Vol 14 Chapter 3 (2/2)

But the Heaven's Blades saw the eneht

The other Heaven's Blades ere outside the city also saw the enee the Heaven's Blades' thinking about the filth monsters They would speculate on the current situation based on their personal experience of that ti

The nuh possibility that even Delbone's Psychokinesis couldn't truly grasp hold of the eneht so, and in fact, Kalvan had given voice to this thought but Kanaris had scolded hirily with the reason ”Her Majesty would never lie”

But even though Kanaris had been governing in place of the Queen, even though in her flowed the blood of the three royal fah she held some inside information, she still couldn't hide the distrust in her

Alsheyra cohts were like strolls True The battles of Heaven's Blades weren't difficult as long as it wasn't a fight against an aged phase filth monster with a name To say it from another perspective, it could be misfortune Not that the Heaven's Blades hadtheir enemies in the first place, but they couldn't feel the sense of victory and joy of defeating an eneth

How should the Heaven's Blades think in this current situation

” Uh?”

The movements of the Heaven's Blades finished in a flash Kalvan was already watching the outside of the city when the Queen was still conversing with Delbone

He held the Heaven's Blade in its restored forered around the air shi+eld whose sole purpose was to re was thinner in the outer edge area because the rainfall was less The darkness on the other side of the fog i off the sun

But Kalvan felt the unnaturalness of the cloud layers

Fro of uneasiness that was extremely hard to explain He didn't think this darkness was normal He still couldn't see the end of the darkness with his internal Kei strengthened vision So made him feel uncomfortable but he didn't knohat it was

”Delbone, what is the distance between us and the eneet to the bottom of his doubt Perhaps this was boosted by the fact that he was in the battlefield He was second to Delbone and Lintence in terms of battle experience in Grendan And for so

(You should say you're already seeing it)

Delbone's voice was like a girl playing a prank

But Kalvan agreed with her words

”Delbone, please notify everyone,” Kalvan said as he released all of his Kei Golden light exuded from his body

External Kei variation – Armed Sword

Kei that had half turned into a real substance twisted itself up the entire length of Kalvan's body as he shouted loud voice, ”All hands, ready for battle Don't get confused Fight with all your strength!”

His Kei-infused voice echoed in the sky like thunder,the air shake The vibration reached the other side of the air shi+eld and dispersed the surrounding dark fog

Still, the opposite side was a sea of darkness, but Kalvan already understood what he was seeing

Nothing could be seen through the gaps in between cloud layers A deserted field should lay open in front of as blocking his vision One could put it aps in between cloud layers The tih the clouds This h to block off all the sunlight This thing was right before Kalvan

Kalvan's speculation was spot on

What lay before him was like a wall

But it wasn't a real wall It was a part of a living creature One part of thethe entirety of Grendan was before hi movements could be seen across the monster's skin

(So this is hell)

Kalvan had never seen so huge a filth ht countless tiive voice too were buried in his heart

Voiceless

This h to touch the air shi+eld but it had yet to make a noise, otherwise Kalvan could have noticed its existenceuncomfortable

This colossal body headed for Grendan withouta noise One could say it was unusual out of all unusual events

Kalvan lifted the Heaven's Blade It was a huge longsword The golden Kei weaving his body also wrapped itself around the sword The area of gold continued to expand in the sky

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Golden Kei expanded its territory in the sky The entire world was painted gold The light of gold dispelled the darkness and gradually revealed the shape of the monster

One couldn't see the entire monster no matter hoide one's vision was Kalvan's vision was filled with the monster's skin He stretched his neck and still couldn't see the end of that skin

Plus the moveans of a monster were in front of the entire city of Grendan

Kalvan felt the stirring of strong Kei froe The Heaven's Blade successors were each entering battle h to make the city wail

”Humph,” Kalvan made the noise as he felt his Kei and the Kei of other Heaven's Blades

How long had it been since he could fight with all his th before?

Perhaps this had occurred to hihter who had yet to obtain the Heaven's Blade Perhaps he had once fought with all of his strength, relying only on the strength of his wrist and Kei when he was new to the keys of techniques and to the e opponent could no longer withstand the pressure of his Kei when he held onto a certain fighting technique He had never used all of his strength since that time He wasn't dissatisfied with the Heaven's Blade, but the problems he ca suits used outside the city and the considerations placed on the city's safety when he was in a battle

But now?

In this battlefield right now, in this i hell?

This wasn't the time to ponder The city would certainly face destruction if he didn't defeat this th Did this feeling come because of the battle experience he had accuhtened of this horror?

The golden territory surrounded one part of the outer-edge, Kalvan's territory Golden Kei stretched like so different spots of the golden Kei An ancient animal with Kalvan as the center was born

”Then, let me see how much I can use my sword technique!” he said

The h the air shi+eld almost at the same time and attacked

The air shi+eld was torn asunder This hat Kanaris saw The truth wasn't like that though The air shi+eld was almost invisible to the naked eye What Kanaris saas theflowed into Grendan like a ball being burst from the inside However, the truth was different The pollutants didn't flow in Still, it wasn't that urgent even if the pollutants flowed inside the city

What she could see noas very intense, and it was invading the city

It looked like the internal organs were suddenly splitting theantic body into nuy probably because it couldn't enter the air shi+eld with its gargantuan body Otherwise, even the Heaven's Blades couldn't block off the attack if the monster was to press down on the city with its whole body

But Kanaris hadn't thought of this explanation Focused on the battle in front of her, she only reacted accordingly

This ti The clothes she wore before was for when she governed Grendan in the Queen's steed She had always been wearing the current clothes underneath her luxurious clothing The tightly-fitted fighting suit, the long sleeves stopping short of her elbows and the length of the pants stopping short of her knees were all designed to minimize interference with her movements

In her hand was a restored Heaven's Blade in the form of a thin blade

”Ahah, I was such a fool,” she said to the sky, feeling the tension she had never felt before as countless ene from the monster's body headed for Grendan

”I actually doubted Her Majesty's words”

She lifted the sword to the level of her chest Her action was like the opening pose of a dance One could see the slight tension floating around her

Fu Kanaris swung the sword horizontally

The dance began

”Please forgivethe sword in her hand Thethe sky above her She cut the apart their bodies with the Kei hidden in the sword's paths

She hadn'tit around her body,The path of the sword's dance shattered the monsters in the distant sky

A piece of music supported her dance

Countless bodies split out fro in the sky It wasn't possible for the monster not to h it reached Grendan noiselessly

Because the Kei of the Heaven's Blade successors were vibrating

And the vibrations all became the music and rhyme of Kanaris' dance

Occurrence, clash, sed, covering, rebirth, biting, friction, fading, and it all happened again Kanaris danced with the speedy, repeated music The technique of the music or the beauty of art didn't exist The chaotic noise was cut apart and reborn because of Kanaris' sword It was once again dragged into her sword path and torn asunder

Her sword continued to dance, and each new individual fore body continued to break apart

The individual fore larva A rock-solid shell covered the huge body Long and thick legs grew froned with his body in a straight line The not-too sharp teeth lined the jaw, their sole purpose to crush the eneed to land

The original The original body that was outside the air shi+eld and covering Grendan like a huge intestine was shooting out one copy after another The legs were hidden underneath the shell, the body was curled into a ball, and they were being shot out like teardrops

Countless In huge numbers

This could be seen as three co, and creating chaos fro in it

A flash of the sword The enemy shattered into 100 billion pieces, and there was al of the blade The speed of Kanaris' dance had already exceeded a speed that words could describe The average citizen would fail to see anything special from this Even a nor A dance along with the sound of battle ai into the entire city Kanaris' dance wasn't that strange an occurrence compared to this

She continued to dance in one spot She had neveras she danced The area of her movement ithin half to ten centimeters She never stepped across this area Not even by one step

But the path depicted in her dance was cutting down all the ene out a broken line of light

Internal and external Kei variation - Resounding Melody

Sound filled her surroundings Vibration and Kanaris' dancing becae Kei exuding fros to becoed as the victor

The action of swinging a sword originally held noThe cut paths didn't co like a baton, and Kanaris was the conductor of a band Wherever her baton pointed as she swung the slender sword, destruction occurred

” So, I, Kanaris, will not fail Your Majesty's expectation I'll continue to eli the sound of Kanaris' sword path were nue body the living bullets burst and fell one by one

The intense scenery existed here too

Standing still here was a small piece of metal Unbelievably heavy armor wrapped around the tiny existence of a Military Artist in Grendan The multi-layer armor formed by the Dite wrapped around his tiny body He was like the one who appears in a series or a fairy tale, the one who rides a horse, appearing in a ht

There existed a way to fight like a knight though there was no real knight in Grendan Wrapped froht's spear and piercing the filthprepared to make sacrifices This ainst filth monsters more frequently than other cities Hence, this method was not popular However, it did exist

But for the tiny body who looked like a boy in his teens, no ht He couldn't possibly be a knight He only held a shi+eld A defensive tool He didn't have a weapon All he held was only a shi+eld A huge shi+eld that shi+elded his entire body

He only focused on defense He put so much emphasis on it that he didn't even hold a weapon No The shi+eld itself could act as a blunt weapon Still, he placed too much importance on defensive equipment A majority of Military Artists would probably aze at him with unreserved conte a shi+eld, he was standing at the appointed place At the place closest the outer edge of the city as he gazed at the giganticthe city with upraised head The eyes behind the ns of fear as he faced the enorout into the hour of battle even though he was scared of it with his face turning green, even though his body shook when he heard the Queen said ”hell”

The timid hero

This was how people who knew him coth and courage that was stronger than anyone else as he stood ready to face battle No matter how th that was stronger than anyone as long as he overcame his timidness

He was the Heaven's Blade successor Reverse Ilginas Elmen No enemy existed who dared to stand in front of him

It held true even now

Kalvan's shout pierced the outer edge through the flakes

” Tia”

The event transpiring before the other Heaven's Blades was also happening here as he made a noise behind his mask

The intestine-like skin of thecreatures shot out like a torrential rain past the air shi+eld to attack the city

As usual, Reverse's eyes seemed to be closed, but his slit-like eyes didn't miss the scenery before him He also didn't seem to want to escape

He lifted the shi+eld before him and released the Kei in his body

Internal and external Kei variation – Kongoukei Barrier

This was the oukei that Layfon stole froe where Reverse stood formed a defensive line around the city, a barrier of Kei

Reverse stared ahead of hiaze stared at the colossal monster outside the city, stared at the bullets of creatures shooting out from its body He could capture them with his senses even if his eyes couldn't catch them Either way, he was a defender He focused all of his talents on the defensive He kept training himself until he reached this state And the person whom he protected also arrived at a state entirely opposite his

”Ah, I know, Reverse”

The voice sounded behind hi with it a sense of drunkenness

Different fros were shockingly long Her open fighting suit revealed a huge injury across her chest There was also another big wound drawing fro hair the sa at Reverse with proud and infatuated eyes

The Green Dragon crescenton her shoulder

Cauntia Valmon Falnes

The person who had reached a state totally opposite her partner's had focused on her attention on offense She slashed down a path diagonally as she lifted the sabre

External Kei variation – Ravenous Wolf's Charge

Reverse's defensive wall blocked off all the bullets of life creatures in his area Many of them died when they touched the wall But their co theed to survive The nu the rise of number of corpses on the wall

The external Kei infused in Cauntia's Green Dragon crescentaway the reed to survive The path of her saber cut away the monsters External Kei turned them into powder and the heat of the Kei burnt thens of abating Thereleased The pack charged their prey, full of destructiveness

The light of annihilation dispersed like foam and repelled all its ene the original body outside the air shi+eld too Long lashes of injuries were crafted into the skin of the huge body The body shook Its vibrations spread through the air shi+eld and a sound of pain echoed throughout the city

The shooting of bullets halted but not the injury It pierced straight through the huge body until one could see the sun on the other side The power of that

” It could have been better if I could use this outside the city”

Reverse didn't reveal a bitter smile at the dissatisfied Cauntia His tense expression would not loosen up as long as he still in a battle He was afraid that his ti his cowardice would disappear like fog if he were to loosen up

”If you were to use it outside, you'd die, Cauntia”

He had to say this Cauntia dying was scarier than hi

In reality, the leather-like clothes she wore as she stood behind Reverse were in tatters The not so rounded breasts were also revealed The rebounding force of her ed her clothes Her clothes could only withstand ten shockwaves when she fought outside the city And that hen she wasn't using her full strength Cauntia had said she wouldn't have let that aged phase filth monster escape if she were to use the move she just executed

”But I don't like it when I can't catchin this battle as he recalled her dissatisfied expression in the past He couldn't help but sed Alarm filled his eyes under the e monster

”It hasn't ended,” he said

”I know”

Cauntia understood her lover's personality very well, so she didn't get angry at hi before her

The injury inflicted by Ravenous Wolf's Charge healed in a split second It wasn't strange that this reater than a filth ed phase This was predictable since the monster was able to cover the entire city

”Then let's give it everything we have, just like before”

Cauntia s destructive acts, was so beautiful

But Reverse wasn't looking at her His gaze was always glued to the place ahead of him in order to protect the woman he loved behind him

In the sky

”It seeive support”

External Kei variation – Meandering Haze

Tigris said as he released the shot The bronze bowstring sliced the air and gave off a crisp sound A crisp and fresh sound of power that rose above the battlefield filled with chaos, bedlam and madness The released arroas a shot of condensed external Kei It turned into numerous new arrows as it was released fro water droplets, and they becaht They ignored the principle of nature and changed direction after traveling for some distance Like anih the bullets atte to land, shattered them and went to hunt down the next prey until they exhausted their energy

A new Meandering Haze shot out before the rain of arrows disappeared Dots painted the sky of Grendan

He had been called an oldHe stood rooted to the spot just like his name as he continued to release his arrows

Behind hi”

Barer She held two cannons The body of each cannon had two round barrels aligned side by side The two barrels spun every time a bullet shot out Not many Military Artists preferred this weapon but soovernment would hate him for the enormous artillery bill if he were to use real bullets In addition, Kei bullets would tip the balance between the Military Artist's amount of Kei and the speed the bullet was shot out Hence some Military Artists disliked it These reasons explained why it was rare to see this weapon

Still, Bar out Kei bullets This point alone was enough to demonstrate her unusual a to help brace its body because of its weight For exa it with two hands But Bar one in each hand without any trouble This thened

Four thousand bullets every ht thousand bullets This nuh Grendan's sky They formed a screen in the sky and also looked like an intense streah the air shi+eld shattered into pieces when they contacted the screen or the stream

”Really, this isn't a speed an old hed as he kept shooting There was no change to his speed

”Hurry up and retire, you dead old man”

”Is this respect for the elderly?”

”You're so noisy If you want me to be like that then become someone that is worthy of respect before you say it”

”Hahaha, that's true”

Tigris laughed joyously and kept shooting arrows Barers, her expression dissatisfied

The screen of Kei bullets weaved by two Heaven's Blade successors heartlessly obliterated the bullets of creatures falling fro them any chance

” So troubleso of dissatisfaction didn't disappear in Baret rid of it with one shot”

She glanced at the restored Dite under her foot

That was her Heaven's Blade A right auns Otherwise, one couldn't even shoot with a gun Although her Heaven's Blade had a setting that would allow her to adjust the level of Kei, this wasn't the tiun It was different froe the aun was just a device used to release a certain amount of Kei as a bullet

”Bear with it a while longer,” Tigris said with a sour smile ”It won't be too late to use that later There's always an order to doing things”

Of course, the Heaven's Blade successors' ability to es the city sustained in this unusual situation was one type of ”unusual”

”As I said, right noe have to bear it”

”Huaze to the strea at the downpour of Kei bullets that showed no signs of stopping

Very little daes were minimized

”How's the situation?”

(About the reception to the attack, the current rate of destruction is 999999999 almost close to 100)

”That isn't 100”

Alsheyra looked out theto the battlefield after listening to Delbone's report The strength of the Heaven's Blades that could alh all the monsters orthy of co a very small number had landed in Grendan and continued to lected in light of the total

(This number is still controllable because Military Artists have been arranged on the third defensive line)

”They would be useless if they can't even do that er would this state last?

In this bizarre situation, she couldn't not worry about the mental state of the Heaven's Blade successors who enjoyed battle It was also proble other Military Artists could sustain themselves mentally The pressure of the mind was heavier than that on the flesh It wasn't possible to stay sane for long in this battle

”Let's hope it won't drag out for too long”

(But we'll be troubled if Your Majesty used all of your strength)

”I know,” she said as if she had eaten so is the key?”

(If Your Majesty's strike a few days ago was 10, then a strike at full poould create a rebounding force large enough to destroy half of the palace It round under the worst circuh the palace had been rebuilt to cushi+on the ies? Please give it so”

Delbone laughed at her words

(It's very iht now Allow the Heaven's Blades to make that chance Make that monster show its weakness It is necessary to wait till then)

”It'd be good if it really has a weak point”

” It does have a weak point”

The person who replied was Saya The girl ofbehind with Leerin as she watched the battle rage outside the ith little emotion

”Saya?”

”That's probably Nano Celluloid Interface M Durin”

”What a nanasis used to destroy the world before it becanasis' subordinate It can turn the atoy and increase it endlessly in Zero Territory It e state”

”Atoms of the Aurora Field?”

”Oh, the ancestor of the filth monsters That I do know What next?”

”Nano Celluloid is a group weapon made up ofis inside the body It isn't possible for it to attack in large scale without a core controlling the organization”

”That's true There is a weak point, but even you don't know its location, right?”

”No”

”I see,” Alsheyra said and finally sensed Leerin spacing out

”What is it?”

” Nothing What is it?”

Leerin must be the one most uncomfortable about the current battle She was not used to a battle no matter how prepared she was mentally She would definitely feel unsettled with a battle raging before her

”It's all right”

So Alsheyra showed a carefree smile

”Seems like it isn't the expected final battle”

”Is that so? But why”

”Because it's not Lævateinn Besides, the ,” Saya replied

”Lævateinn?”

”Nano Celluloid Interface 1 Lævateinn He is the original of the Nano Celluloids and the filththis city”

”Then is he like a king?”

”It's more like a queen from its shape”

”Ara, the saerous judging by the fact that Durin has successfully escaped But Lævateinn has yet to appear, and so Ignasis probably hasn't been released, or we can say it hasn't reached that stage yet Protecting Ignasis is always her first priority”

Alsheyra couldn't tell from Leerin's expression if she understood Saya's explanation or not But her unsettled face was facing the

Ah Yes

Alsheyra also turned her gaze out theas if she had thought of sothen her vision, she still couldn't see it

It was on the other side of the air shi+eld

Zuellni

(That guy shouldn't have the time to spare to attack the other side)

But this wasn't the only thing Leerin orrying about Of course, she orried about Zuellni, but she was even more worried about the person in it

Layfon

Alsheyra had asked Delbone about him, but she had not told Leerin that Layfon had coht that Leerin already knew or she thought it wasn't so she herself should say

(Is this really all right?)

Delbone was asking about Layfon's punish him?

Alsheyra would reinstate his Heaven's Blade title if Leerin asked for it now Leerin's ability was essential even though they didn't kno much of it was needed But she believed the blood of Grendan's royalty had become purer as evident in the births of Leerin and Alsheyra, the existences that were one step away from perfection Hence Leerin's blood was needed to make this plan come into fruition

Besides, this incidence, the day that was fated to arrive, today's incidence that had been predicted, this meant the day to use Leerin's eye would come sooner or later, and so she was the most important person in Grendan Alsheyra would not casually deny Leerin's wish

But Leerin would not ask for it She had already said so in Zuellni and in the Inner Court of Grendan She didn't want to drag Layfon in She didn't wish to involve him in this hell

To Alsheyra, there was no need for Layfon to become a Heaven's Blade successor since he had been exiled fro the Heaven's Blades since she becas didn't happen by chance Alsheyra understood this to be her personal explanation but she felt the person to become a Heaven's Blade successor must be fated to do so So for Layfon as chosen by a Heaven's Blade and had to let go of it, the fate of beco a Heaven's Blade successor was not to be his

The sa a Military Artist hold the Heaven's Blade through the strength of a Haikizoku and Kei accelerating drugs These acts would only forcibly twist fate They were less acts that would create unfortunate consequences It was better not to do it in the first place than to create the uneasiness

She looked at the side of Leerin's face

But it wasn't that bad to allow Layfon to co the reason of a fight to others, as long as he still cared about Leerin, then Leerin's reason to fight would becoht In a way, Layfon would once s ork out so wouldn't chan