My Artificial Intelligence Has Become the Devil

＜ Episode 80 – Reasons for War (10) ＞

Episode 80 – The Reason for the War (10)

“If you run into this gap, it will be over.”

When Malphas chased after Yuria, Oriath smirked and tried to make an arbitrary move without waiting.

According to their expectations, the enemy will no longer have any resistance left.

“let’s go. Whatever is in front of us, we will destroy it, and take what we can!”

He encouraged his soldiers. After all, his true purpose was any spoils he might get. If you marched non-stop with your unique steel-like stamina and came this far, you must be rewarded accordingly.

“…that’s it.”

However, someone who flew through the sky blocked their way. It was a completely unexpected existence, and according to their common sense, it was an existence that shouldn’t even be here.

“how!”

“Did you think you won? You cut off the head of this body, did you think it was all over?”

Looking at Oriath’s shocked face, Lucy raised the corners of her mouth and smiled. It was because his face, which was astonished to the extent that emotions fluctuated, was good to see.

“Stupid troll. I just don’t die that much.”

“This is nonsense. How the hell is this even possible?! Your body was burned, and your severed head is still hanging on a pole and rotting away!”

Oriath flinched in panic. He also has excellent regenerative power close to resurrection and knowledge of black magic to revive as an undead, but he did not know how he did it when he discarded his existing body and appeared in a completely identical appearance.

“Could it be an alter ego?”

“Your brain seems to be limiting its guess.”

Oriath managed to come up with a similar answer, but Lucy laughed at it. Because I didn’t mean to tell you the truth anyway.

I was thinking of not spilling unnecessary information, even if it was just in case.

“Kuh, you’re cheeky.”

Oriath, pierced by the ridicule, gripped the greatsword in his hand even tighter and gnashed his teeth.

“I’ll admit that it’s amazing to be revived with a strange magic trick. But that’s all. Even if I lured Malphas away, would you dare to stop me by yourself?”

Hundreds of troll soldiers snorted and growled alongside Oriath’s horse.

Oriath, who had already fought and defeated Lucy in the first place, was confident in a one-on-one match.

‘What is that huge weapon? I can feel the refined magical power.’

Of course, he couldn’t help but pay attention to the giant spear Lucy was holding, as if it were made of dark red crystal.

‘I guess I can take that away.’

His confidence in victory was so strong that he even thought of taking it as a spoil of war just by looking at it. Grinning, Oriath charged his soldiers at Lucy, whose face had hardened before she knew it.

“I know your skills well. Die at the hands of my soldiers without me having to step forward!”

Even so, it’s just a weapon. In his common sense, there was no weapon that had the power to overturn such a gap.

“Ah!”

“Tear and kill!”

Hundreds of trolls thumped toward Lucy. Trolls are a race specialized in combat, born with strong bodies and exorcism.

Obviously, the existing Lucy lacked the power to deal with such a large number of trolls.

[Longinus ㆍMaximum output deployment.]

But now it is different.

It is because he can draw from the outside a level of mana that his body cannot contain. The amount of magical power contained in it is as if it was made at the cost of the lives of countless demons who were born with the minimum amount of magical power.

From that concept, it is the worst decisive battle weapon in history that has never existed in this demon realm. It exploded with a dazzling flash, and the compressed inherent mana spewed forward in the form of pure energy.

“What is this?”

It wasn’t complicated magic or swordsmanship. An extremely simple attack that literally just explodes energy.

However, Oriath sighed and was swept away by the aftermath as the explosion engulfed all of his soldiers.

“Keheo-eok. Huh…”

“As expected, it was impossible to kill with the aftermath alone. But the firepower itself is sufficient.”

Oriath, who had been thrown back several tens of meters, vomited blood and stuttered, then glared at Lucy with her eyes wide open.

Above the deep crater created by the huge explosion that killed hundreds of trolls, Lucy, floating with a nonchalant expression, lifted the still glowing Longinus and aimed at him.

A strong wind blew her hair.

‘why.’

Oriath saw it and felt his heart skip a beat. It was because, without even realizing it, he looked up at Lucy and felt somehow familiar with her overwhelming power.

‘Devil······!’

This feeling was definitely a feeling I felt only in the days when I was ruled by the demon king in the past. Submission he didn’t want to admit, but what’s different now is that he’s already enjoyed too much.

Thanks to this, it became absolutely impossible for me to give up everything and crawl on the floor with my head down.

“Don’t be cocky. He said he only had one weapon in his hand. Weapons do not take the place of fighting.”

“I am not conceited, nor do I look down on you. Thorough calculations based on data. We judge and move only with that.”

“Mu, what…”

“And the current calculated probability is 84%, no matter what you do, the probability of beheading you before Malphas comes.”

Emotional provocation rarely works on Lucy. Rather, it was Oriath who first provoked the cold answer. He gnashed his teeth and staggered to his feet, clutching his greatsword.

“Don’t talk nonsense. Would a warrior rolling on the battlefield believe in calculations!”

Raising his mana, he rushed towards Lucy. As a warrior, the battlefield was not an area of calculation. The space of fighting spirit and miracles where life and death can be divided with a single stroke is the battlefield he has been through.

However, for Lucy, who has experienced a battle with him, the battle with him has already entered the realm of calculation. As long as the output was sufficient, his experience and skills, which had already been analyzed, were confident that he was ahead of him.

“The only reason you guys are ahead of me is the amount of magic you have built up over a long period of time. Did you think you could shoot with your skills? Rather, I am stronger because I have compiled all the battle data I have accumulated so far.”

“This is nonsense…”

Dozens of blows exchanged in an instant, Oriath finally increased his power and missed Lucy’s sword, which was faster and stronger, and missed the broken greatsword.

Surprised by Lucy, who delivered the last blow with flashing red eyes, he was ground in half by the huge slash that had been released, and he collapsed and rolled on the floor.

“Malpas.”

But this is not the end. Malphas and Harpies, who were lured by Yuria’s ‘shell’, are now rushing back here. They had to deal with it too.

Just in time, Longinus’s reload was almost over.

Stepping on Oriath’s corpse, Lucy lifted her Longinus, which had been able to deploy output, and aimed it again at the enemies who began to appear as black dots.

***

[Your job is well done, continue your mission. I will tell you when I can come back.]

“Ah, I see.”

As the battle in the Pandemonium came to an end, Yuria, who had escaped from the Pandemonium a few days ago under Lucy’s order and was in the human world, let out a sigh of relief upon hearing Lucy’s call.

‘Although I was surprised when he said it was my doll.’

It was rather shocking news for her. In particular, when Lucy said that she had made a doll identical to herself using her own body data, I couldn’t understand what that meant and my thoughts stopped.

But anyway, the job went smoothly. Now, right now, what is right in front of her has become the most important thing to her.

“I have reached my destination too. The atmosphere is turbulent because it is at war, but this area is located in the rear, so there is less confusion.”

[Is the plan unchanged?]

“That’s right. We will raid the Wizards’ Association in the Kingdom of Loren and kidnap some of them.”

Hiding in the forest in a stealthed state, Yuria looked at the city in front of her. Her eyes trembled as she looked there.

That city was none other than her home, and also the home of those who betrayed her. After going through a terrible time and becoming the personification of revenge and hatred, the entire city is now a target for attack.

“There are many wizards who can see through your stomach, so I will not hide my appearance and openly spy on you.”

Yuria wrapped the large black cloak she had prepared in advance, covering the monster’s body below her neck. With her face exposed, Yuria, who became a human woman who was infallible except for being a little taller than a woman in this world, walked towards the city alone, leaving the Demon King army with her on standby.

Thanks to the bustling atmosphere, it was not difficult to blend in and permeate into the atmosphere.

‘How long has this been?’

Upon entering the city, she couldn’t stop her eyes from rolling under the hood. Now that not a little time has passed since participating in the war with the blood of a bright teenager, the city has both the past and the changed appearance.

Even after being reborn in a new body, he maintained his humanity, so the feeling was uniquely new.

[The longer you stay, the worse it is. Hurry up and find your target.]

But Lucy urged her on. This operation itself was carried out secretly under the leadership of Lucy, and Lucy wanted to see the results as quickly as possible.

“There must be mages of various sects gathered at the Wizards Association. If you target them late at night and ambush them, you can achieve your goal.”

Hiding in an alleyway, Yuria grabbed the parasites wriggling in her hands. Brain Maw Alpha, a parasite-type soldier who can take over the host’s brain.

The plan was to use this to incapacitate the wizards and kidnap them.

[If so, wait until night.]

In order for the plan to begin, it was necessary to aim for a time when people were rare. Then all that’s left is to quietly pass the time without doing anything.

“Hey, there.”

Unfortunately, however, there were those who interfered with it.

‘It’s the same as always. I shouldn’t have entered the back alley.’

YuRia, who only now recalled the common sense of the human world that she had forgotten, clicked her tongue and looked back. It was three thugs who called and stopped her.

[If it bothers you, deal with it.]

“Oh, no. I’ll treat you well.”

“What, what are you muttering to yourself?”

She flinched at Lucy’s command and shook her head, but that only drew their attention.

In the end, Yuria sighed and took off her hood to show them her face.

“It was just a passing road, so I hope we both go our separate ways.”

“uh······.”

When they saw her face, they flinched in surprise unlike the initial momentum. It was because her elegant and tidy appearance and hair never made her look like a low class person.

“Oh, how can it be! It’s an enemy!”

But the real surprise wasn’t just the bullies. Everyone looked up in surprise at the faint sound of shouting coming from the side of the castle wall.