Chapter 18 (1/2)
Chapter 18 - Moko
A bizarre scene unfolded before George, Edelgard and Masahiko
At a single glance it appeared to be a battle between two super humans, carried out at a speed untraceable to the naked eye of a regular person
However, the strange thing was the one-sidedness of the battle, and in particular the way it see an end despite that
With each of the hero's swings treh the castle, walls collapsed and floors crued into a single line cut Lain's body into ever finer pieces, energy blasts hit her sto poured down froh her body
Lain's physical condition turned as grilehad happened
The sage appeared so unaffected, if it weren't for her thoroughly tattered clothing it would have been difficult to believe she was under such a brutal barrage of attacks just a fewdecapitated, having her entire body encased by an inferno: the next instant she would stand before them once more, without injury
”What in the world Is this how Heroes——, no, Sages fight?”
Edelgard raised her voice, filled with both dread and a the battle from a corner of the rooe and made sure none of his attacks would particularly wound any of the bystanders, they would have o if he didn't That said, they still had to fend off the chunks of rubble that cae was as stunned as Edelgard and replied
”Can you even call it a fight? Sage-sa at all”
”Could it be she cancelled the Hero's gift?”
George was close to saying 'Do his attacks look like that of an ungifted to you?,' but after desperately trying to make sense of the scene before them that explanation didn't seeht was just that abnorift is bestowed by the sword saint, so it shouldn't be possible for the Sages to interfere I believe Lain-saenerating against theeneration and those at the top of that chain of inheritance are able to regulate the gifts below thees they are outside of their control
A sign of that separation is the difference in powers they bestow While the sages' gifts tend to be related to the use of ifts tend to be of a more physical nature The hero before the a sword as his main weapon
And while the spectators had their short talk the hero stopped his onslaught He see
”How about you just give up and leave again?”
She truly was unwounded, and before they knew it even her dress had inal forer the hero knew that giving in to his resent blindly wouldn't serve any purpose For now he lared at her
”Then how about we use this short break to have a conversation”
Lain looked genuinely carefree, as if she didn't even consider herself to have been under attack just seconds ago
The hero didn't reply However, neither did he go back on the attack; heto buy tiht, but ould a hero attack a sage? Shouldn't you be defeating so Sages were the ones governing this world, the ones protecting it, so whatto kill one?
”Don't screithbut harm to this world!”
”Not like I'es are handling things pretty well We don't couys have plenty of freedo? Even if you don't feel like that, we are still the protectors of this world What do you think you're acco one of us? Just let us do our job”
”Don't tell me about freedoe felt like it?!”
”Sure, there are people that have died on a sage's whi this world a whole lotme to overlook your cruelty because of that!”
”Hreater good, but apparently that's not the case Did soe? Stolen from you? Manipulated? Well, whatever it is, you ca one I barely cole one of you!”
Having bought enough tiain
He rose his sword to the skies and put all his power into throwing it towards the sage, where it pierced the floor to Lain's feet He wasn't airound the sword's broad blade began to shi+ne and as if to answer the sword, Lain's surroundings also started brightening up: countless little blades were sticking out of the ground to the sage's feet —— the herothe earlier attack —— and reacted to the glowing straight sword, thin rays of light bea from one blade to the next
Only an instant later the beaned e exactly in its middle
”Do you think I care about your ienerate after I burn your entire being to nothing!”
The geometrical shape on the floor pulsated, unfolded countless times from within itself and finally turned into a solid body At a speed one couldn't folloith their eyes Lain had been caged away
The hero's right arm trembled as he stretched it out ahead of hi
It was clear that the hero was about to go all out with his next attack, but George and the others couldn't interfere He may have appeared defenseless, but the difference in actual power between the; had they approached him they would have been shut down in a heartbeat
”Die!”
The hero shouted at the top of his lungs and the prison of light shone even brighter than before
However, after a single flash it was already over
The light ceased and everything was gone The sht sword that looked like it had been plucked out of a legend, the beast around on the floor, and Lain
The produced heat must have been ilow like lava
”Ariel I've finally taken down the first”
The hero th in his feet and fell to his knees He put so much into that one attack he could hardly even stand
”How hoe even treat a case like this?”
”What do you e is a ard's usual habit of acting before thinking e want to lie down and curl up next to the hero
Noa hero George looked over to the feudal lord at the other side of the rooes then can't you do so about this?,” but Masahiko veheaze was equally vocal: ”No way”
”So is this Ariel your dead lover or soe or Masahiko to do
Just like she did all those times before, Lain stood in her spot anew
Despair warped the hero's face