171-165 Brod vs Lionel

When I woke up first, I started making breakfast for everyone, just like yesterday.

After capturing the thirty levels yesterday, we and the five of us, except for Master and Lionel, were going to have a physical training session called a mock battle.

It was actually a game of tag where we had to avoid Lydia releasing spirit magic from the outside and do something like the anomalous aikido riai, where we could grab with the remaining four, but not be grabbed for more than three seconds.

The riai is one in which you don't resist the opponent, but move yourself in the direction of the pull, throwing the opponent off balance, but while doing this, you have to avoid and sometimes throw away to avoid being caught by the four demons, and it was a very intensive one in which you had to react to the opponent's movements and the magic from the outside.

However, even if the spirit magic and body arts were thrown, it didn't hurt, so it was interesting to feel like a child again for the first time in a long time.

Well, after that, we went to the day before yesterday, it was a mock battle with the masters, so we had to use high heels to heal them, since they were like corpses except for the masters and Lionel........

After finishing breakfast, we proceeded to the forty levels, but there were some traps that I couldn't disarm, so I had to leave it to Master and Kefin.

I was on guard, but still not a single demon appeared until I reached the boss room on the 40th level.

It was Master who opened the forty level boss room.

''It doesn't matter who opens it, it will be the same. For a while, we're going to beat the demons here, level up, and train well.''

After saying that much, he quickly went inside.

If they might not be able to get out of the fifty levels, does that mean they'll be able to fight and level up here, will we finally see the two of them fighting?

The thought of that made him feel a little more excited.

The boss of the forty levels was a lion, a goat, and a giant snake with wings, a demon with wings.

In lore, I thought the chimera would spit out breath, close in and scratch and bite me, but apparently it flew through the air.

It looks like a Gryphon or Wyvern would be easier to fight anyway....

I activate area barriers on all of them for now and wait for a voice from my master.......and then I'm already rushing in.

As expected, this time it's best for all of us to get closer, so I wait for the time to recover with magic at any time while expanding my vision.

Just in case I get poisoned, Lydia has an extra magic bag on her shoulder now, just in case I don't mind being poisoned.

I don't think it's going to work on me, but snakes have poison, blitzes from goats, and lions spit fire breaths.

However, I feel that they are at a greater disadvantage than we are in a small space of 30 meters square.

Once the attack is stopped, they will have to be attacked all at once.

Well, I can't move because I don't know how my master will fight, but.......

From the side where I was thinking, Master threw another flashbang from his pocket to the chimera, and in one fell swoop, the head of the goat was flashed off.

''Recover.''

I immediately activated my magic on my master.

It seems that the poisonous snake that is the tail had no effect at the moment of the flash, because I could see it bite me.

Anyway, where did he get that flashbulb.......it's useful, so I want it too.

When I was vaguely checking the battle situation, Lionel wielded his great sword of fire and was about to release a ball of flame.

Flames at an opponent that spits flames?

With my doubts as an afterthought, the lion sucked in the high-speed ball of fire Lionel released as it was, and just as he was about to breathe out a breath of flame, his head was dropped by the master who appeared behind him and exploded.

Lionel, who released the fireball just to turn the lion's consciousness towards us, and Master, who took advantage of it to drop the lion's head.

The perfect coordination was reminiscent of the duo that had been working together for years.

The explosion that dropped the lion's head was a small one, but just in case he activated his high heel, Master stopped moving and came back to us, stopping his attack when he was only in a tail snake state.

''A little too much, but let me take down the flying viper.

Okay. Let's go, everybody.

I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but I'm sure it's a very strong monster that would kill someone if it wasn't for its current ability.

I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make the most of it. We have to fight a few more times to find out the weaknesses of the demon.

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We had to work up the nerve to eat into the back of Master and Lionel.

After a few battles, we took a break and I decided to ask Master a question.

''Master, this labyrinth has a much higher rank of demons than the labyrinth I've been diving in, do you know anything about it?''

...it's me and Lionel's fault.

What do you mean?

''It seems the demons that appear in this labyrinth change according to their levels. So when me and Lionel opened the door, strong demons came out, and when Luciel opened it, low ranked demons came out, right?

What about ... random?

'That's true. There will be demons you can easily defeat and vice versa.

''The goal is to fight a demon, raise its level, raise its status, and then use it to its fullest potential through training?''

'I'm a bit of a tightwad, Luciel. The higher your status is, the more you'll be able to see how I'm moving. Keep feeling the magic and the presence of the world as long as you can. You'll be stronger than I am.

Master laughed at that, but it was purely visible in his eyes as he watched his apprentice grow.

After spending most of the morning waking up and going to bed at the forty level, when the level had risen, Master could see his movements, and the women's cooking skills began to gradually improve, and a month had already passed, Master and Lionel were finally going to fight.

And it's a battle where everything is there, including attacking the kryptonite. Since we couldn't destroy each other's weapons, it was decided to bring out the weapons I had in stock.

We've agreed that if a weapon breaks, that's the end of the mock battle.

'Even if you have the upper hand, if the weapon breaks, it's a draw. Besides, you'll have to see it again and again to remember it, not just today, so don't lose either of us.

'If you're an apprentice, you should support your master.

It is the Lord's duty to support his followers.

'Area barrier. Alright, then let's see a real whirlwind and war demon fight.　Begin!

It was Master who set it up from the signal.

At a speed that was barely visible, the street name of the whirlwind was untrue to Lionel, who was holding up a large shield, with a high speed series of blows, upper, middle, and lower, with the occasional kick, as he struck the upper, middle, and lower levels.

What you can tell from that attack is that Master's trunk is solid, flexible and has a wide range of motion, and what's notable is that footwork.

Except for when he kicks, his feet never leave the ground, and he uses just his fingers and heels to shift all his weight... a monster.

Lionel is defending himself, but he's stopping all those flowing attacks with just a kama-itachi that happened with sword pressure.

Moreover, just when the kick is timed to be delivered by his master, he sets up a few shield bashes, and if his stance breaks down even a little bit, you can see that he's trying to slice through his arms and legs at once with the straight sword he holds to his right.

If it was a comparable opponent, he wouldn't be able to withstand that pressure and his attacks would be messy.

That was when I was thinking about it.

Lionel had created an opening, and when the hand holding the large shield went too far to the right, Master's slash attacked him.

But it was a trap, or maybe it was a trap, Lionel kicked up the shield, flicked his sword and slashed at his master while breaking his stance, and the sword pressure, which he couldn't believe he had swung off with one hand, turned into a blade of wind and sliced through his master's leg.

Master's left leg turned bright red at once, and Master leapt backwards with one foot.

''Don't do it ... war demon.''

Hm. It's not worth it.

If you look closely, you can see that the master's sword, which Lionel thought he had prevented, seemed to have reached Lionel before it hit the shield, and his left arm was red with blood.

Lionel seemed to have little strength in his left arm, and he could see that he was trembling, though he was holding his large shield.

His master was almost unable to put his left foot on the ground.

''Luciel, the slash that the war demon fired just now, but in a manner of speaking, that can be used by Omae too. Just look and feel and learn it!

The moment my master shouted that to me, the moment I thrust my left foot into the ground and swung my sword at high speed, I felt a surge of magical power.

Can the slash really make me fly?　I'm glad if that's true, but I don't have time to think about it.

In the next moment, multiple layers of slashes are heading towards Lionel.

''Don't lick it, whirlwind!

Lionel wielded his sword in the same way, but his slashes were not comparable to Master's.

Soft and stiff, light and heavy, the slashes between Master and Lionel two were superior to Lionel's.

But when Master received it with his sword, it disappeared as if it was an illusion.

And the sword that had been lent to the two of them shattered here, finishing its task.

''This match draw.''

I told him so, and then I immediately applied an extra heel to make sure he recovered.

"I'm sorry..." "Ha ha ha!

Master and Lionel looked at each other and out of either side of the room, they started laughing hysterically.

'This is bad. The attack didn't go through at all. You thought you dropped your arm, but you didn't cut it off.'

This one should have had its leg cut off too, but it wasn't.

I have no idea why it was so strange that the attack didn't go through, but both of them had a clean look on their faces.

''If Luciel is here, we can still go to the Demon Clan territory now, right?

''Luciel-sama's Holy Attribute Magic is already a treasure for mankind.

But you're right.

If Master Luciel enters the demon territory, he won't be able to survive.

Even if I'm not that disappointed, I don't originally plan to go and I have no intention of going.

Even if I receive an edict from the Pope to go, I will definitely refuse.

''Even if I don't have to say it out loud, I won't be going to the Demon Clan territory. If there is, it's only when it's safe and we have to seal it so that the demon clan can't leave the demon territory.''

And then we'll live in peace, won't we?　

With my anxiety as an afterthought, the two continued to talk about this mock battle.

"But it feels really good to give it your all.

'I'm with you on that one. I'm glad I followed Master Luciel, after all.

I wanted someone to say something to cool these battle crazies' heads, but when I looked towards everyone, I couldn't expect them to be impressed by the mock battle between the best masters of humanity.

From this day onwards, he would watch, feel and study the best of humanity's best battles, raise his level by hunting high-level demons, and under the guidance of his masters, he would continue his cultivation for another ten days to traverse the labyrinth.