Final Trial of Mankind

074 The Beast of Ice

"—Yuma!"

Breaking down the walls made up of the "guardians" of the witches, reveals the scenery where magic rituals are performed.

The magic circle drawn with blood, the witches standing on the left and right sides, and the boy in a black dress standing in the center of the magic circle, that is a vampire-style tuxedo, is Nagisa’s disguise for the ancient city Use clothing.

"It's really early, Gucheng."

The boy who turned around called out the name of the ancient city. He was an ordinary-looking high school student who could be seen everywhere no matter where he was. His characteristic feature was that the color of his bangs turned white as if illuminated by the moonlight. ——

What stands there is the body of the ancient city.

"You have been like this since before. You obviously don't know anything, but you will appear in an important place."

"Yuma...you..." Staring at his own body, Kojou showed distress.

Yuma held a magic book in her hand, and the huge magic power flowing from her fingertips drove the magic book, causing the distortion of space, and this fact made Kojou feel desperate.

Until the confrontation like now, there was still something praying in my heart. Yuma was just a childhood friend, and had nothing to do with this incident, but a victim who was involved.

However, now she finally realized that she really possessed Gucheng's body.

She is the mastermind of the incident.

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"They've arrived in the ancient city. What are you going to do? Even if I don't make a move while Agulola is here, the Enchanted Girl's Blue Ice is enough to get rid of the three people there."

Taken by Wattola to the roof of a nearby building, Mu Chen, who sat on the edge of the building and watched what happened near the Witch Sisters, said to Wattola beside him.

"Ah, the gain outweighs the gain, so excuse me first." After performing a standard aristocratic etiquette, the blond nobleman turned into a golden mist and disappeared.

"The law of the jungle is always the world's highest law!

The weak yearn for salvation but are enslaved forever!

The strong stand tall and dominate the world!

The rules made by the Supreme will never restrain oneself, and the rules are just a tool for the strong to enslave the weak!

How can God love the world?

What is wrong is not the world, but the weakness of the self!

I don't want to be this weak, so I have to dominate everything! "

Eyes filled with overwhelming arrogance and ferocity, Mu Chen stretched out his hand towards the blue sky, clenched his fist as if he was about to grab something.

"For this reason, I will not stop here. For my dream, I will continue the endless journey, but before that, Gucheng, are you ready to accept the trial of the devil?"

Changing the course of the world arbitrarily, Mu Chen will not be so heartless as to completely let go and leave.

Agulola, as the link between Mu Chen and Xiao Gucheng, he will take some insurance before leaving. Mu Chen still has a good impression of this cute little loli, so Gucheng who has no awareness is out of luck.

"Although I will not interfere with other people's choices, at least give me some awareness!"

Since it was decided to give it a trial, it was necessary to make some preparations. Mu Chen, who was sitting on the edge of the building, glanced at the female version of the ancient city again, and disappeared in place.

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"Don't worry, this body will be returned to you soon, so can you wait for a while? It will be found soon." As if caring about the ancient city, Yuma smiled with a gentle expression.

"Find...what's going on...?"

"It's my mother, although she hasn't seen her once since she was born."

"Mother……"

The chaos in the ancient city became more intense.

The young Yuma lived separately from her mother, Kojoro still remembers a little bit.

If Yuma is a witch, it is not surprising that her mother is also a witch, and there is a high possibility that Yuma's mother is on Itogami Island in the "Demon Special Zone".

You can still understand the ancient city here, but you can only understand this.

There should be no need for such an incident just to meet her mother.

In order to ask Yuma this question, Kojou stepped into the magic circle, as if to stop him, a smiling voice came, with a familiar sarcastic tone.

"—That's it, Kojou, can I ask you not to approach her again?"

"!? Why are you here...!?"

Gu Cheng turned his gaze to the direction of the voice in astonishment. Standing there was a young nobleman with blond hair and blue eyes. He leaned his back against the base of the iron tower, showing a useless and refreshing smile.

"Yeah, Gucheng, I haven't seen you for a while, and you look pretty cute now."

The sound of Vatora licking his tongue made Gucheng feel a chill all over his body.

Not because the opponent is a vampire of the "old generation" to be timid.

For Kojou, this young nobleman is in a sense a more dangerous opponent than the First True Ancestor "The Forgotten Battle King". No matter what, this is a man who expresses his love to Kojou, The invisible character, now that he is in Yuma's body, what he looks like in Yuma's eyes, just thinking about it is scary.

So Kojou hurriedly changed the subject.

"Could it be that you were involved in this riot!?"

"No, no, I'm just waiting here...waiting for them to open the prison barrier."

"Prison barrier...!?"

The unexpected words that came out of Vatora's mouth caused Kojou to whisper in surprise.

The legend of the prison barrier, the ancient city has also heard that it is a phantom prison that seals vicious magic criminals, a ghost detention center, and no one knows where it is or whether it actually exists.

It is a place where the souls of murdered criminals can't become Buddhas and wander around, or it has an alias such as the temple of the evil god that sank in the sea. It is one of the famous urban legends that are widely circulated in Itogami City. .

"That kind of thing, isn't it just a legend...!?"

"No, the prison barrier is created by using the power of the dragon veins flowing in the 'Demon Special Zone'. The existence of the artificial world is invisible, and even the members of the council who created it don't know that it is there. But, it does exist, and it’s somewhere in Itogami City.”

"Well, this distortion of space... is to find the location of the prison barrier..."

In order to find out what exists in the distorted space, Yuma distorted the entire space of Itogami City, just like blackening with a pencil to find the handwriting left on the note paper, she used this method to find the prison structure boundary.

"By the way, to unlock the seal of the prison barrier, you need an excellent space control technique and a huge magic power that can surpass the dragon's veins."

After listening to Wattola's explanation, Kojou once again shifted his gaze to Yuma who was standing there silently.

Now, I feel like I can understand what she said.

Yuma is a witch who is good at space control.

However, no matter how much she accepts the protection of the devil, she doesn't have the magical power to surpass the dragon's veins. The only one who has that kind of power is the true ancestor of the vampire who is treated as a natural disaster—that is, Kojou.

Gucheng, who obtained the power of the fourth primordial ancestor by accident, is still an incomplete existence as a vampire, and has almost no special ability as a demon. Even the beast that inhabits the body has only been tamed with two bodies.

However, the body of the ancient city does have extraordinary magic power.

It was a waste of magical power that Kojou couldn't control at all, but Yuma, who has knowledge of magic, should be able to control it.

That's why Yuma needs Kojou's body.

"That's... what happened."

Yuma said that she was looking for her mother, so she had to break the seal of the prison barrier, because her mother was in the prison barrier.

A pure-blooded witch born from a mother who was sealed as a sorcerer and a criminal—this is the real body of Yuma Sendouki.

However, the mother who asked her daughter to break out of the prison cannot make people think that she is a normal human being, and the perpetrator in the prison barrier may not be just Yuma's mother.

"I'm really looking forward to it... the magical criminals who had to be sealed in the labyrinth of another world, what will happen if those guys are liberated to this city together? Well, don't worry, those who escaped, I will take responsibility again I caught it." Vatora said in a light tone.

"Idiot, you—! How can you rest assured, your sister!" Gu Cheng roared with violent veins.

Watora honestly watched the reason for Yuma and the others' actions, and now she understood.As a combat freak, Vatora waited for the magic criminals to be released only because he wanted to fight.

After finishing what he wanted to say, Vatora turned into a golden mist and disappeared. Unlike Kojou, he was a complete vampire, and he could move anywhere like that.

However, now is not the time to deal with that kind of man who will only cause trouble.

In order to liberate the prison barrier, Yuma needs Kojou's body, so if Kojou gets her body back, it should be able to stop her——

Kojou who was thinking this way stared at Yuma, and then...

"—Senior! Back off!"

Yukina called Kojo in a sharp voice, Kojo suddenly looked up, his field of vision was filled with huge tentacles, in order to seal Kojo's movements, the witches ordered the "Guardian" to restrain him.

"—!?"

The incoming tentacles were swept away by Yukina with a gun. However, the tentacles didn't stop moving. Instead, the tentacles kept appearing, putting a lot of pressure on Gucheng and the others.

Manipulating the tentacles are two witches standing on the left and right of Yuma, in contrast to Yuma who has a calm attitude. Their expressions are distorted because of the excitement of violence and the joy of ravaging, and they shoot down the helicopter of the special zone security force, causing the urban area to appear. It was also the two of them who suffered great damage.

"The dark and scarlet witch sisters...! Could it be, 'The Tragedy of Ashdown'...!?" Noticing the technique used by the two, Yukina frowned.

The Witch Sisters sneered loudly with satisfaction for some reason.

"I see... no wonder it can hurt our 'Guardian', the little girl seems to have done her homework beforehand."

"—I guess it's a priestess or something. What should I do, onee-sama?"

Touching the magic book in her hand, the scarlet witch asked her sister's intentions, and the dark witch shrugged her shoulders exaggeratedly like acting.

"If it is possible, I really want to tear off my limbs, cut open my stomach, and use it as a sacrifice in our ceremony, but I can't let any accidents happen to the body of the 'Witch of Cang'... until I find that thing, I will accompany you Let's play."

"It's a pity. It would be perfect if it could turn into a corpse, she is obviously a beautiful girl—" The magic book glowed ominously, and the "Guardian"'s attack became more intense.

However, in the next moment, a huge phantom as clear as a glacier appeared above their heads in the ancient city.

The upper body of a human female, the lower limbs of a mermaid, and the wings on the back, together with the sharp claws of a raptor.

The mermaid of ice, or the demon bird.

It is a huge collection of magical powers with entities, vampires attached to their own blood, summoned beasts from other worlds, dependent beasts, and dependent beasts.

That is the beast of the fourth primogenitor, No. 12, "Alrescha Glacies" (Alrescha Glacies), which has not yet been absorbed by Akatsuki City——

In just an instant, all the guardians were turned into ice dust under the overwhelming merciless freezing air.

Centering on the place where the guardian appeared, the entire floor was wiped out without a trace.

Compared with the ancient city, it is obvious that Agulola's method of controlling the imperial beast is more handy. It is not only powerful to use, but also sharper to attack.