"Hmph, I'll use you all as test subjects for my newly learned magic!" Hearing Takeru call her name, Felt excitedly stepped forward.
"Hehe, necromancy magic? How interesting. But the ones he controls are utterly worthless." Kurome narrowed her eyes at the countless skeletal soldiers surrounding them, her gaze disdainful.
"Do not underestimate them. Even ants can bring down an elephant. Do not capsizing in a ditch." Noticing Kurome's contemptuous expression, Akame calmly reminded her.
"Yes, Nee-san!" Hearing Akame's words, Kurome swiftly suppressed her arrogance and nodded respectfully.
"Hmph, clearing out the small fry? Perfect opportunity to properly test the power of my mana cannon! Those who approach me, I leave to you, Sheele!" Mine, looking around, shouted.
"Rest assured, leave it to me!" Hearing Mine's words, Sheele adjusted her glasses and spoke earnestly.
"Our first battle since becoming stronger. I cannot disgrace Takeru's name." Leone directly activated her transformation. Beyond enhancing her physical attributes, her transformation also significantly increased her mana.
Unfamiliar with magic and swordsmanship, Leone adhered to her consistent style: channeling all her mana into physical enhancement. Thus, each of her punches and kicks possessed tremendous destructive force.
"I shall advance first." Akame spoke, narrowing her eyes. She directly employed Shadow Movement to appear before Adalmann, her long blade aimed at his neck.
Yet at the critical moment, a skeleton clad in armor, wielding a longsword, steadily intercepted Akame's precise strike.
"Though you have become a decayed corpse, you remain a swordsman. Then, I shall completely dispatch you." Looking at the skeletal warrior before her, Akame spoke seriously.
Hearing Akame's words, the skeletal warrior naturally could not respond. Instead, he deflected Akame's blade and rapidly attacked with his longsword.
Akame swiftly parried with her own blade.
"Nee-san, I shall assist you!" Seeing this, Kurome first deployed her Yatsufusa-controlled puppets, then drew a blade identical to Akame's and attacked the skeletal warrior.
As Akame and Kurome engaged the skeletal warrior, the battle officially commenced.
Mine and Felt swiftly joined the fray. Aware of their own limitations, they prudently refrained from targeting Adalmann directly, instead bombarding the surrounding skeletons.
Tsumugi, wielding her greatsword, rapidly cleared the encroaching skeletal forces.
Adalmann, witnessing the battle commence, remained deeply wary of Milim. Yet seeing his summoned minions continuously destroyed, he refused to passively await defeat. He summoned another trump card.
"That is... an Undead Dragon!" The moment the bone dragon emerged, Milim narrowed her eyes, discomforted. Yet she heeded Takeru's admonition and refrained from acting.
Sheele, witnessing the Undead Dragon targeting Mine, who was freely attacking, unhesitatingly raised her Extase and steadfastly intercepted the dragon's charge.
Mine, naturally, had already noticed the Undead Dragon's attack. She redirected her aim and fired two consecutive cannon shells at the dragon, instantly blasting apart one leg and a wing.
Yet the Undead Dragon was an undead being, its soul housed within Adalmann's body. Until that soul was destroyed, any damage it sustained could be regenerated.
Everyone quickly noticed this. Leone voluntarily moved to Sheele's side, jointly restraining the Undead Dragon with her.
Felt, meanwhile, freely unleashed large-scale tornadoes. Wherever they passed, they effortlessly swept skeletal frames into the air. Through continuous collisions and the tornadoes' rending force, countless skeletal warriors shattered and collapsed.
Seeing everyone engaged, Beatrice no longer waited. She slowly walked toward Adalmann.
"I am your opponent? It seems I am bullying a child." Looking at Beatrice, Adalmann spoke slowly.
"Hmph! Betty is not a child! Betty truly dislike you!" Hearing his words, Beatrice pouted angrily.
"Is that so? Relying on no one, what do you intend to do?" Hearing Beatrice's words, Adalmann remained remarkably calm. He gestured, and the skeletal soldiers beside him charged at Beatrice en masse.
"Hmph! Since this is single combat, these distractions are unnecessary. Anti-Magic Attribute Barrier!" Watching the approaching skeletons, Beatrice calmly spread her arms. Mana rapidly formed a barrier that expanded outward from her.
Soon, under Beatrice's control, a barrier over two hundred meters in diameter enveloped Beatrice and Adalmann. Any skeleton that touched the barrier instantly dissipated.
"Thus, no one shall disturb us. And if I defeat you, I destroy the core of this region's defensive system, do I not?" Witnessing her handiwork, Beatrice revealed a faint smile.
"Magnificent magic. Moreover, you have discerned my secret. Young lady, state your name." Hearing her words, Adalmann remarked with admiration.
"I told you, I am not a child! My name is Beatrice. Remember it well, then die!" Hearing his words, Beatrice again spoke calmly.
"Beatrice. Beatrice-dono. Then let us contend fairly. Should you defeat me, I shall obey your will." Unfazed by Beatrice's hostility, Adalmann spoke earnestly.
"Hmph! Betty does not require your obedience!" Hearing his words, Beatrice spoke disdainfully.
"Is that so? Then exert your full strength and defy me!" Hearing Beatrice's words, Adalmann erupted with mana.
"Dissolve all! Corrode all! Corrosive Magic Acid Bullet!" Adalmann initiated his magical assault. Numerous special magic arrays materialized before him, each firing a stream of golden corrosive liquid.
"El Minya!" Facing the rapidly approaching corrosive liquid, Beatrice showed no haste. She casually summoned numerous purple arrows and rapidly launched them, precisely intercepting Adalmann's Corrosive Magic Acid Bullets.
"Oh! Remarkably precise mana control. Then, how about this!" Seeing Beatrice precisely intercept his attack, Adalmann again charged.
"Malevolent Spirits! Accept this living sacrifice! Curse Binding!" As his incantation concluded, six extremely ominous black serpents surged toward Beatrice.
Sensing the curse's danger, Beatrice frowned slightly. She immediately activated her special skill, the absolute defense magic, EMM.
As the curse contacted her absolute defense magic, it was intercepted, unable to advance.
"What manner of magic is this?!" Witnessing his Curse Binding utterly halted, Adalmann was incredulous.
"El Vita!" While Adalmann was stunned, Beatrice did not pause. Maintaining her absolute defense, she directly employed gravity magic on Adalmann.
Sensing the immense gravitational force upon him, Adalmann struggled to remain standing, collapsing to one knee.
This was unsurprising. Beatrice's gravity magic, enhanced through naming and further amplified by Takeru's Demon Lord awakening, had grown immensely. Over a ton of weight bore down upon his skeletal frame, causing numerous cracks.
"Farewell, detestable one. Ul Minya!" Watching the immobilized Adalmann, Beatrice again unleashed her powerful magic.
As Beatrice continuously charged, purple rings effortlessly tightened around the helpless Adalmann, binding him completely. Then, the purple light rapidly erupted in a devastating explosion.
Boom!
Soon, the area of their conflict was filled with violent detonations and thick smoke. The immense shockwave even impacted the skeletons outside Beatrice's Anti-Magic Attribute Barrier.
Yamza and Mjurran, rapidly approaching, witnessed the tremendous explosion. Deep unease rose within them. Clearly, the invaders possessed formidable strength. Alone, they could not repel them, and they themselves faced grave danger.
Yet, recalling Clayman's methods, retreat was impossible. To retreat was to die.
Arriving at the explosion's epicenter, they beheld a massive crater in the wasteland and Adalmann, barely clinging to life, within it.
Were it not for his 'Undying' existence, Adalmann would have been completely annihilated by Beatrice's attack. However, even in this state, Takeru was quite satisfied.