Chapter 253
- Ah, is that so? (9)
Just looking at the situation, he is the prince on a white horse, yet she calls me prince.
– It’s not normal.
– As expected from a woman around the master. She’s not ordinary.
– Doesn’t that include you?
– ……?
Alright. I sealed the metal bat’s mouth shut.
Since she called herself a goddess, goddess, that must include her too.
“Are you okay, Prince?”
The crazy elf waving her hand at me, I subtly avoided her gaze.
“Just what is instructor…..”
Then the frowning Demon King appears before my eyes.
Does the World Tree connect to the Demon King?
– Of course. The World Tree is a tree imbued with the power of the God of Benevolence and Devotion. More than just a divine tree, it could even be called a Demi-God. Historically, it also contains the power of the god who struck down the evil god, so to the Demon King who harbors a fragment of evil, it is nothing less than a mortal enemy.
If it’s a Demi-God, it’s not strange to think of it as an avatar of god.
Which means each and every one of those tree branches is like an attack from the God of Benevolence and Devotion who once struck down the evil god.
It surely has enough damage to strike down evil!
No, before that!
– It means if I had brought the wooden bat instead of you, I could have defected that guy!
– Before that, did you not think I’d be caught by the other ladies? I’ve saved you so many times, if you keep talking like this, I won’t help you in the future.
– Ah… that would be troubling.
To be honest, I’ve resolved so many things with the metal bat. No, I resolved most things with the metal bat.
Because there was no better tool than the metal bat for talking with people.
Create a one-on-one situation and beat them senseless with the metal bat.
Traumatize them so they can no longer resist. Take care of those around me one by one.
If I just repeat this a few times, I can tidy up my surroundings in an instant.
I could neatly carry out things according to the scenario I created.
That’s how I taught students in Yugrasia, and how I dealt with it when I met the hero, and it was no different when I went to the demon continent, and it was useful when gathering the heroes together.
100% success rate!
If no weirdos popped up from somewhere, I could have created my own utopia.
It’s because of some restrictions, but I did acknowledge the usefulness of the metal bat.
– …Hang on.
– Why?
– I said I can’t use magic power because I’m an existence from outside this world. Doesn’t that mean, similarly, you as an existence from outside this world obviously can’t use magic power either?
– Huh? Well of course. Though before that, since I was a god I didn’t use magic power anyway.
– Is that so? But didn’t you say you needed magic power for the things you did? To transform, and maintain a certain form, you said you needed magic power for that!
– …….
– Hey?
With the metal bat suddenly lost for words, I pressed on.
– Excuse me, goddess? Could you please explain this to me!
Living in this world, magic power has always been shackles on my feet.
Despite learning under my master who was evaluated as the best instructor in my past life, my lack of magic power limited me in combat.
Magic was the same mysterious realm.
Unlike the awakened in my past life who were born with a single attribute, magicians who could use all kinds of skills according to their personal limits were an incomprehensible race.
Their attacks didn’t work on me because magic power didn’t affect me, but I couldn’t block the physical phenomena caused by magic.
I remembered vividly how I recklessly charged into a huge fireball, the magic exploded when it hit the ground, and I got trapped in the huge hole it made.
And the metal bat was the same.
As the metal bat with a soul dwelling in it, it could use spells and magic cast on itself.
However, spells required specific conditions or mediums, and magic required magic power.
Transforming from the original bat shape into other shapes, and acting in the form of a girl, all required magic power.
That’s why when it escaped from the organization, it couldn’t use the armor mode that allowed it to break through Sia’s encirclement in Yugrasia!
– That, that’s….
– That’s?
The metal bat hesitated in a trembling voice for a moment before answering unusually energetically, even more than usual.
– It was concept! Haha!
– …….
– Ma, master? Surely the master will forgive the cute goddess’ jest? Rejecting the Demon King’s temptation and upholding integrity, surely the master will forgive this goddess? Right?
This time, my mouth slammed shut.
I didn’t say anything, I didn’t even think anything, as the metal bat started babbling about this and that, but I didn’t hear any of it.
I almost died! Or not die, but almost got caught by the princess! My life was almost over!
And all of it was a prank by the former goddess, current evil god!
– The Styor Volcano, which side was it again….
– Master?
Whether she’s a goddess or evil god, if she exists in this world, there must be a way to deal with her.
Even the World Tree, called the Demi-God of the Goddess of Benevolence and Devotion, has a history of being threatened by other races. No matter how evil a god, even the great Demon King can melt its body, so throwing it into a volcano that can annihilate it should destroy it!
– It, it’s not really going to happen, right?
– No matter how much of a goddess you say you are, if you get thrown into Mount Styor like this, you won’t be able to see the world for a thousand years!
– Alright then?
– Masteeeeeeeeeer!
Being able to seal away an evil god who almost destroyed the world for a thousand years, with this I might be treated as a hero who saved the world.
Anyway, with only the Demon King left whom even the metal bat is useless against, I just need to take the wooden bat back from Rain and throw the metal bat into Mount Styor. That should do it.
– Yo, you’re not really going to do it, right?
Well, I need to think about what to do.
Should I get payback for all the grief she’s caused me, or let it slide because of everything she’s done for me.
I need to think carefully between these two choices.
The more important thing right now is,
“You are….”
“Shut up. I don’t want to talk to an evil god seed like you.”
There was movement between the crazy elf and the Demon King who were glaring at each other.
Is it because despite being crazy, she is the high priest of the elf who attends to the goddesses of benevolence and devotion, and the guardian of the World Tree?
The eyes of the crazy elf looking at the Demon King were full of anger.
“How dare you touch the prince… Are you prepared?”
…It doesn’t seem like it.
“The prince…?”
Ah… Don’t look at me like that. As if there’s some backstory about how I went from being a prince to an instructor for an evil organization…
There was a backstory, but it had nothing to do with being a prince! I was just born as a normal farmer’s son and got a job to make a living!
“I’ll pluck out your eyes before you look at the prince with those filthy eyes!”
Boom!
With a huge roar, a hole appeared where the Demon King had been.
As expected, all that was left was a long wooden stick.
“I’ve heard the legend about killing the Demon King with a branch of the World Tree, but I didn’t think it would be this easy…”
The Demon King looked at the tree branch in the crazy elf’s hand as his aura of darkness disappeared like burning ash.
“To think a rotten branch could have this much power…”
“What? You think I would use a rotten branch to save the prince?”
“That’s…” Choke!
The Demon King, startled by the crazy elf’s words, barely dodged a flying spear.
Meanwhile, the crazy elf received another World Tree branch from an elf beside her. Concentrating her magic power on the branch,s he shouted.
“A fresh branch I got from the World Tree before coming here! It’s lacking compared to the rotten one I just lent to a hero!”
“Liar!”
The Demon King, dodging another flying spear, opened his mouth wide and shouted.
Anyone living in this world must have heard the story about the World Tree.
The god who saved the world.
It is the last divine tree the goddess of benevolence and devotion left on earth.
Moreover, the World Tree’s branches, which can be crafted into something harder than steel and make the user’s magic power more effective, are a staple motif in fairy tales and legends.
However, there has never been a story or legend about someone breaking off and using a branch of the World Tree.
Even for a dragon, it was natural not to touch the World Tree, a divine tree.
Yet that rule has now been broken, by a high elf who should be protecting the World Tree!
“This much investment is basic for the prince!”
“Instructor… sir?”
Don’t look at me like that. I don’t know anything.
It’s just that elf who went crazy, and I got caught up in it.
I wanted to tell the Demon King, who was looking at me with indescribable eyes, something like that.
“It must be a lie, right?”
The Demon King looked at the other elves behind the crazy elf, just for a moment.
“It’s the truth…!”
But was it counterproductive?
Seeing the elves who clenched their lips and avoided his gaze, as if enduring humiliation, the Demon King’s body froze for a moment.
“Kuh…”
The crazy elf did not miss this chance and succeeded in cutting off his left arm.
“Damn…!”
The Demon King’s gaze turned to me again due to the moment of carelessness that cost him his arm.
Although it was just a fleeting moment, thanks to not being so numb that I missed it, I deflected the Demon King’s attack that appeared right in front of me with my metal bat.
“Oh my…”
“I haven’t rusted enough to lose to the likes of you yet.”
Using the recoil from the collision between the dark aura and my metal bat, I retreat back as much as possible.
“Not yet!”
“From where!”
The crazy elf’s spear fell in front of the Demon King as he tried to charge at me again.
“Ugh!”
Grinding his teeth as he glared at the crazy elf, the Demon King was struck by another branch of the World Tree.
-How many branches did that sister tear off from the World Tree?
Seeing the elf who was tearfully handing branches of the World Tree to the crazy elf, it looks like she tore off a lot.
The faces of the other elves looking at the crazy elf were like a buffet owner who realized the wrestling team had arrived at the all-you-can-eat restaurant.
“Give up.”
He has already missed his chance.
I taught him that the villain race gets worse the more you drag things out, but maybe because he had the interlude of being a hero in between, he forgot my teaching and happily bared his fangs, ending up donating his left arm and having to leave.
“I… I won’t let this happen again next time.”
“Will there even be a next time?”
“Yes. Next time I will bet everything, take the instructor’s and the evil god’s power, and destroy the world.”
It’s good that he’s looking at me with burning eyes, but avoiding the spears falling above his head should be the priority.
“Damn it!”
The Demon King, who narrowly dodged the spear, glared at the crazy elf, but she just laughed mockingly at his gaze and was now receiving branches of the World Tree from an elf with empty eyes.
“Next time I won’t come alone and create variables. I will lead the entire army. So until then… Please wait for me.”
“I don’t want to.”
The lonely figure of the Demon King escaping while avoiding spears falling above his head is pitiful to see.
Well, more important than that is,
– The fate of the master caught by the elf sister?
– And the fate of you going into the volcano.
– Hehe!
While looking at the crazy elf running in the distance shouting ‘Prince’, I sighed.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
Taking advantage of the chaos, I stabbed into the back of the fleeing Shuttle.
