Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken (LN) - Volume 20 - Chapter 1.10

After a fierce battle, Midley and Mujika faced each other.

They were looking for each other's opening and were unable to attack each other.

Then Mujika opened her mouth.

"You are a good player. Shall I ask your name?

"Midley. Shall I ask your name too? If it's the name of a man so fierce that he amuses me so much, it's worth remembering.

Despite being enemies, Midley and Mujika recognize each other. Mujika, in particular, seems to have become more human after the 'wrist-life', and her skills have become less mechanical and more brilliant.

Midley may have sensed this change, and he truly approves of Mujika. Otherwise, he would not have exposed his full strength.

But this is a battlefield, and both men are enemies.

They recognize each other, but what they are doing is killing each other.

Midley laughed and brought out his left fist in a fluid motion. He pulled back his left fist faster than the speed at which he thrust it, and used the recoil to throw a spinning kick.

This is a so-called feint, but in Midley's case, it is not the only one. When he clenched his fist for the first time, he compressed the air and shot out.

Moreover, since he mixed the air with fighting spirit, the power of his fists was more powerful than that of a mana bullet.

Mujika had her sword ready in response to the fist, so she was able to repel the compressed air bullet. However, right after that, Midley's kick cleanly entered the gap left by Mujika's lifting his sword to the upper level.

"Gnuh!"

The force of the kick, which penetrates under the armor, runs through Mujika's entire body and affects her physical functions. Needless to say, Midley's kicks were full of fighting spirit.

Midley was a master of "battlewill.

Just as the "Ryuken" school had sprouted in the other world where Velgrynd had arrived, here in the Cardinal World, a unique school had been introduced.

This school, which uses basic movements similar to those of koryu jujutsu and manipulates the body by incorporating its own fighting spirit, also expressed the unrestrained spirit of Milim, the founder of the school.

There is no name of the school, but if we were to naming it, it would be "Ryu-Ma-Ken.

Incidentally, there is no ritual of inheriting "konpaku" (soul) as in Dragon Fist. The knowledge and experience accumulated by a person are all that he or she has acquired.

The lifespan of a person in the Cardinal World varies widely, and is greatly extended by the way he or she lives. Training and physical conditioning through Battlewill alone can increase a person's life expectancy by several times, and a pureblood like Midley can live for more than a thousand years.

In fact, Midley was over 2,000 years old.

Midley was strong because he had spent all that time in training.

Mujika was hit by Midley's kick and took a step backward. Then she glanced at the hit area and was astonished.

Her shell armor, which had not suffered even a scratch from a half-hearted attack, was crushed with a big dent.

The lower-ranked soldiers of insectar have no fear, so they repeatedly attacked by suicide attack as they were ordered, no matter how superior they are. However, the higher ranks, due to their rarity, were able to instinctively grasp the difference in power between them and their opponents.

The accuracy of the Insect General is quite high, and it can almost accurately estimate their fighting ability.

However, this is limited only to the direct ability, so it cannot detect the authority of Skill. And, of course, you cannot know how much the target has been trained without actually fighting with it.

Mujika was now on the maximum alert against Midley because of the blow he had just received. Although he had been empowered by Peliod, he calmly judged that he might lose if the game was prolonged.

Then, the only thing he could do was to show his respect to his opponent with his best technique with all his strength.

"Taste my technique - eat my fangs."

Mujika's weapon is not strictly speaking a sword. It is an alienium forged into a blade. Now, as Mujika has evolved, it has become sharper and sharper.

Furthermore, Mujika's mana was poured into the blade, which was comparable to a mythical-grade blade, and it became so powerful that it could cut off any substance, and approached Midley.

However, Midley was unmoved.

He raised his left hand with a "Nun ! and caught Mujika's blade with his left arm.

Yes, he caught it.

A hard, unpleasant sound rang out, deafening. It was the melody of a shockwave created by the collision of equal power and hardness.

"Nonsense... ? "

"Why are you surprised? If you had the spirit, it would be easy to use your own body as a weapon.

It's not easy.

Mujika's response is the correct one.

But Midley was a man who was always trained to deal with the unreasonableness of Milim. He had no idea that his logic was insane to ordinary people, and he never doubted that it was normal.

Of course, he does not manage to do so only by his willpower.

It is a certain skill, covered by dragon scales, for one thing.

Midley controls his own fighting spirit and hardens his body.

He anticipates where the attack will come and focuses his attention on that part of the body. He concentrated all his fighting energy on that part of his body, even though it might lower the defenses of other parts of his body.

This has given his left arm enough defensive power to withstand mythical-grade power, and it would be quite reckless to call it a mere "Kiai" (spirit).

It is only possible because of Midley.

Midley's true nature is in the position of "Ryujin", which Gabil will reach someday, and with his divine physical strength, he can fight against mythical-grade fighters with his guts called "Kiai".

And of course, the technology was not limited to defense.

"Now it's my turn."

Midley grinned as he sat back down, his left hand still on the blade.

This is the shiko-uchi stance in karate.

He then diverts the enormous energy generated in his left arm and concentrates it in his right fist. Furthermore, he took in the energy of the earth's veins flowing through this star from his feet, which were in contact with the earth, and not only that, he stored the energy of the star itself in his body.

This was the essence of 'Seishin Douka' or 'Dragon Magic Fist'.

Of course, the physical burden was unimaginable, but Midley was able to overcome it with his spirit. He did not think about what would happen next, but only about winning.

"Nuh!"

By the time Mujika sensed the danger, it was already too late.

"Dragonic Blast!"Dragonic blast!

This was Midley's ultimate technique, the strongest technique that even surpassed the Dragon Fang Canon.

At first glance, it was just a straight fist thrust, exactly the same as the one that had smashed Insect General Saril's body to pieces, but its power was beyond the laws and common sense of this world.

It was the same for Mujika - she finally understood Midley's abnormality after he made a big hole in the center of her chest, but it was already too late.

(Is it not enough just to be cautious... I'm getting old as a geezer myself...)

Mujika thinks with her last thought.

But for some reason, the defeat was pleasant.

Mujika died satisfied not as an Insect General but as a warrior.