Volume 3, Chapter 41 – The End of the Long Night

The Omniscient Map showed that Ariel was right behind her. The attack that seemed like a suicide blast just now hadn’t killed him.

Ariel’s voice appeared right above Yisi’s head.

“You’re not dead, but it’s time for this to end!”

As Ariel’s voice faded, a black light enveloped Yisi. However, Yisi felt no discomfort. It was likely some kind of negative magical effect, but with her extremely high magic resistance, she didn’t fear debuffs at all.

Yisi once again pulled away from Ariel. This time, she saw Ariel’s true form.

The black cloak that had covered his body was gone. The real Ariel was just a skeleton with black wings.

“An undead, just as I thought.”

Samael had a zombie-like body, so it wasn’t surprising for Ariel, also a Fallen Angel, to be a skeleton.

As if seeing something unbelievable, Ariel opened and closed his mouth, devoid of muscle.

“How is that possible! You can still speak after being hit by the [Instant Death Curse]!”

“Your magic doesn’t seem to work on me. Also, it’s my turn.”

Ariel had likely tampered with the Tower of Hermion, as the entire Hermion Mountain Range began to shake violently. Huge sections of the snowy mountains continuously collapsed. If this dragged on, Antonio City would probably be buried under snow.

She had to end the fight quickly.

She cast [Spatial Lock] on Ariel again. He was immobilized for less than a second, but just as he regained his freedom, Yisi cast [Spatial Lock] again. A single use of [Spatial Lock] consumed 300 magic points, so continuous use wasn’t a big problem for her.

“You—”

Not giving him a chance to finish, Yisi teleported behind Ariel and kicked his head. His skull instantly separated from his body, and the light dot representing Ariel on the Omniscient Map disappeared—meaning he was dead.

However, this only lasted for one second. The light dot of Ariel appeared again, this time below Yisi.

“He resurrected again?”

“Hahahaha, you can’t kill me! I am an immortal being!”

With a harsh, grating sound, the skeleton Ariel, also flying in mid-air, mocked Yisi. He then spread his arms, and a layer of dark red light illuminated his body.

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She immobilized Ariel with [Spatial Lock] again. This time, Yisi chose to use magic instead of physical attacks.

Even the most powerful monsters in “Ragnarok” had a so-called maximum number of resurrections. Seemingly infinitely resurrecting enemies also had a limit, so as long as she used up all of Ariel’s resurrection counts, victory would be hers.

[Fate Intervention].

Two black crosses appeared on Ariel’s body. After a moment of stasis, they directly disintegrated him into thin air.

And then—

“You can’t kill me!”

He resurrected again.

[Invisible Hand],

[Radiant Prayer],

[Darkness of Annihilation],

[Judgment of Thunder and Light],

[Sacred Seal].

In just one minute, Ariel died more than thirty times.

No matter what magic Yisi used, Ariel would reappear in front of her. Aside from the resurrection time getting longer, Ariel’s condition barely changed.

“Who… are you really…?” Ariel’s voice, which had started as a mocking tone, now held infinite surprise and doubt. “Such power, even the Demon Lord—”

Ignoring Ariel’s exclamation, Yisi used Gungnir to smash him to pieces.

4270 magic points were about to be depleted.

“What’s wrong…? Your attacks are getting weaker and weaker… Where did all that magic from before go? Don’t tell me your magic is running out.”

“Is that what you think?”

Smashing the noisy skeleton once more, Yisi reached one hand into her pocket.

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This time, Ariel appeared fifty meters away from Yisi.

“Even the Demon Lord needs half a minute to recover after running out of magic. There’s no one stronger than the Demon Lord in this world!”

“If that’s what you think, then I’m afraid you’re wrong. There’s a thing in this world called the [Mistilteinn’s Blessing].”

She took a bottle of pale yellow potion from her pocket, uncorked it, and drank it in one gulp.

Her magic instantly recovered to full capacity.

Seeing the change in Yisi’s aura, Ariel first stood dumbfounded, then his tone gradually became frenzied.

“How is that possible! Who are you really!”

“Save your last words for the coffin.”

Crushing Ariel with [Invisible Hand], Yisi began to ponder the reason for his infinite resurrections.

Ariel’s level definitely wasn’t higher than hers; otherwise, he couldn’t have been killed so easily without even a chance to fight back.

And what she had to consider was, if Ariel had possessed this infinite resurrection ability from the beginning, the demon race should have already conquered the world, instead of hiding timidly as they were now. Furthermore, an abnormal resurrection ability like this should have been recorded on the continent.

Combined with Ariel’s emphasis that his power came from the Tower of Hermion, a slightly bolder hypothesis would be that his resurrection ability came from the tower’s enhancement.

Yisi put her hand on her chin.

“So as long as I destroy the Tower of Hermion… huh?”

Suddenly, Yisi noticed something she had overlooked.

Ariel’s familiar was gone.

Ariel’s familiar could enhance his abilities; this was information that had long been public on the continent. So, why wasn’t his familiar helping him in the fight?

Immediately opening the Omniscient Map, Yisi found Ariel’s familiar—the crow—hiding beneath the crystal of the Tower of Hermion.

“How about I try killing the familiar first, and then deal with Ariel?”

Rather than continuing to work in vain, Yisi preferred to change her approach.

She continuously used [Spatial Lock] to restrain both Ariel and his familiar. As she drank the [Mistilteinn’s Blessing], Yisi used [Teleport] repeatedly to appear next to the familiar.

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“Ke—mas—ter—”

Due to [Spatial Lock], the familiar could only make intermittent sounds. Yisi grabbed the crow’s neck and then activated [Fate Intervention], which was equivalent to an instant death curse.

Two intersecting black patterns enveloped the crow. After a one-second pause, they instantly turned the crow into dust.

Clack.

The sound of something shattering echoed in the air.

“Eeeh.”

Finally escaping from [Spatial Lock], Ariel no longer had his previous relaxed demeanor. Instead, he tried to quietly hide in the air while Yisi wasn’t paying attention.

“I won’t let you escape.”

The feeling of being tricked was not pleasant, and even Yisi felt a little angry. She took out an iron sword that she had sealed away in her storage. After injecting it with abundant magic that made it hum, she brought it down sharply in the direction Ariel was fleeing.

Sizzle.

An intense flash of light, turning the night sky into day, split the heavens in two. The vision of all nearby creatures was dyed white.

“You… don’t belong…”

Unable to utter his final words, Ariel, bathed in the fury of a massive thunder dragon, finally turned into dust.

Yisi stared at the Omniscient Map. After a full ten seconds passed with no new light dot appearing, she finally let out a sigh of relief.

“Is he finally dealt with?”

Rumble rumble rumble——

The loud sound of the mountain collapsing pulled Yisi back to reality. She instinctively looked down.

What came into view was red magma.

With the Tower of Hermion at its center, the massive mountain range was split in two. The thick layers of ice on the outside continuously cracked and broke apart. Magma from within the mountain spewed out in surges, and the rising black smoke and lava were almost level with the Tower of Hermion. Some of the magma had even begun to flow down the mountain.

“Tch, he left a troublesome mess. I’ll start by dealing with the avalanche.”

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She didn’t know how to use the power of the Tower of Alexia to restore everything, and it was too late to learn now, so she could only resort to the clumsy method.

[Invisible Hand]

[Advanced Power Boost].

Instead of a single hand, she simultaneously created two hands. Maintaining both at their maximum extent, Yisi controlled the immense power, enough to uproot the entire Hermion Snow Mountain, and slowly brought her hands together.

Like building a sandcastle, Yisi first carefully manipulated one hand to block all the collapsing snow that was about to submerge the city. Then, she used the other hand to cover the volcano’s crater to prevent more magma from erupting.

After finishing the emergency preparations, Yisi let out a sigh of relief.

“Well then, it’s time for me to go there myself.”

Leaving the Invisible Hands as they were, Yisi cast several defensive spells on herself and began to fly around the snow mountain.

—She would store all the snow and magma in her storage.

The storage had an almost infinite capacity, so a single mountain was nothing. The only thing was that the process of storing was very tedious; she had to get close to the items herself to store them. Fortunately, the storage speed was incredibly fast, and with her extremely high flying speed, Yisi only took less than five hours to clear the snow.

“And then there’s the magma…”

Compared to the snow, storing the liquid magma was much easier. After testing that the magma couldn’t break through [Ice Protection], Yisi directly immersed herself in the deep layers of the magma, and a huge vortex immediately appeared within the lava.

Of course, she couldn’t possibly store all the magma from deep underground even if she had a whole day and night. Yisi only stored the essential parts, then forcibly leveled the mountain with [Invisible Hand], reinforced the ground with earth elemental magic, and finally used the wide-area ice magic [Advent of the Polar Night] to freeze the entire flattened mountain range.

“Haah—that being the case, even if there’s any danger, it’ll be a long time from now. I’ll leave the rest of the trouble for Count Hermion to slowly fix with the Tower of Hermion.”

Today was definitely the busiest day she had had since transmigrating to this other world.

Wiping the sweat from her forehead, Yisi looked at the ground, now filled with deep craters because she hadn’t controlled her strength well.

“Hmm, anyone who produces a result like this would definitely be criticized for having no sense of aesthetics.”

To avoid being caught, Yisi hurried back to the mansion before dawn arrived.

Translator Note

guh- so many new skills