Chapter 23 (2/2)

[It should be better if the side hiring and the side being hired can properly grasp the strength of each other. Maia, you and Gauro go join them too.]

[Eh… Yeah, alright.]

Hearing Bela´s words, Maia told the ones of her group that didn´t have machiinis to step back, and along with Gauro, she went over to where the Jadan mercenary group were at.

[So, is it going to be four against five?]

Golias said as he signed his subordinates without machiinis to step back with his arm. The mercenary group Beladonna had four machiinis and elements while the mercenary groups Jadan and Rozen had three machiinis and two elements in total. Golias and the others had the numeric advantage of one machiini. However, it indeed wasn´t a bad match.

[Nope. You will be fighting against me alone.]

[Master, let me fight too.]

[No]

Bal proposed, but Bela rejected.

[With just your current strength, those guys would end up getting hurt. I don´t want any machiinis getting destroyed before we go to the war.]

[With how you say that, it sounds to me you are telling us you can defeat us without getting any scratches though?]

Golias said as veins popped in his forehead.

At this field that had been opened up at this rocky place, the more [Iron Dinna] walked forward, the more Bela laughed.

[I should have told you I was going to show my strength, right?]

Hearing Bela provoking Golias, Maia put her hands in her head. From what she heard from Bal, Bela´s strength was indeed at an abnormally high level. However, Maia couldn´t believe that she was going to overturn this difference of numbers just because of that.

“”I guess I will need to find another employer if she gets killed here.””

In the time Maia was having those pessimistic thoughts, Gauro spoke to her from behind.

[It´s really fine if we end up killing her, right?]

Hearing those words, Maia realized Gauro was influenced by the experience he had yesterday. He ended up wetting his pants at the mercenary a.s.sociation before everyone´s eyes. His pride was provoked after having been laughed at and also after being seen with eyes of pity. This was something that couldn´t be helped however.

[I don´t mind.]

“”She was saying it was fine to come with the intent to kill after all.””

Maia asked Bela about that beforehand. It was possible to see she was very strong just by looking at Bal´s machiini. But even so, she still didn´t know many things about Bela.

Rethinking about that, Maia thought that it could be nice to take back at what she had done to them now. The feeling of wanting to corner Bela was present on both Maia and Gauro.

And then, all of the machiinis and elements faced each other, standing one next to another in a line. Looking at them from side to side, [Iron Dinna]´s small stature really stood out. That was so even despite how it was obviously bigger than elements.

[So, how are we fighting? I don´t mind what you choose though.]

Hearing Bela´s words about fighting, Golias laughed. At that point in time, Gauro thought in his heart that this was going to be a spanking in order to wake up that haughty person. Golias wasn´t part of a knight group. He didn´t do knight-like things such as going one-on-one. They were mercenaries.

[You…]

Taking the round s.h.i.+eld that was set at the left arm at hand…

[…are finished!]

…he threw it like a disk.

[Ah, how dirty.]

Standing at the back, Borudo said while still inside his gnome.

[Ah, he has a pretty good character.]

Standing next to him, Jadan praised Golias while putting his tongue out. With Borudo being at the middle, at the other side was Bal, who in contrast was trembling. It seemed he wanted to partic.i.p.ate in the fight so much he was trembling.

And then, Bela…

[It´s nice you can go with all you got.]

…caught the s.h.i.+eld with the left hand as she was saying that. With just one hand, she stopped the round s.h.i.+eld spinning at high velocity without breaking a sweat, holding it with the fingers. This wasn´t her own body she was controlling. Moreover, she had to press the b.u.t.ton that controlled the grip of the fingers with the right amount of strength and paying mind on the receptive stones behind the neck of her machiini at the same time. Even if it was still fine for when holding a weapon or carrying luggage, something such as catching something moving at high speed was already like a miracle… However, as if Golias didn´t care about that feat, he charged.

Golias thoughts were already set on fighting. No matter what kind of existence was the opponent, he would only fight. The weapon being hold by Golias´ machiini [Hedgehog] was a mace; a iron ball filled with spikes that granted the machiini its name. Holding that, he pointed it forward.

[Go flying, ojou-chan!]

Along with the sound of explosion, the iron ball was sent flying. As the chains were being stretched while making jangling sounds, the iron ball was headed to Iron Dinna with a high rotation speed.

It was the gimmick weapon [Iron Ball]. Similarly to Bela´s gimmick ability [Stinger] at the left hand, it was a weapon that had special mechanisms that transformed magic power in kinetic energy.

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