"Give me my helmet back."
[How...?]
The Succubus Queen didn't even realize the helmet had been taken from his hand and slowly stepped backwards.
[My powers are not restrained at all in this world. I'm... I'm at full power!]
At the same time, she said that, and Helièna spread her aura throughout the surroundings. Everyone on the battlefield who could not completely overcome her aura swayed.
[Kugh...Khaaaaaaaaarh!]
[Kihigh, Helièna...!]
The gigantic armoured shark messed up the Army of Brilliant Light against its will, despite its enormous power, due to Helièna's pheromones, and Natière was in an identical situation: she could not make rational decisions. Controlling the opposite sex and destroying the reason of the same sex – the power that still applied even in the same league!
[But why do you not love me!?]
She hadn't reached 7th class with just 6th class stats for nothing. With regards to mental and psychological magic, she was the strongest!
Was there a 7th class that could face her head-on? Would the Heaven's Army Battalion Commander be able to counter her magic and rip her wings off?
At least, the Heaven's Army didn't think so. Even though Spiera had reported to her higher-ups multiple times despite her chaotic mental state, the Heaven's Army did not send a Battalion Commander. She also despaired after a few minutes.
[Yes, for the Heaven's Army, it'd be better for these guys to exhaust each other out.]
[That means....]
[There is nothing we can do here. It will be for the best if we can retreat like this, but...]
The majority of the angels had fallen for Helièna's charm, except for herself and a few others, and were fighting one another. Retreat? Was that even possible? As the leader of this small group, she couldn't flee by herself.
[Spiera-nim...]
[Resolve yourselves. The grace that Heaven has given us, it's time to pay them back by burning our souls, kugh!]
However, even when she tried to straighten her will, Helièna's magic was trying to pollute her. How unreasonable and violent of an ability was this? She subconsciously clenched her teeth.
[The efforts and power I've built up all my life are collapsing thanks to a single Succubus. ….. Kraaaaar!]
[Natière!]
[Kugh, this dumb shark is completely doomed!]
The Heaven's Army and the Army of Brilliant Light were rapidly losing their battle power, and the Battalion Commanders Kelatuke and Natière were also expending each other's mana! A single Succubus Queen was toying around with everyone on the battlefield.
[Here, look at me, LOOK.AT.ME!]
"You're noisy."
Well, other than Yu IlHan's group that is.
[How? Am I not lovely? How! Huh? HOW!]
"I said you're not my type…. Liera."
With a laid-back reply, he handed his helmet backwards. Liera, who had received the helmet, looked at Yu IlHan with worried eyes for a moment, but eventually put it on Erta, who was having the hardest time among them. And magically, Erta's shaking stopped right then.
"Just what is this helm... oh, it's one of Yu IlHan's crafts."
"So you accept it with just that."
[Yu IlHan, Yu IlHan. Yu IlHan. Just what are you, darling? Just what did you do to become like that?]
The Succubus Queen didn't seem interested in the tragedies unfolding in the background she had caused, focusing only on Yu IlHan. The screams and exclamations of despair were ringing out like a BGM, and she asked Yu IlHan several times.
[No one, not even our mighty Ruler, was completely free from my charm. However, darling is just a lower existence. Was that helmet a bluff? Is there still a hidden artifact?]
"There's nothing like that."
[Really? There's really nothing like that?]
Helièna glistened her eyes as she approached Yu IlHan. Yu IlHan thought for a moment but eventually decided it was better not to kill her now.
It was just a simple logic of rock-paper-scissors. Yu IlHan had no confidence in killing the other 7th-class Battalion Commanders, but Helièna could make the two self-destruct. And Helièna herself could not win against him. Then it would be wisest to use her to buy time and make the battle as advantageous to him as possible.
The only thing that tugged at his mind in this situation was the Heaven's Army, and, looking at them, they seemed like they would self-destruct any time soon.
The fact that Spiera was among them made Yu IlHan feel weird... but he shook his head. By killing Echjar and saving Spiera, he had done all he could for her and set his heart straight. Since he had decided to leave the Heaven's Army completely, he could not do something foolish and end up unable to protect the others just because of them.
[Darling, look at me. Don't look at the others.]
Helièna was still stuck to Yu IlHan. However, it wasn't like the others were free from her. The endless stream of mana emanating from her did not let them go.
No, in fact, she was even absorbing the mana from the ones charmed by her!
[Darling, tell me more about yourself. Open your heart a little more.]
"I have no intention to join the Destruction Demon Army, nor do I have anything to tell you."
[I'm only curious. Just what did you experience for your heart to be frozen over...]
"Well, I'm open to guesses."
At that point, Helièna also noticed that Yu IlHan was stalling for time. Even though he was trying to weaken the other 7th-class Battalion Commanders using her! Despite that, she did not stop using her power. She was set on thinking about how to make Yu IlHan hers.
[Is it because your heart is full already? Then...]
But at one moment, Helièna's gaze shifted from Yu IlHan to Liera, Na YuNa, and Erta.
[Do I just need to clean those girls up first?]
"...."
Yu IlHan immediately picked up his spear upon hearing that. Hell blossomed at the tip of his spear, spread to his body and Yumir's back, and ruled a certain region of space. The skill he activated was Falling Down.
"Then I can only switch my plans too."
[Kyak, finally a reaction! Yes, that's it!]
Helièna did not plan to give up on Yu IlHan at all. The reason she tried threatening his companions was also to create a gap in Yu IlHan's heart to charm him.
However, Yu IlHan had no intention of engaging her in a staring contest. The reason he had been lying back until now was that Helièna's attention was focused entirely on him. It was a completely different matter if she switched her attention to his companions.
"Miss YuNa, please buff me."
"I was waiting for this~."
"Liera and Erta, please block this woman's attack."
"Got it."
"Plenty."
"Mir, I'll move a little faster from now on. Synchronizing with Dad, you can do it, right?"
[Yeah!]
He activated God Force to enhance his body muscles beyond their limits and gripped the Eight-tailed dragon spear. Despite that, Helièna's expression was as laid-back as ever. Even while knowing that Yu IlHan's heart was closed shut, she had confidence in her power.
[I have no intentions of attacking you, darling, but why are you bullying me? You like me better than those things, no?]
"Hah."
All men are hers – this was the fact that she had treated as the unsullied 'truth' for tens of thousands of years. There was no way she could accept that it was broken. This was Helièna's biggest mistake.
"So words don't work on you. No, you didn't intend to have a conversation with anyone until now. Since activating your power would suffice."
[Your eyes became scary. Are you really going to pierce me with that spear? Do you want to bind me with these chains?]
The soulflame chains will not work on this succubus. Her charm was effective even against thought-souls! If he tried to use them forcibly, the power would backfire on him.
Yu IlHan, who instinctively realized this, clicked his tongue, put away the soulflame chains, and instead covered his spear with stronger flames. The translucent flames heated under Eternal Flame's control.
[Really? Are you really going to... Kyak!]
Yu IlHan's spear sliced past Helièna. It wasn't that the charm had disrupted the trajectory, but that, at the moment he struck, she condensed her magic and shot it to deflect the spear. Yu IlHan's Record skill activated, recording the mana pattern she just used. He wouldn't be fooled by the same technique again.
[You attacked me.] Helièna muttered, touching the slight burn on her shoulder, since she couldn't completely dodge that attack. Rather than by the fact that she was injured by a lower existence, she seemed more shocked that Yu IlHan had attacked her.
[You really attacked me!]
"Tch, Mir!"
[Got it!]
Now that he no longer needed to stall for time, he couldn't put up with her childish behaviour. Regardless of Helièna's reaction, Yu IlHan poised himself once more, synced his breath with Yumir, and charged to pierce with the Spear of Untraceable Trajectory at full power.
[Kyak!]
[Hick!]
[Eeeeek! I hate you!]
"Ah..."
However, as he had expected, Helièna had exceptional talent not only in mental magic but also in all kinds of skills that required the use of mana. Seeing her dodge Yu IlHan's strike that could instantly kill dragons with magic with varying mana patterns and their applications that Yu IlHan had never seen before, he could not help but be dumbfounded.
[The skill Record has reached level 47.]
However, that also became a good stimulus for Yu IlHan, who had not experienced difficulties for a long time. Facing off against the Succubus Queen who had lived for tens of thousands of years allowed him to see what he couldn't before just by swinging his spear, and to see a path he could not walk!
[The skill Record has reached level 48.]
[The skill God Force has reached level 12.]
[So you really are attacking me straight on. Without any hesitation, with the intent to kill me...!]
"Hhp!"
Ignoring her shock and exclamation, he fought her for an unknown amount of time afterwards, and finally a pattern repeated. Yu IlHan did not miss that opportunity and pierced ten times at once, and those strikes created holes on Helièna's abdomen, shoulders, and thighs.
[Critical Hit!]
[Kyahak!]
Blood scattered in the air. Yu IlHan got hit by the blood in the air on purpose before they was vaporized by the flames in his domain. The moment he absorbed the blood of a living 7th-class, the information he had about the Destruction Demon Army and succubi was rapidly renewed.
[The skill Record has reached level 50.]
"Fuu, very good."
He wiped the blood on his face and licked his hand with a smile. Although he was simply happy with the skill's growth, he looked like a madman on the outside. However.
[Aah.]
Seeing that, Helièna's expression finally changed for the first time.
[Aaaaah...! Yes, that was it!]
"You finally feel like fighting?"
However, it was too late for that now. Yu IlHan had already acquired enough records about Helièna. Even though Helièna's magical power had suddenly increased by two, he had the confidence to face her. Since he had inflicted fatal wounds on her as well, what was left was to only pierce her heart by charging forward with Yumir!
[Yes, I finally get it.]
However, just as Yu IlHan poised himself to attack for who knows what number of times this is, she suddenly said something completely incomprehensible.
[So darling is the Fifth.]
"What...?"
[...Wait, let's talk again after we clean this place up.]
She, who had been focusing on Yu IlHan from the moment she appeared until now, suddenly said something nonsensical before turning around. Looking at her defenceless state, Yu IlHan was about to pierce her without any hesitation, but he ended up not doing so by himself.
"IlHan...?"
"It's fine. I'm completely fine."
Liera, who checked up on him, voiced her worry in a trembling voice, but Yu IlHan shook his head, saying he was completely fine, and spoke.
"Can you not feel it?"
"Feel what?... Oh?"
[That annoying aura disappeared.]
Yes. From the moment Helièna turned her back on them, the power of her charm no longer extended to them. Despite being so obsessed with him just before, she seemed to have completely given up on Yu IlHan and his companions.
The aura that had extended towards them was completely retracted back to Helièna and poured back out towards the three other factions, which were in a mess of a fight.
[Kugh...Kyahk!]
[Uhuoooooooooooh! I curse you! I SHALL CURSE YOU!]
The battlefield was crumbling rapidly. The Heaven's Army and the Army of Brilliant Light were almost wiped out, while Natière and Kelatuke fought each other to the point of half-death.
Spiera? She was caught up in the massive battle between the two 7th-class beings, was gravely injured, her consciousness was becoming foggy, and she was ultimately subjected to Helièna's charm. All of this was Helièna's doing while she struggled with just one person – Yu IlHan.
Yu IlHan felt his strength drain as he looked at that. Did the enemies he defeated not feel like this? Although he wasn't infected, seeing the succubus do what he could never even attempt made him feel so insignificant.
"What the hell? She's completely toying with all of them..."
"She's one of the three strongest Battalion Commanders even in the Destruction Demon Army! Do you even know how much I panicked after seeing her so suddenly!?"
Erta, who finally regained her calm, complained to Yu IlHan while pinching his cheeks. However, Yu IlHan could not reply to her. He was completely absorbed in the Succubus Queen in front of him right now.
[Well, it's time to end this.]
Helièna playfully raised one hand in the air and shook it. The mana of charm, which had grown much larger than before due to her absorption of the mana from everyone here, instantly reversed itself and returned to them with the wave of her hand. The next moment,
[Kahk.]
[If it's her wish.]
[I shall gladly!]
They started committing suicide.