End of Battle

[Force]’s body rotated fiercely.

It didn’t stop immediately.

Amel fixed the magnetic field inside her body to hold onto the inertia.

She reversed her body that had entered a state of ultra-high speed and rotated it again,

A kick.

She roundhouse kicked.

As she roundhouse kicked [Force]’s rotating body, it flew horizontally along the ground.

She couldn’t use [Destroying Heaven Kick].

The speed needed to use it didn’t come out.

This was a physical limitation.

To exert the power of [Heavenly Destruction], a minimum preparation was needed, but in the current ultra-high speed realm, there was woefully insufficient time for that preparation.

The same went for other techniques. They required going through more than one process.

Instead,

Electricity.

She converted the magical power in her soles into electricity and sent an electric current along with the kick.

There should be an explosive sound… but no sound reached her at all, and the shockwave of the sonic boom didn’t come either. Before that could happen, she chased after the flying [Force].

[Force] corrected his posture while flying,

Amel faced [Force]’s [Mana Sword] again.

[Mana Sword].

He discarded it.

Letting go of it from his hand,

He clenched his fist.

Hand-to-hand combat.

[Force]’s judgment was quick.

He realized that crushing was slightly more effective than cutting.

In this speed realm, techniques lose their meaning to the point that even [Heavenly Destruction Fist], which is quite fast to cast, can’t be used, so [Sword Aura] can’t be used either.

The only usable techniques are those that fix the shape of magical power, like [Sword Aura]. Even that needs to be prepared in advance, so discarding the [Mana Sword] means discarding the [Sword Aura] surrounding it as well.

I understand why he discarded it, but

Is that really okay?

‘This side has an Awakened Ability, you know.’

As Amel extended her fist, [Force]’s fist overlapped with it and lightning struck.

[Force] was at a disadvantage.

She took one step closer and,

While punching [Force] in the face,

She chased after him as he flew away.

As she pursued, [Force]’s foot connected with her chin.

[Force]’s rising kick.

Her head was completely shattered.

Is the hardness weak?

Is the power insufficient?

[Force]’s face was only slightly dented, but her side was devastatingly shattered.

But still, whatever.

She restored it.

She quickly gathered the head fragments woven with electricity and restored them.

Her vision returned,

And she continued the battle.

Fist against fist.

Foot against foot.

They destroyed each other’s faces and bodies.

It felt like they exchanged attacks for hours.

They destroyed the rock that had been a fortress,

Created bubbles in the air,

And fought while floating as the ground sank like mud.

As the fight went on, she felt an increasingly strong pressure weighing on her mind.

The amount of information flowing into her brain in a short time was absurd.

The world flowed slowly and her head and body caught up with it, but she couldn’t erase the strange sensation of something being excessively compressed inside her head.

If it were a human body, blood would have gushed from the nose and eyes long ago.

It was happening now too.

Cracks burst around her eyes.

The eyes, where magical power is most concentrated in the [Sword God] body. Cracks burst and she restored them, but immediately they shattered with a crack.

Even [Sword God] had its limits.

[Sword God], completed under originally imperfect conditions.

There was no expectation that it could maintain its form indefinitely.

To engage in such ultra-high speed combat in this state.

It would be precarious just to maintain it.

On the other hand,

‘Who are you calling a monster?’

[Force], with a body so close to human, showed no signs of the accumulated fatigue she felt, despite taking the same blows until now.

At least,

‘He’s slowing down.’

Openings were becoming more and more visible.

The problem was…

‘I’m slowing down too.’

All-out attacks with no defense.

This was certainly tiring.

It hurt,

And felt like it would break.

Gritting her teeth, she put strength into her fist.

A big opening shown by [Force].

A habit revealed by mistake.

Seeing the opening that appeared from that habit, Amel quickly circulated magical power with her electrical ability and weakly wrapped [Heavenly Destruction] around her fist.

A straight punch aimed at the opening.

[Heavenly Destruction Fist]

As she extended her fist, his fist punched a large hole below her neck.

Her body and head separated.

Amel continued the motion with just her body.

She planted the maximum power [Heavenly Destruction Fist] she could muster now into [Force]’s liver area.

He was swept away.

He was pushed back.

Rather than being pushed back by the [Heavenly Destruction Fist], it was more that [Force] himself took a backstep.

She immediately gave chase.

While chasing, Amel spotted the [Mana Sword] in [Force]’s path as he was being pushed back.

The [Mana Sword] still hanging in the air without having fallen to the ground. As [Force] was being pushed back, he retrieved the [Mana Sword] and connected his magical power to the magical power still remaining in it.

He immediately swung it.

From top to bottom.

He slashed vertically.

The magical blade coming down in a slash.

Amel brought both hands together,

And caught the blade.

She sent electricity through it and concentrated [Frost] on an area smaller than her palm. She [Froze] the [Mana Sword]’s magical blade as if drawing a single line.

She broke it.

The blade.

She gripped the [Frozen] part of the magical blade like a handle and maintained the magical blade extending above it.

The broken magical blade.

She used it as is.

Amel gripping it like a dagger.

She pulled her body with the magnetic field and passed by [Force] like a rocket.

Her wrist was cut by [Force]’s brilliant swordplay in counterattack, but

So what?

It was over.

‘It’s your misjudgment.’

[Force] had also become fatigued from the long ultra-high speed battle.

Letting go of the [Mana Sword] at first was partly to rule out this possibility. Forgetting that judgment and grabbing the [Mana Sword] again was a clear mistake.

Amel slashed.

[Force]’s neck.

Even the undead die.

The undead grow stronger the more death is added to them.

The notion that they don’t die was a misconception.

So killing them only makes the undead stronger.

Amel had learned this common sense through past battles.

Even if she struck with divine magic and killed with anti-magic power, it seemed she couldn’t give them a death penalty if that King of Death bastard was watching.

Of course, this time he excessively interfered to help [Force] exert his original power, but as a result, the King of Death received a penalty for violating causality.

What a shame after making such an effort.

No.

Not yet.

‘There’s still something left to do.’

Don’t let your guard down.

Amel cut down [Force] and steeled her relaxing heart as she turned around.

It felt like it could unravel at any moment.

She wanted to relax quickly right away.

But not yet.

One more time left.

Amel turned around gripping the magical blade,

And pulled the increasingly heavy magical blade with difficulty.

Gradually leaving the ultra-high speed realm.

Her arms and legs felt heavy.

But,

Even so,

‘Not yet!!’

Amel shone [Killing Intent] red with a heart-wrenching feeling.

She painfully re-entered the ultra-high speed realm and moved her body.

The magical blade frozen to the tip.

She pulled it as is,

And thrust it forward.

She stabbed it into [Force]’s heart.

At that moment.

Relief.

Ah.

Damn it.

She let go of the tension.

Like a rubber band stretched to its limit, she lost her grip on her sense of time.

As soon as she let go, her sense of time quickly returned to normal, and the sensations throughout her body rapidly returned to normal as well.

The vector that couldn’t move as if frozen in the ultra-high speed realm.

That force pulled at her body.

It wasn’t just Amel’s body.

From [Force]’s body to the air and ground they had passed through, nothing was an exception. Their battle had accumulated force in space.

That force was like a bomb.

The shackles of time were released,

And boom.

The area was blown away.

Amel fell to the ground with a thud.

She fell from the sky like a worn-out shoe.

She pressed against the ground.

She pressed her fingers into the ground.

That was her limit.

“Ugh…”

She couldn’t raise her body.

No strength entered her body.

She couldn’t lift her arms or move her legs.

She gritted her teeth, but it was no use.

Electrical ability?

Crackle.

She could use it.

She forcibly raised her unmoving body by surrounding it with electrical ability.

But she couldn’t make it float.

The ability didn’t work to that extent.

She could clearly weave magnetic fields throughout her body before, so why suddenly?

She realized.

‘Sword God…’

It was released.

[Sword God] was deactivated.

The cause was losing consciousness for a moment while being blown away by the final explosion.

Still, her use of electrical ability had become more proficient and even though her body wouldn’t move at all, it worked.

“Huff… huff…”

She was out of breath.

Just from moving a little.

She felt her body deteriorating.

She pressed her chest.

[Heal]

She healed herself.

While healing,

She looked for [Force].

He must have been blown away by the shockwave too.

One step.

Two steps.

It was like moving a puppet.

Unfamiliar, she dragged her feet.

Then,

She found him.

“Huff… huff…”

“(….)”

[Force] was also lying on the ground, unable to move.

He must be tired too, but

More than that…

“Huff… huff…”

The magical blade was stuck in his back.

She had stabbed it in.

That area was frozen solid.

His severed neck was also frozen, preventing regeneration, and his broken spine had incapacitated [Force].

[Force] had composed his body as a human body to inherit his living strength even after becoming a [Death Knight], and that became his downfall.

It’s hard to imagine the sensation of a body that isn’t human.

She knew because she had experienced it directly.

If Amel hadn’t met [Force] and didn’t encounter strong enemies like [Force] afterwards, she probably would have never known this unknown sensation for her entire life.

But still, he should have adapted.

His failure to do so was [Force]’s laziness.

[Force]’s pupils.

Their eyes met.

“….”

“(….)”

Grin.

She won.

‘I won.’

“Force, become mine.”

“(….)”

Bronze arm.

Left thumb.

She applied anti-magic power to her thumb and strongly drew out the power of [Possession].

Finally able to set down her heavy body, she pressed both hands on [Force].

She pressed and began to [Possess] him.

She felt resistance.

“Don’t, resist. Cough.”

She retched.

“Uwehk…”

She vomited blood.

Her vision was also blurry.

Although she healed her body with [Heal], her physical condition continued to worsen.

Her complexion worsened,

Dark circles formed under her eyes,

And her breathing became labored.

‘Can’t breathe…!’

She couldn’t breathe.

Her heart pounded like it would burst. Thump. Thump thump. Thump.

…She was dying.

She sensed it.

Resisting the urge to clutch her chest, she made her eyes glow red.

Blood vessels burst in the whites of her eyes, partly due to [Killing Intent].

But,

Just a little more.

Just a little more until she [Possessed] [Force].

Come over.

Come over.

‘Come over!’

Her own death.

[Possessing] [Force].

It was frustratingly close.

Was her willpower lacking?

Crackle.

Crackle crackle.

She gritted her teeth.

Blood burst from her mouth.

Her nose bled.

Blood gushed from her eyes.

Was it not enough?

Irritation welled up.

Her muscles trembled.

She wrung out everything inside herself, but she lacked just a tiny bit of strength.

If she let go of [Force] like this, it would remain a lifelong regret.

At that moment.

“[Restoration]!”

A holy light descended.

It healed Amel,

And weakened [Force].

[Possession]

She did it.

‘I got him.’

Awesome.

She pressed down both hands that were holding [Force] and sank him into the shadows.

Someone approached, but

Her eyes went dark with a thud.

Even though her body had recovered, Amel was already at her limit just staying conscious.

She fainted.

Neigh.

The horse whinnied.

“….”

Holy Maiden Olushia quickly dismounted and examined the Hero’s condition.

Restoration.

A high-level recovery spell that can save someone as long as they’re not dead.

Even after using that, the Hero’s condition was not improving, but rather worsening. She was dying. It was something Olushia had never experienced before, so she could have been flustered,

But Olushia didn’t question it.

She only thought about saving her.