I, the Geo Archon Morax with 2.1 Billion Mora, Have Joined a Chat Group [259]

BOOM~~~!

A terrifying sonic boom tore through the air, reverberating in all directions.

The force of the blast shattered everything in its path, kicking up clouds of dust and debris as it surged forward along the Demon Lord Ariel’s charge.

The momentum behind it was overwhelming—on par with the descent of some ancient beast once feared across the land.

“...Huh~~??”

Kumoko, who had quickly leapt out of range to dodge the aftermath, let out a surprised sound as she watched it unfold.

She could tell—Ariel hadn’t used any skill granted by the system. What she’d just done was purely a feat of her own raw physical ability and sheer speed.

—Whoa, whoa, whoa, Miss Demon Lord, did you show up in the wrong genre or something?

—This is way beyond what should happen in a fantasy story with power levels still intact!

—You're not even using skills?! Just brute muscle and momentum?! Did you forget this is a world governed by a skill system?!

Of course, her inner monologue went unheard by both Zhongli and the Demon Lord herself.

Nor could Evil God D—still sitting comfortably on Earth’s Japanese archipelago—hear a word of it either.

From the very beginning of this battle, Zhongli had used both his own authority and the administrative privileges he’d hijacked from the skill system to block any footage being transmitted to Evil God D or the other administrators.

As far as they were concerned, this was a battle between Kumoko and the Demon Lord—not between Zhongli and the Demon Lord.

“Who are you?”

The young girl who had just thrown a punch powerful enough to rip through the air at several times the speed of sound—she now stood before Zhongli, voice following her fist with a slight delay.

“Why can’t I see through you?”

“No... it’s more than that. Why can’t I even comprehend your existence?”

“You may call me Zhongli the Geo Archon,” he replied evenly.

A translucent golden barrier covered in runes suddenly materialized before him, catching Ariel’s punch with perfect timing.

CLANG~~~!

The strike rang out like metal clashing against metal, unleashing a shockwave that blasted sand and stone outward in a ring of invisible force.

“Hmm?”

When her first strike didn’t even leave a scratch, Ariel’s pretty brow furrowed ever so slightly—but she didn’t dwell on it.

She retracted her arm, pivoted, and twisted her waist like a coiled spring—her other arm lashing out in a powerful backhand.

BAM~~!

This second blow was even stronger than the first. With the torque from her waist and the sheer force behind her full swing, Ariel was confident that even a strike like this would make an Administrator like Gyuri-Gyuri cough up dragon blood.

But the golden rune shield before her didn’t waver in the slightest. Not even a ripple. Not a single crack.

“No way!!”

She couldn’t help but blurt out words fit for a background character—then her eyes caught Zhongli slowly raising his right hand.

Instantly, alarms blared in her mind.

Without hesitation, she darted back, putting distance between herself and the man.

“I didn’t come here to fight you,” Zhongli said, palm still open in a gesture of peace, his voice calm and unshaken.

“Pet of the Goddess. Primordial Divine Beast. Demon Lord Ariel. I’d like to ask you a few things.”

“...Huh?”

The Demon Lord girl’s brows furrowed further, her graceful expression tightening in confusion.

“If you're not my enemy, then why did you kill my kin?”

“Your kin? You mean the Queen Taratect?” Zhongli lowered his hand and shook his head lightly. “It wasn’t my intention to kill her. But she tried to kill my friend—so I stepped in.”

“Friend?” Ariel tilted her head, glancing over toward the strange, half-human-sized, pure-white spider in the distance.

“That weird little spider… is your friend?”

“Indeed.” Zhongli gave a slight nod. “Though her body may be that of a spider, her soul does not originate from this planet.”

“...Huh??”

Ariel’s brows furrowed again, even more tightly this time—nearly knitting into a braid.

“What does that mean?”

“In other words,” Zhongli began, “she isn’t a native of this sinful, blood-soaked planet. Her soul came from another world. Due to the meddling of a certain evil god, she was brought here and reincarnated as one of the Queen Taratect’s offspring.”

“Reincarnated? A soul from another world? Are you kidding me?”

Ariel’s voice was full of disbelief, her expression visibly tangled.

“Not at all. You’re capable of understanding me, aren’t you? The strange skills Kumoko possesses, and her anomalous behavior—they should all serve as evidence of my claim.”

Zhongli’s voice carried an undeniable weight.

“She was a free soul, forcibly reborn as the lowest of the Queen’s spawn. After endless bloody battles, she managed to carve out a place for herself in this world. But when the Queen realized how powerful this loose offspring had become, she tried to enslave her using the system’s kin-control abilities. Naturally, Kumoko refused—and fought back. Together with me, she struck down the Queen.”

“And that, in turn, led to you arriving—her mother. The Goddess’s Pet. The Primordial Divine Beast. The Demon Lord Ariel.”

“...”

Ariel didn’t answer.

But Zhongli’s calm voice continued.

“You know full well… Who else could pull off something like this? Not even a regular Administrator like Gyuri-Gyuri could wield such power.”

“High-ranking Administrator… Evil God D…” Ariel murmured.

“Yes. Evil God D—the one who turned this world into a game-like simulation,” Zhongli replied, his tone now laced with subtle persuasion.

“And I, as Kumoko’s friend, am a being on par with her.”

As if to prove his point, Zhongli casually extended a single finger toward Ariel and tapped the air in her direction.

And in that moment—before she could understand, react, or even form the will to resist—

A tiny black speck flickered into existence above her shoulder.

The next instant, she understood.

Once part of a civilization that had dabbled in advanced science, her long-neglected knowledge of physics suddenly kicked in.

That speck… was a forming black hole.

It looked no larger than a sesame seed on the surface, but even at that scale, it had enough destructive force to obliterate the entire continent where humans and demons now coexisted.

Gulp~~~!

The realization hit her hard.

And Ariel, the Demon Lord, couldn’t help but swallow.

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