The Elemental Sword Demon King
Episode 37: Lose Number of Members
"I know about that."
"But you don't understand it. Your method of fighting feels very isolated."
Without answering, Kaizo shut his mouth.
The boy, who had once been summoned, the Strongest Sword Style Holder. She, who was raised as an assassin in «The crazy Instructional» school has never experienced a battle with her peers.
Creeping into the target's back and cutting his throat, that was his original method of fighting. At the whim of the Elemental Lords, the rules of the Sword Style Festival changed every time it was held.
The Sword Style Festival fifteen years ago was a battle royale. The one three years ago was an individual elimination match. This time it was a team competition. To be honest, he doesn't think that his team's work with Victoria is going well.
And the three-year vacant period for him as an elementalist was a fatal mistake. He also had a contracted spirit, which could not even show a tenth of his strength yet. There are many factors to be overcome.
"Victoria Blade, you too. You don't understand what it means to fight in a team."
"I'm always alone. O-this person is just a slave spirit."
"Geez, you two have a lot of trouble getting together." Teacher Emilia sighed and disappeared into the shadows again.
"Hmm, it looks like that two minutes have run out. There's about five minutes left."
As such, if they did not reach a conclusion soon, the rankings between the schools of the two teams would drop. This would greatly affect these two people, who were still of low rank. Then, the hell salamander, who was curled up at Victoria's foot side, let out a roar.
"Hey, Salamander said something."
"Yes, the woods look weird. The wild animals are confused." Victoria frowned with a serious face for some reason.
"There!"
He suddenly faced the forest and shot out fire attribute spirit magic. It was a fireball, a high rank spirit magic that would make the target into ashes with extremely hot flames.
The hot red flames licked the ground and the nearby forest to ashes. With black smoke billowing, an impolite figure appeared standing leisurely.
"Well, scary princess."
The girl was wearing the sand Golem armor of the elemental aero all over her body. Despite receiving a direct hit from the fireball, he did not have a single burn scar.
"It's unexpected, you're out for a fair fight. Have you given up on a surprise attack?"
"Our role is over. The leader's preparations are over."
"Preparation?"
Victoria and Kaizo frowned simultaneously. From the direction of the black smoke rising slowly upwards.
"Huh?"
"What's that!?"
A giant wooden scaffold put together. Although the structure was simple, it was undoubtedly a beautiful temple.
And on it a little girl, wearing an academy uniform, was dancing. Looks like he brought you some kind of ritual. The girl had beautiful platinum blonde hair held by a wooden stick.
"Our brothers, now is the time, hand over the iron hammer to the forest destroyers!"
From above the giant scaffolding, he faced to their side and thrust his staff quickly.
"W-what happened, that girl, when did she manage to make such a huge temple!?"
"We prepared him from last night to prepare him for today's game."
The elementalist girl of the Sand Golem proudly raised her clamp. Indeed, if with that spirit power, it should be possible for the temple to be created overnight.
"I, that's not fair, it's a Kaguya ritual!"
The girl, who was on the scaffold and holding a cane, shouted, "Uh-huh, that's not fair! Without a large-scale ritual, I cannot summon my contracted spirit!"
"Shut up, the children must remain silent!"
"Unh, what do you mean by children, isn't your chest also small?"
"What did you say?"
The sound of a twig being stepped on and broken was heard. Victoria's red hair fluttered like a flame.
"Druid family...." Kaizo muttered wiping the sweat off his forehead.
"The girl spirit is a little special, summoning should take a lot of time."
"Once, so that's why you're stalling."
The ground shook violently. The torch fire, illuminating the area around the temple, raged violently. He felt an incredible pressure.
What the girl was trying to use was an extremely powerful spirit. It seemed like it roughly matched the giant military spirit they fought the other day.
"I won't let you. Salamanders!"
Victoria released Salamander as her elemental aero, the Fire Whip, and hit the ground very hard.
"Kaizo, I'll hold him. Destroy the temple!"
"understand!" Kaizo nodded and ran with a silver-shimmering «Rune Nyx» in her hand.
As an elementalist, Victoria was a genius. Even though the compatibility of his and the spirit kurapa was working against him, in a one-on-one battle, he would not lose.
There was a considerable distance up to the temple, but with Kaizo's speed, he had to arrive on time.
Suddenly the ground in front of him exploded. From within the bushes, a spirit magic lightning bullet was fired. It was a thunder spirit girl. Of course, Kaizo had also predicted that the ambush was hidden within the forest.
"Yahoo!"
"What!?"
This is unexpected. The elementalist himself came to disturb. That's impossible to ignore. Kaizo stopped and turned around.
(I'll make him faint in one strike.)
He nimbly dodged his attack and pointed the sword hilt at his stomach. At that moment, an intense flash blinded him. The thunder spirit, which the girl used, exploded in front of her.
Rain from intense lightning strikes struck Kaizo. A sharp pain and then numbness spread throughout his body. It wasn't strong enough to knock him out.
However, he was, for a while stunned. Before his eyes recovered, the girl, who was also caught in the explosion, fainted and therefore had been defeated.
(The girl was after me from the beginning,)
It was a strategy unsuitable for individual battles, but when working in teams, it was a good way to achieve victory. His job is to stop him for a while. And in that he succeeded.
"We're done for...."
* ᛉ ᛋ ᛏ ᛒ ᛗ ᛜ ᛟ ᛈ ᛋ ᛏᛒ ᛖᚠ ᚠ ᚢ ᚱ ᚲ ᚷ ᚠᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ ᛚ ᛜ ᛞ ᛁᚠ ᚨ ᚲ ᚾ ᛁ ᛃ ᛁ ᛃ ᛇ ᛈ ᛜ ᛞ ᛟ ᛗ ᛚᛜ ᛞ ᛟ*
"Come, tyrant king! You, the beast king of the army of destroyers who grind and destroy everything!"
Above the temple, the forest girl pointed her staff to the sky and recited the grand summoning. The ritual is over.
*ᛇ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱᚲ ᚹ ᚺ ᚾ*
"His name is the spirit of the king of beasts, «Cerbetus»!"
From all over the forest, countless roars could be heard. The Druid girl summoned a ferocious beast that resided in the Astral Spirit.
"The spirit of the king of beasts, a spirit with a wide range of possession type!"
It was the same as the mad spirit that made Victoria's Salamander, the military spirit and many others go crazy, the type that could possess a target from a greater distance.
The group of ferocious beasts, controlled by the spirit of the beast king, made the earth tremble as they came attacking.
"Ease. Because they're not spirits, and if we're trampled we'll die, maybe."
"I, if it's handling animals, I won't lose either!"
Victoria, who defeated the sand Golem elementalist by swinging her whip.
"Give up, Victoria, it's our loss."
"The game is over." Teacher Emilia, who appeared quickly like a shadow, blew a whistle announcing the end of the match.
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*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.