The Poison King: Now that I've Gained Ultimate Power, the Bewitching Beauties in My Harem Can't Get Enough of Me Volume 5 (eBook)

Leonard (Autor)

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2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-0756-8 (ISBN)

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Just when they think they will be able to continue their journey to meet Millicia's older brother Lance, Caim and his companions encounter Rozbeth the Headhuntress, an assassin who has come to take Millicia's life. However, after drowning her in pleasure and adding her to his harem, Caim and the girls find themselves under attack. It seems Rozbeth's failure has resulted in a free-for-all, with a slew of assassins competing to see who can kill the princess first. But there are even more unexpected surprises in store-for example, just who is that sexy beauty on the cover? Find out in the fifth volume of this battle harem fantasy!

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Chapter 1: Fleeing from the Assassins

After being attacked by the Company, a criminal organization, Caim and the girls escaped from Extobell and headed east. However, not long after leaving town, they found themselves embroiled in a new crisis—the bones of innumerable beasts were chasing after their carriage.

“They serve the Bone-Eating General, a necromancer who controls countless skeletons. He’s quite the troublesome foe,” Rozbeth said with a know-it-all air.

“The Bone-Eating General...!” Caim repeated. It was an ominous moniker, and his subordinates, which were now pursuing Caim and his companions, matched the eeriness of the name. The distance separating the carriage from the skeletons was shortening by the second, and before long it would become nil. “Aren’t assassins supposed to be more stealthy? He stands out way too much!”

The main road was currently deserted because of the wyverns, but normally it would be full of travelers and peddlers. Tons of animal bones running along the whole width of the road was very conspicuous.

“That’s just the kind of killer he is. Being an assassin doesn’t necessarily mean being stealthy. Some do murder their target without being noticed, but others prefer to destroy everything and cause a massacre while they’re at it,” Rozbeth explained coldly. She had been an assassin herself until just a few hours ago, so if she said so, Caim could only assume it was correct.

“Tea! Do you think we will be able to escape?!” asked Millicia, clinging to the luggage carrier.

Tea, on the coachman’s seat, gritted her teeth and answered as she gripped the reins. “The horse is getting tired! It won’t last more than a few minutes at this rate!”

“Guess we better deal with them before that happens... Let’s do it.” Caim stood up in the swaying carriage and thrust his fist toward the chasing skeletons. “Kirin!”

The Basic Stance Technique of the Toukishin Style fired compressed mana like a cannonball, destroying several skeletons. Unfortunately, they were quickly replaced by others.

“What a pain... Just how many are there?”

The Toukishin Style was mainly intended for one-on-one combat and had few options for attacking multiple enemies at once. As for Caim’s Purple Poison Magic, it wasn’t very effective against skeletons.

“I could produce a really strong acid to melt their bones, but that would take too much mana...” Caim mused as the number of animal bones chasing them continued to increase. No matter how much mana Caim had, he would likely run out before he could deal with all of them. “We don’t know how many of them there still are, so I better not exhaust myself carelessly.”

While Caim was monologizing, two skeletal birds charged at him. He moved to counterattack with his fist, but someone acted before him—Rozbeth. She destroyed the skeleton birds with her knives.

“Stay on guard,” she warned him.

“Thanks. Still, there’s just too many of them...” Next, a wolflike skeleton attacked, so Caim dealt with it using a kick that pulverized its bones. “Taking care of their source would do the trick, but... Well, he’d never be stupid enough to reveal where he is.”

They only needed to take care of the necromancer—the Bone-Eating General. But unfortunately, they didn’t know where he was.

A new skeleton joined the fray—that of a wyvern this time.

“To think he even has wyvern bones...” Caim looked at the enormous skeleton, spreading its bony wings as it charged toward them. “Toukishin Style—”

He prepared to take the creature down, but just before he could, a light enveloped the carriage.

“Holy Circlet!” Millicia cried.

The skeleton wyvern turned to dust the moment it was touched by the purifying glow. Caim turned toward the source of the light and found Millicia standing with her staff in the back of the wagon.

“I created a barrier with my Sacred Arts! It took some time for me to recite the incantation, but the undead controlled by the necromancer can no longer approach us!”

The carriage was covered by a white veil made from Millicia’s Sacred Arts—and the way it had turned the wyvern skeleton to dust more than proved her words were true.

Seeing this, the other skeletons whined in agitation and slowed down. They had given up, and the distance between them and the carriage gradually widened until they vanished into the distance.

“Phew... We should be in the clear now,” Caim muttered.

“Indeed,” Rozbeth agreed, spinning her knives before sheathing them. “But the Bone-Eating General is a tenacious man. He’ll surely attack us again, and the same goes for the Company. The other assassins should be making their move too... We’re going to have quite the hellish journey.”

“So it’s gonna be a battle royale with all those killers? Not really what I would call a fun event.” If many assassins of this caliber were going to aim for their lives, their journey was bound to be quite a severe one.

Thus began a long battle against an unknown number of assassins with equally unknown capabilities.

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“Hmm, they managed to escape. It’s been twenty years since I’ve made a mistake like this,” said an old man from atop a small hill overlooking the main road.

He looked withered, not unlike a monk who had practiced austerity to the point of mummification. His stature was short, his entire body was wrinkled and devoid of fat, his deep eye sockets lacked eyeballs, and his skin and even lips were completely dry. If he hadn’t been talking, he would have been mistaken for a corpse.

“So Princess Millicia is a priestess... This is quite troublesome.”

The old man leaned on his cane, his back bent, as he gazed down at the main road from atop the hill. A small bird perched itself on his shoulder. However, the bird didn’t have any feathers or flesh—it was nothing but bones. Indeed, this old man was the Bone-Eating General himself, a very old assassin widely known in the underworld.

“A priestess princess, a beastfolk girl, a woman knight, the traitor Headhuntress, and a young man with purple hair... All of them are inexperienced youngsters. How irritating—I want to strip their meat away and gnaw their bones!” The Bone-Eating General laughed eerily, knocking his cane against the ground.

The old man was one of the most senior assassins in existence and had been part of the underworld for more than a hundred years. He had killed thousands of targets, and more than ten times that number of people had ended up as collateral damage. The Bone-Eating General’s modus operandi was to overwhelm his targets with countless undead, and as such his natural enemy was the clergy, who could use the Sacred Arts. Millicia being a priestess made it more difficult for him to accomplish his job.

“Oh, Elder. You are already here?” asked a young woman in a crimson dress who had appeared behind the old man.

“You are...the one from the Company...?”

“Yes.”

The woman was of the same profession as the old man—a renowned assassin. Her moniker was Mistress, and she was the boss of the Company, the largest criminal organization on the continent, composed of more than a thousand professional killers. She had tried to assassinate Millicia just before the Bone-Eating General had made his attempt.

“Oh! You’re as beautiful as ever. Do you have some business with me?” His wrinkled face twisted into a smile as he moved next to Mistress and rudely slapped then groped her rear with a hand so frail it looked like it might break.

“This is inappropriate, Elder.”

“Oops... I meant to pat your shoulder but ended up stroking your behind instead. Aging is a sad thing.”

“My, my... You are quite vigorous despite your old age.” Mistress lightly struck the Bone-Eating General’s hand and stepped away. She didn’t mind the old man’s sexual harassment, but her black-clad subordinates standing a little ways away were clearly displeased, blue veins throbbing on their foreheads as they pointed black weapons—guns—toward the old assassin.

The Bone-Eating General cackled. “How violent. Youngsters are so quick-tempered.”

“Lower your guns,” Mistress ordered.

“But, boss...!”

“Do what I say if you don’t want to die. Look behind you.”

Her subordinates hurriedly turned around and found that several skeletons of wild animals had gathered unnoticed behind them. If they’d tried to fire on the Bone-Eating General, they would have been mercilessly slaughtered.

“He’s more than two hundred years our senior. Pay him respect,” Mistress said.

“You’re the only one who says that, my dear Mistress! Most of the youngsters just treat me like an old sack of bones and look down on me!” The Bone-Eating General laughed cheerfully for a moment before his face turned serious. “So, back to my question. Do you have some business with me? Surely you didn’t just come to see my lovely face.”

“I wondered if you would be willing to team up for this mission to kill the members of the imperial family,” Mistress suggested with a bewitching expression, tracing her plump red lips with her finger.

“Oh, you want to join forces?”

...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Poison King: Now that I've Gained Ultimate Power, the Bewitching Beauties in My Harem Can't Get Enough of Me
• Illustrationen: WON
• Übersetzer: Boris Lecourt
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: ecchi • Harem • Light Novel • Magic • male protagonist • Martial Arts • OP protagonist
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-0756-X / 171830756X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-0756-8 / 9781718307568