"Stronger than Nuon? No."

 

Good. Then she can end this promptly.

"However, we are much stronger than Nuon as a collective. I have a great few adventurers here and not just only the hundreds of task force members, but also hundreds of mages.”

“Why are you so adamant that I must be stopped?” She realized at this point it was impossible to convince them that she was not a demon.

 

Valkyrie watched her every move, analyzing her and seeing any gaps within her defenses. From the fight with Nuon, he had prepared a completely different way of defeating this undying fiend.

 

Whenever Nuon had struck a fatal blow, she was immobilized. Thus, the plan was not to kill her, but to subjugate her. Once they deal the single fatal blow, they’d stop her from regenerating by causing further damage, or not allowing the body to regenerate fully.

That was why they had called upon such a great number of forces with their emergency summon. They will take turns destroying her still-recovering body.

“Girl, have you not heard of the incident in East Goumei?”

Goumei was the country directly bordering west of this country, Alzanabia. Some couple months ago, a demon had suddenly arrived at their capital city of Godon.

Less than 30% of the population had survived. Their armies were constantly repealed and all adventurers within the city either fled or died horrible deaths.

The first Hero level adventurer to go there ended up being gravely injured and could no longer partake in being an adventurer.

It wasn’t until two of the adventurers in the top ten, Team Essence of Decay, arrived that the demon was completely subjugated.

 

Surely they had thought this was the demon Merlin had warned of, but when they faced him, the demon introduced himself as one of the 12 Demon Generals.

For quite a while, the efforts of demon subjugation remained on the southern continent and none of the multitude of hordes on the island were any bit as strong as the demon general that had arrived.

Given that they were bordering the country of Goumei, it was safe to surmise that they would be next should another demon general launch an offensive.

“We wish to avoid another catastrophe such as the one Godon had experienced. It was merely suspicion at first, but now we are certain without a doubt. You are indeed a demonoid.”

Lusha sighed. How much time had she consumed just now talking with this buffoon. “All of you, listen up. I will only repeat this warning once. Abandon this foolishness and no problems shall arise.”

She was met by a storm of attacks by all the magicians and adventurer’s around him. Arrows flew her way marked with exploding inscriptions.

“Elemental Magic [Poisonous Severance]! Elemental Magic [Flames of Rinier]! Elemental Magic [Vacuum Depths]! E-Elemental Magic [Raise Air] !”

The chants from each magician as they casted their spell melded together. She was just hearing a cacophony of spells and feeling the impact of everything colliding against her being.

“Elemental Magic [Deteriorate Snow], Gravitational Magic [Reverse Field]! Spatial Magic [Black Ball]! Illusion Magic [Dance of Chimera]! Elemental Magic [Water Whip]!”

How quaint, this uncoordinated attack was embarrassing. Many of them were utilizing techniques that canceled out their own techniques. He could make out that one of them utilized gravitational magic which lightened the gravity around her area, thus having her become airborne.

Yet, just as the magician had chanted that, another magician had chanted spatial magic [Black Ball]. It was a technique that pulled others to it with its own gravitational field. Should she collide with the black ball, she’d be sucked into a pocket dimension. Since the gravity technique was in effect however, the spatial ball lost all gravitational pull the moment it appeared in the field.

This was a huge headache. She couldn’t stand the noises being chanted out and only wanted nothing more than for the lot to be silent.

With a DOOM! The collisions occurred. The attacks continued for a solid minute afterwards. Nothing could be seen but a cloud of dust and ash. Cinders and smoke covered the visions of everyone.

“Elemental Magic [Tornado of the Sky]!” A blue haired magician chanted. It was one of the twelve in the interrogation room with her. An upside down tornado danced over the area where she should have been, vacuuming up the smoke in an instant.

“Now everyone! Charge! We cannot allow her to regenerate!”

 

Several of the magicians zoomed in at speeds similar to a slingshot. Then they instantly stopped.

“Huh?.... W- what are you doing still alive!?!”

“WOAAOH-?!” Collective sounds of shock came from the entire group.

Valkyrie’s plan was not a bad plan at all given the lack of knowledge he had about his opponent, but he made one huge miscalculation in the making of this plan.

That was assuming that the opponent had no defensive capabilities. In the fight against Nuon, she had wanted to die, thus she disarmed herself of most of her defenses to give the chance. But in this case, she had no desire to waste her time on unfulfillable hopes.

The aftermath of their attacks had caused quite a lot of damage to the area. The Guild Hall was nothing but a mass of timber and scattered gold.

Their recklessness had even killed the attendant. She found herself sandwiched between the table and rubble which crushed her against the wall. Her face was half burnt from one of the mages fire techniques. If there was any solace, it was that she had died instantly.

The only thing unscathed was of course the woman that stood before them. She held a passive ability skill: Barrier Magic [Absolute Domain]. This was a barrier she constantly had around her body.

So long as she is not moving at the time of an attack, it would automatically activate and repeal most weaker-end techniques.

The eyes that glared back at the group of airborne mages was enough to frighten even the greatest of heroes.

Suddenly a group of the melee type adventurers grew bold enough to launch an offensive. Black tags rested on their necks as they charged with their greatsword and twin blades.

They must have observed the situation and came to the conclusion the attacks had no effect because she was immune to magic. If they thought their blades were going to be the weakness to bring down the witch, they were severely mistaken.

They began their launch of attacks, only for her to remain standing still and watch the damage completely deflect. Their blades were certainly not strong enough to crumple the barrier.

She sighed and slapped one of the adventurers attacking him. His head turned a full 360 and he stumbled back 2 steps before perishing. The next one with the great sword attempted to retreat before her fist slammed into his face, causing his skull to cave in.

There was just utter silence as all of this unfolded. He turned to the other one before the man could run away, pulling his collar and slamming him into the ground. She got on top of his body and moved the man's hands out of the way of his face, before punching him hard enough to collapse his eyes. Another punch followed, then another, and another.

The man had long stopped moving, but she had punched and beat at this squashed skull for several more blows until it was just an undiscernable mush. Everyone just watched in silence.

She got up, blood splattered around her face. “Valkyrie… nevermind my earlier statement. I won’t be killing you after all. You will end up doing that job for me.”