Episode 29.5 (1/2)

”<Flash (Liriom)>!”

Lecan cast <Flash> magic toward three magic beasts approaching him.

However, it had no effect on them.

”Lecan-dono, what are you trying to achieve exactly?”

”Thought it would work on them.”

”No of course it won't. White Spectres do not have eyes in the first place.”

”Heard it's effective on Soul Ogres, figured it might work on White Spectres as well.”

When Lecan heard that only White Spectres spawn in this dungeon, he thought to himself that he should have brought Eda along. If he's not wrong, Shira mentioned how

is super effective against White Spectre magic beasts. But there's no point crying over spilt milk now.

”Well, I agree that it pays to do trial and error.”

The two kept swinging their swords around while conversing, defeating the three magic beasts. Then they got down to floor 27.

”Is there something wrong, Lecan-dono. Why are you staring at your sword?”

”This sword, it handles badly.”

By this sword he means, <Acceleration Sword>. A sword with <Sword Speed Increase> that raises sword speed by about 20 to 30 percent.

Lecan has been using it since they got it.

He found its effect which makes it swing faster with little effort put into amusing and wielded it for fun, but it just doesn't feel right.

Your sword swinging faster than you intend to turns out to be quite a huge liability. At first he thought he'd get used to it after a while, but the sense of discomfort never went away.

The issue with speed aside, how the feedback it deals on the opponent ends up turning out differently than what your body expects is another huge problem.

You get feedback when your sword hits something. In the form of impact, load recoiling on your wrist, elbow and shoulder. The timing of it comes sooner than anticipated, and bigger here. It only comes up as a slight discomfort right now since he's not swinging the sword as fast and forceful as he could, but Lecan will do just that once he's found a formidable foe to fight, which might hurt his wrist and elbow in the process.

Besides when you're slashing at the enemy, the moment the sword hits their body, you pull out your hand then push the blade forward to make it dig deeper into them. You can't use that technique with this sword. It's also unfit for parrying the enemy's sword and counterattacking.

”Lecan-dono. People who wield swords with <Sword Speed Increase> are people who fight purely relying on brute force alone.”

”Sounds about right.”

”They strike and slash at their foes without taking their own ability, or the sword's weight and speed into account. Never putting any thought into putting just the right amount of strength or speed into the sword, or what's their next move be once it hits, they just put everything into each and every swing.”

”I see.”

”This sword holds a tremendous value to those who employ such a style of combat. But for swordsmen who make use of advanced sword techniques like Lecan-dono, I'd suggest against using it too much. It will mess up with your techniques.”

”Does your swordschool not use this kind of speed boosting sword?”

”We only deploy one in an attack that will surely end a match. To end it in a single swift stroke of sword when we're faced with an opponent that cannot be beaten by clashing techniques alone. At that exact moment, we swing our sword with every last bit of our ability and speed.”