I Became the Maid of the Lout Prince - Chapter 72 [An Altered Future (3)]

The battle with the King Serpent began somewhat abruptly as Seraphine and I arrived at the western gate.

The first thing that needed to be done was, of course, protecting Ethan.

To start the fight, Seraphine aggroed the King Serpent so that it wouldn’t touch Ethan any further, who had already collapsed from exhaustion.

Of course, even for Seraphine, aggroing the King Serpent wouldn’t be easy, no matter how skilled she was in her usual condition. 

I didn’t know what level she was at right now, but considering her level at the time of joining in the original game, she would currently be at a similar level to Ethan.

She was estimated to be around Level 7-8. At most, it wouldn’t exceed Level 10.

Then, naturally, it would be absurd for her to respond even briefly to the King Serpent, a boss monster.

…But Seraphine, on the night of a full moon, was on a completely different level.

 

Bam!

“ROOOOOOOAR!!!”

 

The King Serpent, hit on the bridge of its nose by her flashy aerial kick, threw a tantrum.

Although it didn’t suffer any visible external injuries, it was easy to guess just by watching that its movements were momentarily disrupted by the impact.

…As expected of a cheat character that becomes ridiculously strong once a month.

Seraphine was a character who could fight using ‘lunar power’ instead of typical physical and magical strength, befitting her alias as the Moonlight Shadow Princess.

Inevitably, there were fluctuations in the character itself since her ability relied heavily on external factors, but anyway, on the night of a full moon, she was a powerful character second to none among the main characters.

Using an overhead kick with a smooth curve like a crescent moon, she struck the lower jaw of the King Serpent. [GalaxyTL/Axiomatic]

She dazzled the monster with her golden hair, shining like a lunar halo, and endlessly drew the boss monster’s attention.

In fact, even in the game, Seraphine was a character with excellent performance as a Sub-DPS and evasion tank.

…Well, she was already an essential companion due to the story, so if her performance wasn’t good, the public sentiment would have been brutal, so it was an unavoidable decision.

Despite being an annoying character, there was a reason why she didn’t hit the bottom in the popularity rankings.

 

‘Of course, even Seraphine on a full moon wouldn’t be able to kill the King Serpent at this point.’

 

In the original story, it was said that Seraphine and Agnes could barely defeat the King Serpent by combining their powers, so perhaps, in fact, Agnes was likely responsible for the firepower to kill the King Serpent even then.

Seraphine would have played the role of drawing the monster’s attention and buying time in that way. [GalaxyTL/Axiomatic]

I could roughly guess what kind of battle they would have fought, but there was no need to cross-check that part in my mind.

Especially in an urgent situation like now, there was even less need to waste time on useless things, and all I had to do was hit the King Serpent with Mana Blast.

If that was the future Seraphine saw, it was fair to say it would definitely happen.

 

“Lilith…? What do you mean by you and the princess finishing it…”

“Be quiet, Ethan. I need to concentrate from now on.”

“…”

 

I quickly dismissed Ethan’s muttering from behind, still seemingly unaware of the situation.

I immediately started chanting the magic spell with the feeling of creating a mass of mana in my hands.

Although this was essentially the first time I used proper high-level magic, and not simple spells like Clean or Shockwave, there was no particular difficulty compared to using other spells.

Along with the sensation of all sorts of unknown magic formulas permeating my mind, a sphere made of mana began to form in my hands.

That sphere started to gradually increase in size on my palms.

 

‘Yeah, this was the form.’

 

In the game, characters using Mana Blast would often start by gathering small masses of mana like this.

Of course, most mage characters used tools like sticks or two-handed staffs to create it, but that was a minor difference.

It wouldn’t be a lie to say I wasn’t disappointed, but it was only a trivial difference. In the first place, this scene wasn’t particularly strange to me, who had played Lilith’s route more than 10 times.

There’s no way I wouldn’t have learned Mana Blast even once while taking Lilith with me.

I had tried it as support magic, close-range magic, and AOE magic. I had attempted all sorts of growth methods other than that. There was probably no one who understood Lilith better than me, who had tried so much. [GalaxyTL/Axiomatic]

This pitiful character, who could use magic but couldn’t equip two-handed staffs or sticks, always used her hands to gather mana whenever she cast magic.

Perhaps Lilith’s low accuracy was also due to the characterization that she couldn’t use such mediums.

Of course, when it came to Mana Blast, it didn’t matter whether the accuracy was low or not.

 

‘It’s an ultimate skill with a 100% hit rate that absolutely can’t miss.’

 

The mana sphere, which had started as the size of a ping pong ball, began to gradually increase in size in my hands.

It was growing in volume at a tremendous speed, befitting Lilith’s mana capacity.

Even though I felt it had grown to a certain extent, I had a strange feeling that only about half of my mana had been consumed.

From the moment it surpassed the size of a basketball and became like a small gym ball, I began to feel a strange uneasiness.

 

‘Was it originally this big…?’

 

…I was pretty sure I had never seen it grow this big when I saw it in the game.

Beyond growing vigorously, the huge mana sphere growing to a frightening degree made me feel a strange sense of fear.

 

‘If I accidentally drop this, wouldn’t it be the end…?’

 

Inwardly, I wanted to stop here and throw it away, but unfortunately, Mana Blast wasn’t the type of magic that could be stopped whenever I wanted.

It was truly the ultimate skill among ultimate skills, which consumed all the remaining mana in the body at once and threw it out in a single shot. [GalaxyTL/Axiomatic]

Even though enough mana had gathered to kill the King Serpent and then some, the sphere in my hands was still gradually increasing in size.

Feeling fear of the huge mass of mana flickering before my eyes, I raised both arms and lifted the mana sphere above my head.

 

WHOOOSH! WHOOOSH! WHOOOSH! WHOOOSH! WHOOOSH! WHOOOSH!

 

“…!!!”

 

The wind swirled around the huge mass of mana as if a whirlwind had formed.

The whirlwind and dust, taking my Mana Blast as the eye of the typhoon, enveloped me and the huge sphere.

Unable to face its size with my own eyes, I simply stretched my arms toward the sky and gathered the remaining mana.

Eventually, when I felt there was no more mana to drain from my body, I suddenly felt like I could ‘throw’ the mana sphere held above my head.

 

‘So this is how it feels to use Mana Blast…’

 

It really felt like I could throw it anywhere, even to the head of that huge monster, which was about the height of a 3-storey building.

The boss monster raised its huge body and pointed its sharp fangs at Seraphine in front of me.

From her figure, she was somewhat struggling to buy time against that boss monster.

For her sake, who had somehow bought time, and for Ethan, who had endured until then, it was time to end this battle.

 

“PRINCESS!!!!!!

GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!!!

DODGE IT!!!!!!!!!!!”

 

Just before I fired Mana Blast, I shouted with all my might, calling out to Seraphine.

Mana Blast, into which I had infused all my mana over about 10 minutes, left my hands like that.

I couldn’t check if she had actually listened to my words and dodged properly.

Just throwing the Mana Blast in my hands felt quite overwhelming. [GalaxyTL/Axiomatic]

She would probably dodge well. In the first place, if she had come after seeing the future, dodging my Mana Blast would be nothing to her.

Seraphine never chose the future after seeing she ‘dies’ in it. 

She was a character who knew for certain that the future in which she survived would save more people later on.

 

WHOOOSH…!

 

The huge mana sphere, taking the swirling wind and dust gathered around me, flew away.

Now that it had left my hands and started flying, its size was much larger than I thought.

I couldn’t think of an appropriate object of a similar size, but if I had to compare, it was probably about the size of a kimchi refrigerator.

It was unbelievable that all that mana was from me.

The huge sphere of mana generated a fierce whirlwind at an incredibly fast speed as soon as it left my hand.

Mana Blast, befitting its 100% accuracy, flew straight towards the King Serpent’s head with full force.

Before it could even realize what was happening, my magic made contact with the monster’s head first.

 

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

 

With a huge roar, as if several loud thunders were striking at once, Mana Blast exploded in an instant.

The explosion, which began as soon as it hit the side of the King Serpent’s head, momentarily caused a noisy vibration that shook the nearby earth.

I, who had fired the large-scale magic, also fell to the ground, accidentally hitting my butt due to air resistance.

 

Thud!

“Eek!”

 

Although it was a short explosion of only 1-2 seconds, considering the amount of mana I had poured in, it was enough time to prove its power.

After the large-scale magic composed of various elements, such as roar, vibration, and wind pressure, was triggered…

When I came to my senses, the place where the King Serpent’s head should have been had completely disappeared as if it had evaporated.

Its body, having lost its owner, simply collapsed to the ground lifelessly.

 

Thud!

 

With a sound that shook the ground once more, the King Serpent collapsed.

With this, the boss monster of the ‘Palace Invasion Incident’ seemed to have been dealt with for now.

Fortunately, the story ended without any of the main characters dying, and I finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked around the western gate line of defense where the situation had concluded.

While quietly shifting my gaze to the surroundings that had become a scene of catastrophe, my eyes naturally met Ethan’s bewildered eyes.

 

“…”

“…”

 

…Now then.

How should I make an excuse for this…?