

“Even for the girl, even for the girl, that’s too much, you know!”

Fira and Alice made quick decisions.

They could win in a one-on-one fight.

Both Fira and Alice had thoroughly grasped how to defeat opponents they had beaten once before.

They could easily win against one or two of them if they fought again.

They had adapted to their movements and speed, and although they were unfamiliar with the creatures that were a combination of maggots and horseflies at first, they felt they could respond with weakness attributes or wide-area attacks.

No, honestly, they thought they could easily defeat about 10 Horsefly Bitches.

With a bit of strain, 100.

With even more strain, maybe hundreds?

“Fira!!! How many hatcheries are there here?!”

“The girl doesn’t know, you know! Kyaaaak! Get away from me!!!”

The Horsefly Bitches crawling out of the walls and ceiling that reached the sky, from who knows where, were utterly grotesque.

Moreover, they hadn’t fully transformed into human form yet, so flesh and a large amount of blood were wriggling about.

How many of them were there?

It seemed like it had already surpassed thousands, tens of thousands?

Of course, Fira and Alice were running away, but they easily burst the heads or instantly severed the limbs of one or two Horsefly Bitches blocking their path, securing an escape route.

However, if these Horsefly Bitches died just from having their heads burst, they would have killed them all a long time ago.

They regenerated their burst heads or limbs in no time and joined the wave of blood and flesh, fiercely chasing after Fira and Alice.

The tidal wave of blood and flesh chasing right behind them was only growing larger.

“Eeeeek! [Imaginary Freezing]!”

Was she ashamed of her own state of tearing her skirt and running away so desperately?

Fira couldn’t stand it anymore and cast grand magic that froze several kilometers whole.

-Crack!

“I, I did it, you know!”

“What do you mean you did it!? They’re all still alive! Can’t you see all their eyes are on us?”

“Hiiiik!”

If there were fewer than 10 horseflies, they might have been frozen and unable to move by Fira’s grand magic that even froze space.

But the horseflies were a combination of a True Ancestor and a Dunhill Family maggot, so there was no way they wouldn’t have resistance to magic and supernatural powers.

Moreover, if tens of thousands of Horsefly Bitches simultaneously unleashed their magical resistance and supernatural power resistance all at once, it was only natural that even the most powerful suppression magic and sealing tools would be shattered.

-Crack crack crack…!

The ice that had trapped the tidal wave soon shattered, and Fira and Alice hurriedly threw themselves away.

Besides, Fira was more clumsy than she thought… (Of course, even if she was clumsy, her simple physical abilities alone were at the level of a First-Class Overseer) Alice hugged Fira with her tentacles and started running.

“O, oh my! Alice, this kind of thing is premature for us…!”

“Shut up!”

“I, if you do this already, a child might be born, you know…!”

“Hey! Are you crazy? Save the nonsense for later!”

“Since the girl is being held by Alice anyway, all I can do is intercept those things and express my love for Alice-sama with my mouth, you know?”

Well, with her other hands, she was constantly laying magic circles and void mines in the air, blocking the approach of the flesh wave, so there was nothing more to say.

In any case, the situation was still not good.

Usually, just one True Ancestor is treated as a calamity.

But a True Ancestor had combined with a Dunhill Family maggot, gaining the ability to utilize supernatural powers and the modification formulas and magic engraved in their genes. Now, that thing had become a giant wave, simply destroying and crushing everything around it, absorbing both organic and inorganic matter.

Thousands of lives were consumed to create one Horsefly Bitch, but it was impossible to even guess how many lives had been consumed for that blood and flesh to become a wave and surge forward like that.

★

★

★

Oriana.

Rilstia is busy.

The two are two people and one person at the same time.

Especially from the moment Alice regained the Demon King’s body, Oriana had been using her two identities as a First-Class Overseer and an administrator to move for Alice’s sake.

She adjusted and resolved the duties and responsibilities assigned to her in any way possible.

She handled all the problems she faced as quickly and efficiently as possible. And she dedicated the rest of her time to Alice. She was doing her best to prepare conveniences for Alice, and to pave the way for the places Alice would go and the positions Alice would hold in the future.

It was then that Oriana caught a strange current.

“…The smell of blood.”

Rilstia, another body and personality within Oriana, had the ability of ‘hologram manifestation.’

It was the ability to be projected anywhere through electronic devices, cameras, and holograms, to move to those places, and to materialize.

It was very useful in the Ark, which was full of electronic devices and all sorts of cyberware, and it was also an ability that allowed her to monitor the entire Ark in real time.

Oriana didn’t usually use this actively.

Because she was using most of the hologram manifestation ability for ‘calamity monitoring.’

A calamity was a dangerous element that could destroy the Ark and all of humanity with just one.

It was possible to prevent calamities with proper control, restraint, and the dispatch of Overseers, but if the golden time was missed, it would lead to an uncontrollable situation.

So, unless an unexpected situation occurred, Oriana usually didn’t use Rilstia’s hologram manifestation.

But now.

Oriana sensed that it was an unexpected situation.

‘The surveillance network attached to the mosquito has been shaken.’

Rilstia within Oriana immediately moved the hologram.

The location was the descendants of Beelzebub.

The Dunhill Family’s mansion.

And the situation was….

[This is bullshit!]

[Ugh, could you run a little slower, you know? The girl feels like she’s getting motion sickness~]

[Shut the hell up!]

“Alice?”

It was Alice and Fira fleeing from a huge and grotesque wave of flesh and blood.

No, if it was Alice who had regained the Demon King’s body, and Fira, then that level of…

‘Fira, that bitch… seems to be enjoying it. Has Alice not regained her full power yet? Well… her real body is still in the center of the Ark. And her body adaptation period was short, so it’s not strange that she can’t exert 100 percent of her power.’

Then it was time for me to step in.

More than anything, I don’t like the fact that Fira is being held in Alice’s arms like a princess.

I’m not that old, but it’s very unpleasant to see her acting like a refined young lady.

“Transfer.”

At that moment, Oriana’s vision changed.

She had transferred through the hologram to the Dunhill Family’s mansion where Alice and Fira were.

“Huh!? Oriana!?”

“Oh my! Miss Oriana…!”

Both of them saw Oriana and widened their eyes.

Oriana immediately summoned an artificial spirit with all sorts of grotesque swords stuck in it.

Numerous magical swords and ominous and bizarre swords were stuck in the artificial spirit, but there was a sword that was the most intact and had a faint, bright light.

The Hero’s Sword.

It was a weapon that Oriana had been using for a very long time.

“It’s been a while.”

Hero.

Oriana Hailam.

Before becoming a hero, her childhood name was Rilstia Frostia.

She was still a child.

Even before she divided herself into two with the artificial spirit’s ability granted by the Demon King.

Even before founding the Ark.

Perhaps even long before that.

From the moment she plunged her sword into the heart of the Demon King who believed in and trusted her, she was a child.

A child who did what she thought was right, but didn’t know what to do about what she had done, foolishly wandered and was still lost.

But that child also knew how to do a few things.

One was to gather and rally people using the name of hero.

It was a title that she no longer used, but Oriana gathered humanity under the name of hero and created the starting point for the founding of the Ark.

And the other thing she knew how to do was….

Swordsmanship.

“[Emperor Sword Form]”

Something that the human demon king had once told Oriana.

One day, the human demon king jokingly said to the hero.

To contain the multitude of strategies and meanings in a sword. A sword that can divide the continent with the overlord stepping on the land and ruling it.

It would be fun to have something like that, a cool sword that overwhelms and bisects the opponent and the world with the momentum emanating from the sword.

I can’t do it, but you’re good with swords, so maybe you can do it?

In fact, the young Oriana at the time didn’t know how to do such a thing.

She didn’t know what Alice was talking about, and she thought it was impossible.

But the words left by the human demon king became her writing and whispers.

It had become not the Emperor’s Sword, but the Hero’s Sword, and was held in the hand of a child.

Oriana understood the method not with her head, but with her body and hands.

Once she understood, all that was left was to do it.

The Hero’s Sword, drawn after hundreds of years, drew a clear trajectory.

-Crack!

The wave of blood and flesh splits along the path of the sword.

This alone doesn’t kill the wave.

The way to kill the wave was simple.

Very simple and crude.

Just cut it up so much that it can’t form a shape.

How many times would that be?

Well.

Tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of millions of swings?

But it didn’t matter.

Oriana.

The young hero who had made a huge mistake had already swung her sword more than that a long time ago.

-Crack crack crack crack crack!

The wave of flesh and blood is divided.

It is divided, split, and cleaved.

Once the Hero’s Sword.

The Hero’s Sword, which had made the huge mistake of stabbing the Demon King’s heart.

After a long time, it was swung again for the Demon King.

The split wave of blood and flesh was cleanly shattered and fragmented into fine powder.

The fragments of the wave, split along the trajectories of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions, crumbled away like the song of a tree spirit scattering under the moonlight.

Seeing that, Oriana smiled brightly and looked at Alice.

“Alice, did I do well?”

“….”

“…Y, you were nice, you know! Miss Oriana!”

“……Ah, um.”

Fira raised her thumb and cheered, but Alice couldn’t say anything.

It wasn’t because she was embarrassed or scared.

It was because Oriana was making the same face as a puppy that had brought back a bone that had been thrown far away.

“…Yeah, you did well.”

Still, she had no choice but to say she did well.