That he had to fight against those monstrous people…
In a literal frantic mood, Halt fled from his pursuers.
(I was careless since nothing bad’s happened recently~!)
Dashing through forests and plains, he finally reached the wilderness.
No, it wasn’t even a wilderness.
It was a place where no living things existed at all. In its center was a crater of gargantuan proportions.
Of the place where the imperial capital once stood, this was all that was left. Of the three million inhabitants that lived there, this was all that was left.
As he tried to escape from there, he realized that he wasn’t be able to.
They got here before him. No, maybe they were pushing him here from the start?
There was a magical barrier. He couldn’t even teleport and immediately knew who made it from just how strong it was.
“Azel, Al-san too…?”
Both were called Great Sages, the strongest mages in the continent.
And as for who was approaching him from behind…
“Halt, there’s no use in trying to run anymore.”
Shana. A scarlet-haired mage that used the strongest destruction magic.
“Well, you went a bit too far.”
Longsword in hand, a giant stood as though to protect her.
Thor. Likely the strongest swordsman in the continent.
A hint of sadness was mixed into his expression.
“Thor-san…”
An existence that came from the same world as Halt, he was once called a hero.
However, right now, he was an enemy. To destroy the work, or to stop it just beforehand?
They had ended up choosing different paths.
“Hey, don’t you want to start the Millennium now? The circulation of souls will, in the end, save this world from ruin. Don’t you understand that?”
Thor was the only one to still be so naive.
Defeating the former Demon King together with him, Azel and Shana had none of that naivety left. Towards Halt Arisugawa, that is.
“Trying to persuade him won’t help.”
The person to appear from the depths was Black Cat’s leader.
Yamato. However, a very limited number of people knew the man’s real name.
“Shifaka-san…”
The strongest of the strong. Halt couldn’t win against him in any way. He was the strongest man in the continent.
Saint Emperor Ryuke Shifaka.
Living for more than three thousand years, he was an existence that surpassed even a dragon.
“Killing you will spur the demon tribe into action, ringing the opening bell to the Millennium. There is no other way to save this world.”
Halt’s mana surged, despite knowing that he definitely held no chance against this many opponents.
“While we went through the same thousand years, even though I failed countless times, I’ve been searching for a future.”
The number of lives sacrificed didn’t stop in the thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands. All of those deaths were due to the Demon King.
However, he still believed in a possible outcome.
An outcome for the Great Collapse and for the world to make its way past its ruin.
“Preventing teleportation and summoning… will be the reason all of you lost.”
In that moment, Halt was unlike his usual self—the look in his eyes was unbelievably cold.
“Summon, Demon King Machine God [Demon’s Bane].”
A giant summoning formation appeared in the sky above them.
No one there was so unintuitive as to be unable to feel how dangerous it was.
“Come, Humanoid Fighting Weapon [Evangelion].”
A golem that exceeded fifty meters in height. However, its true wasn’t obvious from its appearance.
“That’s… no way…”
Only Thor—someone from another world—Toru Hakamada, knew that it was something impossible.
Halt opened the golem’s chest and entered into the red crystal on its body.
Horned like a devil, its humanoid body was jet-black with two daggers in its hands.
“While you all desperately maneuvered behind the scenes to keep the balance of this world’s humans, I’ve been believing solely in the possibility of having a future.”
Halt’s voice boomed.
“That crystal, it’s…?”
“Are you serious…?”
“Thor, what is that thing?”
Shifaka was the only one calm, even in a situation like this. However, that calmness didn’t stem from courage, but from indifference to everything.
“That is the power of science. Moreover, it likely uses the power of magic as well…”
Thor knew. He knew just how dangerous it was.
“It isn’t a golem. It’s a weapon for the endgame.”
“Really.”
Shifaka drew his sword. A divine sword. It had killed a god, so it was a true divine sword.
There was no loser.
However, the Black Cats withdrew.
Shifaka made the call to withdraw before they started losing people.
In other words—
The one to win… was the Demon King.
The heck.
The heck kind of people are they.
Really, those people, what were they thinking?
Even though I was trying so hard to go and make an entrance with a bang for a final battle all like, “This is my decisive tactical-grade humanoid weapon!”
If they gang up on me in a five on one like that, even I wouldn’t have the luxury of holding back!
It’s good they fell back after getting tricked by my bluff, but my secret weapon took damage!
Stuff like Thermonuclear Darkness Exploding Hell and Meteor Shower… come on, give me a break! [1]
Ahh, the armor’s all bent out of shape and the magic formation is crumbling in a few places. Those foremen are going to be angry… or maybe they’ll be happy to have more work? Those people are work junkies after all.
Well, it wasn’t all bad. Even if I worked it out in advance, I was able to measure its operating time limit in actual combat.