Chapter 175

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Next, I lifted my finger and drew a line.

“Vanquish of Evil”

The trajectory that I created in the air was immediately transferred to the canvas of my vision and tore apart the souls of the demons.

As the number of demons dwindled, Anaxia was revealed in the center of the enemy lines.

“Not bad, Vanquisher of Evil!”

She called me by the same title Carpeios used. Perhaps that is my moniker in the demon world.

Anaxia stamped the floor, holding a chain with a sharp iron point in each hand and six floating mirrors followed close behind her like escorts.

She approached at high speed and leaped high into the air in front of the steps of the platform.

Dozens of chains shot toward me from her mirrors.

“Get off my throne!”

But right then.

“Your opponent is me.”

“......!”

Thesilid was now close to Anaxia’s right side.

He struck Anaxia horizontally in midair.

Bang!

Anaxia’s body veered in a completely different direction, making you wonder if her trajectory had defied the laws of physics.

Instead of flying toward me, her body flew to the left and landed in the wall. Cracks spread through the four-story throne room wall.

Butsu.

When a silhouette, along with the stone fragments, slipped to the floor.

Shwuuiii!

Some of the chains that tried to attack me but failed turned towards Thesilid, but he cut them all down with his holy sword.

Anaxia walked out through the dust and opened her mouth.

“Ok, fine.”

“......”

“Silver hair. I will start with you. I will rip you into pieces and display them in front of the Vanquisher!”

Thesilid brilliantly succeeded in provoking her.

“Wait a bit, Eli.”

As if he wanted to make Anaxia’s interest more persistent, he urged me to wait.

<Let him do his own thing for now.>

Thesillid used the edge of the throne room, which I swept away with ‘Divine Punishment’, as his battlefield.

His legs quickly hit the floor along the wall.

Anaxia’s chains shot out fiercely, narrowly missing his body and becoming embedded in the floor and walls.

“Are you just going to run away?”

There were countless chains.

As time passed, they came closer and closer to brushing against Thesilid’s heels.

He wasn’t satisfied with just running against the wall, so he started running along the wall.

Thesillid ran up on the 4-story wall, gaining altitude as he went.

At one point, Anaxia got fed up.

“I’ll pierce you open.”

She swung the chain weapons in both hands in quick succession. The hardened ends of the chains rushed toward Thesilid.

Kwadudududu!

The chain sliced through the air and embedded itself deeply into the wall by a narrow difference.

The power of this attack was nothing compared to the chains that poured out of the mirror.

Soon, huge cracks appeared all over the wall, revealing an abyss-like darkness.

“If I get a direct hit, this body won’t be able to withstand it.”

These were the words of Thesilid, who was hanging near the ceiling.

He was bleeding from his left shoulder and right thigh, as if slightly grazed by the chains.

When I stretched out one hand, his injuries were completely healed in no time.

Anaxia did not look towards me.

Then, with a relieved look on his face, Thesilid jumped straight away.

The place where he landed was on a chain that Anaxia had not yet retrieved and had been nailed to the wall.

“Don’t be discouraged. It would have been the same if any of us had tried because there is no Aura Master.”

The problem is the chains that move freely, like individual entities, giving extensive cover to Anaxia.

Dealing with her now would be like fighting against an Aura Master such as Eleon O’Drek or greater.

I surveyed the battlefield.

Our allies were steadily reducing the number of slave vassals. If we hold out just a little longer, we will be able to take care of those troublesome chains with their cover.

Until then, I’ll have to provide cover.

“Let’s give it a try, Terry.”

“Okay.”

Thesilid stood before me.

Anaxia’s eyes narrowed slightly as she recognized the role assignment.

“Are you putting a weaker man ahead of you? You’re more cunning than you look.”

“Don’t give me demonic praises. This is a tactical necessity.”

“It’s a shame you aren’t using him as a meat shield. As expected, a demon shouldn’t lose to a human in cunning.”

Anaxia said as if she was going to show something and two of the six mirrors floating behind her reflected human figures.

The two people were roughly dragged out of the mirror, each wrapped and dangling by chains.

“Agh!”

“Kgh!”

A young man and woman with platinum hair.

It was Frintz who confirmed their identities.

“Your Highness the Princess, Your Highness the Prince!”

The royal family of Vinchester looked fine as if they had not been treated particularly harshly.

Everyone on our team tensed as the situation unfolded.

It was unlikely that Anaxia had brought the royals out just to show us that the hostages were safe out of pure goodwill.

Looking back and forth between the princess and the prince, she declared.

“There is no need for two hostages......”

Charuru!

“Ahh!”

The chain held in Anaxia’s right hand wrapped around Princess Celestide’s body and just like that, Anaxia took a stance as if she was going to slam the chain against the wall.

“I’ll give you one back!”

“Aaaahhh......!”

Celestide’s body, hanging from her chains, was flung into the middle of a four-story high wall.

“Your Highness!”

“No!”

Frintz and Raywin’s screamed in shock.

Princess Celestide was a perfectly ordinary person who had never mastered one of the three great powers. If she crashes, she will die instantly.

<Ellet!>

My body was already moving when Agnes called.

Kuaaaang!

“......!”

My body took the impact that Celesteed should have received.

A sharp pain shot through my back as I was violently pinned against the wall, but not even a groan escaped me.

“Sister!”

“Eli!”

“Ellet!”

I wanted to make sure that Princess Celestide, whom I held in my arms, was okay. But there was no time for that.

“Yes, that’s how you should behave.”

The chains of Anaxia that tied Celestide tensed up and gained strength. The next moment, the chain pinned us against the wall and started dragging us.

Kwadududududu!

“......!”

I wrapped my arms around Celestide and endured the grinding on my back. Although the pain was so intense that it took my breath away, healing was focused more on Celestide than me.

She was an ordinary person, and just from the amount of impact being inflicted now her bones might be on the verge of shattering into pieces.

<Ellet, you won’t last long!>

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