Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I'm Not the Demon Lord Act 4 [Complete] by Satori Tanabata

Author:Satori Tanabata
Language: eng
Format: epub

Interlude 2: Patrick (Part 1)

Roughly an entire day had passed since Yumiella, the lord of the Dolkness estate, had departed. It was late autumn, and winter was nearing. Without any care for the night’s cold, Patrick was standing outside and looking up at the moon shining in the night sky.

“I really thought she’d be home by today...” he murmured.

Yumiella had spouted some nonsense about going to the moon and had flown off on her dragon Ryuu’s back, and Patrick had chased after them using magic to create a gale that bore him aloft into the sky. He still had a fear of heights, so he always preferred to stay away from flying high up in the air, even under the power of his own magic.

However, he was worried for Yumiella, and he was also just a bit nervous that she might actually go to the moon and never come back—though, most of his concerns were for the inevitable damage that Yumiella would cause to the area when she crash-landed, as well as whatever difficult things she might say when she finally returned.

“I wouldn’t put it past her to say something like, ‘Why didn’t you run after me? Are you really okay with me leaving?’...”

His various complicated feelings had resulted in him running after her, but he hadn’t been strong enough to actually reach Yumiella. He had been able to stop Ryuu, but Yumiella had continued to ascend on her own.

Right below the ascension limit of dragons, who were masters of the sky, the air was incredibly thin, to the point it was difficult for a human to breathe. Patrick’s magic, which manipulated wind—in other words, air—wasn’t as effective at that altitude.

In order to get any higher than he’d managed, he would have required pure power. Patrick had considered that if he was a high level fire mage, he might’ve been able to fly higher (although a lack of oxygen would weaken flames as well). He unfortunately had no aptitude for fire magic, and he was capable only of producing a flame no larger than a candle’s—it wasn’t his fault for not understanding how fire magic worked.

“Maybe I should’ve just kept going without thinking about the consequences...” he sighed.

Though he wasn’t able to use his wind magic at that altitude, he still had another method that he might have used to follow after her. He could have shot out pure magical energy to boost his body upwards, just as Yumiella had done. It looked similar to the manner in which high ranking fire mages flew, but the mechanics were completely different. It was an incredibly, exceedingly inefficient method of locomotion.

Humans moved by expanding and contracting their muscles, and their bodies delivered the necessary energy to do so through the bloodstream. If standard elemental magic was like pumping your leg muscles to run, then flying using pure magical energy like Yumiella had done was equivalent to opening a vein and shooting blood out to propel yourself forward. It wasn’t something most magic users would even consider, and it was a method that was by most metrics the height of nonsense.

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