Vol 2 Chapter 6.3 (1/2)

2nd Volume, 6th Chapter 【The Blow of Resurrection】 3rd Part

Instantly, I back stepped and opened up the distance.

Frankly, I didn’t have any resources of dealing with her from that position.

I was beaten at short range. My magic was outdone at middle range.

With a face that suggested she had no intention of playing a game of tag, the opponent stabbed the spear into the ground and took the large bow off her back.

She nocked the arrow, which she had taken out of the quiver on her back, and *giriri* drew the bow… with an air splitting sound, the arrow was fired my way…

From its trajectory… it would pierce through the middle of my brows; however, at such a distance, I had the margin to knock it off with my sword.

After several rounds of attack and defense, the attack came to a halt. Had the contents of the quiver finally depleted?

To begin with, there shouldn’t be many arrows.

The situation hadn’t improved, though. I tried to sort my breathing.

…N? What… is she doing?

Although there was no arrow, the opponent a.s.sumed the posture of nocking something and locked the bow on me.

The next instant, I felt a strong wind.

Not from the front, but the back.

No, it was different.

The wind was not blowing from behind me. The wind was being gathered right in front of my eyes… by the demon?

「Oh… s.h.i.+t――」

Although it was taking a bit of time to invoke, it was this fellow’s――real arrow!

In the airs.p.a.ce, where nothing should have been, a whirlwind condensed.

When the air had been compressed to the extreme, a faintly s.h.i.+ning jade green arrow manifested.

The large bow was drawn to the limit――――

I hurriedly willed for Earth Magic 《s.h.i.+eld of Earth (Earth s.h.i.+eld)》 to invoke.

…Unification of arrow and Wind Magic, huh???

This fellow thought of the same thing.

――――It was fired.

Accompanied by a sound as if air was being torn, the magic arrow ate the distance in a straight line.

The distance was enough for the earth wall to appear in time…

With a *gagon!* sound, the s.h.i.+eld was shot and smashed.

「Dammit!」

Despite all that, the speed of the arrow dropped only a tiny bit.

I can――dodge this!

「Ri…diculous…!」

I thought while I was dodging――

――A pang ran through my flank.

The magic arrow, which was pa.s.sing through my side――s.h.i.+fted its trajectory.

It suddenly curved and infringingly bored into my flank. No sooner, the air dissolved and disappeared.

「Serious…ly…?」

While clasping my flank, I collapsed onto the ground.

With all my power, I applied 《Light of Healing (Light Healing)》 on the wound. However, it didn’t heal right away.

Using the sword as a crutch, I somehow stood up. It was quite dicey, though.

The opponent of course had no reason to overlook such a state――the demon walked up to slightly away from me and said.

「Let me ask once again. Do you want to be my pet?」

「…As a human… my answer would be ‘no’…」

「I see.」

This time, she refined a killer Fireball.

The same trick wouldn’t work again.

I didn’t want to die…

If only I had completed that finis.h.i.+ng move――

On the brink of death――the scenes of my practising in the South Forest popped up in my mind.

The details of the finis.h.i.+ng move that I thought of weren’t that complicated.

What came to my mind was the sparkling six colored body of the Prism Slime that showed up in the Paudal Wetland Belt.

The point was to fuse the energy of all six elements.

Fire and Water.