Chapter 385: Experience vs Adaptation Part 1

"...So you're going to be my opponent? Hahaha, how pathetic. It seems your master, the Demon Queen, is nothing but cowardly trash who makes other people fight her battles." The Angel Queen, who for some reason has changed her appearance, speaks while mocking Evelyn.

"Don't mock Evelyn!! Do you think I can't defeat you?"

"Naturally. You are an existence fated to end by my hands. There is no world where you win against me," she says with complete arrogance.

"Then know that you're the one who's going to die!! I am Shizuka, burn that name into your memory and remember it in hell!!" I threaten her. She rolls her eyes and in an instant, she's already in front of me.

"!!!" I take a punch that sends me crashing against the castle walls and straight through them. She appears before me, grabbing my face, and starts dragging me, violently grinding me against the ground before stopping in the middle of the city and hurling me into a house.

'S-So fast...' I get up with a few superficial cuts. I can't believe she's even faster than Eve!!

I use the [God's Toy] skill while the roulette spins my 5 skills, and I also activate [Game Mode] to face her.

God's Toy = When using this skill, the user creates a spiritual roulette that allows for infinite combinations. Through luck, the user can temporarily gain any skill that exists, but with a maximum of 5 skills at the same time, though it is possible to discard a skill before its time limit, thus spinning the roulette again.

Game Mode = Upon activating [Game Mode] for 42 minutes and 42 seconds, the user effectively becomes the natural counter to the enemy before them. Thus, the user gains temporary skills that are effective against the enemy, not guaranteeing victory, but ensuring a natural advantage over the target.

From Game Mode, I gain 3 skills that are far more useful than I expected for this situation.

[Spatial Reading] Allows the user to perceive and follow any movement and spatial displacement, being able to see anything regardless of the speed around them.

[Holy Immunity] Immunity to holy attacks of any kind, whether attacks, buffs, or debuffs. Anything that comes from a holy power is useless.

[Spatial Synchronization] Allows the user to adapt to the opponent's speed and match it.

'For 42 minutes and 42 seconds, I have 3 perfect skills to face her, plus the 5 random skills from the roulette that I can keep swapping and using...' I emerge from the rubble, having gained regeneration from the roulette for 24 seconds, recovering from my wounds.

"[Cataclysmic Explosion]" I use one of the spells from the roulette, which generates an explosion of red flames so intense that the entire block around us, for some reason, freezes instead of melting.

'I-Ice?' The Angel Queen defended herself with a shield that emits a silvery glow and covers her entire body, almost like a force field.

"Hmmm... it seems you're not the complete waste I initially imagined. I am Qyraen, burn that into your memory before you die." She points at me, firing an immense beam of magic. It's so large and so powerful that it opens a giant hole in a straight line.

"...!!?" She looks confused by her own attack, which didn't leave a scratch on me. I take advantage of her not knowing that holy attacks have become useless and leap toward her. She tries to dodge, but using Spatial Synchronization, I kick the air, changing my position by displacing the atmosphere, and grab her legs with my hand.

"[Seismic Anchor]" I use another spell without knowing exactly what it does, but when I do, Qyraen simply and violently sinks into the ground. She still manages to use her wings to rise quickly and kick me, but I catch the kick.

"[Retribution]" When I use this spell, something simply explodes between us, throwing me back and cutting me.

'B-Bad!!?' I don't know what the spells do just by their names, and I'm not even sure of the effect, but this one was bad for me.

"What a little pest!" She appears in front of me, landing several punches on my face. I try to use my tail, but she grabs it and spins my body, slamming it against the ground.

"Gaahhh!!" She pierces my stomach with her palm, making a hole. She tries to grab my organs and pull, but I point at her.

"[Grand Black Lightning Release of the Crimson King]" A wave of dark energy is released from my hand, hitting her point-blank. The spell generates several black lightning bolts around us as she recoils, receiving multiple wounds and losing so much blood at once that it stains the ground around her, forming a puddle.

"U-Urgh..." I am healed by the regeneration skill while I keep spinning the roulette, trying to get something good.

"Do you have some kind of skill that gives you random abilities?" When she asks that, I freeze in shock, and at my reaction, she smiles.

"I see that you do. It seems Evelyn has some nice toys. Listen, you stupid thing, no one learns spells of so many different types from one another. That only weakens us. Besides, you don't even seem to understand what your spells do. You should learn to hide it better." She advances against me with an arrogant smile. I catch her punch, but I'm still pushed back.

She throws a kick, and when I try to block with my knee, she simply punches me in the face, deceiving me.

"Inexperienced too. A failure just like Evelyn." She mocks me and Evelyn while punching me repeatedly in the face.

"Let me show you how to use real magic [[Grand Black Lightning Release of the Crimson King]]." She touches my stomach, and the dark wave released from her palm opens a hole through my entire torso from one side to the other.

"!!!" I stagger back as the regeneration skill, in its final 3 seconds, still regenerates my body before ending. I let out a sigh of relief and start spinning skills non-stop, looking for another regeneration one.

"Oh? What frightening regeneration."

'H-How did she copy me?' I cough blood, still having some internal damage from only having 3 seconds to regenerate something so massive.

"[Shackle of a Thousand Swords]" With this spell, thousands of swords appear and are shot at the Angel Queen, who pulls a sword from her storage ring and strikes them all with absurd speed. My eyes only follow the movement thanks to the skill I gained.

"!!!" She throws her sword at me after defending herself, but by reflex, I end up managing to catch the sword and break it with a squeeze. She makes a quick feint to my left, but with a slide on the ground, she changes direction almost instantly, coming from my right and throwing a kick.

"Take this, you bitch!!" I say as I spin, dodging and scratching her leg, infecting it with as many diseases as I can. She retreats, using healing magic on her leg and glaring at me.

"...Huh?" I am confused, while she makes an expression of pure disgust.

"An angel like me is incapable of getting sick, regardless of the disease, and my body would never be infected by such fragile parasites. How disgusting I find filthy worms with dirty hands like you." She points in my direction, and several swords of light hit me from all sides.

Normally, it would be an attack that would instantly shred my body to pieces, but the immunity saves me, and I gain another different regeneration skill from the roulette for 30 seconds.

"[Blade of the Beyond]" She uses a spell, appearing behind me. Instantly, my head and the entire right side of my body are destroyed by beams of light that pass from behind me forward, piercing through all the houses for a few hundred meters ahead of me.

"..." My body staggers and regenerates, and I realize that if I don't always have a regeneration skill, I will die far too quickly.

'T-This is bad...' To get a good regeneration skill, I need to spin many times. For this 30-second one, I spun 451 times, and I didn't even know if it was a good regeneration.

'T-This is really bad!! Really bad!! S-She's a monster!!' I thought I was strong, but this woman is such an aberration of strength. In just this one minute of fighting, I've practically already died six times.

"What a persistent little thing you are." She spins her hand, forming an axe of light as she advances against me. I retreat a step, hesitating with the fear of the regeneration running out the moment I take a lethal hit.

'I-I need to keep my distance.' I become much more cautious, spinning spells until something with an interesting name appears.

"[Hydrogea Nemesis]" The spell generates an immense, toxic purple explosion around us, but before she can inhale the toxic cloud, her wings beat so hard that the entire cloud is blown far away, and my head is severed by the axe she hurled.

"..." The regeneration, with 5 seconds remaining, regenerates my head. For now, my magic reserves are high, but if I keep spending it like this, it will run out faster than it should.

"Stop running," she says as I retreat, thinking about spinning for two regeneration skills and three for attack, instead of one regeneration and four for attack, since with two regeneration skills, I'm safer if one ends and I already have another, rather than having to be vulnerable for some time.

'T-This is so hard!! Evelyn didn't say anything about her being so absurdly strong!! And so fast!!' I stop complaining, stop running, and turn around, pointing one hand at her to cast a spell.