Episode 14. Declaration of War (12)
‘Damn it. What…… !’
Bingryong crashes due to Urca’s attack far exceeding the estimated amount of magic power. Thoreau looked at it in vain.
Soro, who consumed a lot of mana by creating Bingryong, planned to use it moderately and then release it to restore mana.
However, because the Bingryong melted before she could unlock it, all the mana that formed her Bingryong spread to nature, making it impossible to recover mana.
Of course, Thoreau was a magician, so he could recover mana if he had a little bit of time. However, Thor also knew that Urca could not give that time.
This was the stage 1 groggy state of the Resistance Soro subjugation that Prause knew.
The imperial family, nobles, and commoners watching the sight of Bingryong collapsing were shocked. He shouted and made a fuss all together.
There were also those who ran amok at the thought that they were on the verge of losing their money. Of course, he was quickly subdued by the knights.
And Prause’s party, who cheered Urca more fervently than anyone else, were clapping their hands.
“Isn’t it really winning as Prause said?!”
Rarely, Tori asks excitedly.
“It is not over yet.”
“No, the duel situation has already tilted a lot. This is a clear victory for Urca.”
‘Maybe… ….’
As the duel turned towards Urca, it was natural to be certain of her victory.
But Prause couldn’t think like everyone else.
Prause did not always see Thoreau as an individual. He always looked up to me as a brother and sister.
The reason was that where Thoreau fought, there was always Terre.
In fact, even in the game, even though it is called a cow subjugation battle, in the second phase, you will face Terre. While Thoreau recovers, she will deal with Ther, and once Thoreau fully recovers, she will have to deal with both at the same time.
In other words, Urca, who pushed Soro, was saying that she had to deal with Terr as well.
‘Urca, don’t be careless. Since Terre is the referee, he will try to win no matter what.’
Prause looked over the arena and clenched his fists.
* * *
“You must be prepared, Soro!”
I kick the ground with the thought that I will pay back as much as I have suffered. And just as she was about to take her next step, her shoulders felt heavy and at the same time she slipped on the ice and fell over.
“?”
Urca tilted her head. I couldn’t figure out why her body didn’t move as I wanted.
Get up. The pressure on her shoulders was gone.
Urca wondered if the aftereffects of the chill she had received were showing up now, so she looked at her body, but there was no sign of chill.
‘I don’t know what it is, but for now I have to focus on defeating Thoreau.’
Urca, who gave strength to her legs, approaches Soro at a speed that does not even last for an instant. Closing her distance to within her sword’s range, she swung her sword without hesitation.
Kang!
In a hurry, Thoreau creates her ice in the path of Urka’s sword.
“…… What?”
Urca frowned at her. The blow she was about to slash through the ice was blocked by something unknown.
To those far away from her, it would appear that Urka couldn’t break her ice, but in reality her flam’s blade didn’t touch the ice.
Even so, Urca’s sword didn’t move as if something hard was blocking it.
“Huh!”
Kang! Kang! Kang!
Even if you swing your sword wildly with the intention of breaking the ice, you don’t think about breaking it.
She knew there was something, but the amount of mana was so weak that she couldn’t easily distinguish it.
‘As expected, it won’t break. No, something is blocking the sword from touching the ice in the first place. Is it a barrier? However, you said that if Prauss defeated Bingryong, mana would be depleted for a while, so he couldn’t do anything? There’s no way Prause would lie……. Is anyone intervening in this fight? I’ll have to try it out.’
In order to use his skill, Urca softened his body slightly and took a stance.
It wasn’t just swinging the sword, it was aiming for the fact that the opponent would have no choice but to use considerable mana to block the skill.
“「Crimson Sword」!”
A huge fire pours down on Thoro. Thoreau watched the fire pouring down on him, then glanced at Ther.
It was an implicit order.
Like siblings who stick together every day, I could tell what the other person was asking for just by looking at her eyes.
Koo-kwa-kwang!
The flames collide with something and cause an explosion. The ice stood leisurely in the thick smoke.
“…… Also. There was something else.”
Muttered while looking at the vast amount of mana that spread around Thoreau. And she noticed that the grain of that mana was connected to Ter, the judge.
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“Was it you!”
Urka drew her kunai and threw it at Ther, brandishing her flam at Urka. It was a check to prevent Ter from completely using magic. But she never intended to hit, so she threw it to the side of him.
Pacan!
But even with such a check, Urca couldn’t break her ice.
“Ugh!”
And the thrown kunai was firmly embedded in Ter’s forearm. Ther was intentionally hit even though he could have avoided the kunai by staying still.
Urka frowned as she looked at Ter, who was holding onto her kunai-studded arm.
‘No way, it was induced. A guy like a nerd…… !’
“Ther! This damn year!! What are you doing to my brother!”
Thoreau blasts her ice, but Urca laughs it off and crushes it. However, Urca fretted inwardly.
The fact that Thoreau, who was in a hurry to defend himself with ice, started attacking meant that his mana recovery was going smoothly.
“That bastard intervened in our duel first—”
[Stop! Stop the duel!]
A rough voice through the loudspeaker reverberates throughout the arena. Terr then swung his arm over the arena floor and built a wall between Urca and Thoreau.
‘This bastard, thinking that his older sister would be at a disadvantage… ….’
[Urca! What are you doing! What kind of atrocity is it to attack the referee during a duel?!]
Emperor Lufen, who has reaped the barrier, appears.
His chest thumped and he did not hide his excitement. Urka looked up at the emperor who was at the top and bit his lower lip. His blood leaked out with a sharp pain.
[Since you can’t do it with your skills, are you attacking the referee?!]
“This is absurd, Your Majesty the Emperor! This is an obvious foul play!”
Urca hurriedly answered the loudspeaker microphone in the arena.
[What is cheating!]
“Don’t talk like cheating! I think I’m going to lose, so look at the bullsh*t talking bullsh*t! Ugly, bastard!”
“You damn bastard! You’re disqualified! Abstain and come down from the arena immediately!”
“This is why you shouldn’t let the offspring of animals without parents who haven’t even been educated at home freely!”
With the emperor’s anger at the forefront, the audience poured out all sorts of swear words and booing. He even insults her by pouring out her immoral words.
“You damn humans! I was winning! You wouldn’t know everything if you saw it with your eyes open!”
In the end, Urca couldn’t stand it and shouted in a furious voice. Everyone shuts their mouths at the heinous killing that spreads with a sound that sounds like the sky is ringing.
Her whole body trembled and Urca exhaled wildly, catching her breath.
“Your Majesty! Judgment Ther deliberately blocked my attack, helping me avoid taking damage from Thoreau! If this isn’t cheating, what do you mean?!”
At Urca’s words, the buzz in her bleachers intensifies.
Not only Urca, who actually dealt with Soro, but those who were sensitive to mana, like the master of magic standing next to the emperor, were aware of it.
Ther intervened in this duel.
She had to spend a lot of mana to block Urka’s crimson flame, so the texture of the mana couldn’t be revealed.
But she pretended not to know. Because the emperor wished so.
It was not only Prauss who considered this match important, but also the emperor.
This match is a pogoni of propaganda that will destroy the power of Praus for the emperor.
[Judgment, Ter! Is that true?]
The emperor lowered his voice and asked insinuatingly. Ther raised his hands as if he had waited and shook his head.
“No! I didn’t intervene at all! Knowing that I am Thoreau’s blood relative, I must have ‘misunderstood’ it.”
Urca turns around and sees Ther. It was absurd to see him lie without changing the color on his face.
“You bastard…… !”
[Is there evidence that Urca and Ter intervened?]
“…… Anyone who is sensitive to mana will know this. When I used the Crimson Crimson, the grain of mana was connected to Terre.”
[Is that so? Magic combination leader?]
[Unfortunately, I couldn’t see it.]
Urca’s eyebrows narrowed at the nonchalant reply of the Magic Guild Master next to the emperor.
[The magic guild leader who has reached the 8th tier says this, but can that be considered evidence?]
‘These bastards… ….’
Recognizing that it was a tight game, Urca sharpened her teeth. Ignis, who had been watching him all along, whispered in his ear.
[You got it right, Urca. To the despicable and selfish human bastards.]
Urca looked at the place where she had seen Prauss before the start of the duel. Although she was hidden by the barrier, Urka caught her breath as she remembered that she believed in her and was watching over her.
‘If you think the emperor is also on their side, you won’t believe anything I say here. So what I have to do is destroy Thoreau at all costs.’
Strength goes into the hand holding the plam.
‘But since the duel is stopped, there is no chance to fight again—’
“Your Majesty, may I make a suggestion?”
Ther shouted at first. Lufen grinned at him and spoke into the loudspeaker.
[What is it?]
“A wound like this can heal without taking a potion. Although Urca misunderstood and attacked me, it was a misunderstanding. I want the duel to continue and not stop.”
[…] Are you okay?]
Apart from shrinking the Prause forces, it was a duel that cost a lot of money. Ending the duel ambiguously would inevitably result in losses during the settlement process.
Noticing that, Terre said it instead, which was nothing short of admirable for an emperor.
“Yes. I know it’s a misunderstanding. Urca will no longer attack me.”
[Yes. Then, what happened this time will be ignored. However, if something like this happens again, I will hold Urca guilty. Got it?]
“…… All right.”
The buzz that had been caused by the brief commotion gradually subsided at the news of the resumption of the duel. Urca looked around and looked at Ter with a laugh.
“Isn’t it embarrassing to put you up to S rank?”
“I apologize for being honest. I didn’t expect you to go this far. Maybe…… It must be because of Mr. Prause. I’ve heard that he raises very strong disciples.”
“So?”
“You seem to be very resourceful. Mr Prause. To the point where they want to embrace us.”
He murmured leisurely, pulling out the kunai stuck in his arm and dropping it to the ground. The tinkling sound resounds softly.
“But aside from his ability, I personally want to humiliate Mr. Prause a bit. I’m sorry, but I have to lose. Mr. Urca.”
He took a potion from his inside pocket and sipped it.
“Sister, how about recovery?”
“It’s over.”
“Ha, was this what you were aiming for?”
Urca barely held back her anger and asked.
Terre’s goal.
It was to give Thoreau time to recover.
In this case, Urca was at a disadvantage.
The difference in mana reserve and recovery amount was being filled with Flam, the sword of the Spirit King, but the gap widened again.
Urca had consumed a lot of mana in the duel a while ago. It takes at least a few hours for a non-mage to recover her mana. On the other hand, Thoreau’s mana was fully restored.
The side that uses limited mana and the side that does not.
It goes without saying who has the advantage.
“I want to step on it myself, but I’m not the main character today. Then prepare again.”
Kunai lifted up his impaled arm and said. Huge magic power gathers in Thoreau’s grip. It was a concentration of mana that even the atmosphere seemed to be sucked in.
“Let’s try again. A cat?”
At Thoreau’s provocation, Urca took a deep breath.
“Ignis, let’s do our best.”
Here he decided that if he dragged out time, he would be the loser. At her words, flames in human form appeared.
[…] … Are you okay? Your body couldn’t stand it? A considerable amount of mana has already been used. If you overdo it here, you may wander between death and death for a while due to mana depletion.]
“This is the only one. I must bring Prause victory.”
[…] … Is a man named Prause so precious?]
“It is precious. Because with that person, the future I’ve been dreaming of will surely come true. So he will do everything I can for him.”
[I see.]
Ignis quietly replied to Urca’s prompt reply.
[You’re all grown up now.]
“What?”
While Urca gave a bewildered answer, Ignis disappeared as if absorbed into her body. And she began to burn, to the point that Urca’s body looked bloated.
Her flame changes into the shape of her armor and adheres to her. It shows the complete appearance of the fairy tale of the spirits.
Feeling the boiling power, Urka clenched her fists, and sparks flew in Urka’s eyes.
“Let’s try. Game 2.”
“Don’t be careless anymore. I’ll rip that ear off!”
Ter’s hand went down once again with the spirit of the two.
“Start!”