Act 1: Chapter 30: A Certain Immortal's Slump (Side : Lunaire)

Act 1: Chapter 30: A Certain Immortal's Slump (Side : Lunaire)

――Around the same time as when Kanata was led by Satan to the transfer magic circle that will send him out of 《Cocytus》, in a certain place within the UG 90th floor of 《Cocytus》...

Lunaire was exploring the 90th floor.Ñøv€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

《Cocytus》was a place where a demon or item that has never appeared before suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

According to the story that was handed down by the devil, this place was a place where the gods dumped items or demons that were beyond their control. But there was no evidence to support that theory.

But one thing was true for the humans who visited this place because of such an absurd theory, 《Cocytus》 was the den of wicked beings.

It was by no means a safe living place for humans.

But then, this 《Cocytus》 was also nothing more than a place to stroll around for Lunaire, who has been living in this place for thousand years.

She would never get bored of a place in which new items or unknown demons appeared on a daily basis.

Lunaire’s hobby, aside from magic training, was strolling around this area.

No matter what kind of demon popped out, Lunaire wouldn’t lose to them.

If one were to ask for the reason, it was simply because she could one-sidedly beat the crap out of Satan, the strongest devil in Rookroa, who was tasked by the gods to guard the final floor of 《Cocytus》.

At the very least, that was something normal for her.

But, the current Lunaire just walked along the passages with a blank expression, as if her soul was leaving her body.

From the outside perspective, it was as if nothing had changed on the exterior, she kept doing her training and exploration by herself, she was already getting used to this.

There was nothing like a big event, nor did she have some sort of goal, her days just passed by like that without any form of turbulence.

And yet, she never questioned her lifestyle.

Originally, the reason Lunaire, who was abandoned by the world, visited this 《Cocytus》 was to look for someone who can kill her.

But, she came to understand that in the last one month and a half that she spent training the young man called Kanata, in a rather questionable training regime, her days were painted with a new color.

It took only two days for her to fall into her second biggest despair after she returned to her usual daily life.

Lunaire placed her hands on the wall to support her staggering body.

「.... Kanata.」

When she was alone, she said that young man’s name with a tinge of regret in her voice.

「... As I thought, it would’ve been for the best if Kanata didn’t leave 《Cocytus》. I should’ve turned him into a lich like me....」

The usual Lunaire wouldn’t be tricked by that cheap magic trick.

But her current mental fluctuation affected her more than she expected.

「KETAKETAKA, KETAKETA」

The Phantasma raised such an eerie laugh.

「I... let my guard down huh.」

Lunaire heaved a long sigh despite the big hole in her abdomen.

Right after that, Lunaire forcefully broke through the Phantasma’s binding and then walked up until her face was an inch away from Phantasma’s eerie face.

A magic circle appeared right in front of her face.

「Time-Space Magic, 18th Rank; 《Drilling [Space Digger]》」

The Phantasma’s head vanished right at the next moment and then its body crumbled down into dust.

《Drilling》 was a magic that was designed to send a sliced object from this world to fly towards another dimension.

Though its range of attack wasn’t that big, its forte was instant activation without any pre-move.

Lunaire wiped the blue colored blood from her lips.

The next moment, her torn clothes restored in a blink of an eye and the hole in her stomach closed up.

「... To think that a weakling demon managed to hurt me.」

It was true that the demon managed to catch Lunaire off guard and draw the first blood, but that alone wasn’t enough to defeat Lunaire.

「Time-Space Magic, 22nd Rank;《Retrograde》」

That was the spell that healed Lunaire’s wound and fixed her clothes.

《Retrograde》was a magic that belonged to the Time-Space type magic, it was not white magic that healed wounds and illness on one’s body.

Its effects aren’t used to heal wounds but to return the target’s condition in the present time to its chosen past condition.

Thus, it was not only targeting the flesh but also her clothes.

Though it could be said that 《Retrograde》 consumed too much mana compared to the other Time-Space magic that had the same function to repair something, that amount was nothing compared to Lunaire’s total mana reservoir.

「Noble will laugh at me if he ever witnesses how I ended up in these situations...」

Lunaire muttered as she walked back to her own hut.