Orc Harem Vol 5 Chapter 21

Chapter 21: Most of the Time the Teacher Character Will Die When Holding Back the Enemy

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~The Great Sage Merlin Enlight’s POV~

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I’m standing on top of the commercial city’s rampart to prepare for the coming disaster.

And then, that appeared.

It’s exactly like I predicted that it disgusted me.

As I thought, it came here……yes, it came to this land where the most  number of people are concentrated in the world right now. This place is  too overflowing with baits for it right now.

That thing’s principle of conduct is simple.

Also, the concept of distance doesn’t exist for that thing. In that  case, it’s inevitable that he will come to the place where the most  baits are gathered for him.

(The demon king’s terminal……fumu, it’s taking a slightly boorish shape.)

It’s a gigantic demonic dog with jet black color.

It’s body is the size of a small mountain.

It doesn’t have eye. Its face and body are irregularly shaped with  proportion of 1:1. More than half of its gigantic face is occupied by  its mouth. Each of the fangs that are lined up in there is bigger than a  human.

Let’s call that thing demon king dog.

(It looks like it has gotten very hungry from its fight against the  demon king Arcowl, the hero Mireille, and me. That’s a mindless beast.  Even though it should be a god’s remain that was granted with intellect  that can easily surpass the likes of human. No, I guess this is how it  should naturally act as a mere feeler.

A soul eating beast.

World destroyer.

An existence that are bestowed such roles. This beast is that existence’s feeler.

Yes, that thing isn’t the main body.

It’s nothing more than a terminal.

But even this lowly terminal can’t be destroyed even with a demon  king, a hero, and a great sage ganging up on it. How unpleasant.

That thing is something like that.

A demon king of the system. The role of that demon king is the extermination of mankind……no, you can also call it as adjustment.

It’s a life that had the desire to kill human fused into its existence like an appetite for food at its birth.

Just like how human can’t live unless they eat, this sad existence can’t live unless it killed human.

(Although it’s a necessary system for the world’s continuation, ……it can’t possibly be tolerated.)

The characteristic of the demon king of the system is to wake up when  the number of mankind crossed a certain number. After that it will get  stronger and stronger the more the population increased.

And then it will kill humans as its instinct demanded, and the more  humans it killed the weaker it will become……in the end it will get  exterminated by the deterrence that is the hero prepared by the spirit  king to put it to sleep.

Such thing has been repeated over and over in the cycle of several hundred years.

It has been done so often that there were even statesmen who noticed  the system’s demon king’s existence that they caused wars by their own  hand to adjust the mankind’s number to escape from this calamity.

(The only one who can interfere with the system is only those who are  similarly incorporated into that system, therefore I can only rely on  that stupid disciple.)

That’s why, it has to be the demon king’s counterpart, the hero.  Originally the hero is the stopper for when the demon king has killed  too many human. The hero’s role is nothing more and nothing less than  that. Everything else than that is nothing more than convenient setting  that the statesmen or politicians or religion at that time added  unnecessarily into the setting as they pleased.

If you want to win against the demon king with certainty, you should  wait for the demon king to reduce the mankind’s number and aim for the  time when its strength has been reduced.

We can expect for it to be considerably weakened just by abandoning this one city to its fate.

If it has been weakened, Ork will definitely be able to win against it.

There won’t be any need to make a gamble.

(That disciple won’t accept that method though……and I myself don’t wish for that.)

I along with my daughters had walked around this city for this whole day.

It was fun.

It was a city that was filled with vitality, smile, and hope.

Perhaps that’s because this is a special day of the festival. Even  so, I think that this city is wonderful even for me who has seen many  other countries and cities.

And above all else, my daughters said this. 『Let’s come again next year』.

In that case, this city has enough worth for me to risk my life in order to protect it.

『Otou-san, the ritual magic’s preparation is finished. We are using up all of our artifacts after all.』

『Nn, I’m also finished igniting all the magic armaments over here. This firepower is enough to turn a single country into ash.』

『Kotetsu(Fox Steel) is hngry for blood tonight. I can go at full power after so long.』

『Otou-sama, I have finished analyzing its ecology completely.』

『Everyone, listen. The battle this time is a defensive battle. We are  adopting such tactic. Prioritize your own survival rather than victory.  Tactic is the domain of this 【King】 of Enlight.』

Transmissions came from my five daughters.

I gave each of them their own area of expertise, and now they are  already at my level in each of their field. They are my prided daughters  who are going to surpass me.

「Then, let’s begin.」

If that demon king dog entered the city like this, then the city will be destroyed and half of the people inside will die.

My daughters and I had been preparing to prevent that.

The soldiers protecting the city finally detected the demon king dog and went to inform the city in great panic.

But, they won’t make it in time no matter what. That demon king dog  will easily jump over the rampart before the whole city got alarmed and  entered inside.

I grew wings on my back.

My body can freely take any shape because it’s made from slime cells.

I went to in front of the demon king dog and put my hand on its forehead.

(A small insect like me doesn’t even enter its sight. Very well……let’s make it alter that perception.)

I’m being underestimated. That’s also why there is something that I can do.

I began constructing a magic formula that is a trump card of mine.  Even among all of my magic, this one is the strongest if it’s only about  firepower. Therefore constructing the formula take quite a lot of time  and I consumed almost all of the mana in my possession.

It’s difficult to use this in the middle of battle, but I have enough  preparation time. In addition the opponent is underestimating me and  not even putting up any defense. I can hit it as I pleased.

There is a pebble on my palm that is pressed down on its forehead.

It’s just a small rock without any peculiarity that can easily be found lying on the ground anywhere.

「Have a taste of my ultimate magic, 【Matter Annihilation】.」

The stone lost shape.

And then its mass is converted into energy and unleashed tremendous heat ray.

It easily pierced the demon king dog and the waves from the heat ray  annihilated the body of the demon king dog that still maintained its  base form. The heat ray gouged everything on its path and annihilated  them. In addition the temperature in the radius of several kilometers  from here went up.

This is none other than my greatest firepower.

The relation between mass and energy can be described as E=mc2 (E=Energy m=Mass c=Light Speed).

All phenomenon that radiated heat and light made use of this relation without exception.

But, the conversion rate of it is extremely poor.

For example the conversion rate when simply burning an object is nothing more than 1/100,000,000.

The magic formula of this Matter Annihilation is a formula for making  that mass’s energy conversation that was nothing more than  1/100,000,000 into 100%.

Just by converting a single pebble will produce energy amount that can annihilate a third of the moon.

That’s just how dangerous this magic formula is.

To use this magic, it’s necessary to thoroughly calculate the firing  direction and my daughter who is the Enlight of 【Magic】 to activate many  layers of magic formula to block the shockwave.

This magic is too dangerous that I never used it even once even in the war against the demon king at the past.

This is my first experience firing this magic against a living creature.

「So you don’t die even from this huh.」

The demon king dog should have been erased by the Matter Annihilation  without leaving behind even a single dust remaining. But its body is  gradually forming up.

I used my full powered analysis magic.

I have to ascertain whether this is regeneration or another power.

I see, this is.

「Interference to cause and effect. It’s making my Matter Annihilation  to never happen in the first place. This is, certainly outside the  realm of human. This can’t simply be called as magic, it’s true magic. A  game of the gods.」

What is called magic will be more valuable if there is nothing else that can substitute it.

And then magic that doesn’t have any substitute at all is called as  true magic. Reaching that realm is the longstanding desire of magician.

I have managed to arrive until the realm of interfering with time and  space, but something like interference to cause and effect is a field  where even the clue to arrive to there is something that I can’t imagine  at all.

This is a fragment of the power of an existence in higher level of dimension called god.

Although, that still can’t become any reason at all for me to give up.

It doesn’t matter even if cancellation of causality is the toy of gods or how long it’s going to take.

In that case, I shall use this time to do what I have to do.

Many layers of magic circles are floating up around the floating demon king dog.

They are the magic formulas of ritual magic that have been prepared beforehand.

「Now then, let’s change the location.」

The ritual magic activated at the same time when the demon king dog finished regenerating.

It’s a fragment of pseudo true magic that I arrived at.

A magic of space manipulation……Teleport.

So to speak it’s instant movement.

It’s one of the magic that has no other substitution.

The magic circles shined bright and the demon king god vanished from this place together with me.

And then we appeared at…….

「What a nostalgic spot.」

That’s a wasteland. There are countless creatures here. Let alone  living creature, not even a single blade of grass is growing here.

This is the battlefield where I once fought a deathly battle against Ork’s father, the demon king Arcowl in the past.

The aftermath of that battle reduced this area with a radius of 300 km into this state.

This is a land of death that hasn’t healed at all from this scar even after more than ten years has passed.

Therefore I can fight here without any hesitation.

The demon king dog opened its mouth.

Hou, so it can still at least talk even though it’s nothing more than a feeler whose rational mind has been crushed by hunger.

「A mere human who isn’t the hero shouldn’t get in my way.」

I smiled bitterly.

Indeed, he spoke true.

I’m someone outside the system.

I’m different from the heroes Mireille and Ork.

I’m an ordinary person in this world.

However…….

「Fumu, I don’t deny that I’m just a human. But……」

I swung down my arm like a conductor.

Then meteor fell down from above the demon king dog from magic. In addition dozens of nuclear weapons came flying.

It’s a beat down using super firepower of magic and science.

Yes, I came to this place not just to stop holding back from damaging  the surrounding. It’s also because this place has been thoroughly set  up to be a killing ground against this thing.

The demon king dog that has revived by distorting causality became dust once more.

「The like a god’s toy shouldn’t underestimate the power of mere human.」

I despaired when I first realized the system’s existence.

Everything that I have accumulated until now, the path that I have walked together with my daughters, are they all meaningless?

From the perspective of the higher beings, my effort is nothing more than an insect’s frolicking.

I want to be inside the system, I don’t care what I have to sacrifice  for that, I don’t want to be an insect. That thought filled my mind.

But, I picked up my daughters amidst that. They said that they wanted  to be like me so I granted each of them skill that suited them.

Seeing my daughters accepting my teaching single-mindedly, growing in  strength, and trying to surpass me, my desire to enter the system  vanished.

I’m fine being insect. Even insect can possibly reach god if it continue to struggle.

Only by achieving such feat I can claim to be the great sage. Only by  achieving that I can hold my head high toward my daughters. I hardened  my resolve.

I shall transcend over everything while staying human.

「I promised my disciple to buy him time. I’ll even defeat you if I  can. I know now after seeing it twice. The power to manipulate causality  isn’t infinite. It’s finite. Should I call it as the power of existence  instead? It has weakened greatly every time it control causality!」

The existence using true magic that interfered with causality.

However, the demon king dog’s existence is getting weaker each time it used that power that the system granted it.

Although, it’s not something that will be used up by using it one or two more times, but there is definitely a limit to it.

The demon king dog revived once more.

「Annoying insect!」

「Then we shall swarm you as befitting insects. ……Fumu, thinking back  how many years it has been since the last time I exerted my full  strength.」

Now I’m looking forward to it.

I have become too strong.

That’s exactly why I lost opponent who I could try the techniques that I polished.

I’m also expecting that stupid disciple to be able to take on that role, but he still isn’t there yet.

Right now, such playing partner that I have been looking for all this time is right in front of me.

It’s not a bad feeling. This will become a good teaching material of  exerting full strength in front of my daughters, at the same time I’ll  be able to confirm my daughters’ current strength.

Let’s enjoy this time with everything in our possession and more.

I formed up the next magic while thinking that.

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