Chapter 69 – The Continuously Inherited Bloodline
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“……… Yah……!”
Somewhere on the outskirt of Suminiastar, Rebecca is asking Renya to be her sparring partner to train her skill with the sword.
The official request is that because Rebecca, as a new comer to the party, wants to accurately grasp her full power in order to synchronize to the party. Hearing that, Renya immediately accepts her request.
Renya then only tell her to come at him with her full power from the start when they start their spar.
Understanding Renya’s intention, Rebecca immediately uses her trump card right from the start. She enhances her twin sword with elemental properties then immediately goes in for the kill by aiming Renya’s neck, slashing it with her elemental enhanced twin sword.
Rebecca moves around in high speed. She doesn’t attack directly from the front but she turns around and attack from the sides. If Renya managed to guard her side then she will attack from the back. Anyway, Rebecca really excels at using her footwork to do the hit and away tactic.
It is her battle tactic because she used to be alone.
Even without taking an account on her age and gender, she has a major disadvantage regarding her physique.
Each of her attack can’t deal too much damage so she has to compensate it with numbers. With such composition, her disadvantage when meeting certain situation is just too big.
Even if she could use enchant magic combined with physical strengthening magic, she still couldn’t face an average adult male fighter with brute force. And against a large type magic beasts and monsters, her disadvantage becomes even clearer.
Amongst sword type weapon, her twin sword is especially lightweight and easy to handle. If one managed to master such pair of blades and manipulate them freely, they can attack their enemy with various kinds of attack moves that could freely transforms at will to get past the enemy’s defense. On the opposite side, the reach of the weapon is not that far so the user needs to get close to the enemy and because of the weapon lightweight, it can’t dish out much damage. Against opponent such as a heavily armored warrior or thick skinned magic beast and monsters, this weapon compatibility is just the worst.
Rebecca uses enchant magic to cover that weakness with adding elemental damage to the weapon but even with that, in the point of one hit damage, she is still overwhelmingly inferior.
And it is no wonder that with Rebecca’s battle specification, she end up choosing to excel her speed. She becomes a master in the art of surprise attack and ambush. It is also natural for her to act like an a.s.sa.s.sin, scout, or other light armored job that is specialized in surprise attack like this.
She covers her lacking area with original ideas and finally managed to reach such masteries by herself. Renya estimates this little girl known as Rebecca’s true power to be comparable to any ordinary veteran warrior which is totally don’t match with her true age. Renya can even say with confidence that Rebecca is an expert magic swords girl because her true ability could really make her earn that t.i.tle.
If she keeps standing on the front line like this, she could even reach the realm of master swords girl before she reach her twenties. Renya could only coil up his tongue (to be greatly surprised) at her talent while he easily handles Rebecca’s series of attacks that keep accelerating more and more.
On the other side, Rebecca is also in her own way fascinated by how smooth Renya’s movement is when defending against her attack.
She gives out a sweeping kick then spring up to send an upward slash while jumping. But that is just a feint as she suddenly changes her attack direction mid-air, while she also made an a.s.sumption that this attack would end up parried also so she readies another kick to chain the combo.
“……… Here I go”
Her actual goal within the blown up wind ---- is to soar high in the sky!
With a simple sword swing from Renya, the ‘dust’ screen is easily cleared up and he managed to regains his sight. And his sight is already set to up above because he already knows that Rebecca is no longer standing in front of him.
Renya look at Rebecca with a gaze that like saying ‘this isn’t the end right?’ and when he caught sight of her, she is already change her movement into the next set.
She hit the two swords against each other and let the two magic powers surging from both swords to be mixed up. It is the moment when the power of fire and wind combines.
Rebecca can’t cast attack magic so she makes a trick to enable her from ‘casting’. And that trick is by combine her swordsmanship and her enchant magic.
The released fire blade meets the wind blade then those two start agglutinating with each other, creating a hot wave that cuts through the air.
A scorching red whirlwind is born from that combination. This magic is strong enough to be literally called as a firestorm. No one would believe that such powerful magic attack is created by a warrior instead of a magician.
The firestorm that filled his sight are just too large, Renya doesn’t feel confident to block such attack with only one sword at hand. He quickly decides to use his divine power to create a barrier to block Rebecca’s attack.
Of course if he just blocks it then it would only disadvantage him so while he maintains the barrier with his left hand, he pour a bit of his divine power into his right hand to create a divine power storm with a slash from his sword to blow away the firestorm.
It was just a show of brute force that only relies on his own high spec as a G.o.d but in his short defenseless moment after doing a big swing, two bolt of arrow came in flying. Those are actually Rebecca’s twin sword.
One is a fire arrow created from a sword wrapped with fiery fire.
(A 3 level ambush attack!? Anyone who can plan and execute such attack is definitely not someone ordinary)
And then her sword throwing attack from the air which aims for her opponent gap in defense, just how many people in this world who could block against that? If her opponent is just a normal human, then this would be her definite finisher.
Psyching up himself with that scream, Renya’s body start to release a great amount of divine power and borrowing its power, he forcefully knocks down the flying twin sword.
The twin sword then lose the magic enchanted within it and fall to the ground making loud metallic sound. Confirming it, Renya think that it’s time to end this match as Rebecca let her weapons go and about to face upward one more time ---- But Renya quickly turn his gaze forward instead.
(…… So it is not only 3 levels but is actually 4 levels instead!)
“Splendid. I know that you are one skillful warrior but I never imagine that you are THIS strong”
But in the end, the twin sword than is filled with a do or die resolution from Rebecca couldn’t reach its target. The pair of elemental sword is parried like it is natural by another pair of [divine sword](s).
After finishing the spar, they take a break and Rebecca starts asking Renya about the think that she can’t understand.
“It is simply just like what you’ve done Rebecca. I just want to hid my ace as much as I can”
“…… Isn’t for someone…… as strong as Oniichan…… doesn’t need to do small tricks…… like me?”
“…… Is that…… so? …… Isn’t Oniichan likes to show off…… like with the dates with the Oneechans? …… And Oniichan also seems proud by it……”
“…… Fu~n”
“But then again, Rebecca’s ace in the hole is really amazing. Your attack pattern always aims for that gap in human psychology which always tries to a.s.sure themselves. Human is after all, always try to a.s.sure themselves to be more optimistic in battle like ‘if I can survive this attack, the next time is my chance’ kind of thinking. And you even managed to keep poking at that weak spot again and again. All I can say is just one, splendid”
“Such radical parenting……”
“…… Oniichan you ecchi” (Eros: megusta mate)
“……… So it…… is like that”
Somehow, a line of sweat trickles down from Renya’s forehead.
“No, Well! Isn’t it already possible for the two of you to marry according to the law here?”
“…… That might be true…… but, doesn’t Oniichan say it just before…… that you would get nervous when being together with someone……”
“……… But, I don’t mind……”
“……… Mother is also…… always bragging about how…… she made it with my father…… when she is around my age”
Really, just how did the two of them get together he wondered.
Renya is feeling like listening to their stories if they were still alive now but after once again thinking about it, Renya is feeling scared instead.
But when Renya is still troubled with his thought, the still blushing Rebecca continues her dynamite cla.s.s statement.
“REBECCA’S MOTHER!!! Your daughter education policy is definitely wrong~!?”
(…… Yup, I won’t be able to hold myself back for sure!)
In the end, the most immoral one is this War G.o.d and this truth can’t easily be overturned.
Author Note: Too bad it is not some material that would stick to the skin and becomes see-through when wet with sweat (What!?)
Eros: this chapter is hard to translate. My vocabulary just sucks orz