A Wild Last Boss Appeared! (野生のラスボスが現れた!)

We'd like to talk to you alone for a bit.

Could you come with us,

Dina?

Now then, where should we start?

No, we won't beat around the bush.

Who are you?

You claim to have been my advisor two hundred years ago,

but that's a lie, isn't it?

Yes, it's a lie.

Of course it is.

After all, when I met her...

It's been so long!

I've been waiting for your return for the past two hundred years!

The tower was filthy.

If she had been waiting for her mistress's return,

she should have at least kept the top floor clean.

Meaning she wasn't there for that long.

You're not one of the citizens who lived under us either, are you?

If you were, then Libra would have remembered you.

Precisely.

I'm neither your advisor nor your subordinate.

I simply knew you had an NPC with that setting in the tower,

so I made use of it.

NPC, huh?

If you know that term,

it can only mean...

you're another player!

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So Dina wasn't an NPC.

Though both Aries and Aigokeros recognized her as the advisor...

Right!

If I felt like it, I could implant false memories and personalities too.

You manipulated Aries and Aigokeros's memories, didn't you?

Yes!

Come on! Think back on it harder!

I was always there at Mistress Lufas's side in the Tower, wasn't I?!

Oh! The person that blended into the background!

I did it to Aries when I first met and questioned him.

Aigokeros was cooperating with the devilfolk,

so I planted several false memories

while he was in their castle.

Understood.

Libra didn't recognize you as an ally

because you couldn't manipulate her memories.

It's exactly as you say.

Golems don't have memories, just records.

So a technique like memory manipulation doesn't affect them.

So it even works on those more powerful than her.

That means there's a good chance she's manipulated me too.

And she mentioned the devilfolk's castle?

I see...

Speaking of, how much have you manipulated our memory?

I couldn't.

Come again?

Your will is much stronger than you think.

Even if I had tried to plant false memories in you,

I would have needed to constantly use the technique for a whole year at least.

That's why the only way I could fool you

was by taking up the position of the NPC advisor in your tower.

I could only manage to nudge your thoughts

to subconsciously keep you from questioning me.

Frankly, I was shocked.

I never expected you would be a player.

That was a miscalculation.

I should also add one correction.

I'm not a player.

Then what...?

To be more precise, I'm a beta tester.

The company hired me to beta test the new race,

half-elf, that was planned to be introduced with the next update.

So that explains it.

That's why you knew about the tower.

Yes.

I could use the company's computers to look at all the data on the players' forces.

Come on, you shouldn't be letting beta testers see that!

You said that you manipulated Aigokeros's memories when he was in the devilfolk's castle?

That sounds to me like you were in that castle as well.

That's correct, Mistress Lufas.

I'm able to freely come and go from the devilfolk's castle.

To be honest, I was planning to keep playing this role of your advisor

and get you and the devilfolk to crush each other,

but I suppose I underestimated you a bit.

So... I'll need to take another course of action.

Oh?

I'll conquer you now and make you my pawn.

There's still much I need you to do for me.

Can you?

When you're Level 300?

That Level is obviously a lie too!

Then what's your true strength?

It goes without saying.

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Level 1,000?!

She's just as strong as I am?!

Allow me to introduce myself properly.

I am Venus.

One of the devilfolk's Seven Luminaries,

The Metal, Venus.

Pleased to make your acquaintance.

Venus.

Now no one else can interfere.

Come, let us fight to the death,

my beloved Lufas Maphaahl!

Now, come forth.

My summoned women.

Crush all creation with thine might!

Oh? Interesting.

A Metal spell?

Cleta!

That's—

It can damage me?

No.

It's our turn now!

Alchemize!

Psycho Throw!

Exgate.

I'll return these to you.

Each one, of course.

Is that even possible?!

Exgate.

Auxo!

This is Water magic!

This woman has both Metal and Water affinities?!

Now, sprout for me.

Thou art the breath of life.

Thou art a magnificent tree!

What a pain.

Then we'll use this technique.

Meteor Kick!

It's futile.

Exgate!

So fast!

That won't work on me.

Even if you are Level 1,000, you're still a back-line mage.

Physical attacks from a back-liner

won't even shave off a hundredth of my HP,

let alone a tenth!

I see.

How impressive, Lufas Maphaahl.

That blow took quite a lot out of me.

Dina.

You can't beat us.

Megrez was a back-line mage like you,

but he prepared plenty of countermeasures against front-liners.

However, there was none of that in your last attack.

You aren't able to implement any of the front-liner counter strategies.