Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

Satou here. When did boss characters start transforming into multiple stages no matter how many times you defeat them? Even in games, it was always a hassle, but in reality...

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It's probably due to that guy's unique skill. He revived as an undead. The upper half of his body, which should have been lost, regenerated in an instant. What a frustrating opponent.

At least, when I destroyed his upper half earlier, both of my willow leaf blades seemed to have disappeared somewhere—that's the only small relief.

I have a few Hidden Orbs, but since I don’t know how many times he can revive, I can’t recklessly use them. And the MP recovery potion only heals about 20% with one bottle, which is tough.

From now on, I’ll charge magic power into the Demonic Sword and Holy Sword every chance I get.

“To make me use the effect of 'unmatched by ten thousand men' again... it’s been since Yamato. Nameless one, can you actually defeat me? Yamato attacked my castle with the Celestial Dragons. You’re supposed to face a hero and Celestial Dragons alone, huh?”

Hmm, since the name is blank, I guess "Nameless" will do. From now on, I’ll call myself Nanashi.

Thanks to the HP potion and self-healing skill, the wound on my abdomen has disappeared. It still hurts, but not enough to stop me from fighting. Going further would just allow him to heal, which would be a bad move.

“The Celestial Dragons are resting.”

I chew down three more MP recovery potions while manipulating the storage with my thoughts.

His destruction magic attacked, so I slapped my palm to change its course. He said something like "baka na" (idiot), but I ignored it. My palm stings; it’s definitely a magic I don’t want to touch much.

“And the professional hero is on vacation with a busty beauty in the imperial capital.”

If he’s really on vacation, I might just punch him once.

I swapped out the Holy Sword Durandal from storage and took out "Hidden Orb No. 1, Holy Spear Longinus," pouring freshly recovered magic power into it. Using too much magic makes me dizzy, but I endure it.

“You say professional hero? What are you then?”

“I’m part-time. The real job is tourist.”

Tourist isn’t a job, but I know that.

As long as I distract him with nonsense words, that’s fine. He uses destruction magic, but his aim is sloppy. If he wants to hit me, use an area magic.

I shouldn’t have thought that.

He really launched an area magic. I kicked the stone pavement at my feet up as a shield. Damn, no tatami flip skill this time.

His magic shattered the stones instantly and charged at me.

It was originally just to buy time until I could raise a shield, but it was useless. The shield I finally raised was broken through in an instant. I twisted my body to cover the vital parts.

Ouch.

As expected from the Demon King's attack. The pain is no joke. Even if it fades quickly, it still hurts.

Since my HP gauge hasn't dropped much, he probably isn’t good against magic.

This time he used a breath attack, so I dodged with earth shrinking—of course, forward.

He approached like teleportation while releasing the technique.

Triple spiral spear strike.

At the same time, I activated the Forge to burn the small shield group.

The first and second strikes pierced the shoulders of the golden boar king demon king, and the third pierced his heart. Then the holy light was absorbed into his body—

Blowing up his half-body.

But before the spiral spear strike took full effect, he cut off his own half-body with claw-like blades on both hands. A new body grew from the remaining half. Like a planarian.

Much more immortal than Zen.

This time from his hands, translucent tentacle-like things floated up to attack. Such a versatile guy.

When I stabbed with Longinus, they evaporated, so I don’t know what kind of attack it was, but deliberately taking it seemed dangerous.

His eyes flickered with light, but I didn’t know what attack it was until I glanced at the log and got chills. If it’s an instant death attack, it should show an effect like one.