Hard Work Will Never Betray Me (WN) - Chapter 119

“The rules are that you must not seriously injure your opponent and you must not kill him.”

“Yes!”

” Are you a villain?”

　When I heard that I couldn’t kill the cheeky boy Christophe, I couldn’t help but boo. It’s a devilish reaction that you wouldn’t expect from a righteous aristocrat who believes in “being a true gentleman and a true warrior.”

‘Don’t worry, you are the one who will be killed.”

　…… I wonder why this kind of big talk with no basis in fact doesn’t go away. I think I’ll probably died of embarrassment when I get to look back at the past objectively a few years later. ……

Well, it’s because he can’ t look at his own abilities objectively, and because he can’t properly assess the abilities of his opponents, that leads him to make these kinds of statements. This is due to lack of experience, and if that is the case, he should be given a good experience. It is the environment that is to blame, not him. I’m . I’ll just accept the fact that he’s probably in the middle of a period of black history now.

Now, I have to change his mind.

“Christophe,”

“What an incompetent.”

“I’ll give you a big advantage:.

“What?”

　I’m going to draw a circle around where I’m standing, about two meters in diameter, with my heels.

“I’m not going to step out of this circle for the rest of the match. If I do, I lose.”

I know it’s a bit of a conventional development, but it’s the least I can do to punish him for his over-confidence.

I’m not going to let him beat me up.　

“You fool!”

　Christophe’s face turned red and he was staring at me. He seems to be totally angry.

“Aren’t you having a little too much fun?”

When Marie looked at me as if she felt dumbfounded, but I wasn’t doing this just for fun either. This is the best way to show them the difference in our abilities. That’s all.

‘Well, well, Marie. This is just what I have to do.”

“I know what you want to do,…… but. I think it would be very counterproductive. …… Well, whatever will happen, will happen. Besides, you’ve been ridiculed a lot. If you want to get back at him, I won’t stop you.”

Even though we are only 12 years old, inside I’ m a grown-up. I don’t do anything adult like really getting back at a child. I don’t deny that there is a little bit of that side to ……. Well, it’s okay because it’s just a little bit!　It’s just a little bit.

The other trainees were surprised to see that I had set up a considerable advantage over Christophe, who had managed to get through the Demon Forest on his own and could be called a genius who could use all four main attributes and the dark attribute, and that Marie did not stop me from setting up a serious advantage for him.

　Christophe was the last to arrive here, but it was not because of his lack of ability. It is simply because he does not see the value in this training. If Christophe had been serious, he would have arrived second, ahead of even the Schneider siblings. He has that much ability, and I and Marie can sense it. Even for everyone else, they understand how tremendous it is to be able to use five attributes, so they are probably wondering about my unusual concession.

　……, but from my point of view, that’s all it is. I’ve been training for 12 years and it doesn’t matter to me at all.

“So are you ready guys?”

“Yeah, I’ m ready to start.”

“No problem. I’m ready.”

Christophe and I took our starting positions about five meters away from each other. Everyone is watching with bated breath. Lily, Iris, Johan, and Emilia, who know my abilities, are the only four people looking at me with absolutely no worry in their eyes. Iris’s eyes were shining with anticipation.

“Then, let’s begin!”

“Haaaaah!　Fire Javelin!

As soon as Marie gives the signal, Christophe’s spell comes flying. The “Fire Javelin” is powerful despite its magical power, but it takes a long time to cast. It is a fire-attribute medium-level spell that is (apparently) difficult to master, but Christophe performed it with ease.

　…… but that won’t work on me..

“Silver Armored Aegis.”

“Hey!”

Christophe’s “Fire Javelin” was instantly blocked by my “silver armor,” which spread out in an instant and dissipated like a candle being extinguished by the wind. Christophe was quite surprised and froze, as if he had a certain amount of self-confidence in the blow he had just delivered.

　Well, if it had been an enemy until now, this one blow would have ended it all. It is not easy to use “Fire Javelin” this well.

However, the speed of unfolding my “Silver Armor,” which is a derivative of “Shogun’s Armor,” is less than one second. No matter how high his skill level is, he cannot hit me with “Fire Javelin,” which requires some time to build up before it can be used. It would be difficult to reach me before the deployment of the “silver armor” unless using a faster bow and arrow or lightning attribute magic. However, even with a bow and arrow or lightning attribute, it may not always be able to reach me. If he wants to penetrate my defense, he needs to be as fast as Siegfried “Thunderbolt”.

“Can you just stand there in a daze?　The enemy will exploit that opening.”

I went to the trouble of giving him the warning, and fired a strong “impact bullet”. The power is exactly the same as the “Fire Javelin” and the speed of the projectile is about three times faster than the “Fire Javelin.”

‘Agh!”

It seemed that he could barely react, but the C-rank non-attribute magic “Shield ” that he was able to deploy was not very good, and he seemed to have taken a certain amount of damage. He had used his favorite attack pattern at the first sight, and was repaid with more advanced skills than that. From Christophe’s point of view, it was a complete loss of face. It was hard to imagine his pride being hurt any more than it was.

“Damn you, you son of a bitch!”

Christophe cries out as he unfolds multiple magic circles. The fact that he is able to create this many magic circles at the same time is a talent, but perhaps because of his personality, he doesn’t seem to have a high level of skill.

“What a waste of time”

” Rock Barrett!　Water lance!　Wind Cutter!　Flame Storm!”

There are a number of different attribute magic – all of which are intermediate or higher level, with the fire attribute being A-rank and advanced magic. However, all of them are blocked by my “silver armor” and disappear.

“Damn, why!　Why can’t my magic get through!”

Then a number of medium to high level spells are shot at me, but I catch all of them head on. Every time Christophe would fire a spell and it would hit me, the look on his face would turn grim and fearful.

I wonder how many minutes he had been doing that. After a few minutes of this, Christophe stopped shooting spells, as if he had already shot all of his spells. He was sweating like a waterfall all over and breathing on his shoulders. I, on the other hand, was not sweating at all, and I was still in a comfortable posture.

“Is it over?”

, “…….”

　Christophe shivered. The crowd around him was also in a state of shock.

“If that’s the case, I’m going to go for it,”

I held out my right hand and gathered magic power in my palm, transforming it into the shape that I am most good at. The “shock bullet,” which gradually grew larger and larger until it was the size of a basket ball, appeared in front of me filled with an enormous amount of energy.

This is the result of the efforts of the powerless. Taste it!

“D’oh!””

　—…..!

A “shock bullet,” about five times faster than the “Fire Javelin” of a moment ago and as powerful as a field gun, flies toward Christophe. Exhausted, Christophe was unable to take any avoiding action. It seems that the reaction speed of the scene of the fire somehow made the “shield ” better than before, but the power of the “impact bullet” is even more powerful than that.

　A large cloud of dust rises. No shouts are heard.

‘It is over.”

　Marie’s calm judgment echoes. Thus, the match between me and Christophe ended with my one-sided victory, which could not even be called a m