The Devil Who Grants Wishes - Chapter 214



214 – Final Battle (9)

‘What is this…?’

I don’t know why I’m in this situation.

The sight before my eyes is pitch black. It feels like I’ve fallen into an extremely sticky swamp, but strangely enough, I can breathe. It feels like my whole body is covered in sticky rubber.

It’s not just that.

It’s so pitch black, I can’t even feel a single ray of light.

‘It’s as if my eyes are all burned… Are my eyes burned?’

At that moment, I remember where and what I was doing just a moment ago.

…Yes, I was fighting with the god of light.

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Even when my entire body is burned out and my visual cells are burned out and I cannot see properly, I follow that brilliant light… Ugh…

‘In the meantime, Noah appeared.’

My last memory is of a demonic sphere falling towards me with Noah laughing in my mental world.

If that demon energy sphere was absorbed into my body… Surely, my devastated body would be able to recover quickly.

I am a devil who lives with demon energy as his life force.

Even if a demon is in a bad condition right before it dies, it will recover to some extent if you just hit its demonic energy senselessly, so my body will also do the same.

More than anything, that magical sphere is something that has been by my side throughout my life. I have literally consumed all kinds of demonic energy, including the naturally released demonic energy that I shed and the demonic energy that remains in the world due to the aftereffects of magic. I can’t imagine not recovering.

‘…Noah can steal someone’s body, and the demonic sphere can restore the body of a devil who has been completely destroyed. That means-!!’

[Get out of here!!!]

As the worst possible assumptions pass through my mind, a loud, irritated curse pierces my ears.

This voice is… Lucia?

‘What is this?’

The moment I recognized Lucia’s voice, or more precisely, the moment I was able to control my hearing to some extent, it was only then that I could clearly see what state I was in.

There are children in front of me.

Children holding weapons and being very angry at me.

But although it is clearly looking at me, its anger is not directed at me.

To be precise, it is directed at Noah, who took my body.

“You said you’d give Faust back when the job was done?! Please leave me alone.”

[How on earth can I trust what a scum like you says?!]

Something is stirring inside the body. Even though it does not want to use mana and magic energy, it comes out at will and creates forms called magic.

Magic shaped like that attacks children, but the children block the attacks very easily.

These are magics that I have faced countless times while dealing with them dozens of times.

It is impressive to see that the training is so effective, but… There is something puzzling.

How is it that Noah treats my body so well, unlike the divine body of light?

Have you been in my image world for so long that you have figured out how to handle my body? Or is it because his specialty is controlling someone’s body that he can handle it so skillfully?

I don’t know. I have no idea.

But… There is only one thing that is certain.

“These b*tches- hahahaha?!”

Peoeuung!!

There’s a level of shame in having my body taken away at will.

Concentrate your mind and disrupt Noah as much as possible.

When he twisted the magic mine protruding from his fingertips to make the magic energy circulate through his body instead of expelling it, his right arm exploded, scattering flesh everywhere.

Noah’s torn scream echoes everywhere, as if he feels the pain even though he is possessed by my body.

[That…!]

[…Dad.]

And it seems that the children immediately realized why Noah was acting like that all of a sudden.

The children, who until a little while ago were only showing endless hostility, are now radiating feelings of relief as if for the first time in a while.

…I’m happy, but now might not be the time.

You have to first drive out Noah to get those feelings. It’s so… Complacent.

[Ugh…]

[Sorry, sorry.]

…Huh?

I got a little angry at the kids, but suddenly they cowered and apologized.

Have my feelings been conveyed? With Noah controlling her body like this, she wouldn’t have the means to communicate anything to her children…?

Uh… Um… Well, that’s it. First of all, I should consider myself fortunate that my feelings were conveyed.

“Ugh… I didn’t want to write this here…!”

Noah desperately grabbed her torn right arm and naturally let out a sound that a third-rate villain would make.

What, is there a special move coming out now?

If there is such a thing, I should have used it a long time ago.

I’ve always been curious about this, but I don’t know why heroes or villains use their strongest attacks when they are at a disadvantage or at the end.

When you look at something like this, the words of the blue-eyed skullcap that make you gasp are really true…?

Rurrr.

Gulleongㅡ Gulleongㅡ

At that moment, something familiar was caught beneath my vision.

What I saw when dealing with Noah, who was possessed by Gaia, in the Great Forest.

It is so sticky, pitch black that no light can pass through, and moves as if it has an ego, devouring space.

This is… What Noah called the great flood.

The power is clearly overwhelming. All living things that come into contact with this lose their lives and are swept away by the great flood.

But it is not for attack.

It certainly has the ability to decide victory or defeat just by touching it, but it is so slow and so easy to deal with that it cannot be used as an attack.

Definitely, as Noah just said, it’s not something I would want to write about here.

[…I was wondering if something great was coming, but that’s all?]

[Everyone, get ready. You know enough about relative law, right?]

[Yes, of course.]

I am not the only one who has this thought, as the children also seem to have relaxed after seeing the flood.

Unlike the tension, we are preparing incredibly well, such as preparing a defensive shield to use as a foothold and breakwater, or preparing an attack that can split the flood.

Thank goodness.

I didn’t worry too much about the great flood, as the name alone sounds grand, but seeing how well prepared they are, I don’t think I need to worry too much…

Wait a minute, a great flood?

There is something that always follows the image of the great flood.

‘Just now, the last thing I heard before I fainted was…’

‘The ark is ready.’

“The ark is ready.”

My thoughts and Noah’s words resonate at the same time, as if they were aligned on purpose.

If, if.

What if such an overwhelming amount of water pours in that the breakwater becomes meaningless, befitting the image of a true flood? What if waves thousands of meters high sweep across the ground?

There is not a single living thing on earth that can withstand that. Even the humans who ruled the Earth.

Except for flying, being on a boat that can float on the waves is the only way for life on land to survive.

…We have to stop it.

I’m not sure what he’s trying to do, but my intuition, sixth sense, and instinct are screaming and screaming that I must stop Noah at all costs.

Quaaa!!

[Uh, huh…?]

[…Was there always this much?]

A great flood, incomparable to what we saw in the great forest, sweeps everywhere. The waves of the great flood, which seem to have no end even if we stop them, are enough to make children panic.

It must have been less than an hour since he possessed my body, so how could he have done so much in an instant… Wow, is it because of the magic sphere and the abilities of my body!!

That is the only possibility.

The great flood that was continuously being created within the demonic sphere was controlled in response to the power of my body and spread everywhere.

…We have to stop it.

No matter how much the children put up shields and breakwaters, there is no hope if a flood piles hundreds of meters high on top of them.

“There was a brief interruption, but this is the end!! I will forever regret not accepting my deal.”

aaah!!

“–Kk…!?”

After desperately focusing his mind on his right arm, he used his right hand to strangle himself.

Noah, who was declaring victory even though it wasn’t completely over yet, let out a short scream, making a sound like his throat was twisting awkwardly.

“This… Still…!”

‘Get out of my body.’

My left hand, under Noah’s control, grabs her right arm and tries to throw her off, and I respond by giving more strength to my right arm.

The right arm, where too much force had been applied and the veins and tendons had protruded thickly, was unable to withstand its limit and reached the point where the veins were bursting, but in the current situation, that doesn’t really matter.

When Noah’s body faints, he has no choice but to jump out on its own, so he just has to quickly make his body faint.

If that happens, Noah’s thoughts will wander the world again, so I don’t know what will happen… But for now, there is no other way than to kick Noah out of my body…!

Quick, pass out quickly.

It can’t go on like this. If this happens, the children and Lucia will be trapped in the flood and have no choice but to die…!

“Keu,,, kkeuheuk, keuheu… Keuh… Is that so… Are you scared?”

Noisy.

Seeing as he can still speak, it seems like he wasn’t able to strangle him properly.

You have to tighten it harder.

Pass out quickly. Tell him to pass out.

No, just die.

Even if it means just dying, we have to get rid of these unpleasant clutter…!

Hurry… Quickly… Hurry and die quickly.

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Puukㅡ

At that moment, I felt as if something was entering my chest, and soon it became extremely hot.

No, it should not be called the chest, but rather the heart.

My mind instantly becomes clear due to the overwhelming pain penetrating my entire body. The clearer mind reads visual information that I had not noticed until now.

‘…Lucia?’

I see Lucia in my eyes.

This is how Lucia, who took on the appearance of a devil, unlike her human form until now, spread her devil’s wings and got through the great flood.

But that image doesn’t seem that significant now.

The only thing that can be seen is Lucia’s expression, which is so mysterious that it is difficult to recognize whether it is a solemn expression or a sad expression.

And Lucia’s hand… Is piercing my heart.

[… Earlier, when the Spirit of Light was driving out Seraphia’s thoughts, he put his hand into his heart and took out her thoughts. If so… You will too.]

Lucia says this in a confident tone.

No, perhaps she contains a wish that it must be so.