Chapter Chapter 112: 12. It’s not over til it’s over (10) (1/2)
RATH 112
TL: Eevee
12. It’s not over til it’s over (10)
“Fight him as if you were going to kill him!”
With the princess’s shout, the knights all swung their swords.
Five swordsmasters, the beings that could be said to be the beginning and end of swordsmanship.
With this number of swordsmasters, they had enough fighting potential to destroy the capital of a small kingdom with an ambush.
But.
“Kuuuuuugh!”
One knight was struck on the wrist, shoulder and ribs in that order and collapsed with a scream.
The reason why I feared swordsmasters despite wielding the self-proclaimed strongest and proclaimed by others as the worst weapon, the metal bat, was because of the sheer amount of mana they possessed that allowed them to wield sword aura.
And they would use that man to further raise their physical capabilities.
Sword aura?
Honestly the metal bat could even take sword aura slashes so I wasn’t too scared of it.
Since I didn’t have any magic power anyway, whether I died to sword ki, sword aura or a simple unboosted stab, the resulting reality of my death wouldn’t change.
But I had no way to deal with the strengthening of the body that came with it.
The common perception is that the reason why swordsmasters are called superhumans that have transcended the limits of humanity is because they can use sword aura, but it is actually because they have physical abilities that transcend humanity.
Even if without sword aura, they could cleave a rock into two.
If they wanted to, they could move even faster than magic.
And reactions speeds that allowed them to freely use that magic.
Even if the metal bat is all-purpose, I, the one wielding it, am not.
Swordsmasters possessed speed and reflexes to dodge every single one of my attacks, and power to make it feel like I would drop my weapon with every attack.
Even if I was holding the metal bat, if the basic specs are different, even if I tried hitting them then everyone else dodges and I’m the only one that gets hit.
But if they have no magic power?
“Then of course everyone gets a fair metal batting. Fack it!”
“What the hell are saying in a situation like this!”
What am I saying, it means that I can get all of you with the metal bat!
“Sloppy.”
“Kuwaaaghhh!”
Sloppy. Let alone their sloppy postures, with their dulled movements as well it would be hard to believe that these people were swordsmasters, but they would hardly do anything about it, either.
The beings called swordsmasters are ones that have achieved perfect unison between their mind, body and magic power, and right now, one of those three had disappeared.
The mind orders it, and through the use of magic, the body carries it out.
So what would happen if the magic power these people had normally been using so freely disappeared?
Their bodies’ specs have fallen but their mind still orders them to work like normal.
But since they have no magic, their bodies cannot work the way their minds want to.
Because they were at such a high peak, the moment a single deficiency appears, they cannot adjust to it and they collapse like a house of cards.
Compared to them.
-But, your almighty me is an invincible goddess who don’t care about no magic power! Hurry up and praise me, owner!
Indeed, hurrah for the metal bat!
This god’s divine weapon that cannot be checked even with this device that freezes all the magic power in this area!
Although if one were to ask which god it was the majority of the people around it would name it as the evil god’s weapon!
“Haap!”
“Ohh!”
The female knight that helped me so very much leaped through the air and chopped at me.
Although it was probably a desperate, futile attempt because the moment she failed to capture me was the moment a bleak future at the hands of Her Highness awaited her.
“Futile things are futile!”
The direct downward strike from the air is a powerful one, but there was no way I’d be hit by that unless there was a major discrepancy in skill.
Although of course her main objective was to probably give the two behind her an opening to attack.
There’s no way I’d get caught out…
Shiik!
“What?”
I predicted the approximate area and landing position of her attack, as well as the two knights’ follow up, and just when I prepared to finish off another knight I instinctively felt something flying towards me.
Having barely overcome the danger of my legs getting cut off, I could only stare bug-eyed at the imperial princess.
Because…
“Wasn’t it impossible to use magic? Hyah-chah.”
“Hiik!”
To the female knight who seemed to have sold her sense of chivalry somewhere to attack me from behind while I was talking to the imperial princess, I gave her another swing of the bat.
“It’s the power of love.”
On the sword of the demurely speaking princess was an incomplete but definite sword ki.
Was it even possible to use magic in a space where a magic-sealing device had completely frozen the movement of magic itself?
Unless you were a dragon, the creatures called the race of magic power, it was impossible.
But……
“How are you throwing out sword ki like it’s perfectly normal?!”
Following the path of the sword cutting through the air, waves of incomplete sword ki flew at my ankles.
“Get him.”
Her emotionless appearance as she threw around sword ki without a single care for the knights fallen around us made me fear that I’d see it in a nightmare!
“Small fry can stay out of this!”
I swung the metal bat at the knights who ran in at the princess’s command, but they dodged it by the skin of their teeth.
Damn it. It’d only been a few minutes, yet their magic-less bodies had already adapted this much, one could say they weren’t the imperial princess’s subordinates for nothing.
“But I need to live as well?”
Judging by the imperial princess’s expression, the moment I was caught, I’d lose at least my legs.
Seeing as the sword ki flying towards me were mostly aimed at my lower body, if things went badly I could get hit in a very poor place indeed.
-Impotent? My owner’s an impotent?
-Not yet!
“Please… get caught, Sir Ast!”
As knight #1 pleaded and struck at the same time, I blocked the attack with the metal bat.
“Kuhk!”
The moment the sword met the metal bat, he whimpered, and I didn’t miss the opportunity and drummed him with the metal bat.
“Kraaaaaghhh!”
“Damn it, Peshell!”
“Abandon him and press the attack!”
Two knights didn’t even think of saving their comrade who was screaming from the metal bat’s pain and ran at me.
To these things not even have a sense of camaraderie.
-Owner, did ya ever teach ya kids the meaning of camwadewie?
-Your life is lived out by youself.
-And ya still lookin’ for camwadewie?
Now that I think about it, the person who deleted that useless thing called camaraderie under Her Highness was none other than me.
Under the motto [You fight alone, every man for himself!] I did my best to make them work but to think even the knights copied that!
“I offer my body, for Her Highness!”
“Are you some zealot!”
Like a zealot that ran into a minefield shouting “my life for Aiur,”(1) the final remaining knight who seemed to have lost his fear of the metal bat ran at me.
“Take this, my ultimate… sword throw!”