The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

The giant bat, ‘Mist’, was a kind of vampire that existed in the very distant ancient times even among vampires from other worlds.

It was older than the commonly called True Ancestors or Progenitors, but it wasn’t particularly great or anything.

It was like being in awe of the human heroes appearing in founding myths or creation myths, but not worshipping the ancient primate Australopithecus.

Even if it was a heroic Australopithecus that led the tribe to victory in war.

In the end, just as Australopithecus branched off in evolution and became a completely separate species from Homo sapiens, it could be very insulting for vampires to call the great magic beast ‘Mist’ a vampire.

Yeah, if classified, the bat in front of me would be nothing more than an endlessly worthless beast if not for the mana stone of sealing.

“Kieeeek-!”

However, that didn’t mean the bat in front of me didn’t have the characteristics of a vampire.

Just as Australopithecus is characterized by being able to freely use tools with both hands like humans, ‘Mist’ also can’t help but have its whole body burn in sunlight.

“Tsk, as expected, this isn’t enough.”

‘Mist’s epidermis burned and it let out a painful scream, but that was it.

Yet it was the magic of the ‘Sage of the Sun’, who was one of the Eight Mages in the past.

It was the limit of magic restored from the magic circle drawn in the novel’s illustration.

“Well, it’s still about what I expected.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Precia slashed ‘Mist’ with a sword wrapped in sword energy.

‘Mist’, who couldn’t come to its senses due to the power of the sun, regained consciousness when half-slashed and transformed part of its body into fog to deflect Precia’s sword.

However, Precia’s sword wasn’t ordinary either, so it still inflicted damage.

“Kieeeek-!”

The giant bat splattered blood from its wound, exhaled roughly, and regenerated its injury.

Even vampires with good regeneration can’t regenerate infinitely.

If you keep slashing and slashing, there will come a moment when it can no longer regenerate.

Precia aimed for that and slashed ‘Mist’ to the point where dozens of afterimages could be seen.

However, the efficiency wasn’t high.

“        -!”

‘Mist’ countered with ultrasonic waves infused with mana.

It was extremely difficult to block sound wave attacks that resonated through the air as a medium.

No matter how freely a mage could manipulate the wind, it was nearly impossible to perfectly control the movement of the surrounding air.

Yeah, if it was a mage, that is.

“Navi!”

-Nyaaaaong~!

If it was a spirit that was the wind itself, it could not only perfectly control the movement of air but also create a vacuum barrier.

Navi created a vacuum membrane surrounding ‘Mist’ using my mana and blocked the ultrasonic attack.

“This is the power of a spirit…!”

Jade couldn’t hide his admiration for Navi’s ability.

It was magic he could sufficiently perform as well, as he was just about to inherit the title of the Sage of the Winter Wood, but it was impossible to block it as easily and simply as I did.

This wasn’t a matter of ability but essence.

It’s like a person with two hands can’t carry as much at once as a person with four hands.

“Jade! Silua!”

“Ah! Yes! Understood!”

“I’m ready!”

At my call, the two hurriedly attacked ‘Mist’.

“Power of the merciful sun! Sword of life that judges evil!”

“Illuminate the glorious era! Brilliant sun!”

The flame sword containing the power of the sun created by Jade and Silua’s solar rays began mutilating the body of the giant bat.

Due to ‘Mist’s vampire characteristics, magic easily inflicted damage.

At a glance, it was causing much greater damage than my magic.

Is this a difference in talent? How depressing.

“!!”

Thanks to Navi’s vacuum membrane, ‘Mist’s screams couldn’t be heard.

Hmm, I like that my ears don’t hurt.

‘Mist’ tried to escape by turning its whole body into fog as soon as it got up and was suddenly attacked.

No matter how much the power of the sun was infused in the magic that hit it, it was only the power I clumsily restored.

Therefore, it was naturally insignificant compared to what the real sun gave.

‘Mist’s power was strong enough to penetrate the wind layer Navi created.

It couldn’t be helped since the mana distribution was low in that direction.

However, it was clearly a mistake to transform into complete fog, not just a part of its body, in front of me.

“Rami!”

-Beep! Beep!

Mist is ‘water’ lighter than air.

Not the gaseous water vapor, but the liquid ‘water’.

Transforming into pure moisture without impurities in front of the spirit of water was truly a suicidal act.

Rami captured, solidified, and fixed the fog.

This was the reason I had to participate despite the risk.

‘Mist’ tried to draw up mana to resist, but it couldn’t overcome the power of Rami, who endlessly devoured the mana of mana stones using my mana as a primer.

I used most of my mana to prevent ‘Mist’ from escaping.

No matter how talented Jade was, with his current state of not having inherited the title of the Sage of the Four Seasons, it was nearly impossible to stop that thing from running away with perfect fog transformation.

“Attacks don’t land well now that it turned into fog!”

Perhaps because it wasn’t proper sun magic, the magic damage decreased after it transformed into fog.

Still, it was much more effective than slashing with a sword, so it couldn’t be helped.

“Beat it down with quantity! Mist transformation must consume a lot of mana, so if you keep attacking, the fog transformation will naturally come undone!”

At my advice, Jade created dozens of flame swords containing the power of the sun and attacked ‘Mist’.

“!!”

The giant bat-shaped figure that transformed into fog was mutilated by the flame swords, writhing in pain.

Even though it’s not its main attribute, with this power, magic really is about talent.

At that moment, ‘Mist’ used its own blood spilled on the ground to create dozens of spears and attacked me.

It seemed to have noticed that I, a mere rat, was the one preventing its escape.

Kang! Kagagang-!

“It’s dangerous, please step back!”

“We will protect you!”

Precia and Gilbert protected me by deflecting ‘Mist’s blood spears with their swords wrapped in sword energy.

Unlike during the subjugation of ‘One Horn’, the two didn’t have a big role, so they were in charge of guarding me.

“Huh? Gilbert, you created sword energy?”

When I was surprised to see the sword energy, Gilbert grinned and slashed the blood spears rushing toward me.

“Hehe, somehow I did it!”

The form of the sword energy still looked unstable, but I expected it to take quite a while to create sword energy, so it was a pleasant miscalculation.

No matter how great the divine medicine Silver Bloom was, creating sword energy was purely Gilbert’s talent.

As expected, he wasn’t called a monstrous war god for nothing.

Usually, even if a talented knight ate divine medicine and trained from a young age, they had to be close to forty to be able to create sword energy.

As such, it was a very encouraging fact that Gilbert, who wasn’t even twenty yet, created sword energy.

Goodness, even in the novel, he only did menial tasks for quite a long time even after inheriting the ancestor’ss legacy and joining Jade’s party, but he already created sword energy.

“I can work him harder without worry.”

“Pardon?!”

Gilbert was startled by my mumbling.

He had a look as if asking how I could possibly work him any harder than this.

Hmm, did I work him that hard?

“Gilbert! How dare you take your eyes off while protecting the young master, do you want to die?”

“No! I will focus!”

At Precia’s stern rebuke filled with murderous energy, Gilbert tensed up and diligently swung his sword.

“Don’t be too hard on him, Precia. When he shows results, you need to give praise and rewards so he can work with motivation.”

At my words, Precia glanced at Gilbert and said,

“Well, creating sword energy is certainly an excellent achievement.”

As praise came from the stern Precia, Gilbert’s tense expression relaxed.

“But since we’re working, we should save the chitchat for later.”

Before long, ‘Mist’, who was being beaten by Jade and Silua, turned into a bloody mess as its fog transformation came undone.

“      -!”

“Ugh!”

As soon as its fog transformation was released, ‘Mist’ spewed out ultrasonic waves infused with all its might.

The powerful ultrasonic waves tore through the vacuum membrane and attacked us.

It was because most of my mana was currently being sent to Rami, the spirit of water, to restrain ‘Mist’, so sending mana to Navi was delayed.

In fact, even if the transition was fast, there wasn’t much mana I could give to Navi anyway, since I didn’t know when it would escape with fog transformation.

I covered my ears and sent mana to Navi as much as possible to protect my companions, and Precia and Jade immediately swung their swords and magic to physically attack despite the ultrasonic attack.

“Kieeeek-!”

As a final struggle, ‘Mist’ attacked by scattering its blood in all directions simultaneously with the ultrasonic attack.

However, its wings were soon torn by Jade and its neck was slashed by Precia, falling to the ground as it was.

The needles made of blood that flew right in front of me lost mana and fell to the ground as soon as ‘Mist’ died.

“Phew~! That was dangerous.”

I wiped the blood of ‘Mist’ off my cheek and whistled.

And thus, the legend of the great magic beast ‘Mist’ that dominated this area came to an end today.

“Ah, I should collect the vampire blood in case it’s needed later.”

Vampire blood is a precious resource that can be used in various ways.

It could be used not only as a magic ingredient but also to make wound-healing potions, narcotic painkillers, and even for terrorism.

(TN: I’m in danger)

*****

In a pitch-black space without light, the parrot beastman relied on his senses and asked,

“Is this the end?”

Originally, it was a space brightly lit by numerous bonfires, but it became dark because they put out all the fires while wandering through the maze.

They could create light with magic. However, this space was an extreme environment where even a handful of mana had to be conserved.

Therefore, the Arcana executives all agreed to rely on their senses.

At Rotulus’ question, Arisa nodded while roughly catching her breath.

“Gnash! I won’t let the bastard who made this trap go.”

To break through this trap, she had to sacrifice all her low-level undead and even some high-level undead she cherished.

Among the six executives, she suffered the most damage.

“It was truly the worst trap.”

They silently agreed with Javan’s words.

This trap was the worst in many ways.

Putting aside creating an invisible maze with instant-kill traps and inducing suffocation without their knowledge using bonfires that consumed oxygen in a confined space.

Nevertheless, this space was overflowing with elements that deceived and sowed discord among them all too naturally.

The worst of those elements were the thirty-five pieces of paper in Arisa’s hand.

When they first saw the papers hidden in the gaps of the distorted space with provocative words written on them like ‘Too bad! Better luck next time’, ‘Kekekeke’, ‘Idiot’, ‘Fooled again?’, they just got angry and immediately tore up the papers.

However, on the seventh paper, Javan detected faint mana.

After collecting and examining the ones they had torn, they concluded that what was written on the papers with mana were hints to get out of here.

After discovering the hints, an internal conflict arose over whether to believe these hints or not.

“But somehow we got through it.”

Rotulus took a deep breath, wrapped strong energy around his sword, and slashed the void.

Kwaaaa-!

Finally, a crack was created in the distorted space, and they came out to the place where the bitter cold they were originally in raged.

The sensory confusion that occured from time to time was dangerous.

Moreover, when they mistakenly thought they had escaped this trap due to various illusions and stepped into instant-kill traps on their own, they really almost died.

They were wary of whether this was an illusion again, but the superhuman senses told them this place was real.

It was truly the worst trap where they could taste human malice.

The moment they slightly loosened their guard with that thought.

Boom!

Javan and Arisa, who were following from behind, were hit by the fist of a huge ice golem that sprouted from the ground, rolled on the ground covered in blood.

“Aaaaah! Battle ready!”

Malice didn’t end until it ended.

TN: I don’t fear man or god but I do fear Yuan TT_TT