Black Summoner: Volume 15 (eBook)

Doufu Mayoi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7576-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The battle against DarkMel for the fate of the world has reached its climax and the action is heating up as Kelvin and his friends struggle to deal with her latest and most impressive transformation yet. Do they even stand a chance of winning against such a powerful opponent? And after everything is said and done, what will happen to DarkMel and the once-great goddess? The stakes are high, and it's anyone's guess as to whether Kelvin will have to make his way through the world without half of the love of his life-or if he will soon be too dead to care.

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Chapter 1: Final Battle

Central Ocean:

Though this development had been terribly abrupt, I was currently being moved while in Melfina’s arms. As for why I was being carried by Melfina, well, let’s think back.

First was Melfina and DarkMel’s fight. At the end of their fierce exchange of attack and defense, DarkMel’s domain had been cleanly broken. They must have synced up perfectly as they threw their strongest blows, and the moment their fists met in the air, the outer space-like area that had surrounded us shattered with the sound of breaking glass. The tinkling started from one place at first. Then, like peeling skin, it spread everywhere in an ominous chorus of destruction. Since I was completely out of MP, I didn’t have anything left with which to respond to this situation.

No matter what, I need to warn my friends about this.

I hurried to blast out a telepathic message through the Network, telling them to evacuate the ark. With that done, the next thing on my list was securing my own safety.

I’m begging you, what little magic I have left, please be enough, I wished as I tried to cast Fly. This domain’s destruction was already a done deal, and I had no idea where we would be flung once it was. In the worst case, I could be thrown out of the ship entirely. So, my spell was in preparation for the worst in order to prevent Mel from worrying and getting in the way. It was all I could do at that moment.

“Hraaaaagghhhh!”

“Yoooouuuuuuuu!”

With their wings spread as wide as they would go, the two combatants continued to raise their power, heedless of the destruction of the area around them. The more power they put behind their fists, the brighter their halos glowed. At this point, they were already too bright for me to look at.

Then, the next moment, the domain broke as I’d predicted it would. The backdrop that was made to look like space flew away, and our surroundings changed drastically. The pieces that used to be the scenery turned into particles of light before scattering, revealing the sanctuary we were in that had, up until now, been hidden by DarkMel’s domain. It was probably best for me to ignore any common sense I had or consideration that we were inside a battleship. What was unveiled before my eyes was an exact copy of the Great Cathedral in Deramis. Even the atmosphere—or should I say aura? Feel of the air? It was exactly the same as well.

Still, that didn’t stop Melfina and DarkMel from fighting. There was no way something like the austerity of the place or the feel of the atmosphere would stop two sworn enemies from fighting, and the two of them gave no signs of stopping.

Or maybe they’re so focused on their battle that they didn’t even notice the collapse of DarkMel’s domain? Yeah, that seems really likely. That happens to me every once in a while too. Getting caught up in something is only natural. If I was fighting someone just as strong as I am, then it would be even more natural.

“You’re pretty good!”

“You too! As expected of me!”

Oho, isn’t that the pipe organ from the Apostle headquarters in Abyssland there? In the end, I wasn’t able to break it back then, and DarkMel was able to make off with it all in the ark...

And now, it had been caught up in all this destruction and been destroyed really anticlimactically. DarkMel hadn’t even tried to fix it, probably because she didn’t even notice it’d been destroyed.

While enjoying the battle between two deities from my seat up close, I indulged in my own sentimentality, analyzed the fight, and worried about my surroundings all at once. I was approaching a state where I could feel the whole suite of human emotions simultaneously. I’d had Parallel Processing running full speed the whole time, so my brain probably resembled one that had been running without sleep while on drugs. And yet, I wasn’t actually fighting in this giddy heightened state, so my mind was only getting clearer and clearer.

That was why I instinctively understood that in a moment, the entire sanctuary would be pulverized into dust, the aftereffects of which would sink the entire battleship.

Now I understand how Sera feels when she gets a prophetic feeling! Just kidding. Now’s not the time to be messing around, though.

It was true that my mind was much sharper than usual, but my ragged body couldn’t keep up. In the end, it was all I could do to dodge crumbling chunks of rubble. If the Elpis were to sink, then getting out would be extremely tough for me.

It’d be such a joke if I weren’t able to save myself after sending that telepathic message to everyone. Maybe I have enough in me for one more cast of Rubber Counter?

I suddenly gasped in alarm. Both Melfinas had already busted through the wall of the Great Cathedral and forcefully opened a hole in the battleship’s armor plating from the inside. They were fighting all over, free in the air. As a battle junkie myself, I couldn’t help but respect and be in awe at their fight, which was on such a high level that they were able to ignore the terrain completely. Unfortunately, the ship, like this cathedral, would probably be going down soon. All I wanted was to continue watching their fight, but there was no replacement for my life in the end. I put all of my Parallel Processing ability into intoning another spell, using what little MP I had left to its fullest. It seemed all the emotions I was feeling were translated into my magic, as I was somehow able to create a barrier on the level of Rank S.

“Great, this should somehow—”

“We’re escaping, honey.”

But right after I created that barrier, Melfina had shown up out of nowhere. She treated my barrier with as much respect as she had the ark’s walls, busting right through them and picking me up by the armpits without waiting for any sort of consent.

All my efforts in making that wall turned to nothing right before me... Wait, that doesn’t matter!

“Whoa, Mel?!”

“No need to worry. I am the Melfina with a clean and pure heart!” Melfina boasted, a musical lilt in her voice.

Though I bragged about my mental state being unusually clear and sharp, I had been caught and picked up all too easily. It was fine, since Melfina was the one doing it, but I wouldn’t be able to face Sera like this.

Sorry, I got too full of myself. But Mel, nobody with a clean and pure heart would actually say it like that.

“Ah, not that! What happened to DarkMel?! Did you kill her?!”

“No, not yet. We exchanged punches many times and I have damaged and exhausted her, but as expected of myself, I should say...no matter what, we are evenly matched. Look, I’m all worn out too, though my heart is being fulfilled as we speak.”

“O... Ooohhh?!”

That sneak attack from Mel had me blushing so hard I thought I might fall into a panic, but I didn’t have that sort of time. Mel kicked off the ground at an incredible speed, bringing me along with her as we flew through the hole in the wall.

::I’d love to take our time and talk, but we should get out first. I ended up getting caught up in things and snapped this ship like a twig... Ah, please reply with telepathy. You’ll bite your tongue otherwise.::

Like a twig? I replied. You... No, never mind. That doesn’t matter. Judging from the surroundings, I can kind of tell.

::I would expect nothing less, honey. Then let us get out of here for real. We’re going after DarkMel!::

What? You can go faster tha—

And, well, that was how I got here, carried around by Mel as the situation demanded. While Melfina had prioritized my escape, DarkMel had left the ark on her own. The destruction of the Elpis had oddly enough served as a gong between rounds for the deities.

As we were leaving the battleship, which was falling apart around us, I was able to witness the Elpis snap in two from the middle. Ah, exactly like a twig. There’s no better way to describe it. Once again, I was impressed by how incredible Melfina as a goddess and DarkMel as someone trying to usurp her were.

::The principle governing everything DarkMel does is your enjoyment, honey. I don’t think she would do something as base as taking hostages, even if the end is at hand now.::

Yeah, I know. If she were to try anything, it’d be something likely to make me happy, wouldn’t it?

::That’s pretty annoying as well, though... Anyway, it’s goodbye to the ark. We’re going straight outside!::

We finally made it out of the battleship, which was amazingly large, and found ourselves under the big blue sky. I wanted to thank someone from the bottom of my heart since I’d survived to see the sun again, but as expected, I didn’t have much time to leisurely enjoy that feeling.

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Now that we’d left the Elpis, which had indeed “snapped like a twig,” we hurried to get a sense of the situation. The giant battleship made a huge noise as it started to fall out of the sky, and the Aqua Swallows were trying to leave with full haste so as not to get caught in it. They must have had good acceleration, as not a single one was caught under the sinking battleship, though there were...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Black Summoner
• Reihe/Serie: Black Summoner
• Illustrationen: Kurogin (DIGS), DaiXt
• Übersetzer: Kevin Chen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: action • Adventure • Comedy • Fantasy • Isekai • Light Novel • RPG
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-7576-X / 171837576X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-7576-5 / 9781718375765