Published: September 10, 2025
※Revised on 2018/12/20.
This is Satou. When I fight the final boss as a player, my policy is to level up plenty and challenge it with the strongest equipment. However, since I started making games as a job, I haven’t had enough time to level up that much.
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“Checkmate, huh? Do you really think I’ll end here?”
“Ah, you can’t escape anymore—”
I had already marked the main body.
No matter which world he fled to, I could chase him.
If there were a barrier ability similar to Yuika’s, maybe he could have concealed his current location, but if I kept recording the marker position, I could tell where he entered the barrier.
Once I know the location, I can pursue him with my mysterious ability to penetrate any barrier.
“So you say I can’t escape—”
A fierce smile spread across the delicate face of the goblin demon king.
“Don’t underestimate me too much. I’m the great demon king who once contended for the top spot with the ancient dog-headed king—”
The Goblin King’s frail body throbbed violently and expanded into a muscular giant.
At the same time as he grew huge, he removed the bracelet he was wearing.
It was similar to my “Thief God’s Equipment.”
At the same time, I noticed the Goblin King’s level display had changed.
“His level went up?”
“Of course. This isn’t a restricted avatar.”
The Goblin King’s level, which had been 99, had now risen to 130.
Apparently, the bracelet from earlier was an item that capped his level at 99.
He put on a dark purple outfit he pulled out from his Item Box.
Each of his hands gripped a Japanese sword.
The blades were made of some mysterious metal, nearly black dark purple, with a length exceeding three meters.
According to the AR display, they were called Divine Bone Blades.
Since it was an obviously dangerous item, I made sure not to block it with the Holy Sword.
Well, before that—
“≪Don’t move!≫”
I used the compulsion (geass) skill.
At the same time, the Goblin King’s body was briefly enveloped with a dark purple phosphorescent glow, and my body grew heavy.
]Resisted the “compulsion” (geass).
Apparently, it was reflected by some unique skill.
It seemed like a type of “reflection (counter)” similar to what the dark sage of the Parion Divine Kingdom had.
Until now, I had refrained from using the compulsion skill because I didn’t want to prepare countermeasures against it when facing avatars, but it seems it was useless this time.
“Geass won’t work on me.”
The Goblin King sneered, showing his fangs between his lips.
“Here I go!”
The Goblin King, clad in dark purple light ripples on his surface, vanished at the moment of his declaration.
— Earth shrinking.
Before I could even recognize it, he reappeared in front of me and swung his Divine Bone Blade where my neck had been.
I dodged and simultaneously swung my Holy Sword, which was stopped by a black board that appeared near the Goblin King’s body, slightly sinking into it.
“As expected of an Irregular.”
While evading the Divine Bone Blade’s flurry of attacks, I fired the demon blade cannon from my fingertips to keep distance.
“To embed a sword in an absolute physical defense shield isn’t normal at all.”
That unique skill name sounded familiar.
Where had I heard it before—oh, right!
The ancient dog-headed king.
It was the name of the unique skill held by the “ancient dog-headed king.”
“You can use other demon kings’ unique skills?”
“Yeah. I can use the powers of the demon kings and heroes I’ve encountered so far.”
—not just demon kings but heroes too?
I almost believed it for a moment, but then I remembered the Goblin King was a liar.
He hadn’t stolen my unit placement that’s convenient for real-time movement.
That unique skill from before was probably just a different unique skill that only resembled the ancient dog-headed king’s.
“If you think I’m lying, just try to prove it yourself!”
After the Goblin King glowed several times with dark purple light, he used earth shrinking and lunged at me.