Anna Croft and I moved towards the battlefield right away.
Completely lost to madness now, Michael was ripping apart every single Constellation and Incarnation near him to bloody shreds.
The 'Evil' born only to destroy 'Evil'.
After transforming into a Corrupted Angel, just Michael's combat prowess alone would not lose out to that of Poseidon or Hades.
[Quite a few Constellations are paying more attention to the situation unfolding on the 'Middle Island No.3'.]
[Constellation, 'Demon-like Judge of Flames', is looking at you with worried eyes.]
Those Constellations who had either already made their way into the 'Main Island', or hadn't participated in the 'Great War of Saints and Demons', began shifting their gazes in this direction now.
After we reached the edge of Michael's firing range, Anna Croft spoke to me. “Getting any closer than this will be dangerous. My [Covert Operations] skill can only….”
I reached out and grasped her wrist.
[Fable, 'Pebble and I', has begun its storytelling!]
[Fable, 'Pebble and I', is puzzled by the existence of 'Anna Croft'.]
“Take care of this woman, as well.”
[Fable, 'Pebble and I', is looking at you with a slightly dissatisfied expression.]
[Fable, 'Pebble and I', has assimilated 'Anna Croft' into its effect.]
With that, we bravely ran through the battlefield. Michael and the other Constellations didn't sense our presence at all. Most likely, we looked like a pair of pebbles rolling around on the ground or some such.
Anna Croft asked me with a shocked voice. “What is up with this Fable??”
“It's a Fable for turning into a pebble.”
Since we didn't have time, I replied to her like that.
Corpses of Constellations littered the pathways of the battlefield. Every now and then, we spotted still-breathing ones, too. Such as the Demon King from the 68th Demon World, 'Darkness of no Value', Belial.
After suffering from Michael's attacks, he was barely holding on as Fables continued to leak out from his body. Wait, now that I thought about it, this dude was also aiming for me, wasn't he?
Stab!
I oh-so-calmly sunk my [Unbreakable Faith] in his body next.
[You have eliminated the 68th Demon World's Demon King!]
[Applicable Demon King is of a lower ranking than you are, and there is no change to the ranking.]
[You have acquired the [Modifier Necklace], 'Darkness of no Value'.]
[You have murdered a fifth Demon King Incarnation Body.]
[Possibility of a new Attribute is opening up to you!]
“But, aren't you a Demon King yourself?! Can you actually kill them like that??”
“Well, I'll just give up being a Demon King, then.”
Anna Croft heard my perfectly-composed glib reply and formed a dumbfounded expression.
Ku-gugugugu!!
We heard the noises of Michael's Status flooding out right behind us. If the Probability of the 2nd generation was slightly weaker, the entire forest would've been blown away by that power already.
“We don't have much time left, so let's hurry. Asmodeus should be in a state similar to this guy.”
The forest's path near our position was decorated by the fallen fragments of a Demon King's Fables. These traces belonged to a much-higher ranked Demon King, one that couldn't be compared to Belial. You didn't have to be a genius to figure out who they belonged to.
We brushed past the bushes for a bit until finally discovering a figure of a person leaning against the foot of a tall, ancient tree.
[….So, you did show up.]
As if it knew that I'd show up, Asmodeus was waiting for me with a smile on its face.
An arm and a leg of its Incarnation Body were cut off and missing; its chest area had been crushed as well, and it was truly hanging precariously on its last breaths.
[To think that Michael possessed the authority of 'Corrupted'… you knew that from the beginning, didn't you?]
Just before the [Judgement Field] crushed my body…
….Issuing the 'crunch' noise, I took a bite out of the [Fruit of Good and Evil].
< Episode 69: Archangel Hunting (2) > Fin.
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