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Axis Intervention

Lightly humming to myself, I considered a few issues I realized we were going to have. First, I have no food to feed myself or the knights that were following me. Second, while I have some money, it would not be enough for an extended stay in the City of Hot Springs. The third and final issue was that I was bored out of my mind. We had been moving at a pretty fast pace, but not as fast as we could have. The knights luckily weren't the issue. They had brought horses and were able to keep up with the swarm of flying dolls no problem. The issue was Kazumas party. Aqua had decided to also go to the city and had dragged the poor souls of her party with her, willing or not. Chris (*cough* Eris *cough*) was also following us. She had asked for her daggers back on day 1, which made some sense, but made my life a lot harder as my more overpowered move, Descendant of Caenbonnog, required two daggers to activate. I did get a kick out of using my other new move, Family Jewels. The move, quite simply, was to kick someone in their Family Jewels.

Sighing and staring out in front of me, I leaned my back against the head of the goliath doll that I was riding. Chris was on the other shoulder, getting doll riding privileges for allowing me to use her daggers. The schmucks of Kazuma's party and poor Yunyun were forced to walk. It was only day three, and I was impatient. And nothing good happens when I am impatient. As we crested a hill, my eyes lit up.

"I can see the city! Finally! Hahaha!"

A small cheer came up from the knights, and a much more muted cheer came from the crazy party. The only one who looked disappointed at the journey's end was Darkness. Three guesses as to why and the first two don't count…

"I can't wait to sleep in a real bed," Kazuma said, dreamily staring into the sky.

"I can't wait to get paid for killing two demon king generals and ending the threat of the mobile fortress destroyer," I grumbled to myself.

As we approached the city, I convinced the dolls to wait outside the city for me. Sure, having an army at my disposal was nice, but on the other hand, since the Axis cult hated undead, they would hate my army, no matter what explanations I used. Marching into the city, the group organized themselves into a sort of parade march. Aqua led the procession, followed by the knights who formed two rows around me. In the back, was Kazuma, then Yunyun and Darkness next to each other and Eris and Megumin next to each other. We passed the front gate, the guards allowing us to pass due to all of the Axis iconography on the leading people. Once in the city proper, we were met with the deafening cheers of hundreds of people. Apparently I was a semi well known figure due to the knowledge of my ending of Beldia and the Destroyer being widespread.

"Behold! The Demon Slayer, Reisen Udongien Inaba!"

Cheering met Aqua's proclamation, much to my increasing horror and embarrassment.

"We come with news! The Demon Slayer has ended Vanir! The Duke of Hell!"

The cheers got so loud I had to flare my Lunatic Eyes so that I could make the sound more bearable. As our procession continued, Aqua continued to proclaim my presence, to the city, all the way to the Cathedral, where several aged arch priests and the pope(?) of the Axis church were residing. They were all lined up on the steps and bowed as we approached. As the procession stopped, I walked out in front and bowed to the church officials. I didn't exactly know the customs, but I would rather not anger the leaders of one of two of the religions in the world.

After a long introduction and a thoroughly useless amount of praise for my hard work, and gratitude for all I had done, I was given not a house, but a mansion in the city proper, with its own personal hot spring. Inviting all of the people in our group, I got a bunch of crabs (for free) and good quality alcohol (also for free). I vaguely remember there being a trick where you heat up the alcohol in the crab and it was supposed to taste really good, so I wanted to test it out.

Walking through the front door with the large crate of crabs, and case of alcohol, I was met with cheers in the house.

"Reisen, I didn't know you were rich." Megumin said, drooling over the crabs.

"I'm not yet, I just got it for free from the market."

"Ooh, this is the good stuff."

"Hold it! Don't drink any without me!"

"I want some too!"

The kitchen quickly dissolved into chaos as people yelled over each other for the alcohol. That is, until Aqua spoke up.

"All of you wait! There is this really cool trick you can do with the crabs and bubbly. All we have to do is cook the crab, and then eat some. Then we can put the drink in the shell, heat it up, and drink it. It tastes absolutely divine."

Everyone stopped for a second before they all bum rushed the crabs. I had never personally seen a pot filled with water and boiling with crabs in it in my entire life. Heck, I had hardly ever seen things in the kitchen ever go so well unless it was by trained chefs. Once the food was completed, it was eaten in record time as people once more raced to the alcohol. I personally only filled one shell with alcohol and found that while I didn't like the taste of alcohol, I did like the crab. Another thing I found was that I have zero alcohol tolerance, leading to me drinking an entire bottle on my own and being completely plastered until I fell asleep on top of Eris. How do I know I fell asleep on top of Eris? Because when I woke up, we were cuddling together on the floor under the table.

Deciding that I would rather not find out if Eris was ok with cuddling an adorable Lunar Rabbit, I finagled my way out of her grasp. Making my way out from under the table, my head popped out to the sight of everyone down for the count. Knights, adventurers, and goddesses, all were sleeping. Smirking slightly, I slipped out of the mansion. Walking around the town, I looked around as I tried to find the headwaters for the springs. The problem I was having was that the damn city was surrounded by mountains. Fuming internally I decided to do the one thing I didn't want to do.

I asked for directions.

Apparently once you have killed three very large threats with no casualties, people will give you anything. Anything included directions, a shortcut, being carried up, no questions asked entrance to the spring itself, and then when I told them that no one could know I was up there, promptly left me alone in the spring room alone.

Looking over my repertoire of spells, I was both disappointed and eager. For one, my most powerful attacks right now were all physical, which I couldn't use against Hans the slime. On the bright side, I still had my full spell card list and a slew of Lunar spells to hopefully end the dude.

It was then that I ran into another issue. Boredom. You see, apparently, Hans decided that he would only appear at night for some reason or another. So, being bored, I started to work on using my Lunatic eyes. So far, I had used it to make illusions, and that was it. But the Lunatic Eyes weren't Illusion control, they were fucking Wave control. So now that I was starting to take on more and more challenging foes, I would need to be able to use the Lunatic Eyes like a tool box instead of just a hammer. Since I had all of the time in the world, I began exploring.

"This is broken. I can just kill someone with a thought." Turns out that being able to change every wave into a heat wave, and directing them all at one point, made a fucking mini sun right where I wanted one. Alternatively, I could do the opposite, and then release them all to make an implosion of energy. I had to contain all of these experiments with layers of waves to counteract whatever happened in the room. Humming slightly as I stroked my chin I looked to my left to a perfect copy of myself, who was doing the same thing.

"What do you think?"

"It's good, but it can be better."

"More waves?"

"I was thinking of more focused waves."

"That could work, but that could lead to an unstable chain reaction if it is too powerful."

"Fair, fair."

I was probably going insane with boredom, which explained the fact that I created an illusion of myself to talk to. Looking outside, I saw that the sun was just starting to set.

"Really wish I had Lunar Blades, they would have made my job a lot easier."

Granting myself invisibility with my lunatic eyes, I hid in the corner of the large room and waited for the absolute bastard of a slime to appear. Within an hour of the sun setting, Hans stepped in. There would be no monologues, no declarations of intent. I was going to simply kill him.

Wave Sign: "Mind Shaker"

Once more, thousands of bullets sprayed out from the hovering card as I activated flight and deactivated my Lunatic Eyes. Feeling that I was down to about 79% of my full mana, I fired a Lunar Ray at Hans.

Hans, knowing his cover was blown, ditched his human skin suit, charging towards me at his full speed. "Hmph, so you saw through my disguise did you? It matters not, I will devour you like all of the others. For I am Hans, the Poison Slime."

Dodging to the left, I fired another ray and sprayed a large cluster of moon shaped danmaku at him. Hans tanked the hit, spreading himself out a bit to deny me space to maneuver. Sadly for him, I had a way of making more space. Three Lunar Beams later and there was no more ceiling. Hans was hit directly with one of them, but dodged the other two.

55%

Lunatic sign: "Visionary Tuning"

Another spell card activated, this one on the opposite side of the building from the other, which continued to spray bullets. The two patterns intertwined with each other making it even harder for Hans to dodge, not that it was easy in the first place due to his size. Firing another couple of Lunar Rays at Hans, I fly to the right to dodge a spear of slime that was sent my way. Doing a quick flyby where I fired more moon shaped danmaku bullets at Hans I frowned. Sure, I wasn't getting damaged, but I wasn't doing any damage either. We were stuck in a stalemate, where I was guaranteed to lose due to being limited to my mana pool.

43%

Loafing Sign: "Idling Wave"

Spread Sign: "Invisible Full Moon"

Theme: "[Hardstyle] Lunatic Eyes: Invisible Full Moon"

I had found out through trial and error that the theme didn't cost any mana and also made Danmaku bullets stronger. Having four of my five spell cards active already, I flew to the center of the battlefield and faced down.

Lunar Eyes: "Tele-Mesmerism"

16%

Flying down and landing on the ground, I faced Hans. His form was being constantly battered by danmaku bullets, which were slowly shaving him down. I knew it wouldn't be enough though. So I mustered the last of my mana into my Lunatic Eyes and did the equivalent of a spirit bomb. Focussing all of the waves in the area onto Hans. The waves all exploded outward, ripping Hans to pieces and sending me flying back. I landed on the ground hard, groaning in pain. Trying to stand up, I found it impossible to even move my limbs.

"Ah, mana exhaustion, I forgot that existed."

Laying there on my side, I had a wonderful view of a mini Hans, trying and failing to escape the wrath of all five of my buffed spell cards. Watching as Mind Shaker ended, I hoped desperately that Hans wouldn't notice me laying there. He seemed to be a bit preoccupied with dodging danmaku to see me, but once the spell cards ended, it would be all too easy for him to simply move over to me and kill me.

After about six minutes, all that was left was Tele-Mesmerism. My Theme had ended a couple of minutes earlier. Even then, the last spell card ended, leaving me with about 2% of my mana, and the ability to move again. Standing to my feet, I shakily looked down at Hans in all of his 6 inch tall glory. Pointing a finger gun at him, I fired a Lunar Ray, killing Hans even as he spat curses at me. Laying down on the broken and battered floor, I faced the sky, looking at the moon as I fell asleep.

?

The prospective surrogate had nearly died. Again. This called for drastic measures. Ones that would draw attention to itself from others that it would rather not deal with. Humans, for all of their uses, were not the smartest, especially when given power beyond their meager comprehension.

You have gained: [Blessing of the Moon]

All Lunar Magic is free when the moon is out

All Lunar Magic does double damage when the moon is out

A few allies have come to meet you

Lunar Hopping now costs 50% less.

A second wish is granted upon the killing of the Demon King by: ?