2 – Seal of the Blade

Whack.

Whack.

Whack.

Blades sprouted as if exploding.

Blades piercing her armpits as she spread her arms.

Blades piercing her from the empty space behind her back as she leaped.

Blades rained down, trying to cut Amel.

‘What’s sealed here?’

I watched the presence of [Magical Power].

Dragon Girl wasn’t free from the blades either; the detailed location of her [Magical Power] moved frantically.

The distance wasn’t that far.

Amel kicked off the ground.

Whack. Whack. Whachwachwachwa.

She evaded the blades.

I can’t use [Electricity].

I can, but the magnetic field fixes my body with a magical phenomenon.

However, the positional information of the blades reacting to the subtly sent [Electricity] is being clearly transmitted without going through my eyes.

Evade, evade, and grasp the location where the blades will sprout before they sprout.

As Amel started running quickly, the growth of the blades also accelerated, trying to block her path. But they couldn’t. Amel slipped through the gaps in the blades like a loach.

As she became more accustomed to it, her speed increased even further.

Faintly,

A blue light was visible.

It’s there.

Amel sensed the presence of blades from both the left and right sides and jumped.

In a high jump athlete’s posture, she passed through the blades growing from both sides.

Dragon Girl came into view.

Dragon Girl blocked the blades with her toughness.

Towards that back, [Leap].

The blades spurted out, whack, whack, whack, but she dodged them all and briefly made eye contact with Dragon Girl.

She greeted her with her eyes.

Hello.

One more [Leap].

Accelerating even further,

Body slam.

Bang. She flew her body with all her might into Dragon Girl, pushing her all the way to the wall. The wall of blades.

Dragon Girl’s skin remained without a single scratch as she broke the blades and crashed into the wall.

“I’m taking it back.”

“So, it was you after all. You’re the one who dragged me here…!”

“You know now?”

Amel snatched back the [Magical Power] held in Dragon Girl’s hand.

A blue orb.

[Magical Power].

She clenched it in her fist.

Absorbed it back.

“Insolent…”

Dragon Girl held flames in her mouth.

Flames leaked out between her lips and teeth.

Dragon Breath.

But,

Dragon Girl closed her mouth tightly, letting out a shout.

“Hup…!”

Explosion.

Dragon Breath was sprayed in all directions, centered on Dragon Girl’s body.

Amel, pushed by the explosion, flew all the way to the opposite wall.

Before Amel flew away, all the blades were shattered.

The cave endured the Dragon Breath without collapsing.

Crack.

…Or not?

Cracks spread on the inner walls of the Sealed Land’s cave.

Fragments rained down from the ceiling, and pieces of blades also fell.

Blades were stacked in layers inside the cave’s inner walls, and as they shattered, a metallic object of a certain shape was mixed in.

The shape of the metallic object resembled a sword.

I felt a slight curiosity, but,

Right now, I glared at Dragon Girl.

Dragon Girl shouted.

“Teleport!!!”

She disappeared.

She was about to disappear.

Amel sensed the flow of that Magical Power.

It was similar to the Imperial Magician’s Teleport.

Quickly judging that she was trying to escape, Amel had no intention of letting Dragon Girl go.

The Teleport had already been activated, and Dragon Girl’s figure had half disappeared.

The Dragon of [Magic].

I can’t let [Magic] be revived.

Even though she said she would revive the Great Devil to fight because there was no one else to fight,

I couldn’t let the revival of the Great Devil, who seemed to be specialized in war, happen where my eyes couldn’t reach.

Just looking at Dragon Girl’s actions, she was trying to undo the Seal of [Magic].

The fact that she came to this Sealed Land even knowing she was being lured meant that it was highly likely that it was similar to the Seal placed on [Magic].

If [Magical Power] knew this location, and if there was a Sealed Body of [Magic] in this location.

As the Dragon, the companion of [Magic], she wouldn’t be able to leave the Sealed Body alone.

Amel generated [Electricity].

In the fleeting moment when [Electricity] flowed like tentacles. Amel’s thinking speed also accelerated.

Her body couldn’t keep up with her thinking speed.

As a normal body, not a [Sword God], I couldn’t keep up with the speed of [Electricity]. Only [Electricity] moved freely in the moment of acceleration.

[Electricity] touched her for a moment.

The accelerating thought was released.

“Fwahah…!”

Haa… Haa…

I was doing this for the first time since Force, but as expected, it was overwhelming.

Drip.

Is it snot?

When I wiped it, it was a nosebleed.

My eyes were also a little red.

[Heal]

I recovered.

The fatigue from the momentary acceleration didn’t go away.

But it was still pleasant.

I closed my eyes.

Calmly focusing, I sharpened my senses.

Not that far away.

I felt [Magical Power].

At the moment when she was about to disappear with Teleport, Amel had implanted a small amount of her [Magical Power] into Dragon Girl’s heart.

I could feel Dragon Girl grabbing her heart in surprise. I sent [Electricity] through the [Magical Power], electrocuting Dragon Girl.

Crackle.

This time, since I had voluntarily separated the [Magical Power] myself, the sense of connection was much clearer than before.

“Did you think you could escape so easily?”

Dragon Girl is trying to run away.

Just as I was about to leave the cave to catch her.

Chwarararararararak.

Behind Amel, who was about to leave the Sealed Land, blades gathered and clumped together.

Clumping, chwarak.

Clumping, chwarak.

The mass of broken blades and swords was compressed, gradually reducing in volume.

There were still many blades on the broken ceiling, and they continued to fall, but the blade mass swallowed all those blades and reduced in volume.

[Electricity] groped the blade mass and glimpsed a high-density object inside.

The shape is humanoid.

Is it a sealed monster?

When I glanced at the Sealed Land, there was no Seal altar anywhere in the cave.

On the surface, it was just a cave full of blades.

Chwarak.

Chwarak.

Chwarak.

The volume of the blade mass decreased.

Dragon Girl escaped.

She flew to a distance where the location couldn’t be accurately estimated with Teleport.

The location of [Magical Power] is giving me a rough direction, so I can find her if I want to.

I should secure the Sealed Body of [Magic] before Dragon Girl.

Let’s deal with that first.

As the blades clump together,

Chwarak.

Chwarak!

Chwarak!!

The Magical Power intensifies.

A metal Mannequin with a smooth surface.

All the blades in the cave clumped together.

Above the metal Mannequin’s head,

[Swordsmanship Doll]

An information window appeared.

The Doll turned its head.

It kicked off the ground.

Without any probing, it swung its arms, turning them into blades.

I parried with the [Black Sword],

And at the same time as the parry, its foot swept upwards. Amel felt the wind pressure of the blade at the tip of her chin; the Doll’s toes had also become blades.

“…Interesting.”

But I can’t win with just being interesting.

Amel swung the [Black Sword].

The [Black Sword] cut off the Doll’s limbs, creating gaps and splitting its torso.

I tried to split it.

But blades surged from its chest, parrying the [Black Sword].

The [Swordsmanship Doll]’s entire body was made of blades.

Since its entire body is made of blades, cutting the Doll should be seen as breaking the blades.

The Doll widened its arms and legs, narrowing the posture as if to pounce, and then imitated Amel’s posture, taking a stance to hold a sword.

Blades grew from its hand, becoming a sword.

A sword shining with a silver-white color.

It pointed the [Silver Sword] at me.

‘It’s learning.’

But,

The [Black Sword] imbued [Sword Aura] and cut the Doll.

In the first exchange, it parried the [Silver Sword],

And split its face in half.

‘Not yet.’

Amel pushed forward with the momentum to kill the Doll before it could learn.

The [Black Sword] cut, cut, and cut out the parts that could be the Doll’s weaknesses.

First, the head.

Next, the chest.

Next, the legs.

Next, the arms.

But the split face was repaired with blades sprouting, chack, chack, chack, and the area split from the heart to the shoulder was also repaired as the blades closed like shark teeth.

Even if its legs were severed, blades sprouted from the cut surface, maintaining its balance.

The [Silver Sword] stabbed in.

I spun the [Black Sword] and parried it,

And kicked the Doll’s chest with my foot.

‘Can’t I kill it by cutting?’

I want to try [Spatial Slash], but [Spatial Slash] is also just cutting in the end. Seeing that blades sprout regardless of volume, there’s a possibility that [Spatial Slash] won’t work either.

Even if I wanted to try, the Seal of [Spatial Slash] was still intact, so I couldn’t use it even if I wanted to. It would be more accurate to say that I didn’t have the time to try to undo it.

Anyway,

If cutting doesn’t work,

‘…What about breaking it?’

The soles of my feet tingled.

A hole was pierced in the instep of my foot.

Drops of Blood dripped.

“That…”

Blades sprouted in the area I was about to kick when I kicked it with my foot.

While stabbing my foot with the sprouted blades, it pierced from the sole of my foot to the instep.

I was a little more curious about the fact that I was injured than about the counterattack.

I hadn’t been cut by the blades since entering the cave, but I didn’t expect it to pierce my skin, which was fortified with Magical Power, so easily.

“Interesting.”

The Doll embedded in the wall.

Amel [Leaped] forward.

Raising her foot,

She stabbed her foot into the Doll’s chest. Cracks spread on the cave’s inner wall behind the Doll, and the cave ceiling collapsed with a roar.

I have no intention of being buried in the debris.

Pulling her foot out of the Doll’s blades, she gathered Magical Power in the [Black Sword] and raised [Sword Aura].

From bottom to top,

She swept the Doll along with the entire cave with [Sword Aura].

A full moon rises above her head.

She [Leaped] towards the night sky.

She chased after the cave debris soaring high into the sky and the Doll mixed in it.

Using the debris as stepping stones to increase her speed, Amel found the Doll,

And the Doll also rushed in, stepping on the debris.

[Black Sword] and [Silver Sword].

They clashed,

And the [Black Sword] struck down the [Silver Sword], causing it to fall vertically to the ground.

The Doll was slammed into the ground.

Amel raised the [Black Sword] high.

[Execution Sword]

The Doll raised the [Silver Sword] to defend, but it split the [Silver Sword] in half.

She stretched out [Electricity] towards the Doll that had been split in half.

The Doll was constantly creating blades and clumping the blades together to restore itself. It was similar to the way a Golem restores itself.

She pulled up [Electricity].

She increased the voltage.

Because of the Seal left by Dragon Girl, my body would be fixed if I used [Electricity],

But that doesn’t matter now.

The output of [Electricity] was increased.

The Doll’s upper and lower body were each suspended in the air, and thick, fierce currents discharged sparks into the atmosphere.

[Electricity] was frying, burning, and melting the inside of the [Swordsmanship Doll].