Chapter 385: Battle Part 3

I feel like my body is adjusting to every location, it could be bigger, but the barrier prevents that, so the size was slightly reduced in here.

’At one point my body agonizes…’ I notice that at a small point my body contracts and twists aggressively, opening a “hole” to avoid touching whatever is there.

Dozens of eyes are seeing the culprit, Amiya in a completely white magical girl outfit with 7 strange plates flying around her, it seems to be some kind of new outfit she managed to get.

’I’ll ignore her’ The heroes start moving towards the bait, thinking it’s the true body and that the fake core full of magic is a possible weak point.

Amiya quickly uses a magic, forming a white beam that makes a straight hole in my body, giving me an unpleasant sensation.

’It’s not an elemental attack…it seems more conceptual’ It seems to cause damage specifically to evil beings, I grab Amiya’s leg with a tentacle and start spinning her at extreme speed, then throwing her against the ceiling of the barrier.

Several heroes start firing magic spells against my body while the bait easily evades.

’There you are, you little worm’ I control the bait, appearing behind Kenta who used that damn unique ability, forcing me to use my true form.

“You shouldn’t separate from your allies like that” I continue to hold his hand to prevent him from escaping.

“Y-You freak! [Explosion of…” Before he can finish speaking, the bait’s body opens and bites, instantly devouring the upper half of his torso, a large cage appears, “locking” me while I see Kaori staring at me.

’Trap…but it’s too small’ It’s good to know they see the bait as my body, when my body is the entire ground they’re standing on.

Some heroes are wasting time fighting the tentacles and hands that emerge from the “ground”, and only a few can advance to me without problem.

“Platforms, good idea” I murmur, seeing several forming platforms to get off the ground.

“Unfortunately for you, my mouths are not just for show” I start reciting thousands of spells, with each mouth launching a different type, quickly from bottom to top, it’s practically a bombardment with thousands of spells being fired.

Quickly, those on the platforms try to defend themselves, but there are so many spells that, although they’re not very strong, they’re incredibly destructive and bothersome.

The bait enters the rest of the black mud and moves quickly, appearing in another place near the larger group of heroes.

’It’s…hard for me to control’ A devastating instinct to destroy arises, but I’m trying to be careful because I can still die and there are annoying abilities here that are still dangerous.

“Hey, freak, take this” Kaito appears, thinking I didn’t notice, while breaking the bait into pieces with a sword, the bait soon resurfaces, holding a sword that I control, advancing towards him.

“You’re quite strong” I speak, not as a compliment, swords appear, piercing my neck, head, and various places, there are at least 28 golden swords piercing my false body.

’It seems his ability only has range for what he thinks is the truth’ The description of his ability suggests that he would damage my whole body, but now he only attacked my false body.

“Hey, hero, why don’t you use mass destruction magic?” I ask, now curious, while defending Kaito’s blows.

“Why would I tell you, you ugly thing?” He insults me while I decide to provoke.

“Is it that you don’t know? Didn’t you learn how to do such a thing? Hahahaha, you’re so stupid, it’s something so easy to do” Although I can’t use it now, the barrier prevents the use of mass destruction magic.

’Wait… could it be…’

“Pffff HAHAHAHAHAHA” I start laughing, defending his various blows, which are slower than my current speed.

“Come on, you idiots, can’t you use mass destruction magic because of the barrier you made yourselves?” I gain a distorted smile on my face, it would be much more useful to use this type of magic against me, but they can’t.

“Shut up, you filthy bitch!” He gets furious, confirming what I said.

“Idiots, do you really think this barrier can kill me before I kill all of you?” I say, piercing his abdomen with a tentacle from behind.

“…” The bait’s head explodes, hit from behind, I look, seeing Hiroki, but his ability is useless now, my body is no longer made of flesh and bone, which means that, unlike regeneration, my body goes through a “reconstruction” process.

All the damage I suffer or every part of my body that is destroyed is quickly replaced by a new layer, as long as I have mana, my body can be reconstructed indefinitely.

’Although I’ve already lost 45% of the mana I have’ The debuffs and attacks have made a noticeable dent in my magic, although I still have the magic reserve of the Abyssal Halo that is somewhere in my body.

“HEY, GUYS!! HER BODY! IT’S THE GROUND!!” I hear a hero shouting, and as soon as I hear the information, I look with pure hatred at the worm who revealed it, and as soon as my eyes meet the eyes of the culprit, she shivers.

’Sakura…’ She revealed it, I see hundreds of her clones attacking my body, it seems that having hundreds of heads thinking about how to attack helped them find the answer.

This makes all the heroes stop trying to come to me and start attacking the ground randomly, I start to feel the damage accumulating rapidly while my mana is slowly but continuously drained to repair the damage.

’Damn… this body is disadvantageous against Sakura, who can make clones like this’ I mold the body shape, generating hundreds of large mouths while I start devouring the clones, but they restore almost no mana.

The worst damage is caused by Amiya, that damned bitch is causing enormous damage where she attacks because of that strange white attack she makes.

’That idiot doesn’t see that I’m trying to keep her alive?’ Soon I feel my body start to take a second continuous damage, indicating that the barrier has reached stage 3, where it starts to damage me.

Thousands of eyes start to shed tears, not from pain or sadness, but just a strange reflex of the damage the barrier has started to cause.

’Water…’ I start using magic to manipulate the tears, gathering them and firing them as bullets at the heroes who need to defend themselves, then I release electricity mana, generating a large explosion that electrocutes everyone using my body and tears as a conductor.

“I see you’ve separated from your allies” I say, appearing behind Nanami, who has that annoying ability that literally allows you to stack buffs on top of buffs, she tries to run to her allies, but I hug her, holding her.

Soon tentacles emerge from the ground, wrapping around her body, she tries to force her way out, but can’t, while some heroes try to come help, but are hampered by various hands and tentacles.

“How many seconds can you hold out?” I murmur in her ear, while I start to increase the pressure, slowly the pressure rises until I hear bones breaking, she screams, but a tentacle enters her throat and starts to pierce her organs, while the pressure increases so much that her body completely breaks, leaving her limp and dead, so I capture her soul.

’If this arrogant bitch wants to play clone games, I can too’ Sakura doesn’t stop generating clones, taking advantage of the space, since they discovered that the bait is not my true body, I start generating hundreds of baits to fight as well.

They’re all my body and I control each one, it’s not difficult considering how fluid, moldable and malleable my body is, I quickly manage to occupy all the heroes with baits.

’Bigger…strong fangs…suction to suck everything from bottom to top…rotating teeth so I don’t have to chew…and finally a space that closes after capture’ I imagine how I want it to be, quickly my body starts to change.

From the middle to the sides, the body starts to “sink”, generating a giant hole with thousands of serrated teeth rotating, while a powerful suction force occurs.

Several heroes fall into it, and before they can escape, I completely close the top part, the focus is not to kill everyone, but to devour some of them, I hear the sound of grinding as several eyes see them being killed as the opening closes and compresses.

With this, Elliot, Kokona, Shun, Souta and Hiroki were killed, being ground and devoured, while I consume their bodies to restore a small amount of mana and capture their souls.

“GAAARRGHHHH” I let out a shrill, unpleasant scream as I feel an infernal pain of grinding, noting that Itsuki Matsumoto fell down there and used [Domain of Inversion], causing all the damage to come back to me.

Of course, this current body doesn’t have organs, skin or anything else, so what I received was mainly an excruciating pain of being ground alive, of course, Itsuki’s ability only lasts 10 seconds, so he died, ground.

But it still gave me 10 infernal seconds of damage, this makes my body contort, all the baits dissolve while the eyes are agitated, looking wildly in all directions until I recover from it a few seconds later.

’Haaa…Haa…this…is exhausting’ My form consumes a lot of my mental capacity and a lot of my mana, because controlling it is difficult, since without control I would attack like an irrational beast.

Receiving so much pain at once destabilizes the control I have over myself, and while I was recovering, the heroes were attacking me.

’30% of mana…’ The accumulated damage is rapidly consuming my mana, and I notice that the barrier has already reached the fourth stage, because it has changed its form slightly.

’I have to prepare to defend myself’ It seems in the end I will be hit by the anti-world attack of the barrier, I decide to save mana for now to defend myself later.

I can spend these 30% of mana I have, and then restore my mana with the reserve in my Abyssal Halo.

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