Ankoku Kishi Monogatari (WN)

Heqat took out a talisman from her robe.

Zalbuth retreated upon seeing that.

Maybe he realized that he couldn't defeat Heqat with his talisman arts.

「Now it's my turn. RibbitRibbitRibbit. Come forth! Great Kettle!」

A huge kettle then appeared in the air.

It was a magic tool called the great kettle of the witch.

All of Heqat's disciples had their own great kettle.

That great kettle had multiple functions ranging from concocting medicine to poison among many other things.

Almost all potions that existed in this world were in fact created by Heqat.

The great kettle of the witch's great-mother was a huge black kettle.

Heqat then used her twisted cane to stir the content of that great kettle.

「Sti~r Sti~r Stir, Sti~r Sti~r Stir. Stirring round and round till its color becomes brighter, shi~ne shine~. RibbitRibbitRibbit.」

Heqat stirred the kettle while chanting the aria.

Sti~r Sti~r Stir was the word of power used by witches when they stirred their great kettle.

All witches used the same aria. Even Kuna chanted "Sti~r Sti~r Stir" when she made potions using her great kettle.

Brilliant light shot forth from inside the great kettle when Heqat stirred her kettle.

Kuna felt a strong magical power from within.

「Ugh! What a terrifying magical power!」

Zalbuth stepped back as he felt the magical power emanating from the great kettle.

「Now take this! Seven Light of Solace!」

Seven colored lights shot out from the great kettle and headed to Zalbuth and co.

「Guuuuh! What the! Hundred Talisman Formation!」

Zalbuth unleashed his talisman to protect himself.

Alas, the light swept the army of the dead outside the protection area of the talisman.

The kin of death let out their death throes as they bathed in that light.

The seven lights of solace that were unleashed by Heqat was by nature, a healing magic. Alas, that healing magic was deadly poison for the kin of death.

Upon a closer look, the high-ranking undead such as specters and vampires were erased so easily by that light, so it must be quite powerful.

When the light receded, there were only a few kin of death left including the children of the reaper.

「Gigigigi. I never expected that my priest vestment would be in such a tattered state.」

Said Zalbuth as he touched his vestment with his hand that turned into that of an insect.

Zalbuth, who took the most damage from the light, already had turned into half of a giant fly.

The limbs of the fly were jutting out from the priest's vestment, his head turned into that of a round, one-eyed fly.

「Oh my? Did you survive? Well, it's not attack magic to begin with. RibbitRibbitRibbit. How about another round?」

Said Heqat as she laughed.

Zalbuth could still fight. But Heqat was powerful. It was clear from this confrontation that Heqat would always come out victorious.

「Naturally, Witch-dono. I just need to buy a bit more time to win.」

「What do you mean, Ribbit?」

Zalbuth's fly mouth shook as he laughed.

「Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. It's just as I say, Witch-dono. Just a bit more before he arrives. You know what I mean right?」

The moment Zalbuth said so.

Rena's warning echoed in Kuna's head.

「OH NO! HEQAT! THAT GUY IS COMING! WE HAVE TO LEAVE THIS PLACE!」

I clenched my teeth in frustration.

And cursed at Alphos in my heart.

That useless guy couldn't even buy enough time for us.

「Not so fast. I won't let you escape.」

Cloud-like flies came out from Zalbuth's body.

「This guy is bad news. Not even this old hag can defeat Zarxis. Ribbit Ribbit Ribbit.」

Heqat headed toward us immediately.

We had to move the skyship again. Alas, it didn't seem that Zalbuth would allow us to do so.

Though we could defeat him if we fought him, the other party's main goal was to detain us in this place.

In short, we couldn't escape from Zarxis.

「GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!」

Glorious groaned as he raised his head. Different from when he was with Kuroki, his groan this time was filled with killing intent.

When looking in the direction where Glorious was looking, I saw Zarxis, whose lower body turned into that of a spider with giant bat wings on his back, rushing at us.

Did he come already?

That was too fast.

「You cannot escape! Return the Soul Orb!」

Zarxis' angry shout resounded in the room.

I deployed the magic shield in a hurry.

The next moment, a tremendous impact hit my shield.

It came from Zarxis' screw sword.

That attack obliterated all of my magic shields. His power surpassed Zaffrada's red shield.

I deployed another magic shield.

No matter what kind of attack he would use, Kuna was ready to deploy a magic shield like there was no tomorrow.

I was prepared for that.

「Humph! How persistent! How about this! Come Forth GREAT SERPENT OF EARTH WHO GNAWS THE CENTER OF THE WORLD AND ROTS EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH, Níðhöggr! Answer my call!!」

Zarxis summoned the superior spirit of the earth, Níðhöggr.

A giant snake then appeared from the ground.

Though I saw this spirit before when Heqat summoned them, this one was clearly bigger in size.

「This land gives a huge advantage to Zarxis. Níðhöggr has also become much stronger by absorbing miasma in this land. Ribbit Ribbit Ribbit. We have to think of a good plan to face both Zarxis and Níðhöggr.」

Heqat spoke about something that I realized too.

I knew that we were cornered right now.

Níðhöggr raised their sickle-like neck while releasing miasma.

I had to attack both the superior spirit and Zarxis.

Heqat had to distract Zalbuth during that time.

I need Glorious along with Guno and co's cooperation for defense.

The moment I thought so.

Suddenly, I felt a wave of warm magical power.

「Grrrrrr.」

Glorious roared again. There was no hostility in his roar this time.

Glorious seemed to have noticed that fact too.

「Why are you suddenly laughing like that? Ribbit Ribbit Ribbit.」

Heqat didn't seem to notice it.

She cocked her head when she saw Kuna smiling on her own.

「Have you not realized it, Heqat? Well, I guess we managed to buy time too.」

「RIBBIT!?」

Heqat couldn't hide her shock.

She then looked in a certain direction.

「Ribbit!? Has he already recovered? What kind of power is this?!」

Heqat shook her head as if she couldn't believe it.

But, Kuna believed it.

Naturally, the same goes for Glorious.

The black flame that rose to the heavens unfolded before us.

「O the embodiment of Apophis (Darkness Serpent) and Skoll (Darkness Wolf)! The Personification of Rahula (Rahu Star) of Navagraha (Nine Heavenly Body)!! Light Eater; Eclipse!!」

His lovely voice resounded in Kuna's ears.

A Black Dragon appeared from within the black flame and rushed toward Níðhöggr.

Eclipse, the superior spirit of darkness, pinned down Níðhöggr, the superior spirit of the earth.

「Kuh! Eclipse!? How can it be!? You should be weakened due to the shadow of mother, right!? Have you already recovered!?」

Zarxis was shouting in frustration.

Everyone was looking up to the sky.

The black flame spread in the gray-colored sky.

And the figure of the Dark Knight stood in the middle of those black flames.

「Zarxis! This is a continuation of the battle at the Death Capital!」

The recovered Kuroki then pointed his demon sword of venous blood at Zarxis.

The battle between the Reaper and the Dark Knight was about to begin.

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