How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord: Volume 13 by Yukiya Murasaki

Author:Yukiya Murasaki [MURASAKI, YUKIYA]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4: Magimatic Castle Viovix

Diablo didn’t immediately understand what Aira meant. This rumbling, that felt like rolling thunder, like an earthquake, was actually footsteps? Was this some kind of metaphor? Diablo thought to demand an explanation, but then he saw something impossible in the edge of his field of vision.

A castle, floating in the sky.

“...What...?”

“What’s that?!” Horn asked, pointing up at it.

Outside, beyond the castle’s spires, a black shadow floated in the heavens. Its silhouette definitely was that of a castle. Structures seemed to extend in all directions from within the castle. It was too big for Diablo to fully perceive its full size.

Diablo had only experienced something like this once before, back when he was playing the game. There was a special story involving a Legend Dragon. The players would arrive on a deserted island, and the twist was that the island’s surface itself was actually the Dragon’s back. It was a special boss battle in the game where one needed to keep their balance while fighting the dragon at the same time.

But this world had no concept of balance adjustment. And if that castle in the sky belonged to the Empire of Gelmed, it was an enemy they must defeat.

“Hey! Is that an Imperial castle?! Answer me!” Diablo pressed on Aira.

“...Yes. That castle belongs to Emperor Gelmed. The Magimatic Castle, Viovix.”

A Magimatic Castle?

Looking at it again, Diablo noticed the structures expanding from the castle were moving ever so slowly. They were as large as the ridges of a mountain, and moved as they tore into the clouds.

“Are those... legs?”

Those legs were as large as walls, but they had to be to support the castle’s considerable weight. The legs rose slowly, and with each time they landed back on the ground, they caused a massive tremor.

Aira was right. These were footsteps.

“...A fearsome presence is hanging over this place,” Lumachina said fearfully.

“Mm?”

Diablo couldn’t sense any mana in the vicinity, but... Looking up, he did see dark clouds brewing. He remembered this. During the last battle, magic was used to project an image into the clouds. Once again, the image of a wrinkled old man surfaced in the sky.

“Ooooh...”

A rumbling moaning could be heard from above.

“E-Emperor... Gelmed...” Aira flinched.

So that was the Emperor, after all...

“Ooooh... The Girl of the Vessel...!”

The image turned solid. Like a flying 3D image, the Emperor’s face swooped down on them. And below the Emperor’s face was what looked like a black serpent’s torso. Diablo though it was just an image, but Aira moaned in fear.

“Emperor Gelmed sent a Shadow after us already...?!”

Diablo didn’t know any method of transforming into anything like that or any monster like it.

Is this some kind of magic?!

“Lord Diablo!” Lumachina raised her voice with uncharacteristic harshness. “You mustn’t look away from that!”

“I know!”

He actually didn’t know at all. Up until now, the things he knew from Cross Reverie seemed to apply in this world, and because of that, when Diablo was faced with an unfamiliar enemy he always had to stop and observe it.

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