Chapter 29.2 - Mortal Combat in the Holy Dragon Mountain (1/2)

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I start chanting my magic, too. I enchant everyone’s weapon with magic. This should raise everyone’s offensive power.

We are facing against Diehart, after all. This is the third time we are meeting him.

It really surprised me when Reiji suddenly used the Light Cannon of Heavenly Might magic toward Diehart. The holy dragon king might be alive in there, you know.

I don’t know what will happen inside the cave if Diehart didn’t use his magic to protect himself against Reiji’s.

Since Reiji thinks that it’s okay as long as he doesn’t harm any women, he might not even care about what would happen to the dragon king who is protecting the Rox Kingdom.

Nevertheless, why could that guy neutralize Reiji’s magic? It shouldn’t be possible to defend against that magic with your average magic skill. I feel again the pressure of fighting a powerful opponent.

Looking from where Diehart’s coming out, I have no doubt that the horn of dragon king was just stolen by him. What the heck is Rena doing right now?

And now that I can’t see her figure, did she just encounter an unfortunate incident?

That’s why the horn of holy dragon king should have been easily stolen.

Even though I was hesitating whether to fight Diehart or not previously, the situation has changed now. They tried to annihilate the Rox kingdom completely. I won’t leave this kind of dangerous guy to his own devices.

Though I still think that we’ve to act carefully, I’m not hesitating anymore. I’ll take him down with everything I got.

Our formation has Shirone and Kaya as our vanguards, Reiji in the middle, with Nao supporting from the side. Rino and I will attack with magic as rear guard, and Sahoko would healing everyone on the frontline. This is our sure win pattern.

Nao takes the plunge first with her projectile. Nao’s boomerang is whizzing toward Diehart.

Nao’s boomerang will split when it’s thrown toward the target; moreover, it’ll create vacuum blades that are capable of slicing several targets.

But, after Diehart unsheathed his sword, he made all those vacuum blades vanish with one swing of his sword along with all the boomerangs. Splendid, there’s no hesitation in the way he swung his sword.

Though he can defend himself from those boomerangs, it’s enough for us since Reiji is already rushing to attack him by taking advantage of the gap created when he swung his sword.

According to Kaya and Shirone, Reiji’s attack is really hard to dodge and almost impossible to predict. Diehart, whose stance has been disturbed by those boomerangs, might be unable to dodge that attack.

The next moment, I didn’t even know what happened. Reiji attack just passed through Diehart’s body.

Even Reiji is dumbfounded by that situation.

Though I don’t know what just happened, the next moment, Shirone spread her wings and already dived from above. Though it couldn’t be used in closed spaces or in a room, this open space gave her absolute advantage. She swings her sword while dropping down from overhead. But, Diehart easily dodged that attack by a paper thin margin.

From below, Kaya rapidly approaches Diehart while unleashing her fists. As long as Kaya’s fists connect, the damage will definitely passing through his shield and armor and destroy him from the inside.

「EVERYONE! MOVE OUT――!」

Upon hearing Rino’s voice, the four people in the frontlines retreat immediately.

When I turn toward her, a tall woman, wearing a pale blue dress, is already standing in front of Rino. And then, a gigantic bird with thunder coiling around its body is rising above us.

They are the superior spirits under Rino’s command, the Snow Queen and the Thunder Bird.

It seems the number of people who could summon superior spirits could be counted using the fingers in two hands even amongst the elves who have great affinity with spirit, much less to say summoning two superior spirits at the same time; I heard that even the elf queen is unable to do that.

But, Rino can do that easily.

If physical attack can’t get through to him, how about the attacks from these two superior spirits?

「Please, Spirit-san! FINISH HIM OFF!!」

A storm of icicle lances from the Snow Queen and lightning storm from the Thunder Bird come into existence along with Rino’s appeal.

Along with a thunderous noise, my field of vision is blocked by a cloud of dust in the next moment.

The cloud of dust clears up several seconds later. And Diehart is there, standing on his place.

「What’s wrong with that guy! ! He’s not even injured by this level of attack?!」

I’m shocked. What the hell is wrong with this guy?

「He avoided that with his Mikiri*, huh. [TL* : A state in combat where one judges the technique, stance, and movement of their opponent to fight them with paper thin margin.] Our attacks can’t reach him at all. There’s a legend that Miyamoto Musashi can cut a grain of rice on his opponent’s forehead without even wounding his opponent, and this guy might be able to do the same thing」

Kaya elaborates about what happened.

「What the heck is that!」

What’s with that godlike ability? Why is he still okay after all those attacks.

「But, it seems he couldn’t perfectly withstand the attack of the spirit」

「Eh …」

Looking closely, Diehart’s body seems to be trembling.

「Moreover, he isn’t coming to attack us since the start of the battle and is always on a defensive stance」

I smiled upon hearing Kaya’s words. We can win as long as we can somehow inflict some damage upon him.

「In that case, let’s attack him without giving him any chance for rest」

I am really scared of what happened in that basement, after all. It’s wasn’t done personally by Diehart, but he might be similar to that masked man. I’ll make you pay for your sins.

Now, I’ll make Diehart pay for what he did including the share of the Rox kingdom’s citizens.

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◆ Dark Knight, Kuroki

「Ouch … That … Hurts」

Maybe it is because I couldn’t perfectly dodge the attack of the spirit. My body is in pain.

As expected, 7 against 1 is just too much. [TL: This might be what the last boss feels when he’s against the hero party.]

Why did things turn out like this.

It’s just a simple matter for me to dodge Shirone’s attack; I used to spar with her so many times, after all. It’s just the same even when she’s attacking from above. No, it’s easier to dodge her aerial attack since it’s follows a linear pattern.

The attack of the girl who used her fists was sharp. But, it was not at the level of a master. I could dodge her attack by parrying it.