Battle War; Magic, Sword and Dragon

The Duel of Two

3 Days passed since the party and at the same time the award for Kuro and the others.

Although the problem is arguably over, Kuro plans to return to the city of Areshia a week after the party as it still needs to do a lot of things in the capital. One of them is to straighten out some things about the gift in the form of his engagement with Riana.

Even though Kuro refused, he could not just do it considering that Sei was the Emperor. In addition, if the public finds out she is refusing her engagement, she will get another punishment from the public. And it's worse than getting the death penalty.

The reason is certainly because Riana is so popular in the community. He was even like a saint and an angel who descended into the world. All of that happened can not be separated from his concern for a society that is in trouble and accepts problems. 

If anyone knew that Kuro refused to fight with such a person, Kuro's life would not be able to calm down.

That's why Kuro made an agreement not to discuss or spread the news before the Battle War passed or at least it was confirmed he lost or won. And of course also asked Sei to shut up anyone who knew the news.

The other problem was that he still had not recovered from the previous fight. From the outside it looks good, but it's just the outside. Laila knew that and that's why they decided not to rush home.

Then for the umpteenth time, today Kuro and Laila, did not forget to go with Lic to the emperor's palace. Their goal is not to discuss the Lic. The problem was finished pretty well. Meanwhile, Riku is not with them because he is at home taking a nap.

In this clear weather, something interesting will happen. That's why they went to the palace.

As already decided at the party event, today was the day that Arthuria and Victoria would have a duel.

The place they were heading to was the training ground of the basement that was under the palace. Given who will duel, the safety used is the maximum stage. It would be dangerous if one of the missed attacks destroyed the palace and flew towards the city.

When they arrived, many people gathered. Other than the two sides who were going to fight, but there was also Sei and some people like high officials in the Empire. While Riana is invisible because she is currently looking at the condition of rebuilding the destroyed city.

The other parties were Charlmilia, Knox and Jinn.

Although Charlmilia was now the princess of the emperor, it did not mean that she chose not to associate with her best friend. In short, he will not be someone else even if his position changes.

The announcement of Charlmilia will be made 3 more days after everything is deemed safe and proper.

If you see who's coming, then it's no wonder if you think Aldest and Electra will be seen. The two returned to the city of Areshia with Irho.

"We're not late, are we?"

The three turned towards Kuro.

"No." replied Charmilia. "The fight has not yet begun. Hm... Could he be Lic? I think he's a little different than he used to be."

Charlmilia showed an interested look at Lic who was now hiding behind Laila.

"Uh... She's so sweet."

"You're right. He used to look stiff, but now he is free to express whatever he feels. Lic, do you remember Charlmilia's aunt?"

"Ugh aunty.."

Charlmilia wanted to protest when she called her aunt, but Charlmilia could not when she saw the cute and funny behavior of Lic.

Indeed at first glance there is nothing different from the appearance of Lic from the previous. But as Laila says, Lic changes more emotionally.

"Don't worry. Brother is not scary at all."

Charlmilia tries to approach and seduce Lic, but Lic is still unable to accept Charlmilia.

"He hates me?"

"No. He was just shy and unfamiliar with people he rarely met. Well.. If you want to get along with him, you have plenty of time."

Charlmilia smiled a sign of understanding.

"That's right. But I also want to meet Riku. Do you mind if I visit?"

"Please if you want to come. But Riku was more often at the mother's house. He was their first grandchild."

"I can imagine what happened."

Charlmilia was finally able to understand why Kuro was showing an unhappy face and looked like he was harboring anger at someone.

Just like Leon and Lia, how could Kuro not want to spend time with her?

"That's no big deal. We will soon return to the city of Areshia. Better to let them be with Riku until that time comes."

"Having a family that's too loving sometimes makes a little trouble."

"I can't argue with him."

"You better save your chat later. The fight will begin soon."

Knox cut their conversation.

Although not polite, but both must thank you for reminding.

All eyes are now fixed on the square-shaped arena with a length of each side of 50 meters. Both sides were in the opposite shrinkage to a fairly tense atmosphere.

"Laila, I want you to pay close attention to this fight. This will be very important to you and Charlia."

"Kuro, what do you mean?"

"You guys look at it later. This was the reason why the chick asked for a fight with Victoria. Consider it a gift from Riku's uncle."

Shortly thereafter the countdown began.

""

The first movement started with Arthuria. He summoned the Magic Arm and directly shot towards Victoria. With a speed booster and body strengthening magic, a distance of 50 meters could be reached in just the blink of an eye.

Victoria simply smiled and called out the Magic Arm . Then after making a horse, he resisted Arthuria's attack.

Perhaps because of Arthuria's powerful attack, Victoria's foothold floor was destroyed to form a crater, but Victoria did not budge from its place at all.

"I knew Victoria's sister was very strong, but I didn't expect it to be this strong."

In contrast to Charlmilia who looked amazed, Laila observed full of concentration. The same goes for Knox and Jinn.

After the attack was successfully restrained, Arthuria attacked with a sword technique. Not only using fast techniques, but also sharp and eyeing the vital parts. His movements were so fast that he looked like he had no hands.

Unfortunately, Victoria easily accepted and avoided with a movement that was no less fast and precise.

Then an unbelievable event happened. Arthuria's body was thrown backwards with quite a tremendous force.

"Whoa-what happened, I didn't see it at all."

"Dam. I didn't expect him to use my technique against chicks. This fight will be one-sided."

"Your technique? Maybe ?"

"You can say yes, but you can say no. Seeing that many could use the technique, at first glance it was very easy to learn. But not at all. You remember I once explained that the Witch Reaper is like controlling the body as it moves like a bullet. But there's something else that makes it harder."

Kuro paused for a moment, but Charlmilia's eyes said they wanted to hear her follow-up.

"In addition to a strong body, the most important thing to be able to use the Witch Reaper is a rapid brain response. You can use magic to sharpen your eyesight, but you must sometimes feel your body doesn't obey you, right? The basic technique of the Witch Reaper is to perfect that technique and create a technique that is able to manipulate the work of the brain. I called him "

"..."

A cold response to a pretty big secret.

The reason Kuro told this was because now the technique was quite widespread. Moreover, they all must have understood the principle behind the technique after seeing it a few times.

"J-so you said Victoria's sister could use ?"

Kuro nodded.

"The technique not only makes the brain respond to body movements, but also makes what is felt by the five senses faster and sharper. But the biggest effect is as if time is slow. For example, when I look at Laila's underwear for only 1 second, but in my eyes I can see it for 1000 seconds. Do you understand?"

"Yes. I-i understand. I understand you're a pervert, Kuro."

Charlmilia's face flushed red while covering her skirt which was arguably quite short.

"Kuro, I told you not to talk about things like that in front of Lic."

"I'm sorry, I'm just setting an example."

Laila's cold aura and pressure disappeared as if an illusion.

"...but if it's true, doesn't that mean any attack won't work on Victoria's sister?"

What Charlmilia said was like a prayer for Arthuria to lose, but reality happened like that.

Every time Arthuria attacked, everything was successfully restrained and avoided properly. Then when the opportunity arose, Victoria counterattacked.

"You're right, but that's not the only reason why the chick still can't touch Victoria. The difference in weapon range and experience of using Magic Arm were both quite large."

Longinus' spear form has a greater range than Arthuria's sword. Then coupled with the experience of Victoria who fought using Magic Arm since childhood made it have an attack technique that is arguably perfect.

"Ah.. Could this be related to Arthuria who is a Contractor type?"

Once again Kuro nodded.

"You'll probably be able to use Magic Arm when you become a Master rank magician. But you won't know what kind of Magic Arm you have. To overcome this, usually a contractor magician chooses to practice to be able to use various weapons. That's a pretty good move. After all, having the basic techniques of each weapon was a useful thing when it could become a Master. Unfortunately, doing so was also arguably a careless act."

"Kuro, what do you mean?"

"What I'm saying is, being able to use a variety of weapons won't make you win against a one-armed specialist. Do you understand?"

The superiority of this fight was not only because Victoria could use the Kuro technique, but also because she was a User-type magician who had used one type of weapon since childhood. Then combined with the techniques, arguably the current Victoria is invincible.

"But that doesn't mean I said the chick would lose. What I mean is that using a sword technique alone will never be able to defeat Victoria. Their level is too far."

As a person who fought, Arthuria understood that what Kuro said was indeed true. But that doesn't mean he has to use magic in this fight. Using magic against the user of the sacred element was arguably tantamount to suicide.

Especially if the witch is Victoria.

His experience in a duel with Victoria proved that the magic power of her holy fire could survive the sacred elements, but it was not strong enough to deliver a major attack. This also happened during the fight with Maria.

Armed with experience after losing to Victoria a few years ago and experience while traveling the world makes Arthuria think this time she can beat Victoria.

But that's a naive thought.

Just like her, Victoria was also getting stronger as time went on. But he must admit that Victoria's development is too fast.

When compared to before, right now he should be able to land one attack. It doesn't matter if it's just a little scratch on Victorian whites. But at the moment he has not been able to make an impact at all.

How strong is Victoria?

Arthuria was scared, yet at the same time she felt excited. His hands trembled and he smiled as he found something very interesting and was impatient to continue the fight.

But fighting without strategy will only make him lose and embarrassed. He had to think hard and use everything he had to fight Victoria.

In other words

"It seems like he's played enough. You agree?"

"Yes. I think the warm-up is enough to get here."

The previous battle was only to gauge the extent to which their strength had developed after several years of not fighting. And the results were quite satisfying for both of them.

"But before that, may I ask you one thing?"

"certain."

"Is your chest getting bigger?"

"..."

Victoria was silent. He was surprised to find that Arthuria would ask him something sexual.

Meanwhile, in the audience seats.

"Please call Leon. I wanted to ask what he taught his son so he dared to ask about the size of his chest to a girl. Moreover, that girl is my daughter."

Adjutant Sei nodded then left his place.

Back to the dueling arena.

The atmosphere around Victoria suddenly became heavy. Not only that, Victoria's mana pressure also increased rapidly.

However, Arthuria was not at all surprised and seemed to remain calm. Victoria's reaction was reasonable, however.

"Silverfufu... Looks like you still have feelings for me. Didn't I tell you that I'm not interested in a man weaker than I am?"

The heavy pressure from Victoria quickly changed with the warm pressure.

"I don't hate people like you. But fine. I'll let you get engaged to me again if you win this fight."

"..thank you, Vic."

Victoria's face flushed in embarrassment from being called by a beloved nickname.

"Don't be happy just yet. It happens if you win. Oh yeah, I'll tell you one thing. Right now I already have my ideal husband, so I will defeat you by exerting all my strength."

Hearing that Arthuria smiled, but in her heart she was so upset that she did not expect Victoria to have a target. And I don't know why he knows who he means.

"I don't know if you hate me or like me. But I accept those conditions. One more thing, who do you mean by your ideal husband?"

"That's a secret."

With a blink of one eye, Victoria showed an invisible smile from a fighting maniac. This is what makes Arthuria love Victoria.

"Then I have to force you."

"Try it if you can."

The two smiled and put up the horse they were most good at. Surprisingly, Arthuria mounted a horse in a position ready to draw a sword.

"..."

No matter how you look at it, it's a strange horse. Magic Arm Arthuria, Excaliburn is a two-sided sword that has no sheath. In fact, you could say it was not a type of weapon suitable for using techniques that relied on speed.

But Victoria knew. What Arthuria did was not strange.

And his guess was right when a huge mana pressure came out of Arthuria's body. Then slowly the pressure where it gathered at one point, namely the sword of Arthuria.

Arthuria's position makes it easy to guess that she will fire a magic bullet attack.

"Oh.. That attack is what you're gonna do. Such an attack would not work on me."

Victoria was very confident. Arthuria's attack won't work on him because it's made of magic. Although it could not wipe out completely, it could reduce the attack power by half.

Then if he can't reduce the power of Arthuria's attack, he'll simply dodge.

But a big smile appeared on Arthuria's lips.

"Eitherway. But one thing you should know. I travel the world not just to walk."

Luminous excaliburn. It then shattered into dozens of pieces except for the hilt of his sword.

"W-what are you doing?"

Victoria had a bad feeling. What Arthuria did was very unnatural.

"This is just one of my strongest techniques right now. Burst Fragments "

A flash struck Victoria's body. Then what is seen is Victoria's body bounced and some parts of her clothes torn with incision marks.

But it wasn't a fatal attack because Victoria didn't look badly hurt.

"Kuh's.. What's going on?"

Victoria landed and prepared to dart towards Arthuria. But once again a flash struck and his body bounced again. This time it was harder than before.

"Tch!?"

In the air Victoria tried to figure it out using the Brain Burst technique. But once again what he received was something sharp had slashed at his body. If he had not used defense magic and body strengthening magic, he might have fainted from a powerful and deadly attack by now.

Not knowing what was happening, he ended up using all the detection magic he had.

In the time of Brain Burst, he felt an unnatural energy from the direction of Arthuria. Using limited opportunities, he tried to survive by using Longinus.

Decision's right. A loud clashing sound rang out and even Longinus cracked in the right part was hit by the attack.

"Damn!!"

Victoria eventually chooses to use everything she has to fight Arthuria's attack.

""

A ball-shaped defensive wall appeared around him. Then once again a loud impact was heard, but the ball was reflecting off the attack.

Victoria finally saw what happened.

"It seems the ball is getting harder."

The magic Victoria used was her strongest protective magic. With holy elemental magic, he created a space made of levels where the holy element was thick. Any attack made of magic will not be able to penetrate it. Unfortunately, that was before. Now the ball is even able to withstand attacks that are not of magic.

"It's been a long time since I've seen your face with such an expression. I guess, I want to see you smile, Vic."

"..."

Although desperate, Victoria showed a big smile. He felt happy that he was finally able to enjoy the fight that made his blood boil.

"But don't think I have no way of handling the ball. Burst Fragments "

Once again a flash was seen and in an instant a loud clashing sound was heard from the ball protecting Victoria.

Tubun Victoria once again bounced back. Then upon rising, blood spots emerged from Victoria's shoulder along with the shattered part of the ball.

"You do have a strong defense, but in return you have trouble attacking. Are you sure you're not giving up?"

"...of course not. But I'm really surprised that you're capable of using such a technique. 'cause right?"

Arthuria smiled.

"yeah. There is no point in meeting all kinds of people around the world. And of course the opportunity to learn new techniques from real Masters."

Excaliburn stopped shining and showed a new form. It was a red katana mixed with a golden fire pattern.

"Unfortunately in order to use all those techniques I have to change my Magic Arm. It's hard, but I think it's worth the result, I'm wrong?"

"No. Youre right. And it made me have to change my view of you. Arthur, you're strong."

"Thank you."

"Therefore I will also repay your hard work with my true strength. This time it was my turn to attack."

"Strike whenever you want."

The magic pressure both increased and at the same time became a sign the fight had entered the second round.

Meanwhile, on the bench the audience is now silent because they see something unexpected.

"The fuck. I can't believe he studied with Master Musashi. I think I should also reassess who the chick is. No, rather than a chick, he's more suited to being called an eagle."

"At last you acknowledged my brother's power? But who is Master Musashi? Oh.. Lic, it looks like you're also interested in this fight."

Lic looked on with great concentration. He could see everything with his eyes.

"He is the leader of the sword arts . The stream was more focused on the one slash technique. The technique used by the eagle is one of them. But I was quite surprised when he was able to use it to that extent."

"Kuro, can you see it?"

The reason why Charlmilia asked was because she did not see Arthuria's movements at all. Just like Victoria, when she saw a small flash, Victoria suddenly bounced away and was injured.

"Nobody can escape my eyes. But to make the explanation easier. Well.. You see, it can speed up the work of the brain up to 1000 times faster. But the speed of the eagle's technique was twice as fast. In other words, he executed the technique within 0.0005 seconds. If I were to accept the attack, I would still have a chance to dodge, but Victoria couldn't possibly. If you look at the fight, the eagle seems to have also managed to modify the technique to become a very deadly attack. If it wasn't Victoria, I don't think anyone could have survived an attack like that."

"..."

"..."

Kuro's explanation left the two unable to say a word. What Arthuria did was more like the power of a monster.

But even more surprising is the fact that Victoria is still doing well to receive such a devastating attack. No doubt he's a monster too.

Although often faced with an impossible fight to win, this time they have to admit that the level of the second fight is no less high. No, maybe higher.

"I get it, but they're still not serious, are they?"

Charlmilia was sweating coldly. Not only him, Knox and Jinn could not even say a word because the fight reached a level they did not understand.

Right now the question that pops into their heads is, are they really human?

"yeah. But it's a pity that you're wrong to think that eagle will use Dragon Phoenix Gear. It would only hurt."

"Eh? Why?"

"That's because Longinus is a Magic Arm that has the power to kill Gods. Dragon Gear which is the embodiment of the divine divine blessing will be like paper. Besides, do you think the eagle has time to use it?"

"..."

If you recall how long Arthuria had prepared the Dragon Phoenix Gear against Maria, the current conditions were impossible to do that. It was the same as telling Victoria to attack her.

"So from the beginning of the choice of brother was to fight using the sword technique he mastered while circumnavigating the world. I didn't think she'd work this hard to get Victoria's heart"

"I understand how he feels. If it was in his position, I would probably do the same. No. gabe. Doing so far as to change the Magic Arm something done by a desperate person. Even so, I admit she's cool."

"ahahahahah.. I didn't expect you to praise my brother."

"I won't do it twice. Well.. If he gives an interesting spectacle, I'd gladly praise him."

The fight continues. This time it was a close combat. This happened because after announcing himself to be serious, Victoria immediately shot towards Arthuria.

Arthuria understands that Victoria is aware of the weaknesses of both techniques she uses. Both techniques were not techniques that could be used at close range.

After a few seconds of fighting, Arthuria was overwhelmed. It happened because Victoria's movement was getting faster so she couldn't keep up.

(It's the same as it used to be. He will get stronger if his opponent gets stronger.)

Victoria is the type of person who gets stronger while fighting. Long-term combat is not an option.

But that doesn't mean Arthuria doesn't have a chance.

""

"!?"

Unfortunately, that opportunity has been lost.

When Victoria activates her magic, Arthuria's powers disappear like they've been sucked into something. Even Excaliburn slowly disappeared into particles which then flew towards Victoria.

"Don't tell me..."

Upon realizing what had happened, Victoria's spearhead had already stuck to her neck.

"Absolutely. This is a magic that allows me to eliminate magic within a 3 meter radius. And not only that, I can turn it into my own magic energy and absorb it. You know what that means? This way I'll never run out of mana and can keep fighting."

"..."

The power disappears from Arthuria. He even currently only had enough energy to stand up and speak.

"I know you're planning on using the opportunity when I'm receiving side effects from Brain Burst, after all you know I like learning new techniques from my opponents. I'm glad someone understands me."

Victoria showed a genuine smile.

"But you should also know that I am the type of person who seeks to create a new Magic Art like this. So now all I can say is that you've tried hard and honestly I'm surprised that you managed to force me to use the techniques I saved to deal with someone."

It was then that Kuro's eyes and Victoria's eyes met. But then Victoria glanced at Laila.

"You really don't have pity."

"What's that? I'm just trying to calm this fight down as soon as possible. But I hope you don't give up on getting my heart, after all I like people who work hard."

Victoria's words gave Arthuria hope.

"But you have to hurry, if I win in the upcoming Battle War, I'll get married."

"..."

Arthuria has lost.