The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

At my signal, Precia quietly came out from behind the rock she was hiding and deeply stabbed her sword into the gap between the exoskeletons near the neck of ‘Iron Armor’.

Clang-!

“Kiiiiiii-!!”

Startled by the sudden ambush, ‘Iron Armor’ sprayed poison gas and liquid in all directions from its tail.

The scary thing about ‘Iron Armor’ was that the moment it took a slight effective hit, it would spread deadly poison like that.

As poison blanketed the area, Navi and Rami, who were waiting on Precia’s shoulders, blocked the poison gas and liquid.

It was a simple matter for them to protect so that pure air and water, even if not that, didn’t touch the body.

“I will withdraw!”

As Precia quickly distanced herself from ‘Iron Armor’, Silua temporarily blocked ‘Iron Armor’s movements with magic chains.

Meanwhile, Nuni, who was sitting on Precia’s shoulder, flew up and landed on the sword Precia had stabbed.

“1st lightning strike!”

Then, following my instructions, Nuni devoured a sack of mana stones using my mana as a primer and discharged electricity.

Rumble… Bzzzzt-! Kwaaaaang-!!

The iron sword Precia had stabbed was extremely conductive thanks to the ethersteel coating.

“Good. It’s stunned! Attack!”

At my shout, Precia, Gilbert, and Silua’s dolls all rushed in at once and began stabbing swords into the gaps in the exoskeleton.

Gilbert, who knew how to wield sword energy, stabbed quite deeply, but the named dolls controlled by Silua either couldn’t stab at all or only stabbed shallowly.

Indeed, compared to Geor, that old fart, their skill was overwhelmingly lacking.

Well, Geor was a monster who controlled dolls to the point of making Precia struggle while simultaneously teaching me magic in a state without a handful of mana, so it was unfair to compare.

“Kiiiiiii-!!”

“The stun wore off! Fall back!”

At the same time as my shout, ‘Iron Armor’, freed from paralysis, let out a scream filled with rage and spread poison.

However, with the power of Navi and Rami, it couldn’t inflict damage on my party members.

“2nd lightning strike!”

There were many swords stabbed, though shallow, to the point where it looked more like a hedgehog than a scorpion, so it should be fine.

At my instruction, the party members covered their ears.

Rumble… Bzzzzt-! Kwaaaaang-!!

Nuni emitted electricity several times stronger than the 1st lightning strike.

It was strong enough to sting my skin like static electricity even from a distance, so it wouldn’t be strange if ‘Iron Armor’, turned into a honeycomb by swords, died from this attack.

“Good! It’s stunned! Cut off the tail!”

At my instruction, Precia jumped on the trembling back of ‘Iron Armor’ and slashed off its tail with a sword wrapped in strong energy.

Clang-! Clang-! Clang-!

She aimed for the gaps and slashed, but the exoskeleton of the tail was unusually sturdy, requiring three slashes to sever it.

They said ‘Iron Armor’s exoskeleton had a similar strength to ‘Unicorn’s horn, so it was rather impressive to cut it off in just three slashes.

“Kiiiiiii-!!”

As its most important organ was severed, ‘Iron Armor’ became enraged and forcibly circulated mana to try to break free from paralysis.

“I will withdraw!”

As Precia quickly retreated again, I took out a new sack of mana stones.

“3rd lightning strike! Just die already!”

Rumble… Bzzzzt-! Kwaaaaang-!!

“Kiiiiiii-!!”

Having been hit by the same lightning strike three times, even ‘Iron Armor’ resisted and attempted to escape.

In an instant, that huge body buried itself in the ground to the point of disappearing, but at some point, ‘Iron Armor’ stopped digging.

No, it wasn’t that it stopped, but it couldn’t go down any further due to being blocked by Jade’s ice.

“Ahahaha! You think I stunned it for no reason?”

Great magic beasts all have exceptional senses. Unless you’re a superhuman like Precia, you can’t even approach them closely.

As such, if you try to create an ice barrier right below to prevent escape, they’ll quickly notice and escape faster than the magic can be completed.

So I first had it writhe in electricity to paralyze its whole body, and then instructed Jade to block its escape route.

That was the reason why only Jade didn’t attack when everyone else did.

“Rami!”

-Beep beep!

At my call, Rami filled the pit ‘Iron Armor’ had dug with water.

Splash splash splash…!

Suddenly falling into the water, Iron Armor flailed about in confusion.

Even if left like this, it would suffocate to death, but that would take too long.

Just in time, the pit was filled with water, turning into a huge muddy water puddle.

Pure water actually doesn’t conduct electricity well. It needs to have some impurities mixed in for electrocution to work well.

“4th lightning strike!”

Rumble… Bzzzzt-! Kwaaaaang-!!

“5th lightning strike!”

Rumble… Bzzzzt-! Kwaaaaang-!!

“6th lightning strike!”

Rumble… Bzzzzt-! Kwaaaaang-!!

I relentlessly struck the muddy water puddle with lightning.

I didn’t need to worry about the electricity flowing into the ground and ‘Iron Armor’ not taking damage.

I intentionally turned it into a hedgehog with ethersteel-coated swords just in case.

“Phew, it’s tough. It’s annoyingly not dying.”

They said it had the toughest body among the great magic beasts, and it wasn’t an empty reputation. It was on a different level from a liquid body like ‘Lightning Steps’.

As I continued to strike with lightning like that, ‘Iron Armor’ finally flipped over and floated on the muddy water. And I collapsed from acute mana deficiency.

Although most of the power Nuni used came from mana stones, electricity had the risk of harming allies as well.

In the end, my mana was needed to control the power.

It’s not for nothing that industrial electricians receive high annual salaries.

“Young Master!”

Precia supported me in surprise, and Jade, who had been maintaining the ice barrier underground, took out the mana stone of sealing and admired with pure amazement.

“That was truly incredible. If it weren’t for Yuan, I wouldn’t have had a clue how to catch it.”

Jade’s words about not having a clue were probably sincere.

Unless he had accumulated a lot of experience, even he, the successor of the Sage of the Winter Wood, would find it impossible to create lightning as powerful as Nuni.

For reference, in the novel, Jade just charged in recklessly to catch it.

Of course, he did use his own methods to avoid losing it, but in the end, both Precia and Jade suffered from poison and groaned in pain.

“If you’re grateful, treat me well. I…”

I was talking to Jade but fainted on the spot.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a familiar forest.

Seeing that we had just arrived at the Winter Wood Forest, it seemed I hadn’t been unconscious for long.

Judging from the holes and cut-down trees here and there in the forest, it looked like there had been quite a fierce battle.

It seemed the demon I had used had fought very hard to avoid losses.

Then perhaps about four executives had infiltrated the barrier?

If there were more than four, the demon would have just pretended to fight and tried to minimize losses, and if there were fewer, the demon would have pushed through one-sidedly.

In that case, such large traces wouldn’t have been left behind.

Then did Javan, Arisa, Jeffries, and Rotulus enter the barrier?

Nivel might have had her mana depleted due to my trap, or she might not have been able to come to the Bastille Mountains at all because of Count Wiesel, who was chasing after the Shadow Tower.

Well, I’ll hear the details from Yekatrice.

“Are you awake?”

Gilbert, who was carrying me on his back, was the first to notice I had regained consciousness.

I got off Gilbert’s back and stretched.

“Ugh, my neck. Nuni.”

It seemed I had slept badly while being carried.

I sat Nuni on my stiff shoulders and had it emit a weak low-frequency wave.

The muscles contracted and relaxed, releasing the stiff parts.

“Evewerywonwe, gwood jwob. Thwe gweat mwagic bweasts, awre awll cwaught… Nwuni, stwop!”

At my instruction, Nuni stopped the low-frequency wave and climbed on top of my head.

It’s still stiff, but it’s better. I should do it on my lower back later too.

“Good job, everyone. Now that we’ve caught all the great magic beasts, let’s rest well.”

“Yes!”

Everyone answered energetically, but only Jade had a complicated expression.

“What? Is something wrong?”

“No. It’s nothing…”

Seeing Jade avoid my gaze, I smiled playfully.

“You’re uncomfortable seeing your master?”

“Ugh!”

He looked at me with an expression of being hit where it hurts.

“…Whose fault is that.”

He expressed his dissatisfaction in a barely audible voice, but he didn’t seem to sincerely think that way. I patted his back hard and said,

“After the rain, the ground hardens, so take this chance to spill out everything in your heart. And boast to your master about directly gathering the mana stones of sealing that the previous Sages of the Winter Wood couldn’t.”

At my words, Jade looked at me with startled eyes and then smirked.

“What have I done? It’s all your achievement, Yuan.”

“Of course it is.”

I giggled mischievously and said,

“But if you weren’t there, no matter how hard I prepared, we would have missed them, so half of my achievement is yours.”

Blocking the escape route was the core of the subjugation operation, so I would have been fine without him.

But if Jade wasn’t there, we wouldn’t have been able to execute it at all.

They say starting is half the battle.

“Thank you for saying that. I’ll muster up my courage.”

“Yeah, go inside. Since I still have some mana stones left that I was going to use for subjugation, I’ll summon some spirits with the spirit stones I received from your master.”

Whenever Yekatrice kept asking if I needed anything, I asked for any spare spirit stones, and she handed me a whole sack of them.

Spirit stones are quite hard to obtain, so I tried to refuse, saying one was enough.

However, seeing her say she had a lot set aside separately for experiments, I decided to become closer with Yekatrice.

At my words, Jade hesitated for a moment and then pointed to the house and said,

“Let’s have a meal first before summoning spirits! Look at the sky. Isn’t it already dinner time?”

The sunset was turning the sky at the foot of the mountain not just red but even purple.

“…You just want to see me summon spirits, don’t you?”

Well, it made sense for a mage to want to see it at least once.

“Ahem! …So what if I do?”

When I hit the bull’s eye, Jade became brazen instead. At his reaction, I burst into laughter.

“There’s nothing wrong with that. But this is unexpected, you’re boldly asking for what you want.”

“I learned it all from you, Yuan.”

“No, what did I do?”

When I acted wronged, Jade shrugged.

“After talking with you, I felt like a fool for being so careful. Didn’t you tell me to be honest with myself when you encouraged me to drink?”

It did have that meaning too. It’s a good sign. I should slowly strip away his naivety and corrupt him like this.

“No? I was just trying to tempt you to be my drinking buddy.”

Precia had terrible drinking habits, and Gilbert was too weak to alcohol.

Of course, that was the story in the novel, so I planned to actually feed them alcohol and check later.

At my smooth answer, Jade chuckled and replied,

“That would be nice too. But I hope it’s a little less potent. I don’t think I can drink the alcohol you gave for long.”

“I have some good alcohol, so let’s drink it later. I’ll take care of the groundwork, so go report to your master first.”

Jade nodded and went inside the hut.

I started drawing a spirit summoning magic circle with Abasel’s magic engraving pen in a sunny spot in front of the hut.

As I was following along while looking at Lisbeth’s spirit book, Silua asked,

“What kind of spirit are you summoning this time?”

Precia and Gilbert also looked at me curiously.

“The spirit I’m summoning this time is, so to speak, a spirit with excellent versatility.”

In other words, it was a spirit that was very useful when scamming people.