Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken novel Chapter 183
Sitting cross-legged, Moss had secured a position in the air overlooking the battle from above.
His size was smaller than usual, it looked like a child around that age of 10.
He achieved this by activating his Unique Skill Collector.
Its capability was highly versatile, and had practical application in almost every scenario.
It was often used to create miniscule clones of himself to spread calamity everywhere, its primary being the reaping of life......
This time though, he stopped at only using it to monitor the situation within each individual Airship
However......
(Good grief, looks like the strong ones are all concentrated at the flagship......
How boring.
If it's like this, there isn't a single person we(I) can fight.
What's this? It appears my fellow Demon Nobles are in a challenging fight...... how enviable.
However, that Kondo's quite a bigshot.
To make Carrera-sama get serious, and yet still fighting on par with her......)
He monitored every ongoing battle, recording them without negligence.
After all, what he was collecting was intelligence.
At the same time, he hadn't forgotten to transfer the collected intelligence over to Diablo.
Though he hadn't noticed that Diablo, acting as a relay point, was further sending that information to a certain someone.......
Zonda who was nearby a while ago, spectating the battle of their Demon Lord Rimuru, was informed of their colleague Veyron's struggle, and headed off to support him.
Witnessing Demon Lord Rimuru-sama's overwhelmingly powerful attack the "Veldora Sword" had left him brimming with excitement, and seemed to have awakened something in him, but it was likely a good thing to be of use to Veyron.
As he was thinking such things,
(Kufufufufu. Moss, we're progressing smoothly. What's the situation with the "Rat"?
The message came from Diablo.
(No problems here.
It looks like it has been moving around several ships heading for their transfer devices, but it has failed to teleport outside.
Thanks to the Spatial Interference Barrier set up by the Greater Demons, teleportation is being successfully prevented.
Looks like Cien has done quite a fine job)
(All right. Having it darting around is quite a pain.
Anyways, he'll probably appear on the flagship reeled in by the bait(Emperor).
It appears several escape methods were thought out, but it's all pointless.
Kufufufufu. Destroy everything other than the flagship)
(Roger that. Now then, my clones shall)
(Wait. After hearing those words of insult towards Rimuru-sama, your boss seems to be raging.
I think it's better if we left this to Testa. This would probably help her vent out some anger.)
(What?! Didn't you hear what I just said about the Emperor?
Before the "Rat" takes the bait(Emperor) we can't have the it killed.)
(Well, it'll probably be alright.
It's impossible for Testa to destroy that "Castle Guard".
However, I fear this may cause interference with surveillance of the "Rat".
Please somehow calm her down, and help her regain her reason.)
(Wha? You mean me? What the heck, just unreasonable !!)
(Yes I mean you! Kufufufu. I'm leaving this to you then!)
(Ah, he hung up.
No matter how you look at it, it seems Diablo-sama's no good at handling Testarossa-sama......)
Thinking so at the back of his mind, Moss let out a big sigh.
Calm yet cruel.
Even so, he was still lenient towards the other Devil Lords.
However, towards Moss' master Testarossa, he seemed to actually act carefully.
Well, there isn't any reason in particular, maybe it's just Moss' imagination.
Changing his trail of thought with a "Good grief.", Moss contacted Testarossa.
He requested her to destroy all other Airships apart from the flagship.
(Leave it to me. Let's teach them what happens when they dare insult Rimuru-sama!)
Feeling the surge of her anger, Moss' face stiffened.
Wouldn't the "Rat" be accidentally grilled as well? He was worried for an instant, but even if that did happen, there were no problems.
He judged so, and began retrieving his clones.
Apart from a small number left at the transfer devices of each vessel, all the other clones were retrieved successfully.
At the same time, the battle on the decks had begun to reach their conclusions.
Zonda who had cheerfully headed off to offer his support, had helped Veyron by utilizing his ability to transform himself into a weapon.
(Right, as expected.)
Accepting the victory of his colleagues as the natural order of things, he returned to his own role of observing the "Rat".
Incidentally, the remaining small amount of clones were ordered to continually obstruct the Mages on board the ships to interfere with their Defence Magic.
There was probably no need for that, but weakening the multi-layered barriers even a bit would act as support for Testarossa.
Immediately after, the sound of a large explosion resounded. Around half of the remaining airships around the flagship around 60 of themhad been raptured by a dragon of fire. (TN: ç®é¾ means it's a dragon composed of fire rather than an actual fire dragon, so fire dragon may cause some confusion, especially with a certain Scorch Dragon around...)
This was due to the exceedingly high temperature of the wide area magic"Chain Prominence".
The Airships whose defenses were weakened due to Moss's interference couldn't possibly resist, and were all burned to nothingness by the grand spell.
Thus, excluding the 200 captured airships, only the flagship, which carried the Emperor, was left in the air.
Moss had probed into the whereabouts of the "Rat", confirming that it had transferred aboard the flagship.
At the same time, the teleportation magic formations of the captured Airships had all been erased by his clones.
All as per instructed.
As such, the battle plan had moved on to its final phase.
Ultima was purely enjoying her battle with Damrada.
Their strengths rivaling each other, a victor couldn't be easily determined.
Or so it seemed at first but......
When it came to using magic, as a demon, she had complete mastery, enabling her to use it as she pleased.
However, when it came to acquired ability, in terms of proficiency, she lagged behind Damrada by several steps.
The quality of their mana was different, but when it came to the quantity of Energy, she should have had the overwhelming advantage.
And yet that Damrada, by focusing his attacks onto a single point, he had managed to offset all of Ultima's attacks.
That being the case, a multi-pronged attack was attempted, but then multiple simultaneous attacks, all with equal strength was initiated in retaliation, and Alternative had activated on all of them, offsetting the attacks once more.
His mastery was splendid, the very definition of model usage.
However, Damrada was aware of the fact he had been backed into a corner.
Unwilling to show off his hand, every time he played a card, he clearly felt Ultima taking it in, and growing stronger.
(This is bad. At this rate I'll definitely be defeated.)
That was the harsh reality.
From a third party's point of view, they'd probably think their abilities are evenly matched.
However, as it was currently balanced, as one side continued to grow, the scales would begin to tilt.
and then,
Aha, I'm starting to get it now! (TN: Your daily reminder that Ultima's a bokuko/tomboy.)
Happily cried Ultima as 6 pairs of12 individualpitch black wings spread out, and simultaneously commenced their attacks towards Damrada.
An attack via the wings.
It, unlike the unstable Black Flame Whip up until now, it was a severe attack with refined strength.
Damrada mustered his strength, and focused on subverting the attack.
Did it! And after he felt relief for an instant,
Poison Lunge Fist!
The young lady (Ultima) had pierced through Damrada's Abdomen.
Her wrist clad in magic, the Ultimate Skill Poison King Samael was focused on the purple claws at her five fingers as it activated.
Its strength easily broke through Damrada's defenses, giving her the grasp of victory.
Ughf!
Damrada started vomiting blood, and collapsed on the spot.
However, still mustering his willpower,
You idiot, that wasn't a lunge fist. It was a spear hand......
But, the strike was flawless......well done......
It could be called "Bloody Bite (Crimson Serpent's Venomous Claws)" perhaps......(EN: Look at this guy. Spouting off chuuni attack name on his death bed.)
And saying that much, he collapsed.
Looking up towards the sky, he looked back at his entire life, and made a bitter smile with a hint of regret.
Your Majesty
Damrada, this time may be my last.
I am more than tired.
Suppressing Justice King Michael from going out of control has its limits.
When you think about this thoroughly, absolute "Justice" isn't all that different from "evil".
a justice that everyone acknowledges doesn't exist after all......
Therefore, while I'm still myself I command you.
Seek out he who can defeat meï¼ï¼
If I lose this battle against Guy, There probably wouldn't be anyone left with the ability to suppress the berserking Justice King Michael.
It pains me to ask you for this favor.
It's vexing to be unable to keep my promise with "Stellar Dragon King" Veldanava but......
That's something I'll go apologize to him about on the other side.
This is an imperial order.
Find someone who can defeat me, and destroy Justice King Michael!!
My sincere apologies.
I was unable to fulfill your imperial order......
Regret.
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