The Elemental Sword Demon King
Episode 72: Against Team Seven Star
POV: Kirigaya Kaizo
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"Kaizo, they're coming. Let's break through the middle at once!"
"Ah, I understand!"
Along with the bell of the start of the match, Kaizo and Victoria started running through the Astral Spirit forest. It was a simulation exercise targeting the Sword Style Festival, and their third fight after Tiana joined.
They took the battle formation where the vanguard was Kaizo and Victoria, and the rearguard and commander was Tiana.
This time there was no need to cripple the five members of the opposing team, they had to defeat one person who was chosen to be the commander.
It was Victoria's judgment that it would make the best use of the team's attack capabilities if Tiana was placed as a rear guard and held on as a commander, and Victoria would fight as a vanguard.
"Haa, haa, hey, wait a minute, you two!" Tiana ran while panting. For him who had never obtained battle training, running also felt heavy.
"Your breathing rate is rising, princess."
"How else, my chest is not as light as yours, Victoria."
"What do you mean?!" Seeing Tiana's chest tremble every time she ran, Victoria bit her lips tightly.
"Hey, don't fight. They're coming!"
As he exited the dense forest and headed towards the open area, Kaizo shouted. There was a shadow of three elementalists in front. It looks like they will clash head on.
Victoria returned to her serious face, kicked the ground, and further accelerated. Their opponent, «Team Seven Stars», was ranked seventh in the interschool rankings.
It was a team composed mostly of strong people gathered from the upperclassmen. They can't let their guard down. Looking at the approaching opponent, Victoria gasped in shock. Of the three people who approached, he recognized the faces of the two people.
"Both, if I remember,"
Kaizo also noticed. They were mirror demon elementalists and adamantine elementalists.
A few weeks ago, they were the same upperclassmen, who had participated in the military spirit contract ritual in Academy City.
They were the ones who endlessly tortured Victoria, who could not use her contracted spirit.
Afterwards, they are defeated by Salamander, who is possessed by a mad spirit. But before he knew it, they seemed to have joined the championship team.
"Three from the front, yes, the remaining two should be hiding in the forest."
"I will approach and defeat him. You got the one in the woods."
"Are you going to be okay?"
"Don't look down on me!"
Kaizo returned a wry smile to Victoria, who showed a calm smile, "I'll finish it in 30 seconds."
"I'm counting on you, Salamander!"
At the same time as Victoria shouted, the hellish Salamander that ran beside her changed her appearance to a Fire Whip.
It was the incarnation of a contracted spirit that turned into an arsenal, the elemental aero. No one could let go of this as a student of the academy.
Victoria swung the Fire Whip to the side. A red hot whip flowed as it licked the ground, and a flaming wall of flames appeared.
As the three attackers from the opposing team gasped, Kaizo took the opportunity to quickly run into the forest. He cut down many trees with his shiny silver elemental aero sword as he ran.
His field of vision was poor due to the drifting fog. He sharpened his senses all over his body, and sensed the presence of holy power, which was the source of strength from an elementalist, a fighting ability that was pushed into him when he was young at «Instructional School».
(One comes here!)
Kaizo felt a presence behind him. One of them seemed to be chasing him.
Kaizo tried to stop and turn around, and at that moment, a sound like the flapping of insect wings slid past his earlobe. The attack he had just avoided destroyed the tree behind him.
(What? I didn't see the trajectory of the attack!)
He turned towards the voice. There was an angry attacker. It was a small-bodied girl with chestnut-colored hair. He held a small harp in his hand. It was an elemental aero type musical instrument.
It was a rather troublesome elemental aero. It was different from ordinary shooting attacks, as he could not observe the hand movements and gazes of the shooter to predict the trajectory.
(Then, I will approach and drop it in one strike!)
He ignored the elementalist chasing him behind. Holding the sword horizontally, Kaizo went straight in.
The chestnut-haired girl loudly plucked her harp. Perhaps he was confused by Kaizo's approaching speed, the invisible sword was released in an almost random direction.
(No, this.).
Kaizo realizes his opponent's goal. At the next moment, the sound bar that should have been out of reach, simultaneously rained down on him endlessly from behind.
The academy uniform that had the puncture-resistant features was cut and torn, and intense pain invaded Kaizo's entire body.
Even if he received an attack from a spirit in the Astral spirit, his physical flesh would never receive any damage, but that did not mean that his pain was gone at all.
"You're off guard, Elementalist man!" There was a voice like sneering from behind. It was the elementalist who came chasing after Kaizo.
As he turned around, there was a grinning upperclassman with a ball-shaped spirit floating in his palm.
"So, you amplified the sound bar and reflected it, huh?"
The reflection of the attack attribute was a special feature of the mirror demon spirit. It was a combination attack that made use of their spirit match, as expected, they were used to fighting.
"Vita, that guy's elemental aero is a sword. It's not a big deal as long as we keep our distance."
The harp girl quietly nodded. They seemed to be planning to clamp down on attacking him and knock him down for sure.
(They have analyzed my battle power, huh?)
The Nyx rune was an aero elemental of the strongest class, but since he was a sword, he could only execute melee attacks. Also, Kaizo cannot use powerful spirit magic like Victoria.
The handling of spirit magic was something necessary for systematic research related to spirit subjects, but Kaizo came from «Instructional School» and thus she did not receive any training in that. However, if they get the impression that Kaizo's long-range attack doesn't exist, they're wrong.
"Nyx!"
As he heard the sound of Kaizo's shout, the elemental aero changed from a one-eyed long sword, into a beautiful short sword with ornaments.
At that moment, there were countless sound blades, released from both sides. As he evaded them, Kaizo threw his short sword.
Perhaps because she did not think she would throw her elemental aero, the harp elementalist girl had a surprised facial expression. The short sword hit and sucked into his chest.
In Astral Spirit, contracted spirits can be used as incarnations of pure holy power. There was no wound on his pierced chest, yet he lost consciousness in an instant and should not even have time to feel the pain.
At the same time, Kaizo was running. He took out a short sword from the fainted girl, and at the same time he turned around, he fended off the sound blades that came attacking from behind.
He poured divine power into the short sword, and returned Nyx to the long sword earlier.
Realizing the failure of the attack, the mirror demon elementalist tried to plan his escape, but it was a late reaction.
"Sorry, short swords are more of my forte."
The silver sword shone through the demon mirror spirit along with the upperclassmen. After confirming that the two had fainted, he quickly returned to the location where Victoria was fighting.
"You're seven seconds late."
"You count? You're a stingy person."
Inside the swirling red flames, Victoria spun around and practiced a beautiful sword style. There were remnants of the melted cliff spirit rolling around on the ground. What remains is the adamantine elementalist.
(He seems to have defeated one man.)
As he fended off the spirit that had taken the form of its giant ore, he left with his whip.
Victoria made a wall of fire to seal the movements of her opponent. The burning fire did not weaken at all. Instead, being blown by the strong windstorm, they seemed to be getting hotter.
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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.