Repeat Vice - The Villainous Noble Doesn't Want to Die, So He Swore to Not Die As One of The Four Heavenly Kings

Chapter 10: God’s Work

I mutter while looking at the large Kraken corpse floating like a small mountain next to the ship.

“—[Devour]”

From my shadow, something with countless eyes extends.

Resembling a slime in some ways, it blackens as it engulfs the large Kraken’s corpse.

The amorphous shadow then proceeds to engulf the countless corpses of magical creatures floating on the surrounding sea surface as if it were an afterthought.

The blackened corpses of magical creatures start moving, their countless eyes rolling.

The wounds on the corpses begin to heal as the shadow covers them.

The severed parts reconnect, and the gaping hole pierced by the Dark Lance of the giant Kraken is sealed.

This, in a way, is the power to control corpses as my familiars.

As long as my magic power lasts, my shadow familiars regenerate wounds and become an undead army that resurrects even if killed.

In the second chapter of the story, I used this power to control a large number of wolf-type magical creatures and deploy them as soldiers in the demon army.

However, due to the inefficiency of it’s use of magic power, it’s not a power I want to use frequently.

One of the main reasons for losing to the protagonist faction was that I had spent most of my magic power on a large army of wolves, which prevented me from using powerful magic.

I send the minor familiars to support Fol and Carlos against the countless sea creatures.

A myriad of dark creatures with countless eyes attack the countless sea creatures.

“Whoa!!? What are these things!?”

Fol, tense with a new hand, is reassured by Carlos.

“This is… Please rest assured, young master’s magic.”

“Magic!? This is magic!? They won’t attack us, right!?”

Fol looks skeptical as he watches the shadow familiars.

What a rude guy, although they do look somewhat eerie.

The giant Kraken familiars are submerged under the ship and tasked with dealing with large magical creatures.

As this happens, the mouth of the Magic Whale begins to shine like the sun as if it’s ready.

Is it a few seconds before it releases the gathered light?

Although in the previous situation, I fought it head-on with half pride and half because there was no way to avoid it, if they think I only resort to brute force tactics like that, it’s disappointing.

The strength of a magician lies in the wide range of tactics afforded by high firepower proportional to magic power and numerous spells.

I won’t let my guard down anymore.

Magic Whale.

Reluctantly, I acknowledge you as an equal enemy.。

I cast a spell without hesitation.

Enjoy it to the fullest, this advanced magic spell that I cast.

—[A world devoid of hope: Lightless]

At the same time as the Magic Whale releases the white-hot beam and numerous ice lances, the darkness that dyes everything black is created around the ship.

This magic, named after my family, does not have direct offensive capabilities.

It simply dyes a certain area black with darkness.

Of course, it doesn’t have the power to block the incoming white-hot beam or the numerous ice lances.

As expected, the white-hot beam, charged just now, is overwhelmingly powerful compared to the first shot.

Its thickness is more than twice as much, and its power may be even greater.

But honestly, there’s no need to take it head-on.

This spell significantly enhances the performance of all dark magic.

“Dodge it, Straff!”

In response to my command, the giant Kraken familiar activated by the spell—Straff—wraps the ship with its tentacles and moves the ship out of the range of the white-hot beam.

“Whoa!!?”

There is some impact, and Fol seems to be thrown off, but it’s trivial.

On the other hand, Carlos firmly holds onto the ship in a shock-absorbing posture.

He’s still a resourceful guy.

The spell rapidly expands its range and finally engulfs even the Magic Whale.

—It’s in. Now, it’s the same as a beached whale.

In the darkness, the Magic Whale’s neigh echoes.

As an additional effect of Lightless, the power of luminous and flame-like attributes, such as light and fire, is weakened, and anyone who cannot handle dark magic is engulfed in unfamiliar darkness.

Both visually and in terms of magical detection, nothing can be done.

In other words, the Magic Whale will be swallowed by darkness where it can’t see ahead, but we can’t even determine our own position as well.

Of course, as the caster, I can easily grasp the position of the Magic Whale, but…

I bite my right hand’s finger and drop it into my shadow, which dissolves into darkness.

—[The Scythe That Reaps Life]

It’s an ancient magic of complete incantation.

In addition, thanks to the Lightless, its power is raised to the sky.

The death scythe swung without a sound easily cuts through the Magic Whale’s strong magical barrier, bisecting its body.

A voice of agony leaks from the Magic Whale, but it’s not even a cry.

Its lungs and various organs are split in half.

“…You might have good reflexes, but that’s not enough of an explanation.”

His irritation leaked out as a muttered remark, but Fol didn’t seem to care much. He continued to peer down through the gaps between the fingers of his Dark Hand, an arm infused with darkness.

“Can’t you fly, too? Aren’t all nobles capable of flying?”

“If you’re just here for sightseeing, get down immediately. You’re in the way.”

“I’m not getting down. Besides, shouldn’t you be the one to go?”

Fol stood up and audaciously pointed his index finger.

“Why are you trying to go alone? You’re missing your left hand…!”

“…So what?”

“That butler Carlos or whatever, he’s just as bad. Why did he agree to send you out alone?”

Fol scratched his head in frustration. It’s infuriating how he’s the one getting frustrated.

Why is he showing more frustration than you?

“Probably because he sees things clearer than you do. Didn’t you see the magical exchange between that whale and me? It’s beyond your dimension to intervene.”

“I saw everything. But still, that’s exactly why. It’s barely manageable for you to stand on your own. There’s no way you should be going alone…!”

Fol pleaded with a menacing tone.

But even as this conversation went on, the spell was being eroded by beams of light.

Its functions were dwindling rapidly.

There’s no time to deal with someone like him.

“…Let me ask you, at this stage, what can you do?”

“Don’t underestimate me.”

Fol moved to my left side and leaned against me as if to support me from the shoulder.

“Huh!? What are you doing, being so presumptuous—”

I reflexively tried to push him away, but without my left arm, I couldn’t offer much resistance.

No, it’s not just that.

After Fol hugged me, I was enveloped in warm light.

It was a healing light that eased the pain of my injuries.

This feeling, this power…

“Healing magic…?”

Fol was emitting healing magic of the same level as the butler Carlos used, if not more.

“Oh. It worked just as I thought.”

Saying such a thing, Fol tilted his head.

What’s with that reaction? Could he really not have realized until just now?

“If you’re not going to talk about it, then forget it.”

If he didn’t know he had magical abilities until now, there’s no way to explain his use of healing magic.

In any case, there’s no time for this kind of conversation now.

The spell, “The Deeds of the First Generation”, I’m about to perform will take some time to activate.

“Enough, do as you please. I’m going to start chanting my spell now. Don’t get in the way.”

“Sure thing. If it comes down to it, I’ll at least be a wall for you.”

Fol said with a cheeky grin, which annoyed me slightly. I extended a small Dark Hand from my coat and gave him a flick on the forehead.

Fol protested in response, but I ignored him and began my chant.

“————”

A vast array of magic circles emerged around me, floating in the air.

But at this moment, the dark fog of the spell was thinning due to the rampant release of beams of light, revealing the form of the magic whale.

The emerald eyes of the magic whale immediately locked onto us floating in the sky.

Its mouth opened wide.

About to release its beams of light.

“——Damn it, Straff!”

In response to my call, Straff, greatly enlarged by pouring a large amount of magic into it, appeared from the sea.

Straff’s countless giant tentacles attacked the magic whale, distracting it so the aim of its beams of light shifted.

Sea monsters turned into shadow familiars were also mobilized to attack the magic whale.

Hmm, I remember watching a movie with this kind of giant monster battle back in the capital with my father.

With that thought in mind, I focused on constructing the magic circles and spell formations.

With Straff and the shadow familiars all mobilized, we managed to buy a few seconds.

The magic whale’s beams of light turned into numerous thin lines, piercing through all of Straff and the shadow familiars.

Can it manipulate its beams of light like that?

While it can regenerate if more magic is poured into it, the magic efficiency is terribly low, so I won’t let it regenerate.

Therefore, Straff and the shadow familiars all dispersed.

The magic whale’s emerald eyes were now glaring at us in irritation.

Although it consumed a considerable amount of magic, we only gained a few seconds.

But in those few seconds, preparations were complete.

“——Neutral Magic: Crystal Palace, Activate.”

A wall of magical power, like crystal, spread out in a dome shape surrounding the magic whale.

Reflecting light, it sparkled and shone brightly, a true crystal palace.

The magic whale showed some caution towards this Crystal Palace, which had a different atmosphere from the dark magic I had been using so far.

But immediately it aimed its beams of light at me.

Was it planning to blast me away along with the crystal canopy?

“Hey, wait!?”

Fol turned pale and tried to shield me.

His resolve to become a human shield was commendable, but it wouldn’t make much difference against the beams of light.

We’d both just evaporate.

…If they hit, that is.

“It’s futile.”

The beams of light pierced through the air, aiming for the crystal canopy above.

But they couldn’t pierce through it.

The canopy remained unscathed, without even a scratch or a break in the magical power.

The magic whale seemed slightly surprised.

Was this the first time its beams of light were so clearly blocked?

Well, with such a high-density release of magic power, there wouldn’t be many ways to defend against it.

“Blocked…? No way…”

Fol was also trembling.

Hey, your healing magic has stopped.

Well, at this point, it doesn’t matter anymore.

I continued chanting my spell.

In response to my chant, a giant black sphere appeared in the center of the crystal palace.

This was the crux of this magic.

The “Black Sun.”

The magic whale showed some caution towards the Black Sun, but its beams of light were still aimed at me.

Well, after being blocked once, it’s not going to give up.

The magic whale began to gather light in its mouth.

It’s preparing…to release a highly powerful beam of light.

Ignoring Fol, who was gripping my coat anxiously, I continued chanting.

With each verse of my chant, the Black Sun shrank in size.

Taking its time.

But taking too much time like this, of course, meant that the maximum power beam of light that had been gathered by the magic whale would be released.

This would be the most powerful beam of light so far.

It collided with the crystal canopy, and a screeching noise echoed through the air.

Vibrations and shockwaves transmitted through the atmosphere.

However, even so, there were no scratches on the crystal canopy.

The magic whale widened its eyes.

Fol was also amazed.

“If you had something amazing like this, you should have used it from the beginning!”

Doing things without knowing anything.

The “The Deeds of the First Generation” is not a magic that can be used so easily.

Ignoring Fol, I continued chanting, and the “Black Sun” had shrunk to about one-tenth of its original size.

And here, I finished chanting.

“So, what are you going to do from here?”

“Don’t casually put your hand on my shoulder.”

I shook off the hand on my shoulder and stepped forward.

And I looked down at the magic whale.

“This ‘Crystal Palace Crystal Grande’ is not a magic to protect against enemy attacks. Of course, it’s not a cage to trap enemies either. Both are ultimately linked, but their original purposes are different.”

“Huh? Then, what is it for?”

Fol tilted his head.

Like turning the magic whale into the Lightless spell, it randomly emitted intense beams of light.

As if searching for the weak parts of the crystal wall in all directions.

And it also attacked the contracting “Black Sun”.

Of course, there was a crystal wall deployed around the “Black Sun,” and not a single scratch was made.

And the magic whale seemed to realize that all of those actions were in vain and moved on to the next action.

Towards the sky, it opened its mouth wide.

And above the magic whale, a huge white sphere of light began to form, as if to complement the “Black Sun.”

A vast amount of magic power with such high density that it made you tremble even through the crystal canopy.

…This magic whale, it still had something like this hidden.

“Hey, isn’t this seriously dangerous…”

Perhaps affected by the magical power emitted from the white light sphere, Fol’s face turned pale.

In short, this is the magic whale’s ace in the hole?

But, we have already activated the “The Deeds of the First Generation.”

“I told you. It’s useless.”

The white light sphere created by the magic whale swelled along with its charge.

It’s the opposite of the contracting “Black Sun.”

Inside the “Crystal Palace,” the magic power of the magic whale increased limitlessly, and the white light sphere shone like the sun.

And after that small sun had grown to its limit, it exploded, engulfing the magic whale.

A torrent of light like the sun and immense magic power filled the “Crystal’s Grand Palace.”

The explosion and impact transmitted through the crystal.

Cracks appeared on the entire surface of the dome-shaped crystal wall due to the overwhelming power.

Wiping the cold sweat off my forehead.

I got a little nervous…

The magic whale’s ace, the white light sphere.

It was unexpectedly powerful.

It’s still incomplete, but… I didn’t expect it to crack the spell

The burst light cleared, revealing the charred magic whale floating in the air.

The magic whale’s charred skin was rapidly regenerating with its inherent high-speed healing ability.

However, the cracks in the spell were also rapidly repaired in the same way.

Well, to be precise, it’s not being repaired.

The spell was absorbing my magic power like water and getting closer to completion.

After regeneration and complete healing, the magic whale looked at the repaired crystal wall and glared at me with annoyance.

I looked down at the magic whale and chuckled, praising it loudly.

“That was a good show. I’ll give you credit. Among all the enemies I’ve known, you were undoubtedly the strongest.”

In the end, I still don’t know what this magic whale is.

But it was terrifyingly strong.

Perhaps even stronger than the resurrected Dark Lord Lath in the first chapter, or the second Dark Lord Raymond in the second chapter, than the protagonist and his companions who continued to kill me.

Surely, if it’s a matter of simple power, this one is stronger than any of them.

“I’ll show you some respect, and I’ll tell you what I’m going to do now. You have the intelligence to handle magic, right? You can understand human language, right?”

Higher dragon species understand human language.

Since the magic whale can handle magic far more complex than human language, it’s not surprising if it understands it.

Well, whether it can speak or not is another issue, so I’ll just speak one-sidedly from here.

“As I mentioned earlier, this `Crystal Palace` is not originally a magic to protect against enemy attacks or to restrain enemies. …Its essence is, it’s meant to protect against its own attacks.”

Fol frowned in confusion.

On the other hand, the magic whale, after momentarily freezing as if in shock, turned its eyes to the “Black Sun.”

“Oh, you’re quite perceptive.”

And this reaction seems to indicate that it understands human language after all.

And here, the “Black Sun” contracted to its limit began to show faint cracks on its surface.

At the same time, the “Crystal Palace” was filled with my magic power, and the crystals began to emit a faint blue-white light.

The magic whale sensed the anomaly and opened its mouth to create another sphere of light.

“I’ve kept you waiting for a long time, but the magic has just been completed. Oh, is that the technique from earlier? Useless. It’s impossible even for a god to destroy the completed `Crystal Palace`.'”

But the magic whale, unlike before, didn’t scatter the sphere of light, but instead swallowed it whole.

And the sphere of light converged in the magic whale’s mouth, and the concentrated power turned into a heat ray.

“What’s that…”

Is it capable of such a skillful imitation?

If the power of that white light sphere were concentrated, it’s not difficult to imagine how tremendous the power would be.

Another resounding clash.

But not a single scratch was made on the blue-white shining crystal.

For the first time, the magic whale seemed to feel flustered.

I smirked and explained the magic to it in a loud voice.

“Let me teach you as a souvenir from the afterlife. There’s a rather amusing anecdote about this magic. It seems that my ancestors were playing with compressed air using dark magic and created this magic. Do you know what happens when the air is continuously compressed, whale? The compressed air… will blow out a white flame that can kill even a god.”

The magic whale reacted to my words and looked at the “Black Sun,” madly emitting intense beams of light.

It was as if it had lost all reason, behaving like a raging beast.

And in the end, as if trying to escape, it began to ram into the crystal itself.

Even though its favorite intense beams of light and its trump card, the white light sphere, didn’t leave a single scratch, it shouldn’t be able to break through by ramming into it.

Does it know what will happen next?

Is it because of its vivid imagination, or did it sense the danger from its pure instinct?

“What… what’s going to happen…”

Fol asked, trembling with fear.

I confirmed that the main ship was far away.

Well, if it’s this far away, it should be fine.

“Black Sun”… The air enveloped in dark magic is compressed to the extreme by my immense magic power.

When released, it produces destruction that can destroy the laws of this world.

The “Crystal Palace” is a magic linked to the “Black Sun” to restrain that destruction.

By the way, it’s quite a poor story that this spell, which prevents destruction, consumes more magic power than the destruction-causing spell, “Black Sun.”

I looked down at the magic whale and muttered quietly.

“The compressed air… blows out a white flame that can kill even a god.”

The “Black Sun” cracked, and immediately after, everything in the “Crystal’s Grand Palace” was enveloped in an aurora.

The field of vision was completely covered in white, and the roaring sound made it feel like my eardrums had burst.

The white flame that could destroy the world was born at sea.

After a while, the light inside the spell cleared.

Nothing was left inside.

Not a single piece of the magic whale’s flesh, not even a drop of seawater.

The spell had completed its task and dissipated.

The high-pitched hot wind leaked out, racing through the sea of magic.

The “Crystal Palace” and the “Black Sun.”

These two magics are linked in terms of spellcraft and are called the “The Deeds of the First Generation.”

The great flaw of this magic is twofold.

One is that it takes a considerable amount of time to activate.

And the other…

“…Hey?”

I leaned against Fol without strength, relying on my body.

Even the vision of my only visible right eye began to blur.

…The other flaw is the excessive consumption of magic power.

Although I was said to have the highest magic power in the history of the Laitress family, the “The Deeds of the First Generation” consumes half of my total magic power.

On top of the already high consumption of ancient magic spells, there’s the use of advanced magic.

Using a large number of shadow familiars through the inefficient use of the unique magic “Shadow Eater.”

And using intermediate to lower-level magic like water.

Thanks to that, my magic power has run out completely.

This feeling of exhaustion is evidence of what is called magic power depletion.

This is the first time in my life that I’ve experienced magic power depletion.

I had anticipated the possibility of magic power depletion in advance, so I had told Carlos to come and help, but to fall into magic power depletion.

And at the bottom is the sea.

There’s a 50% chance of survival at best.

However, fortunately or unfortunately, Fol is here.

Will this turn out to be a blessing or a curse…?

He hated nobles, so he might abandon me.