“As if I’ll let you! 「Greater Rejection」!”
The summoned monster vanished in an instant. Ainz spoke in a voice tinged with pride.
“I won’t let you stall for time, Shalltear.”
Don’t laugh, Shalltear. He’s just using his MP right after my skill!
Struggling to keep a straight face, Shalltear cast her magic.
“Is that so? Then shall I face you directly? 「Maximize Magic: Vermillion Nova」.”
“「Triple Maximize Magic: Call Greater Thunder」.”
Dark red flames that were Ainz’ weakness wrapped around his body. At the same time, three enormous thunderbolts, fused from multiple strands of lightning, pierced through Shalltear.
Along with the feeling of her health being carved away, for the first time in this battle, an unpleasant expression floated to Shalltear’s face.
He raised his fire resistance?
No matter how strong a person was, it was impossible to be fully resistant to every type of attribute. Even if you were to stack resistances from your race, class, and even Divine Class equipment, there was still a limit. However, if one were to completely erase a resistance to an attribute, it was possible to raise another to be fully immune. This was the case even if it was an attribute that you were weak against.
In other words, Ainz had abandoned a different attribute in order to focus on improving his fire resistance.
How annoying, I don’t know which attribute he gave up.
The only way to find out would be to use 「Analyze Life」 to bring up his HP and cast spells from every attribute to see how it reacts.
As if I’d do something as bothersome as that. Then with an attribute he’s definitely weak to—.
“—「Maximize Magic: Brilliant Radiance」.”
“—「Maximize Magic: True Darkness」.”
While Ainz was purified by a holy light that engulfed his body, Shalltear’s body was assaulted by a dark void.
In that instant— Shalltear did not miss it; the momentary image of his body shaking.
Even now, he had quickly fixed his posture and was pretending to not notice. But no one would fall for such an obvious act. It was the struggle of a body trying to endure the pain.
Shalltear laughed without letting it show on her face, she had found his weakness.
No, it couldn’t be helped. The undead were critically weak to the holy attribute. It was incredibly difficult to erase this weakness. Even more so if his equipment was used to raise his fire resistance, then it was absolutely impossible.
As the two stared each other down, they cast the next magic. Of course, Shalltear chose the same, 「Brilliant Radiance」.
Just how many times did their spells go back and forth? Even for Shalltear, she had lost a significant amount of her health. If she hadn’t secretly used her skill that weakens magical effects in exchange for continually draining her MP, then her HP may have even dropped downed to zero.
As I thought, he’s incredible…. Both in attack and defense, Ainz-sama is overwhelmingly more powerful than me in a battle of magic. Even with me using holy magic in succession, he probably didn’t take as much damage as I did. But still… he’s used up quite a bit of MP.
Ainz’ MP that showed up in her vision was now much lower than when they first started. Despite this, his eyes still burned violently with a fiery spirit.
Ahh, my body is tingling. Such a wonderful man, I want to see what he looks like when he‘s defeated and his spirit broken.
Shalltear quelled the feeling surging from her lower abdomen. If she were in her room, she might have called a vampire bride. Unfortunately, there were none here. Needless to say, she could hardly pleasure herself and vent her sexual urges here and now.
Then the only option left— satisfy herself in battle.
Her eyes wet with lust, Shalltear stared at Ainz while licking her lips with her tongue. What sort of reaction will he show if she were to further increase her advantage right here?
“Then I’ll be healing myself now. 「Maximize Magic: Greater Lethal」.”
The living are healed by positive energy and damaged by negative energy. Undead are the opposite. That’s why a spell like 「Greater Lethal」, that channels powerful negative energy inwards, becomes the greatest healing magic for undead like Shalltear.
“You’re right. I have lost a considerable amount of health as well. — 「Greater Lethal」.”
Shalltear blinked her eyes several times. She couldn’t believe what was happening. However, seeing how his wounds were being healed before her very eyes, she had no choice but to accept it.
“…..Huh? How can Ainz-sama cast faith magic like 「Greater Lethal」? Was it on the learnable skills list for your class?”
“No, unfortunately this power is not my own, but from a magic item. It is an item that lets me use just one specific spell. For that, I have to use up one of my equipment slots. It also cannot be used with the Maximize Magic skill and the effect is not as powerful as the one from the original class. There is not a lot that’s good about it.”
Seeing Ainz use 「Greater Lethal」 a second time while complaining about what a bother it is, Shalltear muttered that the schedule had changed slightly. With that said, it didn’t make too big of a difference since one of her objectives of making Ainz spend his MP was successful.
Having made her judgment, Shalltear activated 「Greater Lethal」 once more and treated her wounds. Since she was level 100, it took some time before she made a complete recovery.
And the last—
“「Maximize Magic: Greater Lethal」.”
“「Body of Effulgent Beryl」.”
— while she healed her injuries, Ainz was casting a defensive spell on himself.
Shalltear, in addition to being a faith based magic caster, did not receive a great amount of information from Peroroncino. Thus, she did not know what type of effect the 「Body of Effulgent Beryl」 spell produced. Seeing Ainz wrapped by the green sheen that he had worn just moments ago, Shalltear determined that he had used a defense magic.
That’s the correct decision. I was just about to start attacking you personally.
Just as Shalltear was getting ready to wield the Spuit Lance to her heart’s content, she heard a complaint that sounded as if it was spilled unintentionally.
“To think I would be at such a disadvantage.”
Completely blindsided, Shalltear loosened the hand that was around her Spuit Lance and thought to herself.
You just figured it out?
With that said, she reasoned that saying such a thing to her master, Ainz-sama, would be insolent and did not let it out of her mouth.
…master? Ainz-sama?