The Demon Prince goes to the Academy

The enemy of my enemy is my ally.

At that moment, I was putting this saying into practice, but the biggest problem was that my enemies were closing in on me from both the front and the rear.

The moment I faltered on the tightrope, I would be devoured by both enemies at once.

It was a bizarre sight, as if I was doing a weightlifting act on the front line, but ironically, I wasn't in the deepest part of the battlefield.

The heavy rain made it hard to see, but I could spot the flashes of the Void Sword's trajectory from a distance, and I saw the corpses of the monsters cut down in one blow here and there.

Ellen, who had jumped into the battlefield from the beginning, was far ahead of me.

She had already entered the midst of the battle, cleaving through the waves of monsters with the Void Sword and Lapelt, completely obliterating them.

Ellen, who had recklessly plunged into those depths without a single escort, was indeed reckless, but she had Lapelt and Lament to back her up.

In contrast, I was in greater danger with the Immortals attached to my tail.

As I delved deeper into the heart of the battle, not only did the number of monsters increase, but it became increasingly difficult to choose between breaking through the Immortal behind me or the monsters in front of me.

Ironically, I was able to get this far because of the concentrated fire aimed at me.

Thousands of archmages were still unleashing massive spells above my head, just to kill me.

-Kwakwakwang!

However, because they couldn't properly secure their line of sight, the destructive magic was sweeping away the monsters blocking my path.

-Kurrrung

-Syaaaah!

The magic that was trying to kill me was killing the monsters that were trying to kill me as well.

Flashes of indistinguishable magic, explosions, cold and fire, and lightning.

It was an immense relief that no spell managed to bind my feet, whether it was because they couldn't see me or due to my magic resistance power, but they didn't directly affect me.

I was a walking, indiscriminate bombardment zone, so I actually had to move forward, pushing through the flames and heavy rain.

While Ellen trusted the Void Sword and Lapelt to lead her forward, the attacks that sought to kill me ironically became the spearhead of my advance.

That being said, I couldn't afford to slow down.

If I didn't run, the Immortals would catch up to me.

Due to the rough pursuit of the Immortals and my breakthrough, the Allied forces were quickly advancing towards the heart of the battle.

I already had the locations of the Warp Gates in my head, even though the visibility was low.

All I had to do was lead the Immortal towards the direction of the Warp Gates and keep running.

Although it seemed simple at a glance, I had to run through the most dangerous areas of the battlefield without being caught by the enemy.

Something was protecting me, but there was no telling how long it would last.

-Grooooaar!

And then, I saw a massive explosion of fire erupting in one area of the battlefield.

"What... is that?"

An explosion occurred in the distance.

The sheer amount of raindrops that were instantly pushed away allowed me to see the spectacle.

The raindrops displaced by the massive explosion soon turned into steam and soared into the sky.

The shockwave of fire that erupted from Lapelt crushed the monsters, and I could see the darkness flowing from the Void Sword accurately bisecting the Warp Gate.

In an instant, one of the Warp Gates in the heart of Diane was destroyed effortlessly, and the origin of the monsters had been reduced to an empty plot.

Ellen was doing on her own what I intended to do with the Immortals.

I knew Ellen was strong, and having awakened two divine artifacts, she was even stronger.

But in the final battle, could she really do that alone, without the knights of Shanafel that she usually brought along?

I had heard that Ellen had grown stronger since her condition became irreversible, but I didn't realize she was this powerful.

Like a ghost rampaging through the battlefield, Ellen destroyed a warp gate and disappeared into the downpour once more.

If I encountered Ellen in her current state, would she attack me first or deal with the monsters?

I couldn't be sure.

But it was dangerous to get too close to Ellen.

And the Immortal might even attack Ellen instead.

While pondering these thoughts, I started running in a direction opposite to Ellen's.

-Kurruring!

In another location, a strange black energy surged.

As with Ellen, me, and the Immortals, it was close to the heart of the battlefield.

I wasn't sure if the expression "darkness burns" was truly accurate, but the burning shape of darkness was undoubtedly sweeping through the monsters in Diane's core.

It wasn't just me at the vanguard; the allied forces had multiple fronts.

Something penetrated one of the fronts and the allied forces followed suit.

It didn't take long to figure it out.

It was definitely Ludwig.

I didn't know the limits of the power he gained through dark magic.

However, like me and Ellen, he was at the forefront of the battle.

Regardless of his thoughts, unlike Christina, I could feel a firm resolve in Ludwig's steps.

A strong determination to end all of this somehow.

There was a warp gate in Ludwig's direction as well.

And, like how I could see Ludwig through the downpour, he was dangerously close to me.

I had to avoid him.

Just as encountering Ellen on the battlefield was dangerous, so too was encountering Ludwig.

Everything else could wait.

Destroying Diane's gate was the priority.

-Kurruring!

With every swing of Ludwig's greatsword, the dark magic energy created a path by crushing the monsters.

The ominous aura emanating from Ludwig's form reminded me of a berserker. The allied forces advancing in the wake of Ludwig's opened path must have been equally frightened by the sight of the berserker wielding such sinister power.

I couldn't see every part of the battlefield due to the heavy rain.

Even if it wasn't raining, there wouldn't be time for that.

-Kwakakak!

I leaped over a monster that caused the ground to tremble and finished it off.

-Kwang! Kwarung!

Finally, I arrived at the warp gate while avoiding the monsters and the Immortal.

It was medium-sized.

Monsters were pouring out of the crimson dimensional hole.

It seemed as if it was the end, with monsters pouring out like water gushing.

I didn't need to deal with the monsters myself.

-Kurruring!

The destructive forces targeting me shattered, ripped, and burned the encircling monsters.

It felt as if I had become a god of destruction.

As various types of destructive magic rained down upon my location, it was as if I was deliberately wielding such power.

I achieved my goal using the power of those who sought to kill me.

It was quite amusing, yet a plausible situation.

The battlefield was chaotic and brutal, but all I needed was to achieve my objective.

To survive.

To do so, I had to destroy the warp gates.

"Ugh... hah!"

Vrooooom!

As if a whirlwind was condensing, the power of destruction and corruption gathered in Tiamata, which had turned into a demon sword.

The maximum aura.

And holding Tiamata, imbued with the maximum power of destruction, I ran between the monsters that were being pulverized by the barrage of destructive spells.

I thrust it into the maw of the dimension that spewed out the monsters.

Kwa-d-d-d-d!

I could clearly see the warp gate being destroyed as soon as the power was released.

I may not be able to cut it in one stroke like Ellen, but I could still destroy the warp gate with my power.

Vroooom

I couldn't be sure that the Immortals wouldn't ignore the gate and chase after me, so I destroyed the gate with my own strength.

However, as one warp gate disappeared, the Immortals pursuing me became faster.

There was no time to rest.

"Damn it...!"

No matter how helpful the Immortals' attacks were, the fact that they were trying to kill me remained unchanged.

I ran, and I ran again.

It felt like a game of tag where everyone around me was trying to catch me.

I didn't know how long I had been running.

There were so many spells and monsters altering the surrounding environment that I couldn't rely on my barrier alone.

I ran away, I ran away, and I ran away again until I reached the warp gate, which I then destroyed. And I ran away once more.

I had no idea how much time had passed.

As the warp gates were destroyed, the number of monsters decreased, and the allied forces had already entered Diane.

The Immortals were still chasing me, just out of reach, while slaughtering the monsters of Diane.

Ellen, acting alone, and I, luring the Immortals, destroyed the warp gates one by one.

And the allied forces that had reached Diane were also destroying the gates one at a time.

My heart raced like mad.

It wasn't because of the fear of the Immortals catching up to me.

It was truly.

It was really the end.

We were almost there.

Somewhere, I heard the sound of phantom horses galloping as if in a hallucination, and I saw the sight of massive monsters crashing down and crushing the armies.

The warp gates of Diane were shattered one by one.

The moment when I could talk about what happened next.

What should I do next?

Would there be a time when I could talk about such things?

So.

The allied forces that had reached Diane were on the verge of destroying the last gate, which was everyone's ultimate goal.

As the number of warp gates decreased, the number of monsters pouring out from a single gate increased.

However, the total number of monsters had to decrease as the number of gates decreased.

The allied forces had gone beyond being surrounded by monsters and had now encircled Diane, dealing with even the monsters on the outskirts.

The number of monsters had decreased significantly.

So.

The number of monsters blocking the Immortals also dwindled.

As I approached the end of this task, my life hung in the balance.

The moment I began to consider how to deal with the Immortals after enduring this long, I saw something in the distance amidst the downpour.

"Ah..."

I knew what that phenomenon was.

They had destroyed warp gates all over the battlefield.

Now, there was only one left.

No, it was already over.

Only a single warp gate remained.

Then, when that happened...

The gate crisis would end.

Although the gate crisis would be over, they still had to face what came out of it.

Rumble!

The last remaining gate ceased to spew monsters and instead grew larger.

The red hole of the warp gate, now hovering in the sky, expanded like a burning sun.

From there, something appeared.

No.

It poured out.

Thud!

A massive creature fell to the ground from the red hole of the warp gate, which had swelled to its limit.

As the last warp gate remained, after spewing the final monster, the gate vanished.

There had been many monsters in the form of dragons, but none were as massive or as alien as this one.

The final calamity.

A grotesque dragon with a body resembling the projected night sky, adorned with six pairs of enormous wings.

In the original work, it was merely referred to as the final monster, without even a name, but I called it the Dragon from Another World.

It was so massive that, even in the pouring rain, its overwhelming presence could be seen from anywhere.

Roar!

Rumble!

With a deafening sound that could shatter the world,

The Dragon from Another World roared.

Now, the gate crisis was over.

If they could somehow deal with the Dragon from Another World, they could all move on to the next matters.

The Dragon from Another World opened its maw towards the world.

And then.

Whoosh!

From its gaping maw, it unleashed a void.

There was no explosion.

Simply, as the void passed by,

The world was erased.

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The unexpected appearance of the final monster.

The irrational violence it unleashed left the battlefield feeling cold.

Hiss

In the midst of the downpour, everyone could see the alien, pitch-black mass from afar.

The sudden appearance of the grotesque mass.

And the pitch-black breath that wiped away everything it touched.

Whoosh! Thud!

With each breath the mass released from its gaping maw, there was no impact, no explosion, no blast.

Things simply vanished.

"What is... What is that...?"

Harriet, at the rear of the battlefield, stared in horror at the irrational destruction caused by the sudden appearance of something.

Cliffman, who had just finished off the last Immortal around them, and Liana were no different.

Many mages were already hurling magic at the dangerous-looking figure.

But their attacks passed through it.

Lightning, fire, and explosions.

It was as if they could not even reach the night-like figure.

The flashes from the magic spells could not reach it either, they simply pierced through it and exploded behind it.

It had form, but not substance.

Perhaps it was an ethereal enemy.

That's why Harriet unleashed a powerful light imbued with the power of exorcism, but even that merely passed through it.

Though they couldn't see it clearly, it was a monster using a power completely different from any they had faced before.

"What... is it?"

Monsters were diverse.

There were monsters immune to fire, and monsters immune to magic.

But this one exhaled a breath that erased everything it touched and effortlessly deflected all attacks.

As if it existed in a place unrelated to the principles of the world.

Harriet widened her field of vision to observe the creature more closely.

Even upon closer inspection, its form was incomprehensible.

And she clearly saw it repelling all the magic being cast upon it.

The projection from the otherworldly dragon's body was similar to the projection of the void sword held by Ellen.

If the void sword Lament could sever everything it touched with its blade of night.

Then that creature could do what the void sword Lament did on a larger scale.

That was why Harriet had no choice but to realize what power Ellen's sword possessed in reverse.

The void sword didn't merely cut everything it touched.

It erased everything it touched.

They had merely mistaken the thinly spread void blade for cutting things away.

That creature could realize what the void sword did by spewing its breath.

A dragon with the form of the night.

Therefore, it was untouchable by the principles that existed in the world.

But it could destroy the world.

How could something like that exist?

How were they supposed to kill it?

The moment Cliffman awoke to the path of the Master Class and overcame the crisis of the Immortals' assault, that creature appeared.

It felt as if, at the very last moment, all that they had done had been rendered meaningless.

As if it had appeared to mock the entire world.

-Zzzzzzap!

Then, in front of the creature, a crack in space formed, revealing another massive figure.

A titan, a colossal weapon that could rival the size of the overwhelming dragon.

In the brief moment it had left the battlefield and recharged minimally, the titan appeared, ready to do anything to stand against despair.

-Hwoong!

This time, the creature swung its tail instead of its breath.

And the titan's waist vanished.

Not destroyed, but the part of its trajectory where the dragon's tail touched disappeared.

The morale that had been holding the allied forces together up to this point crumbled as the titan fell apart.

Even though not everyone could properly see the spectacle, they could hear the titan collapsing and feel the vibrations.

That tremendous tremor was the despair felt by all the members of the allied forces.

"How… what… how are we supposed to…?"

The Immortals had disappeared.

And reappeared.

The titan had been deployed.

What difference did it make in the end?

With a creature like that appearing at the very last moment.

What were they supposed to do?

Were all these events.

In truth.

Unending?

Liana and Harriet both felt a sense of emptiness beyond despair.

-Swoooosh!

Rain continued to fall.