Chapter 20: The Demon Host

The perspective temporarily shifted to Aqua's side

Just before Sato Hikaru, and the rest climbed over the slope.

"You! Stop avoiding me!"

Aqua stomped her feet angrily at the demon who, after taking her first spell, had been using its wings to fly and dodge her attack.

"Damn it, if not because my power was partially sealed after coming to this world, an upper-ranked demon like you would be dead after one hit!"

"Please stop, I'm just trying to look for lord Wolbach and have no intention of fighting with you."

"Stop talking nonsense! Stand still and take my purification magic, or else I won't hold back!"

"Tsk...How did I meet a lunatic from the Axis Cult?"

The upper-ranked demon who was flying in the air and looking at Aqua in distress was called Host.

It was a familiar contract to the goddess of sloth and violence.

It was currently looking for the other half of the body of goddess Wolbach. (Megumin's black cat, Chomusuke)

He had been looking for Megumin and the others all the way from the crimson demon clan village to the novice town, Axel.

Let's move the time backward a little…

Today was the first day Host arrived in Axel.

It originally planned to look for lone adventurers in the wild or intelligent monsters to ask about the surrounding situation.

But in the end, it met a provoked griffon and Aqua who was being chased all over the place by it.

Since he had met an adventurer, he thought that it would be more efficient to ask an adventurer than to ask a monster.

Host took action and saved Aqua who was almost snatched away by the griffon and waved its hand to drive away the griffon into the forest.

But the moment they landed on the ground, before it could even say a word, it was dazedly attacked with a super powerful holy magic by Aqua.

Luckily, as a familiar of a goddess, Host's resistance towards holy magic was not like average demons which were in the negative. This was why he was not directly killed by Aqua's sneak attack.

Afterwards, Host's first reaction was to counterattack but then noticed this high priest's magic power was so huge that it was almost inexhaustible.

Aqua shouted: "Disgusting bugs, garbage from hell!"

From her hand, uber-powerful holy skills were being tossed around like they were on a Black Friday sale!

So much that Host could not even get close to her.

But it was not a big problem!

If I could not offend her, could I not just hide from her?

"Hmph, I still need to find lord Wolbach, I have no time to be entangled with you. I'll let you go for now!"

With these thoughts in mind, once Host finished his harsh words, he spread his wings to take off.

The griffon that it drove away flew first into the sky and then…

Then, there was no more.

The burst of explosion magic that wiped out the griffon that just took off and its surrounding forest was really terrifying.

Seeing this, Host broke out in cold sweat, how could it still dare to fly high into the sky?

But, flying at low altitude would still be within Aqua's attack range, so it could only depend on speed burst to dodge while thinking of ways to escape.

"Ahh! You annoying fly, don't dodge if you dare!!"

Before it could think of how to escape, Aqua, who continued to miss her shot, became anxious.

A forbidden-level holy magic that shot into the sky came at it.

Since the range of the attack was too big, coupled with the fact that Host did not expect Aqua to have attack magic of this scale, although he tried to dodge as much as possible, in the end, he was still scratched by the forbidden magic.

Once again, it was fortunate to be a familiar of goddess Wolbach, its resistance to holy magic was higher, otherwise, it would have directly evaporated.

"What's going on with this Axel?"

Holding his hurt arm, Host was dumbfounded: "Isn't this place said to be a town where novice adventurers gather? Where the hell did these monsters come from?"

And just when Host was confused, doubting whether he had heard a wrong message.

Aqua below seemed to notice that this kind of large-area magic-canon type attack magic had an effect.

Since then, Aqua chose to use a small skill to entangle it then when the cool-down was up, gave him a light cannon.

Although the threat of the light cannon towards Host had dropped sharply, disgusting things were still disgusting.

If you approached, you would be bombarded with a dense explosion, if you flew away, you would be flashed with a light cannon, if it wished to escape by flying high towards the sky, it was worried that it would be targeted by the strong person releasing the explosion magic just now.

"Archpriest, you are so annoying!"

Host, who was unable to move forward nor to retreat, fell to the ground, its whole muscles bulging and looked fiercely at Aqua, seemingly ready to have a hard fight.

"You finally come down!"

Before Host could say any harsh words, Aqua, who saw Host came down, immediately raised both her hands and shouted: "You filthy demon, go back to hell!"

As she spoke, the holy light of purification gathered on Aqua's hands, and in a blink of an eye, the condensed beam of light shot towards Host!

"You really think this trick will work against me!"

However, Host, who had prepared himself, slipped past the beam of light and, before Aqua reacted, rushed in front of her.

"Even if you master an even greater holy magic, in the end you are just a human archpriest, your fragile body is your biggest weakness!"

Host raised its fist while grinning and wanted to smash this reckless high priest to death.

"Huh!? There is still a back up plan?"

Suddenly sensing the fluctuating magical power, Host looked up toward the sky, sensing danger. It was there that he saw a red, fiery ball of explosion magic falling above his head…

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