Campione! - Volume 20 - Chapter 6.1

Chapter 6 –The Time the Gate Open Once More

Part 1

「Fumu ――this is the authority of lightning flash……」 

Luo Cuilian whose deadly battle against Black Prince Alec continued. 

The Campione of godspeed changed into a lightning attack and attempted a tackle many times. Luo Cuilian was evading those with escaping step techniques and observed for the chance to counterattack all this time. 

But, as expected from the noble youth of godspeed. 

He didn’t show a single such opening even against Luo Cuilian that boasted martial exploit unrivalled under the heavens. 

He became lightning that flew around the battlefield in every directions freely and continued to attack. She who should be at the summit of martial art was forced into being defensive one¬sidedly. 

However, there was also something that she obtained from that predicament――!

「Fufuh」 

Luo Cuilian smiled. 

She was in the middle of escaping step technique that she had repeated for more than 200 times. 

She obtained an inspiration that was triggered by the Black Prince’s offense that was too amazing! This smile leaked out because of that. 

「Even further variation adding into my divine palm and form a new special move. That is to say that this is the birth of a new priceless treasure……if the people of martial circle know about it, they will surely be struck with joy. What an auspicious event.」 

She already saw through the enemy’s godspeed using the dharma art of mind eye. Right now the Black Prince that turned into lightning was circling to Luo Cuilian’s left side! He began his attack from that position. He became the very flicker of lightning and assaulted――! 

Until now she dazzled him with escaping steps technique and continued to dodge earnestly. But

「Ha!」 

Luo Cuilian finally unleashed her Twelve Divine Palm of Flying Phoenix. 

With her body still facing forward, her left palm struck the empty air at her left flank. At the same time her right palm struck the empty air at her right flank. It was the variation technique of her eleventh palm『Phoenix’s Twin Flight』. 

And then―― 

Crackling lightning was emitted from Luo Cuilian’s body and both arms. The palm attack that was clad in lightning became a perfect counter and struck the rushing near Black Prince!「What the!?」 

The Black Prince Alec was sent flying backwards from the palm blow. 

He had transformed his whole flesh body into lightning itself. There was no way for a human hand to strike such a thing. Yet regardless of that# Luo Cuilian’s left palm accomplished that! 

It was the moment she grasped a new special move.

「Kuh……@」 

Further assault was pursuing toward Alec whose movement stopped while he was still in lightning form. 

Sect Founder Luo Hao was unleashing special move of palm art continuously.

「My Twelve Divine Palm of Flying Phoenix branch……let me show them all to you.」 

First was a thrust technique with a palm blow to the middle. 

Ligtning was emitted from Luo Cuilian’s body and arm this time too. 

Alec got directly hit with this, regardless of his body was still in lightning state. Pain and impact beat him up and he groaned「 Kuhah!?」.

「Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!」 

The palm technique of lightning continued further. 

The hand leaped up and gouged the face and eyes with fingertips. Five fingers were beautifully lined up, which pierced through the vital parts of the heart, right at the center of the chest. The crown of the head was smashed open with sword hand descending from above. Once, the sect founder crouched low and from there she thrust diagonally above with her whole body behind her palm blow, striking the jaw and groin of the enemy, and so on. 

Twelve special moves, this was the Twelve Divine Palm of Flying Phoenix. 

Furthermore# lightning surged out from Luo Cuilian’s whole body each time she acted.

「Ku――uoh@?」 

Having been showered with lightning palm attacks from start to end, the godspeed master collapsed on the ground. 

When he noticed# Alec’s lightning transformation had already been released! His whole body――the flesh body was prickling everywhere, his heart was also feeling throbbing pain. 

It was as though Alec himself that was showered by lightning attack.

「……Sect Founder Luo Hao! What in the world just now……?」

「Fufufufu. I shall name it Twelve Divine Palm – A Hundred-Thousandth Lightning Span.」 

She smiled cherubically while looking down at the collapsed Black Prince. 

Her appearance was truly displayed with the majesty of a ruler. The supernatural sect founder spoke in good mood.

「The lightning I refined using magic――is unleashed outside together with the formidable strength of the Twelve Divine Palms. If Black Prince-dono transformed into lightning flash, then I only need to place the same thing into my palm. That was what I noticed.」 

A confrontation against fellow godslayer. 

The exaltation from such event made the maiden – Luo Cuilian show a lovely smile. 

In contrast, Alexander Gascoigne spat out in a bad mood.

「An eye for an eye――it’s not something like that# just what kind of logic it is to deal against lightning attack with lightning attack. If I remember correctly the lightning magic or something of China’s magic# it is sorcery against evil spirits……

」 

The lightning transformation of Black Prince Alec was weak against every “magic defying”! 

It was a weak point that previously divine ancestor Guinevere also aimed at. 

Luo Cuilian saw through that instinctually. There she immediately adlibbed the combination of martial art with the magic to subdue evil and defeat demon, and injured her ruffian opponent. 

The phenomenon should be interpreted like that. Alec cursed.

「If the opponent is that Italia’s idiot# then I could get through this without meeting this kind of experience.」

「Don’t worry! That person should also follow after you soon!」 

Luo Cuilian leaped high. 

She danced high to the sky like a phoenix. She was using the magic of flight. 

That was the preliminary motion in order to reproduce the hunt of the magical bird. Swooping down to the prey below, caught with the talon, peck with the beak, and tore to death――!

「Chih」 

Alec clicked his tongue while looking at the sect founder that was climbing the sky. 

He tried to activate godspeed but unable to do it. His heart was still throbbing painfully. 

Perhaps he would be unable to use the authority of Black Lightning well until he shook off the damage from that Twelve Divine Palm – A Hundred-Thousandth Lightning Span whatever――! Then!

「Hear me, daughters of endless night. Daughters of earth and shadow.」 

Sect Founder Luo Hao was starting to dive toward the muttering Alec. 

Her form became a beautiful form of flying kick that would make anyone gulped, charging straight at him. The moment Alec glared at the master of deadly move falling from the sky at him――

「O shadow of Count Bifrons.」 

John Pluto Smith’s voice came into hearing from somewhere! 

Air flickered around Alec. The scenery was swaying like heat haze, blurring like a mirage. All shadows became vague.

「This is a meager meddling. Accept it gratefully, Black Prince.」

「As I thought it’s you@」 

Smith’s voice whispered into his ear! 

Alec made a swift judgment right away, he stopped resisting the bizarre phenomenon. Almost at the same time, Sect 

Founder Luo Hao’s flying kick assaulted! ――But# the sure kill kick passed through Alec’s body! 

The beautiful expert flew until more than ten meter before landing gracefully on the ground. 

「You are……hiding a really interesting trick there!」 

The supernatural sect founder turned around at his direction and muttered so. 

She was staring in delight at the man who appeared beside Alec unnoticed.

「Smith something.」

「I wasn’t really hiding it though! Well# it’s an authority that cannot be really used in succession# so it’s indeed true that I was unwilling to use it.」 

The masked godslayer wrapped in black clothes. John Pluto Smith was standing beside Alec.

「It was in the nick of time! But what’s important is I made it in time, Black Prince-dono.」

「I’ll thank you# for the moment! It wasn’t a hopelessly desperate situation but, it was the fact that just now was indeed quite a pinch. Nevertheless」 

Just as he thought, this masked man was always aiming to make his entrance dramatically. 

Alec spoke with such conviction.

「As always in each turning point you are strangely……a kind man. When I went to Los Angeles you were also meddling excessively# this time too toward Kusanagi Godou――」

「You ought to honestly think like this about that」 

Smith’s mask shook from his chuckle!

「I am harboring good will toward you two! That’s why I’m meddling so.」

「Nice reply. It made me want to believe it for a bit there. If only you said it without that joke costume.」 

After responding with light sarcasm toward the frivolous talk that made fun of people Alec asked.

「By the way that hidden trick just now, how much you can still use it?」

「I cannot use it on you without waiting four, fifteen minutes to pass. The authority that was named『Formless Spawn』by the princess that both of us are acquainted with――cannot be used in succession to the same object.」

「I see.」 

Alec nodded. 

In short, it was an authority that made the shape and figure of the target to be vague. 

If it was used to wall or door, then it would be possible to slip through it and infiltrated inside. The elusiveness that this masked godslayer sometimes displayed――this was the secret behind it! Similar with Alec’s『Great Labyrinth』, it also felt like it could be applied to a really vast range. 

Come to think of it, Bifrons was the name of a greater demon. 

It was one of the seventy two devils serving the legendary magician King Solomon. It was made to manifest in this world as formless monster. 

It controlled corpse and illusion, and it was also said that it possessed mysterious knowledge starting from astrology. 

Rather than direct violence, this devil specialized in shady spirit art and dazzler.

「Then# I’ll take out my guard in advance!」

Alec glared once more at the powerful enemy – Luo Cuilian. 

Even though his side was added with the self-styled patron saint of Los Angeles, the beauty that was unrivalled under heaven only smiled in delight before calmly making stance.

「Fighting evil with evil, repaying fresh blood with fresh blood, sound the horn that signal the revenge. Know that the blood of slain mother cannot be recompensed other than in death.」

「My」 

Luo Cuilian opened her eyes in wonder and the smile on her lips grew bigger. 

Together with the words of power, the『Three Goddesses of Vengeance』Megaera, Tisiphone, and Alecto manifested at the left, right and above Alec. 

Originally, they could be summoned in exchange of meditating for a certain period. 

But# Alec’s own blood and pain could also become the『bait』to summon the three Erinyes.

「Using this kind of informal way of summoning make it impossible to hide it as a trap# so it’s like having a flaw in the crystal though……」 

Right after he muttered so. 

The ancient Greek style temple standing in slight distance away rumbled *GoooooOOOOOOON-!* with thunderous roar. 

At the same time, Salvatore Doni was collapsing on the ground. 

Dejanstahl Voban had finally entered the sword range and the silver arm at last struck. But, at that moment, the veteran of many battles, the old marquis wielded as much power as possible and met the attack. 

His emerald evil eyes dulled Doni’s motion however slightly! 

He dropped maximum lightning from heaven that could even burn steel into ash to bury Doni. 

He transformed his body into grey wolf and jumped aside with beastly agility and escaped until a distance where the magic sword’s tip couldn’t reach――! 

As the result, the Campione of sword was struck by lightning and collapsed forward. 

After Voban who became demon wolf made sure of it with his own eyes, he calmly returned into human form.

「As I thought, you are an idiot.」 

The most veteran and the most brutal devil king scoffed blandly.

「If you see your enemy coming to a range where sword can reach, you will leap to split them into two no matter what. If I know that you are going to come like that, then I can make the suitable preparation.」 

He was able to intercept with three authorities because Doni moved exactly as he hypothesized beforehand. 

Yes! If in that time he didn’t aim for splitting the enemy into two with a single stroke# then that man wouldn’t be Salvatore 

Doni anymore. Knowing that Voban laid out a trap. 

This was a victory that was according to his prediction. However, he soon frowned. 

At wolf king Voban’s left shoulder……the arm’s connecting joint had a faint scratch appearing there. It was only slightly but it was bleeding, small stain was spreading on his black coat. 

And then# the fool who fell down before him whispered――! 

「No# no……the determination of an idiot# will break even rock they say……」 

Doni stabbed his katana on the ground, and using it as cane replacement, he stood up with staggers. 

The body of the sword king was protected by『divine protection of steel』# it endured even Voban’s lightning! At the very least he was unharmed on the surface. 

Well, his movement was quite sluggish perhaps because of the damage the core of his body received――! 

Voban took a step forward in order to deal the finishing blow to such Doni. 

But, the movement of the demon wolf king stopped there. The small wound on his left shoulder was suddenly fiercely painful. It was as though a drill was gouging it out in grinding motion! 

Voban came to his senses and concentrated his mind and magic power to the wound on his left shoulder, 

In order to drive away the authority――the power of the magic sword from his body.

「Aah, how unfortunate. If my blade dug in a little deeper, it would be able to tear apart the body or split the body into two though……」 

Doni muttered with the dark eyes of magic swordsman. 

The katana should be evaded using his transformation into wolf. But it reached him slightly. Enlightened of that, Voban glared at the Campione of sword.

「So you surpassed my expectation, Salvatore Doni.」

「If I can confess# that’s because I got caught in similar trap just a while ago! As expected I won’t get caught completely the second time――」 

Doni grinned broadly! There wasn’t any of his usual thoughtlessness there. 

The offense and defense that ended up in sharing pain with each other was the proof that he and the enemy were equal. He floated a crooked smile because he felt joy from that. 

And then# the same kind of smile was also emerging on Voban’s lips. The two of them was going to continue fighting by putting their whole power on the line# it was at that time――! 

The ancient Greek style temple standing right beside them rumbled *GoooooOOOOOOON-!* with thunderous roar.

「What!?」

「Eh# that’s the servant of Madam Aisha!」 

The ancient Greek style temple――Plutarch’s Mansion’s surface part, 

Its roof was broken through and an armored giant came out. While it had a giant body of ten-odd meter in total, but its body from the waist below was black smoke. 

It was very short and stout, its whole face was hidden by a helmet that was like a bucket. 

Salvatore Doni witnessed it a few months ago at the battlefield of ancient Germania. It was the『Armored Devil』with humorous appearance.