"Roar!!!"
Gelmud's hoarse shout made the Orc Disaster let out a deafening bellow.
He swung his sharp axe, slashing repeatedly at Souka, but the girl blocked every strike.
Despite the vast difference in their sizes, Souka felt no pressure at all.
"Crack!"
After defending for a while, Souka seized a gap in the Orc Disaster's attack and gathered a thunder spear in her palm.
"Boom!"
"What?!"
Watching the Orc Disaster get blasted away by Souka's single strike, Gelmud's eyes bulged in fury.
"Impossible!"
"This can't be!"
"That's the Orc Disaster!"
A legendary species that only emerges once every few centuries... how could it be defeated by some nobody who popped out of nowhere!
'Is this really my power?'
As for Souka, the girl stared at her own hand in disbelief.
She hadn't even used a tenth of her strength in the fight against the Orc Disaster.
Even that last strike could barely be called a basic attack.
Yet the legendary Orc Disaster couldn't withstand her casual blow!
'Is it because of the special skill Magicule Solidification?'
Souka thought of the skill inherited from Damien: 'The greater the magicules, the higher the physical reinforcement.'
[Souka]
Base Magicules: 400,000 EP
[Orc Disaster]
Magicules: 250,000 EP
There was already a gap in their magicule amounts.
Without the boost from Magicule Solidification, Souka's strength in her dragonoid form should have been inferior to the Orc Disaster's.
It was an absolute disparity due to size, unavoidable even for monsters.
To truly crush the Orc Disaster, Souka would need to fully dragonize, unleashing absolute violence in her Dragon Lord form.
But with the Magicule Solidification skill, everything changed.
The Orc Disaster's 250,000 magicules, when used for physical reinforcement, amounted to at most 20-30%, or about 50,000 to 70,000.
As for Souka in her dragonoid form.
Normally, out of 400,000 magicules, only 20,000 to 30,000 would go toward physical reinforcement at best.
But now, those 400,000 magicules could be fully converted into physical strength while also extracting corresponding magical power.
And upon dragonizing, it would scale proportionally, becoming even more powerful.
'400,000 versus 50,000 or 60,000.'
'Is this the power Lord Damien bestowed upon me?'
Even without using her unique skills, just relying on her raw physical might, Souka was confident she could defeat the Orc Disaster before her!
"To think she'd be... this strong..."
On the ground, Gabiru... kept alive by a thread of magical power... witnessed it all firsthand.
The Orc Disaster he couldn't budge even with his full effort was being torn apart and slashed like a rag doll in his sister's hands.
"No, no, no."
"How can this be? Why is this happening?!"
"Orc Disaster, you worthless trash, what are you doing?"
"Hurry up and eat her! Eat her!!"
Gelmud clutched his head, unable to accept the scene before him, raging impotently and blaming the failure on the Orc Disaster.
"Shut up!"
Annoyed by the incessant chatter overhead, killing intent flashed in Shion's eyes as she swung her blade at the airborne Gelmud.
The invisible air blade, compressed with magical power, expanded into a hundred-meter-long slash, hurtling toward Gelmud at astonishing speed.
"Aaaah!!"
Gelmud screamed in terror. He tried to dodge, but the slash grew in flight, its overwhelming magical power leaving no room to escape.
"Boom!!"
The majin was cleaved in two, his body plummeting like a tattered sack into the midst of the orc army.
Then...
"No, don't!"
"Help! Ah!! Save me~~"
"Crunch Crunch~"
Without hesitation, the orcs pounced on Gelmud's dying remains, gnawing him alive to death under his horrified gaze.
"Roar!!!"
As the orcs devoured Gelmud, a massive influx of magicules flowed into the Orc Disaster through the power of Starved.
Moreover, perhaps because he had consumed his own namer...
The Orc Disaster's magicules underwent a peculiar change.
"Hm?"
Rimuru, who had also arrived at the battlefield and was observing from afar, quickly noticed it: "Why has that guy's magical aura changed?"
[Report: The Orc Disaster, by devouring the majin Gelmud's flesh, has triggered a low-probability event and acquired the unique skill 'Kin Devourer']
[Kin Devourer]
Description: Devouring the flesh of one's kin is a taboo of this world, unforgivable by all.
Using this skill greatly amplifies magicules but invokes the taboo, causing loss of reason and transformation into a puppet controlled by appetite.
"Ugh!"
Rimuru blinked, feeling a chill run down his spine: "This unique skill feels downright terrifying!"
Combined with the earlier [Starved], that uncontrollable hunger...
Rimuru didn't even want to imagine how miserable the Orc Disaster would become.
"This guy..."
Souka eyed the Orc Disaster emanating an eerie aura, instinctively retreating several steps: "He actually ate his own namer!"
To named monsters, a namer is akin to a second parent.
The orcs under the Orc Disaster's command devouring Gelmud made Souka feel physically ill.
For Souka, harming Damien was unthinkable.
Even the mere idea filled her with deep-seated revulsion.
Let alone killing him or devouring him.
If she ever did such a thing, the backlash would strike her first.
Betrayal could cause a monster to lose all power at best, or shatter their soul and lead to total annihilation at worst.
Yet the Orc Disaster?
"This guy's magicules have increased so much?"
In Souka's senses, the Orc Disaster's magicules had surged from the original 250,000 to 400,000.
The astonishing growth was simply horrifying!
"Well, this guy's done for."
Rimuru wasn't particularly surprised. According to the Great Sage's analysis, the Orc Disaster's life was already in its final countdown.
This was evident from his disintegrating body.
Not only that, but even the Orc Disaster's soul had developed fine cracks from devouring Gelmud.
If not for the support of the Kin Devourer skill, he wouldn't last much longer.
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