[Evocation Conversion: Vermillion Frame]
The technique involved combining the power of a fire spirit and an arms evocation. However, she’d used this technique in the past, and so what she was showing off took things one step further.
“All right, here I go!”
Dashing through the air with [Air Step], Mira flew right in front of the reichengiebel, which was still writhing in agony, and fiercely drew back her right hand.
Then, she used all of the tremendous amount of mana that was coursing through her body and converted it into heat energy with the vermillion frame.
And then, concentrating all of this energy on one specific point, something which she couldn’t have endured without the vermillion frame, it began to glow red.
“Now, eat this!”
The technique, which generated pure heat energy, was fairly complicated to construct and called for precise control. What’s more, it also required one to handle massive amounts of mana with great finesse. While it was a considerably high-level technique, smashing one’s foe in such a way was fairly primitive indeed.
And so, Mira blasted the reichengiebel with her red-hot right fist.
The strike was not nearly as heavy as the one Meilin had hit it with, and yet the power of the technique was by no means inferior.
At the moment her fist connected, a pillar of bright red flame erupted forth. The heat that she’d been concentrating in her right hand was unleashed in a single moment and transformed into powerful flames which swelled outward and shot straight through the fiend’s body.
“Whoa! That was a close one…”
The flames swirled violently, threatening to burn even the nearby area to cinders. Then, having shot through the fiend, they hit Wallenstein’s barrier and just barely managed to dissipate and vanish.
Panicked that she might’ve gone a bit too far and feeling relief wash over her as the flames dissolved just in the nick of time, Mira checked to see how the reichengiebel had fared.
That said, having taken a direct hit from Meilin’s [Pyroblast Punch], about half of its body had already been blown away. There was no chance it could still be alive.
“How very odd.”
“This is wild. It’s still moving.”
Somehow, the reichengiebel had survived. Not only that, the parts of it that’d been blown away had already started regenerating.
Despite being inside the burning white flames, its demonic power continued to work, such that the damaged parts of its body rapidly regenerated. However, it was a power that had a tendency to go out of control. And so, it wasn’t regenerating properly; rather, it had begun transforming into something even more bizarre and grotesque.
“Well, I might’ve expected as much from a creature that can regenerate.”
However, it was regenerating a good deal faster than she’d expected. Additionally, it was now guarding itself with all its tentacles, making it difficult to land any further blows.
And in less than ten seconds, it’d not only fully regenerated, but had transformed into an even greater monstrosity.
Since they now very much had to hurry, Mira and Meilin quickly retreated from the area.
And at the next moment, the place where they’d been was dyed black.
Having flowed out as if from nowhere, the darkness enveloped the reichengiebel. It looked as if demonic power itself had become armor that now encased it.
However, whatever darker-than-jet substance had enveloped the fiend was an even purer black than demonic power.
At that moment, a shriek pierced through the air which made everyone’s hair stand on end.
Indeed, the thing covering the fiend was in fact flames which Wallenstein had created with his spell.
“Just like I expected,” said Wallenstein, who’d been waiting to use the spell.
“Right?” Mira added, watching as if her work was done.
Wallenstein had indeed expected that the mutated fiend was capable of regeneration.
And so, he’d used a spell which ignited demonic power before burning it away. If the fiend were to use this very demonic power for regenerative purposes, then the flames would become the blaze of the fiend’s very own destruction.
The flames would go out if it only needed to regenerate after taking some light damage, but the gaping wounds Mira and Meilin had inflicted had made them spread at a faster rate than the fiend could regenerate at.
And so, far from managing to regenerate, its body quickly began falling apart.
“You really are crazy strong.”
Whether fiend or monster, Wallenstein had a surefire way of killing anything with regenerative capabilities, so long as it was dealt a certain amount of damage.
One could certainly say that this was one of the exorcist Wallenstein’s most terrifying capabilities.
“Not quite. I could only do it thanks to you two. If it hadn’t been so focused on healing itself, then it wouldn’t have worked,” Wallenstein said humbly, suggesting that their victory was thanks to all the damage Mira and Meilin had dealt to the fiend.
The tricky part about that particular technique was to have the fire begin fully spreading before the one it’d been inflicted on had a chance to notice. Therefore, Mira and Meilin putting it in a panicked state with their attacks had allowed him to successfully use the technique.
“Hrmm, that really was something, huh?” Mira said, proud at the performance of her experimental technique.
There were still a few areas to tweak, but in terms of power, the results left her quite satisfied.
Meanwhile, having apparently not had enough fighting yet, Meilin stood nearby looking a bit let down. Nevertheless, when dealing with such a terrible foe in a place like this, it was best to deal with them quickly. Seeming to acknowledge this, Meilin stood before the crumpled reichengiebel, not uttering a single complaint.
“I’m sorry, Wally. There was nothing I could do to save him in that state.”
After they’d finished wiping out the fiends and lesser demons, Barbatos rejoined them and immediately apologized.
For some unknown reason, the dark demon had gone completely berserk. While he and Wallenstein had meant to rescue him, it had apparently been impossible.