Book 2: Chapter 14-2: Hero

Book 2: Chapter 14-2: Hero

Kuus eyes opened wide as she raised her hands before her and flames erupted from them.

The flames raged with such intensity that they started to turn white. They transitioned from red to blue and then to white. They radiated outwards and spread to leave no possibility of escape.

It was plain to anyone that these were nearly impossible to avoid and would burn their target to ash without even leaving bones. Even so the girl merely smiled and dashed towards them before instantly leaping high into the air over the flames.

She flipped once and brandished her sword.

I quickly kicked Kuu aside. I felt bad for her, but I didnt have the time to nicely carry her out of harms way.

Kyaa!

Then the girls sword cut through the space where Kuu had been only a moment before.

So you avoided those flames hmm?

I gave a sidelong glance and checked what magic she was using. She had been using Body Enhancement alone.

If instead of kicking Kuu out of the way I had instead placed a magical defense then she would have pierced straight through it. Her magic power was great enough that she could achieve such a thing.

That she hadnt even twitched showed that it was most likely that she had simply utilized Body Enhancement to increase her strength or firmness. Such magic was much lower in difficulty than an overall Body Enhancement. for new novels

Kicking a girl asidehow brutish~. What would you do if you left a scar?

At that time I would simply take responsibility.

You still have the leeway to joke around I see. Even though youre just a guy who chats up a girl like me to buy time~

Thanks to that my ankle is all healed up. If youd give me a bit more time my broken arm would be fixed too. How about giving me 2 more minutes to get it fixed?

Thats no good. Somehowyoure weak, but I get a bad feeling about it.

She leapt at me full force before she even finished her words.

Just by watching her movements up until now I understood. She was several times stronger than me. Her internal magical power, her ability to emit magical power, and her pure physical abilities were far and away superior to my own.

With Samsara Recursion I could definitely call a me that was stronger than her. However, it had not been 12 hours since I invoked my partial activation back in the city. I would end up injuring my soul.

Furthermore, Samsara Recursion would take at least 20 seconds of uninterrupted and concentrated spell casting to get things just right.

Well, I wouldnt limit myself like that. Im confident I have a weapon that can injure you at least.

In that case just hurry up and show it off.

Feeling frustration at being unable to cut me down she made a very large swing. As I had thought, this girl has a short temper. Rather than saying her sword skill was immature I would rather say that it was just like a kid swinging a sword randomly.

Thanks to her overwhelming physical abilities she had never had a hard fight where this was a disadvantage. For her it had never been necessary to learn proper swordsmanship.

There was no way I wouldnt be able to capture such an opening. I locked swords and forced her sword to slam into the ground.

It was a replay of what had happened earlier.

Shi!

However, this time the predator and prey were reversed. I activated the oscillating cutting edge on my blade and enhanced the hardness of the knife. I used my left arm to take that blade and stab straight towards her face.

A high pitched screeching erupted and the sound of a hard object getting shaved down echoed out.

It was just that, her skin was not shaved down, it was the high performance knife. The hardness had been raised to a degree where the surface of the blade itself had been worn down.

Furthermore I had used the entire strength of my body to stab it in. It was slight, but she had been hit. For just a moment I had felt the sensation of stabbing my knife into a hard wall and her head rocked back slightly.

She recovered her stance and took some distance.

That was your trump card? How disappointing

Not necessarily. Its enough. Three things I have set up to lead me to victory. The first is your cheek. It was only a scratch but I did wound you.

It was a mere drop, but she had bled. Using my full enhanced physical power and an oscillating knife I was able to draw a single drop of blood..thinking of it like that left bitter feelings, but that let me learn that she wasnt using a proper general defense. She was using her magic to harden her skin.

This kind of woundlook its already healed.

It was probably the power of Self-Healing Enhancement. Her wound closed quickly.

The second thing. When I stabbed the knife in, your neck bent.

This was another piece of important information. If she had set up a magical wall type of spell then such a thing would have hardened the space around her head. No matter how hard I pushed in the knife her neck wouldnt have budged an inch.

This was proof positive that what she was doing was a simple strengthening of her body through magic.

Then the third thingwas the powder like shavings that had come from my knife being worn down in the attack. I had secretly gathered those in my pocket.