My Disciples Think I’m Strong – Chapter 203

“Hmm….”

Normally, I should have aimed for the neck, but in my haste, I ended up aiming for the arm.

Damn it, could it be that I was rattled at the thought of Leoness becoming a monster?

“What is going on!! That amount of mana and that aura!! Ahahaha! Amazing, Praus!! There’s no mistaking it!”

The severed forearm and tentacles began to regrow. Such fierce recovery ability. Does he really have demons inside him?

“It’s like looking at the Demon King!!”

This was absolute madness. It wasn’t like this in the game. There’s a limit to character breaking…

As I readied myself, Ecabel’s mouth twisted wide, splitting up to her cheeks. It was grotesque.

How unlucky that Ecabel was playing with the beastman Leoness. Ecabel usually tried to fight alongside heroes, but Leoness was a card I couldn’t afford to lose. I couldn’t just stand by watching her try to turn him.

“Hey, hey! Praus! Try that attack again!”

“If you want to die that badly, I’ll oblige.”

I swung my sword, infused with aura.

“‘Phantom Wave Slash’!”

A fierce blade of energy surged toward Ecabel.

Bang!

But the blade was stopped by an unknown wall. As I looked on in confusion, Ecabel exposed her killing intent.

“Raghur… you bastard. Don’t interfere! I’ll kill you?!”

Ecabel turned to look behind her. There stood a sharp-looking man with violet hair on a tree.

“Hah, but—”

“Shut up, Raghur. I might really kill you.”

Rumble—!

The aura trembled.

Even though Ecabel’s killing intent wasn’t directed at me, I felt as if my entire body was being crushed. It felt similar to when I faced Peremus. Is that what it means to be at the level of a legion commander?

“If I hadn’t blocked that just now, your head would be rolling by now! That last attack cut through my barrier and left a mark on Ecabel’s body!”

“A mark…?”

Ecabel confirmed the wound on her neck from Raghur’s words. Seeing the black blood oozing from her hand, she burst into laughter.

“Ahahahaha!!!”

She placed her hands on her cheeks and began laughing like a madwoman.

“Ah~ What should I do! I’m falling for you! You’re strong! So strong!! You cut through the 9th tier barrier and wounded my body? Ahahahah! I’ve never seen a human this strong before! The Demon King wouldn’t be wary of you for nothing!”

She twisted her body and yelled until the forest echoed. Is she really insane?

“I want you! I want you!! You’re not just strong, but you’re also my ideal type!”

I didn’t ask about your ideal type…!

“Praus! I’m in love with you!”

“…What do you want?”

“Let’s mate! Until I get pregnant! Surely your genes are incredibly strong! Our child will surely be superior to anyone!”

The sudden sex appeal made my mind go hazy.
Was Ecabel always such a maniacal demon?

I knew she liked strong beings, but this was too much.

“Praus, focus. She’s saying that to confuse you.”

“I know.”

It still felt too clear-headed.
In the game, she was a character with a fair amount of dignity and a large fanbase. Of course, most of them were just wishful thinkers.

“Your voice is nice too! So, what do you say, Praus? If you come with me right now, I’ll let you go back just like this. Of course, I’ll set this beastman free safely! And you’ll love me for the rest of your life! Human lifespans are short, but I’ll modify you! I’m sure once I modify you, you can live for eternity!”

Eternity?
I know that most of the men she toyed with ended up dying of posthumous death. It was stated in the official settings. Collecting the seeds of the strong was her hobby.

Wait a minute, the writer who came up with this setting is a lunatic, right?
In the game, it was just a funny setup, but facing it in reality was seriously insane.

“Even if I live for eternity, there’s no way I’d mate with you.”

I need to buy time until the heroes deal with the demon issue. Handling a legion commander on my own won’t be easy.

“A rebellious man is also my taste! Up until now, everyone has rebelled against my words. But when I squeeze them, they eventually submit! My techniques are incredible?!”

I didn’t ask. Please shut up!

“Praus is strong, so I’m sure you’ll resist for a long time! It will definitely take years to make you submit. Or maybe because you’re as strong as the Demon King, I might submit to you! Ahh… I’m so excited! It’s driving me mad! What should I do! Just imagining it gets me all worked up!”

She won’t stop talking until the battle starts. Once the fighting begins, she won’t say a word.

“Ugh!”

Pasma, reading my will, closed the distance.

“So fast!!”

He agilely bent his body, dodging the sword’s trajectory.

“Don’t interfere this time, Raghur. I’m in the middle of making love here, and if you butt in again, I’ll really kill you.”

Where does she see that we’re making love?
This time I altered the sword’s trajectory so she couldn’t dodge it. It was the signature of the Phantom Sword Technique. Just as the sword was about to reach her neck, black tentacles lunged at me.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

“Right! No one could cut my tentacles, but you did it in one go! And… even the woman…”

Ecabel’s eyes narrowed into slits. It was a meaningful gaze. Facing Ecabel, I retrieved a potion from my pocket and tossed it in front of Leoness.

“Leoness, drink that and get out of the forest.”

“What about you, Praus…?”

“I’m going to kill that thing. Don’t worry and just get out while my disciples handle the demons and treat the injured.”

“Hey! You’re going to kill me! Is that love enough to kill?!”

Ugh, chills.
She’s talking about love. It makes me want to punch her.

“But….”

“Your presence here is a hindrance. Trust me, Leoness.”

I can’t let that damn psychopath get in the way of my plans.

“Okay. I’ll trust you.”

Leoness, who answered obediently, drank the potion and stood up.

“I’ll go call for reinforcements!”

“I can’t just let you go!”

Raghur reached out. Seeing his hand move toward Leoness trying to escape made me want to swing my sword, but the tentacles halted me.

“Praus! I’m in front of you, right? You should focus on me!”

Clang!

It felt different than the previous tentacles that got cut easily like jelly. Even though it clashed with my aura, the form didn’t break.

“My tentacles can be hard too?!”

“…So what?”

Pasma immediately grasped the movement of the tentacles surging toward me.

“‘Phantom Dance’.”

I swiftly slashed through the pouring tentacles and reached Ecabel.

“Uh…? My tentacles….”

I aimed for her neck with my final strike, but a hulking man with red skin and horns swatted it away with his sword.

I felt a prick in my palm and jumped back.

Where did he come from? Was he from the neck wound from earlier?

More importantly, is a top-tier goblin among the elite troops in her body?

“…Who told you to come out?”

“I can’t just stand by and watch as my commander gets hurt.”

“Seriously, I’m in the middle of making love here! That’s just a cute rebellion. It’s on the level of a cute act. So go back.”

Ecabel waved her hand dismissively.

“…If I hadn’t blocked that, your head might have rolled. That attack from him… no, Praus, is at the level where even high-ranked demons must focus to block.”

“Is that so? I knew my eyes weren’t wrong! Praus really is strong! Anyway, just slink into the corner over there. If you interfere, you’ll die?”

The goblin bowed his head and stepped back eight paces. Is he staying just out of reach, accounting for my speed?

Speaking of which, where’s Leoness?

She was fleeing without any problems. Raghur looked down at his palm with a bewildered expression.

“…What’s going on? Why can’t I cast any magic?”

“Of course. I blocked it.”

Ariel appeared from behind the broken wall.

“Ariel…?”

“Raghur. I’ve come to capture you.”

“Wow, long time no see?”

“It’s not like we’re at an age to just exchange pleasantries.”

Ariel gathered wind with both hands. Is she using magic involving causality?

“Seems like you’ve not made a contract yet. Aren’t you overexerting yourself? If you act out of causality, you might be forcibly exiled to the human world? So who would love a human—”

“Shut up! ‘Blade Wind’!”

“‘Backlash’.”

Wind-blades entwined with the storm surrounding Raghur, only to be shot back to Ariel.

Boom!

Ariel reached out and created a wind barrier to deflect them.

“…As expected, you’re not called the Spirit King for nothing. Your magic is overflowing with power. But this level of magic feels like you’re just testing the waters, doesn’t it? Do I still look like I was hundreds of years ago?”

“If that’s the case, let’s see a bigger magic…!”

“Stop it, Ariel.”

“But!”

It seemed there were still limitations. Her hands were shaking.

After all, without a contract, a spirit wouldn’t gain the causality to intervene in the human world.

“If you do that, it’ll only go according to that bastard’s wishes.”

“Oooh~! Your situational awareness is impressive~!”

You should really shut up.

“I just need to hold them until the children arrive. So Ariel, look at me.”

I said while putting on the Glass Ring.

[Wearing ‘Mirror of Others’.]

[Skill ‘Copycat’ can be used for 1 minute.]

“‘Copycat’.”

[Please reflect the target in the mirror.]

As Ariel was looking at me, a hologram rose as if crossing over.

[Target ‘Spirit King of Wind – Ariel’ detected.]

[Copying the powers and skills of ‘Ariel’.]

“From now for one minute, I’ll take on those bastards.”

“Hahaha! You can only leave scratches!”

Raghur pointed at me and laughed. Laugh to your heart’s content. Before heading to the Yellow Springs.

“‘Acceleration’. ‘Extreme Speed’.”

These were the top buff techniques of Wind Magic. Since they could be stacked, they were considered cheating in the game. And then—

“‘High-Speed Movement’.”

I was now as fast as light.

In fact, this stacked technique couldn’t be used in the game.

The reason was that the character’s reflexes couldn’t keep up with the speed.

In the game, excessive speed made it harder to deal damage to the mobs. In reality, it would be even more challenging than in the game.

But that was only a human limitation.

What if the world I see is that of the spirits, especially at the level of a Spirit King?

If they had the reflexes to block the magic coming in like light, wouldn’t they be able to use it even if it was stacked?

I took a deep breath and stomped the ground.

“Eh?”

“Eh?”

“What’s happening—!”

Ecabel, the goblin, and Raghur all let out dazed sounds.

The three beings couldn’t even respond to my movements and found their heads rolling.

As I watched three heads thud to the ground, I whispered softly.

“Still laughing, huh?”