Paladin, Ray Starling
“Paradigm Shift.”
Following that skill declaration, a burst of light in hostile colors like red, black, and purple enveloped the Overlord’s body like a cocoon.
The light didn’t last long, however.
As I tried to stop this with a swing of my halberd, a hand reached out from the cocoon and grabbed it.
“Ah...!”
“Eh heh heh heh. You can’t rush or interrupt moments like this,” she said as she tossed me away along with the halberd.
I flew in a completely straight line toward the wall opposite from the pool.
“Ah?!” She’d thrown my body with strength that was simply unbelievable. I desperately hooked my halberd into the floor to slow myself down and just barely avoid crashing into the wall.
“Ray...!”
“I’m fine! But...!”
G’s transformation wasn’t over yet.
The cocoon unraveled, starting from the point where her hand peeked out, and what was inside was now bared for us to see.
“AH HA HA HA HA HA!”
What emerged from the cocoon...wasn’t the Overlord she had been before.
But she also wasn’t in a disguise like the one she’d shown me or Chelsea.
She...
“You gotta dress well, you know?”
...she looked like a real dark lord...an Overlord straight out of a story.
The horns that had just been a tiny accessory had become larger than her head. The impish tail had grown to one that was dragon-like in size. The skin on her entire body had assumed a blue-purple hue that was truly inhuman. The clothes she’d been wearing were replaced with a bondage dress that had a bewitching gleam even in this dark seabed.
And her frame had grown to over three metels in size, while her shape became more feminine.
“Eh heh heh heh heh. Ah ha ha ha ha! Surprised? Of course you are! I like those faces! This is so fun!”
If it weren’t for certain familiar features on her face, you’d hardly believe she was the same person. She’d changed that much.
It was almost like she shifted into her second form, like a classic evil overlord from an RPG.
“Ah...!” Using Reveal, we could see that the transformation didn’t stop at just her appearance—her stats were also completely different. She was affected by seven debuffs, but all of their effects had been inverted.
The HP, MP, and SP that she’d lost in the battle so far was regenerating, and the stats that the debuffs had greatly reduced were now over ten times higher than before.
“It’s like our Reversal... No... It’s stronger!”
“Ah ha ha ha ha! Like I said! We do the same thing!” Giving oneself debuffs, then flipping them for great power.
They were basically the same thing, but her buff multiplier was higher than mine...!
“So this is an Overlord!”
“Yes! Indeed! I am the Overlord! The most Overlord-ish of them all!” ZZZ’s Dreamland let him control both dreams and reality, making him nigh-invincible, and while not by the same means, she also reached the realm of Overlords.
This was the combat style—the second form of the Overlord Invidia, G the “Bottomless.”
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