Vol 1 Chapter 43 – Settlement

“Whoa, that’s horrible. So you stole the souls of those who swore loyalty to you and kept them stored here. Those kids didn’t have any souls inside them at all. No wonder I could take their bodies so easily.”

“Even the executives don’t actually have souls in them… you just put artificially created pseudo-souls inside to make them seem human… hm? What’s this magic?… Ahhh, I see. So this is why you had an endless supply of manpower. Whoa, I’ve never seen magic that creates clones before. Impressive.”

“So this is the magic you were trying to unleash on me. Magic that grinds up souls as sacrifices to deliver a devastating blow… hmm. I guess the only way to stop it now is to erase the souls that serve as its energy source?”

“Ugh, but somehow me just going ‘squish’ feels like mass murder. That’s really unpleasant. Really unpleasant. Is there some way to escape this… doesn’t seem possible, does it?”

“Haah, can’t be helped. Guess I have to crush them.”

I finished my run before the Witch could activate her magic.

Having reached the very foundation of the magic that ran the Witch Cult, I used my Soul Extraction Arts to nullify it all.

“Overall, you had the worst compatibility with me.”

Bodies without souls.

Stealing those away was far too easy. On top of that, I could even touch the souls that were carefully stored away.

“So, do you have any moves left?”

The magic the Witch had been controlling vanished with this.

The magic meant to defeat me would never activate now.

“…Dammit.”

Faced with that reality, the Witch stopped in her tracks and took my magic cannon head-on, getting blown away.

“Oh my, you’ve given up already?”

I didn’t make it powerful enough to kill.

I teleported to where the Witch had been blown away.

“…My… my history, everything I’ve built up until now, just like that… so easily!”

The Witch, collapsed on the ground covered in blood, shed tears as I looked down at her.

“Yeah, yeah, that’s unlucky.”

“Damn… damn it… why, why did it come to this?”

“Come on, get up. You can’t just keep lying there forever.”

“…Uuuugh.”

“I’ll listen to your story in the back. Come on, don’t cry.”

I’d already brought all the magic within this hideout under my control.

The spells cast throughout the hideout were quite convenient for all sorts of things. Changing the hideout’s structure, creating objects. Really, massive magic had been woven together to make just about anything possible.

Using that, I created a bedroom in the back. Then, heading to the inner room to listen to the story of the Witch—who’d become self-destructive after everything she’d built up was destroyed and could no longer tell who was holding her shoulder—I made my way there.

Vol 1 Chapter 44 – Complete Conquest

“Wh-why am I having sex with my mortal enemyyyyYYYYYYYYYY?!”

In the devastated Witch Cult hideout, the Witch’s scream echoed.

“…You’re loud. I released some stress and feel good, so I’m sleepy. Let me sleep.”

“R-r-released… h-how shameless!”

“That’s putting it pretty mildly, you know. Don’t say stuff like that when you’re the one who went with the flow and did it with me.”

“I-I have lived for quite a long time, but I’ve never met such a shameless man…! What are you thinking? Keeping alive and toying with me, the Witch who has corrupted this world for ages… you’re quite the daredevil.”

“Ha!”

I snorted at the Witch’s threatening words.

“Coming from someone who doesn’t even understand what I did to them, that’s not scary at all.”

“…!?”

“You haven’t noticed? Your soul is already bound by my magic. You can’t do whatever you want anymore. I can know where you are and what you’re doing in real-time now.”

“Wha—”

“Besides, having lost all the weapons you originally possessed, there’s nothing you can do. Now that you’ve been reduced to incompetence, you can’t do anything.”

“M-my strength lies in my own magical prowess!”

“You lost to me, though.”

“What the hell are you?! You’re obviously way too strong! You’re still just a brat, aren’t you?!”

“Well, yeah.”

The amount of mana needed to use magic has its upper limit determined from birth.

It’s a world of pure talent. In this world of talent, I’m rather special. Mana capacity seems to be determined by the strength of one’s soul, and my soul—perhaps because I’m from another world—was special and robust compared to other people’s souls.

My mana capacity is off the charts.

That’s what connects to my magical abilities. Feels kinda like I’m cheating.

“…Wh-what are you?”

“You’re already finished. Now, I’m tired and sleepy. I was fighting for quite a while. Let me sleep.”

“Guh…”

“Come on, you just lost your virginity too, so you must be tired. You were moaning loudly and made everything all wet. Go to sleep.”

“Sh-shut up! Fine! I’ll sleep too!”

“Yeah. Just stay quiet like that. Good night.”

“…Why, why is this? That day, I didn’t start moving because I foresaw this happening. So why…?”

“Don’t be loud, okay?”

“…”

Pulling the blanket over myself, I closed my eyelids with the Witch beside me and slowly sank into peaceful sleep.