3-03: The Worst Encounter II (3/3)

3-03: The Worst Encounter II (3/3)

What are you trembling for? Is this not the development you were hoping for? The boy asked.

W-What are you Lilisha said.

The tone of the boy suddenly changed. He sounded amused and seemed to be ridiculing them.

But the words he said shocked her too much to be able to form a reply.

Even Kite could tell that the boy had apparently gotten it right.

But just what did he mean by this being as shed hoped?

!?

But before Kite could ask that, the boy moved first, and before Kite or Lilisha knew it, he was already in front of them.

He raised his arm and slowly brought it down toward Lilisha.

The princess erected a barrier by reflex, but it was pushed back along with her by 5 to 6 meters.

That was an unimaginably powerful attack considering how slow it was, but it was weak considering what hes shown so far.

The princess held her ground and carved the ground as she was pushed back, but with how wounded and exhausted she was, she still collapsed in the end.

Princess! You!

Upon seeing that, Kite furiously swung his sword at the boy.

He tried to cut him in two, but the boy merely parried it to the ground.

With all of Kites strength behind that attack, the sword ripped through the earth and created a cut 10m long, but it didnt matter how strong his sword was unless it hit.

What!?

The Tenkorius is a monster beast. On Earth, it would be classified as an animal.

Huh?

While Kite was shocked to see his sword parried by such gentle movements, the boy started nonchalantly talking.

In comparison, monsters are pseudo-lifeforms born in places where miasma and ether have stagnated and reached a certain level. Possessed by their destructive impulses, they are monsters in the truest sense of the word and are completely different from monster-beasts.

Hah? Monster-beast? Monsters? Miasma and ether? What are you!?

These were all terms that Kite had never heard before, so he struggled to understand.

But the boy didnt seem to care and just continued his explanation while continuing to attack him with his bare hands.Visit no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the best novel reading experience

The relationship between monster-beasts and humans in this world is more or less the same as that in Earth. And it can largely be divided into three types. Pet animals available only to the rich and powerful, domestic animals, and harmful animals that cannot co-exist with humanity because of their temperament and ability. However, there exists a fourth category for others.

Tsk, make up your mind if youre going to talk or fight Ku!

Already, it was doubtful that they would be able to hide this matter. After all, theyve already destroyed a portion of the forest.

Some people must have noticed the commotion already. And if the local Tenkorius dont do anything, then its only a matter of time before people realize that theyve gone missing.

There was plenty of fuel for international criticism and anti-Earthgant sentiments to rise.

This wasnt something they could reason away as the foolishness of an otherworlder or the selfishness of the second princess.

This was a matter grave enough to require the nation to apologize and assume responsibility.

A creature this important was no longer just a monster beast.

I wont let that happen! Lightning(Jibardo)!

Unable to accept such a future, the princess unleashed her magic with reckless abandon.

Lightnings shot out of her palms and tore through the air, but the boy just deflected them without so much as a word, sending them to crash into the nearby trees, obliterating everything in that vicinity, yet not a single burn could be seen on the boys arm.

In fact, not even on his clothes. All the princess managed to accomplish was to get him to move his foot away from Kites head and look at her.

What absurdly precise mana!

The princess was shocked for a moment, but she quickly analyzed how hed accomplished that.

Shed thought it was just her imagination when she saw it for the first time, but when she realized she hadnt been mistaken, sweat poured down her.

There was a mana thinly covering the boys body. Literally, just a thin layer of mana that wasnt anything like the barriers or strengthening magic that they knew.

It was gathered there on him with such absurdly high precision that it functioned no different from a powerful armor that was nigh impenetrable with magic.

Silverganth could probably penetrate it, so thats probably why hes been parrying the attacks from weapons made of it.

You wont let it happen? Then what are you going to do?

An impossible defense and a mana technique that she did not know of.

Yet the boy did not seem to care about her surprise nor her attack and just asked that question.

She found that humiliating, but with no way back, she threw away her calm thoughts and angrily yelled

Ku, if we kill you, we can hide everything!

Those words that even she thought was stupid.

P-Princess, thats

Even Kite as he lay on the ground found her words outrageous and impossible.

Yet surprisingly, the boy became a little surprised and blinked his eyes.

Huh Maybe I was wrong about you.