Episode 14. Declaration of War (11)
“How did you stop my iceberg? It’s not like I didn’t receive help from the manifestation of the spirit…… !”
“I told you. You said you got stronger.”
Tak!
Urca kicks the ground. Debris jumped up as the ground she stood on cracked open. Before her fragment can hit the floor again, Urca catches Thoreau behind him.
According to the timing of Urca’s flam, Soro creates ice.
Pacan!
“…… !”
As the sword heading towards her back was blocked by the ice, Urca’s eyes widened slightly. She was sure it would break, but she didn’t, much to her dismay.
It was the moment when Urca tried to recite her skill, ignoring the tingling sensation coming from her hand holding her plam.
She hesitated as she saw fragments from the ice she had hit floating around her.
“You are quick to notice. “Icicle”.”
The shape of the small ice crystal changes into a pointed spear.
Seeing that, Urca used the mana in her body to raise her torso vision. He figured out the shape, angle, position, and speed of the icicles that tried to pierce her body from all sides.
She was originally an Urca who was quick and had excellent visual acuity. She was able to use her mana to strengthen her body, so Thoreau could say that Urca’s movements were divine.
Shook! Shook! Shook!
I squeezed her plam tightly, dodging the ice thorns rushing from all sides of her with a single piece of paper. Urca switches from a swinging stance to a thrusting stance.
Flame’s red sword soars.
“Isle of Flames”!”
‘That must be avoided!’
It was Thoreau’s intuitive judgment after seeing Urca’s thrust.
Soro manipulates the ice to make it move. She moves out of Flam’s orbit in a smooth motion.
Koo-kwa-kwang!
Intense flames spewed out from the end of the plam, scorching the floor of the arena, and soon slammed into a corner of the bleachers, causing a huge explosion.
“… This damn b*tch…… !”
Thoreau clicked his tongue and gathered magic power in his hands.
“You won’t be able to break it this time!”
Just as Thoreau was about to gather mana, Urka threw four kunai from her thighs and threw them all over the arena. Attached to Kunai was a piece of paper with the image of a burning human.
“「Hwagyeolgeumkee」.”
I activated the skill with my index and middle fingers attached, making a hand shape that ninjas would do.
The paper burns and flames soar above the arena. Then, at the same time that the magical power accumulated in Soro’s hands weakened, the icicles around Urca melted.
“This damn b*tch… ….”
Soro makes a sword out of ice and dashes at Urca. It was a bold act that he could do because he was confident in his physical abilities.
“To that barrier! You thought you could curb my mana?!”
Urca, dodging the sharp stab, swings her sword.
Pacan!
I tried to block Urca’s attack with ice again, but I couldn’t install the ice wall strong enough due to the effect of the golden barrier. As a result, the ice wall was mercilessly smashed by Urca’s sword attack.
Kang! Kang!
In addition, every time it touched Urca’s flame, the ice sword was greatly damaged and the weapon’s function was lost.
‘Does ice melt whenever you touch it? What is that sword?’
Usually, unless Ignis was manifested, Urca tended to use daggers and short blades such as kunai rather than swords.
But today, since he had been using a sword from the beginning, Thoreau, who knew Urca’s fighting style, couldn’t help but question it.
‘Is this a weapon with a special effect? What… No matter what.’
Hook!
“Wow!”
The ice shards in Urca’s blind spot became thorns and pierced Urca’s forearm.
“「Firework」.”
As Flam swung along with the skill, high-temperature flames passed around Urca and melted the ice.
Kang! Pacan!
‘Rather than reacting to my movements, I create gaps with ice walls and focus only on attacks. Besides, the fragments from the ice they hit turn into ice, so it’s really annoying.’
Urka clicked his tongue and stepped back from him, straightening his posture. It was an action that judged that a clashing attack like this would not be very effective.
And the spectators who watched it were embarrassed.
Those who watched the duel couldn’t help but be agitated at the sight of Urca doing better against Thoreau than expected.
It was because there were not a few people whose life and death depended on this gambling event.
Is it because of that? Uneasy in the bleachers, all sorts of booing began to erupt.
“No! Get more excited! Damn it!”
“f*ck! Don’t look at me, do it right! I bet you! I heard that the probability is 96%!!”
“Hey, you damn beast! Just hit and run!”
“I told you that a beastly slave bastard treats you with some strength! f*ck! Abstain immediately!”
“Urca, you bastard! If you win, I will curse you for the rest of your life!!”
The level of remarks from the audience is getting higher and higher.
It was quite far from the arena, so an ordinary human would not have heard it, but Urca, a beastman with excellent senses, could hear those raging words clearly.
But Urca didn’t care.
Because he was clear what he had to do.
He knew better than anyone why he was standing here.
The reason he started the duel was because he wanted to free slavery, but now he was moving his body to achieve victory for one person only.
“I told you to slow down, but that’s only after you squirm on the ground!”
Tak!
The distance that Thoreau had opened was narrowed at once by Urca kicking the ground. Urka’s hand holding the flam was getting stronger.
“First of all, get hit!”
“Just this much…… Do you think you blocked my magic?!”
Damn it!
Bulky ice like an iceberg is created once again.
“It’s no use! “Explosion”!”
Quack!
The ice spewed out to block Urca explodes. However, in the thick smoke, the ice rose once again, threatening her life.
Kang!
“It’s no use, it’s your madness!”
Cheating Geek!
“Awesome!”
Urca managed to get the ice off her and landed on the ground. She closes her distance once again. However, as she approached Urca from a distance, her magic was completed.
“On the subject of Urca…… ! Seriously do it! “The Iceberg Zone.”
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Damn it!
The moment the skill was spit out of Thoreau’s mouth, ice covered the entire arena. The scene of the iceberg that could be seen when Prause and his party went to the northern end unfolded in the arena.
“!”
The moment the cement arena floor turned to ice, Urca couldn’t beat her speed and slipped. As he tries to straighten his posture just before he falls, an icicle sticks out from the floor.
Aiming precisely at the neck, it was not a fatal wound if penetrated, but an attack sufficient to cause death.
Push!
Urca narrowly twists his body to avoid it. However, the side of his neck was slightly cut.
‘The strategy for attacking the iceberg area that Prauss taught me is to break and melt the ice itself…… There doesn’t seem to be any time for that.’
There was no time to wipe even though blood ran down my neck right away and made my uniform wet.
Kwagwagwak!
It was because the ice came out simultaneously from the ice sheet.
Urca jumps high and sees Thoro leisurely stepping on the ice. Due to the activation of the Ice Plateau, the Fire Geumgye, which was weakening Thoreau’s magical power, was incapacitated.
Soro, aiming for that gap, gathered his mana and created a huge dragon shape out of ice.
‘Bingryong…… !’
“「Breath of Cold」.”
With Soro’s words, Bingryong’s mouth opens wide.
It was too fast an attack for Urca, who was still in the air, to avoid it.
“Damn it! Ignis!”
Her hair dyes red, and flames form around her. It was proof that Ignis had manifested.
Holding her flam with both hands, Urka swung her sword as she watched the chill pour down on her.
“「Crimson Sword」!”
The flames spewing out from the flames intensify. Cold and fire meet in the air.
Hook!
The flames died down in an instant. Urca, who saw that, became devastated. She hurriedly tried to cover her face with her arm, but her chill poured down on her without mercy. With that brief sigh, Urka was swallowed up by her chill.
My breath froze in an instant and my skin felt hot as if it had been burned.
“Ugh!”
Urca held her breath. It was because she had heard from Prause that the moment she was struck by the chill, her lungs would freeze and she could suffocate if she breathed in.
As if she had become a stone statue, she fell to the ground without being able to move.
‘Sorry, Prause… …. Also I…….’
She also said that she couldn’t defeat Thoreau, and that was the moment she was about to let go of everything.
Flames formed around her, and her body, which had been frozen by the cold, gradually returned to normal body temperature.
‘This is…… Flames?’
Urca sensed a strange kindness in her wild flames that circled her side.
[…] … Urca. How can you…… Do I have the missing necklace?]
‘The necklace Ignis lost?’
Hearing Ignis’ voice, Urca remembered the necklace Prause had put around her neck before her duel.
‘I see. Prause had been looking all this way.’
[I don’t know how I got that necklace, but I’ll think about it after defeating that woman.]
The towering ice walls melt little by little as they touch the flames. The flames that melted even part of the iceberg field dissipated as Urka regained her normal body temperature.
“What is it, those flames?”
“…… The heart of a person who wants me to win.”
“What?”
Urca takes her stance between the ice walls. Her Soro, who saw her, reacted immediately and reached out her hand.
“Do you think it will give you a chance to use the skill?!”
The ice thorns protruding from the ice wall are headed for Urca. But now that her flames have been strengthened by the manifestation of Ignis, she only melts her little ice before it touches her.
‘I heard that Bingryong gets annoying from the moment he flies around. While dealing with Soro, he couldn’t even deal with Bingryong above him. If that’s the case, she’ll have to kill her first, she said. And if you kill that Bingryong——’
Flam’s sword is consumed by the flames. The explosively increased flames were well over 2 meters.
‘What is that mana… ….’
Thoreau let out a drool in embarrassment when he saw that magic power far beyond what he had imagined began to dwell in her sword.
“Bingryong!”
At Soro’s cry, Bingryong flies. Urca’s pupils were fixed on Bingryong, which rapidly flapped its wings of ice and soared up.
“「Explosion—」
“「Breath of Cold」!”
Breath spewed out of Bingryong’s mouth. But Urka didn’t recite the name of her skill to the end, and she didn’t even swing her sword.
It was her judgment, knowing that her own skills would weaken if touched by her coldness.
What’s more, it’s the breath of the cold that hit me once.
Knowing that she could survive with her necklace, she accepted the cold as it was, thinking that she would endure the pain.
“Awesome!”
However, unlike when Prause used it, Urca’s mana was noticeably less than Prause’s, so the pain felt from her chill was more than twice as much as his.
Her frostbite made her fingertips tremble and her whole body tingled like burns, but she persevered.
Only to win.
When her flames came alive around her again and she was able to move her body, Urca swung her sword.
“[Explosive flame island]!”
A fire that was hotter and larger than any other flame that had been shown thus far poured into Bingryong. Bingryong tried to avoid it, but the heat alone melted his wings, so he couldn’t move, and he had no choice but to face the flames head-on.
“Kuaaa!”
Bingryong screamed as if he were alive and crashed. Seeing that, Urca raised the corner of her mouth and muttered.
“——And if you kill that bingryong, mana will be depleted once and her ax will be weakened.”