The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

I gestured behind my back as I watched Agistream exude madness-filled anger while emitting a vast amount of black magic power.

Far away, Abassael, who was hiding and planning to subdue Frost with a surprise attack according to my plan, saw my gesture, nodded his head, and moved.

Fortunately, Abassael was not exposed to the enemy, so we decided to go with the backup plan 5-3.

Precia seemed to be almost done with her battle against the Death Knights, but it looked like it would take a while for Jade to subdue the enemy apostle.

By the way, which apostle came that the magic distortion is so severe?

It was not clearly visible with Eunha’s optical observation, Navi and Rami’s fluid measurement, or Biam’s heat detection.

Well, Jade will handle it well on his own.

Just in case, I sent Silua too.

“Hmm, they say all roads lead to Rome, but I didn’t expect the rat bastard to come out directly.”

My original plan was to take Vermilion hostage near the center and threaten him to come out.

But with Vermilion directly embodying a miracle in his body, he crawled out on his own.

I felt uneasy about entering the den of a guy who had half become Agistream’s puppet, so this worked out well.

Hearing my words, Vermilion snickered.

“Pfft! Rat bastard, what a fitting title.”

“Hahaha! Right? He kind of looks like a rat bastard too.”

“Ahahaha! If he grows a mustache, it would be perfect, right?”

At the conversation between Vermilion and me, the rat bastard, no, the 6th Apostle Agistream’s face turned bright red.

“You…! I’ve been tolerating you insect-like bastards until now! How dare you!”

I raised my middle finger at him and let out a sneer.

“Yeah, don’t talk nonsense. Tolerate what? You just lacked the capacity, you incompetent bastard.”

The technique of the Demonic Body Ritual itself was not that difficult.

However, because the scale was huge and a massive amount of black magic power was injected, it was difficult for the overseer of the ritual to control the magic power.

For that reason, the Demonic Body Ritual boasted a difficulty that was among the top of black magic rituals.

But having multiple black magicians oversee the ritual risked the ritual going awry even with slight dissonance.

Therefore, the overseer of the ritual had to be at least an 8th-tier magician, around the level of a Supreme.

“And while you’re emitting a tremendous amount of black magic power and standing with your head held high as if you’re great, isn’t it already a struggle just to stand there?”

If he had been at the center of the ritual, he would have had some leeway.

But the guy who let his guard down after seeing Vermilion and me made the worst move of coming out on his own.

To my sarcastic question, Agistream gritted his teeth and laughed.

“Ehihihihi! Who do you take me for? I’ve finished most of the preparations, so I can handle a hundred greenhorns like you with ease!”

Seeing how arrogant he was, it seemed he had not yet sensed Abassael.

Well, in a place with such turbulent magic flow, it was nearly impossible to find a high-ranking magician who had purposely hidden his magic power.

“Then shall we test if that’s possible?”

At my glance, Vermilion nodded and took the lead, raising his sword.

“What should I do?”

To Vermilion’s question, I smiled brightly and answered.

“I’ll support you as much as I can, so don’t worry and kill that guy. I’ll try to kill him in my own way while supporting you.”

“Ahahaha! I like that plan! Let’s have some fun!”

Vermilion wrapped his entire body with golden magic power and charged at Agistream.

“Uhuhuh! I’ll subdue you so that your body won’t be damaged any further, but in the most painful way possible!”

Agistream raised his magic staff while drawing up his magic power.

“Come! My servants! Repel my enemies! Show me that petty thing called justice!”

Agistream summoned the troops he controlled, befitting a spiritual black magician.

Among them were children and women with no combat power at all.

“This bastard!”

“Ignore them and charge!”

I shouted at the enraged Vermilion and drew up as much magic power as possible.

My magic power quantity was at the level of having completed the development of the main vein of the magic circuit and just starting to develop the tertiary vein, so it was insignificant compared to the high-ranking magician in front of me.

However, I had a way to surpass that gap, even if only briefly.

“Rami, Biam.”

I injected magic power into Rami, the spirit of water, and created dozens of water spears in the air.

Then, Biam, the spirit of fire, absorbed the heat from the water spears, converted it into magic power, and returned it to me.

The water deprived of heat instantly turned into solid ice spears.

Using the magic power supplied through Biam, I created water spears again and absorbed the heat to freeze them.

Basic Spirit Art!

Water and Fire Duet!

Hail Barrage!

I created an ice spear bombardment using the magic power endlessly circulating around my body.

Those who were merely being controlled without combat power were trapped in the ice spear prison I created and couldn’t move properly.

On the other hand, those with some combat power tried to clear the ice spears in their own ways.

However…

Basic Spirit Art!

Water and Fire Duet!

Ice Chains!

The melted ice spears turned into water chains, binding their bodies, and then froze again to immobilize them.

If it were an ordinary magic, I would have felt some magic power being consumed, but now I didn’t feel that way at all.

I really have been using spirit arts wrong all this time.

Agistream kept summoning the troops he controlled, but those troops were blocked by me before they could even reach Vermilion.

“What’s wrong? You’re mediocre! Not summoning stronger ones? Ah! If you summon them now, the ones you control will break free from your control? You won’t be able to handle it?”

“You! This guy!”

Agistream trembled, seemingly hit where it hurt by my mockery.

It seemed he had consumed a lot of resources for the Demonic Body Ritual, more than I expected.

“Where are you looking?!”

Vermilion slashed Agistream. Agistream hastily put up a defensive barrier and tried to fly up into the sky to return to the center of the ritual.

“Oops! Where are you running?!”

I specially threw dozens of ice spears wrapped with powerful lightning, aiming at Agistream.

Bang-! Crack!

My ice spears shattered Agistream’s defensive barrier and scattered intense cold.

Agistream, whose entire body was covered in frost and frozen by the cold, was shocked.

“Ugh! How does that young kid have this much magic power?!”

My magic power quantity may be low, but my density was higher than Jade, one of the Four Sages, and even decent dragons.

If we only consider the quality of magic power, it could be said to be on par with the Dragon Lord Bahamut and Yekatrice, the former Sage of the Winter Tree.

Thanks to that, there were only a very few people in this world who could defeat me in a simple power struggle.

So there was no way a guy whose attention was diverted elsewhere could block it.

Of course, because of that, it was difficult to increase my magic capacity, so a prolonged battle was not feasible.

Fortunately, it could be somewhat covered by Cozette’s compassion and spirit arts.

“Die along with that shitty ritual of yours!”

If he tried to escape upward, my spirit arts would pursue him, and if he went down, Vermilion’s sword force would assault him.

In just a little while, even Precia, who had finished dealing with the Death Knights, would arrive.

But far from subduing us before that, he was pushed into a defensive position, so the Demonic Body Ritual that Agistream had eagerly tried to complete was already in a state of collapse.

“Puhuhuh… Ahahaha!”

Agistream, who had been blocking and dodging my spirit arts and Vermilion’s sword while receiving injuries, suddenly couldn’t hold back his laughter as his body trembled.

“I admit it. I lost. The ritual I prepared for so long has failed. It’s ridiculous. To think all those efforts would collapse so easily.”

As soon as Agistream finished speaking, goosebumps began to rise all over my body.

As he released his control over the black magic power enveloping the city, which he had been holding for the Demonic Body Ritual, the black magic power in all directions began to fluctuate on a different level than before.

“Very, very very very!! It’s annoying, but! Fine, Vermilion, you tried to save this city for that petty justice you wanted to protect, right?”

His eyes glittered with the light of madness.

“Then I will kill your friends along with this entire city and subdue you to perform the ritual again somewhere else! I will no longer respect your self-consciousness!”

Agistream declared as such and raised his magic staff high.

“Come! Submit before me! O power! All the demons that have descended upon this land!”

The black magic power prepared for the Demonic Body Ritual and the life force of all the people in the city who had lost consciousness began to gather towards Agistream.

Vermilion was shocked by that sight.

And I…

“I’ve been waiting for this! May the sacred flames purify and incinerate evil! O holy chariot of fire!”

I raised the magic technique device high and activated the technique I had stored.

In an instant, dozens of layers of magic circles were constructed as functions, and a beam of magic light was shot high into the sky.

The light containing magic that rose high into the sky spread out in all directions, triggering the ‘insurance’ that Abassael had set up.

Whoosh-!

A pillar of sacred fire erupted, surrounding the city, and began to burn the city, following the flow of black magic power.

The flames created by extracting divine power using top-grade holy water as a medium incinerated the wicked magic power and inanimate objects.

At the same time, lush vegetation began to grow in the places the flames had passed.

The rapidly spreading flames purified and healed those who had lost consciousness and were lying down.

Instead, the city was burning and disappearing.

If it had been discovered before the ritual began, it might have been different, but with the Demonic Body Ritual already half-activated, this city was destined to be designated as a disaster area contaminated by black magic power anyway.

Rather, it could be said that we saved on demolition costs.

“Hmm, not bad.”

I cracked my neck and looked at Agistream, who was rising high into the sky.

“Aaaaaargh-!!”

The sacred flames quickly spread along the black magic power and scattered divine power, so Agistream, who was gathering all the black magic power of the city, screamed in pain.

If it had been according to the original Demonic Body Ritual, the black magic power and divine power wouldn’t have gathered to the center this quickly because they would have passed through several zones.

However, Agistream cherished the vast amount of black magic power he had gathered for the ritual and tried to gather it to himself, so he was directly hit by the divine power before he could even block it.

“It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!! Aaaaargh-! I, I’ll kill you! How dare you! How dare you!”

It was already an act of gathering a vast amount of black magic power into his own body.

In that state, with opposing forces exploding and repelling each other inside his body, his magic circuits would overheat and rupture, and his entire body would be corroded.

“Ahahaha! Try it, you moron!”

I laughed cheerfully and raised my middle finger.

“You, you, you ba, stard!!”

Agistream was one of the few Supreme Mages even in the Dawn Star Cult.

If we attacked now, he would surely use that attack to sever the flow of divine power and manage the magic power.

He was such a great magician.

So I leisurely waited for him to bring about his own destruction.

At that moment, something fast flew from far away and directly hit Agistream’s abdomen.

That was…

“…Magic bullet?”

I looked in surprise at the direction the magic bullet had flown from.

It was the direction where Jade was fighting the apostle of the Dawn Star Cult.

There, a blue-tinted white-haired woman wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and smiled, saying something.

‘This should be helpful enough.’

That was what her lip movements said.

“Ah! Aah! Aaah! It’s more than helpful! Ahletan!”

9th Apostle Ahletan?!

One of the top three monsters in terms of power in the Dawn Star Cult was here?!

No, since this was before the birth of the Hell Sorcerer, she was the undisputed second in power.

Such a person left the city without looking back, as if running away.

“Jade! Yard! Silua! Are you safe?!”

When I shouted into the communication magic tool that I had not been using for the sake of secrecy, Yard and Silua contacted me.

-Ah, Mr. Yuan. Mr. Jade was slightly injured but is safe. If it weren’t for Ms. Silua’s aerial weapon and Mr. Yuan’s insurance, we might have died today.

-Oppa! I used up all the magic stones I put in the Doll’s Castle! I don’t think I can provide support.

Oh no, Silua’s ‘Doll’s Castle’ wasn’t deployed with the assumption of fighting Ahletan.

It was for the case when Agistream might overcome my insurance.

It was just a story with a low possibility, so I had sent her to help Jade first.

“Oh no, this is bad.”

Agistream was severely injured but was quickly separating and managing the divine power and black magic power.

“Ahahaha! Almighty Lucifer, save me with the light of the dawn star shining in eternal darkness!”

The 6th Apostle, who had succeeded in filtering out the divine power in an instant, spat blood and prayed to the Demon King of Pride.

A faction of lust, yet they still pray to the Demon King of Pride since they’re the Dawn Star Cult.

By the way, should I have gone with the backup plan 6-2 instead of 5-3?

No, it’s fine.

It may be a bit difficult, but it’s not like there are no moves left. First…

“It’s okay.”

Vermilion’s voice cut off my thoughts.

“It was a problem that started with me in the first place, so I should be the one to finish it.”

In his seemingly relaxed smile, I felt a firm will and a sense of liberation as if he had attained enlightenment.

And I realized that the magic power he was drawing out was not ordinary.

I saw the divine power that had lost its way when Agistream severed it heading towards Vermilion’s body.

And the decay that had seemed to have progressed once after drawing out a miracle and stopping began to visibly advance rapidly again.

“This place shall be my final battlefield.”

The golden aura rising from his entire body gushed out as if exploding, illuminating the surroundings.

“There is only one path I must walk.”

And on his sword, a brilliant belief began to dwell.

The image hanging from the tip of his raised sword stretched upward and instantly pushed away the rain clouds that filled the sky.

The dawn light splitting the clear, bluish purple sky illuminated the path before him.

“Manifestation of the Heart’s Image, the Hero’s Path.”

It was truly a hero’s path filled with miracles.