Chapter s41.2: S41 Final Battle 2

Tactics vs tactics.

Author’s comments: Demon King Ariel’s perspective.

「The Queen has begun her battle.」

With Clairvoyance activated, I observe the battle. Even if I have gotten weak, using a skill of this level is no burden at all.

「Are you going to call the other Queen here?」

「Nah. I’ll watch over things for now, then I’ll Summon it at an appropriate time.」

「Will it be okay?」

「Well, more or less.」

Unlike Clairvoyance and such, the Summoning skill places a heavy burden. After using Summoning once, I need to take a rest afterwards. I’ve already finished Summoning my primary subordinates such as the Queens and Puppets so that’s fine, but since the battle has already started, I’ll probably only be able to perform Summoning on a subordinate once as an emergency measure. I’ll need to carefully judge when to draw the line.

「Summoning sure is convenient.」

「That’s right Sophia-chan, you can call Merazofis-kun and so on too.」

Merazofis-kun, and incidentally Waldo-kun. Because those two are considered to be Sophia-chan’s kin, it is possible for her to use Summoning to call them any time. Since unlike me Sophia-chan isn’t weakened, there’s almost no limit. MP is still consumed though.

「I can’t say it’s impossible, but I haven’t received any reports to the contrary though.」

My kin have already been deployed throughout the entire Elro Great Labyrinth. Even if the enemy used Teleport or a secret path to enter the Elro Great Labyrinth, they should get caught in that surveillance net at some point. So far, nothing has been caught. Even if there was someone amongst the enemy who could use Teleport, then they can only Teleport to places where the caster has gone before. As far as I know, apart from Earth Dragon Gakia who protected this lowest layer, none of the ancient dragons have ever set foot in this area. And of course, no humans have ever set foot in this place either. After all, humanity has rarely even approached the middle layer, let alone the lowest layer. Even if there was an invasion by Teleport, it would be limited to the upper layer. And on that upper layer, there are powerful support troops left behind by Shiro-chan. If someone tough enough to drive back those kids had invaded, it would be ridiculous for it to go unnoticed.

「But, there’s something odd about this huh.」

There’s gotta be some plan behind this. Things like this, are a sign that something bad is about to happen. As if to support that premonition, a report from my kin came via Telepathy.

「What happened? Eh? Water?」

The thought that I received via Telepathy was... water. While I was tilting my head in confusion, the Telepathy was suddenly broken off.

「Is there something wrong?」

「I’m not sure, but something has definitely happened.」

The member of my kin that had sent the Telepathy was one that had been deployed on the upper layer of the Elro Great Labyrinth. I activate Clairvoyance at its location. To determine what happened to it.

「Ah.」

Then, I let out that foolish sound.

「Wh, what the heck has that bastard done!?」

What I had seen there, was something beyond my imagination. A huge amount of water is surging through the upper layer of the Elro Great Labyrinth.

「Is this something crazy like inundation tactics!?」

Spreading out on the upper layer of the Elro Great Labyrinth, was sea water surging in from the sea.