Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 134.1
Castle Where Darkness Dwells (3)
“What the heck do you think you are doing, I ask you! You invited us to this country. Why are you betraying us?”
Gostola, whose comrades were killed, shouted at Carla’s dialogue, which sounded as if it were a joke.
“Hmmm…. [betrayal] is such an interesting word. I…no, I think we were both just using each other. Am I wrong? Right, Gostola?”
Carla invited them, the Evil Race, into her country before she was barely 10 years old.
After the experiment of giving her all the attributes, Carla was no longer of any use as the daughter of a nobleman, and her father, the Head Court Magician, who had lost interest in her, gave her only money and left her alone.
Carla had nothing, only “madness” beyond hatred for her father, who had taken her life, and for the country that condoned it.
Carla used her father’s money and a merchant family with a bad reputation to give the Evil Race a foothold in the country, and the Evil Race accepted it, believing not in Carla’s words but in her “madness”.
“Are you saying that your grudge is gone?”
“No, that’s not it. But I don’t like the idea of others using toys I’ve thrown away without my permission, even if I don’t need them anymore.”
“Toys…?”
Even as Gostola, his face twisted like a beast’s, bared his fangs, and the hatred of the surrounding vampires turned even the flames black, Carla’s smile remained the same.
“Who else has made contact with you? Was it a betrayer of the dark side or a naive little girl? Whoever it was, it doesn’t matter.”
Carla ruffled her rich black hair with one hand without a hint of tension, and in that split second, the tall, lean Evil Race swooped in from behind her like a gust of wind.
“–[Stone Lance]–“
“Gyaaaah!!!”
A spear of rock, extending like an icicle from the earth, pierced the Evil Race’s chest. As the Evil Race, pierced in midair like a sacrifice, struggled to catch its breath, Carla, who had exercised Magic without chanting, revealed a dark smile filled with madness, and licked her lips.
“Already, did you guys still think you were the ones I needed?”
“…Kill her.”
At the moment Gostola muttered, the Vampires and hundreds of other failures who had been watching Carla and her flames attacked Carla at once.
“–[Soul Thorns]–“
Black thorns wrapped around Carla’s pale skin like tattoo tattoos, squirming and writhing as if feeding on her life.
A powerful command released her power, and the immense amount of magical energy emanating from Carla’s entire body pushed back the tsunami-like waves of failures, pushing Carla’s body up into the air.
[Carla Lester][Race: Human Female][Rank 4+2]
[Magic: ?/550][Strength: 33/53]
[Total Combat Power: 1069 (Special Combat Power: 3069)]
[Gift: Soul Thorn Exchange/Life Time]
“Take this! –[Fireball]–“
Carla waved her arm and five level 5 Fire Magic [Fireballs] were created in the air.
A Master Sorcery could only use Sorcery up to their rank because the exercise of Sorcery beyond their rank required several to dozens of times the usual amount of magical power. Carla’s Sorcery should have been maxed out at level 4, however, the enormous amount of magical power generated by Soul Thorns allows the use of sorcery up to two levels above.
Five Fireballs exploded in the center of the clumped up failures, swept back by the wave of magical power.
The explosion, which stopped even Rank 6 demons, crushed over a hundred of them with just five fireballs. The Vampire with high original ability value jumped out of the flames and attacked Carla again.
Carla’s physical strength was only that of an infant, and she could have died instantly if she had been hit by even a single blow from one of the Vampire’s attacks, but then–
“Gah!”
A Vampire jumped on Carla while she was in the air, but the blow was avoided, and Carla’s taijutsu knocked the vampire down with a knee kick to the face. Carla continued to use her arms to block the attack of the Vampire that pounced on her, blinding them with her hand sword and toying with them with her taijutsu.
It was not that Carla’s physical ability was superior. Her [Taijutsu] skill was level 2, and her thought acceleration was limited to level 3, even if she used her magical control to handle it forcefully.
However, the black thorns that emerged on Carla’s skin due to Soul Thorns were not just wrapped around her, but were able to manipulate her body as if she were a puppet, just as Carla willed.
“–[Stone Shot]–!”
“–[Splash]–!”
“–[Fire Arrow]–!”
Several Magic attacks were unleashed by the vampires who could use magic. At the same time, the surviving failures also rushed to Carla.
If they could not match the skill and power of the Sorcery, they would attack in numbers. It was a simple strategy of numbers, but considering Carla’s physical strength, it should have been highly effective.
“–[Typhoon]–“
At that moment, however, a level 5 wind Magic[Typhoon] erupted and swept away all the incoming attacking Sorcery and failures.
Wind Sorcery [Typhoon] was a Sorcery that blasted its target with a momentary Cyclone that seemed to explode, but Carla used her vast magical power to maintain [Typhoon] with her right hand, while thrusting her left hand towards the immobile failures.
“–[Fire Breath]–“
Carla’s signature level 4 fire magic, [Fire Breath], delivered a sweeping cleave, and the failures crumbled into charcoal, unable to even let out a cry of despair.
“Oooooohhhh!!!!”
At that moment, further above Carla in midair, Gostola attacked with his sword from the ceiling of the 5-meter-high catacombs.