The Elemental Sword Demon King
Episode 216: Masked Girl
In an attempt to cool her head that felt like it was on fire, Victoria shook her head strongly.
'I like Kaizo.'
Back then, Tiana did not show such a mischievous expression as usual.
(His eyes, as if he had made some sort of resolution.)
"What a coincidence. I didn't think we'd meet here."
From the depths of the darkness, a voice rang out that caused Victoria and Aura to enter a fighting position.
(We failed to feel the presence of others!?)
This particular fact caused Victoria's instincts to be quite alarming.
"Who's this!?" With a shrill cry, Aura summoned an elemental weapon from her magic bow.
Without waiting for the other party to reply, he immediately unleashed an attack to achieve containment, just like the expected natural outcome of «Ice Storm». The frozen arrow shot straight ahead, leaving a trail like a comet's tail.
"How rude, little Miss Neidfrost."
Darkness gave birth to a red flame that instantly devoured the ice arrows. Amidst the dancing flames, the figure of a person was illuminated in the darkness.
"You are?!"
Victoria could feel the vibrations running all over her spine.
"I-I can't believe this!"
Similarly, Aura froze in her bow-drawing position. Subduing the red flames, a red mask appeared in the darkness. Dark colored hair fluttered in the wind.
"Rei Assar!" Victoria screamed in despair.
(Why, why is he in a place like this!?) Questions spread out and filled his mind.
No, the reason is not important now. The undeniable truth at the moment is the fact that the strongest Spirit Contractor of the current «Strade» Style Festival has appeared before Victoria.
(What should I do? Right now, what is the best course of action possible?)
Cold sweat ran down Victoria's chin. Fighting was impossible, but what if escaping presented a gap for the enemy.
This time, Victoria suddenly noticed. Why «The Strongest Sword Style Holder», Rei Assar could appear at this location. «Tim Inferno» has moved in «Tim Salamander» many times.
That Rei Assar had nothing to do with the current situation, making such a statement would be extremely naive and optimistic.
Suppressing the fear she felt towards the existence before her, Victoria shouted, "Are you actually the one who took Tiana away!?"
"Me, bring Princess Eldant?"
"I-that's right, changed into Kaizo's appearance. It's you!"
A few seconds passed.
"That's it, so that's what happened." Rei Assar nodded to himself as if he had discovered something.
"Was the witch intending to steal the start or perhaps, it was under the command of «Ular» from the Alphen Territory?"
"Stop pretending you don't realize it!"
Victoria called out to the fiery Hell Salamander with her feet. Although it was a meaningless act, Victoria thought at least it could provide some kind of intimidation. Salamander with instant appeared.
"Huh?!" Suddenly, Rei Assar exclaimed deeply.
"«Salamander Valkyrie» from the Lionstein family, huh? Spirits that are really no match for you in your current state."
"What?"
After whispering words that were completely foreign to Victoria, she continued, "Interesting. Let's play for a minute."
Using his white-coated right hand, he lit a small fire. Victoria bit her lips hard.
"What should we do, Victoria?"
"There's no choice, Aura, we have to fight."
(Again, if Rei Assar is serious, escaping is absolutely impossible.)
"However, you might be able to escape while I fight."
"Hmph, please keep this stupid joke to yourself." Aura shook her head with a strong determination and prepared her ice magic bow.
Then immediately, he turned to face the Strongest Sword Style Holder who was emitting an extremely oppressive aura just by standing there.
There is no chance of winning. It is also impossible to escape.
Most likely, they will lose their «Magic» Stone and be forced to retire here. However, Kaizo and the rest of the team should be able to continue fighting until the last day of the «Steel Festival».
Precisely because she believed so, Victoria could solve it herself. As long as he had a resolution, fear was no longer a problem.
"Rei Assar, I have a question for you." Victoria asked at this time.
"What?"
"You, are you really that Rei Assar?"
"What do you mean?"
Ruby-like eyes shone from behind the mask, piercing Victoria.
"You're not «The Strongest Sword Style Holder», Rei Assar, the person I idolized. That's what I mean."
"Indeed," the masked elementalist admitted bluntly, "it's true, I'm not Rei Assar, you know."
"Hearing that, I was relieved," with a sigh of relief, Victoria called out to the Fire Whip in her hand.
"In that case, I can get it all out without reservation!" Shouting at the same time, he started swinging the fiery whip. The red slash split the darkness of the night sharply.
"Not bad in terms of purity «Elemental Aero». But nevertheless..."
The Spirit Contractor who had stolen the name of Rei Assar, drew a magic circle in the air with a flame burning on his fingertips.
* ᛏ ᛒ ᛗ ᛜ ᛟ ᛈ ᛋ ᛏᛒ ᛖᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱᚲ *
"Part from the furnace of fire, «Hell Hound»."
From the burning magic circle appeared a hunting dog shrouded in flames. Instead of spirit summoning magic, this was a pseudo life form forged from magical flames.
The blazing dog roared and ran forward, tearing apart the Fire Whip with its sharp claws.
"No way! «Salamander»-ku!"
"Let me show you the proper way to use fire."
«Hell Hound» called roared with savagery as it pounced.
"Victoria, dodge!"
Slicing the air with a sharp sound, a frozen arrow flew over Victoria's head to crush the dog.
"Thank you very much, Aura!"
"The strongest demon ice spirit of the Neidfrost family. So you're the one who inherited it."
"You know Ren?" Aura's eyes widened staring. Rei Assar secretly summoned a fire vortex in his hand.
"Let's go, Salamander!"
As Victoria unleashed her divine power, her Flame Whip quickly regenerated and lit a fire once more.
Just as the red slash lit up again, at that very instant, Rei Assar disappeared. In the next instant, a red mask appeared in Victoria's sight.
"No way, teleportation!?"
"The power of fire lies not only in destruction. Its features also include producing mirages through differences in air temperature."
His tone sounded almost like a teacher teaching a student.
(Is that so, using fire to mess up the light around the body.)
Enveloped by flames, a fist landed on Victoria's chest. As her body was wrapped in flames, Victoria was easily thrown away like a piece of paper falling to the ground.
"Guahhhh!"
Can't breathe. The flames around him snatched away oxygen from the surrounding air. As Victoria gasped for breath, the Flame Whip returned to the shape of the Hell Salamander.
...
*Connected.....
*Note: This story is fictitious. If there is a similarity in the name of the character, the scene, or the story, it is a mere coincidence and there is no element of intentionality.