Chapter 37
“Scarlet Flame” Sister Phylicia stood between the assassins and me. Seeing her back, with her red hair fluttering, I couldn’t help but feel reassured.
“How is Qifeng?” Sister Phylicia asked, her back to me, sparks of fire circling around her.
“She was cut by ‘Death’s Blade.’ The bleeding has stopped, and Lian Qi is trying to figure out how to break ‘Death’s Blade’s’ magic…!” I sniffled, replying.
“Understood. Don’t cry, Fei’er. Leave the rest to me.”
Her gaze, filled with killing intent, swept over the three people on the roof. They flinched—“It’s General Phylicia! Hurry, rescue them!”
“Rescue them?”
Sister Phylicia raised a hand, and a battering ram composed of fire materialized from thin air.
“You think you can?”
The flaming battering ram actually swung on its own, crashing into the house under the three assassins’ feet with an all-crushing momentum.
The assassins scattered clumsily amidst the explosion.
“Where on earth did Sister Yelijia go? We agreed to attack together, with her leading the charge!” the shortest of the three, a black-haired boy, said the moment he landed.
A red-haired woman holding a dagger landed beside him, pointing at me—“She was knocked away by that person’s hammer.”
“Yelijia… got knocked away? You’ve got to be kidding,” a blonde-haired boy said, not believing it at all.
“That hammer might be Transmutation/Illusion magic. Maybe it has an effect that sends you flying on contact.”
“So what now? The three of us have to fight ‘Scarlet Flame’ Phylicia?”
“No choice. We have to risk it!”
The three of them simultaneously erupted with astonishing blue magic power, shaking the entire scene. However, when the magical aura blew toward Sister Phylicia, it was perfectly calm; not even the hem of her clothes stirred.
At the same time, a large detachment of soldiers rushed over.
“I don’t need you to interfere,” Sister Phylicia commanded coldly. “My magic will endanger you.”
“Y-yes…” All the soldiers stopped in their tracks, leaving the stage to her and the three assassins.
Sister Phylicia sneered, her gaze focusing on the short boy, the blonde boy, and the red-haired woman in turn.
“‘Punisher’ Albis, ‘Twin Swords’ Rhode, ‘King of Assassins’ Elantisian.1 My subordinates were so well cared for by you. Now, don’t disappoint me.”
I watched as Sister Phylicia pressed one hand to the ground—
“Cavalry, charge.”
Flames materialized into a wave of armored knights and their warhorses, charging toward the three with an all-crushing momentum.
The “King of Assassins” vanished into thin air.
The “Twin Swords” activated his magic, materializing a black and a white sword.
The “Punisher” shouted, “Go! I’ll hold them off!” as countless black tentacles erupted from his back, lashing out at the charging cavalry. Each tentacle was shaped like a human hand.
The cavalry tore through the tentacle defense as if it were rotten wood. The “Punisher” was stunned, then trampled under the horses’ hooves, again and again.
“Truly overestimating yourself,” Sister Phylicia sneered, noticing that “Twin Swords” was rushing toward the execution platform, trying to rescue his comrades.
“Hey, where do you think you’re running?”
With a great wave of her hand, the flames formed a phalanx of shields, blocking his path like a bronze wall!
The next second, countless long spears stabbed out from the gaps in the shields, aimed at “Twin Swords.” He gritted his teeth and used a dazzling sword technique, turning into a spinning top that collided with the spears and bounced off, narrowly avoiding being turned into a porcupine.
“Oh, interesting. Could you be a disciple of the Sword Saint Reinhardt?”
“You’re distracted!”
The “King of Assassins” appeared from the shadows, thrusting her dagger violently at Sister Phylicia’s back!
It did indeed hit. But the result was like stabbing into fire; it passed right through.
Sister Phylicia didn’t even turn her head. The part of her body that was stabbed turned to flames. The dagger passed through her body, leaving her completely unharmed.
“What? Her body elementalized!?” The opponent was shocked!
“I deliberately left an opening for you. Surprise, surprise,” she raised one hand high, and a flame battering ram descended from the sky!
“You slaughtered Minister Monster’s entire household, five hundred people, up and down. You didn’t even spare the pet dog. All so no one would notice you infiltrating, right? Good for you!”
The battering ram smashed down, nailing the “King of Assassins” deep into the ground, forming a “大” shaped crater.2
The battle had barely begun, and two of the three opponents were already annihilated.
“Seems like you’re the only one left,” Sister Phylicia stared coldly at the blonde boy nicknamed “Twin Swords.” If he had tried to face Sister head-on, he’d be lying on the ground right now, too.
“No choice. It seems I must use that.”
“Oh?” Sister Phylicia watched with interest, waiting to see what trick he would pull.
I watched as he held his twin swords in a reverse grip, and with soaring momentum, shouted—“Form Release!”
The black and white swords in his hands gradually disintegrated, transforming into a black-haired girl and a silver-haired girl. They were wearing Lolita outfits, one black and one white.
“Master,” the two sword spirits said in unison. The swords became sentient?
“Well, well. I just love watching you Transmutation/Illusion mages pull out all sorts of strange things. I hope they’re not just for show.”
“I’ll let you witness the backbone of ‘Seven-Leaf Tree’! Go! Tila! Misu!”
“As you command, Master!”
The two sword spirits attacked simultaneously. Sister Phylicia waited in anticipation! But halfway there, the two of them veered off toward me and Lian Qi!?
“So you just don’t dare face me directly, is that it? Is this what you call ‘backbone’?” Sister Phylicia said with a sneer.
Watching them charge menacingly toward me, I gripped my hammer, ready to fight. But Sister Phylicia stepped in front of me first. With a wave of her hand, a shield phalanx of fire completely encircled me for protection.
Dozens of long spears were leveled at the charging girls! However, when the spears stabbed their bodies, they didn’t penetrate. Seeing as they were impervious, it must be because their true forms are swords, right? So their bodies have the hardness of a sword.
I watched them step on the shields and spears, vaulting over the defensive phalanx. The black-haired girl swung her hand like a blade, chopping at Sister Phylicia’s body, but it was easily nullified by elementalization.
“Oh, interesting! The harder you are to break, the more I want to snap you.”
“Misu! Now!”—their master shouted!
The silver-haired girl, Misu, stepped on the black-haired girl’s shoulder and leaped high, aiming at the comrades tied to the execution rack. She swung her hand, sending out a crescent-shaped—
“Tsk. A feint?”
So, attacking me was a distraction. The real goal was to make Sister Phylicia split her focus, and then use the chance to rescue their comrades on the execution rack?
The crescent-shaped sword qi accurately struck the magic-restraining shackles on the pink-haired girl, “Shadow Parasite Line” Le Gelei Si. With a clack, the shackles were split in two and fell to the ground.