It looks like words would be wasted on this fight, so Envie the demon while possessing Alice’s body stares me down. Honestly, I thought about my chances of winning and while it won’t be easy, I’m sure I can prevail.
The first problem is the fact that the demon is possessing Alice, an innocent girl in this whole dilemma. Envie knows this as well so she is waiting to see if I’m willing to endanger Alice’s life.
So that’s why I’m going to use holy magic, created through a new Holy Magic Skill.
Becca 「 Purification. 」
I feel like an exorcist trying to ward away demons but the holy magic takes affect. Alice screams in pain as a shadow of a demon emerges from her body for a brief second. The image of a demon is a pale woman with short dark hair and devilish horns on the sides of her head. The demon writhes in pain then goes back inside Alice.
The purification spell is meant to hurt only evil unholy existences, in this case the demon, while saving the host from harm. It looks like it was effective but not strong enough.
Demon 「 You are a priestess as well? You humans and your dirty tricks. 」
Becca 「 Says the demon hiding behind a little girl. Why don’t you come out already? 」
Alice’s body convulses and she grows horns and wings like a devil. Her body is starting to resemble a demon’s now with claws and a tail. The possession is strengthening, likely to prevent her losing control of Alice again.
Demon 「 I will crush you like the insect you are. 」
Becca 「 Demons are parasites when you think of it. 」
That hurt her pride. The demon’s wings flap and she bursts forth with the wind towards me. I try to dodge but her movement is faster than I expected. A claw gouges my shoulder.
It stings like burning needles but I cast a healing spell. With the Restoration Magic skill I can restore my injury back to a previous uninjured state. The pain disappears quickly almost like, well like magic.
Demon 「 So you can heal. But if I can separate your head you won’t be able to heal that so easily. 」
The demon’s attacks continue as she zooms around the room from corner to corner. I can’t even keep up with my eyes anymore and all I can do is sense her mana to find her.
She closes in from behind so I crouch down, a claw cutting through my hair. She sends a kick downward at me so I raise my arms to protect myself. The force of the kick sends shivers down my arms momentarily paralyzing them. My feet sink in due to the force I just took from that simple kick.
The demon’s toying with me. She grins seeing me just barely sustain damage from what appears to be a light attack.
Because of my stats you could consider me to be 10 times stronger than the average soldier, but the demon is like 15 times stronger at level 150.
If I’m falling behind in terms of raw power then I just need to bridge that gap through skills.
Becca 「 Boost 2X.」
It’s a simple idea that I’ve read about in many hero stories. In the face of challenges, the hero gets a temporary boost in power. In my case, the Boost skill lets me multiply my base stats by 2. So now my power is on par with a level 200 being.
The demon’s tail lashes at me but this time I can see it moving. I grab the tail with some force and toss her aside. The demon is visibly shaken at the sudden increase in my speed and power.
Becca 「 Thanks to Boost 2X, I’m twice as powerful. Now you can’t defeat me. 」
Demon 「 What kind of magic is that? I’ve never seen it in all my years! 」
Becca 「 Of course you haven’t. I just made it right now. By the way, it stays active for as long as I want it to. 」
Demon 「 That’s cheating! 」
Yeah I think so too. There’s practically no limit to the skills I can create through Realization. The power of imagination is scary.
Demon 「 In that case … Ice Javelin! If direct attacks are useless, I’ll destroy you through magic! 」
She propels a giant icicle made through magic but I just open up a wormhole in space and send it back to her. She destroys it with her bare hands.
Demon 「 What was that?! 」
Becca 「 Spacial magic, Portal. Anything that goes in can come out where and when I want. 」
Demon 「 Space magic? That’s a lost ancient magic, how …? 」
In the moment she is stunned I use warp to take her back. I place a hand on her shoulder and use the mana drain trick. As a level 150 demon she naturally has a lot of mana, but I can draw out more mana through direct contact.
Demon 「 My mana? What are you up to? 」
Her tail swipe pushes me off of her. She has loads of mana so draining it to tire her out doesn’t seem like it will work. But if I beat her up as is there’s the real danger that Alice’s body will get destroyed in the process.
In that case, time to make new skills. If direct purification doesn’t work then I’ll try something else. I just need two skills.
I mean, the modicum of dramatic tension you're trying to create here feels completely fake to me, because Becca could just modify the Super Human skill so that it sets her stats to 500.
Oh crap! She really is OP~ :O Thanks for the chapter!
Do you have plans for where this story is going to end up, or are you just winging it? It’s a lot of fun to see what she can come up with right now, but if all her problems are able to be solved just by coming up with a few new skills, it seems like things would start getting repetitive quite quickly.
Thanks! For now I'm just winging it and trying to have fun. The story comes as I write it. If things do become repetitive then I apologize in advance, maybe I'll figure something out. Unfortunately I'm not really good at storytelling to solve conflicts naturally, so deus ex machina for now. I will try to keep people guessing as much as I can or throw curves. Again, thanks for the support friend!
Oh no... The demon is strong. Better let it hit me before I use my cheat to instantly outclass it 😑
I'm kind of hoping the MC takes the demon and bounds it to her. I just love the idea of a Demon being forced to accompany someone. I also imagine the Demon forever being stuck in the body of a little kid. That way the Demon is now forever a loli that is just as strong as a little kid unless the MC decides to unleash her powers