“...Amazing.”

  Someotered those words, which carried clearly across the silent battlefield.

  “This… This is beyond mithril or orichalcum… this is the level of heroes… an Adamantite…!”

  To catch the full swing of an ogre with a single hand, shattering its club, and cleaving it into two parts.

  This was an impossible feat of arms.

  A rare few expos of swordsmanship or those bearing powerful magic ons might be able to do it. But, it was on sehat one wouldn’t be able to use one’s full strength when wielding a two-handed greatsword with one hand, while the other held a giant club in pce against an ogre’s strength.

  Two-handed ons were, as the name implied, inteo be wielded with both hands, using the weight of the ons and the leverage of its length to do damage. They were not inteo be wielded by arm-strength alone.

  However, from Yuuji’s movements, the possibility existed that his sword might be ented with magic beyond anything they’ve ever seen before, or that Yuuji with one hand was strohan a regur warrior with both arms.

  Moreover, that st strike… A ssh that could hit targets in a ra must’ve been a martial art, and aremely powerful ooo.

  Swordsmen had always been at a disadvantage when fighting against oppos with a longer range. Uhey could shorten the distanehow, they would uniterally be bombarded with arrows or spells.

  But this martial art allowed him to strike those even outside his range, allowing him to retaliate against archers ic caster at range.

  Such martial arts… He’d be practically capable of killing any enemies in his range of sight. His range would not be limited to the length of his sword.

  “Unbelievable…”

  That was the only thier could say, while the rest of his party members stood speechless at the silenced battlefield.

  His words were heard by Aika, Momonga, and Lupu as well, who were also impressed by Yuuji’s dispy of power.

  However, the person iion himself did not notice Peter, or any of the others’ reas, as his mind was filled with another voibsp;

  [Master… You’re such a cheater… Liar… Phinderer… Womanizer… How could you wield another sword when you have Est?]

  Through their telepathid, Est has been grumbling sihe momeouched “Avalon” at the start of the battle for not keeping his word of not using any other sword aside from her.

  [Est… I’ve expi to you… I o use another sword while ag as an adventurer…]

  To keep his persona as Alexander Kyrielight, the heroic, white-armored Padin adventurer, and Yuuji, the supreme being of Nazarick, pletely different, he had purposefully used a lower-leveled gear and equipment that he wouldn’t be using otherwise.

  If he wielded Est as Alexander Kyrielight… Then he wouldn’t be able to wield her again while he was in his true persona.

  Moreover… She was too powerful to be wielded by a mere adventurer. It’d attrauwatra from the unsavory types.

  [But master is still master… Master’s hand is toug another sword… Master’s magic is flowing through another sword… That’s cheating… Master, you have many wives, but your only sword is me. You promised…]

  “...”

  The tone of her voice was ral, without any undution. But he could tell… Est set. If she was in her human form, she would’ve been pouting.

  In the end… Yuuji gave up and tried to appease her.

  [Alright… I’m sorry for breaking my promise. But, while I am Alexander Kyrielight, I ’t wield you. So iurn… I’ll do anything you wish as an apology. And in exge, you will allow me to use “As” just while I act as Alexander Kyrielight.]

  [...]

  Est thought for a moment. Then, her voice resounded once more in his mind.

  [Then master… You must allow me to sleep with you every night.]

  [Eh…? Every night…? But…]

  [Master… I’ve seen you do adult stuff with Aika-nee and the others… I won’t disturb you…]

  [...]

  Yuuji… khat it’d be impossible to hide everything he was doing with Aika from the spirit who was literally soul-bound to him.

  But still, faced with the facts, Yuuji still couldn’t believe it…

  Although Est was teically much older than him, the fact that she still looked like a small child made it difficult for him to accept the situation.

  [Est… Is it-]

  [No… Every night… I want to hug master while we sleep so I will still be the sword in tact with master the lo… Or I will e out now…]

  [...Alright.]

  [Mm. I love you, master.]

  Finally satisfied, Est returo her slumber within Yuuji’s mind and soul, snug and fortable while waiting fht to e so she could be with her master physically, leaving Yuuji sighing helplessly.

  Meanwhile, having faced a nightmare came reality, primal fear stopped the ogres and goblins from their frenzied charge.

  Their upper-bodies leaned back, instinctively distang itself from immi death. But their legs remaitached to the ground, uo be moved, causing many to fall to their backs with only a few managing to take a step back at the st sed and avoid falling.

  One by ohe no longer frenzied monster began bag off. And eveer, along with the rest of the Swords of Darkness, could see the immense fear dispyed on their faces, despite it being hideous aarded.

  But at that moment, a sudden gust of wind blew. And in an instant, fiery, crimson red s appeared from within the ground and ed around all the remaining ogres and a few goblins.

  “Oh~? Where are you going~? We’re not do, you know~?”

  Her beautiful, bell-like giggled was apanied by the pained groans and panicked roars of the bound creatures. And once again, the Swords of Darkness could hardly believe what they saw.

  The spell [Twi] that Dyne casted previously was aremely powerful immobilizing spell capable of sealing the movement of a single creature, eveh a strong physique like the Ogre. It was one of the most useful and important spells that the Swords of Darkness frequently use as the core of many of their strategies.

  However, the spell wasn’t without its weakness. Being made of pnts, it was naturally vulnerable to fire and sshing damage, making it not very useful when used against creatures with sharp cws or fiery physical traits except to just buy a few seds or as a distra.

  But the spell Lilith cast was capable of holding multiple ogres as well as goblins, a stark trast to Dyne’s siarget immobilizing spell.

  Moreover, wreathed in fmes, it not only immobilized its targets, but also burhem. They could all see smoke rising from all the creatures bound by the fiery s as their skin began to fke and char.

  The s also seemed to be… almost ethereal. Although the fmes obscured their vision, the s seemed to be slightly transparent.

  If this was true, then the spell Lilith had cast… was a multi-target immobilizing spell that damages its targets while also being immuo physical attacks.

  It was undoubtedly a third-tier spell… or perhaps, even beyond. A fourth-tier spell… That was already in the realm of heroes.

  “Lupu.”

  “Yes!”

  At Aika’s word, Lupu dashed towards one of the bound ogres and jumped high. She flipped through the air, and using the momentum of her fall, delivered a devastating ax kick that shattered and caved its head in.

  Lupu pushed off the ogre’s head and leaped once more into the air as a heavy thud shook the ground below her, and reached behind for her mabsp;

  “Here we go~!!!”

  With both hands holding her mace, Lupu smmed down onto a goblin, instantly pulverizing it into a spt of blood and mush and shattering the ground. Then, with her mace still stu the ground, she swung up, draggin the earth up, and shattered the ground before her, causing spiked rocks to jut out of the ground that pierced many goblins.

  Her eyes narrowed in delight as her lips curled into a thin grin as she looked at the devastation before her.

  The rest of the ogres and goblins tio run away. It was no longer a retreat, but a chaotic escape for their lives.

  A spear of lightning pierced through two ogres, the st two, straight through the ter of their torso. But they didn’t stop running, even as two heavy thuds shook the grouhem.

  As long as they reach the forest lihey’d be able to find cover and hide from their pursuers.

  But just as they were about to reach the tree-lines… A massive wall of earth erupted from the ground, sealing their escape.

  The goblins looked up in despair and to their sides… It was aremely tall and wide wall. They khat before they could climb it or run around it, it would be too te…

  In the end… They looked back. And the st thing they saw was a beautiful masked woman in the air above them, dropping a ball of crag thuhat exploded right before their very eyes.

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  With the battle finished, Yuuji’s party returo the cart where Nfirea and the rest of the Swords of Darkness were.

  There was silence. Ead every one of them was still too shocked and astouo speak.

  “Well then, shall we tinue our journey?”

  Yuuji’s voiapped them all out of their daze, and all of them immediately surrounded him with eyes filled with admiration.

  “Alexander-san! You were so amazing! No… Everyone is so amazing…!”

  “By the Gods, I’m too shocked… ! I didn’t expect Alexander, Lupu, and everyone is so powerful…!”

  “L-Lilith-san and Momon-san! Your spells are amazing!!! I-I’m very touched! I ’t believe I could see sucredible works of magic!”

  “Umu! I am astounded! I’m gd we could meet sucredible figures!”

  “Yes… I didn’t expect all of you to be this strong…!”

  Although advehemselves, Peter, Lukrut, Ninya, and Dyne had never seen su incredible sight, much less he things they saw in this otle were simply too astounding.

  They doubted that evehril-ranked adventurer party, Kralga, would be able to imitate what Alexander’s group had done.

  They were not sure before, but now, they were certain. Alexander and his group were undoubtedly Adamantite-ranked adventurers.

  Yuuji smiled softly under his helmet.

  “Thank you. I’m gd everyone is safe. But let us save the victory celebration for ter. We are still in a dangerous area. We should move on to a safer area before a for the night.”

  “Ah, yes! As you say! Then, we shall resume our journey. Nfirea-san, are you okay to tinue?”

  “Y-Yes! I’m fine. Let’s go.”

  With that, the group tiheir travel towards e Vilge, taking a night’s rest, before tinuing early the day.

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