A Villainous Aristocrat's Pursuit of Peace ~ Reincarnated as the Most Talented Mage in History, I'll Achieve Supremacy in order to live a peaceful life with My Maid~ - Chapter 71

The bellow that sounded like a mixture of the Evil Dragon King’s scream and outrage resonated through the dark.

However, his anger was in vain as my spell eroded his body.

What I did was exceptionally simple.

If he achieved full revival, I could defeat him, but the price would be the Elven village turning into a wasteland. That wasn’t the ideal future that I, or anyone, desired.

So, I used my magic, similar in nature to the Spirit King Shade, to infiltrate his body with magic. After his revival, all I needed to do was manipulate the magic, and his body would start to crumble from the inside due to the magic’s rejection.

However, this was a form of weakening him.

“You won’t die from something as minor as this; I’ve already experienced it.”

I approached the writhing Evil Dragon King, suffering in agony, and plunged a jet-black greatsword I summoned, into his forehead.

“Grrrrraaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh—!? Human—!!!”

He roared in pain, a guttural scream echoing as he writhed, yet true to his nature as a dragon king who handled debuffs, he didn’t let the pain kill him, despite the debilitating effects. With his giant mouth, he unleashed a breath attack that harbored a terrifying amount of magic.

In an instant, a single beam of light, blindingly illuminating the pitch-black space, was directed straight at me.

The power of that attack was overwhelming, and even just the thought of it was enough to send shivers down my spine.

But if I dodged it here, the darkness dome might crumble. The dark dome was merely there to protect against flying debris, rocks, and minor spells during combat. An attack of this magnitude would undoubtedly bring it down.

“———【Spirit King’s Destruction Light】!!”

I extended both my hands, conjuring a massive magic circle in front of me, which enveloped the breath attack, consuming it.

“Whew… What now? Seriously, is that all you got…!”

And yet, from the Evil Dragon King’s body, a dark and chaotic-colored magic spread out in all directions.

This was the very attack that raised the difficulty level of defeating this creature in the game.

The magic itself had almost no offensive capabilities, but upon contact, it would instantly dispel any magic. It was an arch-nemesis-like attack for me and the spirits.

Simultaneously, it marked the moment when his health dropped below 40%—a sort of signal.

“【The Abyssal Darkness That Stains the Night】!”

In that moment, the dome of dark magic, made of dark energy, trembled the ground, and powerful miasma erupted from the dark dome, nullifying all the magic emanating from the Evil Dragon King.

But—

“Indeed… It seems accepting the Spirit King’s magic fully with a human body is difficult…”

At present, more than one-third of the total magic power was flowing through my body. Due to this immense magical load, my body couldn’t bear it, and cracks resembling fissures appeared from the edges of my body, and my whole body was creaking and groaning.

“Hold it, my Lord!”

“I know… Do not reduce the output, under any circumstances.”

While communicating telepathically, we were desperately working together to protect me, the World Tree, this forest, and the elves from the surging chaos of magic. The Evil Dragon King sneered as he watched my body gradually disintegrate.

“Kukuku… You humans are impatient. But—mockery and arrogance shall not help you defeat me!”

“【Complete Spirit Assimilation】!”

In that moment, my entire body was enveloped in the abyssal magic, breaking the limits of the human body.

“Th-This form…!? Why have you turned into a high elf, or even a spirit…!? How can a human—”

I temporarily pushed my body into a higher-dimensional magical form of a spirit.

“Don’t underestimate the mini-Boss acting as the Final Boss, okay…?”

I adapted to my newfound body, and with a single light kick into the air, I sent the Evil Dragon King flying with a punch. However, I could sense that I could only maintain this state for one last attack.

“Kyahhh—!? How dare you… I must weaken you or else I can’t kill such a weak creature…!”

“Whether I’m weak or not doesn’t matter. I will protect this village, the homeland of Mea. If she’s happy with that—”

I teleported above the Evil Dragon King, delivered a powerful heel drop, and sent him crashing to the ground with a scream. Then, I rose into the sky with my unstable body and created countless pitch-black swords that filled the entire sky, all aimed at the massive black sword still stuck in the Evil Dragon King’s forehead.

“—I’d be happy even if people called me a villain every time they see me.”

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