Chapter 93
[This... is... disgustingly difficult!!]
The Demon King of Envy, Leviathan, screamed.
It was the price of concentrating her power to temporarily interfere with Asmodeus' power.
Each Demon King had characteristics they boasted about, but Asmodeus' power of Time Stop was truly an absurd ability no matter how many times one looked at it.
It was this difficult to interfere even though it was just a human using it.
If the user had been Asmodeus herself in her prime instead of Amael, she would never have been able to interfere so easily.
[It's... hard to endure!! Are you doing it?]
At Leviathan's scream, Belphegor and Satan shout with irritation.
[Not yet! Hold on! If you let go now, everything's over!!]
The three Demon Kings joined forces to detect the only being moving in stopped time.
And they had forcibly interfered with and opened up stopped time to create a space where followers could enter.
While Leviathan was interfering with the power of Time Stop, Satan's followers began to move.
[My followers are entering! Hold on, Leviathan!]
At Satan's words, Leviathan looks at Belphegor.
[Belphegor! What about you?]
[Don't nag. Leviathan. My followers will enter the moment the saint moves away from Bellia.]
[Fuck hurry up…!! I-I'm saying it's hard to endure!!]
It was because Asmodeus' power had become unimaginably strong.
Even though only a portion of Asmodeus' power that wouldn't burden a mortal was being used, there was a fierce resistance that was difficult to handle.
[Hold on a little longer. It won't take long. It's just one human, right? He can't defeat over 100 of Satan's followers.]
Belphegor said confidently.
She rubbed her hands and stared intently at the one place in the human realm where time was flowing.
[Right. Amael. You can't fight while carrying someone you need to protect. Right?]
Amael put Kanya down.
And stepped forward.
Just a little more.
Just a little more distance was needed.
[Right. Now it's enough…!]
And the moment Amael moved sufficiently far from Kanya.
Amael disappeared from Belphegor's eyes for an instant.
Satan's eyes widened.
[My... chosen one?]
An unbelievable scene was unfolding.
It was Lust.
Lust's chosen one shouldn't be physically strong.
Even during the celestial war, Asmodeus acted by using Time Stop to strike from behind rather than competing with force in direct confrontations.
But.
What was this scene unfolding before their eyes?
Wasn't the fight starting with Amael crushing one of Satan's chosen ones?
[W-what is this? Why is this happening? Belphegor!!]
While Leviathan interfered with Time Stop to prevent its use.
Satan was supposed to capture Amael and in that gap, Belphegor would kidnap Kanya containing Bellia's divinity.
That was the basic plan.
But the core of that plan was completely falling apart.
Amael was too strong.
There was no choice.
[Belphegor! Quickly! Recover Bellia first!!]
[I know!]
Originally, she had planned to deploy them when Amael was exhausted or subdued, but with no other options left, Belphegor had to urgently deploy her followers.
[Bellia! Bring Bellia! Right now!!]
***
[Focus! Amael!! I said focus!!]
I felt Corn shouting inside my head.
Steam was still frantically pouring from my body.
Thought accelerated by Absolute Hypnosis and senses made terrifyingly powerful and sensitive by Body Modification and 3000x Sensitivity were making me perceive reality with frightening acuity.
Everything looked slow.
The sight of the remaining 2 knights drawing their swords in shock after seeing one of the 3 knights crumpled without being able to do anything.
The rest of the people aiming rifles and light machine guns at me.
The mages raised their staffs to prepare casting spells.
They all looked slow.
My heart was pounding.
It was beating so fast it was ridiculous.
It felt like it might burst, but I could endure because Corn was constantly applying precise Body Modifications to my body in real time that I could hardly dare to do, controlling my body's condition.
I took a deep breath.
After feeling an enormous amount of air fill my lungs.
I began to move.
The warhammer made of stopped time itself was swung at another one of the remaining 2 knights.
The scary thing was that the guy reacted to my speed.
The knight took a defensive stance raising his sword, but unfortunately that was all.
With a cracking sound, the sword burst apart and the knight was terribly crushed together with his armor and flew far away.
One knight remained.
Now I just needed to deal with that guy.
My intention was to deal with the most dangerous-looking ones first.
[Amael!! Slow down!! You can't move so much that it's hard for me to control!! Body Modification can't keep up with your actions!!]
Corn's scream was heard, but I couldn't stop.
Sorry Corn.
If I don't deal with them now, I might never have another chance.
I need to deal with these bastards now so it'll be easier later.
With that thought, just as I was about to rush at the last remaining knight.
Suddenly my movement stops.
Looking closely, something was grabbing my wrists and ankles.
Sticky blood-red hands had risen from the ground and were grabbing my body.
I see 6 black mages frantically chanting spells with their staffs raised.
"What are you doing!? Shoot!!"
And seizing this opportunity, the followers aimed their guns at me.
With a sound like popping corn, dozens of bullets frantically pounded my body.
Most bounced off the Time Stop armor without any effect, but a few penetrated gaps in the armor.
Along with a throbbing sensation, a hot feeling like a drill digging into my side area rose and disappeared.
[I healed it!! Amael!]
"Thanks Corn."
[This is winnable, right? Tell me it is!]
I didn't know.
Whether there was a chance of winning or not.
More precisely, I hope there wasn't.
I hoped the three Demon Kings who had their plans endlessly thwarted and finally lost their temper would grab and tear apart my soul so I could just die.
It's 3 vs 1, so that Asmodeus bastard shouldn't be able to do anything either, right?
While I was taking a few bullets like that, the last remaining knight wrapped his blade in a dark red aura and rushed at me swinging his sword.
I easily blocked the guy's attacks with reflexes increased 3000-fold, but my limbs felt seriously heavy.
Now that I looked, it seems to be a kind of debuff created by these blood-red hands grabbing my limbs.
It felt like I wouldn't be able to endure if I kept fighting like this.
"Corn!"
[I know what you want! That attack will do, right?]
"Please!"
As soon as my words fell, the warhammer held in my right hand wriggled and changed its shape.
And finally, seeing the spear that changed into the form of a long javelin, I firmly gripped the spear.
After pushing back the knight rushing at me by swinging the spear at tremendous speed, I immediately turned my body and aimed the spear at the followers and black mages aiming at me.
"Ready?"
[Throw it anytime!!]
As soon as Corn's words fell, I threw the javelin with all my might.
The javelin flying through the air at an unimaginable speed suddenly split in midair and changed into hundreds of small fragments.
And those fragments fell over a wide area.
The result created by Corn's delicate control and my brute strength was terrifying.
"Guk!!"
"Kuhek!"
Absolute power that penetrated right through whatever heavily worn bulletproof vests.
In an instant, most of the dozens of followers became beehives and collapsed.
The black mages also couldn't maintain the spell cast on my body as they urgently cast defensive spells.
Of course, the blood-red hands grabbing my body disappeared too.
[It worked! Amael! Now…! Oh shit!! Look in front!!]
As soon as the words ended, the knight rushed at me with a chilling sound of tearing through the air.
In a situation without a weapon in hand.
I blocked the flying longsword with the gauntlet part of the Time Stop armor covering my arm.
As the sword and stopped time space collided, a shockwave like an exploding shell bursts out.
My ears went deaf for a moment before returning to normal, so it seemed Corn dealt with it.
There were several exchanges of offense and defense.
As I fought, I become newly chilled.
Reflexes increased 3000-fold.
Musculoskeletal system strengthened to a degree that even I thought was excessive.
A body condition that anyone would think wasn't strange to call superhuman, but what on earth was this being fighting evenly with me?
I blocked the sword strikes the knight was unleashing and tried to swing my limbs aiming for openings, but it was difficult to land effective hits as someone who hadn't undergone proper combat training even though my body was strengthened.
"Corn! I need a weapon!!"
[Making one now!!]
The Time Stop that had poured over a wide area is released, and a weapon was created again near my right hand.
This time it was a sword.
A long, thick greatsword similar to what the knight was wielding.
After deflecting the knight's sword strike, I grasped the greatsword Corn made and swung it.
The shape was similar and the length was similar, but in conclusion, my sword was far superior.
As the two swords collided, the knight's greatsword was cut off with a scraping sound.
[Puhaha!! I made the cross-section extremely sharp!! This is Time Stop!!]
Corn.
He was quite good at support.
"It's over now!"
I raised the sword.
And strongly swung it down towards the knight.
The knight hurriedly pulled his body back and escaped outside the range of my sword's attack.
But.
[I can just extend the length!]
At that moment, the blade length of my greatsword instantly lengthened, nullifying the knight's escape.
Along with a chilling sensation transmitted through my hand, the knight is vertically split and collapses.
Done.
I dealt with the 3 most difficult ones.
Now all that was left was to deal with the few remaining miscellaneous followers and 6 black mages who were still alive.
[Quickly deal with the remaining ones...... Amael!! Kanya!]
At Corn's shout, I hurriedly turned my gaze towards Kanya.
Men in black clothes.
Clearly the same outfit worn by the man who had stabbed the dagger into Kanya's heart earlier.
My eyes widened.
"Ka…!"
I tried to rush to Kanya urgently, but blood-red hands rising from the ground grabbed my body once again.
And that was not all.
"Hold him down!!"
While 3 black mages are subduing me, the remaining 3 frantically begin to unleash magic at me.
"Shield!!"
[Leave it to me!!]
Corn turned the longsword held in my hand into a shield shape and deployed it in front.
While the shield automatically moved around blocking all the incoming magic.
"Javelin! One more time!"
A javelin was placed in my hand.
I was in a hurry.
If Kanya was captured again, it was all over.
I hurriedly tried to throw the javelin again, but the surviving black mages and followers, as if not wanting to be hit by an attack they've already experienced once.
Scattered and spread out in all directions.
The black mages first.
I gritted my teeth and urgently raised my arm to throw the javelin.
At that moment.
[A-Amael!! Kanya is!]
Along with Corn's scream, a sharp gunshot was heard behind me.
It was from Kanya's direction.
No way.
It couldn't be.
Kanya.
The moment I hurriedly turned my head to look towards Kanya.
[...Kanya is going berserk?]
I witnessed a scene exactly opposite to my worries.
Kanya had a pistol in her hand.
And with it.
She was planting bullets into the heads of Sloth's followers with extremely accurate and clean skill.