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Chapter 301.2. The Warrior
But Shizen lifts her foot and lightly steps on the darkened ground. From where she stepped, golden particles ripple out, dispersing and annihilating the darkness.
But to nullify Sakimori’s attack, Shizen had to use one move. Aiming for that slight opening, Shizuku stomps the ground hard, raising dust as she charges.
[Wind God Sword]
Using a divine technique, she aims to slash Shizen’s body. Shizuku’s sword attack, transformed into wind, can’t be deflected. It has become a formless blade of wind.
And its power should be too much even for Shizen. It’s Shizuku’s deadly technique.
[Strike]
But Shizen counters with her own technique. A golden light bursts with a sound that pierces the air wall, colliding with the Wind God Sword.
“Ugh!”
Durandal is destroyed and shatters, and Shizuku is thrown into the air by the抵消冲击. Durandal begins to regenerate immediately, but Shizuku’s stance is completely broken.
Similarly, Shizen’s small body is thrown back. But she sways and makes a soft landing with minimal movement, regaining her stance.
Shizen had anticipated being blown back and expected to recover her stance first, being closer to the ground.
She pulls back her fist, gathering golden particles in her hand, and extends her fingertips.
[Sword Dance]
Transforming her hand blade into a sharp sword, she floats lightly, ready to perform a dance of death to slice Shizuku into pieces.
[Force Core Magic Lance]
Sakimori fires a covering magic spear from behind Shizuku, but it’s too late. She simply slices through the incoming magic spear. Checkmate, she thinks, confident of victory.
“!”
She’s slightly surprised when Shizuku, who had lost her stance, pulls out a gun from her waist and aims it.
[Quick Draw]
With just one pull of the trigger, eight bullets are fired from the barrel. Bullets infused with fighting spirit. It’s an attack using the most basic of techniques.
But bullets can’t even scratch her. Even if they’re made of orichalcum, they’ll only make small holes.
Thinking that, Shizen decides to continue her sword dance, believing she can even slice through bullets.
It’s just a desperate attack. Stopping her attack here would be the real problem. Surely Shizuku used the gun to disrupt her attack.
Her hand blade, wrapped in golden particles, dances, first aiming to slice through the bullets. The small bullets are easily sliced by Shizen’s technique, and then she deflects the magic spear, ready to slice Shizuku into pieces.
That’s how it should have been.
“What!”
But that’s not what happened.
The moment her hand blade touches the bullets, they turn pitch black, swell up, and attack, trying to envelop Shizen’s body. Because her attack was at the speed of light, she had almost simultaneously hit the bullets, and in an instant, the eight bullets turned into eight monsters attacking her.
Viscous, pitch-black monsters. They cover Shizen’s body, trying to absorb her energy.
[Explosive Release]
Understanding they’re slimes, she immediately turns her fighting spirit into an energy wave to blow them away. But being covered in slimes hinders her movements, creating an opening.
“Ugh”
The magic spear hits Shizen’s body. The nuclearized magic spear only manages to cut a thin layer of skin on Shizen’s powerful body.
But that was enough. The spear’s attack forces her body to bend back, creating a fatal opening.
Before her, Shizuku stands with Durandal raised high, having poured all her remaining fighting spirit into it.
Realizing it’s impossible to dodge, she can’t help but admire the strategy.
[Fairy Sword Flash]
With a whoosh, Shizuku’s sword disappears as she swings it down, simultaneously cutting Shizen’s body in two from the shoulder. Without any blood flowing, Shizen’s body is cleanly severed and falls to the ground.
“The fairy sword is a bewitching sword. It cuts what it wants to cut, and there’s nothing it can’t cut.”
Landing firmly on the ground, Shizuku mutters. Hearing that line, the bisected Shizen smiles faintly.
“Impressive. You’ve overcome the difference in our strength and defeated me splendidly.”
“I’ll take all the winnings.”
Shizuku feels relieved at her victory. Honestly, it was a gamble, but Shizen was an enemy that could only be defeated with the fairy sword. There was no other way to win.
“Using a gun, countering with basic techniques, and then those bullets turning into slimes… I’m truly impressed.”
“[High Dark Slime]. It’s Sakimori’s familiar that you didn’t know about. If you had looked outside a bit instead of shutting yourself in as a NEET, you might have anticipated it.”
Shizen self-deprecates as Shizuku looks at her with a hint of pity. It might have been true. But the two’s combination was significant.
“…Not looking beyond the battle was my downfall. Impressive, I’ll yield my power to you.”
The space glimmers, and a golden dungeon core begins to appear. The primordial force. A crystal of divine power.
The surroundings are illuminated by a divine light, and the crystal of power, Shizuku’s objective, appears before her.
The regeneration of humanity. The power to make it possible.
“Two… forming a duo might not be so bad after all…”
Shizen weaves her last words and disappears into golden particles. Like a firefly, the light drifts away into the distant dimensions.
Shizuku’s final battle has just ended.