Kuro no Maou

Episode 562: Knight Selection and Finals

Safe learning quarters, excellent teachers and ample equipment - noble boys and girls who have been raised so dearly that they will not give up for more than three years in such a privileged environment, that they will not be frustrated and will not die, cannot be weak.

But that's why they can't be overwhelmingly strong, is Kai Est Galblaze's conclusion. Or should I call it a rule of thumb?

Students with high grades can handle magic and martial arts much more than that. Assuming a variety of situations, imagining every opponent, and even fixing tactical theories, they will have the strength to stand out from the rising civilian knights. But that's not enough. To that extent, it's as if I can't stand my teeth in front of the gifted genius of God and the powerful man who won the real battle.

Knight selection this year. The Royal Sparda Seminary, which was unlikely to be a World War I defeat last year, can't possibly have seed rights or anything. It began in the first round and today, on the 11th of the month of Xinyang, it went to the final. I am not exceptionally impressed because I think the result is reasonable. This year's seminary has two people, myself and Safi, who are rank five adventurers and have even been through a real war.

Kai's opponent in World War I was a magic swordsman. But not as strong as Nero. The opponent of World War II is a female student who deals with spears like a knight. But naturally, not stronger than Sariel. WW3 is a swordsman of the Great Sword, as proud of his power as he is of himself. Chrono is incomparable.

Weak. Always this guy. In a greenhouse-raised boy, a young lady, he's still not the target.

Safi tells me he's too well, but Kai lets the other guy do his best. Attract all moves you can from your opponent, even if you are confident that you will be silenced by the first blow. Maybe...... and some modest expectations, but the substance, Kai thinks, is courtesy in playing the game. The lack of an exchange of lives is why we put out all our power on each other.

"Kai, you know what I mean, right?

"Oh, just this time, I'll do everything I can from the start"

The opponent of the finals has won all five games, last year's champion, Avalon Imperial School.

The vanguard appeared early, making him president of students at Imperial School and a magical swordsman of comparable skill to Nero, Celis Ann Arklite. Sparda's vanguard is a swordsman with falling stature in two steps over Kai. There was nothing more than conceding the win.

Imperial School also won the battle at the next sharp as if to gain momentum. Finally, there is no later, our seminary.

But here it was Saphir Marya Hydra, Spartan's proud genius corpse psychic (Necromancer), who had stopped the enemy from gaining momentum as a middleman. Despite the opponent's differences in strength and other obvious things, he gave Sparda a victory that became a counterattack wolf smoke with a brutal performance stabbing Todome after a scattered pain.

The ensuing Vice General battle devours Sparda to show his will and picks up the victory only marginally. The victory and defeat were entrusted to the battle of generals.

"Win."

"I don't even have to be told."

"Not for Sparda, not for you. I don't want to see Nell cry, distorted by remorse."

"You really have a bad taste."

After slapping a serious light mouth for such a reason, Kai carried his weapon behind him and proceeded to the arena where the audience waited to see if the game was starting now or now.

The weapon Kai uses naturally is a simple Sparda style double-edged sword that he loves - but this is a nice thing that looks a lot like it.

You can't have an exchange of lives in a game. It doesn't make sense if you don't fight as hard as you can. Its full power also includes the aspect of handling weapons of outstanding performance.

But with real weapons, naturally, the risk of death jumps. Or if you're serious and cut together, it's harder to be successful at inching.

That's where this Phantom (Virtual Arms) was developed.

In short, it creates a weapon that looks like a real thing. shape, weight and, more importantly, the magical addition (enchant) put into it. The developer even raves about reproducing the curse... but anyway, he can reproduce the reproduction to perfection. However, eliminate any attack power.

The comfort of use is truly authentic. However, there is no entity in that weapon itself, so cutting it with a blade only slips through the other person's body. If that's all we know, it's too much for a referee to make a decision on winning or losing.

By the way, protective equipment is authorised to be worn for real if it does not use attack capability.

Thus, Kai climbed into the arena with a false sword of love.

"- Ugh, I didn't think you were really going to fight"

Kai did hear a quiet Nell as he was wrapped in the cheer of thunder emanating from an audience of more than 50,000 people, which fills all the seats of a huge colloquium.

Representatives from both schools face each other in a bright white beautiful tiled floor arena that shows no trace of previous fierce fighting or anything.

"I never imagined I'd fight Nell and Sashi before."

On second thought, what an overprotective brother Nero seemed to be out of his mind.

His Majesty King Milliardo is also invited as a traditional event of Avalon for today's finals. After all, it is not clear from here whether there is a Nero figure in the VIP room. If you think of the troublesome nature of it, you're definitely not there first.

"But I'll do my best to fight!

"Thank you. Let's make it a good game with no regrets."

Following the signal of judgment, Kai and Nell take each other's place after exchanging a bowl of knights coming to the duel.

Across the street, Sparda's genius swordsman and Avalon's princess. Standing on the side with no ceiling, Kai reflects the stately swordsman's standing by the bright, downpouring light of the sun. Meanwhile, the nell on one side of the roof had a thin shadow, quietly emitting a horrible monster-like intimidation lurking in the darkness with his breath.

A tense silence everywhere dominates the arena at this moment.

"- Begin!

Finally, the referee of the white clergy clothes announced the start of the game.

"Whoa!?

The moment, Nell's figure disappears - no, Kai's superhuman motor vision barely captured the movement.

Nell stuffs the initial position distance close to ten meters in an instant. The sprawled wings flap their wings, pressing them to slip through the ground. He was not just going straight ahead, he was jig-zagged maneuvering to be critical and out of human view.

'Disease (Air Walker)' with terrible sophistication. No, this move is half-original, incorporating wings that are only in the Nell into motion and surgical logic, rather than legitimate stuff.

A man in line would lose sight of Nell as a result of his gaze to the right and to the left. But not so much that if you're a swordsman, you can't capture it.

Still, Kai nearly lost sight of Nell even for a moment, not only because he was fast, but also because he used ingenious cover-up magic at the same time. Now Kai can see Nell getting nasty. The presence is so rare that it is a noticeable outfit of twinkling brunette ponytail and witch clothing red and white that it is still likely to melt into the background of the colloquium.

(You're putting illusion on your wings or something!

By the time you derive your intuitive answer, Nell is already in time.

Kai reflexively releases his sword, slashing it to crush it as it is.

"- Whoa!

Kang, and a surprisingly light metal noise, Kai's blow is played away.

What I prevented was a silver cage hand wrapping around Nell's right hand. It features a crimson jewel embedded in the back of the hand.

I was able to play the blade that was supposed to be a phantom, although this was also a weapon reproduced in the same 'phantom device (Virtual Arms)', late. If the Phantoms (Virtual Arms) are with each other, they can be illusory but interfering with each other, receiving, playing, and competing with each other for real.

What is surprising, therefore, is that Nell made it easy to play Kai's blow. Or that true stunner was parallel to defense and served as a sharp offense?

"Set and thorough"

Palmar floor by Nell's left hand approaching the abdomen. It wraps around the same white caged hand as his right hand. However, the shades of treasure balls on the back of the hand were bright blue.

Its colour and sharpness make it as powerful as if a real blade had been rolled out. But Kai knows. Old fashion jujitsu, also used by Nero, the true power of its first attack technique, "Set and Thorough".

He was in a slightly unscrupulous position with his sword played, but to escape that terrible blow, Kai carved backsteps with all his might.

"- Oh, it's dangerous. - Huh!

At the same time as landing, I accidentally screamed out of relief at the absence of wind holes in my abdomen.

Those who blame Kai for being such a fool do not exist as one in this colloquium. It was the first time since the tournament started that Nell had been outgunned.

"The boulder is Kai."

Nell raised his voice in an elegant position, without setting up a chase.

"Hehe, because I've seen that 'poke' in Nero - BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?

All of a sudden, there's blood all over Kai's mouth. Twice, three times, coughing hard, vomiting blood reflexes.

"Or... were you scratching... Shit, it's a shitty power, Nell"

"Sorry, my attack isn't through the Phantom (Virtual Arms), so the damage won't go away"

I know. Of all the safe matches that employ this' phantom device (Virtual Arms) ', the only exception is what is called an attack by one's own flesh, i.e. physical and martial arts, etc.

It's your body to use. I can't possibly replace my hands and feet with illusions.

or, the use of physical surgery is not prohibited. If it's hand-held, its power is extraordinarily safe compared to blades and attack magic. If it is a slight injury, a good medical staff will heal it immediately.

But Nell's hands are nothing more than the murder weapon that now makes people die easily.

Those who have received Nell's first shot so far, "Set and Thorough," have endeavored to be blown away and plunged into the white walls of the arena, spitting a great deal of blood out of their mouths.

Perhaps the use of physical surgery would be banned from next fiscal year, what a vicious thing to think.

"But Mr. Kai would be fine, wouldn't he?

The royal smallness of the princess smiling nicely shook Kai's spine.

But I didn't say no to this whole body trembling with fear. Yes, this is a warrior tremor.

"Holy shit! You're the best, Nell, and now you can fight it all out!

Beh, and spit out the last blood reflex, then Kai erected a powerful sword. Tremors have already subsided.

Instead, from the flesh of its forged swordsman, a thin, blue-white aura was beginning to rise.

"Hehe, I think I see why your brother is getting along with Kai"

Opposite Nell took a quiet, graceful, dancing, old-fashioned jujitsu setup everywhere.

"Come on. -"

Now the knight selection finals were about to culminate.

"- Hey! That one sucked!!

For the first time in a few years, finish the intense meeting with Nell and distance yourself again.

Already Kai has forced his flesh to go through the protection of the 'Immortal Fighter Svaldias', fighting with all his strength that bottoms up his physical abilities. Lightly wielding a super-weight sword, slashing and laying down enemies with stormy serial strikes, Galblaze-streaming grand swordsmanship seemed so incompatible with Nell's ancient jujitsu, however.

Or do I have to admit? the difference in strength between myself and Nell.

"Finally, I see that fat muscle. That's amazing. I just thought that the Great Sword was just a powerful knock... but it's a very fine sword."

The feeling of this spine zooming has been remembered many times since we started the game.

Even though he didn't allow a critical hit from the start, and even though he had attacked Nell's iron wall defense in front of him, I was wondering if he hadn't read through it yet.

And most importantly, Galblaze Stream Great Swordsmanship, which from the side should only appear to be letting Superman's physical abilities wield his sword. Nell was trying to unravel the surgical logic hidden there early in the battle.

I recall. Even when I first fought Nero, it was like this.

Are boulders like brothers and sisters? That unusual sense of combat seemed to dwell in Ellord's blood by the time it was stunning.

"Hey, thanks for the soyz..."

My body got hot in sweat. By contrast, just like before the game started, cool-faced Nell. Her powers, they still don't know the bottom.

Old fashioned jujitsu moves are known in dating Nero.

From the first "Set/Thorough" I saw, "Monotype/Flush" can be used as a defense and also be derived by throwing moves. Then, I also saw the second moves, "Duplex/Wear" and "Duplex/Return", already in the game. In a moment, I may have mastered the appearance of Nero even to the rarely used triplets and triplets.

Kai has never seen a user of old-fashioned jujitsu besides Nero, but even if this was a universally popular martial art, there is no doubt that Nell's strength has already reached the realm of masters.

So much hunting down Kai is due to his masterclass skill, as well as the ability of a white cage hand fitted in both hands. It was the first time I saw it, but Safi looked it up during the tournament, so I know the names and secrets of Nell's cagemen.

Its name is "Sky Dragon Palm" Aotearoa "and" Red Night ". It is the national treasure of Avalon, passed down to the Ellord royal family.

He defeated the terrible white dragon that once struck Avalon and said it was a dish created using that material.

The armor of a brilliant cage hand in divine silver is made of special metal that smells the scales of Divine Iron (Orihalcon) and White Dragon. Each of the red and blue jewels nestled in the back of his hand is said to be a purified thing based on the eyes of a white dragon that was an odd-eye.

It is Sole who gives this even stubborn white dragon cage a special ability.

("Absorption (drain)" in "Reflection" is almost an anomaly...)

The ability of the cage hand, which Kai felt in the battle, is it. The right hand of the red treasure ball called "Red Night" hosts "Reflection" and the left hand of the blue treasure ball called "Aether" hosts the ability of "Absorption (Drain)".

The first Kai slash I unleashed, I played it lightly and showed it only if there was a "Red Night" reflex. With Nell's strength and cagehand performance, there's no way he's going to cut a stormy streak of Kai.

'Reflection (Reflect)' bounces back every force, as its name suggests. They would also let magical effects such as burning flames and holy light play from physical shocks, including fist blows and slaughter by blades.

The effect of 'Absorption (Drain)' absorbs all forces, as opposed to reflection. It's supposed to absorb magic, but surprisingly, the 'absorption (drain)' that this' Aotearoa 'resides in is that it absorbs physical shocks as well.

When it was absorbed up to the shockwave of Kai's specialty martial arts, The Great Break Impact, I was in a hurry for boulders.

(But you're not invincible. Limitation of ability is always)

If, indeed, any great force can be 'reflected' and 'absorbed' indefinitely, then Nell will undoubtedly be the strongest in the world. But that's not possible. Neither the power of magic nor the power of dragons gives you that cheaply all-purpose ability.

Both 'reflection' and 'absorption' have limits of tolerance as well. If you eat any more attacks, your guard will be torn.

(But it's not even sweet enough to tear it with strength...)

At least, in my current strength, I don't have the power to just twist it down hard. It is clear that even if the protection is fully opened, it will be cut off by the ability of the cage hand and, above all, by the skill of Nell's unusual ancient jujitsu.

(The only way to win is to bet)

That's not a very good portion either.

But in order to defeat Nell, who shows off his current fearsome talents and strengths, he realizes so much that he has to take the corresponding risks in previous battles that he does not like them.

There is no stray. The only way to defeat a strong guy is to bet. Bet your own life. That's how you win the bet, and for the first time, you get the strength ahead of you.

There is no reason not to challenge. Just what I want.

Kai realizes this is the last time and sets up a sword. I won't die of boulders, but still, be prepared to be hospitalized in the temple for a while after the game.

"Shh, let's go. - Say, hey, Nell."

The rushing step stops.

Nell hit me first, not that. Rather, vice versa. She was so exposed to gaps that she didn't think she was in the game.

I haven't seen Kai. It is totally pointing in the direction of the day after tomorrow. Show me that beautiful white-winged back by the time you're defenseless.

"What's the matter with you?

No way, I don't think I struck out oddly here. Perhaps he sensed 'something' enough for Nell to abandon his game with Kai.

"... I feel it. Very, very powerful."

"Huh? What is that? - Huh!?

Kai perceived Nell's 'great power' a beat late.

That's a sign of magic. Pretty far, but still, it makes you feel tremendously heavy like shivering your body.

"Hey, what is this guy..."

"Danger! Everybody, run! It's very dangerous."

At that moment when Nell shouted, Kai saw a glimmer of flash shining from the mountains that seemed far away -