Overlord (LN)

With an awwwwrblargh, she vomited a mass of swarming flies.

“You! Is that power connected to the Demon Gods? In that case—”

White vapor spread from Evileye, as though to meet the attack.

Ice-type attacks were a good response, but they could not completely neutralize the swarm. The ideal method would be spells that created blasts or explosions to disperse the fly swarms.

She had made a mistake.

Entoma imagined how Evileye would look when the maggots ripped her to shreds, but the spell she had used as a counterattack exceeded her predictions.

As they touched the vapors, the flies fell to the ground one by one. Said vapors then enveloped Entoma’s body. At that moment, Entoma was wracked by incredible agony.

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“Abbbaahhhhh!”

The entomancer’s face emitted a cloud of steam and deformed, as though someone had poured acid on it.

Evileye’s objective had been to negate her opponent’s breath attack, but she had not expected it to reveal her enemy’s true face.

“Oi, oi, did it work?”

Gagaran had her spiked warhammer raised and she was looking for a chance to approach her opponent. As expected of an excellent warrior, she had probably sensed that this was the deciding moment of the battle. In truth, given their opponent’s fighting power, they had to follow up on this attack and finish the fight quickly.

Gagaran could not approach the enemy because the ten meter-long insect was thrashing about wildly, preventing her from getting close. However, it felt like futile resistance from a defeated enemy.

“What on earth was that spell?”

Evileye answered Tia’s question:

“It’s an insect-killing spell, [Verminbane]. There was an insectile Demon God among the Demon Gods 200 years ago. So I invented this spell to wipe out the insects it summoned. Ah, well, it’s something like a unique creation.”

“Oi! Will this spell harm us?”

“It won’t. It’s especially effective against vermin, but it’s non-toxic towards other living creatures.”

“...Her face melted.”

“Tia, that’s because her true identity is... erk! No, that’s not a face!”

As though waiting for Evileye to exclaim just that, the maid’s pretty face slid stickily down and thudded to the ground. It looked like the skin had been peeled off her face, but that was not the case. The back of the face which had fallen onto the ground was covered in insectile legs.

“To think it was an insect shaped like a mask...”

“Orrgguooowh!”

The maid’s throat was exposed. There was a slit in that abnormally hard-looking throat, and a big chunk of something slime-covered fell out of it.

It resembled a wad of vomitus, but the deciding difference was the fact that it was still writhing on the ground.

“What the...”

Evileye could not help but hold her breath in the face of this chain of bizarre events. This was the first time she had experienced something like this in her long life.

“—A Lip Bug.”

That was the name Tia used to address the slime-covered, leech-like creature that had fallen to the stony ground.

“This insect devours the vocal cords of humanoids and uses them to produce the voices of its victims.”

The front of this pinkish leech-like creature creature resembled a pair of human lips, and it was gasping in the sweet voice which the maid had been using until just now.

As everyone stared at her, the maid slowly removed the hands covering her face. The visage thus revealed resembled that of an insect’s.

The members of Blue Rose could not help but back off as they saw that startling face of hers. While they had guessed at it once the Mask Bug fell off and the [Verminbane] had been visibly effective, the horrific sight before them still engendered fear in their hearts.

The fact that an inhuman monster like this had actually set foot into the world of humans made them all feel like they had been violated.

“YoU dARe... YOu DarE...”

That voice was cold, stiff and difficult to understand.

“Now that’s a cute voice. I prefer it when you sound like that!”

Gagaran’s words were practically dripping with hostility. She was the most compassionate of all of Blue Rose’s members. In all likelihood, she was thinking of all the victims of this girl. The grip on her weapon grew tighter.

“Pu, puUuNy hUmANsSs!”

During the previous battle, their opponent had always striven to present a calm, composed front. However, that composure was nowhere to be seen now.

That being the case, she was probably not going to hold back any more, and she would launch a furious onslaught.