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One day, when I first encountered an intermediate demon.

And the day the witch was first summoned to Gray.

A witch once said this in anger when faced with the Abomination, a gigantic, hideous undead giant created from the merging of several corpses that appeared to belong to the Baronial Territory’s inhabitants.

[If you filthy things are going to learn by stealing, you should have learned it properly. How dare you use Walpurgis’ secret arts so sloppily!]

Only the gods know the inside story of how Walpurgis’s magic flowed into the demon race.

However, what is certain is that the unique and bizarre magic of the Demon Race, which would be difficult for ordinary beings to deal with, is nothing more than a poor imitation in front of the witch.

The top-class demon, Iuwart, spoke as if she knew about the trap magic the witch had prepared, but what she knew was only a part.

Because if I had truly known about this unique and vicious anti-demon magic called Assígno, I would have done everything in my power to fly out of the trap before I could even wonder.

Even if I die in the process. No, death would have been a much better outcome.

To be honest, I had no idea what kind of trap magic the witch had prepared.

To begin with, magic wasn’t my specialty, and even if I had learned magic, the secret arts used by the original witches called Walpurgis were a unique and secret system that even witches of the same sect wouldn’t notice until the results appeared.

Our humble witch is not trying to brag when she says ‘Walpurgis’s secret art’ at the end of every sentence.

However, the moment the top-level demon named Iwwart told her the true nature of the magic the witch had manifested, and the witch admitted that the ‘Sylenda’ magic she had prepared, that is, the secret trap, was Asigno, the Card Master’s power made him realize what it was and what kind of magic it was.

Assígno.

Most of what the Walpurgis Witches did was ‘research’ and ‘training’.

An intense desire for truth. A quest for the deepest secrets that make up the world.

Such a desire to explore sometimes summoned things that should not exist in that dimension. Representative examples include evil spirits, demons, and demons. Whenever this happened, the witch, exhausted from summoning them, was unable to deal with them, and the damage was considerable.

So the witches put their heads together. The witches, who were already eccentric and had multi-dimensional mental worlds, gathered together and focused on ‘preparation’, and a unique trap magic that could not be described even with the word ‘strange’ was developed.

That was the ‘genuine’ Agsino that the witch had just manifested. Not the ‘fake’ one that the demons knew of.

Wicked beings who were mistakenly summoned during experiments and research against the will of the Walpurgis Witch.

A magic that is automatically activated when they enter the trap’s range.

The time it takes for the magic to manifest and be completed is at most about 10 seconds.

Depending on the level of the Walpurgis Witch who manifested the magic, it could be completed in less than a second.

If you are unable to escape the range within that short time and become trapped by the magic, you will suffer until you die, unless you are a true Demon King.

First, Asigno’s first step is to compress the trapped being with great force.

And the power of the evil beings captured within it is ‘forcibly’ and ‘ignorantly’ extracted. The pain suffered by the enemies caught in the trap in the process is indescribable.

The first Asigno magic ended here.

However, after going through several modifications, Asigno, which can only manifest in beings of Circle 8 or higher, has become a vicious magic that even entangles the soul, causing it to suffer by carving out the soul, and eventually making it difficult to rest even after death, causing suffering until the soul turns to dust and disappears.

The energy stolen in the process, an unknown power similar to divine power, was also used as a driving force for the witch’s research, so wasn’t it killing two birds with one stone?

In some ways, it is extremely vicious, but it is a powerful weapon for humanity in that it cannot be trapped or sealed if the target is a normal being – a being that uses the four great divine powers or is not corrupted even if it does not use any divine powers.

The activation conditions are also strict, and the various restrictions, including the trap magic conditions, require a very high level of witch, but once you are thoroughly prepared, you can restrain any ‘corrupted being’ except for the Demon King.

This great magic, which was also a self-help measure for witches, was ‘ironically’ turned into the hands of human magicians, not witches.

Except for the Walpurgis Witch, the wizards who were exploring the traces of magic that could not be fully understood were only focused on the aspect of ‘stealing power from an otherworldly being with great power!’

As a result, some of this magic was corrupted by humans and became the black magic contract magic circle that black magicians use to make contracts with demons.

―Anything in nature becomes a tool of slaughter the moment it touches human hands.

Perhaps what a wise man once said is true.

Anyway, this was Asigno’s terrifying magic.

Of course, the end of Iwart, who was absent-minded and didn’t know anything properly, was obvious.

Moreover, if you are at the level of a witch, the time it takes to complete magic is only a short time, less than a second.

The attempt to trap the top-tier demon Iwwart into a trap magic was so futilely successful.

The reason I waited for Iwwart to unleash his power while scratching at his insides was because of the Arcana, especially the Witch’s suggestion.

While the Clown and Punisher were chasing the highest level demons, they informed the Arcanas who were nearby that the powers of Iwart, who had been granted the power of the Divine Eye and the ‘Eye that Look Down on the Stars’, were all command-type demons.

It’s not that I mean it with any particular meaning, but rather that I hope you catch it because it’ll be a headache if you miss it.

The witch and May, hearing my trivial wish, seemed to remember something and simultaneously exclaimed in admiration. They locked eyes with each other and then muttered for a moment.

That time wasn’t very long. The two of them only exchanged three or four words.

The reason why May summoned the Gap-In Shinjang (甲寅神將) among the twelve Shinjang is also

The reason why the tiger kidney, who has a fierce spirit and loves fighting, did not attack the highest level demon, but instead summoned a prison called ‘Cheonrye (Heavenly Lightning)’ and waited,

The reason I watched even though I could clearly see that Ewart was gathering strength was also

It was all for this.

If you run and kill them every time an intermediate or advanced level appears, it’s no different from catching a cockroach.

… … That was the explanation and plan of our clever witch and cute May.

Of course, there was an unexpected incident that caused the Continentalers to ‘go crazy’ for a moment in the middle, but in the end, the witch succeeded in driving the demons into her own trap, ‘Asigno’.

Of course, the witch Mayna must have been confident. However, from my perspective, my heart was pounding and I thought I was going to die from the pain, but in the end, I confirmed that it happened as I wanted.

“As expected! Everything tastes good when fried, everything is scary when it pops out, and hunting is like a drive!”

The words just come out naturally!

It was so thrilling and fulfilling that it made me wonder if that’s why strategists and schemers are so passionate about deceiving others.

―… Huh!

“Then why did you pretend to know and just lie there? If you didn’t like it, you should have run away.”

―Ugh!! You… … Uh… … !

The trap is now visible to the naked eye as it gradually shrinks in size. The net, which was as big as a dozen carriages attached to each other, slowly shrinks in size and gathers on the highest-level demons.

Those who had come out as the guards were no longer lying face down, but were lying down as if they were stuck to the ground. Meanwhile, several of the demons on the outskirts were getting caught in the shrinking net and their bodies were being compressed.

That’s not all.

Walpurgis’ Germanic magic, Assígno, is in the shape of a hemisphere.

Just a moment ago, right before the trap was completed, the reason why the top-class demon Iwwart was staring into the air was because of that. The magic of the Walpurgis Witch, which is both magic and somewhat similar to sorcery.

What about the hemisphere?

The volume is the cube of the radius, and the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume. Mana, which is invisible to the eye, is also close to gas.

That is, as the area gradually decreases, the hemisphere also gets smaller, and as a result, the pressure pressing down from above increases exponentially.

-Ugh!! Ouch… … Aaaah!!!

A pressure that makes it impossible to even scream properly. The only way to overcome this pressure is to break it all at once with a force three or four times stronger than the magical pressing force.

That’s why I said that even the Demon King could do it. Of course, if the Demon King breaks this, he’ll be exhausted and have to run away.

At some point, there was no scream from Iwwart, and it became quiet. The superhumans watching had faces full of curiosity, and the citizens watching from afar were just surprised.

“Hmm… … . Are you a witch? This is… … , no, no.”

I wanted to ask, why can’t we compress the trap quickly?

How long do I have to wait like this?

Because things were going so well, I suddenly had an ominous thought that the top-level demon might escape at any moment using some method.

But I didn’t do anything stupid like saying that out loud.

It is not for nothing that they say that words have power. The proverb that says words become seeds is also true.

I suppressed the ominous thoughts that came to mind for no reason and watched the trap slowly shrinking.

The trap had now shrunk to the size of an adult’s arms, and the top-tier demon inside the trap was as if it had lost consciousness, not groaning or moving at all. It was as if it was dead.

‘The end… is this me?’

Now, instead of both arms, the trap had shrunk to about the size of an adult’s arm, and the body of the highest-level demon was dyeing the trap black like roughly crumpled clothes.

-Do you think you won?

That was when.

Just when I was about to let my guard down, the voice of the highest-level demon girl was heard, as if she had been waiting for that moment.