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Chapter 1-51 : The Head Hunting Princess VS The Tempest Queen (part 2)
「【Air Cannon】!」(Rin)
「ー!!」(Alice)
As soon as the fight started, Rin shot a wind bullet at me.
It was a quick spell that worked well against enemies on an open field with no cover like this. However, with my high points on AGI, I could easily dodge it.
Of course, Rin didn’t expect it would hit me, so she didn’t stop there. She kept casting the spell and continued shooting numerous wind bullets at me.
However, she improvised this time. She made some of the bullets smaller and some others bigger. The smaller ones were fast but not as powerful as the bigger ones, and the bigger ones were slower but more powerful.
It seemed that Rin was trying to make it harder for me to dodge, and she succeeded. Dodging attacks of different speeds was indeed difficult, but it wasn’t impossible for me if I was careful.
I could try dodging all these bullets, but I didn’t want to take the risk of taking damage. I wanted to save my precious HP potions for later, so I chose to consume some of my MP to cast a defensive spell instead.
「【Earth Shield】!」(Alice)
I deployed an earthen wall in front of me to block the wind bullets.
Wind magic spells are quick to activate, but they’re quite weak against defensive earth spells.
I used this opportunity to take a breather and think of a strategy while my wall was protecting me.
However, Rin didn’t want to give me that chance. Realizing her wind bullets couldn’t break my wall, Rin shifted to lightning magic. I could see crackling lightning flash around her body.
Earth magic is weak against lightning magic. My low-rank earthen wall wouldn’t be able to block it.
「Think, Alice! How do I defeat her? Think!」(Alice)
I spent this split second of my time to think really hard and came up with one strategy that might work.
Before Rin’s spell was complete, I cast【Earth Shield】again and started deploying more earthen walls in front of me.
Rin would probably think I was using them as shields, but I had a different goal.
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ーRin’s perspectiveー
I couldn’t break her earthen wall with wind magic, so I shifted to lightning, but before I was done casting my spell, she deployed more earthen walls.
「Ara~? Are you trying to play a shell game with me?」(Rin)
I think I know what she is really trying to do. She’s not simply playing a shell game. She is trying to approach me.
That’s right. She is a melee fighter, so she has to get close to me to attack. I’m guessing she will keep deploying walls and trying to move forward one wall at a time while taking cover.
She doesn’t seem to be able to deploy a wall further away from her, so I just have to pay attention and aim for the freshly deployed wall. She should be behind it.
Over there!
「【Lightning Spear】!」(Rin)
I cast a lightning spell with high penetration power and shot it at the wall where I thought Alice was hiding.
It penetrated the wall and created a huge hole in the center, but strangely, I didn’t feel like I hit Alice at all.
「Hm? Did I miss?」(Rin)
The wall then crumbled slowly, revealing what was behind it, but I didn’t see Alice there.
I wonder when I unleashed my lightning spear; she quickly jumped back and immediately hid behind another wall instead of keeping moving forward. If so, then that means she has a really good instinct.
This is bad. Now I’m not sure where she’s hiding.
I activate my【Perception】Skill to find out where she is. I can feel her presence. She is here in the arena, but I can’t feel her exact position. She must have a high level of【Stealth】ability.
Seems like I have no choice but to take guesses.
「Alice, are you there~?」(Rin)
I shot another lightning spear at a wall, but I missed again.
「Aa-ahh, another miss, huh? It’s a fun game, but let’s just finish it, shall we~?」(Rin)
While trying to sound as relaxed as possible, like it was nothing, I kept shooting walls with my lightning spears.
However, after hitting all the walls, my confidence started to fade, and I began to worry.
「Eh…?」(Rin)
The reason was none of my lightning spears hit Alice.
I have destroyed all the walls, and I can see the entire arena now.
I looked around but… Alice was nowhere to be found.
「No way! Where is she!?」(Rin)
I was so confused.
I activated my【Perception】Skill again, but still, I couldn’t tell her exact location. I could feel her presence, but I couldn’t see her.
How is this possible!?
Does she have an invisibility kind of skill?
No, I doubt it. Even if she did use such an ability, I should have noticed the trail of her movements, but I didn’t see any. It must be something else.
Then what is it? Speed?
No… No matter how fast she can move, there’s no way she can make herself invisible.
ーBrrrrrrr…!
「ー!?」(Rin)
Suddenly, a tree grew on the other side of the arena.
A tree? Is she there?
「【Lightning Spear】!」(Rin)
I shot the tree with a lightning spear and destroyed it.
I thought she was hiding behind it, but she wasn’t there.
Why did she suddenly grow a tree over there?
Wait… Did she use the tree to jump?
Thinking she was in the air, I quickly looked up. However, I saw nothing but blue sky.
Where in the world is she!?
I started to panic.
「Calm down, Rin! Calm down!」(Rin)
I need to calm down. I’m sure this is just a trick of hers. I have to think calmly so as not to overlook anything.
First of all, what can Alice do? What abilities has she used so far? Perhaps I can get a hint from that.
Besides her deadly【Sever】Skill, she has a weird skill called【Children’s Song】, but it only activates when she sings, and she hasn’t sung in this match.
Other than that, she learned magic recently. For now, she can use earth magic and dark magic.
I wonder if there’s a dark spell that can make yourself invisible… No, if that were the case, there would surely be information about it posted on the in-game forum. Besides, she can only use up to intermediate-rank spells, right?
As for spells, the spells she has used so far are【Black Curtain】,【Earth Shield】, and【Terrain Manipulation】.
…Wait…【Terrain Manipulation】?
Come to think of it, Alice was able to dig a big hole with that skill in her second match.
「Don’t tell me she isー」(Rin)
The moment I realized what trick she did, I quickly turned my head and looked back.
As I feared, Alice jumped out of the hole that suddenly appeared behind me with her wakizashi drawn. She swung her blade swiftly toward my neck.
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ーAlice’s perspectiveー
「Ara~? Are you trying to play a shell game with me?」(Rin)
I started deploying earthen walls and moving from wall to wall.
Rin sounds relaxed as usual, but I will surprise her for sure!
She must have thought I was trying to get closer to her by deploying walls, which means the moment I deployed this one, she would shoot her magic right away.
Before that happened, I activated my【Concealment】Skill, which was the advanced version of【Stealth】and I focused my strength on my legs to jump backward toward the wall behind me.
「【Lightning Spear】!」(Rin)
Just as I thought, Rin shot her magic and hit the wall where I was a second ago.
For the next step, I quickly drank an MP potion to recover my MP and took out a seed. I cast【Rapid Growth】on it and threw it toward the other side of the arena. I set it to grow in about a minute for distracting Rin’s attention later.
The next step is to get behind Rin.
「【Terrain Manipulation – Tunnel】…」(Alice)
I whispered and activated an intermediate earth magic spell,【Terrain Manipulation】.
This spell allows me to manipulate the terrain to a certain degree, and the tunnel version allows me to create a small tunnel, enabling me to move underground like a mole for a short distance.
While moving underground, I felt huge vibrations a few times. Rin must be shooting her magic at the walls, trying to find me.
Too bad for you, Rin, you will never find me.
Several seconds later, I heard the ground rumbling, indicating that the seed I had planted earlier had started to grow into a tree. That was my signal to attack.
While Rin was distracted by the tree, I came out of the ground and appeared behind her. I then quickly drew my wakizashi and swung it.
I was aiming for one thing only, and that wasー
My best friend’s head!
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