114 – Decisive Battle – 3
I couldn’t understand.
With such a greatsword, how could he show such movements?
It felt like it was putting too much strain on my body just by blocking such fast and heavy attacks.
“Ugh….”
I started to hear a creaking sound more and more often, especially in my left shoulder.
For some reason the pain wasn’t great, but my intuition was telling me.
The left shoulder has already reached its limit.
“Huh!”
Rex swung his sword from the right.
The greatsword was completely different from what it looked like, and it burrowed toward me as sharp and swift as a poisonous snake.
Fortunately, it wasn’t to the point where I couldn’t react.
I immediately turned Neia to the right to block the attack.
“Keah!”
Even so, I threw myself against the wall, gasping out in pain as if my intestines were twisting.
“Ike!”
If it wasn’t for Reina’s protection magic, she would have died instantly.
“Dear Ike Axus. Did you think you could defeat Avatar with just that kind of skill? Did you think that with just that much determination, you could break down the oblivion of a thousand years?”
I don’t know, stuff like that.
In the first place, what is a thousand-year oblivion?
In the original work, Avatar was simply explained as an organization to destroy the empire.
I’m standing here because I just want to stop it.
“Ha ha ha….”
I barely get up again and stare at Rex.
I felt tired just from breathing, and my arms were already shaking for a long time.
As expected, I always lose if I go like this.
“Reina.”
“Yes.”
“Let’s change the strategy. If you just block the attack, you can never win.”
In the first place, as a Mine, Rex’s ability is super-fast regeneration.
If you’re only going to defend, you don’t even need to use barrier stones in the first place.
“Use magic that weakens the opponent as much as possible. I need to be able to take that attack alone.”
“Okay.”
There was no doubt in Reina’s voice as she answered my request.
Of course, I didn’t doubt Reina at all.
“Frozen breath, seal the enemy here.”
Starting with Reina’s incantation, I also set foot in her once again.
“… As expected, what I felt then was not a coincidence.”
Ice slowly began to grow on Rex’s body.
Rex tried to wield his greatsword to break the ice, but the ice continued to grow without breaking, and his movement slowed significantly.
“Well, do you think this much is a handicap?”
But that was obviously not enough.
Even if it’s noticeably slower, it’s only a relative feeling after all.
Rex’s greatsword was still a lethal blow, so I never gave him a chance to wield it.
“Huh!”
Immediately closed the distance and hit Neia with weight.
However, Rex lightly deflected it with his greatsword, then dug into me and threw his fist at me.
I also immediately turned my body to receive the attack with his shoulder, but the weight was by no means light.
Still.
“I can hold on… !”
Of course, the heavy pain came to my shoulder after receiving the attack, but it wasn’t so much that I couldn’t move.
“O water spirit!”
As a blue glow flowed from Reina’s hand and wrapped around me, the pain slowly began to subside.
Feeling that feeling, I ran towards Rex again.
Of course, Rex didn’t stand still either, and immediately lowered his stance to prepare for a side slash.
Because of the fact that his body movements have slowed down, he must be trying to fight by counterattacking.
And that was the situation I was aiming for all along.
“Haaa… !”
Just before I approached, Rex’s greatsword moved.
I twisted my body to avoid the attack to sever my belly, and I swung Neia wide again.
The target is Rex’s left arm.
And if my predictions are correct, he must….
“Haaah!”
I can feel the sword piercing my flesh.
At the same time, with a bone-slicing sound, Rex’s left arm was severed and fell to the floor.
As a mine, Rex’s ability is super-fast regeneration.
No matter what kind of wound it receives, it literally regenerates in an instant, as long as its neck doesn’t fall off.
In the original work, it was described as a bizarre scene that is difficult to describe in words.
It doesn’t matter if your limbs are cut off, if your back is pierced, or if your side is pierced.
In an instant, Rex’s body returns to normal, and he moves forward to destroy the enemy.
That’s why the nickname is disaster.
But that was also Rex’s weakness.
Because of the idea that it will regenerate even if it is injured anyway, it has a tendency to receive the opponent’s attack with its body.
Even in the original work, because of that propensity, being seriously injured by the holy sword was the cause of the defeat.
Of course, there is no holy sword here.
But there is Charlotte’s barrier stone.
A barrier stone created to block the ability of a demon.
Of course, Cron said that the other side knew we had a plan.
But he didn’t seem to know exactly what it was, so he expected Rex to fight his way for now.
And that was the correct answer.
“Huh!”
Rex, whose left arm was amputated, reacted promptly.
Immediately he twisted his body to block the ensuing attack, then reached out and forced me to retreat.
Even though he had his left arm cut off while still under the influence of Reina’s magic, it was a frighteningly calm response.
“… Is this your preparedness plan?”
A huge amount of blood was oozing from Rex’s left arm.
But he just watched quietly as if there was no pain.
“It distorts the magical energy of the air, making it impossible to use the magical powers of demons. Definitely plausible. No, it is the perfect fallback.”
Of course, that doesn’t mean we’ve completely won the game.
Because I didn’t cut off his right arm wielding a greatsword.
However, the loss of one arm greatly upsets a person’s balance.
Then it’s safe to say that we’ve got an advantage to some degree.
With that thought in mind, the moment I was about to step out again to solidify my victorious spirit.
“Do you know?”
Rex’s low voice echoed through the aisle.
And with that alone, I was overwhelmed by the atmosphere and couldn’t move.
It must have been an intuition that if I moved, I would die.
“With the blood and magic of demon beasts transplanted into the body by the officers of Avatar. They are all Class A monsters.”
For some reason, the section of Rex’s severed left arm began to wriggle.
“However, only one person was transplanted with the blood and magic path of a non-A-rank monster. And that monster’s grade is Z-class.”
A Z-class monster.
The worst level of monsters that there have been only 2 in history so far.
“And when a Z-class monster uses an ability, it doesn’t just use atmospheric magic. I use my own magical power as well.”
A cross section of the left arm of a wriggling Rex.
“And I am the one who received the blood and magic path of a Z-class beast.”
Literally, a new arm has grown.
“Well, the playback speed was slow, though.”
Hope collapsed.
“Now then, let’s start over. Isn’t that the barrier stone the only contingency?”
Rex knows that he is much stronger than we are.
In other words, she was being caught off guard.
The plan was to dig into that gap and inflict a fatal wound.
“Prove that your cause is worthy of overthrowing a thousand-year obscenity, Ike Axus.”
… sh*t.
It was only natural that he let out a sigh naturally.
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“Huh!”
How should I do this?
Even if you launch an attack, you won’t be able to land a decisive blow.
If you continue to defend yourself, you will eventually die.
Are you calling this kind of thing right away?
“Ha ha!”
With a scream, Rex’s greatsword cut through the wall of the aisle.
I don’t know if it’s okay to say that I cut this with a sword.
“Ha ha, ha ha.”
My whole body is throbbing.
No matter how much Reina continued to use healing magic, it was impossible to completely recover her physical strength with water-based healing magic.
“Whoa….
And the sound of Raina’s breathing behind her was getting louder and rougher.
An endless war of attrition that has already been going on for quite some time.
Of course, the disadvantage was on our side.
Because it was an unreasonable fight in which our side would die immediately the moment a mistake was made.
“Damn it.”
Since cutting off his left arm earlier, I’ve never been able to land a proper blow on Rex.
At most, it was only a few stab wounds on his arm.
“Kuh?!”
A greatsword strikes overhead.
I immediately lifted Neia above her head to block it, but my body pulled back more and more from the weight of another dimension.
“… As expected, the left shoulder is out of balance.”
And that happened in an instant.
Rex immediately retrieved the greatsword that had been pressuring him from above, and in an instant turned around and swung his greatsword at my left shoulder.
I thought I immediately turned and blocked the attack.
“Hey!”
The left shoulder must have already reached its limit, and as soon as I felt the impact of the collision, I lost sight of Neia.
The recoil that followed threw me into the wall.
“aaa?!”
The left flank was slashed with a large sword? Torn apart?
I don’t know.
It hurts so much, my head can’t turn properly.
I touched my left side with my trembling right hand, but I couldn’t even feel the gooey touch of blood.
All I could tell was that blood was flowing non-stop from my left side.
“… !”
In the distance, Reina seemed to be saying something, but unfortunately she couldn’t hear it at all.
Rex approached me before I knew it, and was standing there with his greatsword pointed at my throat.
“I will ask you one last time. Is your goal of saving just one person worth more than the ruins of people accumulated over a thousand years?”
To come to the end and ask such a question.
I almost laughed because I was dumbfounded.
“This is a really lame question….”
“… Is it.”
As if that answer was enough, Rex quietly took a stance.
“It’s over, Ike Axus.”
Damn it.
Is this really how it ends?
I don’t want to die yet.
I promised that I would survive.
Looking at Rex’s greatsword with blurry vision.
For some reason, his attacks seem much slower than before.
But it was enough to cut through my immovable body.
And that great sword.
“What?!”
I was blocked by the white curtain and bounced back.
“… Really, it’s too late.”
“Sorry. I thought you would come as soon as possible.”
This time too, Rex’s reaction was astute.
The swift slash that was aiming for the heart, he twisted his body in an instant to avoid it and stepped back.
However, he couldn’t fully react to the sudden attack, and suddenly, his left arm was cut off and he fell to the floor.
The platinum-colored arming sword that I had only seen once cut off his left arm.
And the one who wielded it was a man with golden hair as brilliant as the sun.
“Ms. Sophia. Heal Ike quickly.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
I’m sure you wouldn’t be in a situation to think like this, but I was already spitting out those words without even realizing it.
“Oh, it suits you well.”
In contrast to her brilliant golden hair, her red eyes seemed to suck in everything.
It had similarly bright scarlet hair, but on the contrary, auburn eyes that seemed to embrace everything.
“I will pay off late debts with interest.”
“I will treat you right away, Prince Ike.”
The main characters of the original work.
Leon holding the holy sword and Sophia holding the saint’s staff were standing there together.