Girl in the Box: Please tell me why I was reincarnated as a mimic monster!

Miuya and the others have already gone back, and they will come again tomorrow. Then, Li will take them to their place. Li felt a little bad about keeping Xihongshi waiting all this time, so he'll make it up to him here.

"It can't be that exaggerated..." Li said with a wry smile. "Sorry to have kept you waiting. If you're free now, how about we go get something to eat together? It's on me."

Chapter 40 Battle Situation

Passing through a teleportation array set up in a hidden location, Demon King Xuanze arrived at the other side of this continent, accompanied by an elite squad of demons.

The world is currently engulfed in the flames of war between kingdoms, and perhaps only the duchies remain unscathed, while the duchies have suffered heavy losses. During their period of rest and recuperation, some countries are still putting up a stubborn resistance, while others have already been defeated or even destroyed by the overwhelming violence of the kingdoms.

The duchy was very lucky; a silly girl lived in their country, and this silly girl brought almost everything around her under her protection, including the duchy itself.

Thanks to this silly girl's efforts, the principality preserved its core strength. Xuanze couldn't help but admire her stubbornness and pay her respects.

At the very least, as a "hero," he is incompetent and even needs to learn from this silly girl.

After discovering the kingdom's movements, Li began to take action, traveling all over the world. Perhaps only she could come and go freely anywhere in this world.

Thanks to her, Xuanze also received a lot of help, and this teleportation array was one of them.

Using this teleportation array, they could reach the other end of the route. Li had also asked Ning to make some simple duplicate maps for them. The maps were marked with detailed information and indicated the location of the teleportation array.

With this map and these teleportation arrays set up around the world, the work of providing support around the world will be easier, and we can buy as much time as possible for the crucial 'gear'.

The kingdom's army is rapidly advancing through various countries, aided by the power of the holy sword. Their sole objective is world domination. While their motives are unclear, isn't this all too cliché?

However, Xuanze didn't care about any of that. He only had one thing to do: revenge, revenge against this damned kingdom. Therefore, he was going to disrupt the kingdom's plans.

Xuanze, the representative of the demon race, and Savi, the representative of the duchy, recently reached a consensus to cooperate in order to break the kingdom's conspiracy. The first large-scale cooperation between humans and demons in history took place in their generation.

In order to help other countries as much as possible and to gain their assistance and support, they divided the coalition forces into more than a dozen teams to go to various countries to provide support.

Savi and other trusted generals led a portion of the fighting force to advance across the world, having agreed that they would immediately join the nearest team to help any group that resolved or was unable to resolve the kingdom's invasion.

Xuanze led one of his teams here. This place is within the territory of the Aisin Gioro royal family, and everyone can clearly see several airships floating in the sky above the twin moons.

I'd heard Li say before that these things have names, but even if I knew, what difference would it make? What they're supposed to do wouldn't change.

Shoot them down, repel them, or distract them. That's all they have to do.

In order to gain world domination as quickly as possible, the kingdom split up its fighting force. Thanks to them, Xuanze and his people now had room to resist.

The kingdom is a dangerous force that possesses ten holy swords. Even if the swords are not wielded by the hero himself, they are powerful enough to suppress a city. Not to mention, the kingdom has entrusted these ten holy swords to their most elite henchman, "Ghost," an enemy that Xuanze would find troublesome even without the swords.

The kingdom was indeed able to eliminate all forces that did not obey them in the most efficient way, but they overlooked a series of people gathered around that dragon king.

“…Let’s go, everyone.” Xuanze led the way and left. “We should intercept them. Try not to get too close to these warships, just keep them occupied.”

The elite squad members all nodded. With such a small number of people, it was impossible to shoot down a warship, even with Xuanze present. This was all they could do; the rest was up to Xuanze.

The other squads have probably arrived here as well, and it's about time to begin the operation.

Xuanze began to circulate his magic, unfolding a magical circle in the dense forest. He aimed at the airships that could be seen through the gaps in the leaves, and roughly estimated that there were more than twenty of them.

Ugh, what's the point of aiming? Just fire a map-wide attack directly at it.

“The Cursed Tombstone”.

Finding the troublesome, Xuanze unleashed the curse magic that the vampire clan was most skilled at. The magic circle turned blackish-gray, and ominous magic power stirred, then transformed into dozens of huge black tombstones.

The tombstone burst forth from the dense forest, striking most of the airships and piercing their hulls. The blood-red runes flashing on the tombstone crawled up the hulls like living creatures. Using the tombstone as a signal, the forces gathered here all began to move.

Those who could get close to the airships followed Xuanze into the sky, dodging the secondary guns of the airships while rapidly approaching them, and then landed on the deck to begin a melee.

The airships that were not caught in the surprise attack were subjected to magical attacks from the ground. The magic was shot at the airships from all directions. Although the power was not great, there were occasional ritual magic-level attack spells hidden among them.

Although these airships are sturdy, because they are mass-produced, their quality is not as satisfactory as that of the main battleships, and they will also crash after being attacked to a certain degree.

Therefore, those airships with spare capacity simply could not ignore these ground-based disruptors and had to engage them with their main and secondary guns.

Xuanze's surprise attack was effective. The kingdom's original rhythm was disrupted, and the command system was thrown into chaos due to the fighting. It would be impossible to fight back properly in the short term.

Before that, Xuanze needed to find the fleet's commander-in-chief, who was also the wielder of the Holy Sword. He went straight to the airship that was clearly the command ship. Xuanze's appearance attracted the attention of the royal soldiers on the deck, who drew their weapons to threaten him.

Compressing magic power under his feet, Xuanze stomped heavily onto the deck, instantly shattering the entire deck of the airship. Magic power burst from the cracks, blowing all the kingdom's soldiers into the air. As for where they would fall, that was up to their own fate.

Xuanze's violent actions terrified some of the Kingdom's soldiers who were watching from afar, and they fled without hesitation after noticing the gaze. Once again, Xuanze used extremely violent methods to break into the ship's cabin and enter the interior, immediately locking onto the commander and suppressing him.

Xuanze roughly pinned the man to the ground and found that he had already passed out from fear, foaming at the mouth. After observing the situation in the command room, Xuanze concluded that the man was indeed the commander.

But—where did the Holy Sword go?

Chapter 41 Berserker

There is something wrong.

This was the first thought that popped into Xuanze's mind.

None of the warships here exuded the aura of the Holy Sword. Xuanze only wanted to end the battle as soon as possible, so he used such an aggressive method, but he did not encounter any ghosts wielding the Holy Sword.

and……

"big boss!"

A winged bird-man demon flew through the sky, where magical light crisscrossed, and landed beside Xuanze. His face was filled with terror, and he was covered in cold sweat.

“Calm down,” Xuanze said calmly. “What happened?”

He was a scout sent by Xuanze in advance to go to the Aisin Gioro royal family to spread intelligence and let them choose their side. This matter should have been delayed for a while because of the royal family's pointless pride and other messy things. Why did he come back so quickly?

Under Xuanze's calm words, the bird-man demon began to compose himself. After catching his breath and recovering from the fatigue of flying back to the battlefield, he revealed the astonishing truth.

"Love, love, love for the New Gioro royal family! The main city! Has fallen! ——————!"

Puff-!

Blood blossomed magnificently before Xuanze. The rough black greatsword pierced through the birdman's body and stopped in front of Xuanze. Internal organs, intestines, meat scraps, and fat clung stickily to the gaping wound in his chest.

The crimson heart was still beating in that spot, and Xuanze coldly watched the scene. The birdman's eyes were wide open, but they had lost focus, and crimson foam billowed from his mouth. He was dead.

Xuanze was clearly aware of this, so he did not go to save him.

Tear!

A hand reached out from behind, grabbed the heart, and then violently crushed it, causing blood to bloom once again. This hand tore the birdman in two.

Yes, exactly what it means—torn in two alive. You might have heard of the absurd scenes of tearing Japanese soldiers apart with bare hands in anti-Japanese war dramas on Earth, but here, in another world, such a thing is also possible.

And it's far more impactful than those ridiculous anti-Japanese war dramas!

A stick figure covered in blood... no, a gaunt man, carrying a massive, oversized black sword that didn't fit his body at all, revealing scarlet fangs.

The giant sword in his hand was undoubtedly one of the "Holy Swords".

"—!"

The stick figure roared like a wild beast, wielding a giant sword with its seemingly fragile body, slashing at Xuanze.

Xuanze didn't retreat an inch. Instead, he stepped forward, rushed into the other person's arms, and then rammed his elbow into the other person's chest.

But, even though he should have been able to knock this guy away in one fell swoop, the stick figure didn't move an inch, looking down at Xuanze who had suddenly entered his arms, just like a wild beast staring at its prey.

“————!!!”

The stick figure roared again at extremely close range, causing Xuanze's eardrums to feel an unbearable stinging pain. After experiencing dizziness, the stick figure suddenly kicked Xuanze away.

boom! boom! boom--!

First, he grazed the deck and crashed into the handrail on the edge of the warship. Then, he knocked the handrail off and flew hard into the hull of another airship. He then broke through the hard hull and crashed into the ship's cabin before finally coming to a stop.

Xuanze pushed away the object pressing down on him, used magic to heal himself, and then stood up, leaning against the wall to compose himself.

what happened……?

Xuanze seized the opponent's weakness and rushed into his arms. He then channeled all his magic power and slammed his elbow into the opponent, but the effect was minimal, and he was even unharmed.

In this situation, Xuanze was kicked away by his opponent—yes, kicked away, sent flying that far. He crashed into things three times in a row, but thankfully he wasn't caught up in the magical battle in the sky, otherwise the situation would probably have been even worse.

If that kick had landed on an ordinary person, they would probably have been blown to pieces on the spot, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. Xuanze summoned a shield using the "Divine Weapon Register" at the last second to absorb some of the force and jumped backward, but he still took the kick, and the power of it was still so great.

Xuanze, who had been kicked here, was now in a state of turmoil. He had multiple broken ribs and the arm he used to hold up the shield was completely broken. He was only able to heal himself with magic after finally sorting out the chaotic magic.

Xuanze hadn't anticipated that kick at all. By the time he noticed it, he could only react in this emergency. Otherwise, he wouldn't have ended up in such a miserable state. He probably won't be able to bring that black coat back to Earth.

While he was healing himself, some Kingdom soldiers suddenly rushed out to kill him, but he killed them all. However, the stick figure was nowhere to be seen, and the airship had just self-destructed.

Where is the stick figure? Xuanze hadn't noticed its movements at all, but he had a bad feeling that he had to get back into the battle quickly.

“————!!!”

It was that beastly roar again, and it came from the airship not far away. Xuanze simply gave up on treatment and went into battle despite his injuries.

After a period of treatment, although not in his current condition, at least he could move his limbs properly. Xuanze jumped out of the large hole he had smashed and left the warship, using magic to quickly approach the warship that was roaring.

Screams, roars, cries of pain, and shouts of anger rose and fell, and the deck was in complete chaos. Xuanze could still see his men fighting hard in the midst of the chaos, many of whom were already seriously injured.

At the same time, he also saw the person who was indiscriminately slaughtering others. Anyone who got close to him would be dragged into the slaughter of this killing machine.

The stick figure roared wildly, swinging its giant sword erratically, destroying, slaughtering, tearing apart, and going berserk. No one could stop it, not even Xuanze himself, who found it extremely troublesome.

This is one of the enemies he least wants to face, possessing overwhelming power but only acting on instinct—the 'Berserker'.

Very difficult to deal with.

This is the type of enemy with the worst compatibility with Xuanze. His preferred fighting style is to adapt to the situation and use everything at his disposal to his advantage.

But in the face of such an enemy, all actions are futile. Tactics, combat power, magic, curses—even if all of these were used, they probably wouldn't be able to stop this killing machine.

And then there's the black holy sword in his hand—we still don't know what power that sword possesses, so is a temporary retreat the only option...?

Xuanze rushed onto the deck, cleared out the kingdom soldiers in the area, and threw them all towards the stick figure. His men were clever; after spotting the stick figure, they didn't approach it but instead engaged other enemies elsewhere, so there weren't many casualties. However, the battle had to end there.

Chapter 42 The Crazy Stickman

The stick figure was wreaking havoc on the deck, indiscriminately attacking and killing anyone it saw, like a mad dog.

In the blink of an eye, the deck of the warship had been covered with a red "carpet," and the stench of the carpet made Xuanze somewhat glad that he hadn't brought Silena along.

The stick figure killed the person in front of it, found that everyone nearby was dead, locked onto a person who came into view, and then suddenly kicked the ground with a loud bang, rushed towards that person, twisted his head off, and continued to slaughter the people around him.

Are you kidding me...? The kingdom actually released such a dangerous guy?

Even Xuanze felt utterly disgusted; the stick figure seemed like a monster condensed from all the kingdom's sins, constantly devouring lives.

He speculated that long before they arrived, the stick figure had already instinctively stormed into the capital of the Aisin Gioro royal family and begun a wanton massacre.

No one could stop this monster; it swept through the entire capital like a natural disaster. It should be completely gone now, just as the birdman said.

Xuanze could already picture the stick figure roaring atop a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, but he hadn't killed enough. The urge to kill had already taken over his thoughts. So, this thing came back to kill its own people? No wonder these warships were moving at such a leisurely pace.

"big boss!"

Upon seeing Xuanze, his subordinates immediately broke away from the battle and came to his side.

“Take our men and retreat. We can’t save the Aisin Gioro clan anymore.” Xuanze patted his shoulder. “I’m leaving it to you. I’ll go and hold off that ‘ghost’.”

Having finished speaking and explained the situation, Xuanze rushed into the chaotic battle. Although he knew that as a leader he shouldn't be at the forefront, he was currently the only one who could restrain that guy.

"Demon, Demon King!?"

The subordinates were surprised for a moment, then realized they couldn't help and began to relay the retreat information. They had already done enough, and besides, they hadn't received anything in return; they had already suffered a loss.

Their original purpose was to support other countries attacked by the kingdom and thereby borrow strength from other countries to resist the kingdom's invasion.

It seems that this operation can be temporarily suspended; the Aisin Gioro royal family has already been destroyed. Even if we go, it will be of no use.

The troops who had already broken free from the chaos of battle went to help their comrades who were deeply entangled in the fighting to escape, and then quickly left the battlefield. The magic squad that had been restraining the airships had also withdrawn from the teleportation array.

After everyone started to evacuate, the stick figure had already killed everyone on the entire airship. The monster could find people's locations by instinct without even looking, and then use overwhelming violence to destroy and kill them.

Because of this, the warship has been destroyed beyond recognition and has begun to fall. If you haven't seen this thing before, who knows what it is?

He destroyed the deck, tearing the people below to their deaths. He used his greatsword to destroy what appeared to be a power plant, detonating the compartment and killing a large number of people. He was wreaking havoc on everything in sight.

Good heavens, how does the kingdom plan to stop this monster?

After he had destroyed everything on the warship, he began looking for his next target. He locked onto the retreating demons and pounced on them like a mad dog, stepping over the falling debris.

"Where are you going, you dog?"

Boom-!

Immediately following was a heavy thud. The "monster" was kicked in the jaw by a tremendous force and sent flying back, crashing into the deck of an airship.

"Consider it a gift from me."

Xuanze used magic to hover in mid-air and looked at the spot where the "monster" had crashed; that kick was the heaviest physical attack he had ever been able to deliver.

After several consecutive amplifications and the use of divine weapon power to strengthen the kick as much as possible, the result was... the stick figure roared as it destroyed everything around it and stood up, locking onto Xuanze who had appeared in its field of vision.