CH 99

Editor: Sky, Summerstood,

An uncountable number of Fake Angels was attacking Belfeene all at once. 

“Wha, what the hell is thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis?!” 

Belfeene is a Demon Duke. Even the Fake Angels, who were a considerable distance away, immediately reacted to her enormous magical power, which was vastly different in nature from the Heavenly Realm. Like moths attracted by light, they gathered around her one after the other.

Belfeene, who was surrounded in the blink of an eye, was showered in a barrage of Heavenly Power Laser beams.

However,

“Don’t underestimate me!”

As expected from an Archdemon.

After she easily defended against the Heavenly Power attack with a magic wall, she immediately counterattacked.

“――”Corrosion Hurricane””

Suddenly, an ominous, stagnant wind arose.

Belfeene

Race: Demon

Level: 114

Skill: 〈 Corrosion ・Extreme〉

The strongest ability she has is the skill called 〈Corrosion ・Extreme〉.

As the name implies, it’s a power that enables one to rot away and ruin any possible thing. 

“That’s what one calls a real Fujoshi (rotten girl), huh” 

“No, I’m not!?”

Even if her opponents are Fake Angels protected by Heavenly Power, they aren’t an exception.

The moment the wind came in contact with them, the Fake Angels’ pure white body turned black and they crumbled into pieces.

“Ahahahahah! They are 1000 years too early to pose a challenge to this Demon Duke, Belfeene-sama!?” 

However, Belfeene was confronted with an overwhelming number of Fake Angels.

Using their comrades’ bodies who already got afflicted by the wind of corrosion as shields, they commenced their attack to eliminate the Archdemon.

“Guruaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

“There’s something big coming up thooooooough!?”

Even a heavenly beast appeared, drawn in by her demonic magical power.

Meanwhile, while she was struggling like that.

I and Gabriena approached the Heavenly Prison from the opposite side.

Normally the Fake Angels would have attacked us because we didn’t take the official route, but they were now completely distracted by Belfeene and didn’t come to this place.

The first stage of the diversion strategy seemed to go well.

Before long we arrived before the huge gate, the only entrance to the Heavenly Prison.

However, the gate was shut tight.

“……If I used my whole power…… I could surely destroy it…….”

“Like I said, why do you always want to use such forceful methods?”

I grabbed the nape of Gabriena, who seemed to want to charge at the gate at any moment, and stopped her.

“Wait a minute. It should open on its own soon” 

“…….?”

Just when I thought that I heard a creaking sound echoing through the area, I saw the gigantic gate starting to open slowly.

It is as I expected.

Armed Angels emerged from inside of it. 

They should be about 20 to 30 in total, I think?

They weren’t Fake Angels, they were real ones.

All of them far surpassed the Fake Angels in Heavenly Power.

“A Demon Duke just appeared and is running rampant. Of course, they wouldn’t just leave it to the Fake Angels and send out a troop to repel her.”

And since this gate is the only entryway, they can only open it temporarily.

“I see……amazing…….”

Together with the surprised Gabriena, I sneak past the Angels.

And like that, we accomplished to brazenly break into the Heavenly Prison through its open gate.

――Heavenly Prison, first floor

Each floor of the Heavenly Prison was in the shape of a beautiful circle, but the first floor was divided into two large parts.

The inner circular part and the outer ring-shaped part that covers its surrounding.

In the inner parts, there are cages for locking in Fallen Angels and facilities to impose severe penal labour upon them.

And the outer ring-shaped part is a huge labyrinth to prevent them from escaping.

After we successfully broke into the Heavenly Prison through the gate we stood in exactly that labyrinth.

It seems like the staircase leading to the lowest layer Lucifer is on is right in the centre of the circle.

Thus, we have to pass through this labyrinth.

“……There are mountains of traps…….It’s very dangerous……”

As Gabriena quietly said, there were a huge amount of traps inside the labyrinth, so many that it seemed like harassment. 

There was nothing but lethal and atrocious traps, even for Fallen Angels.

As they serve to prevent criminals from escaping, this might be a matter of course.

However, I have the skill 〈Detection・Extreme〉.

Some of them have pretty high levels of concealment, but I can clearly see where the trap is and what kind it is.

“……Is it fine……to walk that quickly……?” 

Gabriena was wide-eyed, seeing me advancing without hesitation. 

Most of the traps were made with Heavenly Power.

It seems like she, who is a seraph, is able to detect the traps to some extent by reading the Heavenly Power, but looks like it’s not perfect.

Occasionally, I’d see angels, who seemed to be fallen angels that got caught in a trap and die horrible deaths. 

I recognized them immediately because Fallen Angels have black wings.

Incidentally, their wings don’t just turn black on their own when they fall.

Without exception, the angels contained in the Heavenly Prison were recognized as Fallen Angels and at the same time, they forcibly dyed their wings black.

It seems like it’s considerably humiliating for angels, who take great pride in their pure white wings, to have them dyed pitch black.

“Did they also let that thing loose in here?”

A gigantic beast appeared from a side path.

It’s a Heavenly beast, right?

It looked like a huge sabre-toothed tiger.

However, as proof that it’s a Heavenly Beast, it had pure white wings on its back similar to angels.

As soon as the Heavenly Beast saw me it immediately leapt at me.

“Guruaaaaaaaah!”

Die.

“――!?”

The Heavenly Beast died in a single instant and fell to the ground.

“What did you do just now……?”

“I thought “Die” inside my head”

“……?”

To cause their opponent to die if one were to attack them with a certain probability, that’s the skill called 〈Instant Death Attack〉.

However 〈Instant Death Attack・Extreme〉 which I have has the effect that I just had to have the will to attack for it to work, I don’t actually have to launch an attack. Besides if the opponent is of lower rank then they will die with certainty.

By the way, it’s pretty much similar to cursing them to death with my 〈Curse Art・Extreme〉 skill.

However, because the Heavenly Power which the Heavenly Beast holds is strong against curses, it might not have caused it to instantly die.

“If something that huge were to run rampant they might activate a trap, after all”

As such, we steadily advanced through the complicated maze while avoiding traps and Heavenly Beasts.

Before long we overcame the labyrinth part and reached the part that contained the Fallen Angels.

However, Lucifer wasn’t there.

Slipping past the prison guards on patrol, we headed for the staircase that led to the lower layers.

It seems like the heavier the Fallen Angel’s crime was the lower the layer they would be contained in was.

So the Fallen Angels with light crimes were on the first floor.

After their penal labour period is over and they are confirmed to have properly rehabilitated they are released.

However, it is said that from the first basement level onwards there are next to no possibilities for acquittal. 

Execution is no longer a decision that has to be made, the rest depends on how severe their method of execution is and on which floor they are being held.

And Lucifer was held on the lowest floor.

We reached the stairs leading to the lower layers.

It was a considerably long spiral staircase and one couldn’t even see the bottom of it if one were to peer down, that’s how dark it was.

It completely looked as if it were leading to hell.

“Anyway, we can get to the basement levels with these, right?”

“……Be careful…… That’s where the real Heavenly Prison starts……”