I Was Reincarnated with OP Invincibility, so I’ll Beat ’em Up My Way as an Action-Adventurer

73. We Have To Defeat Him

“I’m Jack Jarce.”

The beast knight introduced himself. From his voice, he seemed to be a middle-aged man.

“…I’m Haruto Riva.”

I replied, introducing myself.

The beast knight—Jack—had several faint patterns floating all over his body.

These patterns, reminiscent of a knight’s design, were quite similar to my own. He probably had a divine skill too.

Since he blew Dialva away, can I consider him an ally?

“…I didn’t know there were others like you.”

Jack muttered with relief.

“I’ve met someone with a similar power before. He acted selfishly, manipulating many people to his whims.”

His wolf-like face looked at me.

Despite its fearsome, monstrous appearance, it carried a gentle aura.

“But you seem different. You were desperately trying to protect your comrades. You’re planning to destroy the pillars, aren’t you? You and those adventurers.”

“If we don’t destroy all five pillars, the capital will be engulfed in poison. We came here to stop that and protect the people of the capital.”

“Let me help.”

Jack said, standing beside me. A joint effort, it seems.

I don’t know much about him, but it looks like we have the same goal.

“We’ll distract him while our comrades destroy the pillars.”

I nodded at Jack.

“Let’s hold him off together.”

“Hold me off? You think you can?”

Dialva looked at us.

“Do you think you can restrain me with just a skill that seals magic? How naive—”

With that, the demon general kicked off the ground and leaped into the air with incredible force. Right, even if I seal his magic with my skill, he still has high physical abilities.

“If harboring ‘malice towards humans’ shortens my time in this world, I’ll just have to annihilate you within that time.”

Dialva stopped about a hundred meters in the air. That’s beyond the range of my skill.

“Rot.”

The demon general floated in the air, firing a light bullet. I launched my skill to intercept it.

My iridescent light sphere clashed with his demonic light bullet, scattering dazzling sparks in midair. Twice, three times.

“Sicken. Decay.”

Five times, ten times more. Damn, this is the same pattern as before.

“No matter how divine your power is, you’re still human. Your concentration must be reaching its limit by now.”

Dialva disappeared, reappeared, then disappeared again, mocking me.

I couldn’t predict when or where he’d strike next.

His erratic, irregular attacks were completely unpredictable.

His attacks were hard to block.

Unlike Gyrasvrim, he didn’t have immense destructive power.

But since I couldn’t predict where he’d shoot from and couldn’t nullify it, he was a troublesome enemy.

Lilith and the others were also casting attack magic, but they couldn’t hit the elusive Dialva.

“Is your ability to ‘protect’?” Jack suddenly asked.

“Can you cast it on me?”

“Huh?”

“My skill is ‘enhancement.’ With my current reflex speed, I can close the distance the moment he appears.”

“…Please.”

I retracted my skill and enveloped Jack in iridescent light. The [Armor Phase] reflected attacks.

“The effect lasts for five minutes. Be careful.”

Jack nodded silently and got into a beast-like quadrupedal stance, scanning the surroundings. Eventually, Dialva appeared diagonally ahead, near Team A.

“There you are—”

Jack kicked off the ground, causing a shockwave. The sonic speed beast knight closed in on the demon general, leaving an iridescent trail.

“…!?”

Even Dialva was surprised.

“Rot!”

The light bullet Dialva fired at Jack was easily deflected by [Armor Phase].

“I won’t let you kill anyone!”

Jack’s fist slammed into the Demon General.

“…gah!”

Dialva was blown away, crashing into a nearby building, which crumbled into dust and covered the area in a cloud.

From the dust, the demon general stood up.

“Huff… Huff… I see, ‘enhancement’… Such speed…”

Dialva groaned painfully, then flew up into the air again.

“Now that I know, I’ll keep my distance. Attacking from here will make it impossible for you to strike back.”

His voice was weak. Jack’s blow had done considerable damage.

“Gyrasvrim died with pride, but I’m different. I’ll do whatever it takes to win—I’ll ignore those I can’t kill and only kill those I can.”

Poisonous light bullets rained down from the sky again. They seemed to be targeting only Teams A and C, who were heading for the pillars.

I launched defensive skills to deflect the bullets one after another.

But there were too many to block, and I was overwhelmed.

The demon general continued to fire poison bullets beyond the effective range of my skill—fifty meters—creating a barrage that prevented both teams from advancing.

If we were held back like this, the operation’s time limit would eventually run out.

We were completely—stuck.

Then,

“This might work.”

Jack picked up some nearby rubble and threw it at Dialva in the air. It moved incredibly fast—probably another of Jack’s skills.

“Useless.”

But it didn’t hit the teleporting Dialva.

“A speed-enhanced rubble shot, but… it’s no good.”

Jack clicked his tongue. The demon general resumed his light bullet attacks, and I blocked them with my skill.

Fifty, a hundred, a hundred and fifty—.

With each passing moment, I grew more fatigued.

“Damn… ugh…”

This is bad, I’m losing focus.

We couldn’t hit the demon general, and he continued his one-sided attacks. If we kept just defending, we’d eventually be overwhelmed.

There was only one way to break the deadlock.

“We have to defeat him…!”

Is there any way? A way to hit him when he’s vulnerable.

A thought suddenly crossed my mind. If we combined my and Jack’s skills—

“…What’s on your mind?”

“I’ve got an idea.”

I nodded at the puzzled Jack.

“It might only work once, but there’s a way to outsmart him.”

With this—we’ll finish it.