Chapter 613 (2/2)

The things he said about letting us run away were lies. I was starting to get it. It seemed that he wanted to provoke Fran and Sierra to keep them here.

In other words, his real purpose was to stop us. He didn’t want us to go any further.

So, it would be better to go further than to deal with Zelyse here. I was sure it would all be over once we defeated Zelyse, but I didn’t know if we would be able to finish him off with any certainty since we couldn’t even use the Sword God Transformation right now.

(Then what should we do?)

『Ideally, I’d like to have Sierra stall Zelyse』

While he stalled Zelyse, we would go further with my dimension shift to check what was going on up ahead. Something terrible must be going on in there.

Fran approached Sierra and whispered to him.

「Can you stall him?」

「You want to do something?」

「Zelyse aims to stall us. So, I’m going to see what’s going on up ahead」

「I see…」

「Then?」

「Okay, I’ll use my trump card then」

Sierra said confidently.

In fact, we still didn’t know the depth of Sierra and his magic sword, Zelos Reed. Since he was so confident, we might as well just leave this to him then.

「I need you to distract him for a second」

「Okay」

After a brief discussion, Fran then lunged toward Zelyse.

By making it look like she was aiming for an obvious counterattack, she made it harder for Zelyse to attack as he was forced to focus his attention on Fran. There, we struck him with a series of time-space magic and dimension sword attacks.

A dimension sword in an over boosted state, with an excess of magic power, poured into it, was quite powerful.

We released twelve shots. They attacked Zelyse from all directions.

Ideally, he would have deactivated the permeability and tried to prevent it with a barrier or something―――.

But Zelyse stopped in place while still maintaining his permeability. He then swung his magic sword, Zelyse, to strike down the flying dimension swords one after another.

It seemed that he even had a space-time attribute.

But that was also within our expectations. Don’t underestimate an intelligence weapon!

Our real target was his feet.

「Groouf!」

「Kuh! Don’t tell me you were aiming for this!?」

The Dimensional Fangs from Urushi’s Shadow Transfer had swallowed both of Zelyse’s legs.

To his surprise, Urushi attacked just as he was caught in a barrage of dimension swords. Urushi emerged from the shadows and was hit by several Dimensional Swords.

But Urushi was also prepared for this. Although he had deep cuts in several places, he had certainly caught Zelyse with his fangs.

There, Sierra plunged in at once, with his jet-black sword clothed with a tremendous evil spirit.

「Ooooooo!」

The mass of evil energy released from Sierra’s hand sprang like a snake and entangled itself in Zelyse’s arm.

「Evil Binding, Black Chain!」

Well, it looked like a chain. Then, Zelyse suddenly lost his stance.

「Kuh! W-what is this…!?」

「It’s an evil chain. How’s that? Hard to keep your skills up, isn’t it?」

It seemed that the chain made of Evil Spirit has similar properties to the one he used earlier to cancel out the surrounding skills. It didn’t seem to cancel them out completely, but I guess it could last longer.

「Is this good enough?」

「Nn. I’ll leave him to you」

「Eh? Where are you going, Fran-san? Are you running away from me!? I haven’t seen you for a while, and you’ve become such a coward!」

「…Hmph」

「Ah! W-wait」

Seeing that Fran had ignored him and ran off to the center of the lake, Zelyse hurriedly tried to follow her. However, Sierra stood in front of him.

As long as there were evil chains, he couldn’t ignore Sierra and come after her.

「Oi, Zelyse. Your opponent is me」

「Shiii―t…!!」