Chapter 15 – Success

Cliff is a prince. Such a man could not have given his soul to a clumsy demon. This means that whatever demon power the author deals with, the level will be extraordinary. He was a more difficult opponent than intermediate demons.

“Take Etrian!”

Ed shouted and held his weapon. From the beginning, he didn’t think about deciding the winner at once. He only thought of checking the power of the cold air on the arrow. Ed’s cold arrow stopped right under Cliff’s nose. He doesn’t deal with mysteries, but he could see that his powers were psychokinesis. When he realized that, he knew that this was the worst scenario. An archer has to kill a person that can use psychokinesis?

“The tip of your weapon seems to be a little dull?”

Cliff grinned and raised his hand, and the silver candlestick on the table soared. Ed looked at it and shouted, shooting an arrow again.

“I can’t kill him if Etrian interferes. So stop her no matter what. Put your life on the line and block her!”

As soon as he was done speaking, a silver candlestick flew in. How fast it flew was barely avoided with high agility figures. Avoiding the flying silver candlestick, Ed started firing arrows one after another as he walked forward. It was necessary to understand the power of psychokinesis. Seeing that the arrow that was first shot stopped in front of his nose, the closer he gets, the stronger the psychokinesis seems to be, but the closer he gets, the stronger the power of the arrow. Arrows flying as they approached stopped in front of Cliff’s nose but turned their heads and flew toward Ed. Ed avoided those arrows but gradually narrowed his distance. Sona and her agents were already fighting Etrian. But they couldn’t handle Etrian by themselves. She was pulling out the sword and swinging it, and she had to bow down to the chills she felt from the trajectory she was picturing. It was not easy to have Etrian’s sword in mind in a situation where it would be difficult to focus only on Cliff. In addition, the arrow is only shot once, but it was controlled by psychokinesis and flew back. So he had to keep moving. If he stops for a moment, he’ll be hit. Etrian’s sword was mysterious, cutting everything that was hanging in the trajectory. An agent who followed Sona had his arm cut off. Etrian was a strong enough woman, even if she did not have any relic-class equipment. Perhaps it was natural that she was dangerous because she had artifact-like equipment in her hands. Ed jumped onto a large round table in the conference room and shot arrows, but the distance only narrowed slightly. Cliff now took a step back, smiling as he saw the arrow approaching his nose. Then, as he stretched out his hands, the arrows that Ed had shot obscured his face. Cliff, hiding behind the arrow, smiled at Ed.

“That was fun.”

At the end of the remark, arrows flew in like machine guns. Ed dodged the arrows as he moved sideways quickly on the table. The arrows that flew past him would turn their heads from behind and aim for their backs, but Ed didn’t mean to drag it out that long either. Ed ran forward and took an arrow from the Ice barrel. Since he has been training to concentrate his mana, he was able to concentrate his mana on the arrow in a short time. At this distance, no matter how strong Cliff is, he’d have a hard time trying to stop Ed with just psychokinesis. The arrow, which was fired like that, drastically narrowed the gap between the two and flew in. Cliff tried to get it by psychokinesis again, but it was too close. With his head bent back to its fullest extent, Cliff was able to block the arrow with the space he had created.

“Hilarious……”

At the moment when he was about to make a sarcastic remark, an intense chill exploded from his arrowhead. The chill energy could not be stopped by psychokinesis.

“····Argh!”

Not only the skin on his face but also the eyeball froze. As he ran toward Cliff, who was screaming while holding his face, he fired three arrows at the same time. An arrow hit Cliff’s chest and stomach. In the meantime, one foot turned and hit the floor, perhaps because of the psychokinesis. But the other two feet didn’t move. But it is not deeply embedded. But the distance has already narrowed. A terrible storm hit Cliff’s whole body, screaming as Ed prepared his arrow again. It was a psychological storm that Ed couldn’t do anything about. Ed, who flew back and rolled over the floor of the conference room, grinned. Shooting psychokinesis in all directions when there is no future means that the opponent has already reached the bottom. Then everything came to mind, starting with the table in the conference room. Psychokinesis floats everything except people. All of it flew in like shells.

Boom! Boom!

Ed flung himself and rolled all over the floor. Arrows, silver candlesticks, and even a large desk were stuck in the spot where he passed by. When Ed saw it, he made an impression. Ed thought he was firing random attacks because he couldn’t see, but he was trying to locate himself. He lost his eyes, but now he’s waking up to a different sense. Determined not to drag time, Ed rather narrowed the distance and went in. Cliff began to react to the arrows he had shot as he approached. He could see other senses awakening, not his eyes. However, he could see that he only responds to arrows aimed at him among the arrows that were thrown. So he approached Cliff and shot an arrow to the floor, avoiding a flying attack. It was a short time, but he gathered a lot of mana and blew it away. In this way, the cold air, which is so powerful that it is only possible to concentrate mana in the future, froze Cliff’s legs from the floor. Cliff, frozen in the lower body, once again set off a psychokinesis storm. This time, the arrow hit the ground with the psychokinesis pouring out from all directions and held out without flying away. And as soon as the storm ended, he rushed straight at Cliff. Ed, who dug into the spot where psychokinesis swept by, put the Salamander’s sword into Cliff’s chest. There was a strong fire all over Cliff’s body.

“Argh!”

Ed knew that Cliff’s body was on fire, but he wasn’t dead. He didn’t receive any level-ups or experience yet! Ed pulled out a dagger in his chest and slit his neck. It was not until Cliff’s throat soared into the air that experience came in. Perhaps because he devoted his soul to the demon, he had quite a lot of experience, so Ed’s level went up quite a bit. All the items that had been thrown by the psychokinesis storm disappeared. Ed, who was exhaling for a long time, instinctively laid on the ground. And the trajectory of Etrian’s sword passed where he was. Inspection to cut down to the conference room walls. Ed looked sideways, raising his body. With the exception of Sona, two agents had already lost their necks, and Etrian was shooting him. Blood was flowing out of her eyes, torn apart. Seeing the tears of blood, it seemed that she was not just an escort. Ed glanced at Sona and said,

“You guys can take care of her.” “What?”

Apparently, Ed only took Cliff’s life, and that was the request. He was not a demon, but he killed him without hesitation because he dedicated his soul to the demon and gained a different level of experience than he had. Thanks to him, Ed’s level has gone up. Ed decided not to be greedy here. In fact, he was envious of Etrian’s ability, but he wasn’t confident that he could win in this state. Ed fired arrows one after another. Four of the arrows of Ice were shot at Etrian in a row and pulled back. Etrian was already not paying attention. As she rushed forward, the trajectory of her sword was shortened. It was not a big swing but a shortcut, which increased the speed. Ed had no choice but to raise another agile stat. It wasn’t to the point of avoiding physical movements. Etrian saw Ed manage to avoid all the attacks while watching his own sword and rushed with clenched teeth. The general-level knight’s rush is hard to avoid, even if it is Ed, at least in the previous move. So he shot an arrow in front of her. When the cold-hearted arrow flew in, Etrian swung the sword again and cut the arrow. But this time, it was an arrow full of cold air.

Freeez!

When the freezing cold air all around held Etrian, Ed broke the window with his back and fell out of the conference room. For a brief moment, when Etrian froze, Ed kicked the wall down the roof above the hallway while falling. Then he ran towards the retreat without looking back. He didn’t have to stay longer when he completed his mission. Ed, who left the conference room at once, looked back while running on the roof above the hallway. Etrian, whose right hand was frozen, was running with her hair untied like a demon. He realized one thing when he saw her. Sona is obviously not capable of stopping Etrian. But if she jumps off and Etrian follows her right away, it means Sona didn’t think about holding her back. He thought he could follow the main quest with Akalan, but he thought his connection with them should end here. It occurred to him that Akalan might chase him and seek his life. Ed speeded up. Etrian is running on the roof like him, but her frozen arms have yet to recover. He was thinking about fighting for a moment, but this place has a royal palace. As soon as the prince’s death was announced, he did not intend to be arrested because they would order to kill the assassin. So he ran toward her for now. As Ed increased his speed, Etrian eventually began to wield a sword in her left hand. It was not usual to run while looking behind and escape from the body after reading intangible censorship aimed at him. Naturally, he paid a lot of attention, so the speed had to decrease, and the gap began to narrow. Even if she is a general-class knight, her weapons are not infinite. And her er mana will run out if this drags on. Ed jumped into what appeared to be a training ground. And slowly turned around in the middle. Etrian rushed as soon as he got off the ground. When Ed saw her rush, he didn’t feel the need to talk, and he fired an arrow straight. Five arrows flew in, but she didn’t move much. Ed was amazed to see her using her other arm. She seemed to be okay with using a sword with her left hand. She must have trained to swing a sword with both hands. Still, her right arm froze, and her skills were significantly lower than usual. If Cliff hadn’t died before her eyes, she wouldn’t have frozen her arm so easily with an ice arrow. When Ed realized that his bow was not working, he pulled out the Salamander’s sword and ran into her.

“I’ll kill you!”

She was a General-class knight, but her sword, which was held with her right arm, flew in after Ed. At the moment of the cheerful stabbing toward him, Ed turned over. Indeed, the intangible blade passed by where he was, and her sword began to dance. An intangible blade made with an orbit in which a sword moves with just a flick of the wrist. Etrian tried to take revenge on the prince by carving Ed into pieces. But Ed’s Salamander Sword, who approached her avoiding all the intangible blade trajectories she painted, cut off her left neck. It was an incredible move to see before her eyes. The dagger, which was wielded after escaping flexibly as if his attack were visible, was beyond understanding why he was using a bow instead of a dagger. The dagger first cut off Etrian’s wrist and then cut off her neck. Ed, who was watching Etrian’s neck fall, left the palace filled with flames, recovering the long sword and sword Etrian had held in her hand until she died.