Magicless Extra: The Villain’s Survival Method

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟔𝟑: 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐠𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 (6)

“Are you ready?”

“Please do. And please take care of it.”

“No problem!”

“May the divine grace of the gods be upon us. . . . . . “

Flanked by the red-haired Estell and the black-haired Donado, Oswald transformed the Blood Daemon.

Moments later, what appeared was a gigantic ICBM and the launchpad to support and launch such a missile.

In the past, creating something like this would have drained him of an unimaginable amount of blood. . . however, after obtaining the ‘Heart of the Giant’ and surpassing level 100 in physical level, he was able to create it without using any potions and with only a small amount of blood loss.

‘𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥.’

To think that he could accomplish so much with so little blood. . . It was clear that the Giants were a different breed.

Meanwhile, Saint Donado, who was watching over Oswald, had a slightly surprised expression on his face.

Oswald possessed something that was both human and not human. He had no magic power to speak of, but there was a sense of dangerousness that made it difficult to take him lightly.

But just now, he felt twenty people’s worth of life force drain away. Even though twenty people’s worth of life force had been drained from just one person, Oswald was perfectly fine.

‘𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. . . 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘐𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘥?’

As Donado was thinking this, Oswald’s life force began to surge through the blood vessels into the missile warhead. It was the task of creating a 10,000-kiloton nuclear warhead. The sheer amount of blood that was being drained was beginning to take its toll on Oswald.

Gradually, the mass of life force increased from 100 to 1,000. It was only when he had consumed about 10,000 life force that Oswald finally began to feel the strain on his body.

‘𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵? 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵. . . 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘎𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘳?’

However, he had yet to reach the level of his previous tactical nuclear weapon. Normally, he would have been on the verge of death with such an emaciated face. . . but his transformed body was able to withstand even this.

“I ask of you now. . . . . . “

At Oswald’s words, the Saint and the Saintess raised their hands and cast the divine spell ‘Heal’. It was just a simple healing spell. . . but because it was ‘Heal’ cast with pure holy power, Oswald was able to enjoy the same effect as if he were consuming holy water. And even. . . . . .

‘𝘔𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨. . . . . .’

Thanks to their overflowing healing abilities, the holy power that filled his body found its way to the Drake Heart on Oswald’s left side and settled in.

Next, Oswald accelerated and extracted the life force of 100,000 people in an instant. It was the same power he had used to create the previous tactical nuclear weapon.

And yet, Oswald continued to extract life force with an unchanged expression. . . . . .

“Here they come!”

At that moment, chaos garuda demons swarmed towards the place where they were. They ignored all the attacks that were trying to stop them and flew straight towards Oswald.

Then, the Crusaders of the Eight Great Guardian Hymns, the Golden Lion Knights, the White Dragon Knights, the Black Dragon Knights, the Knights of Judgment, and the Gray Magic Corps came out and began to intercept them.

Oswald, who had now extracted the life force of 500,000 people. . . . . .

Even with the Heart of the Giant, it was impossible for him to not feel the strain at this point. That’s why he absorbed more and more of the holy power emitted by the Saint and the Saintess to restore his body.

‘𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯. . . . . .’

Oswald was starting to feel pain all over his body. The rapid repetition of life force depletion and recovery was putting a strain on his body.

If he hadn’t obtained the ‘Giant’s Muscles’, if he hadn’t had ‘Drake Skin’, and if he hadn’t plated his bones with ‘Adamantium’, his body would have collapsed long ago.

Oswald, who had already extracted 700,000 people’s worth of life force. . . Despite receiving the Heal magic from the saint and the saintess, his face turned pale and his eyes became bloodshot.

Even if he had been bleeding from his nose by now, there was nothing to come out because Blood Daemon was sucking it all up.

‘𝘐. . . 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.’

Oswald immediately created additional potion injectors. The Imperial soldiers who were waiting behind him began to equip the potions to the created injectors.

100 bottles of potion were equipped at once, and soon 100 bottles of potion were simultaneously drained and sucked into Oswald’s body.

At that moment, a chaos demon broke through the guards’ line and reached right in front of Oswald’s nose. The soldiers fired their guns at the demon, but. . . it was no use.

【You bastard!! 】

As a magic circle formed in the demon’s two hands and a blue lightning bolt was about to be emitted, Gilgamesh, who was wearing the same demon hunter outfit as Oswald, jumped up from the ground in one breath.

Gilgamesh swung his greatsword, which was wrapped in the Aura Blade.

Shuuaak!

The Aura Blade deflected the garuda demon’s magic and severed both of the demon’s arms in one stroke.

Puhaaaak!

【Kuaaaak! 】

The garuda demon staggered back, its arms half severed. Gilgamesh then created a ‘Blade Ring’ and sent it flying towards the garuda demon.

The ring made of Aura Blades spun violently and attacked the garuda demon as it retreated, and although the demon twisted its body to avoid it, it was not able to avoid it completely and one of its wings was severed.

The garuda demon fell to the ground because of this.

Gilgamesh quickly approached the demon and thrust his greatsword into its chest, then twisted it and lifted it up as if to push it towards its head.

Puhaaaak!

The demon, which had been split in half from its chin to its crown in one breath, turned to dust and disappeared.

But this was just the beginning.

The overwhelming number of demons that were swarming in were too much for the guards to handle, and as a result, the number of demons approaching Gilgamesh began to increase.

Among them were even baron-class demons, which made it a life-or-death situation for Gilgamesh.

Finally, when 1 million life force had been drained. . . Oswald gritted his teeth to keep his fading consciousness and began targeting.

He contacted the people on the front lines through the communicator, and those who received the contact used the sight-sharing artifact to assist Oswald’s targeting.

Soon, red targeting lines began to move along with Oswald’s gaze. The target was the outskirts of the city. The reason for this was that if he dropped it there, he would be able to annihilate not only the city but also the Chaos Legion that was advancing towards the trench line.

“Uwaaaaah!”

Oswald began firing with a scream that sounded like a battle cry.

The fuel for the launch was also Oswald’s life force, so he squeezed out every last bit of it and consumed 100 life force.

Then, a nuclear missile shot up, spewing red flames. . . . . .

The nuclear missile, which had shot up high into the sky, quickly flew towards its target.

Only then did Oswald collapse.

The fact that he had not lost consciousness like last time was a testament to the fact that his physical abilities had definitely changed.

【It’s coming! 】

‘Cardga’, who had changed his body structure to cast this spell, had created six additional arms. Each of the eight hands was operating a different magic circle, linking the rituals and mixing runes to create magic.

The problem was. . . that an attack with more life force than he had anticipated was coming.

Cardga wondered if he could stop it, but. . . he decided to clash with it for now.

【Immortal Defense! 】

Cardga’s eight hands turned towards the sky, and soon a brilliant defensive barrier of iridescent light mixed with runes began to form over the city and the heads of the Chaos Legion. And then, the results derived through the ‘Eye of Horus’ were. . . . . .

【We’re doomed. 】

It was a complete and utter defeat. He himself would barely survive. . . but the shock of the explosion would collapse the Mirror Dimension where the human absolutes were imprisoned. . . and the beings who survived inside it would kill him.

Soon, the missile’s warhead separated from its body and fell towards the brilliant defensive barrier of iridescent light, and then a red flash erupted and consumed everything around it.

Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Pahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!

The world turned red as if it were a crimson sun.

The sun, which had consumed everything in an instant, soon shattered and emitted intense heat radiation and pressure in all directions.

The buildings and the Chaos forces were blown to smithereens by the heat radiation and pressure, and the Mirror Dimension that was nearby was no exception.

The Mirror Dimension, which seemed to be holding up for a while, was eventually shattered, and Minos and Valerian, who had been trapped inside, immediately escaped from the immense heat and pressure.

【Kuaaaaaaaaaak! 】

Cardga resisted until the very end, emitting demonic power. . . but in the end, he was caught in the explosion.

A gigantic crimson mushroom cloud formed on the outskirts of the city.

A tremendous earthquake shook the entire dungeon, and its power was so great that it even affected those near the gate. It was so powerful that even the Imperial troops stationed on the trench line were wiped out. . . . . .

The explosion subsided. . . and a huge crater formed around the epicenter. In the center of it, Cardga slowly rose, covered in blood.

His body was riddled with wounds. . . his wings were all burned away and all the arms he had created were gone. He was left with only two legs, and even the dungeon’s core seemed to be shattered, as the dungeon could be seen gradually collapsing. . . . . .

He had never imagined that he would receive such a blow for something as trivial as having the Blood Daemon taken away.

‘𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴. . . . . .’

“My, you’ve become quite a rag.”

Valerian, Minos, and Leto had arrived at the center of the crater.

【Kukuku. . . . . . 】

‘Cardga’ laughed as he looked at Valerian, the archwizard who was looking at him with murderous intent.

“Shall we split?”

【The resilience of humanity is indeed remarkable. However, you should know that we have not yet given it our all. Next time, we will harvest your souls. 】

“Yes, next time we will destroy your soul as well.”

Then, Cardga raised his newly grown arm and pulled out the ‘Eye of Horus’, the truth of the mark on his forehead. He then inscribed the runes and magic rituals on it and sent it flying towards the gate.

Shuuaak!

【It is only natural to dispose of those who pose a threat. I wonder if he will be able to keep his sanity even with the Eye of Horus. . . . . . 】

“What are you doing?”

Minos quickly followed the ‘Eye of Horus’, and Valerian prepared to banish Cardga with a spell.

However. . . Cardga grabbed his own heart and squeezed it until it burst.

Cardga, who had died in this way, spewed out demon’s essence. Leto Zagreaus, the champion of Pluto, picked up the demon’s essence.

He looked down at the essence and then turned towards the gate.

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸

Oswald, who had been collecting demon’s essence, suddenly felt a dangerous presence and looked up to see something blue flying towards him at the speed of light.

“Huh?”

Something blue pierced his face. . . to be exact, his right eye. . . . . . A golden flash of light fell down after it, but it was too late and he let out a loud scream.

“No!”

Ting!

[𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 ‘𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐬’ 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡.]

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧.]

[𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡.]

Ting!

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦’𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝.]

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 ‘𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐬’ 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦’𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.]

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦’𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 ‘𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐬’.]

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 ‘𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐬’ 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞.]

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 ‘𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐬’ 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲.]

Ting!

Soon after, a huge number of notifications popped up and the levels of many things in the Status Window went up.

Among them, the notifications that needed to be checked were. . . . . .

[‘𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐰’ 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝.]

[𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 ‘𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝’. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲.]

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐝𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞.]

[𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝟓,𝟎𝟎𝟎𝐏 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬.]

[𝐎𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐝’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲. 𝐇𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐛𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝. 𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐦𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥.]

[𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎𝐏 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬.]