The Branded Female Fencer
City of Pleasure, Part 185 ~ Retaliation ㉛ ~
I thought as a layer you would take about the first knife, but the other guy isn't sweet. A blow at Marveysblood should also invalidate defensive magic, but naturally it doesn't make sense if you don't hit it. Once released from the intermission, Dart activates a simple sorcery.
"Debris Bullet (Stonebarrette)"
Easy stone crushing magic. There are numbers, but not as powerful, and it is best to flicker the layers slightly. If you chant over time, armor will also be a force to strike out, but Dirt did not speak of it as a separate means of attack. When the stone crush hit the sword held by the layer, only the stone crush broke apart brittle. Seeing the phenomenon, Dart gains certainty.
"I see, is that a demon sword that dispels witchcraft? That's troublesome, but you should have hidden it till the end."
"... well, if you hit it once, it's fatal. Don't think it'll be good forever."
"If you can guess, go ahead?
"You don't have to tell me!
The moment the layer stepped in, a dull pain ran on my leg. If you look, a thin pile protruding from the ground pierces the layer's feet. Layer instantly struck out the pile with Marveysblood, but Dart was further away in that moment.
I have a relaxed grin on that look.
"I know many because my abilities are famous, but I still live this far. Do you know what that means?
"... I don't know"
"If you did some digging, you know it. I'm the 'trapper' dart. Set up sorcery and trap your opponent. But unless I know what the ability to make it possible is, I'm not gonna beat you. [M]
Let's get this far first, and then we'll talk. "
The dart stood sparingly, but as soon as the layer stepped out, the trap would start. The type of trap is soil sorcery in principle. The shape and number of piles that the trap activated and popped out varied, some conical and others like, but in the moment between the trap activated and the pile popped out, the layer unraveled them. If one step is taken, three traps are activated from one, and the layer moves forward as it strikes them off. It was impossible for the layers to see through because the magic formations must always glow for the trapping magic to start, but are cleverly hidden until it is activated.
And whenever the layer cuts off the trap, Dart takes a step back. In doing so, he has kept a certain distance as a layer, and yet Dart himself has launched an attack with "rubble bullets". Only the most preliminary offensive magic that can be activated without chanting, but as the layers strike where they just can't react, one in several shots hits the layer, gradually taking away their health. Still a layer to advance, but the distance of the dart does not shrink to a single line.
"(That's crazy... when are you chanting these numbers, the magic of traps? And how do you know exactly how to read this behavior? Are they all rigged exactly where the foot steps out?
Layer stopped his leg once. Naturally, the trap stops starting, and the storm of attack stops. He stopped his leg so that the dart would also fit, staring at the layer.
"Are you done yet?
"No, I'm identifying. I want to know how you're doing your trap magic."
"Oh - it's not like I'm hiding anything else, but here's the thing with the sand,"
"Sand?"
The sand stretching from Dart's feet painted the magic formation. Once you draw a magic formation, it disappears and you continue to create a magic formation elsewhere. Even if Dart didn't draw it himself, he'd been setting up magic formations since earlier. Then I am convinced that many can be set up at the same time.
Dart said well.
"I'm not much of a magician. In terms of the total amount of magic power, it is very unlikely for a human being who is endowed with talent and character. Honestly, I saw my limits as a magician. That's why I thought about it, how you survive combat.
One of its answers is this. Manipulating numerous sorceries with the least amount of magic. I've always wondered why humans don't use sand and dirt as weapons. If I could have these on my side that are endless everywhere I go, I wouldn't lose.
Besides, a creature is sensitive to pain, so even a few scratches restrict movement. You know what? Even a beast, a bone stabbed in his mouth hurts and dies without eating rice. That's about it, creatures are sensitive to something called pain. I'm not stepping in where I know it hurts.
The way I fight is plain. But, you know, now we've defeated any powerful enemy. The only thing I couldn't defeat was my people. "
"Right. But if this one stays still, don't you have a hitter the other way around?
"Well, you're going to be glued. But you didn't say a word that the trap itself wouldn't work, did you?
Dart threw a little bit of stone from the spot, slightly smaller than his fist. When a layer sees something, a magic formation floats there.
Continued