Chapter 85 – Last Hand Part 2
Louis Heloise is a paladin. He belonged to the Knights of Light, a knight order representing the kingdom of Astraea, and received the protection of light from the goddess like her colleagues.
If there is something special about her compared to her other teammates, it is that she is specialized in bestowing her protection, unlike her colleagues who strengthen her body by wrapping it around her body.
Her detection ability, which she just used to figure out the structure of a building, is actually an anomalous use of her endowed ability. By applying the protection made as thin as possible to the feature as if coating it, the structure can be grasped without seeing it with the naked eye.
Come to think of it, didn’t someone teach me when I was practicing this method?
Detecting using divine protection is a good way to find your location without being noticed by enemies in most cases, but there are exceptions, so be careful…!
“It can be counter-detected by those who have received the same divine protection. Didn’t I teach you that? Louis♪”
A message from a teacher who gives instructions. However, Louis couldn’t answer with her eyes wide open.
She was in no position to answer. A blade too ruthless to be her love’s hawk was slashing at her neck!
Louise’s right hand moves quickly to draw her sword. Even in her unexpected situation, she reflexively performed defensive moves that were honed by hard training.
It was a reaction speed close to the human limit, befitting the best knights in the kingdom of Astraia. Enough to defend against any human attack.
However, it is a human child.
Know that it is according to human standards.
“Blessing of Light: 5 stacks of speed.”
It doesn’t work for those who are loved by gods and have transcended humans!
Louise saw her sword, which she was supposed to block, vanish in a split second. And she realizes what it means and closes her eyes.
Ka-ang! Ching, Ching, Cha-ang!!
“Hey, heck…!”
Dump.
Louis opened her closed eyes at the tingling pain she felt in her ass. She confirms that it is still attached by unconsciously groping her neck with her left hand.
Louis raises her gaze in bewilderment as she doesn’t know why she is still alive. And, she understands why.
The captain withdrew his sword before he knew it, and stood in front of him as if blocking it, confronting the assailant. She brilliantly blocked the four sword attacks that Louis couldn’t even see.
“Amazing. Can you follow me in speed? The Knights of Light, the commander of the detached unit under the direct command of the leader. Shine Verdades.”
“Because that’s what I learned from you. Leader.”
“Leader? Could it be that Captain Reina Astraea?!”
Contrary to Shine, who calmly pointed her sword at Reina and kept her in check, the faces of the rest of the members, including Louis, who had fallen, showed a look of bewilderment.
Twin tails with blonde hair that shimmers in the moonlight. An honorable silver armor given to the best knights in Astraea. A shining halo of light.
The smile on their well-groomed face was something strange to see for the first time, but it was definitely their leader, Reina Astraea!
Upon confirming the identity of the assailant, the crew panicked even more. While planning to break into this mansion, I assumed that there would be a battle, but it was unimaginable that Reina, the target they were trying to save, would attack.
The moment when the crew is at a loss, not knowing how to respond to an unexpected situation.
“All detached troops, launch the sword! Blessings are 3 to enhance body vision and 7 to enhance speed! From now on, surround and subdue the raiders with formation gamma!”
As if electricity had passed through the thunderbolt, the members of the crew pulled out their swords and narrowed the distance with Reina.
“Huh. Are you pointing your sword at your superiors without even asking why? Shine?”
“Shut up. The moment you hit your sword after recognizing that you were Louis, you were just an attacker who interfered with the mission of the knights, not our leader. It should be enough to listen to it after subduing you for a reason!”
“Indeed. Great. You faithfully followed the order given when you were dispatched to make your own decisions and move. As for me and Aricia, I think I understand why the owner, who completely understood me, missed you.”
“Master?”
Shine’s eyebrows twitched and raised at the disturbing words. However, there was no time to think about its meaning. It was because the next moment, a sharp killing spewed out at Reina.
“Your growth is admirable, but that doesn’t mean I can’t forgive you for trespassing into my master’s territory with mud feet. Realize that disrespect by his death!”
“Yes, it comes!”
Quaang.
With a roar that made it hard to believe it was the sound of her stamping, Reina cut through her crew. The target is, of course, Shine Verdades. For Reina, taking down the rest of her crew is a piece of cake if you only take down Shine who can keep up with her own speed.
However, unlike the first time when they couldn’t react properly, the members who efficiently distributed the divine protection under Shine’s instructions responded to Reina’s movements and swung their swords.
While Shine desperately catches Reina’s sword and blocks her movement, attacks targeting Reina’s limbs come from all sides to subdue her.
Left arm, right hand, left calf and right knee.
It was a simultaneous attack, like art, without any error. Perfect timing, as if one mind was controlling four humans.
What’s even more frightening is that all four of them didn’t target Reina herself. As long as the crew couldn’t keep up with Reina’s speed, the attack aimed at her body would have been meaningless.
However, it was a fact that those who fought alongside Reina knew better than anyone else. Therefore, their swords do not converge to a point, but become a line and cut through the plane. With the same connection as one body, Reina is trying to cut the space itself that can be avoided!
When he noticed, the encirclement of sword attacks like a spider’s web, which even Reina could not avoid, was complete.
“How to deal with an enemy much faster than us. The homework you gave one day, this is our answer!”
Are you angry at the absurd situation in which you have to fight with the boss you love? Shine let out her roar, her eyes widening.
Shine’s divine protection dwells in her blazing eyes. Then, in an instant, her eyesight exploded, and all of Reina’s movements were perceived as being chopped up to the point where it felt like time was passing slowly.
There would be a gap where Reina was trying to avoid the siege of her sword strikes, defending it with her sword. In order to fill that gap, Shine focused on each and every small movement of Reina.
That’s why Shine clearly saw the corners of Reina’s mouth go up and twist her wickedly.
“Your answer. Let me score. Ha ha!”
Just before Reina’s swords touched her, she fired back Shine’s sword momentarily and forcefully with a spirited spirit. At the same time, the light gathered in Reina’s right hand flows down her arm.
The light splits into three clusters and scatters to Reina’s limbs so quickly that even Shine’s gaze, which looks like everything in slow motion, can’t chase it.
“”!”
Left arm, right hand, left calf and right knee.
The sword strikes from all directions are blocked by an invisible shield and are not even allowed to reach Reina. As soon as I bounced off their swords without even looking at them, the light returned to Reina’s right hand and merged again, as if turning time backwards.
“Automatic defense…! Big?!”
“Trying to catch the light with a spider’s web, know that there is a degree of ignorance!”
A storm of her swords rushes at Shine, who breaks her stance. When she raises her blade to match the speed with which she swings her sword, Reina uses her legs to turn the blessing of her speed and disappears from Shine’s field of vision. Even though she uses the same speed protection, Shine gradually loses track of Reina’s irregular movements that freely change the applied part.
“Cheet…!”
The other members of the crew made a good attack once in a while to somehow stop Reina, but her speed and power were not enough to pierce her goddess’ protection that protects her.
Therefore, despite tightly surrounding her Reina, Shine was actually dealing with her one-on-one. She is gradually unable to receive Reina’s attacks completely, and the wounds on Shine’s body increase one by one.
Even so, it wasn’t her own strength that made Shine able to withstand dozens of shots without getting fatally wounded. This is because each time she bumped her sword, her Reina’s condition deteriorated noticeably.
“…?”
Haha…”
A person who has not lost his breath even after running all day is already breathing heavily with just this much movement.
Her white face turned red as if the fever had risen. If you look closely, her hands are trembling slightly. In addition to that, even her steps, as if she was enduring something, were somehow unnatural.
“Whoah… I have become the best body to please my master. After all, it might be difficult to carry on a battle in this state for a long time. Of course, if you’re like that, it’s no problem with a body like this!”
“I don’t know what you mean, but are you looking down on us! Regarding the traitor!”
They couldn’t even guess the reason for Reina’s condition getting worse, but it was clear that she was terribly ignoring them.
Upon realizing this, the enraged Shine’s hands became stronger and she inadvertently swung her sword wide. At that moment, Reina’s blue eyes shone.
Instead of striking her sword back, Reina dodged her attack by flipping her torso to the left. When she noticed something was wrong with her Shine, Reina’s already bright right foot was flying towards her temple.
“Uh?”
“Blessing of Light: 5 stacks of enhancement.”
Reina rotated her legs around her left hips like an acrobat from her lean position. The divine protection was added to her centrifugal force, and an impact as strong as swinging her steel hammer hit Shine’s temple.
Kwa-ang!
“Chehehe?!”
“Wait, boss!”
Shine’s body flies like a ball at a speed unbelievable that he kicked her in the head. She’s all messed up, and her blonde hero laughs cruelly at the sight of her sprawling old colleague.
“Didn’t I always nag you? Shine. You need to be a little more sober. Whooping♪”
