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Charlotte’s magic, like Adele’s, is special.
As a phenomenon, it is similar to a mirage, and in reality it is more like an auditory hallucination.
She projects her desired form onto the other person’s vision and makes him or her imagine the sounds produced by her statements and formations from his or her consciousness.
Simply put, this is the current process, but needless to say, it is complex in structure and theory.
Charlotte developed this magic when she was ten years old.
Thanks to it, she can apply it to combat as well, and she has no one to her right when it comes to creating alibis and fakes. Until now, that is how she has helped Julius. She has even concealed her own existence by showing someone else’s body instead of her own.
Of course, because it is the power of magic, it will naturally disappear once the magic power is depleted.
The first requirement is “not to be deprived of consciousness.”
As long as she remain conscious, the bodies of Cain and Julius in the auditorium will not disappear.
There are many witnesses, and no matter how much Adele and Luna reveal Charlotte’s existence, it is obvious who will believe which story. It will probably be seen as nothing more than “an excuse out of frustration at being expelled from school”. It is unlikely that this action will be seen as a problem.
(Well, in this situation, only I, who am in charge of the two main students, would have a little difficulty in erasing the inconsistencies in their alibis.)
So, what I have to do is…
(How can I keep this monster away from my master?)
The grass and trees spread out around my feet.
Charlotte swung her sword at them, cutting them into pieces.
(It would be best to stun him, but I don’t know if that’s too much to ask.)
This time, a huge tree trunk looms over Charlotte
However, the trunk slips through Charlotte’s body, and as it does, it destroys the back wall, creating a spacious area.
Several Charlottes run across the ground at once. Immediately after, sharp ivy was swung sideways, but they all avoided it by making their respective movements.
The moment they approached Adele’s path, they swung their swords as hard as they could into the empty torso.
But—
“……!”
The feel is dull. It’s like hitting a diamond.
The black armor that Adele was currently wearing had no scratches, and right after that, the sword was swung at her.
(“Black Knight”. I never thought I’d see the day I’d turn my sword on that hero. …… If I told my brothers, they’d be furious.)
Charlotte regains her grip on her sword.
From there, it’s an exchange of swords, ignoring the other Charlotte.
There is not a single step backward. Only the sound of swords clashing echoed through the dungeon.
Immediately after that, Charlotte’s sword, which should have been fighting back, slipped through, and Adele received a heavy impact on the back of his head.
“…….”
“You’re concentrating too much on what’s in front of you, aren’t you?”
The thing that Charlotte did was quite simple.
While retreating, she left only a virtual image, disappeared from Adele’s sight, and swung her sword at an unsuspecting part.
That’s it. This is all there is to it, but how difficult it is to do it while keeping the sword in contact with Adele’s body.
The timing of the breath, the timing of the pause, and the speed at which the magic is used.
No doubt, it is not something that an ordinary person can do.
This is definitely…
“I didn’t think there were magic swordsmen other than me.”
“I’ll leave it up to each of you to decide how to express yourself. I am merely more comfortable this way.”
The reason why there are so few magical swordsmen is simply because there are no swordsmen who can handle magic.
You can also use magic and wield a sword. Anyone can do that.
However, this is just a small
matter
Can you beat a knight who fights on the front line with a sword? Can you beat a mage who is immersed in research with magic?
In other words, that’s what it means… Only heretics who specialize in both sword and magic and can use both in battle can be called by that name.
“Call me what you want, but if I were interested in fame in the first place, I wouldn’t be such a villain.”
Adele swung his sword in a broad sweep, and her false image and her invisible self moved away from him at the same time.
At that moment, a thick ivy extended only to the supposedly invisible her.
If she cut them, she would know where she was. So she leapt to distance herself, but when she landed again, the ivy extended from her feet in the same way.
(I see, it has grasped my whereabouts by feel.)
A false image is just that, a false image. It has no substance.
Therefore, the weight is not on the place it touches, and if you can confirm the feeling of touch, you can catch it even if you cannot see its figure.
But…
“It’s a bit of a cheap trick, though.”
Charlotte snaps her fingers.
With that, the whole surrounding area was covered with red flames.
If there had been an audience and someone was watching the performance, they would have been surprised.
“Plants are fire-sensitive. If I burn them, they’re not a threat, are they?”
An over-thick tree trunk approaches Charlotte from the sea of flames, burning.
“But it just burns, right?”
“But will it burn?”
Charlotte lightly swings her sword and slices the trunk in half.
When the split tree trunk hit the wall, it crumbled to ashes.
“Lousy power.”
The green in the dark space turned reddish black in an instant.
It was as if nature’s bounty of healing had turned into a hellscape in an instant.
(……I can do it)
Running out into the blazing fire, many Charlottes swung their swords at Adele.
(I can do it.)
No coping is possible.
Some of the sword fights that many of them carry out strike Adele’s body, and the black armor finally crumbles in some places due to the flames.
(I can go …… and beat him.)
If anyone had really seen this scene, they would have uttered, “I can’t believe it.”
Both students of each other. Despite the fact that they are both students, the sword fights are unleashed at blinding speeds. The magic that is created at the same time is too powerful.
Even experienced adults would probably be no match for them in a battle here.
To that extent, the scene that is happening now is too abnormal.
Heretics and heretics. A battle produced by a talent that surpasses even that of a genius.
But even so, it is undoubtedly Charlotte who is pushing.
(Not stalling, but winning is ……!)
Charlotte knows that best.
She is convinced because she has crossed swords and actually continues to fold in the blow.
“…… hey.”
And that this conviction was only temporary…
“Is this all you got?”
— Immediately after, Charlotte’s body slammed into the ground over the five walls.
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