The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

The cry filled with ominous murderous energy resounded as Precia swung her sword, aiming for Unicorn’s neck.

“Tsk! Too shallow.”

Precia retreated quickly while flicking the blood off her sword.

Unicorn’s horn, wrapped in sword energy, passed through where Precia had just been.

Blood gushed from Unicorn’s shoulder blade, as it was slashed by Precia’s sword.

It was a considerable serious injury as it was cut in the instant it momentarily lost consciousness from the impact of the arrowhead piercing its thick hide and lodging into its skull after flying at supersonic speed.

“Grrrrr!”

Unicorn emitted murderous energy and lowly growled with its survival instinct.

Just now was truly dangerous.

It wouldn’t have been strange if its neck had been cut off like that, but it was able to accidentally dodge Precia’s sword while shaking its head to escape from the impact of the arrowhead.

It was truly a stroke of luck for Unicorn, but a regrettable strike for Precia.

“Kyang! Kyang!”

“Grrr! Kyaang! Kyaang!”

From beyond the thick and huge ice wall separating Unicorn and its pack, screams of Unicorn’s children could be heard.

The horned wolf pack consisted of female wolves of the same species as Unicorn and Unicorn’s children.

The mother wolves were ordinary mid to large-sized monsters, but Unicorn’s children were all huge and possessed strong power to the point they could be called large-sized monsters.

However, even so, Unicorn’s children had their hide and flesh cut and horns shattered by Gilbert’s sword.

It was because the source of Unicorn’s power came from the sealing mana stone, so no matter if they inherited Unicorn’s blood, they were nothing more than mere monsters.

“Haha! My body feels light. Overflowing with power!”

Gilbert felt as if power was overflowing thanks to the secret elixir of Blanzberg.

The mana condensed on the sword went beyond simply increasing the sword’s strength and sharpness, forming a sharp blade enveloping the sword without dispersing.

It was sword energy, called the true ability of a knight.

“Gilbert oppa! Yuan oppa said to avoid killing as much as possible!”

Injured beasts tend to go to a place they think is safest.

Even if we lose Unicorn, the plan was to injure the pack to specify a more definite habitat.

The arrowhead had a location tracking spell on it, but it was a strategy considering the case where the arrowhead doesn’t lodge or Unicorn removes it.

“Got it!”

At Silua’s shout, Gilbert had to deal with the wolf pack without even having time to rejoice at the sword energy condensed on his sword.

Silua controlled ten named dolls and held back the ankles of Unicorn’s pack to prevent them from crossing the ice wall and helping Unicorn.

“Resound and spread, sorrow of a hundred years! Freeze, icicles of a thousand years! Wall of Wailing!”

While the two dealt with Unicorn’s pack, Jade began blocking potential escape routes for Unicorn by flying around.

If half the reason the successive generations of Sages of the Winter Tree failed to subjugate the great demons was because they couldn’t find them in the vast mountain range, the other half was because they lost the fleeing great demons.

As it was a wide basin area, it naturally took the form of a huge ice dome.

As its escape routes were also being blocked in addition to the serious injury, Unicorn became desperate.

Its children, separated by the ice wall, were also not in a situation to help.

“Grrrrr!”

Unicorn released mana with full power to break through the crisis.

Precia, confronting Unicorn one-on-one, engaged in a mental battle with Unicorn while tensing up.

Unicorn’s horn, with strong energy condensed beyond sword energy, was not just threatening but even terrifying.

“Come at me! You mere beast!”

Precia also fully drew out her fighting spirit and charged at Unicorn with her sword wrapped in strong energy.

Kwa-aang-!!

As Unicorn’s horn and Precia’s sword clashed with full power, a thunderous roar rang out.

Even though it was just an exchange of blows, shockwaves spread in all directions, splitting the ground and disrupting the clouds in the sky.

Naturally, the ice wall separating the pack and Unicorn also nearly collapsed with cracks forming.

If Silua hadn’t urgently reinforced it with magic, it would have definitely crumbled.

“Tsk!”

Unicorn clicked its tongue as the ice wall didn’t collapse.

It regretted failing in its plan to use its pack as bait and escape.

“What a cunning beast!”

Precia tried to dig inside, aiming for the blind spots created by Unicorn’s huge body, but the great demon with senses rivaling superhumans didn’t easily give her the opportunity.

Rather, Unicorn used the excellent agility of its four legs to move at a speed that overwhelmed Precia and pressured her.

Precia and Unicorn moved quickly, clashing their sword and horn.

Kwang! Kwang! Kwang!

Each time the sword and horn wrapped in strong energy were swung, earth and sand flew up, and each time strong energy was unleashed, landslides occurred.

“Wall of Wailing! Wall of Wailing! Wall of Wailing!”

The ice walls created by Jade were also the same, receiving attacks that could collapse mountains.

Even using mana stones by the sack from a subspace, they evaporated in an instant.

“They’re truly monsters in their own right. Even so, she’s not one of the Ten Great Swords?”

Jade muttered and pondered how monstrous the existence called the Ten Great Swords would be.

He didn’t think at all that he himself, covering this entire wide basin where the two monsters were rampaging and maintaining the barrier, was a monster.

He wanted to intervene in the fight against Unicorn if he could, but with his dynamic vision, he might accidentally attack Precia if he made a mistake.

“Kraaawr!”

“Haaaa!”

Unicorn thrust its horn, aiming for Precia’s heart.

From Unicorn’s perspective, it was difficult to target Precia due to the overwhelming difference in physique, but conversely, the excessively huge horn was also very threatening to Precia.

In front of the charging horn, Precia displayed her courage, clashing her sword against the horn and simultaneously employing techniques Unicorn couldn’t imitate to deflect its attack.

Unicorn had only learned swordsmanship through hunting. It hadn’t ever learned officially from a master, but even if it did, it would be fundamentally impossible as it had to move its neck to swing its horn.

Precia, who dug into the gap while brushing the horn with her sword, cut Unicorn’s right eye, which had lost vision due to the blood flowing from the wound inflicted by Yuan.

“Kyaang?!”

Startled as its eye was cut, Unicorn greatly retreated and distanced itself.

Unicorn, having gained distance, assessed its current situation.

The pack it leads is of no help at all.

While fighting Precia, an ice dome surrounded the basin.

Unicorn’s survival instinct, having lived for over 600 years, loudly cried out.

It had to run away right now.

If it couldn’t escape, it would die.

But at the same time, its survival instinct also shouted not to turn its back on the small human in front of it.

The moment it turned its back and showed an opening, that sharp sword would pierce its neck.

Perhaps its head might even be cut off in an instant.

The moment its neck was cut, it should have fled long ago.

Unicorn had only one choice left.

It had to kill the human in front of it, or at least make it unable to move.

“Aoooo-!!”

Unicorn resolved itself, exuding sticky murderous energy.

Kwa-aang-!!

After exchanging dozens of blows and clashing once again with swords and horns using full power, this time it was Unicorn who rapidly retreated.

There was one reason why Unicorn was pushed back instead of Precia despite the innate difference in physique and strength.

Because Yuan’s arrowhead had deeply lodged into its skull and cracked it, it could no longer support its horn.

Even if it had an intact skull, it would have been a considerable burden to withstand Precia’s power that could shatter a mountain with a single blow over a hundred times.

It was natural that the cracked skull couldn’t endure it.

The only reason the horn didn’t fall off right away was thanks to the strength of the muscles supporting it.

On top of that, perhaps because blood continuously poured down like a waterfall from the neck that was cut in the initial surprise attack, it staggered from excessive blood loss.

“Grrrrr-!!”

Unicorn lowly roared, putting fatal murderous energy into it.

If it were an ordinary monster, it would have died foaming at the mouth just from the murderous energy Unicorn exuded.

But Precia calmly accepted and overcame the murderous energy.

The ruler of this area acknowledged and accepted that she was its final opponent.

And then, using all its power, it strengthened its body and created a sword-like blade over ten meters long on its horn.

Whether it wins or loses in this clash, Unicorn will die.

There was only one reason for it dying: it chose to fight when it should have run away.

It knew that running away in a wretched manner was the way to live even a few hours longer, no, even a few minutes longer.

But even so, it didn’t run away.

No, it couldn’t run away.

Unicorn had pride in sharpening and polishing its own horn.

It had the desire to clash horns with someone strong.

It was cruel and despicable enough to try to use its pack as bait, but it couldn’t become wretched in the swordsmanship it had honed.

Unicorn and Precia looked at each other and aimed their respective horns and swords.

And they clashed with full power.

On that day, the legend of the great demon ‘Unicorn’ that dominated the western mountains came to an end.

I applied ointment to Precia’s hand and said,

“Good work.”

Perhaps because it was such a fierce battle that the main habitats of the unicorn wolves were dug up and overturned here and there, or because of the final clash where the sky seemed to split even when viewed from afar, Precia’s palms were covered in blood.

“No. I only did what I had to do.”

Although Precia said that with a smile, it was quite concerning that her hands, which were full of calluses despite her young age, were torn.

Even more so because she was injured fighting on the battlefield I pushed her into.

I felt apologetic, but I didn’t apologize.

That would be insulting Precia, who faithfully followed my orders.

“Still, don’t get hurt from now on. That’s an order.”

“Yes, I understand!”

Although the wound must have stung quite a bit, Precia smiled brightly.

Still, she must be happy to have confronted and defeated Unicorn, a monster rivaling superhumans.

Since it’s old man Divet’s ointment, considering Precia’s recovery ability, it will be completely healed by tomorrow.

Although it was torn quite severely, so scars might remain.

Still, compared to getting seriously injured while facing Unicorn in the novel , it’s the same as not getting hurt at all, so it’s fortunate.

The Precia in volume 1 had more experience than the current Precia, and Jade was also much stronger than now after inheriting the position of the Sage of the Winter Tree.

However, Jade ended up making a mistake due to the coordination between Unicorn and the wolf pack it led, and as a result, Precia was pierced by Unicorn’s horn and left in critical condition.

That’s also the reason why I focused on separating Unicorn and its pack before the hunt.

If they were ordinary monsters, teaming up with Unicorn would only be a hindrance, but Unicorn’s children were different.

It was ordinarily dangerous because Unicorn’s mana resonated with its children, and they moved as one body.

“Still, I’m glad we didn’t have to use the backup plans.”

Jade handed me clean bandages and smiled.

“It’s thanks to everyone doing well according to the plan.”

I had prepared fifteen backup plans.

In case Unicorn and the pack weren’t properly separated.

In case Precia got injured by Unicorn.

In case Jade’s mistake caused the blockade of escape routes to fail.

In case Unicorn chose to flee from the beginning instead of fighting, and so on.

In the end, the Unicorn in the novel dies from frostbite after being caught in the ice curse cast by Jade, and Precia recovers thanks to Jade’s devoted care, but Jade regrets his arrogance, saying the scars couldn’t be helped.

Come to think of it, Jade in volume 1 was quite arrogant, so that needs to be fixed.

Looking at the dawn breaking through the mountains, I said

“The next great demon we’ll hunt is ‘Mist’ in the east.”

Of course, before hunting, I came up with a strategy to deceive Arcana.

No, was it about seven?