Chapter 602 (1/2)

When Zelyse was being held back by Urushi, Fran, who had made herself unnoticeable, launched a surprise attack.

「――!」

Fran was silently descending from the sky to the lake surface. The natural signs of sound, air movement, and body heat were being completely eliminated by her skills. Even her own shadow on the lake surface had been erased by magic.

By the time Zelyse noticed Fran falling from the sky, the distance between them had already shrunk to only a few meters.

「Uwaaa!」

「Shii!」

Fran swung me down at Zelyse, who was making a dumb face.

I could not sense any martial arts capabilities from Zelyse. He may have possessed the skill, but he didn’t seem to be a master. The only unusual thing was that Zelyse had noticed Fran’s surprise attack before he was cut down.

As I thought, he was no ordinary opponent. With that in mind, I activated multiple attribute swords at the same time.

『Eat this!』

And then my blade slashed through Zelyse’s body. It was not that I had sliced through him so easily that he couldn’t even resist. But I didn’t even feel a slicing sensation at all. It was as if I had cut through an illusion, and my blade went right through his body.

The slash that Fran unleashed slipped through Zelyse’s body, only to cut deep into the water at his feet.

Just a moment before Fran sliced Zelyse, I could clearly feel his presence at that spot.

But it has changed now. Even though I could see him, I couldn’t even feel any presence or magic coming from his body.

He looked exactly like when we used Dimension Shift, but he didn’t seem to have used any Space-time Magic.

I have no idea of what he has done.

However, Fran and I were not that surprised by it. We were not that surprised, because we had thought, somewhere deep inside our minds, that this guy might dodge.

That was why we could still move on to our next action without getting freaked out.

「Haaa!」

『Orraa!』

Fran unleashed a series of slashes without pause. And at the same time, I continued to shoot Lightning, Fire, and Storm Magic at him.

I didn’t know what kind of permeability power Zelyse was using, but if it was a Dimension Shift kind of power, it shouldn’t last that long.

If that was the case, we would just have to keep attacking until that ability wore off. That was our strategy to handle this situation.

「Oya! Isn’t it Fran-san!? Long time no see!」

「Even at a time like this…!」

『Does he think he can afford to be so relaxed!?』

「Don’t make such a scary face~」

Zelyse flashed a carefree smile without a hint of hostility at her. Seeing that, Fran increased her speed even more, but Zelyse’s permeability power did not seem to be disrupted at all.

No matter how many times Fran’s sword struck that smug face of his with powerful telekinesis, he just stood there smiling and laughing.

『Then how about this!』

「Ahahaha! I’m so surprised you can even use the Space-time Magic with no chanting!」

I unleashed my Space-time Magic, the Dimensional Sword. It was a technique that ignored the opponent’s defenses and dealt damage, but it was also effective against Dimension Shifts.

However, Zelyse’s annoying smile remained on his face.

『Tsk!』

My Dimension Sword had been repelled! It appeared that he had prepared all countermeasures against it. However, the fact that he had prepared a countermeasure for it meant that attacks with the Space-time attribute were effective.