Chapter 94
Kanya did as Jericho told her.
Lying flat on the ground, she watched Jericho fight while holding her breath.
And as the fight progressed, she had to open her mouth.
A fight that looked disadvantageous to anyone.
However, Jericho easily overcame the overwhelming numerical disadvantage and single-handedly dealt with 100 monsters following the Demon King of Wrath.
Seeing dozens of followers swept away by carpet bombing from one javelin throw, and the three knights who seemed to be Satan's chosen ones crushed, it looked like it would be over soon.
Jericho.
Who this man in front of her was.
Why he was trying to help her still couldn't be known exactly.
But if he continued to help her, she could clearly see that going to the rocky mountains of Talaheim was no longer an impossible task.
Kanya felt her heart pounding.
Liberation.
It was the moment when liberation from this damn black magic still remaining in her body and from the Demon King of Sloth finally approached realistically right before her eyes.
As she was watching Jericho's battle slightly immersed in hope like that.
A chilling sound was heard behind her.
Kanya quickly turned her head to see the sight of space tearing open vertically and 10 people walking out from inside.
Sloth's followers.
They were the all too familiar and grindingly hateful followers of Sloth.
"The bitch who ran away is here."
At the familiar and chilling voice heard from behind the mask, goosebumps rose all over Kanya's body.
Right.
Of course.
The Demon King of Sloth, who fanatically cherishes her collection more than anyone, wouldn't simply let her go.
Moreover, she wouldn't let go of the divinity of the Goddess of War like this, which wasn't an ordinary collection piece.
As soon as Kanya saw them, she got up without hesitation and began to run away towards Jericho.
She had no weapons on hand and the number of opponents was too many.
There was no chance of winning by fighting.
"Jericho!! Jericho! Help me!!"
She made the best rational judgment she could at the moment.
But the escape didn't last long.
"Where do you think you're running, you bitch!!"
Black magic bound her legs and arms.
She had to roll on the ground unsightly.
In an instant, the followers approached her.
Seeing that sight, she urgently drew up divine power.
The Goddess of War was asleep.
But the power and divine power she provided were still inside her body. It was the divine power of the Goddess of War that she had unwillingly but forcibly been with her whole life.
Red divine power that she could handle more naturally than her own limbs gushed out and was about to release the black magic forcibly restraining her body.
"Where do you think you're escaping to, you fucking bitch!?"
The followers rushed in a step faster than that.
One of the followers hurriedly drew a dagger from inside his clothes and rushed at Kanya.
The subjugation spell.
Kanya's face turns pale.
"N-No!! No!!"
"Did you think you could escape from Sloth?"
With a fishy smile, a step faster than the black magic restraining Kanya's body being released.
The dagger flew aiming for her heart area.
"Got her! Caught...! Kyaaak!!"
The follower who swung the dagger with a gleeful expression had his palm torn with a sharp metallic sound.
The dagger bounced off futilely and was rolling on the ground.
Kanya hurriedly looked at her chest.
A faintly glowing dark stopped time space.
It was the moment when the armor Jericho had put on Kanya, which both she and Sloth's followers had forgotten about, did its job.
And with good timing, the very next moment.
The Goddess of War's divine power released the black magic binding her.
The moment her hands and feet became free.
Kanya assessed the surrounding situation with surprising speed and chose the best action she could take now.
She snatched the self-defense revolver at the waist of the follower who had straddled her body and tried to stab her heart with a dagger but failed, then wrapped divine power around the gun and pulled the trigger.
Although it was the first moment she had ever held a gun itself, the moment she grasped the pistol, Kanya handled the weapon very skillfully like someone who had used it for decades.
Sharp situational judgment.
Knowing how to use any weapon the moment she grasps it.
All were powers of the Goddess of War.
With a thud sound, the head of the follower straddling Kanya's body burst.
Although defensive magic was tightly wrapped around the follower's body, the bullet wrapped in divine power penetrated that defense like piercing tofu.
The follower whose head was blown off naturally fell forward as if about to cover Kanya.
But Kanya didn't feel suffocated or uncomfortable moving.
The time stop armor received the follower's body weight.
And this position was rather good for her.
On the plain with no cover at all, the follower's corpse became a reliable cover.
In that state, Kanya slowly raised the pistol held in her right hand.
As divine power enveloped the revolver, flames burst from the muzzle.
It was an extremely stable grip and extremely accurate shooting.
"That bitch has a gun...!!"
Before finishing the words, holes were punctured in the heads of 3 Sloth followers who were watching the situation a step away.
It was the result of Kanya repeating 3 shots with extremely accurate and fast shooting.
The defensive magic had no effect at all.
Seeing that, the remaining followers finally grasped the situation.
"T-That bitch is wrapping divine power around the bullets and shooting!!"
"Damn it!! Scatter and shoot magic!!"
The followers scatter.
While doing so, they unleashed offensive black magic at Kanya.
But most of the magic hit the follower's corpse lying on top of Kanya's body and vanished futilely, or occasionally penetrated the corpse but bounced off Kanya's time stop armor.
Meanwhile, one more gunshot rang out.
Kanya planted a bullet precisely in the neck of one of the followers who was urgently scattering and shooting magic with near-miraculous marksmanship.
As she saw the follower with a severed spine collapse like a puppet with cut strings, her muzzle immediately turned towards the next person.
But the next moment.
A sharp metallic sound rang out.
Kanya was startled and hurriedly opened the revolver's cylinder.
6 holes.
5 of them contained cartridges with pressed primers.
But the topmost hole had no bullet at all.
Why?
How?
Why did they only put 5 bullets in a 6-shot revolver?
She could have killed one more!
"She's out of ammo!!"
"Now's our chance! Grab her!!"
Seeing the followers stop scattering and charge towards her in a straight line at a frightening speed after hearing the futile metallic sound, Kanya hurriedly escaped from under the follower's corpse covering her.
Then she threw the pistol at the follower approaching closest to her and began to run away.
It was impossible to steal and use another gun.
They had already been fooled once, so they wouldn't just let Kanya snatch a gun again.
"Jericho!! Jericho! Help me! Help...! Ack!!"
She feels black magic wrapping around her limbs again.
Kanya hurriedly tried to raise divine power to release the magic again, but this time it didn't work.
"Just cast multiple layers of restraining magic! We can't have her escape again!"
"Hurry! We need to escape before that monster notices!!"
Black magic restrains Kanya's body in multiple layers.
It was over.
There was no way to release magic cast intensively by several people...
"Guk!!"
There was.
It was over if the caster died.
Seeing one follower whose upper body exploded as if hit by something flying at a terrifying speed, Kanya's gaze quickly turned to the opposite side.
"Kanya!! Keep fighting!!" Jericho shouted.
He was holding something in his hand.
A black sphere the size of a fist.
He grasped it in his hand and lifted his leg then quickly lowered it while rotating his upper body to throw it.
If Kanya had come from Earth, she would have known that was a throwing form called an overhand throw.
With that one throw, the upper body of a Sloth follower at least 60 meters away burst again.
"What kind of brute...!?"
Defensive magic or whatever was of no use.
There was nothing that could withstand the overwhelming physical force.
But Jericho's supporting fire couldn't continue forever.
"Block it!! Block it!!"
The surviving followers of Satan began shooting light machine guns, bolt-action rifles, and all kinds of attack magic at Jericho.
But that much was enough.
2 of the restraining spells cast on Kanya's body were released.
The remaining restraining magic.
Couldn't withstand Kanya's divine power and burst during the time Jericho bought.
While Sloth's followers were still bewildered by Jericho's brute throwing attack.
Kanya hurriedly approached the corpse of a follower whose upper body had burst and drew the revolver at his waist.
Now there were only three Sloth followers capable of engaging.
Kanya positioned the revolver at her waist and quickly moved the hammer three times with her left hand.
It was terrifyingly fast and extremely accurate fanning.
"No! The gun...!"
Without even finishing their words properly, the heads of the remaining 3 Sloth followers burst accurately.
And so all of Sloth's followers were subdued.
Kanya put the used revolver in her waistband and approached the corpse of the Sloth follower whose upper body had burst from Jericho's throw to pick up another weapon he was holding.
A bolt-action rifle.
It was too long and heavy for Kanya with her withered limbs to hold, but it didn't matter.
She took a deep breath and rested the rifle on the body of the follower whose body had burst, then took a prone shooting position.
Then she aimed the muzzle at the black mages engaging with Jericho.
They were frantically unleashing attack magic at Jericho and didn't expect at all that someone would be targeting them from a distance.
"Eat this."
Slowly.
Divine power begins to wrap around the rifle.
Satan's black mages would also have defensive magic around their bodies, but it was useless.
Her bullets wrapped in divine power would penetrate right through the defensive magic.
A gunshot rings out.
The head of one black mage frantically unleashing magic bursts.
Kanya's hand terrifyingly quickly pulled the bolt handle to push a cartridge into the chamber.
"Over there, that bitch...!!"
One black mage pointing at Kanya with an expression of shock while covered in brain matter had his head burst.
In less than a second, two black mages died horribly.
And the moment the third black mage's head burst.
Magic from the black mages began flying towards Kanya.
Kanya immediately took cover behind the corpse.
Some magic roughly pounded the ground and corpse, but only one magic touched Kanya's body.
That one magic was also blocked by the time stop armor and had no effect.
After the magic passed, Kanya immediately tried to get up and shoot again, but soon realized there was no need and stood up.
In that brief moment.
Precisely in the instant the black mages' attention turned towards Kanya.
Jericho had turned all the remaining black mages and Satan's followers into a pulp.
The plain was no longer noisy.
Kanya and Jericho blankly stared at each other for a moment before bursting into laughter without anyone starting first.
The seemingly impossible fight ended in victory for the two of them like that.