Chapter Chapter 81: 10. We came, we saw, we won (6) (2/2)

‘S, scary…’

The emotion named fear!

‘I need to dodge!’

The enemy is not strong.

They are definitely weaker than I am.

But I never thought, even once, that I could beat them.

This was a human’s instinct.

Far beyond logic and emotion, pure, simple instinct was screaming at me to get away from here as far as possible.

As my instincts decreed, I made haste to backstep as quickly as I could, but the two people that each had their hands on my ankles seemed to be having none of it.

“Where… do you think… you’re going.”

“You need to fall here for us.”

My ankles were gripped so tightly it actually hurt.

This was the first time I’d seen someone this tenacious since No.1000’s desire to eat.

“Hiik! I, I’ll just be on my way…”

“Heheheh! So it’s finally our turn to use this line!”

“Although it was always bullshit whenever Professor Nicerwin said it, but this situation actually reminds me of it!”

“Ugh? You’re actually freezing your hands to my ankles?!”

Their magics activated as they said some weird things.

The cold air that emanated from their hands bound my ankles and their arms together with ice.

“”You can come in whenever you want, but not when you leave!””

With those words, the two people’s arms and my ankles became linked.

“Kill them, Surtr!”

Killing was strictly prohibited in the imperial festival.

But right now, I might as well have lost half my reasoning.

“Calm down, owner. Even if they were to bind owner, they froze their own arms in the process! They froze a part of their own bodies as well, of course they would have made it weak! If it’s my fire… it, it’s not melting?”

Due to our unequal contract, Surtr couldn’t harm me, his master, and so he tried to use his flames to melt the ice around my ankles, but the ice didn’t melt.

“Freeze, freeze, and freeze ever more!”

“Even if my hands may fracture and shatter, may the ice melt never again!”

“These crazy motherfuckers?!”

“Just kill them all already!”

It’s cold. I’m losing sensation in my legs from my ankles downwards.

But if it were these situations, I’d experienced these a number of times with the instructor’s training from hell.

But, the only other time where I’d felt this degree of fanaticism was when Sia, my sunbae in the organization, talked about the instructor.

‘In, incredible, instructor!”

How did the instructor, no, Sir Instructor manage to endure this degree of fanatic attachment?

As opposed to my respect for the instructor which was climbing ever higher, I was losing more and more feeling in my ankles.

“I don’t know! I seriously don’t know!”

At this point I’d much rather take some giant attack and get teleported back to the healers, but I did not want to spend a moment longer in the company of these people who were grinning like madmen while attached to my ankles.

“Burn, burn, burn and burn again!”

They are weak. But, they are more fearsome than any other.

If I didn’t kill them first, they could kill me!

So I had to kill them first.

“Burn, burn even more! Burn everything!”

“Owner, it’s too dangerous!”

I closed my eyes, and what I brought up in my mind’s eye was the giant’s sword that burned down an entire world.

“And so, burn, burn, burn, cleanse the entire world!”

The small ember that lit up in my hand, began to take a cohesive form.

“Lævateinn!”

And the form the flames took was that of a giant sword.

Surtr’s strongest weapon, the blade that ended an era of mythology!

“Oooh! Pretty impressive?”

“So what, it won’t have any effect on the silver devil anyway.”

“Well, true.”

This isn’t the true Lævateinn.

My contract with Surtr isn’t fair enough for me to bring out the true Lævateinn.

Even so, this is still a demonic weapon that borrowed Lævateinn’s power.

Despite the fact that I brought out a weapon that could rival a divine weapon, my two opponents were far too calm.

“This is your last chance. If you undo your magic now, your hands will stay attached to your wrists.”

It wasn’t that Surtr couldn’t melt the ice with his power.

No matter how weakened he was, the reason that an archdevil Surtr couldn’t destroy this ice was due to his contract that he couldn’t damage my body.

But, that didn’t matter if I used this weapon personally.

“How frightening. But.”

“Isn’t it too late?”

“Wh… at?”

What I fleetingly felt then was undoubtedly killing intent.

Even if we were foes, there was only one place in this entire student festival that emanated killing intent!

“Diiiiiieeeeee!”

“Finish it!”

What came charging in were a giant grey wolf, and a mid-rank wind elemental.

“Damn it!”

I instantly cut the grey wolf with Lævateinn, and burned the wind elemental with fire.

“Damn it…”

This is bad. Including me, all of the Marcis students in this round were all rated the greatest among the current crop of Marcis students.

In contrast, our enemies were a no-name team without a single famous name in sight.

We were careless because of that.

If I was reduced to this state because of just two people.

The other Marcis students that might as well be flowers blooming in greenhouses won’t stand a chance against these madmen!

“Fufufu. I lost yesterday, so now if I lose to another academy, my life is no longer mine to forfeit.”

“Hahaha. Same here. Well, to be accurate, our entire team is.”

Each and every one of the Yugrasia students that appeared were in tatters.

But, out of the six original members of their team, not a single person had dropped out.

Meaning.

“So, if we beat you…”

“The next round is against Yugrasia so we don’t need to meet the silver devil!”

“So that we can live, die!”

“Block it, Surtr!”

Not a single one of them could be described as normal in any shape or form.

Like an ancient warrior, where before battles they would be fed a drug that turned them all into berserkers.

Unrelenting attacks that cared not for their allies.

In the middle of the melee where it would not have been odd for my enemies to be teleported to the healers due to Lævateinn’s flames, in the end, I was defeated.