The refreshing air of the mountain village vanished, and the battlefield’s unique scent of death filled the air.
Oscar, who had barged into the sky above the battlefield after crossing a distance of hundreds of kilometers, found his target at once.
Varkan, frowning at the mana that had appeared out of nowhere, raised his head.
Then he reached out toward him without the slightest hesitation.
Immediately after, the dark-red demonic energy that poured forth split the night sky like a single laser.
『Tempest Wall』
Kakakakakak!
The wall erected by the soldiers of wind forcibly twisted the laser’s trajectory.
Oscar fell straight toward Varkan and pulled on the strings of space.
At the same time, a spatial rift connected to subspace struck Varkan.
‘Got him.’
As long as he could lock him inside the prison called subspace, everything would be over.
Because the condition of this dungeon was not to kill the demons and Varkan, but to save the people.
But the moment the subspace swallowed Varkan’s upper body.
Srrrrrk.
The guy’s form scattered like mist.
“......You use bizarre magic.”
That mist scattered in every direction, then soon gathered again from behind.
With an indifferent expression, Varkan fired the mist of plague toward Oscar.
『Gust Hand』
Two enormous palms made of wind clapped together and seized the mist.
But the mist slipped out between the palms and fingers as though it had taken no damage at all.
-Die.
Together with Varkan’s sentence, the mist of plague that caused instant death at the slightest touch arrived right before his nose.
But that was as far as it got.
The mist could not come any closer than that.
Whoooooong!
Because the wind Oscar had wrapped around himself did not permit it.
-......Were you one of the white ones?
A light tongue-clicking sound was heard.
Because he knew better than anyone that his power was halved against them.
Hwaaaaak!
Then Varkan, having directly turned into mist, rushed toward Oscar.
‘I can’t block this.’
He could not block Varkan directly turning into mist and piercing through.
Oscar, having already finished the calculation in his head, drew three swords.
“Wind Blade.”
Those swords rushed toward Varkan, who was approaching in the form of smoke.
But Varkan swiftly evaded through the gaps between them and closed the distance.
Then he instantly took human form and slammed his head into the ground.
“Krgh!”
The moment Oscar was grabbed, he used Blink and moved to a place not far away.
But Varkan had no intention of letting go of prey he had caught once.
“Meaningless.”
Once again, the guy’s form changed like mist.
And then he began flying in far faster than before.
Since he had already succeeded in approaching once, it was a straightforward movement with nothing to hesitate over.
‘Done.’
And the moment he confirmed that, Oscar inwardly shouted in triumph.
Because he had stayed still even with his head being slammed into the filthy ground solely for this moment.
『Storm Cage』
Kwaaaaaaa!
The fiercely blowing wind blocked Varkan from front, back, left, right, and every direction.
“You think you can stop me with mere wind......?”
Varkan trailed off in confusion.
Because he, who had wrapped himself in an enormous amount of demonic energy, could not break through the curtain of wind.
Oscar looked at him and smiled faintly.
“Have you perhaps heard of Ithaca?”
Wind containing holy power.
That was the true identity of the wind currently imprisoning Varkan.
Holiness was an energy that possessed the property of suppressing demonic energy by the very fact of its existence.
“Now, with this...... it’s over.”
Crrrrack!
The subspace that opened its mouth wide swallowed the immobilized Varkan in one bite.
‘Done.’
Only then did Oscar’s expression relax after he captured Varkan alive inside the double-layered subspace.
If he simply waited like this until morning came, he could end the attack without a single victim.
“Did it succeed?”
He nodded at Tesila’s question.
“Yes, for now.”
“......The more I see it, the less sense it makes.”
“Space magic tends to be like that.”
“No, not that. I mean you.”
Tesila muttered while stroking her chin.
“Your cognitive ability to judge the situation is extremely high, and you even possess the reasoning ability to find the answer after seeing something just once. Do you know what that means?”
“......I don’t.”
“It means you have the qualities of a special-grade adventurer! Like me!”
He knew she would say something like that again.
Just as Oscar, letting out a hollow laugh, was about to reply.
Sensing something, he hurriedly looked around.
Prickle, prickle.
The strings of space that made up all things in the world were vibrating finely at regular intervals.
‘No way.......’
Was Varkan trying to break the subspace?
Oscar let out a faint sigh, opened the subspace again, and went inside.
“Why the sudden subspace?”
“It seems the tenant is very angry.”
Kuuung! Kung!
Once he entered inside, the vibration was felt even more clearly.
‘Can it hold?’
Even when he asked himself, no answer came.
Because experiencing this kind of situation itself was a first for him to begin with.
After briefly pondering, Oscar assumed the worst-case scenario.
‘If Varkan can really break through the double-layered subspace and come outside.......’
In the process, the subspace itself would definitely be damaged.
Perhaps the boundary would collapse and the demons trapped in the triple-layered subspace might pop out.
Even if not, the records currently being engraved here could be damaged.
‘So subspace isn’t an invincible space just because it’s subspace.’
Since it was a place where Lloyd and Kudel had even fought a duel, he had naturally thought it would be fine.
But seeing it shake this much, perhaps it was because of the property of the energy.
‘Is it because of demonic energy?’
Fundamentally, demonic energy was far more aggressive than mana.
To compare it to objects, if mana was a round stone, demonic energy was a sharp stone.
The reason the subspace was struggling now was probably because of that.
‘This actually worked out well.’
Oscar thought positively.
While training space magic, he had imagined trapping demons inside n-layered subspaces any number of times.
Because if it succeeded, he would be able to seal not only the Four Great Counts, but even the Great Emperor.
As a result, it seemed that method could not be used right now.
‘If I can’t properly trap even a viscount-class demon at the late 7th level.......’
Then naturally, trapping the Four Great Counts or the Great Emperor, who were far above that, would be impossible.
Moreover, meeting a demon on Varkan’s level was not an easy thing.
In reality, he would probably have to cross the Red Mountains to meet one.
‘Then it wouldn’t be bad to use this opportunity to experiment with what I was curious about.’
In any case, all he had to do was prevent him from killing people.
Having reached a conclusion, Oscar first entered the triple-layered subspace.
“......Human!”
The unnamed demon who had been endlessly walking there revealed hostility.
“Let me out of this place at once! Otherwise, I’ll chew you up, bones and all.”
Oscar gave no reply and simply tilted his head once, as if telling him to do as he pleased.
At this, an enormous amount of demonic energy erupted from the body of the demon whose eyes had flipped with rage.
“Hmm.”
Oscar looked carefully around the subspace.
A demon around the level of a baron was not weak.
Even so, demonic energy of that level did not put so much as a hairline crack in the space.
“Okay.”
Having finished the verification, Oscar pointed his index and middle fingers at the demon.
The moment the demon, somehow irritated by that posture, twitched his eyebrow.
“Wind Bullet.”
Along with a single gunshot, a bullet of wind pierced the demon’s forehead.
Normally, a wound of this level would have regenerated within a few seconds.
‘Why...... why?’
But there was no regeneration.
Because holiness was imbued within that bullet.
‘There’s no way a mere baron could block an energy even Varkan couldn’t block.’
With a satisfied expression, Oscar left the triple-layered subspace.
The demon’s corpse left behind there was soon swallowed by space, leaving not even a trace.
Oscar entered the double-layered subspace without delay.
“......You’re late.”
Varkan, who had been sitting gracefully on a chair made of demonic energy, half-opened his eyes.
The mist of plague spread throughout the entire space was absorbed into Varkan in an instant.
‘Still, I can’t breathe.’
The entire space was in a state where plague had spread.
The moment he breathed even the tiniest amount of air, he would die.
Entering with wind wrapped around his whole body had been an excellent choice.
“I won’t speak at length. Let me out of this place.”
At Varkan’s high-handed attitude, Oscar smiled faintly.
“What can you do if I don’t let you out?”
“How laughable. Didn’t you come here because you were desperate, afraid I would collapse this space?”
Oscar shut his mouth with an indifferent expression.
If this had been reality, he would have provoked him to shake his mentality, but that was only an illusion anyway.
“My mouth hurts. Come at me.”
“I like that it’s simple.”
Kwaaaaaaaa!
Mist fired from Varkan’s body rushed toward him.
But both he himself and the guy knew that such an attack did not work on a mage who controlled wind.
‘Then this is.......’
The changeup he liked to use.
There was a high chance it was a plague explosion.
Kwaaaaaang!
Sure enough, the mists that had approached close by exploded with an enormous roar.
Varkan’s eyes narrowed.
He did not think the opponent inside the mist had died, but there should have been some bleeding at least.
He needed to see how to respond depending on the extent of it.
Hwaaaak!
Just then, the opponent burst out through the mist.
And he was perfectly fine, without even a single wound.
‘He knows that I can explode the mist?’
A tremendous amount of demonic energy rose from Varkan’s frowning body and pressed down on the entire space.
Puuuk!
But that demonic energy was bait.
A shabby spear of demonic energy that sprang up from the floor pierced Oscar’s heart from behind.
“Only large attacks are not strong. An attack that can kill the enemy is strong.”
Varkan snorted and waved his hand.
The enormous demonic energy that rose with it erased the opponent’s upper body.
It was then that he felt something was strange.
Because not a single drop of blood came from the erased upper body.
‘No.’
Come to think of it, even when his heart had been stabbed by the spear of demonic energy, not a single drop of blood had come out.
He opened his eyes wide as he watched the form scatter hazily.
‘Illusion magic?’
The moment he realized that fact.
Varkan unknowingly rose from his chair and looked around in every direction.
Using the mist caused by the plague explosion in reverse to set up an illusion.
The opponent who had fooled him completely was surely preparing some large attack.
‘I can’t...... feel mana.’
Though he had dismissed him because he was young, the opponent was a skilled person capable of completely erasing his presence.
Kwaaaaaaaaa!
Having no choice, Varkan fired demonic energy in every direction and immediately located the opponent.
“Is it that way!”
Demonic energy that rose like a tidal wave overflowed toward one direction.
But Oscar, who had been hiding in a corner, did not panic even while watching it.
“It’s already too late.”
The time he had bought through the ring that allowed him to use illusion magic was exactly 5.12 seconds.
No matter how much preliminary preparation was needed when using this magic, that much was enough.
Swaeeeeek!
From the floor where Varkan stood, the sharpest spear, Spatial Severance, surged up.
It would have been impossible to detect.
That was because this place was the subspace itself, made of space magic.
“Krgh!”
He hurriedly wrapped demonic energy around his entire body, but it was useless.
Because the energy of holy Ithaca had also been mixed into the Spatial Severance.
Slice!
Together with an extremely pleasant sound, Varkan’s form was cut in half.

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