Chapter 67 - Red Eye Subjugation Battle (9)
The red eye must have noticed that the phenomenon it was experiencing was caused by me above the gorge, as it spewed out murderous energy.
Wow, how brutal.
I smiled wryly as I looked at the red eye glaring at me.
“Where are you crawling up to, you beast? Activate magic circle 56. Ground, hold onto it.”
The intensified gravity slammed the red eye, which had jumped up to the top of the gorge, back to the ground.
As expected of a great demon, it tried to resist with mana, but I just need to pound it with more mana stones than the resisting mana.
I haven’t even used half of the mana stones yet.
“Activate magic circles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 again. Pour down, rain of ice!”
While it couldn’t move, I once again poured down an ice bombardment from high altitude.
“Silua, get ready.”
“Yes!”
Silua summoned ten named dolls.
Is ten bodies the limit for named dolls currently?
Since she inherited Geor’s mana circuits, rather than lacking mana, she seemed to use only the number she could handle reliably.
If it were me, I wouldn’t have dared to try that number as I wouldn’t have been able to draw out their full power due to lack of mana.
When the ice bombardment ended, the red eye let out a cry filled with anger.
“Kya-aa-aa-aa!!”
“Ugh! My ears hurt.”
But this time, I made some preparations, so I didn’t suffer internal injuries.
The red eye seemed to have used up quite a bit of the power it had recovered, as it was much more wounded than when I first poured down the ice spears.
“At this rate, we can win!”
At Gilbert’s words, I smiled bitterly.
“No, I can’t endure it.”
No matter how much I pour mana stones to the point of tripping the traps I prepared in advance, in the end, it’s me who executes the magic.
Even if I forcibly restore my body and mana, there’s a limit.
From now on, I’ll begin to feel the burden on my body.
Judging by the numbness where the mana circuits were located, it seemed to be overloaded.
“Is Precia not here yet?”
I’m worried about moving forward with just the named dolls.
“I have no choice but to try to buy more time. Activate magic circles 57, 58, 59, 60! Ground, hold onto it.”
Gravity magic circles were activated throughout the gorge, pressing down on everything.
Now it won’t be able to jump up to the top of the gorge in an instant.
However, the red eye rampaged without any signs of difficulty, swinging its fists in all directions.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
“Vice Master, magic circles 8, 9, and 12 have been damaged.”
Oh no, is it trying to break the magic circles installed inside the gorge? It’s a cunning fellow, unlike a beast.
“Activate magic circles 53, 54, 55. Create Golem.”
Parts of the gorge walls fell off, and three golems were created.
“Don’t let it rampage!”
The huge golems rushed at the red eye as if to crush it with their massive bodies at my command.
The red eye avoided the golems with agile movements and smashed the golems with its fists.
The golems collapsed instantly from the fists imbued with immense strength, but as long as the core was intact, they were quickly restored.
The red eye tried to crawl up the gorge somehow to kill me, but it jumped down and attacked the golems when attacked by the restored golems.
“Even considering the gravity magic circles, the red eye’s movements have slowed down a lot.”
I nodded at Gilbert’s admiring words.
“Young master? Young master! Are you alright! You’re sweating!”
“I’m fine.”
As mana was rapidly consumed and replenished repeatedly, I was on the verge of exhaustion, but I wasn’t as impatient as the red eye.
Right now, the red eye was noticeably flustered and anxious.
“It’s about time for the effects to show, what a monstrous fellow.”
The bottom of the gorge was filled with all kinds of monster poisons, including poison oak poison.
As the ice spears melted, the water mixed with poison, so it wouldn’t have been strange to show severe poisoning symptoms by now, but the red eye looked sturdy.
Yeah, did you build up resistance by eating various poisons?
Then let’s see if you have resistance to this as well.
I deployed steel spider dolls into the gorge.
Thousands of dolls firmly planted their legs on the walls and filled the gorge with poisonous fog.
“Kya-aa-aa-aa!!”
This time, it seemed to have no resistance, as the red eye let out a scream-like sound and wildly swung its fists.
The red eye’s fists greatly cracked the gorge walls and created an earthquake in the area.
“Navi, prevent the poisonous smoke from rising up. Zillian Original, turn on the thermal detection magic filter.”
The view, which had been obscured by the pungent smoke, changed to blue and red colors.
The only living being in the gorge was the red eye, so it was easy to spot.
The red eye constantly crushed the golems that rushed in and shot down the dolls spewing out poisonous fog by throwing golem debris, even with its vision obscured.
The gravity magic circles installed inside the gorge also hindered the dolls’ movements, so evasion wasn’t easy.
“Vice Master, I inform you that magic circles 56 and 57 have collapsed.”
The gravity where the red eye was located returned to normal, and the red eye’s actions became faster.
But it’s okay. I still have plenty of spare magic.
“Vice Master, magic circle 53 has been damaged.”
The golem’s core was shattered after continuous impacts.
“Activate magic circle 52, Create Golem. Activate magic circles 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, the chains of the sky shall judge the prisoner even if slack!”
The magic chains installed above the gorge blocked the top of the gorge to prevent the red eye from jumping up.
The red eye tried to escape before the chain net was completed, but the net was completed faster by a hair’s breadth.
“Kya-aa-aa-aa!!”
“Ugh!”
As the red eye hung on the chain net and roared with murderous energy at close range, I couldn’t help but vomit blood from internal injuries again.
Crazy monster bastard!
“Silua!”
“Yes! I understand!”
Silua deployed ten named dolls toward the golem, blocking the gorge before the red eye could tear off the chains.
The named ‘Purple Falcon’ and ‘Blue Bird’ flew in the sky and intercepted the red eye.
“Ki-ya-aa-aa!”
As the purple and blue feathers imbued with mana spread all over their body, the red eye seemed to be hit as well, as it let go of the chains and went down to the bottom of the gorge.
Bang! Bang! Kwang-gwang-gwang-! Bang!
Then, along with the loud explosion sounds, as if a fierce battle was taking place, the earth shook.
I released the gravity magic so that it wouldn’t interfere with the dolls’ movements.
I didn’t know about other dolls, but gravity greatly reduced the ability of flying-type dolls, so I had no choice.
“Silua, I’ll shoot a spider web.”
“Yes, I’ll share the dolls’ locations!”
Silua displayed a magic interface in the form of a map representing the inside of the gorge.
The dolls were marked as blue dots, and the enemy as a red dot.
I aimed at the red eye with the spider dolls still clinging to the gorge walls and fired a spider web.
I couldn’t aim and shoot because the poisonous fog hadn’t cleared yet, but knowing the red eye’s location, I just had to designate the coordinates and shoot.
“Tsk, it’s too fast.”
The red eye skillfully evaded the spider webs while dealing with the named dolls’ coordination.
It even shot down the spider dolls by throwing ice shards on the ground without seeing them.
“How did the previous Blantzbarg Marquis repel such a monster?”
Moreover, the red eye back then must have been much stronger than now.
“According to my father’s records, he said they persistently pursued and attacked it with my father’s dolls for a year to weaken it, and then ambushed it with the subjugation unit. And the previous Marquis was also a superhuman equivalent to the Ten Great Swords at the time.”
“And they still let it escape?”
“Yes, during the year-long pursuit process, most of my father’s pursuit dolls were lost, and fifteen named dolls were also lost. My father’s illness also rapidly worsened, so there was no way to track the final escape.”
The red eye had to be said to be lucky as well.
Well, after being attacked like that, it went into hibernation for 20 years to recover.
Of course, even if it was harassed for a year, it must have been much stronger than now, so I can’t belittle the previous Marquis’ achievements.
Thanks to the spider webs continuously shot by the dolls clinging to the gorge walls, even while being shot down by the red eye’s attacks, the bottom of the gorge was filled with sticky spider webs.
The dolls controlled by Silua were prepared to deal with the spider webs, but the red eye wasn’t.
The red eye’s movements slowed down noticeably.
“All dolls! Full power attack!”
Kwa-aa-aa-aang-!
Simultaneously with Silua’s shout, a huge explosion occurred in the gorge, and mana spewed out, creating a pillar.
The mana pillar broke the chains blocking the upper part of the gorge and soared high into the sky.
“Oh no! Navi!”
At my cry, Navi created a wind barrier where we were. The poisonous fog also spread in all directions, riding the air currents.
“Ah! I’m sorry!”
I said it was okay to Silua’s apology and examined the bottom of the gorge.
“Did it endure that attack?”
The red eye was in a bloody state, having lost its lower right arm, but it was still standing.
“Kya-aa-aa-aa-aa!”
The red eye, filled with anger, struck the ground with its fist, and the ice-covered ground shook and was overturned.
Unlike before, when the ground simply shook, the fist was strong enough to collapse and split parts of the gorge.
As the adhesiveness of the spider web was nullified, the red eye moved at a speed that couldn’t be followed by the eyes and cut the named ‘Purple Falcon’ doll in half.
“Activate magic circles 73 and 74!”
“Vice Master, more than half of the magic circles installed inside the gorge just now have been damaged.”
At Zillian Original’s report, I examined the magic circles.
With the named dolls’ concentrated fire and the red eye striking the ground just now, the gorge walls also cracked and were damaged.
Out of the 80 magic circles installed inside the gorge, it would be faster to count the intact ones.
I activated all the remaining magic circles in the gorge to seize the red eye’s ankles and moved the dolls.
“All doll units! Absorb all the mana stones and bombard!”
The 600 dolls clinging to the gorge walls and the 5,000 dolls gathered above the gorge simultaneously pounded mana cannons into the gorge.
The dolls inside the gorge would also be swept away, but now wasn’t the time to worry about that.
Dolls could just be repaired.
After several minutes of mana cannon baptism, the dolls lost power one by one and fell silent.
Eventually, all the dolls’ movements stopped, and we waited in tension.
“It’s… over, right?”
As soon as Gilbert’s words ended, the area that had been quiet shook with thick murderous energy.
“Oh my, would it help if I cast a resurrection spell?”
I joked with a bitter smile.
Eventually, the red eye jumped high and came up above the gorge.
The red eye let out a low cry, with blood pouring like a waterfall from the cross-section where its lower right arm had disappeared.
“Gya-r-r-r-r…!”
Judging by the black color of the blood staining the ground, it seemed to be properly poisoned.
It wasn’t just the lower right arm that was injured.
The red eye’s left ear, which had been long like a rabbit’s ear, had completely disappeared, and the left side of its face was also distorted with hideous burn marks.
The abdominal skin, exposed as if burned by fire, had old wounds reopened, revealing the internal organs.
Were those wounds inflicted by the previous Blantzbarg Marquis?
The red eye staggered, but its murderous aura amplified with each step.
It glared at me as if it would definitely kill me, even if it died trying.
Did it instinctively know that I was the culprit?
“This is bad. It’s so scary, I think I might pee myself.”
When I giggled and laughed, Gilbert pointed his sword at the red eye and glanced at me.
In Gilbert’s gaze, I could feel a sense of expectation, wondering if there were any attack means left.
I’m sorry to disappoint that gaze, but there were no more attack means left.
My mana was also on the verge of depletion.
“Come, my dolls!”
Silua summoned the named dolls above the gorge.
Seven named dolls came up.
None of them were in perfect condition. Let’s bill Demiway for the repair costs.
“Kya-aa-aa!”
The red eye roared and charged at me, and Gilbert attacked the red eye from the front while the dolls attacked from behind.
The red eye ignored all the attacks coming at it and charged at me.
I raised my hand to use my last resort but stopped.
“Ha-ha, you’re late.”
The red eye ignored all the attacks pouring on it and reached out its hand to me.
And then…
“I’m sorry, young master.”
Precia intervened between the red eye and me as the red eye’s arm was cut off.
I had gone through all sorts of trouble to cut off that arm, but Precia cut it off so easily.
“If you were aiming for it, that’s quite a high-level move, Precia. I almost fell for you.”
It was the law for heroes to appear late.