Chapter 94: [Practice makes a man perfect!]
I noticed that everyone had started moving again, dancing in ecstasy as they were lost in pleasure of their own. It felt like a cult-like party where they were doing a ritual.
The dark aura that was rather paused now started shifting in circles around the entire room, with the center point being around that Incubus.
‘Is he controlling the mana around, too?’ I wondered, as the mana seemed a bit suspicious too.
“Hmmm? Who are you?” That guy noticed me immediately as a cautious expression appeared on his face. He looked at me carefully while his eyes turned purple.
[Greater Blessing of the Night Goddess: The User is highly resistant against Dark Magic!]
I smiled at his vain attempt before I began speaking.
“Just a traveling mercenary. I came here to check what was going on here. Care to explain?”
His eyes seemed a bit surprised as he looked at me before he tried once more. Doesn’t seem like he will be explaining anything to me.
“Let me guess. The Dark Mages used the Elves and succeeded in summoning a demon. Sadly, it was a higher demon with a high ego of his own.”
He kept trying his charm magic on me, but it wasn’t going to work.
[Charm: 127]
My charm wasn’t that high to defend against his attack on its own, but combined with thee [Blessing], I doubt he could do anything to me.
“Who are you?” he asked again as he looked at me before jumping down in front of me from the second floor.
-BOOM!!
Ignoring his words, I observed him while continuously describing,” from the looks of it, you are an Incubus. But your physical strength is quite strong for it. A half succubus? A Vampire… but you also have those Elven ears.”
-Whoosh!
-Bam!
He attacked me physically. Seems like he gave up on trying anymore mental attacks. Though it was rather weak.
Holding his fist with my bare hands, I looked at him with a smile,” just because I am a mage, you shouldn’t jump at me using your physical attack. You are bound by the contract, you know? Your power is not even one third of what it should be.”
-BOOM!
-BOOM!
He attacked me again, this time using his legs too, but it was futile. I don’t even need to use any skills against him. Perhaps if he were in his true form, and can use complete strength, he would have had a chance.
“Though, I don’t understand. Why would you go controlling everyone around you? It shouldn’t be possible, considering the contracts.”
Observing that none of his attacks were going through, he then looked at those around him before he spoke,
“Your cockiness will be the result of your demise, human.”
I noticed that everyone around us, both the elves and the humans, were observing me with a blank gaze.
[Freestyle!!]
While I was sure that I could win this fight, I still wanted to make little to no mistakes here. Restarting from here would mean talking to the sisters again, taking them to the black market, etc, which was honestly a chore.
[Recreating the current scenario!]
[Would you like to include allies?]
[Yes!]
[Status of Allies: Non-Combat Civilian!]
[Total number of enemies: 46!]
[Enemy strength: 150%!]
After that, I began setting all the specifics of the enemies. Since I wanted to finish it without any mistakes, I went ahead and increased their power by 50%.
If I could handle them beyond what they are capable of, it would be a piece of cake to handle them when they aren’t even at 100% of their power.
For the same reason, I also set Anna and Leena’s settings to Non-Combatant.
One last thing that was bugging me was the lack of communication from Nvida. Something like this should not be possibly a problem for her.
‘So why did the problem grow so much?’ I thought as I started the simulation while limiting myself to dark magic only.
The first run took about 1 and a half hours, using all my dark magic. But I managed to kill all the elves and the humans without letting Anna and Leena die.
The next run took about 50 minutes, since I already knew about their paths and powers. Finding their weakness wasn’t that hard, either.
The next few runs were mostly trial and error until I found a path that would help me finish the entire thing rather smoothly.
The 7th run was finished within 20 minutes, and I managed to disarm half of them, while killing the rest.
By the 14th run, I was able to disarm all of them in 20 minutes. By this time, I could predict their movements pretty easily. In fact, those inside the house were taken care of within a few seconds.
After that it was a pain to rescue the time, but with a bit of guesswork, I was able to stop those outside too.
Since they weren’t completely disarmed, it took a total of 7 minutes and 40 seconds to stop them all.
Once I reached this point, I understood that I won’t be able to reduce the time with just this much. The Elves were actually strong, and with the dark mage’s and Incubus’ support, they became an even more problem.
‘Well, let’s reduce their power to 140% and try once again,’ I thought as I once again started trying again.
To be fair, it felt like a game where you try again until you score a high score. Until you get your desired result, it doesn’t satisfy you, does it? It was something like that.
Took a lot of time, but after a lot of attempts, when I reached the point where I was satisfied with the entire thing, I did another 10 more turns to confirm that I was not missing anything.
And now that I am ready…
“Let’s begin the party,” I said as I moved out of the [Freestyle] and looked at the Elves and the Dark Mages coming from the front. And all there was, was a smile on my face….
Enough to creep out the demon in front of me.
