Chapter 1066 – #253_술래잡기(3) – DeepL
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1.
In magical combat, headcount is as important as hierarchy.
You don’t have to think hard about it.
It’s not just one attack, but two or more attacks at the same time.
You have to pay attention to more than just the person in front of you.
Instead of following the “turn concept” of alternating attacks, you may find yourself in a situation where you’re forced to defend.
The lack of an absolute sum of horsepower.
All of these factors put the odds stacked against the minority.
Therefore, Xiu has been attacking the Lehar Group’s “team” in a way that reduces their numbers through surprise before the hunt.
Under such circumstances, this time the enemy is a 20th ranked Archdemoness and seventeen 17th, 18th, and 19th ranked witches.
Even worse, this time, they’re not ambushed, but rather trapped.
Even if she manages to survive by some miracle, some of the witches will tell Hexenacht that the attacker is Cynthia.
If that happens, Lydia will no longer have any reason to pursue Xiu alone.
“Exclusive” would be meaningless.
The misguided Rehar group will also turn to kill Xiu again.
But Xiu is always mindful.
His opponents are not NPCs.
He never knew when or how they would move, so he was prepared.
An ally who had been “literally” hiding under the water all this time, supporting Xiu.
Dorothy’s nephew.
A qualified candidate for the Vendetta.
Lerue Nukelabi, who specialized in wide-area magic, dealing with one to many.
“Go deep.”
A low voice, clearly audible to all.
The tone was the proclamation of a solemn queen, the wrath of a sea mother who, after shedding tears of grief over the loss of a dear friend, has set a day of wrath.
-Duung
“What, what?”
“What is it?”
Waves of black magic power spread out, resonating with a deep sound.
At the same time, chaos spread among the heroes.
-Boom!
This was because the peculiar wave of magic power was so dull that it was more like a giant homunculus than an ordinary witch.
“What was that?”
The water drains away.
With only the flares to guide them, the black surface of the sea was sucked away to reveal a wet sandy bottom.
-Whoo!!!
A tremendous storm arose.
A wind strong enough to blow a full-grown man lightly into the sky is not, in itself, magical.
-CuaguaGuaguaGuagua!!!
A massive tidal wave, wide enough to cover the entire beach and rising to heights of hundreds of meters, pushes the atmosphere away.
It may not seem like much for a witch of the High Witch or less, but the witches gathered here are capable of deflecting any natural disaster with their bare hands.
But an overwhelming natural disaster, one that would make even such a witch tremble with fear, rushes through the space.
“Run!”
“Run from what! Stop it! Get here!”
The leader of the hastily organized horde, the Radiant Witch, gritted her teeth and drew on her magic power.
She stretched her hands out to either side of her, gathering the clusters of light.
As if winding a thread, the radiance drawn into her hands was manipulated and shaped.
A translucent barrier of light enveloped the witches around her, including the Radiant Witch.
“Gather around me!”
Not out of camaraderie.
They’ve only worked together occasionally in the past.
It’s just an understanding.
This is a public gathering.
They’re going to scatter like spiderlings the moment their colors are darkened, so I have to do something to stop them from making a mess.
“Light!”
As Barrier was swallowed up by the gaping tidal wave, the Radiance Witch felt a jolt through her body.
Is this what it feels like to hold an umbrella under a waterfall and catch water?
It’s not just seawater.
Nor is it a simple tidal wave.
There was a strange wave within it, penetrating the barrier and shocking the spiritual body.
Even with my three layers of light shields, if I were to be hit by something like this with my bare body, I would be shattered.
Only a few seconds passed before the tidal wave passed.
But after struggling for what seemed like an eternity, the Radiant Witch barely managed to lift her shattered back.
It was over.
She held on.
“It’s only two enemies, it’s just more loot!”
“Ha, but that spell you just cast was….”
“How many times do you think you can use that stupid magic? We held out, so we have the advantage!”
The Radiant Witch shouted, poisoning the witches around her.
With that single word, all the witches came to their senses.
Although they were at the level of the Tang army, each and every one of them were experienced warriors.
They grasped the situation in an instant and devised the same plan without a word.
A vacuum is created.
The men in armor overpower the witch with their numerical superiority and subdue her collaborators.
“Huh?”
“But where did he go?”
But there’s no sign of him anywhere.
Did he get swept away with the wave earlier?
“Evil men who harmed Jim’s friend.
What they find instead is a night sky that has been cleared of rain clouds by a major atmospheric shift.
The witch floated, arms crossed, her back to the moon.
“Atone with death. It is the last mercy of the burden.”
“What the fuck are you talking about? Fuck him first!”
If I don’t see a male witch, I’ll eliminate her first, because she’s probably a collaborator.
With that in mind, the witches, each preparing their own spells, gulped in unison.
They had noticed.
The horizon was jagged for some reason.
They realized it was caused by dozens and dozens of tidal waves rolling in.
They realized that the witch who wielded such great magic as a plain blow still had power to spare.
That the witch standing so arrogantly over there is the Witch of the Deep.
“…Crazy, crazy…. That’s….”
-Koo-koo-koo-koo-koo!!!
Everyone was speechless.
The magic power they had been saving for magic was scattered.
Like humans facing an irresistible catastrophe, they stare dumbfoundedly at the tidal wave that quickly becomes the ‘background’.
And.
I began to flee, not knowing who to call first.
2.
All those formulas I mentioned earlier.
The difference in numbers is so easily reversed by Leroux.
A wide-area magic that can attack multiple people at the same time with a single spell.
An enormous magic reserve, more like a giant homunculus than a witch, for a witch with such a wide area.
A geographical advantage that allows her to use her enormous range spell as a flat hit.
Lelouch’s power is real, even if her inexperience makes her a bit clumsy.
As such, what happened next felt more like a disaster movie than a battle scene.
“Kaaaaaaaah!”
After dodging and weaving, one of the dukes is finally swallowed up by a tidal wave.
That’s not just a “wave” at all.
It’s more like a mace wielded using wave myriad techniques.
What’s more, the immense power contained within disrupts magic casting before it even touches the wave.
There is no self-defense against such power.
The witch would be crushed by millions of tons of mass, leaving no more shape than a mere mortal and adding a little blood to the sea.
“Now! Run!”
The Radiant Witch quickly picked out the most useful witches and was running towards Leroux.
Realizing that she couldn’t survive by simply running away, she occasionally tried to attack with beams of murderous radiance.
-Chew!
But the truly terrifying thing about the Demonic Waves was that all the magic was coordinated.
All Leroux has to do is look away, and the wave rises up like a giant wall, engulfing a ray of light that pierces the darkness.
In fact, Leroux hasn’t moved an inch in the air since the fight began.
The Radiant Witch and her impromptu teammates could only dodge wave after wave, closing the gap at best.
“Holy shit…!”
You might say.
This is a boss who fires an infinite number of instant death broadswords every three seconds if you don’t dodge.
“No, no, no, no, no, no…!”
While Leroux was spelling disaster for his enemies, Xiu’s role was simple.
He pierced the witch with his red spear as she ran with her back to him.
He chased down the fleeing soldiers and slaughtered them.
Seven swept away by the waves.
Five pierced by Xiu’s spear.
All that remains is the Radiant Witch and the exploits of five.
“Ah.”
At that moment, something unexpected happened.
The Radiant Witch stumbled through the barrier of waves and stood in front of Leroy.
“At this distance, you can’t be so stupid, can you?”
The waves of the sea are a broadsword.
Leroux had caught her off guard, casting it while avoiding her immediate surroundings.
Unexpectedly, Xiu felt a cold chill run down his spine, and he slammed into the space.
“Xiu. Don’t come. This is Jim’s fight.”
With a wave of his hand, Leroux disengaged his arm and stood in front of the Radiant Witch.
The self-proclaimed Queen of the Sea is not there, bickering with her twin.
The grief of losing her family has changed her a bit.
“I would have granted you death, but you’re the one who’s suffering.”
The arrogant tone didn’t deter the Radiant Witch.
If she could give him a good beating here, she wouldn’t mind escaping through the cracks.
The Radiant Witch cursed, drawing on every ounce of her remaining magic.
It was something along the lines of, “I didn’t come from nothing!
“………………!!!!”
As soon as he spoke, he realized.
I couldn’t hear myself.
Or, more accurately, only a muffled sound, like gurgling underwater.
The Radiant Witch looked around.
Like a prisoner tossed with a pendulum around her ankles.
She was slowly sinking in the middle of a dark ocean.
The temperature and pressure of the water was bone-chilling.
And the fading light.
Only the darkness beneath her feet stood with its jaws wide open, ready to devour her.
“……whoosh!!! …whoosh…!”
The Radiant Witch struggled and tried to rise to the surface.
But all she could do was sink endlessly.
All she could see was a distant glimmer on the surface of the water, and the Witch of the Deep watching her impassively.
“The burden has commanded, sink deep.”
