Editing Sorcery Hacker:Volume4 Phase04 (section)

===Part 5===

It happened in a blind spot for Ayato and the others fighting in the center of the palace.

But they should have realized.

Railguns, heavy laser cannons, electron beams, and the other super weapons wielded by Queen Astaroth Revolver had been created by destroying the palace’s equipment and acquiring their designs, but the original data didn’t exist in the audience chamber. Then where had she gotten it from?

She could use alchemy within her own body, but there was still only so much she could create in this one spot.

Cracks ran all throughout the capital.

Her transparent tentacles had moved beyond the palace.

That allowed her to directly gather objects without having to create them.

“What is that?”

The Royal Guards hesitantly approached with their battle rifle sorcery guns at the ready.

A tremor rumbled in the distance.

Another tentacle stuck up higher than the roofs as it rampaged along another street.

“This one is going to attack people too. Kill it before it kills us!!”

They launched fire magic amplified within their battle rifles. But this failed to slice through the transparent tentacle thicker around than their torsos.

A clione-like orange mass quivered disturbingly within the transparency.

The tentacle sticking up from the ground swung itself around, scattering unseen venom needles and then slamming down toward the Royal Guards once their reactions were dulled.

But the Royal Guards were not crushed.

The thick tentacle suddenly shook and then stopped.

“This powder is used to control large monsters!! It doesn’t work on humans!!”

Half elves from the Philosommelier Personal Empire had arrived.

“Wait, whose side are you on now!?”

“We are always on the same side: whoever will save Emperor Milbert’s life!!”

It didn’t end there.

Several blades pierced the clione-like core.

Thanks to 10th prince George carrying his fiancee who had washed her hands of marriage scams and 73rd Prince Carving who ran through the battlefield as he liked with a frankfurter in one hand.

“Is this the source of all our problems the Demon Lord mentioned?”

“So we just have to destroy all these cores, right?”



In the end, this was Queen Astaroth Revolver’s secret.

She did not place her weakness on the front line.

She had split up her core and distributed the pieces around the capital, always far removed from the audience chamber. Unless they were destroyed, the Queen would regenerate no matter how badly she was wounded.

That was why she hadn’t been fazed by the solid attacks she took from the Four Lords.

It didn’t matter if they were aware of all this.

“Dammit. Does this monster not know this is prime sunbathing time!?”

“I would really prefer not to use this…”

105th Princess Charlotte clenched her teeth as she protected an ordinary small park and 18th Prince Thocimas’s pure righteousness had him clear a path for the people to escape.

Sometimes it was in the burning capital and sometimes it was in the palace’s gardens on the top level.

Many people worked together to destroy the tentacle cores.

Altogether, it created a single large trend.



Inside the palace, it turned out that the protection of the tuxedo-wearing bodyguards from the banking state(?) wasn’t enough.

3025th Prince Geranud wielded his newly acquired sword of succession and protected the children from the bottom level.

A giant tentacle broke up through the floor. The swollen-tipped sword was stabbed deep into the orange core as the transparent tentacle throbbed.

It wasn’t dead yet.

“Help me!! We can protect Isabella and the rest of the kids!!”

Hearing 3025th Princes Geranud’s call, the maid waiting behind him tilted her head a bit.

And she spoke.

“Understood, my beloved prince.”

Mana-conducting silver arms burst from her back and a wide variety of sorcery guns took aim at the tentacle core.

“I will take care of that immediately.”