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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Wjin
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A month into the league, the rankings had solidified.
Team 2-A, which Yuseora and I were part of, was ranked relatively high.
It was thanks to Yuseora running wild using Overload. And finally, the inevitable match arrived. It was a match against Team 4-B, which Elsie belonged to.
Honestly, forget about Yuseora, I was reluctant to meet Elsie. It wasn’t that Team 4-B was strong. Rather, Team 4-B was in the lower ranks despite having Elsie.
It was because of the team members completely doing their own thing and Freya’s almost nonexistent tactics. But even so, I had this thought.
‘I’m screwed.’
The moment I faced Elsie before the match started, I had a gut feeling. Her eyes were like those of a beast of prey aiming for its prey. I felt like I would be torn to pieces the moment I caught her eye.
‘I need to be a little more careful today.’
Of course, if Elsie stuck to me, I could use the Power of Wind to escape to higher ground. But the battlefield implemented by the trial wasn’t always a forest.
In fact, last time, the battlefield was a desert, which gave me a hard time.
‘I can decide after seeing the battlefield.’
With that, I stepped onto the Lake once again.
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The battlefield was in the form of a ruined city. As a result, there were many obstacles that obstructed the view. Elsie kept looking around even while moving in the enemy’s camp. It wasn’t to check if there were enemies.
‘Where is Allen?’
Of course, there was no guarantee that the candidate she was looking for, Seo Yoo-rang, was Allen. There were many differences between the Allen she knew and Seo Yoo-rang. Height, physique, face, weapon, nothing matched.
In fact, it would be fair to say that they were completely different people.
‘But for some reason, the atmosphere is similar.’
There was a distinct atmosphere that she felt was unique to Allen. Although Seo Yoo-rang had many other different atmospheres mixed in, there was definitely Allen’s atmosphere among them.
That was the only reason she associated Seo Yoo-rang with Allen. However, she also knew that she shouldn’t make a judgment based on that alone. That’s why she had been waiting for this opportunity to get solid evidence.
‘If I push him into a corner, he might be forced to draw his sword.’
She hadn’t seen it when she was with him, but according to Gwen, he used the swordsmanship of the Reedval family. If it was any other swordsmanship, she wouldn’t know, but she was confident that she could recognize the swordsmanship of the Reedval family.
‘The problem is finding him.’
She had observed Seo Yoo-rang’s participation in matches from time to time. In the process, she found out that Seo Yoo-rang didn’t like to come forward. He mainly hid in the high ground in the rear and observed the situation.
‘Where are you?’
It was when she was searching for Seo Yoo-rang.
A candidate blocked her way. A swordsman who wielded a two-handed sword. She was sorry, but she didn’t have time to deal with him. She had to reach Seo Yoo-rang as soon as possible.
“Step aside.”
The guy didn’t seem to have any intention of stepping aside. Then she had no choice. She took out her holy relic, the Breeze Bringer.
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“Huu…”
Yuseora sheathed her sword. She didn’t even need to use Overload against an opponent like this. Just as she was about to move on,
(Yuseora, the enemy’s ace who took out Rick is nearby. Jake is currently dealing with her, so join him.)
It was an order from her instructor, Setia. There was only one enemy ace. The dark, short-haired girl.
For some reason, whenever she met her eyes, she felt a chill, and that girl’s swordsmanship was certainly threatening.
She had also seen her in other matches. The way she wielded her sword, as if possessed by madness, was already beyond human.
‘Can I win?’
She had defeated many opponents so far. But she wasn’t sure if she could win against that particularly mad swordsmanship.
‘But perhaps…’
She had never reached her limit yet. She thought that perhaps she could gain some enlightenment this time. She didn’t know what it was, but she decided to follow Setia’s order for now.
She started to move quickly, following Setia’s guidance. As a result of moving as quickly as possible, she soon succeeded in finding Elsie. But Jake, who was on the same team, had already been defeated by Elsie.
‘Am I late?’
But Elsie hadn’t escaped unscathed either. It seemed that fighting Jake, a trickster-type swordsman, after being exhausted from the fight with Rick was also burdensome for her. There were cuts all over her body, and her stamina was also very low.
‘It might be easier than I thought.’
It wasn’t that she was being careless. It was just an objective judgment. The important thing was not to give her time to recover her stamina. She took out her sword from her inventory. And as always, she overloaded the sword to withstand ten strikes.
To her, Elsie said,
“Step aside…”
The opponent’s words sounded like a warning. But Yuseora, who had already decided to fight, didn’t hear it. She immediately swung her sword without hesitation.
“Kuh…!”
Elsie, who barely managed to block her sword, groaned in pain. The initiative was completely in Yuseora’s hands. She immediately swung her sword again.
‘I’ll crush her in one go.’
She managed to block it again this time, but the opponent didn’t seem to be comfortable with her movements. It felt like she would break at any moment if she pushed a little more. She swung her third strike to keep up the momentum.
‘You blocked it again?’
Yuseora’s teeth clenched as she saw her somehow block the sword, even though she seemed about to break at any moment. She swung her sword again, thinking that she would definitely break her this time. But again, it was blocked.
‘Why?’
She couldn’t understand. The girl, who had been on the verge of collapse, was reviving like a rekindled flame. And then, an even more incomprehensible situation occurred.
“I told you to step aside!”
Instead, the girl went on the offensive. Yuseora was taken aback by the sudden change in attitude and retreated. But the girl relentlessly pursued her and swung her sword.
‘What…!’
She barely managed to block the attack with her sword. The fifth strike. She knew this wasn’t good. To use Overload properly, she had to take the initiative in the attack. But…
‘I can’t.’
She couldn’t counterattack at all. The girl’s attacks weren’t that fast or perfect. But the momentum in her sword was deadly.
She tried to evade rather than block the attacks by retreating as much as possible, but in the end, she got greedy and allowed an attack.
“Kuh!”
She was properly cut in the side. But the girl didn’t seem to have any intention of stopping her sword. Yuseora had no choice but to use her sword to block the girl’s sword. Eight strikes, nine strikes…
She hadn’t been like this even when she faced the guy from Swordsmanship Class 1 who was said to be quite skilled with the sword.
She was just being helplessly beaten right now. Her strength, technique, and speed were definitely superior, and yet.
Ten strikes. Her sword finally broke.
‘Damn it!’
At the same time, the girl’s sword pierced her body. It wasn’t the first time she had died in a virtual space. But it was the first time she had been so overwhelmingly defeated.
“What was that just now…!”
Just as she was about to ask how she did it, she realized that the girl’s eyes weren’t on her. No, from the beginning of the fight, the girl’s eyes weren’t on her but on something else.
‘Where are you looking?’
As she pulled the sword out of her body, the girl asked, “Where is All… no, Seo Yoo-rang?”
Seo Yoo-rang? That name that suddenly popped up. At the same time, her consciousness faded. It seemed that she was completely dead.
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‘She’s completely lost it since the last time I saw her.’
That was my impression after watching the battle between Yuseora and Elsie. I had roughly guessed that Elsie would win, but I didn’t expect it to be such an overwhelming result.
Originally, in Hundred Braves, Elsie usually had the personality of a vengeful spirit, but because of my intervention, it felt like she had evolved to a different level for some reason.
‘I can’t face her like this.’
Now that she was exhausted was the chance. I waited for Yuseora, who was overlapping with Elsie, to be declared dead, and then I released the drawn bowstring.
The arrow imbued with Overload was fired at Elsie. It was quite a distance. But I had also learned a lot from watching Wilhelm’s archery over my shoulder. I could snipe up to this distance without any problem.
Whoosh.
The arrow flew quickly. At that moment, Elsie turned her head. Her gaze was directed exactly where I was. And the arrow pierced her forehead.
‘Sorry, Elsie.’
I turned my head away from her collapsing figure. I thought that when I could reveal my identity later, I would apologize to her directly. I was a little worried about the aftermath, though.
‘Anyway, I wonder if Yuseora realized anything.’
Of course, it didn’t really matter to me. It wasn’t directly related to Yuseora’s life like it was with Elsie. This was clearly something that the constellation and Yuseora had to solve. But for some reason, it bothered me.
‘Why?’
It wasn’t just Yuseora. Elsie, Wilhelm… even Gwen. I felt like I was missing something.
‘Something’s unnatural.’
I couldn’t figure out what it was until the match ended.
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