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Volume 1 Chapter 2 Part 11

Moreno proclaimed  triumphantly, but his sword remained on alert and pointed at Siluca all the time.

Now that he is watching her closely like that, Siluca does not even have the time to try to reach for her own rapier at her waist. However, she didn’t drop the magic wand in her right hand, and she already had an image of the magic she was going to cast next in her mind.

「Even without me by his side, Lord Theo will surely walk the right path as a free Lord  who is not going to be bound by titles or territories. 」

「Such a Lord will only be persecuted and hunted down by other Lords. Nowadays, the concentration of Chaos  across the world has been reduced enough, to the point where it is possible for the people to live perfectly normal lives without having to worry about losing them every single day. And once the emperor is going to be born, the battles will be over for good. Even if the Age of Chaos does not end, it is still going to be fine to be going for the expeditions into the Demon Realms with the high concentration of Chaos, don’t you think? 」

「What I think is that an Emperor without a strong will and even stronger ideals is not going to make such a thing possible. 」

Siluca replied defiantly.

「Well, whatever ends up happening, it is going to be fine with me, if I am to be perfectly honest with you. But since right now I do not have the time that I can waste on pointless discussions, I guess I will have to cut you up until you will be ready and willing to surrender. 」

「And what if I won’t be willing to surrender? 」

「Well, in that case, I guess you will just have to die, right? 」

「Then I think you can start saving your breath for after I die, since I do not think I will be yielding to you anytime soon. 」

「Your personality is as tough as ever. Well, if you insist on playing like that, then I will let you have it your way until you will not be able to take it anymore. 」

With that said, Moreno swung his sword. It was an incredibly  sharp blow, much better than anything that he could do the last time when Siluca saw him at the Magic University.

(Me pulling my rapier out is not going to change much here!)

Siluca dodged the blow by jumping behind. However, Moreno launches a series of merciless attacks following his initial one right afterwards.

「Go astray! 」

Siluca swung the magic wand in her right hand, causing the trajectory of Moreno’s sword to change as if it has been deflected to the side by some kind of invisible blade.

「Telekinesis Magic, huh? 」

Moreno simply snorted at Siluca’s efforts.

「Your employment of such magical tricks was well within my scope of expectations. I do have to wonder how long are you going to be able to keep this trickery of yours up? After all, even for the most talented of Mages, continuous use of magic is always tiring. Pretty soon you are going to find yourself exhausted and out of breath. 」

「The reason I am so tired is  precisely because I don’t have any talent for magic. 」

That was not a lie. However, it is also true that Siluca will not be able to keep this up indefinitely. She could not help it but to feel frustrated with this turn of events, but as things stand now, the only thing that she can do is to buy time in such a way. In the meantime, she could only hope that either Aishela or Irvin would show up to rescue her. However, at that point in time Siluca had no way of knowing that these two have run into unexpected trouble.

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A dark-haired female warrior in silver armor leaped astonishingly high into the air and landed on her knees. The earth tremored, and dust clouds danced all around her due to the sudden impact.

And as the female warrior rose back to her feet gracefully…

「Let me guide you to the afterlife. 」

… she said something that simultaneously sounded archaic yet ominous.

(What the hell is wrong with that woman?!)

The young Petr, who was enlisted as a soldier under the knight Lassik David, felt a chill that made the hair on the nape of his neck stand on end as it raced all the way down his spine.

The woman that was now before him did not wear much armor and was exposing a lot of her skin, which was also covered in ominous markings and patters. No matter how you would look at it, she was the spitting image of evil, which perfectly explained why she was able to do that inhumane jump just now.

(No matter how you look at it, we are screwed!)

Petr thought to himself as he raised his right hand to stop his soldiers from coming any closer to the woman.

「Let’s surround her from afar! 」

Although he was in a position to lead the other soldiers, he was still young, so he was careful with his words.

「Huh? Aren’t you going to come closer? 」

The female warrior asked, sounding as if she was immensely disappointed.

(Even if we wanted to come closer, we can’t.)

Petr answered her in his heart.

If any of them moves even an inch from where they were standing right now, they would definitely die. And if that is the case, then the only choice that they have left is to keep that female warrior here for as long as possible.

「YAAAAH!!! 」

Petr raised his spear and shouted, but it was not because he was in the mood for doing so. Even though he was not good at that kind of thing, it was to boost the morale of the other soldiers around him.

「If you are not going to come to me, then I will come to you! 」

The female warrior held the long shaft of her weapon in her hand close to her side, and then she closed the distance between herself and the soldiers in one fell swoop, almost as if she teleported from one place to another in an instant.

「Let’s fall back! Fall back!!! 」

Petr ordered his soldiers and quickly started retreating himself.

「Ohh? Are you still going to try running away from me? 」

The female warrior swung her weapon but hit nothing but air, and so she complained while staring at her weapon in frustration.

(Run away! We have to run away from her!)

The weapon that the female warrior was carrying was a Lucerne Hammer, which meant that both ends of the weapon’s head at the end of the long handle had enough force in them to pulverize their flesh and to break their bones into tiny fragments, so they absolutely cannot allow her to hit them with that or else it is going to be all over.

Since he was born as the third son in a family of farmers, Petr knew from the very beginning that he didn’t want to take over the family’s farm and work in the field’s all day. Instead, he wanted to try his luck and go find work in the city.

However, before he could even try to realize that ambition of his, some bizarre twist of fate has dictated that the Lord who governed the village he was born in, Lassic David, took a liking to him and hired him into his service when he was just 13 years old. Ever since then, Petr was spending his days alternating between doing various chores around the castle and continuing his combat training under his Lord’s watchful eye.

「I will make you into a fine Lord in the future! 」

That is what Lassic has been saying to Petr ever since he hired him.

「Sooner or later, a great conflict will come and swallow up the entire continent. Those who are going to be prepared for it will be the ones who will emerge from it with their territories vastly expanded, and those who are not going to be prepared will lose their territories and their ranks. In the future, I will become a Lord who will be fit to rule over an entire country! And that is also why you will be able to rise up by many ranks, depending on how well you are going to perform! 」

Rashik was confident in his own success, and Petr felt the same way thanks to him.

However, the reality was far from that.

(Am I really going to die here?)

He could handle weapons reasonably well, and he thought he knew how to behave on the battlefield through mock battles.