Although it looks like I've won the battle, the war seems far from over as I notice little glimpses of Dragonites who are approaching me way too quickly on wind-powered ships. I didn't plan to get out of the sea, so it all seemed like the perfect chance to steal a boat and let it drift until I eventually touched land.
Still, due to my most recent victory, I can't help but rush toward the incoming boats using my spatial hooks while holding my dark shield in my left arm and my dark sword on my back as I fly across the skies, ready to get some more free EXP now that I had seen how quickly I could increase my levels why wouldn't I?
"Come on! Let's go!" At my neck-breaking speeds, it barely takes me a few seconds to catch up to one of the boats, which ends up losing one of its sail towers once I crash into it, ready to start shedding blood left, right, and center. The excitement of battle completely took over my reason and thoughts.
"Kill them!" The Dragonites tried their best to put up a fight against me, but considering I could already fend them off with low MP and with a much lower level than I was now, fighting them individually felt like bullying as they could barely even get near me without me cutting them down first.
In any case, I was utterly excused from executing as many as I pleased, wasn't I? I mean, they all tried to kill me first and also stupidly chose to rush me even when they saw that their ace card failed. I would not say no to some free levels, either!
[Proficiency has reached the required Level] [Upgraded from level 30 to level 31]
The system voice spoke as I finished killing the entire population of the first boat of twenty, with the other ships quickly choosing to shoot cannon balls and other powerful magical attacks toward me with little to no effect as I could simply pull myself up into the sky with spatial hooks.
"FIRE!" "FIRE!" "FIRE!" I can hear all the captains telling their men to fire their cannons at me, which I don't even try to evade this time as I wanted to send out a message with the idea being to crush their morale as Julius liked to do as well since I assumed these guys were his men I wanted to give him a taste of his own medicine through his troops.
All I had to do was summon that big dark shield I used against the hydra below me; right as they all shot their magical attacks, they would all end up blocked by the massive dark shield that didn't even feel unique anymore as I could simply see it in my menu options now thanks to the level upgrade.
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"Is that the best you got?" I say as the attacks stop once the smoke from all the explosions clears up, revealing I was just sitting on a spatial platform above all of them, just bored at the lackluster show of power from an army that didn't pose a significant threat anymore.
"Mages! Use conjuration magic to teleport them back to the caves!" As soon as I hear that command from one of the captains, I stop playing and start conjuring my own ultimate attack since I didn't see a problem with ships available to me now, so passing out wouldn't be a problem if I deleted all of them in a single strike.
{Ruler Authority - Shuji Katayama}
"I, Yoimiya the first, as the princess of all witches, command my authority over holy power to summon an attack greater than any other!" At this point, I didn't need to chant all those long words to activate the spell. It just made me look more astonishing as the panicking Dragonites tried to shoot me down in a desperate attempt to stop me.
The skies turn slightly yellowish as the first part of the spell is done, summoning a large magical circle above me that looks the size of my dark shield below me that still protected me, causing even more panic among the enemy fighters that now tried to use artillery rounds against the shield.
"By the power granted to me as the ruler of Hope, I hereby command the heavens to break loose and let the stars fall from the sky to upend my enemies!" The dark shield below me shakes and trembles a little as the artillery rounds hit it from below, but it does not budge much while my attack spell begins to rumble and shine a lot more with it, making noises like those of a large mechanical machine.
"Hope's Unique SKILL! FALLEN DOWN!" Thousands of light beams quickly start falling from the skies, especially from the big magical seal above me, all flying toward their set targets, striking the Dragonites multiple times if necessary to drain their HP to zero in the least amount of strikes possible with the power choosing to go for headshots most of the time.
"AHHG!" "UAHHH!" "HYAA!" As sadistic as this might sound, I can't help but break a smile as I see the death and destruction below me as I observe thousands of people die without feeling the slightest bit of remorse, even though I was supposed to be a saint of sorts.
I didn't feel anything other than joy as I saw thousands of helpless soldiers get mercilessly killed by my attack that they couldn't even do anything about as my light beams overwhelmed even the most skilled mages down there with them being unable to destroy all the light beams in time eventually dying off to my lethality.
The worst part is that I thought I would feel anything other than satisfaction, but I did not as I heard the voice over and over as hundreds of Dragonites continued to die in horror, crying out for the help of their lord, who would probably be fuming by this point but that was what I wanted. I had to send that asshole the message that I would eventually do that to him.
[Level increased from level 32 to level 33]
[Level has increased from level 33 to level 34]
[Proficiency has reached the required Level Unique Skill 'Fallen down' has increased its Level from level 1 to level 2]