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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: shyan
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“Indeed, you’re quite something. To withstand my attack with only that much damage.”
“Tch…”
The Hero stood with his armor damaged.
Nyadan spoke with a triumphant voice as she looked at him, but inwardly, she was automatically clicking her tongue.
‘Tch… If it had been a direct hit, it would have caused considerable damage, but he evaded it at the last moment? I expected as much, but he’s not an easy opponent.’
Against a lesser foe, the previous attack would have been the end, but as befitting the name of the Hero, he was not easily defeated.
However, Nyadan was not particularly disappointed by this situation.
What she had done before was merely the first move.
The real battle could be said to start now.
“I have one thing… I want to ask you.”
“What is it?”
Nyadan suddenly asked a question.
The Hero replied in a rough voice,
Looking at him, Nyadan asked with some sincerity.
“What do you think of that person, Elisia?”
“Elisia?”
The Hero showed a slightly surprised reaction to Nyadan’s question.
With a questioning voice, the Hero asked her.
“Why bring that up now, of all times?”
“That’s because I’m her… umm… I’m her friend. You and her seem to be getting pretty close these days, so as a friend, I can’t help but be concerned, can I?”
“…Even so, this doesn’t seem like the time or place for this conversation.”
“Just answer. It won’t take you that long, will it?”
Nyadan maintained a stubborn attitude in response to the Hero’s attempt to avoid answering.
The Hero sighed softly and replied as if he couldn’t help it.
“I think of her as a friend. Not particularly special… Just one of many friends.”
“A frie…nd?”
Nyadan began to show a slightly meaningful reaction to the Hero’s words.
Looking at her, the Hero showed an attitude that he didn’t want to waste any more time talking and said to her.
“If that’s your answer, let’s continue. I don’t intend to drag this out any longer.”
With those words, the Hero straightened his greatsword and prepared to attack.
However…
Looking at the Hero, a deep smile began to form on Nyadan’s face, which was hidden by her helmet.
‘I’ve won.’
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At the moment she spoke to the Hero,
Nyadan was constantly calculating for victory, even while talking.
‘The distance between him and me is about 5 meters, which means…’
Immediately after measuring the distance to him, Nyadan began to secretly scatter powder using magic.
Her attack method, dust explosion, involves creating tiny powder particles that are normally invisible to the eye, surrounding the opponent, and then detonating them.
However, only in the moment before the explosion occurs, the density of the powder must be increased momentarily, so the powder can be visually confirmed for a moment, but the moment it is recognized is already when ignition has begun.
In that way, Nyadan continued her short conversation with the Hero to fully spread the invisible hand of death emanating from her body.
And… finally, the Hero’s action to stop the conversation at the same time it was completed.
Right after that,
““Then let’s—!”
“!”
Instead of waiting for the Hero’s attack, Nyadan instead launched a surprise attack on the Hero.
However.
“Ugh!”
Whoosh!
In the next moment, the Hero dodged by pulling his body back instead of blocking the sword she swung.
Circumstantially, he seemed to predict that an explosion would occur at the moment Nyadan’s sword collided with his, which was somewhat true.
To cause a dust explosion, a small spark was inevitably needed, and Nyadan had used the spark generated from the situation where her glaive and the Hero’s collided as a means to do this.
In that respect, it was a rather wise choice for the Hero, who was now in a swamp of invisible powder, to evade her attack, but…
At that moment, a smile filled with condescension automatically began to appear on Nyadan’s face.
‘Too bad, but I can’t always cause an explosion just by colliding weapons.’
From the beginning, the powder she had prepared at this moment was not floating here.
Its location was where the Hero had retreated while evading her attack…
Right at the point Nyadan had predicted.
After confirming that, Nyadan released magic from her fingertips and sent it towards the Hero.
Simply put, it was just a small magic bullet that couldn’t do much damage, and even if it hit, it wouldn’t do much damage to the Hero.
However, this was only limited to the power of the magic bullet itself.
The phenomenon that actually occurred as a result of it becoming a detonator,
But that didn’t matter. Because the moment it made contact
“!”
Kwaaang!!
Due to the magic bullet being ignited, a loud explosion sound was heard again.
Unlike the previous time, since the distance was considerable, there was no need to control the power for safety this time.
Also,
An attack that would kill most opponents in pieces without being able to withstand it.
As that occurred in a chain reaction,
For a moment, the inside of the arena was covered with thick black and red smoke that covered the sky.
Smoke of death blooming like a flower.
As she watched the scene of the brilliant explosion happening before her eyes,
Nyadan automatically began to feel a sense of instinctive excitement from the depths of her heart.
‘I certainly… don’t like fighting, but I can never give up this feeling.’
Nyadan hated the stress caused by battle and struggle, which prevented her from getting a good night’s sleep, the most.
But even so, at this moment, Nyadan was, as always, feeling ecstasy and excitement as she watched the explosion occurring before her eyes.
Flames of death that devour everything.
As she watched it, Nyadan felt a chilling ecstasy and was certain of her victory.
‘Unlike the previous time, it went in accurately, so this is the end of the game. No matter how great he is, he wouldn’t survive this unscathed.’
Furthermore, instead of just launching a simple attack, she accurately hit the Hero, who was momentarily caught off guard and retreating.
In this situation, it was almost impossible for even a Hero to avoid it.
‘With this much firepower, even if he doesn’t die in the worst case, he’ll be fatally wounded. To be honest, I wish he would just die like this…’
Although he used the word friend, the Hero did not deny that he was close to Elisia.
In this regard, Nyadan was staring at the flames in front of her with a murderous expression, thinking that it would be good to eliminate any potential mishaps that might occur.
Then…
“Huh?”
“Huff…”
In the next moment, the Hero’s figure appeared as the smoke in the arena cleared.
The armor that had been crumpled earlier was almost in tatters,
And scorch marks were visible all over his body.
However,
Even so, at this moment…
No particular external injuries were visible on his body.
The Hero was walking out perfectly fine, even after being hit by such an explosion.
At the moment of seeing this,
A deep bewilderment automatically began to appear on Nyadan’s face.
‘H-how is this possible? There’s no way he could be okay after being hit by that… how… how?’
Despite being directly hit by her sincere attack, the Hero was perfectly fine.
However, even before she could think about what to do about this,
The Hero took his sword and started running towards her.
“Ugh!”
Nyadan hurriedly straightened her glaive and tried to defend against his attack as it was.
But…
Clang!!
“Huh?”
The next moment, a heavy shock was felt.
The pain and tingling sensation that was felt despite the defense began to sweep through Nyadan’s body as it was.
‘W-what is this? H-how is this possible?’
An attack that was on a different level than when they clashed earlier.
With just one clash, Nyadan was momentarily overwhelmed with deep confusion as she realized that she was simply being pushed back by strength.
Whoosh!
Following that, the Hero’s attack flew towards Nyadan once again.
In this situation where the shock from the previous attack had not yet subsided,
Nyadan quickly dodged, realizing that it was impossible to defend against it.
And…
Boom!!!
At the same time as the Hero’s attack fell, a tremendous explosion occurred
A shockwave comparable to Nyadan’s dust explosion swept through the area as it was,
In response, Nyadan pulled her body backwards with all her might and at the same time began to feel a chill run down her spine.
‘If I had been hit by that as it was, I would be…’
The Hero’s transcendental strength that exceeded her imagination.
The fact that he could exert power comparable to her magic simply by imbuing magic into his sword, without having anything special,
Nyadan finally,
The guy in front of her…
Realized that he was a monster that far exceeded her expectations.
‘Could it be… that I wasn’t the only one who was hiding something?’
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