Chapter 209
I’m having a strange dream.
In this dream, I’m in my human form, floating in a pitch black empty space.
It’s a mysterious feeling.
Lately I haven’t had any dreams where I’m in human form at all.
How little interest did I have in my past life?
Well, maybe that’s why I was able to accept life as an earth dragon so easily.
Anyway, I’m not wearing any clothes. I’m completely naked. How embarrassing.
Why am I having a dream like this?
Come to think of it, what was I doing just before this?
Ah, that’s right.
I got hit by Agil’s attack and lost consciousness, right?
Uwaaah, pathetic…
Even I’m amazed by how lamely I got taken out.
『I know right? You really are lame.』
Huh? There was a reply.
Uh, who are you?
『Seriously, you’re so lame it’s unbelievable. With all that magical power, with all that strength, how could you lose to someone like Agil? I just can’t believe it.』
A voice filled with scorn.
No, really, who are you?
『Who cares who I am? More importantly, it’s you. What are you doing losing like that, huh?』
Crap. This voice, it’s scary.
Not being able to see his form makes it even scarier.
『…I see, so you really can’t see me after all. Yeah, I guess that makes sense.』
The voice takes on a slight lonely tone.
But really, who are you?
『Nevermind that, just hurry up and wake up already, idiot. If you don’t, you’re going to die, you know?』
Oh, that’s right.
In reality, I’m still in the middle of a fight.
If I don’t wake up quick, I’ll be killed in my sleep.
『Goddamnit, that’s not what I meant, idiot.』
Huh?
『Even if you wake up now, it won’t mean anything. A useless lump that can’t move becoming a useless lump that can move means nothing. Garbage turning into organic waste means nothing. When I say wake up, I mean something else entirely.』
An extremely harsh tongue-lashing.
But I’m frustrated that I can’t deny it.
『Power. You finally reached maturity, yet you’re only using Breath and Alchemy over and over again like a one trick pony. Those aren’t an earth dragon’s weapons, idiot.』
An earth dragon’s…weapons.
But, an earth dragon’s (my) attacking methods are just claws, fangs, Breath, and the like…
『Goddamnit. An earth dragon’s greatest weapon isn’t those, it’s devouring. In other words, ‘Gluttony’, got it?』
Oh yeah, that’s right…
Jibru said something about that too.
For earth dragons, the greatest weapon isn’t the massive body, claws, or fangs.
It’s ‘Gluttony’ alone.
『Forgetting something you were told until now, how stupid can you be, idiot?』
Ah, yes, I’m very sorry.
You’re completely right, my apologies.
But, even if I use ‘Gluttony’, I can’t imagine being able to defeat that monster…
『Just do it. When you wake up, use ‘Gluttony’. Okay? And as a one-time only service, just this once, just one time, I’ll help awaken your power. Use that to somehow deal with Agil.』
Huh?
You can do something like ‘Awaken’ my power?
『Obviously. And if I say I’ll do it, then I’ll do it. It’s decided.』
…This voice is really aggressive, huh?
『Haah, what a huge miscalculation. To think I’d have to use the insurance I prepared for Jibru in a situation like this. Well, it can’t be helped. You guys dying would be a pain too. Seriously, so much trouble…』
I feel something reaching out towards me.
It seems like an arm or hand of some kind.
It touches my head gently.
My head gets rubbed roughly.
Whoa, hey, what are you doing?
『…Do your best. Don’t lose, shitty brat.』
…………。
The last words were spoken a little gently.
Hey, don’t tell me you’re―――
『Yeah, that’s right. When you wake up, remember to—』
The voice slowly grows quieter and quieter.
Then, I lose consciousness.
I opened my eyes.
Gurglegurglegurgle…
『Haa~…I’m starving…』
Earth wakes up rubbing his empty stomach, displaying a relaxed demeanor completely unfit for a battlefield.
In contrast, Agil looks at him with a bored gaze.
「Oh right, you were here after all. I was so focused on Cadias and Léna, I completely forgot about you.」
His tone is a mix of disappointment and ridicule.
In fact, Agil doesn’t consider Earth a threat at all.
While it’s true Earth has high magical power and physical abilities, that’s all there is.
He has no skill at utilizing that power whatsoever.
The deer head turns to face Earth.
「But what can you do at this point, even if you’ve woken up now? You’ll just become battery fodder for the ‘Great Invasion’, with all that excess power of yours.」
His eyes glint ominously.
The posture of an impending attack.
Destructive beams are about to be fired.
『―――Dodge, partner!』
The other Earth yells out.
But Earth doesn’t move.
He just blankly watches the scene unfold.
「…..Did you give up already? Hah, how boring. Well then, goodbye—」
Taking Earth’s lack of resistance as a sign of surrender, Agil’s gaze mixes in contempt.
Light flashes as two beams are fired from the deer’s eyes at Earth.
『Partner!』
「Earth?!」
The two cry out.
But still, Earth does not move.
He simply stares fixedly at the light rays, and
『…….Haaah』
Slowly opens his mouth.
And then—
Gulugulugulugulu—Gulp.
Along with that sound, Agil’s attack vanishes.
「…Huh?」
For an instant, Agil is bewildered.
The light beams disappear.
There is no explosion.
Just what happened now?
『Urp.』
A bizarre noise emanates from Earth’s mouth.
But that makes one fact unavoidably clear to Agil.
No way, did he swallow it?
That attack?
『…I feel kinda strange.』
「What…happened?」
Agil instantly changes his demeanor.
The disinterested gaze vanishes, as he identifies Earth as an ‘enemy’.
He tenses without lowering his guard, observing the other’s actions.
『Hey, Agil.』
Earth’s eyes fixate sharply on Agil.
「……」
That gaze was so uncomfortable, so sinister, it unnerved him.
『―――Right now, you look really delicious.』
「—Wha!?」
Shiver.
A chill runs down Agil’s entire body.
An emotion he hadn’t felt in a long time.
In the next moment, something even more unbelievable occurs.
Crunch.
A dull sound rings out.
Earth’s visible form seems to have been cut in half.
No, that’s wrong.
My field of vision suddenly went dark.
The deer head—half of it has ‘disappeared’.
「Wha….?」
Throb.
Agil finally realizes what has happened to his own body.
Then the pain rushes in belatedly.
「Gah—AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!?」
The deer head involuntarily screams out.
Munch, munch, munch…
The sound of Earth’s chewing echoes.
Despite being small noises, they stick disgustingly in his ears.
「Y-You! What did you just do!?」
『Ahh, I knew it. Super delicious. I wonder why? Until now when I ate monsters, I never felt them to be this tasty. And I don’t feel any revulsion at all. I’m totally fine with fighting and predating. It doesn’t feel any different from normal meals at all…』
Saying that, Earth bites into the deer head again.
Crunch.
In an instant, the neck down to its base disappears.
「AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!?」
『Delicious, delicious. So damn delicious.』
Munch munch munch munch, gulp.
The amount he ate clearly exceeds the size of his mouth.
Yet the act of predation, of eating, succeeds despite the contradiction.
This is the true nature of an earth dragon’s ‘Gluttony’.
Seeing this, the other Earth, Léna-Lloyd, Kshathra, and even Elibel in the dungeon are all dumbfounded.
The scene was so unreal no one could find any words.
『Phew…』
Having finished his meal, Earth lands on the ground.
『Yeah…I see…』
Then he checks over his own condition.
He squeezes his fist and swishes his tail a few times.
『No problems. I can still eat more. My power is swelling too. Yeah, I’m still hungry.』
「Don’t screw with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!」
The atmosphere shakes from the ear-piercing shriek.
Agil roars furiously.
「Take this!」
The lion head unleashes a roar, the dragon head fires off a Breath at Earth.
Agil’s roar paralyzes the target. Unable to dodge, the dragon’s Breath will finish him off…or so it should have.
『Nom』
But once again, Earth ‘drinks’ Agil’s Breath.
As if slurping noodles, he guides it into his mouth, chews it up, and swallows it.
There’s no sign of his body stiffening from the roar either.
Yet again, Agil’s attack fails.
『Urpp…yeah, delicious.』
「What…what’s going on? Just what are you?」
He cries out in disbelief.
Indeed, Agil likely doesn’t understand the current situation.
Or perhaps he’s refusing to comprehend it.
『What do you mean, what? You should know already, right?』
「―――」
『I’m—the earth dragon, Earth.』
He leaps.
Earth’s fangs draw close to Agil’s neck.
The next target is the lion head.
「Guoh!!」
But Agil narrowly dodges it at the last moment.
His massive body moves, churning up waves of sand.
Léna-Lloyd and the other Earth back away to avoid getting caught up in it.
『Oh, I missed—Huh, I’m floating?』
After the failed attack, Earth remains suspended in midair.
Looking down, a footing of black mist has formed at his feet.
『This mist…I see, thanks Tsumugi.』
『―――Ehehe….』
The black mist sways slightly, as if embarrassed.
Standing firmly on the aerial foothold, Earth takes a stance.
Like this, he can use ‘that’ now.
Inhaling deeply,
『―――RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!』
He unleashes a Breath imbued with tremendous magical power.
「―――!?」
Agil reflexively activates a barrier.
But,
「Wha—Idiot!?」
It’s easily shattered.
Agil’s barrier was destroyed.
No, not destroyed.
It was ‘devoured’.
And that’s not all.
The unleashed Breath now had several times the power of before.
Naturally.
This Breath had the magical energy of Agil’s Breath, barriers, and beams he just ‘Gluttonized’ added to it.
Agil’s face distorts in shock.
Then, the Breath Earth fired completely annihilates Agil’s snake head without a trace.
An explosion occurs, kicking up a localized sandstorm.
「Hey…what just happened?」
Léna-Lloyd, who was a distance away, stared blankly at the scene.
『That guy, partner…he Gluttonized Agil’s techniques then added them to boost his own Breath…』
Unbelievable.
That was…that technique was…
『—”Multi-Gluttony”. The special move of the Divine Catastrophe Dragon King, Jibru…』
「Huh!?」
『I don’t know why but…there’s no mistake.』
Now he was certain of it.
That his other self had reached that level.
『My partner…he’s ‘Awakened’!』
『Awakening』。
It’s the true power that only those of the direct dragon king lineage can attain.
In all of history, only four individuals reached this domain.
The earth dragon, Jibru.
The death dragon, Ouronus.
The celestial dragon, Yamu.
The holy dragon, Harsha Lude.
Just these four alone.
Existences said to be on a completely different level from disaster-class and calamity-class monsters, despite all being the same god-disaster class.
And among even those ‘Awakenings’, the earth dragon’s Awakening is considered especially extraordinary.
And Earth had attained it.
「By Awakening you mean… But why?」
『How should I know? Maybe he ate something weird, or had a strange dream while knocked out…』
「Hey…isn’t it normal in cases like this for it to be the person’s determination or resolve awakening their true power? It’s your partner right? Isn’t brushing it off like that pretty cold?」
『Don’t be stupid! There’s no way that’d happen to my partner of all people! It has to be some accident or fluke!』
「O-Oh…I guess that’s true…」
Despite feeling unconvinced by those words, Léna-Lloyd nods as well.
That’s right. Even without knowing the reason, the incompetent Earth who was useless in battle until now suddenly gained strength that might turn the tide.
Now that his true power of ‘Gluttony’ has been unleashed, they have a chance.
There’s no reason not to ride this momentum.
『I’ll give it my all supporting my partner!』
「Fufu, let’s do it!」
And the two rush over to Earth’s side as well.
The battle had entered its climax.
「….An Awakening you say? Ridiculous! As if such a convenient miracle could occur in this situation!」
Agil roars.
He shakes his head, as if denying the facts before his eyes.
What just happened was merely a coincidence, nothing more.
As if to sweep away Agil’s unease, the gem embedded in the dragon head’s forehead shines, trying to heal the two heads that were blown off.
But,
「Wha—The wounds aren’t…healing!?」
The lost heads remain as they were.
The healing power of the holy dragon Harsha returns the target to optimal condition.
Yet no matter how much it’s used, the heads won’t return.
As if insisting that state is already ‘optimal’.
「That’s absurd… This phenomenon is… This ‘power’…!?」
And then Agil realizes the possibility.
No, it would be more accurate to say he remembered.
The earth dragon’s ‘Gluttony’ devours everything.
Literally ‘everything’.
In that case―――
In that case―――
If the moment he was eaten earlier, even the existence of his heads—was devoured…?
「Could he really have Awakened…? The same ‘Gluttony’ that devours all, both existence and physical form, as her…as Jibru…?」
Impossible, it can’t be.
Agil glares at Earth.
Agil is ‘Immortal’. No matter how wounded or torn apart, he won’t die.
But if he is ‘eaten’, that’s another story.
It’s the only way to essentially ‘kill’ his immortal trait.
Above all, having any more of his existence eaten would be bad.
He’d lose control over the power of the Stellar Vein he had stolen.
Agil steeled his resolve.
「Can’t be helped, I was saving this but…」
『……?』
The next moment, Agil’s body emits a faint purple glow.
『What’s that light?』
Earth had a bad premonition.
「Won’t come to me? Then I’ll come to you!」
An immense eagle head looms towards Earth.
It swings down its beak, trying to crush Earth.
『Umm, in this case… “Armamentization – Speed Form”!』
He instantly invokes alchemical armament.
Dodging the attack.
But waiting where he dodged to was another head.
The horse head neighed, firing a lump of Breath-like magical energy at Earth.
『Gulp—』
He realized this was a bad move.
For the current him, magic attacks were nothing more than bait.
His stomach rumbled. Hunger struck.
Seeing a feast before his eyes, he activates ‘Gluttony’ to devour it.
But,
『Huh?』
He’s blown away.
Bouncing off the sandy ground several times, rolling hundreds of meters.
The armored skin cracks, intense pain assaults him.
『Wha…what the…』
Gluttony should have activated.
Yet for some reason, Earth couldn’t ‘eat’ the attack, instead taking it head-on.
「Don’t underestimate me… It’s not like I just remained sealed away these past five hundred years, you know?」
The purple light had grown even stronger.
「A ‘Anti-Gluttony Formula’. To think I’d have to use a trump card prepared for Jibru against a baby dragon like you…how annoying.」
『Wha…what do you…』
「Die!」
Another attack is fired.
Recalling the damage from the previous blow, Earth somehow avoids this one.
（Dammit! Then if I get in close and stick to his body…）
Using Armamentization in Speed Form, he closes in on Agil.
Earth barely slipped through Agil’s attacks, reaching his feet.
『Alright… Now!』
At this range, he shouldn’t be able to fire those attacks.
Earth bites firmly into Agil’s body.
And then,
『～～～～～～BLEEEGH—Urp, urk!』
He vomits intensely.
Once again Gluttony didn’t activate.
Severe pain assaults his entire body.
An intense pain like his insides are being torn apart.
「It’s useless. You can’t devour me as I am now.」
Agil’s voice sounded out.
「My current body is constantly covered in fluctuating magical power. The Breath I fired earlier too. The moment you bite me, the two thousand two hundred magic formulas covering my body surface start flooding into you simultaneously.」
『Gah, gaah…what’s….』
「While an earth dragon’s ‘Gluttony’ is certainly incredible, due to its nature of absorbing things into itself, there is inevitably an absorption limit. It seems like the maximum quantity and quality of magical energy you can take in at once is around two thousand types.」
An ‘Anti-Gluttony Formula’.
In short, it’s a simple jamming technique.
Similar to how intentionally sending massive amounts of data can cause a computer to ‘lag’, it induces the self-destruction of ‘Gluttony’ by flooding it with huge numbers of magic spells simultaneously.
While the theory itself is simple if explained, whether it can actually be pulled off is another matter entirely.
It’s essentially equivalent to activating over two thousand different magics at the same time.
Requiring precision computational ability like a machine’s, massive magical power, and skill as a mage.
A secret art that won’t succeed if even one aspect is lacking.
In terms of rank, it likely rivals God King-class magic on par with the ‘Great Invasion’.
A technique specialized solely to kill ‘Gluttony’, to kill earth dragons.
「（Although…it can’t be maintained for long…）」
Naturally, this technique has weaknesses as well.
First, while employing it, complex magics like the holy dragon’s healing can’t be used.
It’s a technique specialized for calculations already.
While simpler attack methods like Breath are still possible, there’s no leeway to utilize other abilities.
And secondly.
While active, the heads become weak points.
If the brains that perform the calculations are destroyed, the technique can’t be maintained.
「（Losing two heads before using this technique was a miscalculation… But it’s fine. Even with five heads left, the technique can be maintained just fine. For now, killing this guy takes top priority!）」
Dealing with the other monsters can come after.
No matter what, he has to finish off Earth.
Aside from Earth’s ‘Gluttony’, there is no other way to defeat his own ‘Immortality’ trait.
The five remaining heads lunge at Earth.
『Guh…』
Earth doesn’t move.
No, he can’t move.
After Gluttony misfired, dizziness struck making his body unsteady.
A prime chance for Agil.
「Die!」
『「Like hell I’ll let you!」』
But in that moment, the other Earth and Léna-Lloyd rush in, crashing into one of Agil’s heads.
「What!?」
「Heaven Claw!!」
Léna-Lloyd swings the dragon sword Ascalon.
Giant claws of light extend from its tip, slicing off part of the eagle head.
「Don’t let your guard down, Agil!」
『You okay, partner!?』
『You two…saved me…』
「Cadias! Léna!」
Agil rages, but before he can counterattack the three swiftly pull back.
『You alright?』
『Yeah… I’m much better now…』
Clutching his chest, Earth speaks painfully.
Gluttony is powerful.
But the backlash for failure is just as great.
And his current awakened state feels half-forced, drawing out power unnaturally.
It probably can’t be maintained for long.
He likely has just one or two more activations left in him at most.
「Ah… This is bad.」
Crack! A large fracture runs along the dragon sword Ascalon.
「I’ve…overdrawn on Yamu’s power it seems… And that last strike, my magic is…pretty much at its limit too…」
Léna-Lloyd was also unsteady on her feet.
It wasn’t just her. Both Earths were in ragged condition as well.
『We’re all battered and beaten… But our opponent should be the same.』
『Huh? But doesn’t he have healing? If so then—』
『No, Agil shouldn’t be able to use the holy dragon’s healing power now. Léna’s last blow confirmed it for me.』
The other Earth calmly assessed the situation.
His partner’s awakening, and Agil’s ‘Anti-Gluttony Formula’.
It’s clearly a fearsome technique even against an awakened earth dragon’s Gluttony, but that means it likely carries great risk as well.
He understood why the first two heads couldn’t be restored, having their existence devoured entirely by Earth’s Gluttony.
But why doesn’t he heal the wounds just inflicted now?
Because it doesn’t hinder combat?
No, that’s wrong. Until now, Agil had healed any damage immediately.
The reason he isn’t—it’s probably that he lacks the capacity to.
While the ‘Anti-Gluttony Formula’ is active, he can’t spare effort on anything else.
『We can damage him with our attacks like this.』
『Then we still have a chance, right?』
The voice that cut into their conversation was Elibel.
Communicating thoughts from the dungeon via thought transmission.
『Just keep attacking and attacking! That technique probably requires considerable computational ability. If you take off his other heads, that technique should naturally unravel.』
「Don’t say unreasonable things… We’re at our limit already…urp…」
Léna-Lloyd vomits blood, on the verge of collapsing.
But then Elibel gives a sly, amused laugh.
『―――Oh my? The shitty hag is at her limit already? What a shame. If this fight ended, I was thinking of tidying up your room in the dungeon a bit… I wanted to spend time together in the dungeon with Léna. Ah, too bad.』
An obvious fake disappointed tone.
But the effect was tremendous.
「I feel power welling up!」
The plain witch has revived!
With mental fortitude, ragged condition means nothing!
Don’t look down on loners!
「I-I can still fight too…」
Somehow next to them now was the gigantic ox.
The ‘Intimidating Ox’ Kshathra.
Covered in wounds and ragged, but she too had the pride of a Evil God-class class, a follower of the Stellar Vein.
「―――I can only support but… I’ll do my best!」
Tsumugi’s voice echoes from the surrounding fog as well.
『Alright…let’s go, partner!』
『Urp…let’s do it, everyone…』
Along with the contrasting yells from the two Earths, they charged the Emperor Beast Agil.
「BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!」
First, bellowing loudly, Kshathra rams into Agil.
「An ox whose only skill is charging!」
A simple straightforward charge.
But of course, that’s not the end of it.
「Hyap! Then how about this, Agil!」
Riding on Kshathra’s head, Léna takes a stance with the dragon sword Ascalon.
Please, lend me your power, she prays desperately.
This is probably the last time.
Releasing the sealed power of Yamu.
Kshathra’s body shines, her horns growing even more massive.
She had boosted herself with Yamu’s power.
「―――So fast! But eat this!」
Agil immediately retaliates with Breath and magic attacks.
But the accelerated Kshathra doesn’t stop, enduring Agil’s interception as she charges.
No matter how much flesh is torn or legs shredded, her momentum doesn’t halt.
Kshathra wasn’t trying to evade Agil’s strikes to begin with.
She had charged in resolved to take the full brunt from the start.
「（This is my resolve…! No matter what, I’ll take that head!）」
And that determination reaches Agil.
The horse head is pulverized by the strike.
「Gahaah…!」
「There…that’s the last of me…」
Just like that. Kshathra and Léna-Lloyd collapse.
Both are on the brink of death now.
「You…guh!?」
Agil tries to strike the finishing blow, but his movements freeze for an instant.
Tremendous headache assaults Agil.
Losing more heads is interfering with his computational ability.
Four heads remain – lion, wolf, eagle, dragon.
「But…now only Earth and Cadias are left. In that case—」
He can win.
But Agil’s conviction is betrayed.
「―――Now everyone—do it!」
「―――!?」
At Tsumugi’s cue, part of the mist clears away.
「Eternal Flame of Darkness, Shadow, and Fusion Metal!!」
「Blazing Lament!」
「Puru!」
「BWOOOOOOOOO!」
「Indeed!!」
From there, countless intense attacks are unleashed.
Slashes, charges, tentacles, flames, the eternal flame of darkness, shadow, and fusion metal assail Agil’s heads all at once.
「Gah—AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!」
Those unconscious attacks blow away Agil’s eagle head.
There were Earth’s dungeon followers.
Pururu, Tres, Rasetsu, Gonzo, Robun, Othel, Ljung.
「Dad, sorry for being late! I really wanted to come out sooner, but Elibel told us to hide in the mist until the right moment!」
「Puru puru!」
「Our apologies for the delay, father… Indeed!」
That’s right, the followers had already arrived at the battlefield.
To reliably land this ambush at the very end.
「Guuh…Haa…Haa…You damned…vermin!」
「「「Eep!」」
Agil roars furiously.
The Breath unleashed from the dragon head blows Rasetsu and the others away.
『Everyone!』
Earth cries out.
「―――I-It’s okay, dad. I somehow defended with my mist… But fighting is…I mean, I’m also pretty…at my limit.」
It was Tsumugi who answered.
Looks like she immediately put up a mist barrier to defend them.
All are on the brink of death, but somehow still alive.
Thank goodness…
Three heads left.
『Just three more… Can we handle it between us…?』
「―――It’ll be okay, Elibel!」
『Yes, just in time! Teleportation magic circle, activate!』
Responding to Earth’s murmur, Tsumugi replies, along with Elibel.
And then, more allies emerge from the shining teleportation gate!
「…I go, Una, ‘Wind Palm Barrage’—」
「Yes! ‘Water, bring forth your untainted stream, and sweep this evildoer’s form away.’」
「―――’Holy Cross, restrain the one who stands before me!’」
Innumerable crosses of water, blasts of wind, all restrain and bind the wolf head’s movements.
『Wha—Una, and Dos too!? And…Orion!?』
Una, Dos, and the saint maiden of the ‘Holy Ark’, Orion Karla.
Seeing these completely unexpected reinforcements, Earth is shocked.
They should have been in the Holy Kingdom.
So how?
「Looks like we made it just in time!」
Behind them was a sister aiming a gun who spoke a strange one-liner.
『You’re Sister Dia!? But, how!? Weren’t you confined in the dungeon!?』
She was one of Cadias’ companions, and had been confined deep in the dungeon since being captured at the research institute.
So how?
「Out on parole! The sage asked me to bring them!」
『Oh right, Elibel mentioned something like that…』
『They were just an insurance policy in case they made it back in time. But looks like they returned at the perfect moment.』
『Well, can’t deny that but…』
I’m simply happy they came.
In fact, meeting again after so long, even in this situation, it makes me feel a little nostalgic.
「….come on papa, hurry. I can probably only hold for ten more seconds…」
「Father…guh…I’m sorry.」
『Whoops, my bad!』
Even with their powers, it seems they can only restrain Agil’s head for a few seconds at most.
But still, those few seconds are the most precious time possible in this situation.
Now only two heads remain. The lion and dragon.
The two Earths dash down the mist road.
「You…won’t get…any closer!」
The remaining lion head roars furiously.
The atmosphere shakes from the ear-piercing cries.
With Gluttony sealed, its effects remain potent.
『Guuh…!?』
『Damn…At a time like this…!』
Earth and the others’ movements halt.
Desperately trying to resist, but the lion head continues roaring.
Agil intends to buy several seconds like this.
But his plan is foiled.
By the sudden piercing beam of crimson light—
「―――Pierce, Gungnir!!」
「―――Flame Armor!!」
The crimson spear pierces the lion’s forehead, stopping its roar.
Furthermore, a gigantic black bird crashes into the lion’s face, igniting into flames.
『Hoh, it’s been a while, Lord of the Hole.』
「Tch…」
『Now Heleb too!? And why is Beldi here!?』
While Una and the other’s participation was unexpected, these two showing up is downright shocking.
Why? How is Beldi here!?
「Sh-Shut up! Shut up! Quiet! I just came here because I was called by Gungnir! Yet why, why am I helping defeat the monster that killed my sister again… Uuu…」
Curled up on Heleb’s burning back, clutching her head, Beldi seems to be crying a little.
…Just what in the world happened?
『While you may have questions, I’ll explain later! For now, do what must be done!』
『G-Got it!』
In any case, now only one head remains.
The dragon head that absorbed Harsha’s power, just that one.
「Gungnir too!? And the saint maiden of the Holy Ark!? Again!? Why do you keep interfering!? Why does he have so many allies…! Damn, damn you all! Don’t screw with me!」
Agil’s composure had completely vanished.
All that was left was that dragon head.
Thanks to everyone restraining the other heads, the purple glow surrounding Agil had faded away.
『The technique’s been undone! Partner, Gluttony will work now!』
『Got it!』
「Don’t underestimate me!」
Along with his yell, only the dragon head regained the purple aura.
『What!?』
「I can still deploy the ‘Anti-Gluttony Formula’ on one head alone, even if not my whole body!」
As long as the dragon head remains, the rest being eaten doesn’t matter.
If he devours Earth and Cadias with that head, it’s still his win.
Then he just has to regain his power and wipe out the small fry!
『―――Partner, I’ll give you a signal. At that moment, pound it with a Gluttony-imbued Breath.』
『Huh, but if we attack now—』
『It’ll be fine. Believe in your comrades—your family. That’s right…Ann.』
『―――Yes, Lord Earth.』
That voice came from Agil’s throat.
There in his field of vision.
At the base of the neck was—a single black ant.
Her battered armor, faint magic power, wounded body.
But her fighting spirit and loyalty to her master would never fade.
The last one to arrive here.
And the first one who served them.
Truly…she always dashes to our side—to Earth’s side, at the most perfect timing.
『―――Armament Mode – Suicide Bomber Form!!』
KABOOM! Something shatters loudly.
At the same time, only the purple light around the dragon head vanishes.
Nullified by Ann’s sword, the Magic Sword Ridill.
「Wha!?」
『Now, Lord Earth!』
Ann yells.
Responding to her, the two Earths dash down the mist road.
『Let’s go partner. This is the final highlight. We’ll pour everyone’s efforts and feelings into this one blow!』
『―――Let’s do this!!』
The two inhale simultaneously, filling their mouths with tremendous magical power.
One with Gluttony, the other with the power of lightning.
Shaping their feelings into an attack, pouring it all out in one breath!
『『RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!』』
The dual Breath unleashed.
The moment it’s fired they mix and meld, becoming one enormous Breath.
Gluttony devours the hero’s lightning, the ambient magic, carrying the everyone’s sentiments, swallowing everything, swelling into a massive wave surging at Agil.
「GWOOOOOOOOOO!」
In a last ditch effort, Agil deploys a barrier.
But it was meaningless.
Colliding.
There’s no clash whatsoever.
The ephemeral barrier shatters, and a vortex of utter destruction swallows Agil’s dragon head.
Gluttony activates.
The destruction spreads from the head to Agil’s entire body.
「Absurd… This can’t… Can’t be happening! Just a little more, a little more and—AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!」
A deafening boom echoes.
And this time, without a doubt—Agil’s body is pulverized to dust.
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