Crepin Subjugation (7)
– Right! bang!
The sword rolled on the floor.
Roth Taylor Hall on the 3rd floor of the Annex of the Roth Taylor Mansion.
Ed is standing upright amidst the lavish decorations. His physique is not yet reliable, and his behavior is immature.
It’s not long after the baptismal ceremony, so it’s still a fresh start. Even so, the way he struggles to show himself as a member of the Roth Taylor family is extraordinary.
This Roth Taylor Hall, which is also used as a venue for events and as a training center for nobles during peacetime, is also a place where numerous famous duels have been held historically.
In this space where a lot of famous warriors had dueled, young Arwen and Ed used to practice battles.
By holding swords against each other, exchanging sums, and sweating profusely, he was able to shake off the stress of the heir’s weight.
However, their levels are quite different.
― ‘You are also my sister.’
Looking at the fallen sword, Ed in his memory smiles as if hesitantly.
Arwen swung his sword in the air once and captured it.
And tell Ed. that my skills have improved a lot. In a little while, I think I’ll be able to get my posture right.
― ‘Well, I don’t think I have any talent for swordsmanship. Magic isn’t cool, so it’s a complicated feeling… I have a lot of trouble.’
Arwen encourages him as he cleans up his sword.
We still have a lot of time left.
And we were born into a blessed status as descendants of the Roth Taylor family.
There is fertile nourishment, and if you make an effort commensurate with it, you will surely see results.
When Arwen said that with a benevolent face, Ed also picked up the knife and cleaned it up and laughed.
― ‘Thank you for saying that.’
Arwen and Ed look at each other and smile.
As if blessed by God, Roth Taylor’s estate has a peaceful and beautiful atmosphere.
The warm light of the sun penetrated into the annex of the mansion there, Roth Taylor Hall.
In the midst of the warmth of broad daylight, he sees Ed, who is deep in thought as he swings his sword back and forth.
Arwen quietly closed her eyes and felt the peaceful warmth of early spring for a while.
Almost all of the outer walls of Roth Taylor Hall were blown away, and it was no longer possible to call it a ‘Hall’. It’s like a terrace.
Strange flesh is wriggling and covering the ruins of the building, and the sky is filled with the magic circles of Mevula and Lucy.
The sound of battles between the gremlins and the spirits filled the mansion grounds, and occasionally the screams of people being struck by the gremlin’s blades were also heard.
And Ed Roth Taylor is standing in front of Arwen who has woken up.
A tailcoat made of seven packs of blood and a dagger held by a reciprocal sword, a bat spirit and a lion spirit standing around him, an enormous amount of mana that could not be compared with before, a remarkably stiff body and cold eyes.
The momentum flowing out of his body was enough for Arwen to realize.
Ed has no intention of going back.
It is a mountain to climb through. So Arwen also took a fighting stance.
-grasp!
Ed kicked off the floor and leapt. He had narrowed the distance in a straight line towards Arwen.
Arwen uses two large swords in close combat. Arwen, who did not think that the distance would have to be narrowed, quickly raised the ‘condemnation’ in his left hand.
However, just before entering the intersection… Ed slipped on the floor and came to a sudden stop. It was a location where the range of the sword did not reach.
Then, naturally, he dropped the magic marble he had placed in his arms like shedding on the floor. Arwen reacted quickly and tried to widen the distance, but the orb was not a means of attack.
– Wrath!
‘Magic Engineering?!’
‘claw hand’.
It was a magical device that could temporarily pull objects around him toward him.
Although there was a limit to the output, it was a good tool to disturb the opponent in close combat because of the fast activation speed.
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Magical energy was emitted from the marble, and in an instant, the ‘condemnation’ that Arwen was holding began to be dragged away.
As Arwen’s posture collapsed, even his body was dragged in the direction of Ed.
However, narrowing the distance is something that Arwen is also grateful for. As it is, Arwen’s auxiliary magics begin to exert their power in an instant.
Lightweight magic was given to the ‘Day of Dawn’, a great sword the size of itself. As it was, Arwen picked up the great sword and slammed the sword into Ed’s place with the inertia being dragged by the rake.
– Kwaang!
A level where you can freely turn the lightening magic on and off while wielding a greatsword. Arwen’s magic operation had already risen to a considerable level.
As it was, the lightening magic was canceled and the weight hit the floor, and dust rose and obscured the view for a moment.
But Arwen, wielding the sword, knew. Ed was already out of the crossroads. He caught the moment he was wielding and took a big leap backwards.
If so, what did you narrow the distance for in the first place? As soon as that question arose, the dagger that had been placed on the floor through the dust caught my eye.
A ceremonial dagger used in the Roth Taylor mansion. The very surface of the sword that Ed had been using from the day he was first expelled from the Ophelis Hall… The spirits were engraved with clean handwriting.
‘This… .’
-bang!
Before even deciphering the spirit ceremony, a large explosion occurred first.
He quickly developed the defensive magic engraved on the ‘Day of Dawn’ and succeeded in protecting his body… .
– Kwaang!
Then, the lieutenant fire magic ‘one-point explosion’ was also smashed into Arwen’s reputation.
Arwen, who was hit directly and fell off, put his sword on the floor and barely supported himself. A single stream of blood flowed out.
When the smoke clears, Ed, covered in blood, stands silently behind him.
“A lot of… You’ve become more sophisticated… .”
Arwen stood up again, supporting the weight of his body with his great sword.
It is suicide for a wizard to close the distance to a warrior as soon as the battle begins. However, Ed casually narrowed the distance to confuse the opponent, dragged him back into the realm, and then made a feat of widening the distance again.
It was the figure of an expert who led the battle at his own pace, thoroughly violating the sense of distance of ordinary warriors.
With just one move, Arwen recognized that Ed had grown beyond compare.
Ed at the time he was having a swordsmanship match at Roth Taylor Hall is no longer there.
-grasp!
This time, Arwen jumped off the floor.
The lightening magic that appeared in an instant removed the weight of the greatsword. As it is, Arwen kicked the underside of the sword handle of ‘Crime’ and threw it into the sky.
Then, holding the ‘Day of Dawn’ with both hands, he rushes in and cuts one large horizontally, removing the lightening magic.
A great sword female warrior who freely handles the weight of the sword. Watching that battle, it was like watching a dancer dancing under the weight of a great sword.
– Wrath!
Ed managed to jump back and dodge, but Arwen was dragged by the weight of the sword’s handle that went wide horizontally, and he turned around and kicked the floor.
Arwen, who narrowed the distance once more, lowered his sword vertically this time. Ed tried to apply basic defense magic to receive it, but in ‘Day of Dawn’, penetration magic that had an advantage over all defense magic was engraved.
―Kan!
―Changgrang!
In an instant, Ed’s defense magic broke and the blade struck him. He managed to avoid the blade, but the tip of the blade brushed past his shoulder blade, and blood splattered.
Ed let out a shallow moan and narrowed his brow. However, it is important to note that the wound is not fatal.
– Kwaak!
Ed pushed the sword into the ground and stomped on it with his foot. Arwen’s pupils widened in an instant.
Arwen’s strength is not strong enough to handle such a large sword freely.
Arwen’s swordsmanship ultimately focuses on using light weight magic to lift the great sword, swing it, and use the inertia of weight that occurs when dispelling the magic in the middle. Therefore, each movement is as if dancing by the weight of the sword.
Rather than nurturing the force itself, they are motions with a developed sense of grasping the center of an already generated force and twisting it.
It allows you to use a much greater destructive power compared to the strength you have, but there is a blind spot in that method.
A bayonet without light weight is heavy and difficult to handle.
As the lightened greatsword is lighter, it is more affected by external forces.
In other words, if the great sword itself is crushed by external pressure, the sword cannot be lifted even if lightening magic is used. Then, Arwen’s power will not be able to handle the sword.
‘In just two sums… ?’
It is a fatal blind spot, but it is not easy to see through it.
This is because the sword itself looks infinitely heavy and dull. Humans are affected by visual information more than we think.
When you see a sword this big and heavy, you don’t think about avoiding it or blocking it somehow… It is impossible to think of pressing the sword itself with its weight. Usually, it takes a long time to realize the law of destruction, or you don’t realize it until the neck falls off.
However, after only exchanging two sums, Ed quickly figured out how to break the law.
While Ed is trampling ‘Day of Dawn’, Arwen cannot use the sword.
‘It’s amazing agility, but… !’
However, Arwen does not mean that he did not assume this situation. Arwen let go of the handle of the bayonet as it was, and swiveled his body and came out to the side.
The hem of the frayed skirt unfolds, and it seems that a flower is blooming. Another sword, ‘Crime’, was held in Arwen’s hand, which had rotated once coolly.
It is easy to press one sword with its own weight, but it is difficult to subdue two swords at the same time. This is why Arwen uses two swords.
Just in case this happens, a sword had just been thrown into the sky. Arwen’s body movements, as he received the sword neatly, were almost like a feat.
Without stopping the rotation of the body as it is, this time using the weight of ‘condemnation’, he cuts it horizontally once. As Ed curls back to dodge the sword, he leaps forward again… Kick the free ‘Day of Dawn’ with your feet.
The moment Arwen kicked the ‘Day of Dawn’ circling in the air with its weight removed, Arwen’s next attack was already flying towards Ed. A clean and clear sword strike flew towards Ed’s shoulder.
When he used the ‘Wind Blade’ to blow away the sword strike that had been cut diagonally, Arwen was once again drawn to the weight of the sword and spun around. Picking up the ‘Day of Dawn’ that had just been kicked up empty-handed, he kept his spinning inertia and lowered his next attack.
-Ouch!
Ed succeeded in deflecting the ‘Day of Dawn’ by unleashing a blade of wind again, but the recoil caused him to fall out greatly.
―Quadangtang!
“As soon as I found out that the defense magic didn’t work, I started using elemental magic to defend.”
Watching Ed go out, Arwen razed the blade of the greatsword once.
“It’s a really great reflex, but you can’t stop the physical power itself.”
Ed took a deep breath and stood up again. The eyes are still intense.
Arwen swallowed dry saliva in those eyes.
Ed Roth Taylor’s battles have always been based on ‘pre-information’.
No matter who he faced, if he was a character in ＜Failed Swordsman of Sylvania>, how he would fight the battle seemed good in his eyes.
However, Arwen Roth Taylor is completely outside the screenplay.
There is no prior information, everything has to be bumped into first.
So, he opens his eyes and imprints the information of the other person in his head.
From small gestures to magical principles, to habits of action… I get all the information in an instant and go.
In just the first match, he embarrass Arwen by adjusting the free distance, in two matches, he finds out and digs into the blind spot of the lightening magic, and in three matches, he realizes the defense-ignoring attribute engraved on the ‘Day of Dawn’ and copes with it.
Beyond the level of rapid adaptation, it seems that he is becoming a different person one by one.
Arwen saw that and… I felt it again.
He barely got up from the outside and looked at Arwen with his eyes wide open while he was seven packs of blood.
The opponent is a master of improvisation.
If you drag it into a long-term battle, you will surely lose.
When Arwen’s battle methods were all established, he would come up with perfect countermeasures in an instant.
“Ed.”
Arwen calls his name softly, and Ed answers.
“Come now, do you have anything else to say?”
“Even if you come now, can’t you just stop?”
“Whew… .”
Ed slowly straightened his body as it was, then grabbed the dagger again and gathered his magical power.
I didn’t want to summon even the high spirits. Because he still has a battle remaining.
High spirits consume an unbelievable level of magical power just by summoning them. Although it has reached a level that can only be afforded now, the fact that it is effectively a means of decisive battle does not change.
Nevertheless, Arwen is more demanding than expected.
The great sword has strong destructive power, but is heavy and slow.
How absurd is the battle method that breaks that natural principle and fires an attack with the destructive power of a greatsword as fast as a dagger… I feel it all over again.
If necessary, even a high-ranking spirit must be brought out.
“Maybe we… We will not understand each other until we die.”
Seeing Ed who didn’t even respect him anymore, Arwen bowed his head.
“Then we have no choice but to face the sword.”
What do you mean by family? In the end, Ed just goes to finish the creffin in order to survive.
Whether she became a wife who could not break the ties of her family even after being beaten by a drunken husband,
Whether he became a filial son who did his duty to the end even under parents who looked at their children like worms,
Or maybe I became a parent who devoted my life to supporting someone who wasn’t even like a child.
Ed had lived several steps away from him.
He had come too far to bind him with the ties of blood.
Ever since the day we parted on the Terrace, all Ed’s respect for the Roth Taylors has been burned to the ground.
Now, all that is left is a wizard who becomes seven packs of blood and goes to catch crepins.
There is nothing good about dragging for a long time. This should be the last one.
Arwen was so sure, he raised his sword. Ed had already kicked off his seat and rushed.
Time flows slowly
Ed’s roaring and narrowing the distance is engraved in Arwen’s eyes.
The scene reflected in Ed’s eyes is the same.
There was no hesitation left in the sight of Arwen raising his sword and making one final match.
A bat flies behind Ed’s back as he slowly narrows the distance. Before Arwen could even react, he spewed out fire.
Slowly flying flames headed straight for Arwen.
Arwen lowers his posture, avoids fire, and enchants ‘Day of Dawn’ with lightening magic.
However, at that moment, the lioness Laysia snatches Arwen’s sword and throws it away.
Hyeon-hyeon, the spirit who cherished and cherished until the end.
The last one, it was a means that had not been mobilized in the meantime to get her out of the way.
Arwen’s core weakness is that the sword becomes too light the moment it is lightened.
Since the sword became so light that it could be deflected with only weak physical force, it was possible to deflect the sword with just one kick of Laysia.
However, there is still one sack left.
The ‘condemnation’ used by the first sword lord Luden. The sword, which was bestowed upon him by the imperial family as the heir of the glorious Roth Taylor, begins to shine.
The sword strike from Arwen’s hand went straight to Ed’s body. If you stab at the shortest distance, it will be much faster than Ed’s attack.
However, Ed knows.
Arwen Roth Taylor… Can’t ‘poke’
Due to her fighting style, which relies on the weight of the sword to draw destructive power, stabbing, which has to withstand the weight of the sword on her own, cannot be used.
Techniques that lead only to large slashing movements, drawn by the weight of the sword, are completely incapacitated when digging deep.
However, Arwen is also not unaware of that fact. Therefore, she manifests the final magic engraved on the ‘condemnation’ in her hand.
‘Acceleration’ magic. The power that instantly speeded up the body’s movements was not included in Ed’s calculations. This is the ability that Arwen had hidden until the end.
Fast enough to defy the laws of physics. The moment he was about to attack Ed’s chest like that, Arwen was taken aback by Ed’s response.
―Ed just shut his eyes tightly.
Have you given up on everything? Not like that.
At that moment, the wind that flows near Ed’s body wraps around him.
One last move left for each other, but… In the number fight, Ed had a slightly higher number hidden.
‘Protection of the Storm’ that completely incapacitates attacks beyond recognition.
The wind just rose and deflected Arwen’s sword, leaving Arwen’s body lifted, incapacitated.
The moment Ed grabs the dagger and tries to pierce the gap, Arwen takes an optimal response in an instant.
He clenched his teeth as if they were about to break, and clenched the hand that held the handle of the great sword.
Using the weight of the greatsword whose lightening magic had been canceled, he pulled down its handle and somehow managed to block Ed’s strike. As a result, the final match that staggers each other returns to a completely half-half state.
Now let’s finish. It feels like such a conversation has happened.
It was the moment when they gave each other a final blow with a posture that regained stability in the air.
One-on-one combat.
Variables that undermined all those major premises hit the two of them.
―Quaan!
―Ahhh!
wind blew again.
There is a girl who somehow manages the unstable wind magic, and landed between them.
The blonde hair fluttering against the night sky is infinitely similar to Arwen’s color, and his sharp eyes resemble Ed’s.
The girl who landed at once from the central spire to the broken ceiling of Roth Taylor Hall is a variable neither Arwen and Ed could have imagined.
You can see Tanya’s expression in the slow time.
I feel like crying, I feel angry, I feel embarrassed.
A lot of information is rushing through the girl’s head.
Roth Taylor’s Youngji is suddenly in an uproar. Broken Mansion Annex. Arwen is alive in a bizarre form. Ed, who becomes seven packs of blood, climbs the annex. And the battle between the two.
In an urgent situation where she doesn’t know anything and doesn’t know how to judge, her hand, which appears between the two of them exchanging one final match, still has a slight amount of magical power.
Only once, weakly but surely, it can implement wind magic.
Arwen and Ed. If both of them are hit with a single hit, all defenses are destroyed.
Between the two, Tanya’s eyes… He turns to Arwen, who has always looked after him mercifully.
The image of the older sister who does not help but love comes into my eyes.
――I remember the night I was hugged on the terrace.
Ed, who had been telling me to come this way in the dark, just let Tanya go.
I just couldn’t figure out the reason and was scared, so I held him in Arwen’s arms and cried.
The separation was between the two, so Tanya followed Arwen’s path.
So Ed left the terrace, headed to Aken Island, and survived the loneliness. Tanya didn’t want to stand next to him.
The day Ed left the mansion, he hid behind the curtains behind the window and watched him from afar, watching his lonely back.
What kind of thorny path he has walked since that day, now Tanya Rothtailer knows.
―Ahhh!
They do not know the reason for the situation or the end of the work.
In the situation of the last settlement, which was worth even a hundredth of a second, Tanya threw wind magic at Arwen’s hand.
―Ahhh!
—Kagang
The last ‘condemnation’ held in Arwen’s hand was thrown out of his hand.
The moment Arwen tries to quickly widen the distance…
– Kwaak!
Due to Ed digging, Arwen’s shoulder was pierced by a dagger.
Poor Tanya