Chapter 339

Chapter 339

"Woah~ Woah~ How scary."

Narrowly dodging Meilyn's attack, Millena clicked her tongue.

A section of the battlements had been frozen solid. She shook the frost off her arms and looked at Meilyn.

"Nice to meet you."

It was good manners to be courteous in front of a strong person. Millena lightly held the end of her uniform skirt and curtsied.

"Millena Hatsuya from Class G."

"Meilyn Villenne, Class A."

Immediately, Meilyn formed a magic circle in her hand.

"Wait, Meilyn!"

Rick, who was unable to stand up due to Millena's curse, shouted from behind.

"Be careful! She's— Woah!"

Rick was lifted up together with the ice rising from the floor. He slipped and fell, sliding down the sloping ice.

Before he knew it, the ice path had brought him quite far.

"You're in the way, so get lost, commoner."

"No! Listen to me f—! Woooaaaah...!"

Riding on the slide, Rick sledded away at a tremendous speed. Millena looked disappointed.

"What a shame, I was gonna finish him off secretly during the fight. But anyway..."

Millena's eyes, watching Rick sliding further and further away, turned back to face Meilyn.

"I suppose it's better to hunt down a named person like you rather than an unknown bastard like him."

"How funny."

Meilyn smiled coldly, and Millena smiled back even colder.

Swaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

There was no such thing as a starting signal for a battle between the necromancers. A glacial spear shot out from Meilyn's palm, and Millena easily dodged it as she started running to the side.

'Her physical strength is pretty good. Almost like a Combat Dark Magic aspirant.'

Meilyn immediately started dissecting her opponent's every move.

Rrrumble!

Rrrrrrrumble!

This time, it was Millena's turn.

When she waved her hands in the air, the bricks ripped up from the battlement and flew toward Meilyn.

"Petty tricks."

Meilyn swung her arms in disrespect.

Crrrrrrrush!

The mass was just too different. The glacial wave from her palm swallowed up the flying bricks and stormed toward Millena.

But again, Millena dodged it effortlessly, moving slightly to the side.

'So you're gonna keep dodging like that, huh?'

Quickly preparing a new move, Meilyn stepped on a magic circle she conjured on the floor.

'This works wonders for combat dark magic aspirants.'

{Ice Field}

A large area of icy space formed around her feet. Millena, who had been standing in place, wobbled.

"Wow, such slippery ice! That's amazing! Did you mix some curse formula into it?"

Meilyn raised her arms silently, and the ice around her rose into the air.

As she lowered her arms, countless shards of ice fell on Millena. She stumbled again while she quickly tried to dodge and ended up slipping, falling on her butt with a loud yelp.

"Kyaaah!"

And in that state, ice descended on top of her.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrumble!

Meilyn smiled in satisfaction as she watched the mountain of ice build up on Millena.

She had removed all room to dodge and finished it off using the very same ice keeping Millena from moving. A perfect victory.

"Woah."

Just as Meilyn turned and was about to walk away, her heart sank and she looked back.

"That's cool."

Seeing that Millena was still getting up, Meilyn dropped even more mountains of ice shards.

But not a single shard of ice fell on Millena, as if they had deliberately avoided falling on her.

Meilyn closed her mouth in disbelief.

'What? Did I mess up my control?'

Millena laughed grimly and stood up, then instantly raised jet-black in her feet and charged at Meilyn.

"Kugh!"

As expected, she was fast.

Flinching before Millena's spirit, Meilyn raised a wall of ice before her.

"Hooya!"

With an odd grunt, Millena jumped unbelievably high, going over the wall of ice and then some.

"Aren't you stupid?"

Meilyn stepped back and threw an ice spear at Millena while the target was still midair. But Millena, more concerned with keeping her Kizen-uniform skirt in check as she flew through the air, snickered.

"You're the one who's stupid."

The ice spear that was aimed accurately narrowly missed Millena by a hair's breadth.

Meilyn's eyes shook.

'What should I do?'

After nervously pondering on it for a moment, Rick's head shot up.

"Aha!"

"Adjutant! I want you to go to Simon— No, I want you to go to the supreme commander and deliver him my message right now! As fast as possible!"

"What shall I tell him? Squeak!"

* * *

Ta-tap.

Meilyn gasped as she landed unevenly on the roof of an old shack.

On the other hand, Millena looked relaxed and was smiling as she landed next to her.

"You're reaching your limit, aren't you? I wonder how I should finish you..."

"You little...!!"

As Meilyn spread open her palm, icicles flew out in rapid succession.

"Too obvious."

Millena dodged the attack with a simple motion, deflecting only the ice that seemed like it might hit her.

However, since Millena was only human, she occasionally made mistakes in her control, and a small needle of ice grazed her.

Ironically, the only thing Meilyn—who relied on her own strength—could hope for now was her opponent making a mistake.

'This is so humiliating!'

Meilyn clenched her fists.

Combat dark magic and telekinesis! This match-up was too bad for her. If her opponent was a pure telekinetic, Meilyn was confident she could beat them using spells that were simply too massive to control.

"Well then, shall we wrap things up?"

Just when Millena was about to charge in, the roof bending under her feet...

Shiiiiiiiiiiiik!

Something could be heard whistling through the air.

"Woah!"

Sacrificing her balance, Millena quickly ducked to dodge it.

A black arrow colored with jet-black barely shot past her and slammed into a nearby wall.

As she stumbled back from suddenly having to duck down, Millena fell off the roof and had to roll to soften the landing.

"Ugh!! What's getting in the way now?"

Whined Millena, but Meilyn wasn't listening.

'An arrow?'

Meilyn's head turned. Simon, who was supposed to be guarding the gates, was standing in a picturesque pose with his bow drawn.

Although it was hard to see his face because he was too far away, she saw him returning to the battlements, commanding the skeleton mages.

'Simon's clothes!'

Tied to the arrow was a note and Simon's blazer, waving like a flag in the wind. Meilyn quickly unfolded the note and read it.

"..."

This was why he shot an arrow instead of using the communication channel.

Realizing Simon's intentions, she quickly maintained her poker face.

As soon as she folded up the note and tucked it away, a hole opened up in the roof, and Millena burst through.

"Enough with the interruptions! Let's get back to our business!"

As Millena charged in, Meilyn jumped off the roof and ran down a narrow alleyway.

Of course, Millena was faster, but Meilyn was aware of that and used that fact to lure Millena in closer.

The moment Millena formed a curse in the palm of her hand and was about to attach it to Meilyn's body...

{Dark Blaze}

Fwooooooooosh!

Dark flames erupted from Meilyn's hand for the first time this fight.

And...

"Aaaaaaagh!"

Millena got hit by such an obvious attack.

She rolled on the ground in pain as flames scorched her flesh.

Ironically, the telekinetic hadn't allowed Meilyn to land a single strike, yet now she was engulfed by a simple flame spell.

"That's odd."

Meilyn walked closer.

"Shouldn't you be able to reverse my spell the moment I shot flame on you to burn me instead if you're a telekinetic?"

"Th-That was a mistake."

Barely managing to extinguish the flame with the Extinguish curse, Millena forced a smile as she rose to her feet.

"A mistake that I won't repea—!"

{Dark Wisp}

A small ball of flame bounced out of Meilyn's hand.

Pow! Ka...boom!

"Kugh!"

Having just said she wouldn't make the same mistake, Millena was now dodging the fire attack frantically. She even took a few fireballs on her shoulder, falling to the ground.

"Don't you think it's ridiculous, too? Why can a telekinetic control ice but cannot turn around a flame?"

Meilyn wore a contented smile.

"...How dare you toy with me?!"

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