Ep.4 - An Irreversible Battle (1)
Ep.4 - An Irreversible Battle (1)
Inside the upscale inn, a tense two-on-two standoff continued!
Delin, soaked in Kaede's warm urine, tried to slip out of bed to escape the chaos,
but Kaede's long tail wrapped tightly around his ankle and hoisted him right up into the air.
No one knew how a wolf tail could be so freely dexterous, but in any case, suspended upside down by her tail, Delin flailed helplessly.
"I-I'll just step outside for a moment! The four of you can talk things over...!"
But neither Kaede nor Chichi would permit that. The two women stood side by side before him, reeking of a pungent odor, and prepared for battle.
"Seobang-nim stays right by my side. I'll protect you, 'kay~..."
Kaede was in heat, but with the danger of losing her mate staring her in the face, she immediately shifted into combat stance.
Baby-making was more important than anything, but if she didn't rescue her husband first, how was she supposed to make babies to her heart's content later?
However, with four powerhouses gathered in one place, fighting while protecting someone was literally like voluntarily shouldering a massive hindrance.
Kaede racked her brains, trying to figure out how to defeat a thief and a knight.
But the one who voiced a plan faster than her was Chichi, standing beside her, wielding her elegant staff and menacing Neva and Philmark!
"(I'll hide Delin first with a spatial translocation, so you draw their attention.)"
Her small voice burrowed into Kaede's perked ears.
Spatial translocation magic!
It was an extremely difficult and dangerous magic, but that rude witch Chichi's magical skill was second to none, so she'd trust her!
"Keheh~... Got ittt!"
Kaede, still stark naked, lunged toward Neva and Philmark. It was a fearless charge in the truest sense.
"Kyaoo!"
Her fiercely instinctive charge was like that of a great wolf.
A terrifying speed befitting her alias, Kaede of the Gale!
Her massive tits swung wildly from the momentum, but that was hardly relevant!
"Kyaaak!"
Right now, she charged with the sole resolve to throw her life away to save her Seobang-nim!
Forget the stupid illusion floating before her eyes like [Soul Bond] or whatever—she had to show the form of an S-rank adventurer engaged in furious combat...!
She was going to, but...
"Kkaeng!?"
No, she had clearly lunged at the thief, but that detestable woman's form vanished without a trace right in front of her!
All that remained was a purple-hued illusion.
"Wh-where'd she go!"
"You idiot! Hurry, this way... huut..."
Ah.
When she turned around again, Chichi was single-handedly wielding magic, fending off the fierce attacks of the two women.
The name of that magic was Mana Barrier!
Forming mana into a thick wall that enveloped herself and Delin, she used her own mana to withstand both of their attacks!
"Drop it! I said drop it!"
On one side, a dagger mercilessly slashed the barrier to ribbons.
"Right now...! Drop it!"
On the other side, monstrous strength hammered down on the barrier—WHAM WHAM. Even though she was swinging with only one hand—because she had a witch tucked under her other arm—the knight's sword was trying to split the barrier with terrifying, immense force.
"Kreung! Stop itt!"
Into that gap, Kaede charged.
From the side, she looked like nothing but a crazy bitch fighting naked, but her skill alone was flawless, with no gaps whatsoever.
So she could surely hold her own against Philmark's dagger techniques.
"Kyaoot!"
The first place she charged was toward that nasty thief who'd been an eyesore from the start!
Kaede threw her entire body against the clever woman who had dared to attack her nose, succeeding in driving her away from Chichi and Delin.
"Fine, I'll kill you first! How dare you go after someone else's...!"
"Just try itt! Keheh~!"
Hatred etched itself into Philmark's remaining eye. That filthy beastwoman had dared to climb on top of the man Philmark had her eyes on. That sin wouldn't be washed away simply by slitting her throat.
And in the meantime,
separated by a single thick mana barrier, Chichi and Neva ground their teeth at each other.
The knight's sword pummeled the barrier without rest, and the witch's staff channeled mana without pause to sustain the barrier.
"Kkeut...! Kkeuhut..."
Yet the defending witch was at a greater disadvantage. Her barrier had been significantly cracked during the coordinated assault with Philmark.
The knight's sword formed cracks faster than the barrier could regenerate...!
Still, Chichi did not let go of her staff. Determined not to let it be shattered easily, she poured all her strength into maintaining the barrier.
"Eva, step back for a moment. Quickly!"
In that moment, Neva changed her strategy first. After setting down her little sister, Eva, whom she'd kept glued to her side, tucked under her arm, she gripped her sword tightly with both hands and raised it high.
Seeing the prepared stance of that sword strike, Chichi's intuition kicked in. If that hit, her barrier would shatter in one blow. Definitely.
"Tch!"
Thus, with no other choice, she withdrew the barrier, wrapped her own and Delin's bodies in blue mana, and swiftly pulled back. Had she delayed even slightly, there would surely be no flesh, no bone... nothing left.
Kwaang-!
A force strong enough to shake the entire inn.
Immediately, a large crack rent the floor, and the resulting smaller fissures spread endlessly in every direction, making the entire building unstable.
"H-hiik! We're gonna die! At this rate, we're all gonna die!"
No one paid any mind to the terrified Delin's wails. In a duel where love and lives were at stake, there was only victor and loser!
If you lost ground in this duel, you'd lose everything!
"Heueup!"
Chichi had barely managed to evade Neva's first strike, but the kingdom's greatest knight was not a woman who showed an opening after just one attack.
She used the force of her downward slam to spin several times in the air, then channeled that rotational force to deliver another powerful slam.
Kwaga-gak-
The building shook once more. Inside the trembling structure, the four powerhouses and the two weaklings gasped for breath.
It should have been easy for even a single mistake to occur in a fight where the very footing was shaking, yet the four continued the battle without showing the slightest opening.
"Die! I said die!"
"Keureuk! Keureureut!"
A thief and a wolf, clashing dagger and claws so many times per second it was impossible to even estimate.
"Heuuuup...!"
"Damn...!"
A knight and a witch, dodging magic and sword by a hair's breadth, aiming for fatal blows.
Only Eva, the small woman, and the man caught among them trembled as they watched the unbelievable exchange.
Kugung- Kuguung-
Their bloody battle eventually began to cause the entire inn building to collapse in on itself.
The first thing to cave in was the floor of the inn room!
"Uh, uhh...?"
It started to sink slowly right where Eva, the small girl who had been pressed against the wall searching for a way to survive, stood.
"Kkyak!"
"...!"
As her little sister, Eva, fell into danger, Neva urgently rolled, breaking away from Chichi. The girl could have defended herself, but Neva nonetheless scooped her up and tossed her to a safe spot.
"Kkya, kkyat..."
"Stay right there!"
Seeing this, Chichi recalled a clever trick and immediately recited an incantation. Although she used almost all her magic without chants, when she wanted to strengthen an effect, she would pour her heart into chanting like this.
So, what magic was she casting while strengthening its effect?
"O blue moonlight, answer my call and imbue your cold into my staff...!"
As she recited the spell, an unprecedentedly powerful light gathered at the tip of her staff and swirled violently!
"[Absolute Zero...], aak!"
But Philmark was not one to let her finish her casting. Noticing the spell mid-fight, the thief hurled her own dagger at the witch, planting it precisely into her wrist!
"Eut, euut..."
Chichi groaned.
With a dagger embedded in her wrist, she could not hold the staff, and without the staff, she could not wield powerful magic.
Thus, Philmark and Neva gained the upper hand. Chichi's powerful magic was effectively sealed.
It should have been the thief and knight, worn down by countless ceaseless battles, who would falter, but the two women tenaciously cornered their opponents and had ultimately seized the advantage!
"Hey! Stop getting distracted and kill that witch bitch first...! Keuk...!"
Of course, Philmark, having thrown her dagger, had ended up at a disadvantage in her fight against Kaede,
but right now, reclaiming Delin was more important to Philmark and Neva than their own individual fights!
They had to grab Delin and flee, the sooner the better. Otherwise...
Ooouu-
A horn sounded.
That long, low echo that gathered the knights of the Albator Kingdom resonated far and wide under the moonlight.
The knights would come soon.
The finest knights the Albator Kingdom boasted would come!
Furthermore, the horn calls stimulated the ambitions of countless adventurers.
If they could somehow resolve the great crisis that had befallen the kingdom, they would surely be rewarded with immense wealth and honor.
And finally,
eerie shadows fell over the streets where the horn sounded...
Those shadows belonged to high-ranking witches gliding beneath the blue moonlight!
Soon, they too would come running to capture the two intruders they were pursuing!
"They're coming...!"
New factions joined the four-way battle.
A fight that had grown too large to be called a dispute among women over a single man!
And amid it all, one stark-naked man, capable of nothing, shouted out!
"WHAT IS THIS! FOR REAL!!"