Act 2-38 - 《Beloved Guide; Tahlia》

Chapter 38 : 《Beloved Guide; Tahlia》

Crap.

Just when I thought we could win this battle, these two monsters appeared out of nowhere.

… Worst of all, though I still had no idea about Ornoa’s real power, the girl called Tahlia could move as fast as Edda in her top speed, and was strong enough to twist an adventurer’s head in a moment without her prey realizing that fact.

Contrary to her slender, frail-like appearance, she is most likely a close combat type fighter.

Her base status clearly far outstripped Beelzebub’s avatar which was manifested by me with 《Petit Dimordi》.

If that kind of monstrous girl went on rampage in the frontline which has been in a state of equilibrium until now, I’m afraid that the adventurer’s side would instantly be in an extremely disadvantageous situation.

I bit my lip.

I’ve no choice but to go.

Tahlia and bishop Ornoa’s strength was clearly far above the other members of the cult.

To overturn this situation, maybe we’ve no other choice but to gang up on one of those two… with me and Beelzebub participating in the fight.

Seeing that we are most likely going to lose if we adopted Gamdon’s plan in this strategy, I’ve no choice but to abandon that tactic.

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The frontline would collapse unless we take them both right now.

『… Dean, that Tahlia might not even be human.』

Beelzebub gave extremely serious advice, or rather a warning to me.

Surely, now that she reminds me… my 《Odo Perception》 couldn’t detect her existence.

Even her movement seems to be out-of-place, or rather, those out-of-place parts were sticking out like sore thumb.

I more or less guessed about her origin… but, I’ve to use 《Imu》 on either Tahlia or Ornoa to prove my guess.

「Tch… can’t be helped. Guess now ain’t the time to play around since bishop-sama is coming. I’m gonna enjoy torturing them for a while longer but… guess playtime is over!」

Dig pointed his dagger forward as he rushed toward me.

I pretended to aim for a counterattack against him all this while dropping my act… and charged toward him too.

I dodged his attack with 《Moon Reflection》, and used 《Demon Eater Sword; Beelzera》 with my left hand.

Dig leaped back to dodge my attack.

「Tch!」

Yup, that’s enough.

My intention was to get Dig to jump back to dodge my attack all along.

He far outstripped me in fighting spirit after all.

Thus, cornering him by relying on battle art was close to impossible.

But… the magic that I was originally going to use on Dig, 《Petit Dimordi》 was my most important weapon in the fight against either Ornoa or Tahlia.

That’s why the moment Dig opened some distance from me, I chose to abandon my fight against him.

I turned around, showing my back toward Dig who couldn’t hide his shock, and closed in toward bishop Ornoa in one go.

And then, I pointed 《Demon Eater Sword; Beelzera》 toward him.

Even though Tahlia had already run toward the frontline, bishop Ornoa kept standing his ground in the rear formation.

Thus, it gave me the chance to use 《Im》 on him.

Since 《Im》 has fast invocation speed, it was far easier to use compared with the other types of magic.

There was a saying that the fastest one to invoke magic would dominate the battle but… this situation needs me to confirm bishop Ornoa statuses first.

Bishop Ornoa reacted a moment too late due to my unexpected action.

Rather… it’s as if I was nothing more than an ant in his eyes.

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《Ornoa Orgnout》

Race ：《Legman(Pure Human)》

Condition：《Normal》

Lv：42

VIT（Vitality）：111

ATK（P Attack）：119

MAG（Magical Power）：125+51

AGI（Agility）: 98

Enchanted Vessel ：

《Beloved Guide; Tahlia[B]》

Title :

《Advanced Puppeter[B]》《Fire User[B]》《Darkness User[B]》

《Emission Magic(Attack)・High[B]》《Spirit Creation Magic（Tulpa）・Mid[C]》《Space-Time Magic（Paradox）・High[B]》

Traits ：

《Wisdom God’s Divine Protection[–]》

Magic ：

《Im[–]》《Marionette[C]》《Dark Bullet[D]》

《Hell Cube[B]》《Box[C]》《Gate[B]》

Battle Art :

《Demonic Erosion Fighting Spirit[B]》

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【Lv:42】… I’ve prepared myself to see this but, he has the highest level amongst the people I fought so far.

I’m still 【Lv:25】, if ranked, I’m still a D-rank enchanted weapon user.

Since 《Demon Eater Sword; Beelzera》 also has the same rank as me, the status correction provided by her isn’t that great, only around sixty.

Rather than that, I… who saw through Ornoa’s status with 《Im》 was convinced.

Bishop Ornoa was an enchanted puppet user.

That girl called Tahlia was none other than his weapon, 《Beloved Guide; Tahlia》.

Though it was harder to distinguish Tahlia from a normal human due to her elaborate design and the dim lighting… I already confirmed that she was nothing more than a puppet.

『Yikes… that guy is… still playing with doll at that age.』

Beelzebub muttered with a bored voice.

『But, you already know that he isn’t the kind of opponent that you can approach carelessly, right?』

「Yeah… I know that. The only way to defeat him is by using 《Gluttony’s Edge》 on him!」

I was closing in toward Ornoa.

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We’re already in a delicate situation even after I killed their healer.

We were literally doomed to die in this place as long as that 《Beloved Guide; Tahlia》was rampaging in the front line.

Just one more time… 《Petit Dimordi》.

As he got distracted and pulled back his 《Beloved Guide; Tahlia》, I’m gonna steal that wicked looking bishop’s 《Marionette》 with 《Gluttony’s Edge》.

【《Marionette[C]》：A magic belonging to a spirit creating magic(tulpa). It allowed its user to create threads made of mana which can be controlled at will.】

Bishop Ornoa and 《Beloved Guide; Tahlia》 was connected by tulpa.

And that might also also be how he maintained his connection with his enchanted puppet.

In short… all I needed to do was to snatch his tulpa, 《Marionette》 with 《Gluttony’s Edge》 to deprive him of his enchanted puppet/

《Beloved Guide; Tahlia》 might be a special enchanted puppet but it doesn’t seem to provide status correction on its user’s fighting spirit.

In short, it only strengthens its user’s magical power.

Meaning that as long as I can force 《Beloved Guide; Tahlia》 out of this battle, we could safely attack bishop Ornoa who lost his enchanted puppet’s protection.

In other words, I’m Ornoa’s worst nemesis.

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Though I would have lost all chance to attack him had he kept 《Beloved Guide; Tahlia》 by his side, bishop Ornoa just made his biggest mistake by underestimating me.

And I will use that gap to separate bishop Ornoa from 《Beloved Guide; Tahlia》!