Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 48 : Mutual-Evitn 8 of 10 “The Ritman Library” (Part 02)

“Why?! You're not attacking?!” said Arca.

“Hmm, you want me to attack first?”

Odo started to step foot. But before Arca realized it, the young man with black hair seemed to ignore the distance of ten meters and immediately stood in front of him in a matter of less than a second.

“!!!”

He reflexively reacted, bending his knees and directly stabbing Odo in front of him. Odo easily dodged the hasty quick stab, then moved forward into the zone of the Arca horses and landed a knee kick.

“Ugh!!”

It hit the belly of Arca, making her body flung backwards and fall to the ground. The brunette youth immediately curled up, enduring the excruciating pain as some of his internal organs were affected quite severely.

“If it's an ordinary duel, it's my victory,” said Odo.

“AKH! Don't be arrogant, damn it! Hah, you're right!”

The statue immediately wakes up, regulates breathing and rubs a little blood flowing out of the mouth. He did not see the Odo movement at all, immediately depressed easily. But even in unfavorable conditions, he smirked and raised his left palm upwards.

“You attacked me, therefore I called the Book of Laws to judge you!!”

Whuss!!

A golden aura instantly emanated strongly from the statue, making strong winds and blowing dust in the field. The aura begins to gather at one point above the left palm of the statue, then forms a thick book with a black cover. It was not the embodiment of Mana or Ether gathered and condensed, but actually the physical form of a book that had a fixed mass and a concrete density.

“So, yes. You are also Native Overhoul ..”

“This place is a trial!! Chapter Laws! First Demand! In law one is guilty of violating the rights of others! In ethics he is guilty of just thinking he will! You violate both, and are hereby found guilty! This second the punishment begins! Judge says, stab the criminal in the chest with the pole!”

Jem!

A pole pierced Odo right in the middle of his chest, it came out of nowhere but was completely real and not an optical illusion. The pain, the blood that began to flow profusely, made Odo's breath heavy and he knelt down.

“So apparently ...” Odo stared lightly, let out a small sigh and lazily said, “Your strength is sort of the embodiment form of Personality to this dimensional level. If it wasn't wrong, Nativ should have needed a certain fee to use his power. This kind of power must be a big payoff, right?”

Odo stood up again, pulling the two-and-a-half-meter-long black iron pole from his chest as if it did not hurt him at all. Although it was clear that a small gaping hole was on the chest of the young man with black hair, he remained standing and was in no pain or concern for the wound. Within seconds, the wound on the chest began to regenerate and close tightly again. Just leave a hole in the shirt and a little bloodstain.

The statue was wide-eyed at that, as well as the people watching the duel. Crowded sounds began to break, shouting support mixed with maki began to flow crowded. Amidst those sounds, Arca's mind remained focused and she instantly concluded that it was a high-level magic, Instant Regeneration. Re-opening the black book in his left hand, he said, “Judges again sentencing! Puncture rod criminal chest!”

Trang!

The pole fell on the other pole that Odo had released, while the young man with black hair stood a few steps away from his place and had no attack at all. The statue was confused, gnashed his teeth and shouted again, “The Guillotine knife beheaded the sinner!!”

The knife came from the sky, falling down but did not hit Odo. The young man in black hair had stood a few steps away from the beheading blade that fell and stuck it on the ground, not at all having come under attack from the Book of Laws used. The statue is really confused, should the person who entered the zone of his Law Book will not be able to escape the decree of punishment.

“Ke-Why? What the hell's going on? Why doesn't the law book work?”

Odo again disappeared from his place, stood right next to Arca and said, “I thought that was your weakness. Besides having to use sentences for activation, visuals should also be needed!”

“Tch!”

The statue immediately swung its sword towards Odo. But what he cut down was only the wind, the form of the young man's black hair was indeed split apart but it was only visually. Instantly Arca noticed it, “Illusory magic? Damn, since when did I get exposed to the illusion?!”

“Less precise,” said Odo who re-appeared visually place ten meters in front of where Arca stood. Poking his sword in front of the young man in black hair explained, “This is just light manipulation magic, affecting the vision with Mana interpreting the radiance of light energy present in this place. Big advantage if it's daytime.”

“So apparently, using light ...”

The statue closed the Book of Laws in his left hand, then removed the physical form of the embodiment. Plugging the sword he was holding onto the ground, Arca regulated her breathing and calmed down until her facial expression turned flat. As the initial payment for the activation of the power, his blood started to break out from his pores and evaporate into a thin red aura that felt different from before.

Opening the right palm forward, he shouted, “My Liber!”  Instantly the aura centers on the palm of the hand, creating a thick book embodiment with a red cover of animal skin.

Odo stepped back, his cornea turning greenish and analyzing. He felt the air not wearing from the book, also a little confused why the statue can realize a different object with its power.

“Odo Luke! Oh, my enemy! Your actions were taken because you had heard of the power of the Book of Laws, right?! In that case, I will show you one of my other strengths!”

The statue opened his red book, then bit the index finger of his left hand until it bled. With the index finger he directly pressed one of the pages of the book, spilling his own blood as the catalyst of his power

“Book of War, Thirty Six Belli! The battlefield is this one place! I am an honorable general! The hero spirits in your fairy tales are my loyal servants and followers!”

Ngiing!!!

A strong gust of wind was created along with a ringing sound that spread throughout the field. Odo's body trembled, instantly understanding what kind of power the red book belonged to. The array of particles instantly scattered thoroughly in the field, making the Ether that was in the air enter into the power of the War Book that the Sculpture held.

From the dust and the ground on which they stood began to form the personal embodiment of reality brought about by the Book of War, creating a man who wears complete armor and makes the perfect embodiment of a soldier with his weapon. Not just one or two soldiers, but a full platoon of more than 50 units created from soil and dust solidified by Ether as a stabilizer of their form.

They were not human-shaped Golems made of earth and dust, but it is really the souls of the soldiers who came out of the book Thirty Six Belli and again got physical form in the real world through manifestation. Infantry troops with sword and shield weapons plus Cavalry with their horses and spears became the front line, while archers and witches were behind as supporters of the platoon.

All the manifestations of that power made the Sculpture its center, considering the figure of the bookkeeper to be their General and obeying all his commands on the battlefield now symbolized by the training field.

The people watching the duel really could not believe that all those soldiers had suddenly emerged from the strength of a single young man. One of the Mylta city soldiers approached Iitla who was on the outskirts of the field, then shouted, “He broke the dueling etiquette!! He broke the rules! He used the help of others!”

“Not ...” Iitla trembled looking at the one platoon that appeared in the field, pointed towards them and said, “All that, all the troops that filled that field are his strength!”

“Cannot be! That's ...”

People began to be crowded and did not believe in the embodiment of Personal Reality in such a large scale. But as if not paying much attention to it or being surprised, Odo with his flat expression stood in front of the soldiers of the ground and dust.

“Arca Rein! What is your power exactly?!”

The line of dust and earth warriors stepped aside, letting the figure they thought was the general advance and said, “Seriously you ask like that? I'll answer that, huh?”

“I just leaked my tricks, there's no harm in you also telling me your strength!”

“Huh!” Arca's self-esteem was a little disturbed to hear that, then he furiously replied, “Alright, I'll give you a hint. My strength is The Ritman Library! The details you imagine yourself, your brain must understand the meaning of the name, right?”

The statue turned around, re-entering the ranks of the earth and dust warriors. Sighing to lower the shock in his mind, Odo quickly understood what the name meant. The Ritman Library, in other words, the power of the Sculpture is not to bring up the Grimoire (Magic Book), but its ability is at the level of a library that has hundreds to thousands of such books.

Odo put on an annoyed expression and felt envious of such power, looked up fretfully and did not find a route that could lead him to victory in the situation at hand. Indeed, if Odo fought off regardless of the surroundings, he still had a chance of winning. However, considering the humane thing and the condition of not being able to kill made him very depressed.

“Akh ..., looks like I did have to press it to that limit.”

Odo gazed towards the Arca army, sighed and accessed the Magic Core to regulate the body structure with the power of information manipulation. The muscle arrangement is altered, blood vessels are widened to increase energy circulation and the activation of structures is replaced from magic type to fighter.

“Shift, Fighter Mode used. Battle Art ability is enhanced, physical strength is enhanced, reflexes are improved, stamina minimization is performed. Final stimulation, Shield Manifestation!!”

Odo stretched his left hand to the side, then gathered Ether in midair and made a round shield that fused with the Gauntlet using the Mana compaction technique. It looked transparent blue, emitting dark blue particles and was completely formed without any magic structure.

“Alright, let's start the next round!”

“Oh, are you prepared with just that?! All right,” said Arca from behind his soldiers. In his low voice like a cowardly general hiding behind an army he said, “13th Strategy: Surprise the snake by hitting the grass around it!”

The four cavalry rushed straight towards Odo with their horses. Estimating the distance and speed at hand, the young man in black hair did not run away from the spot and instead put up low horses with a shield as the center of defense.

Tightening the muscles of his right hand and squeezing his power, Odo directly threw the Gladius sword towards one of the cavalry.

Jlep! Duars ....!

It hit the head of one of the cavalrymen and its form was instantly crushed back into the ground and dust. As the sword fell, Odo lost his weapon and had to fight off the three approaching cavalrymen using only the shield manifestation on his left hand.

Grinning small, Odo realized the fatal weakness of the soldiers created from the War Book. In addition to their movements that tend to be simple, their physicality made of soil and dust is also one of the obvious disadvantages.

In Odo's mind said, “They are fragile and should be weak if exposed to water. I have no water now and that attribute magic is not my forte. Then ...” The young man further lowered his body, installing a running start position like an athlete who will run short distances. Focusing strength on both legs, Odo immediately dashed towards the attacking cavalry.

One of the cavalrymen thrust out his spear as Odo entered within striking distance. Relying on the reflex that had been enhanced, he avoided it by sliding lower above the ground and directly hit the hard legs of the two cavalry warriors. Their horses collapsed and the one riding was thrown into the air. Before getting up and running again, one soldier who was still sitting on his horse immediately jumped and attacked Odo.

The move was very unnatural and as soon as Odo realized it, what was the meaning of the command that the Sculpture had spoken to the army of earth and dust. The soldier who jumped into the air immediately held the base of his spear and directly thrust the two-meter-long spearhead blade over. Odo was as if a snake that had suddenly been pounced on by an eagle, had no room to dodge as both sides were two fallen warriors.

But before arriving and just taking three steps, a spear shot from behind and directly hit his back until it penetrated to the right chest. It did not hit any vital organs, but left Odo with a loss of balance and falling down with a gasping breath due to bleeding.

Not giving any mercy, the three soldiers immediately chased after Odo who fell down and was about to finish him off. Odo realized that it was not time to save Mana to check what kind of power Arca had. What was before him was not the embodiment of the souls of weak warriors, but veterans who had passed through various battlefields. Immediately breaking the spear stick that stuck in his chest, Odo retracted it and used the part that had the tip of the pointed blade for the weapon in his left hand.

The three earth and dust warriors scattered, besieging Odo from three directions and breaking his concentration. Highly patterned, they attacked simultaneously and targeted the vital parts of the young man.  Odo threw a spear at the soldier who had previously attacked with a spear and it hit his head.

As his defense was wide open from throwing spears, the two soldiers who were still holding their weapons thrust spears towards Odo. One strike was repelled with a shield and the other was repelled with a sword slash. Releasing the weapon in his right hand, Odo instantly grasped the part of the soldier's spear stick on his right side after the attack came to a halt. He quickly aimed at one of the soldiers who managed to lock the weapon, then immediately clenched his left hand with a dense Mana-brow and beat his face to shreds.

Bruaks!

The soldier's body and equipment returned to earth and dust quickly. But before Odo mounted the horses and turned around to finish off the remaining soldiers, he was locked from behind. Both his hands were restrained, then forced to face the main line of troops. Seeing that the archers were preparing to release their arrows, Odo understood immediately what the cavalryman who had locked him was going to do.

“Damn it! You—!”

Tightening his hand muscles and squeezing his physical strength out, Odo forcibly released the lock that held him back and directly elbowed the soldier standing behind him. Stabilizing the horses with his left foot, Odo immediately turned and landed a high kick into the neck of the soldier's ground and dust until his body was destroyed.

Dozens of arrows shot towards him, it was exactly what they were after. Understanding there was nowhere safe in front of the rain of arrows, Odo knelt down to minimize the possible zone of being hit by arrows and put the shield in his left hand forward. The small size of the shield can not cover his body fully, some are restrained but still there are arrows that hit him— On the left thigh and right shoulder, there are still arrows, each of them stuck one arrow and made him bleed again.

The rain of hot children was over, yet their attacks did not stop. The archers retreated and were replaced by an army of magicians who had prepared their fire magic. Simultaneously, they activated magic without spells and fired small fireballs in the amount of dozens. Odo tried to stand up and was about to dodge, but the arrow that stuck on his left thigh blinded him back to his knees.

“Tch! Combination attacks are troublesome indeed!”

Odo changed the information of his own body, then changed the power type from Fighter to Magus. Physical strength was reduced, but the activation of magic instantly increased. Immediately picking up the Gladius sword on the ground, it conducts electricity into it and imparts a powerful electromagnetic charge to the sword.

At a very precise moment when the arrow was within range, Odo instantly swung his sword and made a lightning strike that messed up the structure of all the fireballs that floated towards him — Electric flashes seized the oxygen, making fireballs can not maintain their shape and disappear instantly.

Unplugging the arrows on his left thigh and right shoulder, Odo immediately got up and ran back towards the main army before him. The bow is pulled back and the arrow is removed. Using the shield from the Mana compaction on his left arm, Odo brushed off the arrows while dodging and kept running forward with all his might.

The left shoulder, right waist, left cheek, neck, and legs got a stroke of the arrow. However, all of them were all arrows nothing hit the vital part and did not stop it. Up to four meters in front of the line, the archers immediately retreated and were replaced by infantrymen with shield weapons and swords. The infantry was the largest number, consisting of 20 personnel with full armour to helmets covering their faces.

The infantry charged towards Odo simultaneously, making the young man with black hair stop and again manipulate his own body information. This time Odo immediately entered into Monk Mode, throwing his sword into the ground and enveloping his right hand with a dense Mana-shaped manifestation of Gauntlet.

“Empty Hand Techniques ...”

Odo took off the position of his horses, stood low by bending both knees and relaxing the body. Waiting in an open position, as one of the earth and dust warriors swung the sword towards Odo. Seeing that movement so perfectly, the black-roofed young man instantly dodged it quickly.

“Single river flow ... winter!”

Odo lowered his position even more like a crouch, then caught the legs of the soldier who attacked him earlier and immediately pulled him to lose balance. When the soldier fell backwards, Odo immediately clenched his left hand and landed a powerful punch until it redeemed the armor and body of the soldier until it was crushed into dirt and dust.

Maintaining a very low position by bending his knees and remaining like a crouch, Odo moved quickly to the middle of the infantry and scuttle one by one their legs. Odo's extremely fast and low movements created formations that relied on the number to negatively impact, the infantry could not attack accurately because the target was too low and the movement was fast.

Dropping them and eliminating as necessary, Odo continued to move into the core of the formation. When he reached the ranks of the witches and archers, Odo slightly raised his body position and stopped bending his knees to immediately run past the troops with low melee fighting ability.

“Empty Hand Techniques ...”

Odo crossed both hands forward with his left hand which had a shield on the outside, then again lowered the position of the body and put up a running swing. Breathing out and exerting energy throughout the body, Odo immediately charged into the army of archers and magicians before they were ready.

“Banteng Iron!!”

The duark!

Their bodies instantly shattered into dirt and dust when pierced by Odo, making dust scattered and nothing could stop the young man's black hair. Penetrating the last layer of the army, what he got turned out to be not as expected. Rein who Odo thought was in the back row was not there, there only stood a soldier carrying a spear Helbern (Spear Axe) with a length of almost two meters.

The soldier with a large body and two meters high was very different from the others, wearing a very complete heavy armor and looking very slow if moving. At first glance Odo was about to finish him off instantly, but the aura emanating from the soul of the soldier made his footsteps stop and undo his intentions.

From behind the warrior with heavy armor, Arca Rein came out and said, “As I thought, Dragon Killer is indeed great!! You can even pass the famous very strong match since the beginning of the great war!”

“What are you—?”

“Not realized it?” The statue spread out both hands, smiled slightly and again said, “They are one of the platoons of the Holy Army of the Kingdom of Felixia, Morning Rein! The knights that could be said to be the warriors that formed this land! My ancestors as well as my family's loyal servants! And next to me here, he is the Chief Warrior of the Holy Army, the Sun Fortress!”

Odo did not care much about that, immediately ran towards Arca and aimed for her. But before he could land the attack, the figure of the soldier with heavy armor standing next to the Eldest Son of the Rein Family instantly swung his spear and forced Odo to leap back to dodge.

Without orders from Arca, the soldier with a large body posture immediately identifies Odo as an enemy and attacks him. The spear swung rapidly, forcing Odo to retreat while dodging the deadly attacks.

“Damn it! What the fuck!?”

Overwhelmed as the swing of the spear grew faster, in the end Odo could not dodge anymore and was forced to accept the attack with his shield. Tang!! The tremors from the spear attack seeped into his bones and made Odo's left hand numb, his body was pushed back to the ranks of the magicians and archers that passed through it earlier.

Thinking of an idea, Odo again lowered his body position and entered the army of soil and sand. Unlike what he had expected, the warrior manifestation figure known as the Sun Fortress did not stop at all and destroyed his own comrades in search of Odo. Thinking of another idea, the black-haired youth continued to move away and ran low through the legs of the soldiers present and out of the ranks of the troops.

The duark!!

The duark!! The duark!!

The duark!!

The earth and dust soldiers were thrown into the air due to the swing of the huge figure with the Axe Spear. The soul manifestation form of the individual called the Sun Fortress was completely indiscriminate, extremely brutal and looked like a mad knight rampaging in the battle field.

Odo's cornea briefly turned green, coming to the conclusion of being able to crush the mad knight and corner Rein. Closing his eyes and manipulating his own information, Odo returned in Magus Mode and increased the activation of his magic structure.

“Blitz!!”

Lightning instantly enveloped his body, quickly focusing on his left hand and fusing with the shield of the dense Mana embodiment. Using the shield as a medium, Odo created an arc of lightning in his left hand. Opening his eyes wide and performing distance and location calculations, he immediately pointed his left hand forward with his palm open.

Lightning forms like a rope and focuses on the four fingers of his left hand, then forms a perfect arc with the concept of a crossbow that can be used only with the pull of the trigger. Odo inhaled a deep breath, lowered his body position and aimed his magic at the infantrymen charging towards him.

“Blitz—! Schutz!”

Jdeer!!

Odo closed his left palm, immediately the shield on his arm shot into a lightning-coated projectile and instantly destroyed the infantry line. The attack instantly aimed at the mad knight who was on a rampage.

The duark!!

The large-bodied knight's body was instantly shattered, the path that the attack passed through turned reddish like a brick that had just been roasted in high temperature. The darting shield instantly vanished after a few dozen meters and disappeared unraveling before hitting the audience on the sidelines.

When the mad knight's body was destroyed, his subordinates also lost their physical form and the entire army of the War Book disappeared — Back into the ground and dust, the, only leaves the Rein statue that is not at all exposed to Odo attacks.

“Great! Great one!” Arca clapped her hands, stepped her feet towards Odo while saying, “You can beat them!”

Indeed Odo could defeat all the troops that came out of the Thirty Six Belli War Book, but the impact of the attack he used was very severe and made his left hand temporarily unusable for fighting. All of the Mana compaction was released and the black-haired youth knelt limp in a state of exhaustion as his vitality was drained.

The statue opened the left palm, then spat on itself. Instantly the saliva seeped into the skin, then the payment turned into a thin white aura that enveloped it. Raising his right hand upwards, he said, “Alright, let's end this! I will show you my true strength to bring you to your knees before me, Odo Luke!!”

The aura that enveloped him centered, embodying a book on top of his left palm. Unlike the two books he had used before, this time all that appeared was a small book as big as a palm and no more than a hundred pages thick.

“Library Key. In the name of the Great, Ritman! The owner of the library The Ritman Library invites you, O loser!”

The statue tore the book itself into two pieces, then threw the two rips forward. The book instantly burned by the blue flames, then quickly the flames turned into a silvery-colored viscous liquid. The liquid seeped into the ground and for a moment nothing happened, the atmosphere became silent and there was only a gentle breeze that hit.

But suddenly a rumbling sound was heard and the ground shook, from where the liquid had seeped began to form a wide ground crack that also made the existing dimensional gap open. Inside the crack a golden light shot out from a different dimension, then the chain with the tip of the peg quickly shot towards Odo and pierced his chest.

“Ugh!” It did not physically injure Odo, but the pain was real and the peg could not be removed or the chain needed.

The same thing was obtained by Arca, a chain flew towards him but did not stab him and only tied his left arm. Pointing towards Odo, the brunette youth said, “Bring us to the glory of my family!”

The distortion gets stronger, pulling Odo and Arca into the crack and swallowing them into another dimension like a black hole with very strong gravity. After they left, the distortion instantly disappeared and the ground that was split back shut as if nothing had happened.

The atmosphere on the training ground completely turned silent. Those who watched the duel could only gape, feeling disbelief in what they were witnessing and bewildered by what was really happening.

On the outskirts of the field, only Vil knows what really happened. With a trembling body he said, “It was ..., could it be the power of the Rein family's child .... Single Dimension Embodiment ...? Attracting his own Personal Reality and creating a real Realm in dimensional form ...”