"So you're Alan, eh? The shadows—they failed in the end, didn't they? No matter. By now, neither shadows nor swords can keep up with my power. I don't need you either."
Julian intensified the pitch-black aura enveloping him even further.
The dark aura gradually coalesced in his right hand, growing larger and larger.
"Alan, that doesn't look good… He's going to blow everything away. If that thing is released, not even the town behind us will be left standing—not a speck will remain."
Harold and the others wiped cold sweat from their brows as they looked toward Alan.
The pitch-black aura radiating from Julian was so sinister that even touching it would seem to drain one's life force.
"You're planning to destroy your own kingdom along with everything else?"
This is bad. I was napping so carelessly that I could've died without even noticing.
Cold sweat trickled down his back.
When was the last time he'd felt this way?
"Hmph. The foolish masses don't seem to understand my greatness. If I show them in a tangible form, even the most obtuse among them should grasp it—that I am the ruler chosen by God himself!"
Hearing this, Yalute couldn't hold back and shot back.
"That's absurd! A kingdom exists because of its people—a king exists because of its people! Are you satisfied being king of a kingdom of rubble?!"
"Foolish! People spring up again in no time—as many as you like! Besides, once I conquer the Raging Kingdom and bring back slaves, that will more than suffice for a while. Come to think of it…"
Julian grinned wickedly.
"I hear that country has Alan's lover, doesn't it? I'll make her my special pet and dote on her! I'll even grant you the privilege of watching from the afterlife with your finger in your mouth! Hear the sound of destruction—Tyrant Rave!"
Julian thrust his clenched right fist straight forward, launching the maximally expanded sphere of darkness toward Alan and the others.
"…I won't let you. [Reverse]!"
The black torrent of despair enveloped Alan and his companions entirely.
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"Now then, even I grow somewhat weary from using this much power. What was destroyed can simply be rebuilt. As for the rest, I suppose I'll leisurely rebuild my kingdom for my own sa—Wha—?!"
After the black torrent unleashed by the tyrant subsided, Alan and the others stood there, unchanged.
Moreover, Marquis Round and his companions—who should have been riddled with wounds—were completely healed. Even more than that, the allied forces' elites who had fallen as shields were alive again.
"What on earth just happened…?"
Not only Julian, the enemy, but also Marquis Round and the others, who had been prepared to die, all shared the same question.
"Well, you see—"
The Tyrant Rave, unleashed to destroy everything, had its effect reversed by Alan, instead bringing about an effect that healed everything.
Those who had exhausted their strength from the Black Tempest were revived. Even those in the distant town behind them were affected.
Some had their chronic back pain cured. Adventurers who had lost limbs in battle with monsters regenerated. Those afflicted with incurable diseases were miraculously healed.
No one, however, could precisely grasp why this had happened.
"Alan, you did this! Reports had been coming in about inexplicable events occurring wherever you went… Then I have no choice but to deliver the killing blow!"
Julian once again tried to gather black aura in his right fist.
But what gathered was white aura—aura of healing.
"I reversed that one too, you know."
After the Tyrant Rave had swept past, Alan quietly activated [Reverse], transforming the True King's distracted [Tyrant King] into the [Compassionate King].
"Wh-What…?"
"Now for the finishing touch. Permanent Frost!"
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Skills and personality aren't always a matched set, so becoming the [Compassionate King] doesn't change his personality (the same applies to book-version Hector).
Skills: [Reverse][Divine Eye][Sword God][Fist God][Spear God][Scorching Magic][Freezing Magic][Clear Gale Magic][Rock-Iron Magic][Holy Magic][Dark Magic][Space-Time Magic][Thunder God Sword][Phantom Thief Gentleman][Ninja Master][Truth Seeker][Supernatural Strength][Divine Speed][Pain Reduction][Complete Status Ailment Resistance][Dark Spirit's Protection][Super Intuition][Heaven's Gate][Abyss Contractee][Magic Hand][Treasure Search][Seduction][Incitement][Telemesmerism][Eloquence][Strong Luck][10× Growth Speed][Growth Limit Break][Afterimage Magic][Dark Stalker]
Rank: Orichalcum