"Skill. Activate. [Break the Line]!"
Instantly Cocytus had disappeared from the place where he stood previously. To the members of the Black Scripture that were holding the front line it appeared as if their opponent had vanished without a trace. But to those behind them…
"Aaaaaah!"
A scream came from one of the members behind them. It was Palyntana and the reason why she screamed was all too obvious.
Without a sound or trace of magic energy, Cocytus… had appeared right in front of them.
Without even giving them time to react, Cocytus swung his blade in a wide horizontal wave at the three magic casters lined up neatly besides each other.
Not a single one had time to react and were all cut by the incorporeal blade of the sword.
Instantly all three of them fell to the ground like puppets with their strings cut. All strength had left them and their bodies refused to move so much as an inch. The fatigue quickly caused them to lose consciousness as they hit the ground with a smack.
"You bastard!"
Roquefort roared as he and the other fighters leaped towards Cocytus from behind.
Faster than they could blink they had lost their magical advantage against an opponent that had clearly demonstrated superior fighting skills. This situation was appallingly bad to say the least.
Cocytus sneered internally as this overexcited reaction from his opponents reminded him of a child throwing a fit when things didn't go as they wanted.
To lose composure in battle due to a bad turn of events was unacceptable for a warrior.
"Pssshhhh. Skill. Activate. [Back Step]!"
Once again in the blink of an eye Cocytus vanished from his opponents' line of sight only to appear behind them again in the same spot where he had stood previously.
Utterly dumbfounded, the remaining members looked at the imposing figure of Cocytus. Besides having insanely powerful fighting skill he also possessed countermeasures against magic and even had ways of closing the distance between his foes in a flash.
If this thing decided to pick a fight with a dragon lord what would the outcome be like?
They simply had no way to defend against this kind of might anymore. If he chose to he could blink to Kaire instantly and end the only chance of survival they had there and then.
The skills that Cocytus had used were specially designed by his creator Warrior Mikazuchi to wipe out magic casters in a fight. His creator was a warrior enthusiast and secretly despised magic casters, thus he had skewed Cocytus with plenty of anti-mage abilities and passives that would make it impossible to beat Cocytus without a proper group of warriors on the enemy team.
Looking at this scene Ainz couldn't help but remember the words of his comrade when he presented Cocytus to the rest of the guild.
"To live and die by the blade is honor but to perish through magic is a shame", wasn't it?
Those were the words that Warrior Mikazuchi carried around as his creed. And he made it a point to skew his armor and weapons to be heavily resistant to magic. In PvP tournaments it was extremely rare for him to lose to a magic caster and that characteristic had carried over to Cocytus as well it seemed.
The members of the Black Scripture did not even bother checking the status of their companions. In this battle where they were faced with an opponent who could close the gap instantly they could not afford to worry about their casualties. Not to mention that none of them had healing skills.
"Looks like we'll have to give it our all today right captain?" Persiva jokingly remarked as she started to undo the zipper on her bag. Normally it would be well and truly an emergency before she unleashed what was inside of it but if this didn't qualify as one then nothing would.
Persiva's weapon called the 'Maiden's Secret' functioned as both a storage space and blunt weapon. The person capable of wielding this ancient item would be capable of completely binding to its will one beast of choice no matter how strong it may be once defeated. In addition it held the very special power of being able to change the weight of the bag to match its true weight when adding how heavy the monster weighed inside of it. If timed properly it was comparable to a flail, only much more powerful.
"Okay, come out! I summon to this plain the lurker of the ancient caves. Come forth Gargantuan firefoot spider!"
From within the bag gloomed two brightly glowing eyes that quickly turned into eight glowing eyes as a dark blob of black mass erupted much like when Ainz used his super tier skill to summon the Dark Young, only much smaller. This black bubble floated above the heads of the Black Scripture and eventually burst to release what was inside.
From within the black bubble emerged a hideous eight-legged black spider. It was roughly twenty meters in height and had fierce red eyes staring down its prey. Though the spider itself was almost completely black, its feet were clearly tipped in a scarlet red color, hence the name firefoot.
This spider had been caught by a previous member of the Theocracy's Black Scripture and had been stored into the 'Maiden's Secret' ever since. No matter how many decades went by this beast had yet to find its match in the world as the poison of its fangs could kill entire cities.
Cocytus seeing this creature felt a strange sensation burst through him. It wasn't fear as he didn't even consider a monster of this level an adversary but something about him being an insect and the monster an arachnoid made him feel uneasy.
Even Ainz was surprised when he saw what had been stored into the maiden's secret.
Even after hundreds of years "moe-culture" was still very much alive in japan despite the concept being so old, therefore no one was surprised that an armor set called "tsundere wrath" became available in the item shop. Despite the ridiculous look of the armor a lot of players started buying or crafting this set as the power it provided could not be called cute by any means.
Originally that item was a very annoying one to deal with in YGGDRASIL as it could literally seal any beast type monster apart from a world class enemy. It had only been available for a very short time and was quickly banned from lots of tournaments and tossed into obscurity but of course a group like the Six Addicts would have had the armor set when it came out.
But this level of creature that they took out was simply too low. If they had taken out the Spider Queen Lothra or perhaps Beast King Kong then even Cocytus would have to fight without holding back alongside Mare in order to win.
When only producing a Gargantua, however, they were simply admitting defeat.
Cocytus looked at the beast that had been summoned as he pondered on how to best deal with it. Although killing it was an easy task he honestly felt disgusted even looking at arachnoids and did not want to deal with them. Something about the eight eyes disturbed him as if recalling memories from an ancient past.
Then an idea struck him.
"Mare. Could. I. Ask. You. To. Deal. With. That. Thing."
Mare's ears twitched as he had just been watching and was not expecting to be called out.
"Ah y-y-yes Cocytus! That's… I mean… if you can't be bothered!"
Mare looked at the spider that by now was slowly starting to approach Mare and Cocytus while moving each of his legs one at a time, creating an eerie atmosphere of a predator stalking its unsuspecting prey.
Although I said I'll kill it, it doesn't look like any spider we have in Nazarick. I wonder if I give it to Onee-san if she won't pester me so much?
"Then… [Petrification]!"
Mare extended his staff as a green light emitted from it and shot towards the spider.
The light slowly enveloped the spider and caused its movements to come to a total halt.