Chapter 16: 16
Even if the king is attending, why do I absolutely have to do a mock battle with the prince?
Moreover, the prince is using the holy sword, Claiomh Solais . It's a sword that embodies the [Invincible] Shiga kingdom .
<TLN: Remember, the one who was supposed to do the mock battle with the prince is Ringrande . >
There's no way I can win .
The person who holds the holy sword Claiomh Solais must never lose . That is because doing so means suggesting that the invincible Shiga kingdom is defeated .
Losing is not permitted even if it's just a fantasy .
Although, even if I don't deliberately try to lose, the prince should be slightly stronger than me if we exclude magic .
I can't win unless I use my trump card . If I use it, I would undoubtedly kill the prince . As expected, that's bad .
Aah, this is depressing .
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I can hear people from the audience seat cheering my name . There are also cheering for the prince, but isn't it because of the [Prince] title I wonder .
I'm wearing the magic armor Chaftar that I've got when I became the hero's follower, while shouldering the lightning great sword I've got from when I was a labyrinth explorer . The armor grants the same effect as physical reinforcement magic to the person who's wearing it . I can produce mana shield and magic for blocking sniping if I put mana into the magic circuit .
I enter the circle for the match .
Right when the match starts, I invoke the mana shield . Following that, I put mana into the lightning great sword, and activate the lightning edge .
I feel a bad premonition before I can add up physical reinforcement magic, I jump to the side .
A firebolt goes through where I was .
Firebolt Wand?
<TLN: I've just found out that the author uses "Wand" instead of "Cane" to translate ? , so I'm going to use that from now on . Might revisit older chapters to correct it but it'll be a PITA . . . >
That's not a military weapon .
It's not something that you should use without chanting you know?
"Nostalgic right? This is the thing you've made in the school after all . "
The prince attacks while drawing blue trails with the holy sword .
What speed .
The legend that states the holy sword (Claiom Solais) user flies in the sky might be true .
I ward the holy sword away with my great sword .
Heavy . My wrist is really hurt .
The lightning clad on the great sword transmitted to the holy sword, and got uneventfully scattered away in the air .
Even though he would have fainted or paralyzed if he had used a normal sword .
Returning the favor, I swing the great sword to the prince's legs .
He invokes the defense film (Barrier) of the holy knight armor and block the great sword .
As expected of the equipment of the kingdom's strongest, the holy knight .
This time I'll entrust my armor to block the prince's sword, and focus my attention to attacking .
Executing Heavy Blow skill . The aim and accuracy are lower, but right now, I need might .
Executing Magic Edge skill . I don't usually use it since it's a waste of mana, but there's no meaning in preserving mana right now .
The great sword is tinged with red light .
Executing Sharp Edge skill . I don't want to kill the prince, but if I don't fight with the intention to kill, I won't be able to penetrate that armor's defense .
"Furious Whirlwind Blade"
<TLN:Senpuretsuha>
I shout the technique's name even though there's is no need to do that .
Looks like I've been infected with Hayato's foolishness .
I was sure that it'd be blocked, but it easily breaks the armor's barrier .
This is bad, he'll surely die if I don't stop .
I managed to stop the blade before the prince received a fatal hit .
However, the prince doesn't miss my unstable posture .
I was splatted to the arena's ground like a ball .
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Cheering, screams, and jeers .
It seems I've lost my consciousness for an instant .
The prince shoots pursuing firebolts rapidly . Are you trying to kill me?
It appears that his swelled pride is hurt because I stopped the sword earlier . The prince's eyes have scarily turned bloodshot .
I chant Quick Burst to destroy the firebolts .
However, our fight ends here .
Summoning circles are formed in the sky .
Thatisdangerous .
My intuition tells me the danger as if my head is split .
I begin to chant Break Magic magic . Not good, the prince hasn't realized the summoning circle in the sky . He only looks at me .
I stop the chanting in order to avoid the prince's attack .
I shouldn't have stopped the blade earlier if I knew that it'd turn out like this .
I wasn't able to stop the summoning .
A yellow-skinned demon appears from there . That presence and coercion, it's unmistakably an upper demon . The vibration from the massive body, taller than five meters, that lands on the ground almost makes me fall .
Hayato said this before .
He had only ran away from a demon once .
At that time, half of his companions sacrificed themselves in order to let him escape, he said so while looking so frustrated . I couldn't believe how that absurdly strong Hayato could lose, but I understand now .
That's an order of magnitude different .
Is a demon lord even stronger than that?
It's impossible .
Absolutely impossible .
My soul, not reasoning, is screaming . I want to immediately escape from here now .
The words that helps me keep my heart that was on the verge of breaking comes from an unexpected person .
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"Demon, no demon lord, your fate is over now . "
Prince, how are you not able to measure the opponent's strength . He doesn't seem to be bluffing . If, at this time, I had any interest in a man who can bluff to a person with absolute strength, I might not had canceled the engagement .
The demon lord tilts its head to the side, and looks at the prince's sword interestedly .
"That sword is Claiom Solais right? A descendant of Yamato eh . "
I wonder what's the some kind of howl sound I hear when the yellow-skinned demon is talking . It's the other head of the demon that's chanting .
In order to interfere with the summoning, I throw Quick Burst to the yellow-skinned demon .
It's no good .
The demon casually defends against the weak elementary magic with its hand .
I need more more than speed!
I execute Chanting Shortening and chant Explosion . It probably won't make it . However, I won't let this spell go to waste .
When the yellow-skinned demon complete its chanting, monsters begins appearing from the magic circles that are formed on the ground . Centipedes, scorpions, praying mantis, and even two-horned beetles .
It won't be easy fighting them while dealing with the yellow-skinned demon . The magic Explosion just now didn't give it much damage too .
Oh right, there are the participants of the main match and their friends still . Let's leave the monsters to them .
I call out to the warriors on the place using amplification magic .
"Brave warriors, let's cooperate together to subjugate the monsters . Magician, prioritize supporting the warriors with reinforcement magic over attack magic . "
The people who have been fighting the monsters separately begin to cooperate together .
They're veterans . They probably won't lose to monsters as long as there are chances .
A centipede monster is attacking . The prince is also being attacked by a rhinoceros beetle monster .
"Fumu, the hero isn't here after all de~su . The souvenirs that I've brought have no meaning then . "
<TLN: The demon is saying desu in katakana, which means death . >
While grumbling, the yellow-skinned demon casts reinforcement magic to the summoned monsters .
I'd have been able to use powerful magic if only the prince could take care of the front .
"That's strange de~su . The blue and the red should have butted in with this much uproar . "
This centipede is strong . My sword can't cut it well . If only Hayato and those girls come at this time .
"Ahaha~ Onee-san, you're having a hard figh~t . "
"Don't look away, let's go help the prince . "
Leilas-dono of the Shiga Eight Sword, and the holy knight boy head toward the prince to assist him . The boy cuts one foot of the centipede as a parting gift .
I defeat the centipede with three consecutive explosions when its attention has turned away . The chanting was long, but since Explosion has Stun and Knockback effect, I was somehow able to do it .
Leilas-dono blocks the yellow-skinned demon's Inferno by using a great shield . He's amazing . He was probably using magic too, but I didn't think that there was anyone who could withstand that much attack beside Hayato .
"Hou? That's a nostalgic shield . How about this then?"
The demon throws white flame that easily pierced through the great shield of Leilas-dono in high speed .
I cannot let him die . The front will collapse if he dies .
I choose one option from among my selfish thought .
"O great Parion, please grant my selfish wish to summon the hero! I am the follower, follower of the hero Hayato, Ringrande . "
It is not a chant .
It's a prayer for the god Parion . I don't know how much of my life span decreases with this prayer, but I'll give 10, or 20 years of it than letting my hometown gets violated .
The talisman of divine gift on my chest is shining in respond to my prayer .
Now, come, Jules Verne .
Carrying the hero, to the battlefield!
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