– Knock. pop.
Red blood drips down.
“Kuh… .”
Viscount Heidere let out a painful groan.
“how… you… ?”
He looked at Sellise with a look of disbelief.
On the other hand, Celise had a calm expression.
“It’s blocked.”
It contained only a slight regretful tone.
The sword she threw out pierced Viscount Heindere’s defenses.
He handed over the swordsmanship he had been spreading like an iron wall and inflicted blows on his body.
It would have been fatal if he stabbed it straight, but Viscount Heindere turned around at the end.
Still, he couldn’t stop the injury, so he raised his left arm to block it.
What flowed from his body now was the blood dripping from his arms.
“It’s blocked. It went right in.”
“If so, my father would have collapsed by now and the priest would have rushed over.”
“… … .”
“Or did you never think that you would get hurt by my sword?”
Viscount Heindere did not answer.
It was the correct answer.
It is said that Selize has risen to the level of a sword master, but he felt it as soon as he met him in the arena.
It was obviously a great talent, but it was still lacking compared to himself.
So today as a father. And as the family head, I thought to make you feel the wall.
“… It just seemed like you were growing in real time, if my eyes weren’t wrong.”
“You saw it right. I learned from watching my father’s swordsmanship.”
“… … .”
Heindere tried to say something more, but finally kept his mouth shut.
Watching and learning during battle.
Is this a story that could come out of some kind of heroic novel?
‘The arm… It’s impossible.’
The injured left arm does not move properly.
It seems to have pricked a nerve.
You can move around mana and control it, but it’s worse than not doing that in a battle between masters.
It would have been much better to make another move with such concentration.
He fixed the sword with his right arm and grabbed it.
“I didn’t want to go this far, but I guess I need to show you properly. It is too early for you to be the head of state. And historically, there has never been a mistress in our family.”
“Try it. such an old tradition. I will break them all.”
The mana flowing between the two became a little more sticky.
The spectators watching the duel were in awe.
“uh… Are you even going to use your vision?”
“Then it becomes too big?”
vision.
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Just as wizards learn arcane magic separately, swordsmen also had their own unique vision.
With a single swing, it splits mountains and cuts through seas.
There are people who cause earthquakes or tsunamis, or call thunder and lightning.
Performing something like magic with a sword that is a piece of iron.
That was the prosecutor’s vision.
And the difference between a knight with a vision and a knight without a vision was great.
Even if they spread the same sword and swordsmanship, one side wields natural disasters, so how could they be the same?
“It is certainly a great talent to have reached the level of a master without mastering the vision, but it is not yet at the level of rampaging alone. Keep the family tradition and follow the laws.”
The tip of the sword Viscount Heindere held in one hand went down toward the floor.
An arcane swordsmanship that can only be mastered by the direct successor of a viscount’s family, splitting mountains.
The power of the master class was such that it could split a fairly large hill with one diagonal blow.
If you become a grand master, wouldn’t it really split even the highest mountain as the name suggests?
“Ji, you really use arcane swordsmanship, right?”
“Isn’t this supposed to dry?”
Unless it was a matter of life and death, he would not use arcane swordsmanship in a duel between swordsmen.
This is because once used, a major injury almost unconditionally follows.
However, Leo was just watching with his arms crossed.
Since he, the organizer, was still, the other nobles only watched.
And Celise also raised her sword high, holding it tightly with both hands.
“Who said I never mastered the arcane swordsmanship?”
“… what? Could it be that you stole the family’s vision and learned it?”
“It can’t be. I have no intention of learning anything like that.”
Celise shook her head.
Viscount Heindere made an angry expression for the first time.
“dare… ! Calling the family’s vision something like that!”
tradition, honor and history.
These were the things the Viscount valued most.
It has been inherited for over a hundred years and should be protected for hundreds more years, but I ignored it as a member of the family.
could not forgive
“As the family head, I won’t punish you!”
Viscount Heindere’s sword began to move.
A blade that moves slowly.
However, it felt as if something huge, like a mountain, was moving.
It felt as if this small gymnasium, as well as Celise herself in front of it, would be reduced to dust in an instant.
However, Celise looked at it calmly, not being frightened.
She also lowered her sword.
Unlike Viscount Heindere, he struck hard.
The blade vibrated, and a powerful wave spread around her.
– Whoops!
The waves overlapped and overlapped, changing with large amplitudes.
The nobles and knights who were watching around stood up in surprise.
“Me, me, that… !”
“no way… ?”
Arcane swordsmanship in wave form.
Wasn’t there a famous article that wrote that?
Their gaze turned to Leo’s side.
A man with gray hair like a lion’s mane, watching the duel.
The best sword in the kingdom. Duke Ryant!
What Sellies was using was obviously the Duke’s arcane swordsmanship.
Since he was a duke with no clear successor or apprentice yet, he thought that no one had inherited his swordsmanship.
“Could that knight be the duke’s apprentice?”
“The young master raised by the duke… . Now I understand how he got to that level at his age.”
The nobles’ eyes changed.
Leo’s handmaid, but also a young sword master. But it turned out that he was the duke’s hidden disciple?
‘After this duel, I’ll have to approach him unconditionally.’
‘I have to put a string on it somehow.’
There was someone who would lead this kingdom 10 or 20 years from now.
Meanwhile, the confrontation between Selisse and Heindere family continued.
The powerful sword that could split a mountain continued to move toward Selize, and the waves created by Selize increased and collided.
-phut! Fain!
– Wow!
The wave continued to grow rough, and Viscount Heindere’s sword broke through the wave and moved forward.
The viscount’s sword trembled at the slowly rising waves, but little by little it got closer to Selisse.
Sweat dripped down both of their faces.
Gradually the momentum turned menacing.
Both could not be stopped now.
If you do it wrong, fatal injuries are the basics, and you may lose your life.
‘This is dangerous.’
Leo folded his arms.
Until now, I had been watching it quietly, but it was gradually going over the line.
This duel is a place to fulfill Celise’s wish, not to make her or Viscount Heindere suffer irreversible events.
At that moment, a crack broke out between the two confronting swordsmen.
– Kwajik!
Selisse’s wave caused Viscount Heindere’s sword to crack.
“… … !”
Viscount Heindere hurriedly corrected his sword path slightly.
A path that makes the most of the power of the wave flow.
The swords of the two flew, aiming for each fatal part.
It was a situation that happened unknowingly.
[Extreme Ice – Absolute Zero]
Leo’s hands moved as if drawing a magic square.
His white hands that occupied the space froze the air.
It wasn’t simply physically frozen, but the flow of mana was frozen.
The wave of vision that Sellies was spreading.
The sword that cut through the mountains that Viscount Heindere used to wield.
Both were of no use unless they contained mana.
In an instant, the two swords turned into ordinary iron swords, scarring each other.
-Hook!
-Chack!
Although it pierced the armor, it did not go very far beyond the skin.
The eyes of the two prosecutors trembled.
In particular, Viscount Heindere was severely affected.
“how… .”
The duel wasn’t over yet, but his gaze turned to Leo.
Sellies had already been through it for the past few months, so even if he had gotten used to it, he wasn’t.
And that wasn’t all.
“… What did I just see?”
“Mana… Did you stop?”
Almost all the eyes of the knights watching the duel were directed towards Leo.
They had been admiring the level of Celise and Viscount Heindere until just a moment ago, but now they looked at Leo as if they were looking at some kind of monster.
Since all of them were high-level knights, they immediately figured out what had happened.
By artificially freezing mana, the two swordsmen were turned into ordinary people.
Of course, they weren’t completely normal people, and they only made it so that they couldn’t put mana on their swords, but to them, that was normal people.
The back bone was terrifying.
‘If I had suffered something like that during the battle… .’
‘You’re going to die right away… .’
Swordsman, Wizard, Elementalist, Priest, Mercenary, Thief, etc.
Every human being in this world deals with mana.
It was a fatal spell for them all.
Of course, I was frightened and just stared at Leo.
Perhaps if he wasn’t royalty and a 6th class mage, he could have been greeted by assassins starting tonight.
In the midst of such a whirlpool of emotions.
Leo was alone, frowning.
‘ah. It failed again.’
Is it because it is urgent? The magic that hadn’t worked for months worked.
Beyond simply making mana difficult to move, he completely controlled it.
However, it was only half successful.
The duration of the magic was only about 1-2 seconds.
Only the moment Celise and Viscount Heindere clashed, mana was cut off, and right after that, the two returned to normal.
‘King Karst, very lightly, continued to make my mana unable to budge.’
When that could happen, there was a long way to go.
After thinking about it for a while, Leo finally felt the eyes looking at him.
“yes? Why are you looking at these guys?”
“… … .”
“Everyone, let’s focus on the duel, right?”
“… I understand, low.”
He shook his hand and sent the knights’ gazes back to the arena.
Viscount Heindere also looked at Celise, not Leo.
Even though Leo had just been so startled, he instinctively felt it.
‘I lost this duel.’
Even if the sword wasn’t cracked, he would have been able to break all of Selize’s waves in the end.
However, there was no choice but to correct the sword path in the middle, and if it continued as it was, both would have suffered fatal injuries, but he would have suffered a greater injury.
I felt grateful to Prince Leo, but at the same time, I felt sick to my stomach.
‘I was told that I was going to start a new smithy business, so I entrusted it, and this division is flying.’
My cousin started a blacksmithing business and left it, but I almost died.
‘no. In fact, they’re all excuses.’
If there was a vast difference in skill, they would have been able to win even if their swords were broken.
In the first place, he hadn’t come out with the intention of fighting Celise on an equal footing today.
But look at the result.
The sword is broken, and the left arm is injured.
He looked at Celise.
A beauty with flowing blonde hair. She was still looking at him with narrow eyes.
It was a new feeling.
‘Has this kid grown up like this before he knew it… .’
Viscount Heindere let out a small sigh.
I had no choice but to admit it.
he opened his mouth
“I… lost.”