Chapter 28 - Return to the Surface (1/2)

—Laila—

「RAAAAAAA!」

When the phoenix noticed the masked warrior who suddenly showed up in this place, it moved its hostility toward him.

The hostility released toward the masked warrior was incomparably stronger than when it attacked Armia, I knew this was because the phoenix felt much more threat in the masked warrior.

「Ha-!」

However, even before that intimidating air, the masked warrior didn’t feel fear.

Instead, he sneered while readying the great sword in his hand.

「Come!」

「RAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!」

The next moment, the phoenix roared and fired a fireball.

…… A fireball that was three times bigger than the one it fired toward Armia.

「—!」

I gasped involuntarily from the sigh.

Certainly, the masked warrior’s sword was huge, it was at least as tall as Armia.

But even with a sword that big, it was impossible to defend against that fireball.

The size of that greatsword was just not big enough.

「Haaaaaaaaaa!」

「RAAAaaa!?」

——— However, contrary to my expectation, one blow from the masked warrior and the fireball was scattered.

「Ah-」

At that moment, I realized that the greatsword possessed by the masked warrior wasn’t an ordinary greatsword.

A line that glowed red appeared on the blade for a while when it scattered the fireball.

I opened my mouth reflexively from the sight.

「Ma-Magic sword…!」

Magic sword, it was a sword with special effects made with material from monsters with super-high difficulty by combined efforts of dozens to hundreds of blacksmiths and magic tool craftsmen.

Surprised by the fact that this masked warrior had a magic sword, I lost my words.

「RA————!」

「UOOOOOOOOOOO!」

While I was dumbfounded, the battle kept progressing.

The phoenix fired many huge fireballs to the masked warrior.

However, whenever the masked warrior swung his greatsword, light emitted from the sword and the fireball scattered leaving only sparks behind.

It was a seriously fantastic sight.

The warrior dealt with a super-high difficulty monster without taking a step back.

I couldn’t help but thought this was an enactment of fairy tales with the offense and defense that happened now.

「Great! Now get it!」

「Right, get it! With this, we’re too…」

… However, when I left my absent-minded state, I noticed that the masked warrior was put into disadvantage slowly, unlike Margulus and Sarveria who just cheering on him.

「If it keeps like this…!」

The fireballs were flying with incredible power and speed, and yet the masked warrior swung his great sword at an astonishing speed, scattering each and every fireball fired at him.

Looking at only offense and defense so far, the masked warrior was on equal terms with the phoenix.

However, as a healer, I was aware of the fatigue that slowly accumulating inside the masked warrior’s body.

…… It was a natural outcome.

Certainly, if the masked warrior was alone, he might have enough ability to contest against that phoenix.

Unfortunately, there was no way he could fully demonstrate his ability in this situation.

After all, there was a large distance between the phoenix and the masked warrior, the phoenix could one-sidedly attack the masked warrior.

…… How much pressure was that masked warrior felt?

The role of a warrior was usually to attack.

They limited their enemies actions by constantly attacking them.

In addition, with their physical strengthening skill, they could tank some of the attacks.

In other words, for a warrior, not defending against basic attack was the norm.

… Even so, the masked warrior was now forced to only defend against the phoenix’s attacks which he clearly unskilled at.

It wasn’t weird if he would reach his limit soon.

「Armia, focus! We should help him!」

「Huh?」