Hisshou Dungeon Unei Houhou - Chapter 77

Chapter 77

Chapter 77 – Duel start!!


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Preface of the Author
About Yuki’s abilities!!
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Duel start!!

Side: Yuki

(Grandmaster)「Right then, The duel will start when I say 『Start！』 . Is that okay? 」

The other guy nodded .

(Grandmaster)「Yuki, is it fine with you too? 」

Hah, why did it come to this…

We were currently at the Adventurer Guild’s training place .
I received a sword, and it seems that I am going to be forced to fight this guy .

(Opponent)「The con-condition…… 」

(Seraria)「No need . My husband will definitely not lose . No, in fact, this level of trouble can simply be shrugged off by my husband . 」

Wha- , Seraria!!
She keeps blocking my escape routes .
Wait a minute . If I lose, wouldn’t this just draw a close to my marriage with Seraria?

(Seraria)「… Don’t even try thinking about something stupid . I can feel some weird air around you from here . 」

(Yuki)「… Hey that’s mean . 」

Well, it’s not like I dislike Seraria, I’m thankful for her political weight and her strength, but that’s all . In addition to that I don’t know any of her goals . Well I guess I can’t cut ties with her, I guess that’s the problem?

Seriously though, why did this have to happen… . .

The cause of this was the fact that I am Seraria’s husband and of course, she had to tell all the adventurers who had hopes .
Then the next morning after the adventurers returned alive from their respiratory failure, I was challenged to a duel . Normally I would refuse, but someone is sabotaging my escape routes .
To top it all off, I also receive some disturbing attention now .

(Adventurer)「Excuse me, can I talk with you for a sec quick? 」

(Yuki)「Yes, what is it? 」

(Adventurer)「Are you called Yuki? Seraria’s prospected husband-to-be? 」

(Yuki)「Yes, that’s right, but why are you looking for me? 」

After I answered that, all the adventurers started staring at me .
From top to bottom……
Even if I am a man, this kind of gaze hurts!!
I understood why animals in zoo are prone to stress .
Perhaps you wouldn’t be exposed to stress if you became a madman .

(Adventurer)「…… Sorry for my impoliteness but it looks like you have never held a sword . 」

(Yuki)「Well, that’s because I haven’t . I am a civilian . That’s all, though I can kinda use a bit of magic . 」

When I said that, the adventurers expressed their astonishment, whereas the girls on the other hand… . .

(Millie)「Kinda? a bit? What’s up with that? 」

(Lutz)「… Well, it’s just same old, same old . Onii-san never changes, as good as ever with the art of conversation . 」

(Labiris)「…… He’s frauding, or perhaps we can detain him for violating the rules? 」

(Lutz)「Trust us . We can’t even get close to him . 」

(Riel)「Yes, that time was terrible . I was blown off in one shot . 」

(Labiris)「… . . His way of fighting is fundamentally completely different . 」

(Seraria)「However, I have never seen Yuki-san in close combat . 」

(Ellis)「Well, Yuki-san did say he’s not the CQC type . He is the support type . 」

(Delille)「…… . Whence doth this support type obscure his fortitude and ascendancy that hath the competence to crusheth both thou and Mine life in but a single blow… 」

(Lulu)「… Because I have seen it once, I can guarantee that he is a better at using recovery magic than us as well . 」

「「「……」」」

Previously, I had a practice battle with the girls before the defensive battles .
Well, it turned out that besides the battle with Aslin, Philia, and Labiris, they stayed within the realms of common sense .
Since a large scale battle was very different and may have held surprises, I trained a little to try to synchronize my individual skills and my consciousness as much as possible .
During that time, I received a wife, uhh, Hooray! I guess . Well, I had one mock battle with her aswell and I won one-sidedly, after that it was just training .
Then, everyone’s hard work paid off and the defensive battle turned out a huge success .
I wasn’t able to hold onto my troop though .

(Adventurer)「Excuse me . I heard that you were a civil official… 」

(Yuki)「Yes, that’s correct . 」

(Adventurer)「…… Wait a minute . Seraria-sama, could you please lend an ear? 　I would like to ask you something… 」

(Seraria)「What? 」

(Adventurer)「Seraria-sama, I heard that your marriage partner must be stronger than you? 」
(Seraria)「That’s right . 」

(Adventurer)「… Ah, eto . Excuse me but, Yuki-dono is a civilian and no matter how I look at it, I don’t think he’d ever be able to win against Seraria-sama… 」

(Seraria)「He is in a league for himself . Besides, he saved my life . I think that qualifications wise, that it’s more than enough for him to be my husband . 」

Seraria answered honestly .
Well, I guess she was talking about training .
At that time, it wasn’t only Seraria who had participated .
At the battle of the wives, Seraria and Delille took the front while Riel, Tori, Kaya and Lutz were acting as their support .
Millie and Ellis were overlooking us from afar with bows .
At which point upon my experience of experimenting on top of experiments, I developed my barrier N°14 that stopped all of the girls .

My barrier N°14 is a multi-layered barrier .
First, a magical barrier against physical and magical damage is expanded .
It consists of 14 layers, with pure water between each acting as a buffer .
I also added electricity to the surface of the outside layer, making anything that makes contact receive a shock .

Well, the first, Seraria, was instantly knocked out by it .
Delille endured it for awhile, but after she forced her way through 5 layers, she couldn’t move anymore .
Meanwhile, Tori and the others who were supporting received some flame bombs as they approached .
I could only do something of that level because of the Guardian Appointment .

I was shocked at the sea of flames that appeared .
Though I knew that the principle behind it is simple, actually using it was a little scary .
After asking around a bit, why magic appears in your hands and is then released, I concluded the following .
You focus your magic in one place, decide what it should do by strongly imagining and then carry it out .
In other words, as long as someone can imagine and has a feel for it, he can use magic .
The amount of magical power someone can use and how fast it regenerates depends on individual talent .
And you can’t manage to commit if you can’t picture it in your head clearly enough .
Something I discovered though, is a detail in the Lance system and the Storm system . The Lance system was made to fire javelins repeatedly . In order to do this, you summon javelins around yourself and fire them at will . However you cannot specify a place to summon them . They simply appear and then follow the caster as if of their own volition, awaiting their orders, though the time limit is pretty short .
The Storm system however, is the opposite regarding targeting, also it has a much lower cap in regards to raw power since it activates right next to the caster . So when you cast a storm spell it is possible to specify where around you the spell appears, however once casted, one can only pour more power in it . The main problem is that as you cannot cast it at a longer range, the danger of your comrades and yourself getting involved is very high . Especially if you are trying to cast a large-scale fire type magic for example .
That’s when it dawned on me .


I can abuse and combine the two systems . All I need to do is get the range and targeting from the Lance system and the precision of activation and raw power from the Storm system .
In other words, by casting an empty javelin and firing the nothing spell I can trace the route it would take and by replication, reinforcement and creating something like an imaginary cable that follows the line that the empty spell took . After the line has been established, it’s possible to amass magic at the other end of it and then cast a storm spell as per normal there .
This is what I came up with in order to use ranged bombardment tactics .
1)

Do I really need to have it slowly approach you?
It would be easier to present it in the form of a bomb .

That’s what I thought .
Because of that, Tori and the others were annihilated by the explosion .
Ellis and Millie surrendered on the spot .

Actually I could handle everything easily .
Sadly, the beast girls Tori and Riel have very scarce magic reserves .
They used solidified magical power and spent it all on trying to pierce their opponent, they didn’t even use any magical power to make it rotate .
And so, it was just stopped with a「boing」on the point of contact .
Their amount of magical power is low after all .

(Adventurer)「He is a civilian, but he is stronger than Seraria? 」

(Seraria)「That’s right . 」

When the adventurer who asked Seraria received her response, he slowly turned towards me……

(Grandmaster)「Yuki-dono, I’d like to make a proposal . Would you please show me the skills with which you won against Seraria? 」

Eh, don’t wanna .
Why do I have to expose my cards?
I was specially acting as a civilian to claim the fact that I can’t do anything!!

(Yuki)「Sorry… 」

(Seraria)「Eh, I don’t mind . You can have a round against my husband . 」

(Yuki)「Wait, what！? 」

(Seraria)「That’s fine right? 　Dear, that would make for a good scene in which you can prove yourself suitable to me . 」

(Yuki)「…… And your real intentions? 」

(Seraria)「I’d like to see my dear in close combat . Thanks to yesterday’s mess . You have no ways of rejecting . 」

That was calculated?!
Seraria’s a scary mastermind!!

(Seraria)「My husband will win without the use of magic!! 　Because, that should be sufficient . 」

Seraria meddled further .
The adventurers began to get wrapped up in an intimidating aura .

(Adventurer)「So, magic can’t be used? 　That is appreciated . 」

I’m starting to get angry, i’ll seriously go mad!!
You’re showing a graceful and peaceful face . That makes it worse!

(Grandmaster)「Ho ho ho . I, the Grandmaster, will personally oversee this duel . 」

Ugyaa, even more trouble came!?

(Rock)「Since there will be no magic, the training grounds at the Guild is a sufficient place . 」

The old man Rock announced that we were going to fight at the training ground of the Guild .

(Aslin)「Onii-chan do your beesssttttttt!! 」

(Hiro)「Nii-sama is the strongest in the world!! 」

(Philia)「Onii-sama’s gallant figure… I don’t have a camera!! 」

(Vilia)「Onee, calm down . You can use the functions of Call . 」

The chibis added their cheering, I truly wasn’t able to refuse anymore .
Because today was the day Vilia and the others would be going to the child’s Dungeon . It couldn’t be helped that they were motivated, right?

When we were ready to start, the Grand Master was, of course, laughing in delight, swung his hand downwards .

(Grandmaster)「Hajime! 2)! 」

The adventurer in front of me is alertly watching me and his sword is steady .
It felt like he wouldn’t miss any opportunity .
It was a big difference from the adventurers who were driven out by kobolds .

(Opponent)「… With my Bastard sword, I will show her why she should have chosen me instead of you…… 」

Saying so, he rushed in like the flash .

(Opponent)「Civilian, to handle a sword is an art, more difficult to perfect than magic!! 」

In a fluid motion out of approaching me and into bashing his sword swung at me from my diagonal upper right with tremendous power .
Oops, it looks like if I received that with my hand, it would go numb for a while~ .
Even if my level is high, scary things are still scary .

Byun!!

Together with a nice ring, my sword parried from upper right into lower left,as I leant to the right and took a few steps back .

(Opponent)「Huh！? 」

The other party distanced himself quickly .
Why are you taking your distance, where is the follow up?
Either way round 1 didn’t work .

(Grandmaster)「Ho hou . That’s pretty amazing . 」

The voice of the Grand Master .

(Rock)「Masaka3), Yuki-dono, for all this time… 」

(Grandmaster)「Oya, Rock, you didn’t know either? 」

(Rock)「Because he has only ever used magic until now . 」

(Grandmaster)「My goodness, that’s terrible . He wasn’t a long distance, but a close ranged type? 」

What I did was easy and simple, but I still received praises .
Making use of my status, I retreated and shifted my sword a little .
In other words, it was parrying .
The means of dealing damage with weapons is limited because they are weapons .
It is a basic skill, to the point of being a need, to read your enemies options when you fight .
In the case of my opponent, he is wielding a big sword called a Bastard sword .
The big sword bashes its enemies by making use of its heavy weight .
In other words, it’s not something that you can easily clash with from up-front .
This world is unreasonable with level and status, but if you defend against someone that has a Bastard sword head one, the Bastard sword will claim first place .
If you want to attack in rapid succession, you can use a one or two handed swords instead .
If you want to accurately stab, then you can use a rapier .
You can also fight with gloves like Delille . She fights with her hand to hand skills .

Well, it’s easy to say, but it’s scary to fight for real .
I’ve always thought that, but recently, I’ve been fighting more and more outrageous monsters as I leveled . I’m getting comfortable with fighting .
Ah, of course . I was pretending to go the bathroom at those times .

Fouh!!
Bunh!!

Such sounds echoed through the training grounds .

(Opponent)「Damn, what with your reaction . Seraria-sama’s story was a lie all this time…… 」

My opponent took distances from me .

(Opponent)「However, it’s not by avoiding like a willow that you’ll win!! 」

(Yuki)「Willow you said . 」

(Opponent)「Eh? 」

Closing to opponent in a flash as he closed his eyes .
Let’s think of the timing in a blink .

Gakin!!

For the first time, sword collided against sword .
Ara, he was able to react, what you’d expect from someone high ranked .
Just like this, our swords were still colluding .

(Yuki)「Nugugugugu… His power here, it seems to be above…… !! 」

(Opponent)「Guguh！! 」

No, it looked like I was pushing hard but it’s an act .

(Opponent)「I’ll push you to the end!! 」

Therefore, he putted power as he had declared .

Slup .

That way, I suddenly pulled my sword, reducing the power . It broke his balance .
Of course, the man was trying to collapse onto me .

「GAh… !? 」

A thick sound was heard when the man fell down, his face hitting the floor, facing the ceiling .
This right hand was on his left side .
In other words .
His jaw was beautifully broken .
… Ah, his jaw was probably crushed .

(Grandmaster)「Victory!! 　The winner is Yuki-dono!! 」

「「「Ooooo！!! 」」」

That way, everyone around cheered me, but that’s not all .
The man was going bikun bikun4) and his eyes were turning white .
Even if I wasn’t allowed to use recovery magic, I had no choice but to use it in the end!

(Seraria)「… Ah, you’re lovely . My husband . 」
(Lulu)「Eei, it’s not the time to be blushing, you have to treat him quickly!! 　It’s bad, the chin is totaly broken!! 」

I managed to return Lulu to sanity somehow and the man was saved without any troubles .
By the way, Lulu was saying that there was a crack to the skull after the jaw was crushed .

…… Hey there, you had to train at least as much as Kiyu .
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Afterword of the author
It was not confirmed .
Well, you have seen a part of it .
Also, he explained the rules of magic…