Chapter 105

Chapter 105

RATH 105

TL: Eevee

12. Its not over til its over (3)

#5 Their story: Risen de Roas story.

When the light in the sky began to die down, I said yet another lie.

-You nuts?

-Im probably not going to die peacefully anyway?

I sold out Lady Aris.

But the number of girls I had sacrificed to kill Nerkia wasnt just a few.

I pulled in a margrave House, and a marquis at that.

One of the Ten Great Families was no big deal.

-Getting ripped apart limb from limb is already a given for me right now, so would I really survive if I got a few different bits torn off instead?

-Kah, you were already the most insane of all my contractors to date, and yet you surpass that title and go even further beyond! I can only respect you for it!

Wow, I got a gods respect.

But seeing as Id gone this far.

Its not going to fail, right?

As if to respond to me words, the mass of light got bigger again as it shattered the magic barriers and plunged to the ground.

-But, how are you going to dodge?

-Its alright, I set it up so that they at least wouldnt die even if they were hit.

It was an attack that contained the power of all the elementals we had.

An attack composed of every element, an attack that was superior to any other element.

If wed wanted to we could have made that attack vaporise someones very existence, but we could not let off Nerkia, the traitor of the academy and the enemy of men, that easily.

So he was to be taken alive at all costs.

And after we dragged him in, to pay for the sins of betraying the academy, we would turn him over to the silver devil.

We would make him face the thing that we knew was more fearsome than death!

-But controlling that move to be non-lethal wont be easy?

-Well, of course it wont.

Controlling magic power the way you want it to is a very difficult thing.

Imagining killing someone is very simple.

But imagining an attack that would decimate the someone yet leave them alive is very difficult.

Unless you were a master torturer, how many people knew the exact limit of the human body?

Moreover, that was a grand spell made by a hundred people.

Common sense dictated that an organisation where all one hundred exactly knew the said limits shouldnt exist in the empire, no, the entire continent.

-But we experienced it personally getting hit by the silver devil!

-Kah, incredible, Yugrasia! Even that became education!

Every day we tasted incredible pain.

A pain to surpass death.

But we did not die.

On the contrary, our bodies were healed to the point where they felt lighter the next day.

But, it hurts.

It hurts so much it felt like wed die.

And it was a very simple thing for one hundred people who had experienced that to imagine the sensation where people would just avoid death.

Because all they had to do was remember what had been their daily life!

Gaaaaahhhh!

Kyaaaah!

Run, run away!

Where? Where the hell are we supposed to run away from that!

I heard the screams of pain begin from down below.

As the slowly descending Elemental Roar began to engulf the castle walls, casualties had begun to emerge.

This is going to hurt.

But I had to endure.

In order to catch that asshole Nerkia.

-You not gonna put up a shield?

-You cant defend against the silver devil.

You cant dodge it, either.

So that attack which was invoked in the image of the silver devil would be unblockable.

Letting yourself get hit and waking up quicker would be the best case scenario.

Thankfully, even outside of those hundred, twelve more people were waiting outside the blast radius on standby.

Well, theyll get the job done, right?

I closed my eyes and waited for a peaceful rest not, but the pain to hit.

And an attack that felt far too weak compared to the siler devils attack rattled my entire body.

Ugh

How much time had passed?

I felt my consciousness returning.

Was this still Arucias main base?

Or was this the healers tents?

You alright, vice-pres?

On the top of the flagpole which had the flag that symbolised Arucia, a very ragged Risen had been tied up.

[This man is a bullshitting liar.]

Just what the heck did you do

Do you want to know, president?

Kk?!

The moment I heard someone speak, a sword swept through the space where my neck had been moments ago.

An ambush? Was that Risen fake as well?

You seem surprised, president. But no, that isnt a fake. Simply the true fate of one bullshitting liar.

Shhing.

With one sword in her right hand already, with her left hand she drew a second sword from a scabbard on her back.

Now then, I shall be displaying the fate of a traitor right beside him, president!

O King!

Sword aura blazed on her twin swords.

Instead of the spear she normally used, she had brought out her original specialty, dual-wielding swords.

There were two reasons why Lady Aris had used a spear instead of her favourite dual swords.

The first was to distance herself from the silver devil as much as possible, and the second was to reduce her mana consumption as far as she could.

Forming sword aura on the tip of a spear required far less magic power than forming it down the entire length of a sword.

Lady Aris had originally trained for a drawn-out fight to defeat a god and a Spirit King after fighting through countless teachers.

The fact that she had pulled out her dual swords meant that she was not going to be spending too much time on me.

In that case, I also needed to use my full power to defeat her.

Roar, thunder. Run rampant, tempest!

I added the power of a highest-rank wind elemental to the power of the Lightning Spirit King.

The sheer power behind that move was beyond imagination.

Officially, there were only five people in the Karuan Empire that had contracted a highest-rank elemental.

Just having a contract with one meant that the Empire would give you the title of viscount.

That was how much power a highest-rank elemental had.

And the power of a King was added to that.

This was a power that wouldnt lose to sword aura, on the contrary, it was even stronger than sword aura in dealing with multiple enemies.

Haahhhhhh!

Although using it on a newly enrolled first year girl had an extremely poor sound to it from that description alone.

Just, that much!

The enemy was a genius who had broken the record of the empires youngest swordsmaster.

And she even had the talent to generate sword aura on not just her main weapon of the sword, but a spear as well.

If I took her as just a small girl, my defeat was all but certain.

Flames of the beginning. The origin of life, water. The eternally free wind. The earth that embraces all.

As the lightning and wind collided with the sword aura, I prepared my next spell.

Fire, water, earth and wind.

I drew on the power of what was called the four base elements, and fused them together.

Combining the power of multiple different elements was something only I could do in Yugrasia, or for that matter, very few summoners could do at all.

Because I could do it, I was called the Elemental Army.

Elemental Burst.

As Lady Aris cut down the lightning-infused tempest and charged in, I fired my strongest attack of the power of four highest-rank elementals.

Burn, flames of the apocalypse.

And a massive shockwave rocked the arena!

The attack containing the power of four different elementals collided with a powerful burst of fire!

Huh? Fire?

What!

Lady Aris was a swordsmaster and a god-class summoner.

But her summon is the goddess of wisdom and war, Athena.

She had nothing to do with fire.

But a white fire had blocked my attack.

It was a white flame, one of the two flames that surpassed crimson and blue flames, white and black.

Why?

As the Elemental Burst and the white flames died down, what appeared was Lady Aris, and.

Why is Lady Nermia over there?

Marciss Lady Nermia, who Id thought was my strongest ally.

The same as you, President of Yugrasia. Just like you I have a reason why Yugrasia must win.

Lady Nermia brandished her flame sword at me with a serious expression.

Beside her, Lady Aris pointed her dual blades imbued with sword aura at me.

And.

Sinner, Nerkia.

Men draped in black clothes suddenly appeared around me.

Judgement has been passed. Your sentence is.

The surroundings of almost a hundred people draped in black robes made by Reedan flashed as they summoned their elementals.

-Death.

It seems, theres no way for me to live.