3-05: The Unreasonable Palm II (2/4)

3-05: The Unreasonable Palm II (2/4)

!?!?

When he heard the voice of the boy(devil), his weakened soul screamed.

From the depths of his empty eye sockets, his weakened eyes of darkness searched for the boy, but he could not find him.

He tried to flee despite that, but he realized that his legs were missing.

He tried to used his hands, but he had only one arm with no fingers. It had also lost half of its mass and was much lighter, so he could not move his body as he wanted.

Despite that, he was so stricken with fear that he scratched at the earth in a vain attempt to escape.

But then his arm suddenly became heavy.

!?

Youre panicking too much. First of all, you should ascertain where the voice is coming from.

As though beguiled by that voice that held neither mockery nor pity, Gulde found himself opening his normal sight.

As he tried to gather what remained of his skeleton soldiers, he realized for the first time that he could see through their sight unique to the undead, then with an expressionless face like a mask, he looked down on himself and finally realized that the boy was stepping on his arm.

Eek, ah, gah Ah How Did you do it?

Hmm?

There was a part of Gulde that wanted to scream, but what came out of his lips instead was a question.

How could this boy accomplish such a feat?

It was precisely because he had seen the boy thoroughly that the question begged itself.

I-I dont understand. How could you accomplish such a thing!? Youre a creature even weaker than commoners! Theres no way you could have enough mana to accomplish such a thing!

He might have been rotten and made of bones, but he was still someone who lived in pursuit of knowledge.

It was true that the slightest damage could accumulate and break through the resistance of an undead, but every one of those turrets needed mana to be deployed, and every bullet they shot needed mana. Though such consumption was trivial individually, the concept of accumulation applied here too, and the amount of mana required to pull off what the boy had accomplished was nothing short of tremendous.

As unscrupulous as the boy(devil) may be, the mana he held was far below that.

He had used the mana residue left in the surroundings, but even that wasnt enough to make up for the mana required by such a grand undertaking.

I knew your head was empty, but I see now that your eyes are too.

The boy sighed in disbelief. Poor Gulde had been turned into such a terrible state, yet he still couldnt put two and two together, so he lifted up that thing in his hand.

Gulde-kun, why do you think I bothered to bring the princess with me?

Clara! What happened!?

H-His Status! Why? Why did we pick a fight with someone like him!?

So great was her fear that she couldnt even put down the card.

The other maids came running, and when they saw what was on that card, their eyes opened wide.

No way Skill ranked S!?

They were stunned for a moment, but they quickly recovered themselves as they realized that that couldnt be possible and held up their own Status Cards to measure the boys Status, but

A-Ahh Y-Youve got to be kidding me

The other stats are all D, but His Skill is at S What is that!?

As the maids screamed, what followed after was dead silence.

The air changed. The girls had been cowering until now because of his incomprehensible strength, but now that that strength was expressed in a way they could understand through Status, they looked at him with fear in their eyes and trembled.

And Gulde too came to understand that the rank the maids mentioned was neither a mistake nor fake.

Above all, it finally made sense how the boy could accomplish such a feat.

A Skill of Rank S? Ha, ha ha, thats ludicrous.

The other stats being All D did little to console Gulde at the absurdity of an S rank.

Though it was ranked similarly to the other attributes in Status, even children knew that the significance Skill held was on another level.

Rank C in Skill signified ones adulthood, Rank B meant expertise, and Rank A meant hero class.

Beyond that were AA and AAA, then finally, S Rank, a rank that existed purely for conveniences sake, a rank that did not appear even in legends.

Already, that was something that had transcended monsters and legends, encroaching into the realm of those creatures that existed only in myths.

A being that could only be defeated by a band of heroes equipped with powerful weapons and a winning strategy, and yet even then, only managing to find triumph through destiny, courage, and the power of plot.

On its own, the mythical creature was greater than the heroes that ultimately defeat it, and even an army of a million would find defeat should they find themselves standing before it.

Nay, this was not an opponent that could be described with concepts such as defeat and victory. Such a being was simply not something that ought to be fought.

Yes, this was a walking calamity that should be avoided at all costs.

That was the true identity of the boy before them.