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Mental control has five stages.

“Search” that reads the surface consciousness and predicts behavior.

“Disruption” that induces action by mixing suggestions in consciousness.

“Erosion”, which infiltrates the enemy’s consciousness and inflicts a psychological attack.

“Domination” that can fully interpret the world of consciousness and control all abilities.

All four stages have something in common in that they all affect enemies, but the fifth stage from now on is a little different.

[Conquest] is the only stage in which all of the previous 4 abilities are merged and the target of application is changed to ‘self’.

A state where you can ‘completely’ interpret the target, use the ‘all abilities’ of the target as if it were your own, through the predicted and induced behavior and the induced and applied psychology.

Downloading everything the opponent had is the 5th step, the power of 「Conquest」.

“Prepare.”

“I see!”

A shadow comes out and covers her.

Black and white circles rotated fiercely over the remaining revolver.

The two sources interlocked and turned, and the tremendous holy power began to materialize the magic of mind control.

I restored Adeline’s noisy sympathetic nervous system and connected it with Skadi, and with the sympathetic nervous system’s ability to share ‘every thought’, I was able to share the power of ‘conquest’.

“Uh… what, what is this…?”

“This is ‘me’ information.”

Skadi is the information of ‘I’.

I have the information of ‘Skadi’.

Sharing each other’s strength, it was as if each of us could produce the strength of two people, even temporarily.

“Kuh…”

My heart hurts.

His beating heart felt stiff as if it would explode, and the circle that was able to handle 「Conquest」 creaked as if it would break at any moment.

My head hurts like it would break, and my vision is red with the blood vessels in my eyes.

In fact, the body that couldn’t handle the output and calculation was screaming.

‘It’s still too early.’

It is a ‘transfer’ that combines the powers of all stages and downloads the target’s ability intact into my body.

It would be even weirder if there were no side effects.

Stage 5 is a power that I could only use once, having completed it right before I killed Diablo.

Back then, when there was no concept of a circle, the side effects were so strong, and in the end, even an elixir could not heal a completely ruined body.

It was Diablo that pierced my heart, but it was my own skill that killed me.

“Gwa, are you okay!?”

“No. So we have to finish quickly.”

“no···.”

I can’t even say it’s okay with nice words.

The pain was so great that I wanted to sit down right now.

Fortunately, my circle and the downloaded ‘knowledge’ of Skadi are somehow coping with the side effects.

If it was only for a short time, it was worth trying.

“…it’s probably not the time to use it yet.”

Even the emperor was a little surprised by the appearance of 「Conquest」, but he had no energy to reply to me.

Skadi and I exchanged opinions via the sympathetic nervous system, and I immediately jumped at him.

‘Buy time.’

I don’t think I’ll win.

The goal is to buy time until Lapless implements the warp magic to return to Helios.

For that moment, it was worth borrowing even this dangerous power.

bang!!

The bullets fired rushed with fierce thunderbolts.

It dwells in Skadi’s 8th circle lightning-type magic, “Dragon Lightning”.

There, I put the ghost tribe’s curse, “Petrifaction”, through Im Mae Mang-ryang.

The bullet hit the emperor’s arm directly with dark gray lightning.

The combination of lightning and petrification made the emperor’s movements stop for a moment, and in that moment, all the remaining bullets were poured out.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A flash of light explodes and deflagration covers all sides.

A slightly hardened figure of the emperor could be seen beyond the hazy field of vision.

“Get out of the way!”

As soon as I heard the voice, I threw myself to the side.

Skadi was stepping on the head of ‘Leviathan’, which had risen from the shadows with electric shocks all over her body.

The dragon’s open mouth and the magical power seething there.

It was ‘Dragon Breath’, a special move possessed by high-ranking dragons.

‘You write well.’

No matter how much my ability was shared, there would be a sense of incongruity, but perhaps because of the urgent situation, she realized Lee Mae-mang-ryang in an instant.

woo woo woo-

A dragon breath that condenses light and heat into one point.

Using that characteristic, Skadi drew her diffusion-type magic there.

The 9th circle magic 「Thunderbolt」.

Originally, large-scale magic that swept the vast land was condensed into one point and fired.

aaa!!!

A blinding flash.

A huge roar followed.

The firepower comparable to the Diablo’s breath I once shot unfolded in front of my eyes.

“······!”

This is only a few seconds.

The emperor, freed from the curse of petrification, immediately crossed his arms to block it, and received the torrent of thunderbolt as it was.

Kwajik-

Eventually, the Balaur’s neck, unable to withstand the output, was broken and its head fell off.

I ran towards the emperor with Skadi who jumped off.

After slightly burning his sleeves with his breath, he finally took out a revolver from his waist.

Taking out his weapon for the first time in this battle, he aimed at the muzzle that glowed dull in ink.

“You’re bothering me.”

Tuquaang—!!

With a flash of red, a bullet crossed between us.

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Just one bullet.

It was only a small dot, and it swept the area with a raging gale.

And what came along with the raging wind was an intense mental wave that shook the brain.

──────!!!

“Kuh…!”

“Ouch!”

tingling headache.

Hallucinations and auditory hallucinations stirred my mind, and intense tinnitus penetrated my brain.

I wasn’t hit by a bullet, I was only hit by the wind that followed, but that’s about it.

Even the reverberation of the mental attack had broken through the resistance of mind control.

Biting my lip hard enough to bleed, I fought through the pain to counter the psychic attack.

“I will go in.”

There is no time for pain.

Until Laflis completes the warp, the Emperor’s gaze must not give her a chance to return.

Moreover, as much as maintaining the 5th level was daunting, I gave the following command while clearing Skadi’s mind.

Quaggagak!

I hit the ground hard and aim the gun.

The 8th circle magic “Dragon Lightning”.

In it, mix the runes of “Concentration” and “Primary Point”.

After dissolving the power of Dragon Breath into the bullet as a rune, he pulled the trigger with all his might.

Kwaaang!!

Not a bullet, but an impact equal to that of an artillery shell hit his shoulder, and bullets with the power of the 8th circle magic rushed at the emperor.

At the same time, the emperor, aiming at her with lightning speed, fired his gun in the same way.

A flash of light flashes.

The bullets fired at each of them drew trajectories of intersecting straight lines and collided with intense puncture.

bang! Quaang! bang! bang!

Each gun fired one after another.

Reading the actions of the opponent, reading the attack, the bullets fired crossed each other moving like lightning.

My bullets are blocked by the emperor’s bullets, and the emperor’s bullets are blocked by my bullets.

The bullets colliding in the air exploded with starlight and oxidized.

“It seems daunting even to keep that movement.”

“·······.”

“So how much longer can I hold out?”

“Look behind you, you asshole.”

The gaze of the emperor, who had turned slightly, looked behind his back.

There, there was Skadi, who was aiming at the staff with condensed electric shock.

“Get lost!”

aaa!!

The swinging staff hit the emperor directly and thundered.

The emperor, who was the first to allow an effective hit, stopped scratching the ground with both legs.

“This is—”

“Shut up.”

I have no intention of giving you time to speak.

He immediately jumped right in front of him and fired a kick.

I downloaded Diablo’s musculoskeletal information and melted it with my kicking leg.

For a moment, the strengthened muscle fibers and skeleton, like those of the dragon, were shot with the power of the thunderbolt.

Kwaaang!!

Despite being blocked by the emperor’s arm, the ground and atmosphere were blown apart by the shockwave that exploded.

bang! Kwaaang!!

chess and chess.

bullets and bullets.

Even though the strength they each had was different, there was not much difference in the way they faced each other in the end.

Although the emperor borrowed a variety of powers from Magi and I, the attack method itself was simple for both.

My fighting style is all about shooting, hitting, and counterattacking by reading the enemy’s abilities.

There is no splendid magic spree, and there is no supernatural power that overturns all directions.

They only use the minimum amount of force to pierce each other’s heads.

Prioritizing efficiency above all else.

It was no different even if they were emperors who walked through different histories.

“In the same way as I—”

“Don’t forget me!!”

Before he could speak, Skadi’s electric staff struck the emperor.

At the same time, using the [Convergence] rune, the condensed power of lightning instantly lifted his body into the air.

so-so-

A staff runs along the ground.

Scratching the floor, the shadow forms a puddle, and Diablo’s huge head soars up and opens its mouth wide following Skadi, who leaps vigorously.

An abysmal mouth swallowed the emperor, and she snapped her fingers.

“Explode!”

By overloading the magic formula that achieved this amount, artificially destroying the structure.

The dragon’s head that swallowed the emperor immediately exploded with a roar.

Kwaaang——!!

‘He writes like that.’

After all, is it a master of pure magic?

In terms of application, he had a better idea than me.

Perhaps it is a possible application to Skadigi, which has the know-how of applying magic that has reached the 9th circle.

“… tsk.”

Then, bullets ran through the flames.

Skadi, swept away by the passing gale, was staggered by the tinnitus ringing in his brain.

“Black…!”

Grinding her teeth and enduring, she spread the shadows and summoned the beasts.

Summoning the Demonic Beast through Immae Mang-ryang.

In addition to the electric shock, the rune of explosion was added.

Each of the Demon Beasts that jumped out were suicide bombers with lightning bolts.

“It bothered me.”

The emperor shot them one by one and burst them.

While scattering the shock of the explosion to the demonic air, he predicted Skadi’s attack with [Search] and quickly destroyed Skadi’s target.

“The dregs of the ruined world are so tenacious.”

“Shut up!”

Bullets and staff collided.

Dark red flames and pale flashes intersected, scattering light in all directions.

However, the Emperor’s strength and speed surpassed Skadi, who was not familiar with taijutsu, and Skadi’s response to the mental attack that disturbed her consciousness after reading her actions was insufficient.

Knock!

“Eww!”

The emperor’s extended grip grabbed Skadi’s neck.

He lifted her up in an instant and looked at her, stained with pain.

“It’s deja vu. It’s not like that.”

“Ughhhhh.”

“If I break your neck like this, that would be pretty fun too.”

Pak- Pak-

Her feet pounded helplessly on the emperor’s chest.

“Profit… Profit…”

“It’s pointless to resist.”

However, despite such mockery, Skadi only smiled twistedly.

He tilted his head curiously and released his hand from Skadi’s neck a little.

“Why are you laughing?”

“Look at your back, you asshole.”

clap-

So, I smoothly approached him from behind and pulled the trigger on his head.

With Kaya’s power hammered into it.

「Solaris」

Tuquaaang——!!

The spear of brilliance fired from zero distance hit the emperor directly in the head.

His bouncing body rolled on the floor for the first time, and Skadi, freed from his grip, let out a dry cough.

“Cough Cough Cough! Ugh…!”

“Please be patient.”

She wrapped her holy power in both hands and wrapped it around her neck.

It quickly cleansed the skin that had been discolored due to demonic erosion.

It’s fortunate that she has high resistance to demonic, or the rate of erosion that would have already killed the nerves running down her spine.

“Whoa… I almost died.”

“·······.”

We sat down and looked at each other.

It’s been 10 minutes since the engagement started.

In that short amount of time, the two of us were completely wrecked.

Their bodies are not in good shape, and both their magical powers and circles scream because they abused each other’s strength.

The price of blocking the existence of the emperor ‘for a while’ was really harsh.

“…you’re bald.”

The emperor slowly got up.

It seems that the previous blow was quite effective, and I could feel a slight headache from the way I shook my head.

He touched his slightly chapped temple, then burst out laughing.

“A drop of blood with all your might. It’s an amazing payoff.”

“·······.”

“·······.”

. . . I admit it.

For now, that is our limit.

It is impossible to defeat the emperor with the power we have now.

Because he was still ‘a little bit stronger’ than us.

“No. That’s enough.”

So, just knowing that fact was enough.

How strong it is, what fights it sticks to, and how it uses its strength.

I was able to accept all of that as information because I saw a piece of his body’s power.

In other words, it’s like getting a clue on how to respond to him.

“I don’t think I know what you’re thinking.”

“·······.”

“Yeah. You know how I fight. But? So what are you going to do?”

The demon soars.

Dark magic that was so thick that even breathing became quicker began to surround it in all directions.

“Just because you know that now, what difference does it make?”

Magi continues to increase its power.

It’s like saying that the fights so far are child’s play.

The earth and sky shook at the liberating power and let out a howl.

It was a phenomenon that occurred because nature could not handle his power.

“·······.”

A fight you can’t win.

He was emphasizing that reality.

That’s right.

we can’t beat him

Even if five more minutes pass like this, the four professors at the academy will become corpses and roll across the floor.

That is, when those five minutes had passed.

“Can’t you feel that something is strange?”

“What nonsense.”

“It’s so quiet around here.”

I spoke to the emperor who was about to end it.

“Your magicians. Where have they all gone now?”

“·······.”

His eyes scanned his surroundings.

Then, until not too long ago, the demon beasts that had been stationed around them all turned to porridge and were rolling around on the floor.

“what···.”

Expressing a question, his expression immediately hardened.

If it was him, he would have realized right away.

In the previous battle, the emperor couldn’t read our actions at the same time.

If you fight me, you miss Skadi, and if you fight Skadi, you miss me.

Why did this happen?

The reason is simple. It’s because I “disturbed” his “search” through mind control.

“It’s often called diversionary action. You guys are good at it.”

He would have thought that I was covering Skadi, and Skadi was covering me.

Because it was only the two of us who applied the 5 visible steps.

But if there is a crucial difference between him and me, it is that I work as a ‘team’.

In the first place, while hiding Skadi, I was hiding both Roshua, who was killing the demons, and Laflis, who was preparing for the warp.

The two dutifully completed their mission under the chaos created by the battle.

“It’s done.”

Supporting the exhausted Roshua, Lafless held a revolver wrapped in an iridescent circle.

It meant that the warp magic was ready.

“This is the difference between you and me, Emperor.”

“·······.”

“It’s a gap that you, alone, can never catch up to.”

His eyes looked at us with cold anger.

Towards that gaze, I raised my trembling hand and blew the candy away.

“move!”

Leaving the emperor there, our bodies flew to the other side of the dimension.