Although a Villain, My Wish is World Peace

Now it’s perfect.

“Han Seo-hyeon, you approach that thing and taint as much sand as you can.”

Han Seo-hyeon’s mana quantity is enormous, enough to receive an A-rank potential. The only problem is that he can’t properly perform necromancy yet.

“If you feel like you can’t control any more, grind it up. Keep repeating that.”

Han Seo-hyeon nodded at my words. Next, I turned my attention to Kim Jae-ho.

“Jae-ho, protect Seo-hyeon. Ah, carrying him on your back wouldn’t be bad either. Anyway, make sure Han Seo-hyeon doesn’t get hurt while allowing him to contact as much sand as possible.”

Kim Jae-ho is sturdy. Enough to easily carry Han Seo-hyeon’s body. We’re securing the mobility that Han Seo-hyeon lacks.

With the roles of these two set…

I threw my gaze backward.

Taika was still engaged in a one-on-one battle with Yebrica. But his firepower seemed to be running low. No matter how much mana he has, it’s useless.

That’s because Taika still can’t create multiple center points.

As if realizing who was troubling it, Yebrica was directly targeting Taika.

Taika was alternating between defense and offense by deleting the center point he had created on Yebrica’s body and creating a new one in front of himself whenever sand flew towards him, but it didn’t look easy.

“I should go help quickly.”

At my words, Han Seo-hyeon said:

“Wait, what are you going to do, Boss?”

“I’ll draw attention in my own way.”

With my firepower, which was lacking compared to the other two, there was no way to remove all that sand composing Yebrica’s body.

But that doesn’t mean I can just sit around doing nothing.

I roughly formed a plan in my head. I sent Han Seo-hyeon and Kim Jae-ho to Yebrica’s right side.

From now on, it’s a battle of time and stamina.

First, I went to Taika’s side, who had bought me time.

[Oh, you’re here.]

[Yes, thank you. Thanks to you, I got an idea of how to catch that thing.]

[Haha! I thought it would get tough if we kept going like this.]

I briefly explained to Taika what I had found out. At my explanation, Taika’s mouth fell open.

[You figured all that out in such a short time? No, was asking me to draw its attention for this purpose in the first place?]

[Yes.]

When facing a monster for the first time, figuring out how to defeat it is usually the hardest part. But there’s nothing completely new in this world. If you categorize it under the framework of a cluster, even this thing becomes predictable.

It’s just enormously large.

[All that sand is its camouflage tactic. Its main body is inside. All we need to do is chip away at all that sand and draw out its real body hidden inside.]

At my words, Taika smiled brightly.

[I really need to take you to America.]

With those words, Taika stretched out his hand. The sand flying towards me was sucked somewhere.

“Whew.”

That was close.

[Conversation is good, but we need to take care of that thing first.]

[Yes.]

Taika’s mana moved. It was different from his previous attention-drawing, starting with its size.

[Now I’ll use my power properly.]

If the center point Taika had created before was about the size of a fist, this time it was large enough to swallow a person whole. The black point created in the middle of Yebrica’s left wing mercilessly pulled in the sand making up Yebrica’s body.

The sand bird flapped its wings as if not wanting to be pulled in, but the black point at the tip of the left wing greedily sucked in the sand.

Powdery dust scattered below it.

And on the opposite side, on the right wing, Han Seo-hyeon started to move. Half-crying while clinging to Kim Jae-ho’s back, Han Seo-hyeon desperately reached out towards Yebrica’s wing.

“Uwaah, it’s too fast!”

If it weren’t for that crying, it would have looked really cool.

Still, the black wave of sand spreading from where Han Seo-hyeon’s fingertips touched was a spectacular sight in itself.

After confirming the right wing starting to turn black, I floated my body with wind.

While those two are gradually removing the sand, I plan to find the main body hidden in this sand. I thought it might be in the torso, but when Taika touched the torso, the thing’s main body wasn’t visible.

Maybe it’s swimming around inside that sand.

Yebrica, being attacked on both wings, started screaming madly.

It’s not pain.

It’s fear.

I floated my body up to where the thing’s ‘head’ was. This is a technique impossible without the thick mana in the air. Although I don’t have a fear of heights, being dozens of meters high is still heart-pounding.

But I can’t show my fear now.

The thing saw me and immediately threw sand at me.

I moved to avoid the sand.

My biggest advantage right now is mobility. The mana-dense atmosphere is good for wind attributes. Mana consumption is less than half of normal, and there’s almost no resistance when moving the body.

So I intended to play hide-and-seek with the sand chasing me in the air.

As the sand moves, gaps are bound to appear. Right now, other sand immediately appears to fill the body again, but the amount of sand being ground away by Han Seo-hyeon and Taika is considerable.

The sand that seemed infinite will eventually show its bottom.

The sand started to move, following me as I moved precariously, almost caught right in front of it.

It can’t use the sand from the two wings. Then what’s left is the torso. As the sand moved following me like that, I saw it.

There was a particularly shiny lump in the neck area, unlike the other sand.

“Yikes!”

Perhaps because it was an attack launched at the risk of revealing its main body’s location, it was particularly fierce. Thousands of sand feathers flew at me.

I turned all the wind wrapping around my body into a protective barrier.

Of course, my body, having lost its propulsion, started to fall, but blocking the feathers was the priority for now. Just before my body hit the ground, I called the wind again. But there were still feathers left.

There was no time to react. The remaining feathers stuck straight into the ground where I was standing.

“Ugh.”

Although I dodged, I couldn’t prevent sand feathers from sticking into my forearms and shins. I should be grateful that I avoided vital points. In an instant, my whole body was covered in blood. The sand scattered without even needing to pull out the feathers.

“Whew, this is a bit nerve-wracking.”

I got up. Fortunately, even though my body was rattling, I could move using the wind.

At that moment, I saw a black sand dog tearing at the giant bird’s wing. It’s an application skill worthy of admiration. Han Seo-hyeon’s voice, shouting in frustration, echoed:

“I feel like I’m going to throw up!”

Unfortunately, it seems there’s no communication at all with Kim Jae-ho. Luckily, that anger was directed solely at Yebrica.

Sand fell off in clumps from the area bitten by the black dog. And that sand immediately touched Han Seo-hyeon’s fingertips and turned black.

At first, it was an opponent so huge that we had no idea how to deal with it, but by gradually taking control of the sand like this, we started to see an end in sight.

As I got up, I cut off the sand spears heading towards Kim Jae-ho and Han Seo-hyeon with wind.

“Where do you think you’re aiming?”

I floated my body into the air again.

“You haven’t killed me yet.”

It’s a feint, no, a triple feint strategy.

For such a large monster, overwhelming it chaotically is the best.

Right wing? No, left wing? Should I deal with this bug in front of me first?

The more confused its mind becomes like this, the more leeway I gain.

I’ve roughly figured out the location of the main body. The problem is that there’s still too much sand. If I tried to attack the main body recklessly now, it might move its position again.

Then we’d have to play this tiresome hide-and-seek again.

So let’s buy a little more time.

Until we can catch the timing to attack the main body for sure.

There’s nothing better than a fruit fly flying in front of your eyes for buying that time. I’ll make its nerves focus on me by being annoying.

Seeing me, the thing couldn’t hide its anger. As if determined to kill and eliminate me this time, it called the sand. I plunged my body towards the ground. Countless sand explosions occurred behind me. Sharp sand spears formed and persistently followed my body.

I sprayed water behind my body.

Like a kind of flare, the sand that touched the water scattered.

Damn, I didn’t want to reveal my abilities like this. The situation wasn’t good enough to use just wind.

A sandstorm appeared before my eyes.

“Yikes.”

It’s trying to shake us all off even if it has to scatter its own body.

We each blocked the sandstorm in different ways. Han Seo-hyeon covered himself with black sand to create a kind of dome around his body, and Taika was crudely pinning all the sand coming towards him to the ground.

I could see my clothes fraying where they touched the sandstorm. Unlike before, everything that touched the sand was being ground away.

—This is dangerous!

As Ray warned, if I stand in this sand, I’ll end up like I’ve been put in a blender.

I drew up mana. I instantly dug the ground I was standing on.

“It’s a strategy to hide underground.”

After digging a tunnel and hiding inside, I checked my mana-assisting bracelet.

The bracelet’s mana was dangerously low. I quickly sprinkled the mana stone powder I had prepared in advance into the bracelet. There was a sizzling sound of flesh burning on my arm, but I ignored it.

The depleted mana filled up again.

I gathered mana in my eyes and examined the sand.

The thing’s body was completely empty from creating this sandstorm.

“That’s it.”

I saw the thing shining golden. The thing’s main body hidden in the sand was quite unsightly.

It looks like a newborn condor chick.

Although it adorned itself with a magnificent appearance, its main body looked so shabby. The sandstorm quickly subsided. The thing is calling the sand back to its main body again.

We can’t miss this chance.

I pulled out the dagger from the sheath on my thigh and gathered strength in my legs. I crudely poured in 30% of the mana from the newly filled mana stone and burst it.

“Urgh!”

A groan involuntarily escaped from the load on my body.

But the effect was certain. With the explosion from under my feet, my body rose into the air like a bullet. Then I connected with the wind. My body, already having gained momentum, moved so fast that even an SS-rank monster couldn’t instantly follow.

I could feel my whole body creaking. My shin bones broke, and my spine was greatly shaken. But it doesn’t matter.

I gained a moment’s time to aim at the thing, and that’s enough.

I threw the dagger with all my might.

The moment my dagger precisely pierced the thing’s main body, I shouted:

[Taika!]

He understood my call and raised his gaze.

[Now!]

I called lightning again with 30% of my mana.

Even if it’s just for a brief moment.

We just need to stop it long enough so it can’t put up its sand defense again.

Using the dagger I stabbed in as a conductor, lightning strikes down.

Zzzap, the lightning flashing through the sandstorm looked quite impressive even to me.

And above that.

A small point appears.

Taika’s tremendous mana dominates that space.

Everything is sucked towards the small point.

Taika’s ultimate technique from 10 years in the future.

Black Hole.

It was still lacking to be called a black hole, but it was enough to crush a top-tier monster.

For a moment, the world goes quiet.

Kyaaak!

The monster’s scream was heard.

And finally.

The storm stopped.