Chapter 273
"Gotchaaaaaa!"
Just as I passed right below the spear, the man cast another magic on his spear .
But, it's too late .
The move magic he used in the beginning was something he had prepared beforehand . As such, its cast time was quick .
Compared to that, this magic was cast impromptu as a reaction against me dodging the spear .
Hence, I've got enough time to cast a counter magic .
"Mwu!?"
The man sounded confused when he saw his own spear .
As the spear's trajectory didn't curve out .
The reason is simple .
I've put a defensive magic on the 『Enemy's Spear』 to block magical interferences on it .
I swing my sword within the range .
An unavoidable strike aiming for the enemy's center of gravity .
"--Kuh!"
The man pulled back his spear in an attempt to defend his body .
This is exactly the timing I was waiting for .
I cast move magic on my sword which was going for the enemy's waist and changed its aim .
--My target is the enemy's arm .
His arm was wide open precisely because he was trying to defend his waist instead of dodging .
"Gaaaaah!"
The enemy's arm flew in the air as a pained scream reverberated .
My sword has cut off his arm .
The enemy moved away from me even while screaming in agony .
That he would still trying to calmly salvage the situation even after he got one arm cut off is a testament of an ancient magic combatant . . . . The fact that he's lost one arm still remains though .
But the match is as good as over now .
I came out on top even when the enemy still had both arms .
Now that he's lost one arm needed to swing his spear, there's no way he can fight properly .
Or so I thought, but . . .
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"It grew back!?"
Alma was shocked when she saw the enemy .
For some reason, the man's arm that had been cut off has regrown .
. . . I've never seen this phenomena even with recovery magic .
Regrowing arms are not an impossible feat like [Dead Revival], but there are better ways to do it .
" . . . It's a by-product of dead revival, ya see! Cool huh!"
The man shouted so while checking out his new arm .
It seems like Dead Revival has an additional limb restoration effect included .
Since I didn't sense anything like this on Grevil, this must be an original magic or something created by the guy who revived these [Warmongers] .
I could sense a hint of fluctuation on the unnatural spell formula imprinted on the enemy when he regrew his arm .
I fix my sword stance in front of the man .
"The end result won't change even if you have both arms . "
"Yer' certainly better than me alright! . . . But winning or losing is all about luck . Who knows, it might even be me who came out victorious!"
" . . . Unfortunately, that's not going to happen . "
I closed in on the man as I said that .
The man thrust his spear while casting his magic in an attempt to kill me--however, an extremely simple magic I cast completely neutralized both his spear and magic .
Then a moment later, my sword has been thrust before his neck .
"How! How come you dodged my spear!"
"Your moves are too easy to read . . . You'd better put some effort into increasing your patterns if you ever get revived again . "
The man's eyes were wide open .
He must have been shocked to see his spear that had taken so many lives got so easily nullified .
Of course I'd read his spear .
After all, he thrust his spear the same way he did in the beginning and even used the exact same move magic as an assist .
This man must have reached his current strength by polishing that same pattern in many battles .
It would have eventually been countered off if he kept fighting that way--but since this man killed all opponents he defeated, he never had to worry about that .
To the man, completely mastering one pattern made all other patterns redundant .
But that tactic is not applicable to opponents who have a wealth of experience under their belt .
They'd see through the fact that he only had one pattern by looking at the way he thrust his spear .
One's battle predisposition shows in the way they carry their weapon, the way they approach their opponent and also their line of sight as well as mana flows .
Once one failed their first attack against such an opponent--the only thing waiting for them is defeat .