126 - - 124. After the 3rd Battle of the Stadium~

Homura: I'm home!

Kikuhime: Welcome back, Dosu-sama!

Ochazuke: Welcome back, Dosu-sama!

Leo: Congratulations, Dos! Wahahaha!

Homura: Bust!

Homura: You're a bad listener!

Chrysanthemum Princess: Oh, Shin looks in pain!

Ochazuke: Let's see.

Homura: Through and through!

I came back after winning the second round and this is what I got.

Terrible.

<>

Even White went through with it!

I serve tea as you said, while I play around with the white. You ...... have a nice touch!

The hair on the belly is soft and the belly is also soft, making it stress-free and soft. The chest is fluffy with magnificent chest hairs, even the fingers can reach the body!　I want to bury my face in this belly and chest someday.

I was a bit torn between Peter and Shin, but Kikuhime's words "looks like it hurts" made me mirror Shin's game.

The individual matches went a little faster than the party matches. This is because the matches between parties that focus on recovery and defense are inevitably more prolonged.

Shin's opponent seems to be a swordsman, who is stepping on the spot as if looking for an opening, while Shin is holding his sword perpendicularly on the left side of his face, and is slowly making his way to the ring with his sliding feet. As Kikuhime said, Shin's H! is decreasing. It seems that his opponent is also decreasing, but more than Shin. They seem to be taking life-activating medicine, and their gauges are slowly recovering, but it looks as if they are in danger of being hit by each other's painful skills.

LEO: Why don't they just take the medicine?

Homura: They're going to slash at you while you're taking it, aren't they?

Ochazuke: It seems like they won't let us get a good look at them!

Kikuhime: But he's recovering.

Homura: Do you think they will set up before they recover?

Ochazuke: The opponent is slowly recovering.

Kikuhime: Is Shin recovering better?

Ochazuke: H! I guess they can recover more than the magic swordsman.

Homura: I'm not sure if my H! Homura: If my H!

Ochazuke: If Shin recovers more than Shin, it would be bad.

Homura: But that stance is not curved like a sword, and it looks like it would be hard to swing down.

Peter: It's a nice look, but the sword seems to be too tight against your body.

Kikuhime: Welcome back!

Leo: Welcome back!

Homura: Is it over?

Ochazuke: Okakaoka, how did you win?

Peter: I won!

Homura: Congratulations!

Kikuhime: Congratulations, sir!

Leo: Good for you!

Ochazuke: Good job!

Peter: Thank you, W.

The swordsman shouts something - probably the name of his skill - and closes the gap at once. Before he can close the gap, a lightning bolt follows the sword and reaches Shin.

The sword is swung at Shin at once, and the lightning reaches him. gauge is depleted.

Homura: Whoa, what is it?

Peter: Homura, that's what you call a magic swordsman, isn't it?

Ochazuke: Swordsman beginning?　A very, very ordinary magical swordsman.

Chrysanthemum Princess: Lightning is rare, but common!

Leo: I want at least a voice for the name of the technique!

Homura: That's the magic swordsman ......

Ochazuke: You are not like some magic de swordsman!

Homura: I feel like I'm being dissed!

Peter: It's faster than normal magic, so it's hard to avoid.

Chrysanthemum Princess: If you start out as a swordsman, you will be able to use the M! I can't use a lot of it because I don't have enough M!

Leo: Bari-bari!

Kikuhime: Hey, Leo, you're spilling it!

At any rate, that one seems to be the standard magic swordsman. While I'm wandering around here and there solo, everyone else is making good progress, but I seem to be missing something.

Ideally, a magic swordsman should use both sword and magic to inflict damage, but it seems to be possible to hit only with magic, as Shin's opponent just did. It is faster than activating magic normally.

Wind, Lightning, and Light are not so fast, but there is a little lag between the activation of the magic and the appearance of the effect and the landing of the hit. It is possible to get close to the sword and cast a 0-distance unarmed spell, but it is faster to cast a spell that is already in the sword if the distance is the same. However, the power of the magic itself is said to be reduced. I'd like to try it out by using enchantments and seriously applying my magic swordsman skills. I don't have skill points though!

What is Leo eating, anyway?

Oatmeal: M! I think I'll have to think about distribution and either put on weak magic all the time to raise the normal damage or combine strong magic and skills like he does now and use it as a special move.

Homura: Mage Beginning is (M!?) in that respect. Don't worry about it.

Peter: Starting mages usually have low AGI (too slow) and are fatal to melee attackers.

Ochazuke: If you're a fixed gunner, you're just a wizard as it is.

Kikuhime: If you become a magic swordsman and then level up more and more, won't your status slacken?

Ochazuke: I think it's hard because it doesn't go up after 30.

Peter: Well, if you don't give up, you'll be a great success.　Most of them give up and go back to being wizards.

Ochazuke: It seems that many people are wary of long-range physics, so they just take a small shield and go back.

Leo: Bari Bari Bari Paririri

Peter: But still, that would have been a decisive decision if you had hit him with the sword as well as the magic!

Ochazuke: He's fighting back now, but he just lost his combo, and I'm not sure if Shin will be able to do the same.

Shin is now counterattacking, not missing the opportunity created by the use of the magic sword, or rather, by swinging off the tip of the sword, which is out of reach. In other words, he gave up on hitting the magic sword and went straight into it, and the few remaining dangers of the H! The correct answer is that he gave up on hitting the magic and went straight into it, connecting the attack with only a few remaining dangerous H!

The effect of the wind that seems to rise up around Shin's body gets bigger and darker as he connects four, five, and more combos. In the past, only 3 combos were possible! But he has increased the number of techniques that he can use, and he has also increased the number of E! He seems to be researching how to increase his firepower now that he has learned the combo of recovering the gauge.

She slips past her opponent's attacks after she has regained her stance by combining an evasion combo.

Chrysanthemum Princess: I think I can do it!

Peter: Oh!

Leo: YEAK!!!!!!!

Phoenix Flame Fist] that can be activated after the 10th combo of Makenshi Shin.

Flames burst from his fist and flutter in the air, wrapping around his arm like a tail.

When the fist is slammed into the fencer's dove tail, a flaming effect is produced, and before the effect disappears, the fencer turns into a particle of light and disappears.

Shin wins the game by landing his attack exactly on time.

Shin: Yay!　My fire polyp is on fire!

Ochazuke: Oomeyomeyome!

Kikuhime: You were so cool. Just now.

LEO: Good job! That was a last minute comeback!

Homura: Congratulations! The big move from the slip-through was cool.

Peter: Congratulations!

Shin: Hehe, I knew my opponent couldn't use his next move after he used a big move, so I was lucky to be able to match him.

Ochazuke: At any rate, congratulations to all three of you for making it through to the second round!

Shin: Oh, you guys won too!　Congratulations!

Peter: There's a "W" in there.

Homura: Thank you.

The group plays a few games, chatting in between. The number of matches is quite large due to the large number of participants, and the waiting time is long. During the game, I chose < for [feng shui], and it turned out to be quite a hellscape, but I decided not to worry about it.

But I don't care about that. It is lonely to be alone in the box seat (here).

Leo: Akita!

Peter: It's a long wait. I can enjoy the games of people I know.

Homura: I'm not interested in people I don't know.

Shin: I want a training ground!

Ochazuke: You guys are always doing things like killing in the blink of an eye, or letting the flesh cut off the bones, and the game time is too short!

Shin: When the opponent has recovery, it's too slow!

Homura: There's already a gap of one round between the party game (this one) and the individual game (that one).

Kikuhime: It's in the card game arena menu.

Leo: I do!

That's it, there were quite a few board games, card games, etc. What are you guys doing here? You might say.

Here, too, the game is thoroughly played for shills. If you win a series of games, you receive not only your opponent's wager but also a small item provided by the arena, and the arena pays you 5% of your total wager for each game. The games that can be selected from the arena menu can be played in the arena from a distance as if they were online games, but there is also a casino attached to the arena, which has a room dedicated to card and board games, where you can play them face-to-face.

As well as the spectator seats, you can also kill time in the casino, as you will be called out when it is your turn to play. The other members and I have agreed not to tell him until he realizes it.

Well, even in a normal game, the management will do whatever it takes to recover the money that the player has, Peter says. It's a harsh world, but it's a good thing that in this world the money is used for infrastructures and so on. Thanks to this, taxes on ordinary Fagats are supposed to be low!　...... Adventurers also have to pay taxes when they settle down, it's a hard world.

And so to the quarterfinals, Peter is still left as an individual. Unfortunately, Shin got burned out by the magic swordsman and lost the next match. The magic swordsman seemed to be stronger than Shin, but I guess it's just a matter of chemistry.

The groups I'm in are: Black Lily with a party I don't know, Kronos with Roy's party, and Fire King with a party I don't know.

Homura: I was betting on Roy and the Flame King!

Peter: In the quarterfinals, we don't go up in the same block, and the pairings are drawn again.

Ochazuke: You should have bet on yourself.

Homura: Such a barren . Besides, it's no fun to bet on a one-sided match.

Kikuhime: You were aware that it was one-sided.

Homura: I thought it was a little strange.

Shin: A little bit?

Homura: When I look at people like Shin, I feel like I'm relying on my equipment and skills.

I don't think in the real world that the price of effort leads to strength, which is noble but always rewarding, but here it is quite rewarding. I'd like to spend a little more time training with Cal, Shin makes me feel that hard work is not so bad. The results of the training have not been utilized at all so far, or rather, they have not come into play yet.

Peter: Homura is also doing things like slaying 500 animals and holding one-man bullfighting contests, isn't he?

Homura: It's a hobby.

Leo: Awww!　

Chrysanthemum Princess: You have terrible taste!

Ochazuke: I remember that Homura was a hamster who liked to twirl.

Shin: I'd rather actually go out there and fight than try to figure out a strategy!

Basically, I only do what I want to do.

Just like a hamster spinning a wheel, if there are enemies, you want to beat them, and if there is a dungeon, you have to keep diving until you find the item you are looking for!

In my case, items are not rare, and I have been beating the same boss for a long time to get items that were already sold at a low price because I had "never picked them up before.

To be more specific, I spent five days in the same room because I wanted to get a <> in a game I used to play. My friend gave me the cushion, but I didn't want it!　and threw it back. I mean, it took five of them to fill up my room with <. In return, I gave them a rare drop of the boss's head ornament and put it at the entrance of each room. I remember that the heads were sold at a high price, but they were terrorized and sent to the rooms of my friends. But in the end, there were ten of them and they were all gathered in Ochazuke's room.

I was thinking about this when the time came for the match.

Oh, am I missing the match between Roy and the Flame King?　I think as I am transferred to the stage, enveloped in the familiar white light.

Lengard vs.

◇Ready

The first time I saw a man who was not a member of the club, I thought to myself, "What the hell is this?

Feng Shui"

Without confirming the opponent, I did a few tricks as soon as the game started. Since there is no White, I have to do it myself.

"Oops!　It's so dull!"

A swordsman with a large shield and pale green hair shouts, "Pale is the color, not the top of your head.

"I'm lucky."

A loli wizard holding a wand in a hand half-hidden in a long sleeve.

"The limits of N!?

A masculine loli martial artist with orange hair and a masculine way of speaking, what is N!?C?

"Careful, this one will take your foot off the gas!"

A bandit with cat ears and long black hair with only the ends curled loosely.

Two others were mute, a blonde-haired Elflora, a big-breasted priest, and a pink-haired wizard. The priest is preparing a recovery spell even though he hasn't been hit yet.

This party is full of Lolita, and which one of them is Amaterasu?

"Speed is priority, soooo!　<"

He chants spells in a lisping manner and unleashes his initial magic. Since more than ten fire needles appear, it is likely that he can use high-level [fire magic].

"What!"

"Even though it's a Needle, I'm putting Marin's INT on it. ......

"No damage?

"Disabled!"

As soon as I heard "Fire Needle," I had no intention of avoiding it. I am more resistant to fire than I was when I played with Horus, equipped with and . It is not good to shout out the name of the skill. Once you get used to imagining the name of the skill, you should make it a habit to invoke it silently when you are soloing. On the other hand, in a party, it will be inconvenient if you don't know each other's actions, so you should try to say the names of your skills even if they are not necessary.

And for now, speed is more important than avoidance.

I immediately and silently invoke [Lightning Magic] < x3.

<, but it is too deep.

Feng Shui has , but it is also too deep.

It is too deep to reach.

Ice is a poor conductor.

< is just right.

The spear of the god of thunder descends from the sky, pierces through the opponent, and goes straight to the floor where the puddle is. The water struck by the lightning returns the lightning once more to the one immersed in the water. Damage is doubled!　Something like that.

I had expected more damage, but I did not expect the tingling electric current running on the surface of the water and the lightning bolts shooting sideways between people.

Lengard WIN!

Sorry, I want to see Roy vs. the Flame King.