Volume 1

Chapter 27: The Hero, Destroys the Mage 2

Overlimit .

It didn’t almost break me, but was supposed to . This ability, once used, causes me injury, and in return, greatly magnifies my stats for a very short time .

And while I get torn apart inside, the 【Viridian Sword of Crystal] does its job of healing me, making this a powerful and practical ability .

It was one of the trump cards my current self could use .

“You are quite the idiot to have returned my memories . I know it, the weakness of that Overlimit of yours . ”

“… … …”

Yes, just as Yumis said, this power had a very obvious downside .

Since I was constantly healing myself, there was the vast usage of MP on that front . And since the【Viridian Sword of Crystal] works by simply accelerating the body’s natural healing process, I also lose a ton of calories . That was the reason I got intense pangs of hunger after using this trump card .

As my level increased, I’d have more place to store extra calories, and could even gain a skill like Stockpile to aid the process . Eating too much now would only make me fat .

In other words, this move won’t last long .

I’d used it against the army of monsters in a more subdued way and that still made me exhausted in 7 minutes or so .

If I went full throttle, I’d last 3 minutes max .

There was also the fact that a lot of my mana was drained from that Tenebris Ignis Giant .

I had only 30% MP remaining . The signs of an MP high had started showing . I stopped using overlimit .

“Hah! Right back at you, Yumis . ”

But Yumis was not much better off .

Demon’s Fire cost little MP compared to the strength of the golems it bore .

But if the core of one of the golems is destroyed, a feedback curse is set on the spellcaster which causes a massive drop in their MP followed by intense pain .

Minnalis’ poison that silently drained mana while preventing spells, the high cost spells Tri Lightningand Multiple Lightning .

And finally, one Tenebris Ignis Giant’s core: destroyed .

This rate of expenditure was too high for the level she was at now . So I wasn’t the only one putting on a tough front .

“And yet, I still have 40% of my mana left over, your Overlimit has run out, and finally, I have one more Tenebris Ignis Giant under my command . ”

“… … …”

“You are and will be always the fool . If you simply hadn’t given me these memories, I might’ve been wary of that power of yours, maybe even giving you the time to recover . ”

Because I need to constantly keep healing when I’m in overlimit mode, there would be a faint green glow around me for the duration of it . When she saw that the glow had snuffed out, she gained assurance of victory and smiled in confidence .

“End him with all your might, o golem . ”

“RUBOOOOHH”

At Yumis’ command, the sword golem flared up in its violet fire like the other one did just recently .

If I used any ordinary soulblade on that, it’d disappear having all the mana inside sucked away .

And seeing as I hadn’t moved, Yumis began readying a spell . She wasn’t voicing any chant, but I could see water and wind mana gathering around her .

I had a good idea what spell she’d choose in a situation like this .

“You really never change, do you . ”

My low mutter was drowned out completely by the earth shaking thumps the golem made as it ran over .

“I was a fool, but you’re much more of a fool in your own right . ”

All of this was still within my expectations .

So of course, I had prepared ways to counter and destroy her every move fully .

“Come, 【Absorber’s Edge] . ”

I instantiated a soulblade I’d unlocked for this specific battle .

It was as big as an ordinary longsword, with the blade being split in red and blue cleanly along the middle .

It had the power to aggregate anything I designate around me .

Yumis showed surprise seeing me holding this . She of course knew about the 【Absorber’s Edge] and I could tell that she was thinking, What is he planning now?

But the fact that she hadn’t caught on instantly, led her to my checkmate .

I turned towards the approaching golem, and at the right timing, thrust the soulblade into the ground .

“! What’s!?”

“BLRBLAAAHH!”

I made it look like I activated the trap with my sword and collapsed the ground from under the golem .

The bone monster made a dumb roar as it descended into the 7 meter deep pit, landing in the water which splashed up all the way to the surface .

“A pitfall!? And, water…?”

I pulled out the Absorber’s Edge and dashed towards the golem to deal the finishing blow .

“!? You, imbecile . Did you think you could extinguish the golem’s hellfires with simple water!?”

“Once again, right back at you . ”

Once the splash of water settled again, the golem in the hole looked to have most of its flames put out .

“I knew you’d use Demon’s Fire . ”

“What, no, holy water!?”

Normal water would do nothing to the curse inducing hellfires of the golem, but holy water, water that’d been blessed by the church, was a different matter entirely .

This golem, by the nature of its creation, had many undead traits . Thus, its accursed flames would undoubtedly be doused when exposed to holy water .

I jumped down in the pit, and pierced the slow, only slightly flame-coated golem, in its core .

“GAHHH, urgh, ahh, I, can still!!”

Even under the extreme pain from her MP being drained away after the destruction of the core, Yumis didn’t stop gathering the mana . And even as the golem returned to dust, it obeyed Yumis’ commands and prevented my escape for an instant .

“DIE, DAMNED HEROOO!!”

Yumis released her spell squeezing out the last of her strength .

“You’re making me repeat myself, Yumis . ”

This too was one of the possibilities I kept in mind .

I filled【Absorber’s Edge] with mana and threw it to the wall opposite to me .

At the same time, A ceiling of wind that Yumis had created, blocked the exit to the pit .

“I knew from the start that you’d use Demon’s Fire, and,”

I snickered and then held my breath .

The moment 【Absorber’s Edge] hit, all the water in the pit decomposed, creating huge volumes of oxygen and hydrogen . If all this exploded, I’d be fucked sideways .

“Since your old memories are there, you’d also use the low cost Trinity Blast to finish me off ―――― O Water, amass into my sword . ”

“TRINITY BLAST!!”

A tiny surge of electricity, and then, flames erupted . But this was no explosion of the three elements, water, wind and fire . Simply flames .

And those flames also instantly ended, ending the spell unclimactically .

“Fuhaah!? No, the fire, but why…!?”

“AHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Paaathetic Yuuumisss, your knowledge, your power, none of those were earned, all stolen . That’s why you’ll always be third rate, you monkey faced bitch!”

Yumis had learned that decomposing water into oxygen and hydrogen gas and setting fire to it would cause a massive explosion . But she didn’t at all know why this happened .

She just knew that there were two things called oxygen and hydrogen that came out of the water and were easy to explode .

She had no clue as to how the explosion was caused by the simultaneous combustion of the two elements . She didn’t understand why I had separated the mixed atoms of oxygen and hydrogen into oxygen gas and hydrogen gas using 【Absorber’s Edge] .

If she set fire to that, the only part that’d explode would be the thin, top layer where the two gasses were still mixed . Since the gasses were split, the rest of it would quickly burn away without exploding .

I jumped out of the pit,【Soulblade of Origin]in hand, and rushed towards Yumis .

“Kh, I haven’t-!”

“No, you have, you lost!!”

I took out a pair of mana sealing hand shackles they make slaves wear .

I bound her hands in those shackles faster than she could notice, and after tripping her with a sweep of my leg, I stabbed my soulblade into the now fallen Yumis’ hands from the back .

“Ghaa!! Ghh, aahhhh!!!”

I twisted and tilted the soulblade to spice up the pain .

“Kuhaha!! Take that, and that, and some more, hurts doesn’t it? I’m pretty good at this aren’t I? It’s all thanks to you, every one of you . I’m so damn HAPPY I can see that distorted expression on you . Everything, everything I LEARNED, it’s all for you, you people who betrayed me, heey, do you FEEL it? ALL the emotions I’m feeling right now?”

“Guh, uhu, a-ahhh!!”

Her palms, her heels, her elbows, her knees, I carefully put cuts on Yumis’ body so as to keep her bleeding to a minimum .

“It was a fun fight, really . You were so damn predictable, I almost messed up trying to hold back the giggles you know? I knew you’d make that golem as soon as I turned your troops into garbage . Hurt’s right? I recall you’re the type that doesn’t get happy MP drunk, but grumpy MP drunk . It hurt when I broke those cores didn’t it? You can’t hide it from me . ”

“Guh, uuhhh, haaah, haah . ”

“Oops, my bad . They’ll get mad if I start snacking without them . Okay Yumis, be strong now, alright?”

“Uguahh!! gu, u, ahh . ”

Many of her tendons now cut, Yumis could only lay limply on the dirt as I crushed her hands underfoot . I think I broke a few bones, let me do this little bit, please? Just a bit, a little tiny bit . My feet were grinding on their own .

And please, please don’t break, don’t you break yet, alright?

“That should be it for setting the table . Get ready for the main event . Yumis . I’m begging you . Don’t be easy to break . ”

“Urgghh!”

I grip hard on Yumis’ head from under the chin .

“It’s high time we piss on and set fire to that pride of yours . We’ll do this in order, one by one, we’ll destroy each and every one of your dreams . ”

The corners of my lips rose crookedly under all the unbearable emotions .