17. Goddess Aria – 06
In the middle of the forest where we are standing, a lukewarm wind blows past.
The explosions that shook the place just a moment ago, and the clashes between swordsmen that split the surroundings, had already come and gone. The only thing in this place right now is a chilly silence without any sound.
However, in the silence that now lingered in this place, there was a feeling of tension that was not lacking at all compared to the moment before. The sharp flesh that seemed to have been ground to the limit pricked each other’s skin. A thought passes through my mind that a balloon that seems to have already inflated beyond its limit is on the verge of bursting at the end of further inflating.
By analogy, it was an encounter between death and death. Because Kyrie was in the process of forging each other’s lives to block us from moving forward, and we were sharpening each other’s lives in order to surpass Kyrie and move forward.
…No, it must have been an extremely arrogant idea to stand here without any resolution to kill her. My opponent is Kyrie El Denaris. He is the guardian of the World Tree and, at the same time, an absolute being who has honed his own martial arts over hundreds of years.
Because I, who trained the sword in a short period of less than ten years at most, could not match the hundreds of years that she had built up until now without a desperate determination to kill Kyrie.
So make a firm commitment. In order to reach the girl who was standing out of my sight, even for a moment, I was prepared to pierce Kyrie’s heart with my sword.
“Concentrate your mind as much as possible. Don’t relax even for a second. The timing is all right for you. So you only care about protecting yourself. And this is the most important thing…”
“…do not die. never.”
Just now, in the aftermath of Bianca’s ‘Sigh of the White Flame’ and Kyrie’s sniping, all the trees around me that were blocking my view were swept away. Thanks to that, the field of view was wide open, and the enemy’s sniper trajectory was also easier to grasp.
A single tree towering in the northeast of the forest, which could only be seen as a small dot even with the maximum concentration of aura in the eyes. That must be the location where Kyrie is sniping at us.
If you know the sniper’s location and your surroundings are clear, you won’t have to worry about the enemy’s sniper shooting at your blind spot as you did just before.
Then there are only two problems left. Even though Bianca has the firepower to counter Kyrie’s sniping, she doesn’t have the reaction speed, and the distance between where we’re standing now and where Kyrie is is so far that this side’s attack doesn’t work on the other side at all.
Without Bianca’s help, I wouldn’t be able to approach Kyrie over a distance of 5km, and on the contrary, if I didn’t deal with Kyrie’s arrows, Bianca wouldn’t even react properly to Kyrie’s sniping and would get hit right away.
A situation where he was caught in a single shot where he could not hastily launch an offensive towards Kyrie, but he could not continue to focus only on defense.
Then there is only one way left. If Kyrie’s sniper had to deviate from the trajectory before it reached Bianca, and the sniper would approach her without noticing and somehow induce close combat, wouldn’t it be the case?
“…The magic is ready. Flash-type magic that boasts the fastest speed among the magic I can currently use. The speed is about three times the speed of sound. Five seconds should be enough to reach the place where Kyrie is standing. The problem is that I had to give up some of the power of the flash in order to get a faster speed than normal magic casting.”
If that’s the case, it doesn’t matter. Even if the magic that Bianca will fire from now on is less destructive than Kyrie’s sniping, it’s just a story that I can compensate for that much.
“…..”
In a slightly different meaning than before, beads of sweat flowed from his body. A suffocating tension surrounds us. Twenty seconds had passed since the last sniping she had taken. Even so, there is no sign of a sniping from Kyrie. Just now, Bianca had said this to me. Kirie, who is backed up by the World Tree, is said to be able to shoot arrows that are far more powerful than any sniping shots she has ever fired, if enough time is invested.
The time lag between the sniping shots fired at us so far is about 15 seconds at most. Of the four repeated snipings, never had Kyrie required so much preparation time.
…Then, there is only one conclusion to be drawn here. The sniper she was going to unleash this time had a power that was incomparable to that of the previous one.
Concentrate all your mind until your eyes are bloodshot. My role at this moment is to tell Bianca the timing of the sniping.
Just when Kyrie shoots an arrow at us is an opportunity. At the same time, if Kirie noticed our ruse, everything would go to waste. So you only have one chance. The only chance we have is when we invest this amount of time and are proud that there is no way that a sniper with this level of power will fail.
3 seconds ago.
2 seconds ago.
…And, 1 second ago.
“Bianca, now!”
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Moment, saw I saw it clearly even though I couldn’t see it from this distance. The sight of Kyrie’s longbow being pulled taut, shooting arrows at us with a power that can only be described as horrific. The arrow’s speed was so high that it was incomparable to anything that had been done before.
Only 3 seconds before the sniper shot arrived at its destination.
And at the same time, Bianca’s magic is cast to counter Kyrie’s sniping.
At that moment, Kyrie, who was observing them from a distance of 5 km, also saw the scene clearly. The figure of Bianca casting magic as if she had waited for it as soon as she took the sniping.
The type of magic cast is probably a flash-type magic. Their goal was so obvious that it was clearly visible. It must be that he intends to intercept his sniping midway through flash-type magic, which boasts the fastest speed among all magic.
But to conclude, Bianca’s struggles were of no use whatsoever. It took 30 seconds for Kyrie to shoot this sniper. The time it took for the sniping before that time to cross the ship. In proportion to that, the arrows fired by Kyrie also boasted incomparable power.
In Kyrie’s opinion, in order for them to block this sniping, there was no other way than to counterattack with at least ‘Sigh of the White Flame’ class magic, or use Cain’s full strength to strengthen the defense.
At most, there was no way that her deadly sniper could be blocked by flash-type magic. If that was the only card she was hiding, the flash Bianca sent would shatter like an egg hitting a rock in front of her sniping.
…Yes, if only that was their only goal.
“…!”
Kyrie’s pupils scan the surroundings of Bianca, who sent a flash of light at him. But no. Nowhere near Bianca, Cain was nowhere to be found.
where did he disappear to? Could it be that Bianca’s flash magic was a bait, and Cain was taking advantage of Bianca’s time to get close to him?
No, it can’t be. Currently, no sign of Cain could be found anywhere in her field of vision. Furthermore, Cain is not the one to come face to face with Bianca as a bait, even when her safety is not secured.
that’s why it’s weird Where did he disappear to, and where is he now?
In an instant, a nonsense thought flashed through Kyrie’s head. It was absurd, and I imagined that if I had heard it normally, I would have laughed it off, saying it was a funny joke.
Kyrie’s two trembling eyes were staring straight ahead at the pure white flash that was crossing the heavens even at this moment.
One second before the two lights that brighten the sky hit each other as if they were saying they couldn’t acknowledge each other.
I don’t know what the heck he did, but he could see Cain trying to get closer to him, standing on the flashlight itself as a stepping stone.
“…Kuh!”
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My idea was relatively simple. There was no way to win if the defense was hardened like this, and there was no way to drive her into close combat, and above all, there was no way to deal with the sniping that was aimed at Bianca.
…yes, except for one way.
Even if you can’t expect an effective hit, the magic Bianca shoots has enough speed to reach Kyrie’s location in just 5 seconds. And I have ‘Flowing Star’, a swordsmanship that can control all energy in a certain area. If so, isn’t it a relatively simple story?
When Bianca casts magic against Kyrie’s sniping shot, somehow, after using the flowing stars to match the timing, she directs the energy of the flash in one direction and somehow ‘rides’ the magic.
Of course, there is no place for a human body to lean against the flash of photons, but flash-type magic is not pure light, but a kind of energy that converts mana into light. I thought that with Bianca’s little help, I could use the repulsive force between the aura and magical power to somehow get on board with the flash magic, and fortunately my idea was exactly right.
…Of course, the whole body was protected with an aura, but as a reward for traveling through the sky at speeds several times the speed of sound with a living human body, the whole body was torn to shreds, but that was only a trivial matter.
There were a total of two obstacles I had to overcome in order to defeat Kyrie. One is, will I be able to ‘board’ the flash-type magic as I thought?
…And the other one, will he be able to respond to the sniper shot by Kyrie while riding the flash magic?
The transcendent sniper speed that broke through the speed of sound in the past, the size of an arrow that can only be seen as a small dot, and the triple woe of bleeding that occurs throughout the body in exchange for breaking through the speed of sound with a human body.
But you have to do it. No, you have to do it. If I don’t respond to Kyrie’s sniping right now, that arrow will inevitably start galloping towards Bianca. It’s only been 2 seconds since she trusted me and fired a flash at Kyrie. There was no room for her to conjure magic to protect herself against the sniper that would hit her directly one second from now.
So, failure is never acceptable to me now!
In an instant, my sword turned upside down. I put all my heart into it and face the flying arrow as it is. The sword, which was imbued with an unprecedented amount of aura, contained an intense force as if it were vibrating to something. What I am thinking of at this moment is the sword that once cut through the sky called Iris.
Her arrows, so fast and so small, that I couldn’t even look at them properly.
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My sword named Kukcheon (極天) cut it in half and threw it away.
“…ah.”
And Kyrie also saw clearly.
The scene where light and light intersect in the heavens.
A single flash of light moved northeast without losing momentum.
The other ray of light, like a burnt-out shooting star, disappears as if it melts into the air.
The point at which it is 4 seconds after the finger is released from the grip. By the time I felt I had to do something, it was already too late.
“Kyrie-!”
The voice calling her name arrives a step later. Come to think of it, that couldn’t have been more natural. Because he was approaching her at several times the speed of sound.
There was still one second left before he reached him. However, she shows no signs of fighting back and just keeps her hands down.
Winning or losing is already decided. Wouldn’t it be extremely ugly to continue unseemly resistance here? At least, a woman named Kyrie el Denaris thought so. Always and everywhere, a woman wants to show off her cool side in front of her man.
“…great, Cain.”
Kirie muttered that to him without softening the smile on her lips.
Fuuk-
“Your victory.”
Hearing the sound of something being stabbed in her chest, she muttered as she looked at her partner as if to convince herself.