NOVEL WEB Chapter 159
159. Answer Me
I was facing Jack-san, who was radiating murderous intent.
──On the eve of the decisive battle with the demons, we were waiting at the guild headquarters.
It was there that Jack-san suddenly attacked Lilith and Alice.
I managed to activate a defensive skill in time to block it, but if I hadn’t, the two of them might have been seriously injured.
No, probably──they would have been killed.
“What’s going on……!?”
Something was clearly wrong.
This wasn’t the usual Jack-san.
“Destroy…… annihilate……”
The beast warrior muttered in a dark voice.
I remember Vanessa and Sephiria saying that Jack-san still had lingering effects from the ‘Domination’ skill the last time we met.
They said Sephiria had healed him, but──.
Could the effects not have completely disappeared?
Was that why Jack-san had transformed?
There were too many things I didn’t understand.
No, thinking could wait.
If he was going to harm Lilith and Alice, I had to stop him at all costs.
“All demonic presences must be destroyed……”
Just as he spoke, Jack-san’s movements stopped.
He looked up at the sky.
Black holes──subspace passages ‘Black Phantom Cave Sylega’ had appeared, three of them.
The radar had predicted their appearance in about two hours, but this was earlier──.
“You first……”
With those words, Jack-san kicked off the ground.
“Wha……!?”
I let out a surprised cry.
With an incredible burst of speed, Jack-san leaped hundreds of meters into the air in an instant.
It was an unbelievable, absurd level of jumping power.
He slammed his fist into one of the black holes floating in the air.
Giiiiiiiiiiiiiii!?
A metallic screech echoed.
Jack-san forcibly dragged out several demons from the Black Phantom Cave Sylega.
With punches and kicks, he reduced all of them to dust.
Demons with Class A or higher power──utterly annihilated in an instant.
After landing, Jack-san leaped again.
He repeated the same process with the second and third Black Phantom Cave Sylega, dragging out demons and demonic beasts and killing them all in an instant.
“Wha, what is that……!?”
Beside me, Lilith looked stunned.
The other members had similar reactions.
Forcing demons out of the Syrega and killing them before they could even emerge.
I’d never seen such a way of fighting.
“All the demons that were about to descend nearby…… I’ve killed them……”
Jack-san, having defeated all the demons, landed and began walking toward us.
His entire body was covered in grotesque armor, drenched in the blue blood of demons and demonic beasts.
The thick stench of blood was suffocating.
“Next…… it’s them.”
I gulped.
Jack-san’s gaze was fixed on Lilith and Alice.
More precisely, on the staffs they held.
Probably on the demon general Meriel, who lay dormant within──.
“After killing them, I’ll destroy…… annihilate all the other demons……”
Sparks of light scattered from the armor covering his body.
A few days ago, when I met Vanessa and Sephiria, the skill holders, they told me this:
Jack-san still had lingering effects from the ‘Domination’ skill.
It was eating away at him.
But Sephiria was supposed to have healed him of that.
So why──?
No, stopping Jack-san was the priority now.
“Annihilate…… destroy……”
Jack-san repeated the words like a mantra.
Then,
“What the hell are you!?”
The surrounding adventurers drew their swords or readied their magic staffs.
“Destroy──those who get in my way, too.”
Jack-san turned around.
His entire body swelled, turning a bluish-black──.