124 123. Winter world.txt (2/2)

Rowen takes the white crystal that has fallen out and voices her question.

The crystal is a little different than normal.

It takes the form of a fantastic and unique crystal.

It's a 'snow'. Have you never seen it, Rowen?

'There is. But I can't believe it: ....... I never thought I'd see it here ......, originally 'snow' was only found at the northern end of the continent.

'Good. There's 'snow' in this world too. People say 'Tear-Ray' and 'Tear-Ray' and I thought it didn't exist in this world.

'Nostalgic, na ....... I really miss .......

Loewen looks lovingly at the scattered powder snow.

Then, she rewraps the scarf around her arm around her neck and points her sword point at us.

''Is this the best magic Kanami has to offer?''

'Yeah ....... Now Rowen loses.

'Interesting. Then I'll cut your confidence straight through. The sword of Ares is the sword that destroys all demons.

Rowen looks like he's enjoying himself.

She's still trying to fight me head on, even though I'm thoroughly arguing with her.

I love the honesty of his character.

I love the fact that he never loses his pride as a human being and clashes with me as a human being, which is dazzling and endearing.

”-- 'Magic Freezing'. The field is now on my side. Now, I can even win a slashing match.

I pick up the 'Straight Sword of Crescent Pectrazi' that I dropped and extend its scale.

Putting the spare sword back in my 'possession', I close the distance between me and Rowen with the confidence of victory.

The battle resumes.

Both me and Rowen try to extend our swords to slash at our opponent.

However, Rowen's sword is the only one that stops extending before it can reach me.

The blade of magic power creaks and freezes.

Even though there was no contact between the sword and the sword, Rowen's sword was frozen.

This is the power of the Winter's Other World (Wintry Dimension).

Within the unfolded space, I can control the magic power of the icy attribute at any time.

Only my sword extends and attacks Rowen unilaterally.

Rowen, whose sword doesn't extend, has no choice but to become a defensive force. And although I'm mystified, I quickly laugh it off.

Ha, ha, ha--!

This is the face that decided to defeat me without using ”magical materialization”.

Then, using his unique gait, he tries to move forward while brushing away my sword.

But I won't let him do that either.

I've finished setting up a full-blown trap.

”'The world of winter accelerates' --

I 'chant' according to my heart's desire.

Furthermore, the temperature of the world drops and a gentle breeze blows.

The thickening white snow interrupts the space between me and Rowen, taking away my vision.

Even so, Rowen still grasps my position with 'sensitivity' and runs.

But that's also what I want.

The sub-zero air has eaten away at me, a large amount of snow has adhered to me, and ice crystals have penetrated my skin.

That's where I have my freezing magic transmitted.

''-- 'I will take everything from the wanderer' --'

Cold air crawled through the air, depriving Rowen's legs of body heat.

It's not an inhibition of movement due to the vibrational manipulation of the ”Midwinter of the Overcrowded Dimension (Di Overwinter)”, it's simply cooling it down.

However, the effect is the same.

If the cold air is extreme, any creature's movement will be slowed down.

Rowen felt an uncomfortable feeling in his legs and stopped.

''Nah!　This is--

'I think he understands what I'm trying to do in 'Sensitive' and the effect it has on him.

'I can't do this anymore. I can't prevent this from happening, even if I knew it would.

I pronounce to Rowen in the midst of a blizzard.

'But this much is still--!

Rowen braces her shaking legs and runs through the snow.

But it's a vicious circle.

The more I run in this snow, the more my snow sticks to it.

It's the same frustrating situation as it used to be in the Tida battle - the more you fight, the more liquid sticks to you.

...... Next time I'll take my legs away.

With my magic, I manipulate the snow on Rowen to intensify the cold air.

Rowen's body gets even colder.

Long ago, the coldness that biologically renders a human immobile has been surpassed.

Still, Rowen continues to fight as a human.

As a human, she surpasses the human and runs through the blizzard.

'Kanamiii!

I take the whip out of my 'possessions' and wield it.

Rowen dodges the whip as it comes at me from the blind spot.

However, the randomly undulating whip strikes again and again.

At the end of the onslaught, Rowen finally catches the whip with his sword.

If Rowen's body hadn't been frozen, he would have been able to deal with it with the Alais style technique.

If your vision was a bit more sane, there would be other ways to prevent it from happening.

If his body temperature was normal, he would have been able to deal with it with a clear consciousness.

However, the Winter's Other World (Wintry Dimension) did not allow that.

Lowen was unable to block the shrill whip's attack with his sword.

As a result, the end of the whip stuck to his body for a moment.

It wasn't much of a shock. However, if the ice whip touched a person's skin, it would freeze and adhere to it. And when the whip left, it peeled off Rowen's skin.

''Kuu--!

I swing my sword at the frightened Rowen.

Rowen's sword doesn't extend, but my sword still expands and contracts with the magical freeze.

In fact, it's still sharp thanks to the low-temperature world.

The first thing you can do is to use your sensory perceptions to sense my attack, and then you retreat and avoid the sword just in case.

There, she swings her ice whip further.

Although the distance between us has increased, the length of the whip can be extended with ”magical freezing” just as the sword expands and contracts.

Rowen is ironclad against the sword, but the whip is the only one that sometimes bites in unexpected places.

It's so powerful that it only peels a little bit of skin. It's not much damage.

But I keep aiming at it.

I take an endless amount of distance, freezing Rowen's legs and scraping away at them with the whip bit by bit.

Rowen shows a look of impatience.

'It's cold ....... My strength is being chipped away ....... And this bleeding ......!'

Loewen's near infinite physical strength was beginning to be shaded.

Her body temperature had dropped due to blood loss and her body was starting to bite.

The meteor-chasing, high-speed battle in the beginning was a shadow of its former self, and the spectators were now fighting at a speed that they could recognize.

It was a breathless winter world.

Swordsman Rowen had been sealed off by the magic of explorer Aikawa Uzumi.

The whip peels off his skin and the bleeding areas increase.

His weakened body increases the slashes from the sword as well.

But even so, Rowen does not lose the light in her eyes and looks for a chance to win. She keeps moving her wounded body and refuses to allow herself to make a decisive blow.

I gasp.

It would be impossible to reverse the situation.

But I knew that Rowen could do it. But even so, I had a strange trust in Rowen.

That's why we don't cut corners and keep our distance until the end.

The offensive and defensive battle for each other's openings continues, and--

”'Put the--' --

In the middle of this, I catch Rowen muttering softly with Dimension.

Probably, he's planning to unleash the inevitable flash ahead.

However, I'm confident that this Winter's Otherworld (Wintry Dimension) will be able to prevent that magic.

In order to avoid the inevitable flash, I weave magic with new magical power to avoid the inevitable flash.

Rowen continues to 'chant' while wobbling.

The air in her body is so acute that it distorts the world.

Tensions between the two sides rise, and the end could come at any moment.

If I can pull this off, I will have won.

In other words, this is Rowen's last attack.

The air is getting tense.

The end of the battle is drawing near.

And the moment Rowen's 'chanting' ends and the sword gleams...

d*mn it ......!

Rowen suddenly suffered and plunged his sword into the ground.

That wasn't the same as being dazed by the drop in body temperature. Of course, it wasn't the same as poking his knee in the damage.

A completely different kind of suffering was assaulting Rowen.

He learned the true nature of that suffering in the Dimension.

Crystals had begun to grow out of Rowen's body.

The crystals could be seen underneath the peeling skin and from the slashes, and the skin gradually hardened.

The color of her hair changes from red-copper to white at the base, and the shape of her eyes distorts.

His humanity fades.

Rowen struggled to fight back from ceasing to be human.