Chapter 293 – All-Heaven Festival Contest Final Stage “Demon King Castle Bloody Field” (15) / Each of Them (Part 1)

293 – All-Heaven Festival Contest Final Stage “Demon King Castle Bloody Field” (15) / Each of Them

At about the same time as Panacea left the stage, the three remaining battles on the adventurer’s side also came to a conclusion.

The first one: Current World Ranked 1st “Blade Alchemist” Louie, “Gale Hero” Ewan, World Ranked 4th Hunter Lily, and “Frost Hero” Bella VS Former World Rank 1st “Silver Bow” Orion and “Sacred Knight” Maximillian.

Maximillian had temporarily withdrawn from this battle and instead chose to cross swords with “Storm Hero” Aerial.

Normally, Bella’s ice walls and Ewan’s wind membranes would be enough to neutralize archers.

However, Orion’s bow is a Magic Tool that allows him to set up portals that transcend space.

The moment an arrow is released from it, it travels through a portal and reaches its target.

Barriers and other types of defenses will have no effect other than blocking their own field of vision and wasting Magical Energy.

Though they could potentially block Orion’s own field of vision as well…

The enchanted arrows created by Louie that Lily had been shooting were also being blocked.

Walls had lost their purpose after Maximillian left, but Orion is skillful enough to be able to shoot down any arrows coming his way.

However, the hole in his defenses left by Maximillian’s leave is still large.

Even if he can block incoming arrows, it would be possible to defeat him with the Spirit Arts of Bella and Ewan, who are Contractors to high-ranking Spirits.

But that didn’t work either.

The two tried to use their Spirit Arts, but each time, Orion would interrupt them at the perfect time.

「Kuh…! T-this…」

Ewan groaned painfully as if he remembered something.

「I saw your match with Ex, boy. Your stability as a Wizard depends on your experience. No matter how hard you try, you can’t get that much experience from that match until today, can you?」

He was being forced to recast his magic.

Magic requires the caster’s awareness and concentration, so if there is an interruption just before the cast is activated and the caster’s concentration is disturbed, the magic formula will disperse.

“Guardian” Galahad showed this technique during the World Ranked 2nd “Jet-Black Hero” Ex Party VS World Ranked 1st “Storm Hero” Aerial Party match.

And if the lack of experience that comes from being young is Ewan’s weakness… then it applies to Bella as well.

In fact, even her magic seemed to be having a hard time going through.

「…I know.」

Bella nodded with a painful expression on her face.

「What’s wrong, girl?」

The fairy-like girl with ice-white hair and blue eyes points her rapier-like Holy Sword at the ground.

「I know that it was too early for me to stand on this battlefield.」

Orion raises an eyebrow at Bella’s remark.

「Huh?」

We have won this All-Sky Festival competition, so we are definitely qualified to fight.

But even so, Ewan entered the World Ranked 1st party later, and Bella also World Ranked 4th party later. And if I were asked if they are at the same level of strength as Wraith or some of the people who were chosen as members of the Demon King’s party, I honestly don’t think I’d nod instantly.

Even if they are powerful names in the industry as a whole, it’s honestly hard to say if they can fight against the likes of Altreed and Lucifer.

By that standard, the same could be said about Black Sorcerer Lem.

The adventurer Lem alone would be no match for Altreed.

But…

「Then what are you going to do? Are you going to give up?」

「No way.」

Bella showed a triumphant smile that was not typical of her.

「I will throw away the “Hero’s way to win” and defeat you.」

Then Bella unleashed her “Freeze” spell forward.

「Roge!」

「Yeees~」

Rogestilla stepped back, and Orion took a large distance to the side.

The “Freeze” surged from her onto the spot where Orion was standing, where it crashed onto the ground, spreading cold air around the field.

「…B-Bella」

Ewan’s voice was trembling.

Just like before, Orion had interfered with Bella’s Spirit Art casting.

But Bella didn’t let that break her concentration.

First of all, an enemy’s attack can be distracting when you fear that you’ll be damaged by it if it hits you.

In other words, as long as you are prepared to die as you create your magic formula, no obstacles will interfere with the activation of your spell.

However, in the same way…

Being prepared to die means that you will be attacked.

Bella’s heart and Magical Energy organ were pierced by Orion’s arrows.

「You, too… You already know how to win this, right?」

「Ah… Ah!」

Ewan raises his voice as if to take an oath to her schoolmate as she turns into magic particles.

Bella and Ewan had gone to the same school.

「She did her best, that young lady. It was a good attack with a lot of spirit.」

Even while praising Bella, Orion’s attack doesn’t slow down one bit.

Ewan had desperately tried to prevent it and protect his friends, but the arrow wounds were gradually piling up.

Bella has left the stage, and as the boy who tried to protect her is getting hurt, Hunter Lily’s face shows her distress.

She unleashes her “arrows that the eyes can’t catch” — “Godspeed”, but…

But all of them were shot down from the front by an equal number of arrows.

「You don’t really have to go through the hassle of registering it as a Skill… Isn’t it natural for archers to shoot enemies quickly and accurately?」

In the Adventurer industry, it is possible to register “special techniques” as skills.

For example, “Godspeed” is only called that simply because the “Faceless Archer” Suuri, who is already World Ranked 5th, was the first one to register it under that name.

If you use the same technique later, it will be treated as the same skill unless you make your own adjustments and register that as a new skill.

The same goes for Lily, as well as for the “Magic Bullet Archer” Caleena, who belongs to the same World Ranked 5th party.

But of course, not all adventurers give names to their special techniques one by one.

It wouldn’t be strange for a single adventurer to have a skill comparable to the super-fast archery passed down among elves.

People tend to pay attention to Orion’s ability to fire arrows that transcend space, but he’s already extremely talented with a bow even without that ability in the first place.

That should come as no surprise.

He is the former World Ranked 1st after all.

「Oh well, if you call it that now, I guess I’ll do the same. Look here — “Godspeed”.」

But that’s not all.

By combining his Magic Tool with “Godspeed” countless arrows rain down from all directions.

A torrential rain of arrows approaches Lily and the others as if they were being surrounded by archers on all sides.

And now that Bella’s defensive power isn’t around, it would be very difficult to avoid being pierced by them.

Then comes the decisive moment.

Ewan tried to blow the arrows away with a Wind Spirit Art, but there already were multiple arrows that had appeared inside the range of his attack, so it seems he couldn’t completely block them.

He could have made his attack start from a range closer to himself, but that carried the risk of getting his allies caught in his own wind.

Both Ewan and Louie were basically turned into pincushions due to the large number of arrows that had been fired to pierce through such a narrow gap.

However, the two had gone that far to try to protect Lily.

Her body had also been pierced with many arrows but at the same time…

Orion’s heart was pierced by an arrow through his back.

「You-…」

Bella’s last “Freeze” marked the beginning of their strategy.

Being able to take Orion’s eyes off his allies, if only for a moment, was good enough for her.

She had made it look like a desperate blow so that Orion wouldn’t read her true intentions.

A decoy who put her life on the line.

Orion used his Magic Tool to shoot arrows while avoiding Bella’s “Freeze”.

In other words… Several “portals that transcend space” had certainly appeared near Ewan and the others.

「You guys really got me good, huh?」

Orion has a very complex expression on his face, a mix of frustration and happiness.

「Yeah. It’s probably not registered as a skill, but… it’s your special technique.」, said Lily as her body seemed to be about to disappear at any moment.

That’s right.

Louie’s “Magic Alchemy”.

A special technique that can create Gale Twin Swords out of wind generated by Wind Magic.

Using that, he created “bows and arrows that transcend space” from the “portals that transcend space”.

And once Orion himself was surrounded with arrows from all directions, Lily released them all.

He blocked the view between himself and the enemy, risking everything in order to create the best opportunity.

By extracting the power from the special ability of Orion’s Magic Tool and using it as a material for his “Magic Alchemy” to create something for the first time in this event, together with Lily’s own ability…

They had managed to defeat the “Silver Bow” Orion.

It hadn’t been a Hero’s battle. None of them had opened the way to victory by themselves.

Both Bella and Ewan chose their fighting style in order to defeat the enemy in front of them… the enemy that had been entrusted to them.

Thus “Frost Hero” Bella, “Hunter” Lily, “Blade Alchemist” Louie, “Gale Hero” Ewan”, and “Silver Bow” Orion exit the stage.

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