“Hey~, why don’t you stop playing dead?”
I called out to the demon that has stopped moving.
Looking flustered, Badak interrupted,
“W-wait. You definitely pierced his heart earlier. Even if he’s a demon, there’s no way he can be alive, right?”
“Yes, I indeed pierced his heart…… Just one of them though.”
“W-what?”
Many demons have more than two hearts. Perhaps the demon in front of me is like that too. What’s even more troubling is that as soon as a heart is crushed, it becomes like asphyxia, making it indistinguishable from being dead. It is difficult to tell because the flow of magic and blood flow also stop in that event.
However, he was supposed to be conscious. It is not the brain, but the spiritual body that maintains consciousness and is aware of the surrounding situation. That’s why he should be able to hear our voices.
“It’s a really lame demon~! Knowing that you can’t beat a human, which you consider to be a lower creature, you pretended to be dead and try to get away with it, right~? Now, which one of us is inferior then? Pupupupupu~! I mean, if you’re dead, it’s okay to pee on your head, right? Hey, everyone, let’s all race to do it!”
“You can’t do that one, you daaaamnnn braaaat!!!”
“See?”
—When I insulted him, he got up on his own. As expected, it seems that he can’t stand being peed.
“Unforgivable…… I won’t let you go you damn brat! To me…… Making a fool out of me like this…..! Now that this is the case, I’ll make sure to kill you! Even if it meant using my secret power!”
Magical power swells from the entire body of the raging demon. No, that’s not all. The body of the demon itself has gotten bigger. The skeleton seems to be changing, and it may be about to transform into something else.
“Aaaaaaaaahhh!!!”
The demon screamed violently with his eyes peeled, probably in severe pain. He grew more than twice as large as his original form, and the clothes he was wearing were torn and blown away. An impressive horn grew on his head, and wings emerged on his back. Eventually, with scales covering the entire body, a mysterious humanoid creature appeared in front of us.
“T-this is….…”
“……The demon transformed?”
“Horns on the head, wings on the back…… And scales on the whole body…… don’t tell me…. a dragoneut?”
Dragon Race.
It is a legendary race that is said to possess the power of dragons, but the demon in front of me is probably an artificial reproduction of it.
“I see. Did you undergo the same magical modifications as those monsters?”
“Kukuku… That’s right. If I take in the power of a dragon, I can become even stronger… Believe me when I say that. What’s more, what I took in was not an ordinary dragon. It is said that it has lived for thousands of years and reigns at the top of all monsters, it’s an ancient dragon! By chance, I found the remains of an ancient dragon and since then, I have been researching it for a long time.”
After saying that, he swung his arm lightly then the ground was torn apart by the impact alone.
“Once this happens, I can’t go back to my original form for a while…… That’s why I didn’t want to use it……. This is all your fault, you know? You made me angry.”
Magical power and fighting spirit are mixed, and a tremendous power can be felt just by him standing there. He is no longer the low-level demon earlier. He indeed transformed into a vicious creature that had absorbed the power of an ancient dragon.
“Ha-, ha-, hahaha…… What’s this…… My whole body is trembling……I can’t stop.”
“I-, I can’t even stand……”
“Guu-…… This is terrible……”
Pressured by his overwhelming presence, the adventurers slump to the ground. They must have instinctively realized that he was an opponent who they could never be able to compete against.
“H-Hey!? You provoked him that much, you can do something about him, right!?”
Anje asked me that question. Perhaps because of her stubbornness as an Amazoness, despite her trembling, Anje tried to remain standing, well, she barely able to.
“Hmm, no way I guess?”
“Haaa!?”
“I wasn’t expecting this of course.”
Perhaps this guy now has a power close to that of a high-level demon. Let’s not talk about it in my previous life, but with my current baby body, I honestly can’t handle him now.
“T-Then, what are we going to do?! R-right! Those wolves…..”
“Hmm…. It looks like they have their hands full with just those ogres.”
“What kind of nonsense are you talking about!?”
The demon that had turned into a pseudo-dragon let out a roar-like laugh.
“Fuhahahaha! Your fate is over! I want you to die regretting that you have made a fool out of me!”
It seems that he is completely sure of victory, but unfortunately, he did not know yet.
—My beloved staff, Lindwurm, was silently furious.
『…… Master, it’s been a long time since I’ve felt this much irritation. 』
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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