Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne? Chapter 145

Mmm.. They just don't make 2-4 hours like they used to these days. Actually I just fell asleep. Next chapter in 2-4 hours hopefully for sure this time...
Year 7444, Month 6, Day 20
Bas.h.i.+!!
Along with a sound as if the atmosphere is being cut the electricity from {Lightning Bolt} surges out of Miduchi's left hand and stretches towards one of the dark elves that was trying to circle around her knocking them out in an instant.
Since she's only poured the standard amount of mana into it the damage isn't enough to cause instant death. It should have just paralyzed them.
Bas.h.i.+!!
Again the same sound from before rings out, this time the electricity jumps from her right hand. The target is one of those coming from the front, rank 2 warrior Harugozon. The warriors who are below rank 2 can't use {Anti-Magic Field} due to reasons relating to the number of elemental magic skills they were able to learn. Although, even if they could use it, there's no way they would have mastered it to the level of being able to deploy it faster than electricity either. Without missing it's aim, the electricity hit Harugozon in the abdomen and knocked him out on the spot.
For Miduchi since she's taking on multiple opponents she'd like to use {Chain Lightning} which splits up after hitting it's target but her wind magic only just reached level 5 the other day. Consequently, since she's barely used it before it, she can't activate it in an instant, let alone that when it comes to {Chain Lightning} putting aside the attacks that split up, unless you've achieved mastery with it the first direct hit will almost always deal enough damage to seriously injury or kill so it wasn't an option in the first place.
The reason she used wind magic to send herself flying into the air as well, it was to momentarily move outside of their sight and gain the 2 seconds needed to use magic. She'd like to send one more hit flying but it's already the limit. She'd like to use wind magic a number of times to gain a soft-landing but she can already confirm several hands and bows being aimed over here. In order to camouflage her landing point she uses wind magic consecutively going parallel to herself and went to great pains to try and s.h.i.+ft her landing point from mid air to a location she can't be noticed.
Miduchi's wind magic shakes the bushes and trees that have a height of over 10 meters around both sides of the road Miduchi was following and generates a miniature typhoon. Even if it couldn't be considered high quality if she wasn't wearing proper leather armor and had the hems of her pants inside of her boots it would have been a disaster just like the robe she was wearing from the wind. The robe was already reduced to nothing more than sc.r.a.ps and strings since the first wind she used to ascend and is now basically a mantle swaying on her back. However, it might have been thanks to this robe that she was able to receive the wind easier.
There's no need to even evade the arrows that are flying, their trajectory is bent by the wind magic and the warheads of the spells end up being blown in a different direction as well, thanks to that she was somehow able to land without taking any damage. Since she ended up rolling about 5 meters form the impact of the landing, it's not as if she didn't take any damage at all from the fall but the fact that she didn't suffer any bone fractures or sprains was just as she was aiming for. Miduchi ignores the pain surging through her body from the landing as she stands up right away and dashes at an intense speed up Mount Kinru towards where she heard the voice from just now.
However, while she's knocked two unconscious there's still five people remaining. While things have gotten a bit better compared to the start, there's still no change in the situation of being outnumbered. She's paralyzed them through electricity but if they can just use earth and water elemental magics at level 4 then as long as they have time there's no problem with them being able to use the spell {Remove Paralysis}. The possibility that sooner or later they may return to the battlefield can't be ignored.
"Over there!!"
When Miduchi ran off she heard that voice shout from behind her. It's one she recognizes. It's the voice of a male rank 3 warrior that was the same age as her. During the education training process they spent just the first year together. What was his name again?
(In your case..you're magic results were bad right..)
She glances behind and hides behind an adequate tree while smiling and after waiting for the timing jumped out. She's already got both of her hands aimed at the target. And, between Miduchi and her pursuers a blue colored gas springs forth.
"It's {Stun Cloud}!! Be careful!"
Someone else shouts. Idiots. You should have either silently taken a detour around to avoid it or immediately stop your feet and use an attack spell...She uses the {Stun Cloud} that's already started to disperse as a decoy as she uses spells consecutively.
"{Quagmire}"
Miduchi poured five times the normal amount of mana into it and created a bog with a length of 2 meters and a width of 10 meters on her right side. And then, on the opposite side she created a similar bog as well. Miduchi's mana has already reached the point where it feels like she can only use cloud type attack spells two more times. It seems it would be best to use arrow type spells on those who get caught in the bog rather than cloud type. She didn't want to harm them but it can't be helped.
Several {Flame Arrow} and {Stone Arrows} fly towards Miduchi. She quickly evades those by rolling and then plunges into some bushes higher up from where she was while checking to see if any fools get caught up in her {Quagmire}.
"Uwa!!"
"Eh!!"
"Kyaa!!"
Just as expected three people ended up getting caught. While the three of them have their legs caught in the mud and can't move freely she hits them in the abdomen with {Stone Arrow} and this time intentionally makes some loud noises while jumping out of the bushes as she shows herself running towards the summit of Mount Kinru.
(It should be fine since there's no one who would die over something of that level. Though I'm sure they wouldn't be able to use magic from the pain.)
She holds her breath, hiding her presence, crouching down in the bushes while taking a throwing dart out of the chest of her leather armor, then took a characteristic bottle out of the pouch at her waist. There's a paralysis poison inside made of ganbi gra.s.s leaves and the blood of the green tree frog. She dips the edge of the dart inside and then quickly puts away the bottle and(I haven't officially heard that this was a practice match, so it's fine right) and makes excuses for herself. The place to aim is either the neck or chest. As close to the head as possible is best. Without even giving them time to use magic, her aim is to let the paralysis poison reach their brain and knock them out.
Since it's a pure poison, the superior point of a poison is that it will temporarily numb the brain as well. If it was a paralysis poison that is based on a magic effect then it wouldn't go this way. Since martial arts and spells stand out the rank 1 warrior cla.s.s which specialize in those portions are said to be stronger than the other warrior cla.s.ses but true strength is this sort of knowledge. The recipes for the various drugs and how much of their strong and weak points you understand. There's a wide variety of knowledge that is only stated to the rank 1 warrior cla.s.s.
If I hadn't used up the last of my caltrops during the a.s.sa.s.sination mission this time then it should have been even easier. However, I was lucky to be able to reduce their numbers down to just two more who can fight properly.
(Seven people, and if that wasn't a lie, that is...)
While thinking that Miduchi thought that the opponent was seven people as well.
Either they lost sight of me or, she carefully holds her long sword on guard in her right hand with her left hand stretched out as she looks around the area and found a male rank 3 warrior about to pa.s.s by several meters on her side. She smiled as if she just waits for another 10 seconds she can aim for the back of his neck with a dart.
(Ya~!!)
From Miduchi's hand the dart is thrown and stabs into the back right side of the mans neck without missing it's mark.
His left hand reflexively stretched out to the nape of his neck where the dart hit but the man then fell to both knees and collapsed.
One more left.
It's regretful that her bow and arrows went somewhere while she was flying through the air. However, if it's just one more person then she should be able to somehow deal with them. Rather than letting things drag out, even if it's a bit dangerous she should charge in and finish things off all at once. If she leaves them alone the two who were hit by the initial {Lightning Bolt} and convulsing might be able to recover.
She carefully scans her surroundings but wasn't able to find the remaining person. Miduchi switches her remaining dart with the paralysis poison on it to her right hand as she stands up and moves to the side of the opponent she just rendered powerless with the other dart, she sticks her blade up to the neck of the fallen opponent and provokes the remaining person.

"Hey coward who suddenly attacks without informing the reason! I'm right here! I only have one knife and dart remaining! Now, come out and have a match with me!"
She raises her voice and continues.
"If you don't come out then in 5 seconds I'll kill this man! Five~!"
The groans of the dark elves who got stuck in the bog and took Miduchi's attack spells echo around the area.
"Four!"
She can hear the sound of a horse coming from higher up the mountain. It should be the person who raised their voice and informed her of the danger just now.
"Three!"
A {Stone Arrow} came flying from her left shoulder. Miduchi easily avoids that. Next an arrow will probably come flying.
Just as predicted an arrow came from the same direction. If she already knows the direction it's coming from then it's easy for Miduchi to avoid an arrow. Around 30 m away there's a single dark elf woman preparing another arrow on her bow.
She charges towards her. Of course she doesn't aim at her in a straight line. She runs along a slightly s.h.i.+fted path. The instant an arrow was fired in the position Miduchi was heading, she lowered her the posture of her body and threw the dart she had while rolling.
The woman avoids the dart and draws the long sword from her waist as she throws down her bow. Miduchi looks at her remaining knife and after quickly fixing her grip on that she lowered her stance while going on guard. Seeing that the woman remembered the Miduchi's only remaining weapon was her knife. A bit of composure could be seen in her tense face.
With the knife still at the ready in her right hand Miduchi ran towards the woman. The distance quickly was closed..the woman used wind magic right in front of her and send herself flying. And then, before it could be noticed she threw the knife in her left hand aimed at Miduchi. With a hair's breadth, the fact that she was able to use the knife in her hand to repel that was in part thanks to good luck.
The rank 3 warrior cla.s.s woman used wind magic once again against her own back and this time charged in at a tremendous speed with her long sword in hand. She instantly used wind magic in front of her and while pulling back a bit herself, distances the woman coming from in front. In reality she'd like to use earth magic to make a wall here but it takes several split seconds from the moment the wall is formed until it raises up from the dirt. She had no other choice than to give up on it because the distance is too close.
While confronting the woman with several meters in between, Miduchi lowered her back and changed her stance so her right hand is sticking out as she remains ready with her knife. The woman is on guard with her long sword in her right hand and she has her left hand meeting the side of that. In order to use attack magic at this distance it's meaningless unless you have a level of mastery on that mans level. The activation time that the dark elves define as mastery level is less than 1 second but even then it takes several fractions of a second. Of course, even then as they get closer to the top of the sorcerers the activation time gets that much faster.
The woman licks her lips with her forked tongue. She must have confidence in her sword skills.
Contrasted with that Miduchi was expressionless.
The two of them step in at lightning speed and while in pa.s.sing, a clear sound rings out.
The blade length of Miduchi's well maintained and sparkling knife is only a mere 15 cm.
The length of the blade o the woman's long sword is about 80 cm.
They step in once more and both of the blades were brandished.
Silver light intersects and this time a shrieking sound rings out as both of their movements stop.
Their blades are locked together.
The knife with a short grip can only be handled with one hand so it was an overwhelming disadvantage.
The long sword the woman was using was normally supposed to be used in one hand so the grip is short but even then there's enough room for her left hand.
While they're pus.h.i.+ng back against each other Miduchi's stance continues to get worse.
In comparison the woman gradually gains an advantage in her posture pus.h.i.+ng back.
The match seemed as if it had reached it's conclusion.
"s.h.i.+t!! Where are you!?"
It seems Harugozon has already recovered.
Depending on the elemental magic types they have the other victim of {Lightning Bolt} might recover soon as well.
Sweat drips down Miduchi's face.
However, in the next moment, the woman's eyes went wide as she tried to raise her voice but was unable.
Her own right arm which was holding her long sword, there was a dart being held by Miduchi's left hand stabbing into it.
The paralysis poison smeared on the dart quickly started to take effect and she lost the power in her right hand, just as she thought she was losing the advantage in her posture and the paralysis circulated through her body.
If she were to try and raise her voice here she felt like she would lose all the power in her body all at once.
However, it's already only a matter of time.
Even that's at best a few seconds.
"I didn't say that I only had one dart remaining. Being unprepared is your greatest enemy."
As the woman lost all of her strength and collapsed Miduchi looked over her with cold eyes and said.
She quickly stole the woman's long sword and started moving while keeping low.
Her aim is the last remaining one, most likely the commander Harugozon.
As a matter of fact Miduchi already has almost no mana remaining.
She may be able to use 3 or 4 more arrow type attack spells.
It won't work for anything more than restraining.
However, Miduchi(This is plenty to manage) thought that. Putting aside a veteran, when it comes to fighting against rank 2 or 3 warriors one on one who aren't all that difference in age from her she couldn't think of any reason she would lose. Even just now she skillfully deceived the opponent and overturned the disadvantage in equipment.
It's fine if she calmly does it the next time as well. There's already almost no disadvantage in equipment. She returns her knife to it's scabbard on her thigh and tightens her grip on the woman's long sword while moving without making a sound. The name of Miduchi the Silent isn't just for show. Among the rank 1 warrior cla.s.s which is filled with masters, Miduchi's techniques at erasing her presence are already able to rival the veteran warriors at her young age of 16. She's capable of plenty for rank 1 head warrior Zageruforu to put his seal of approval on just her a.s.sa.s.sination techniques.
"Isn't that already fine! Isn't it already Chizumagurol's victory!? Hey, Harugozon! Heal the injured!"
Rank 2 head warrior Akein appeared from somewhere and declared. Just a bit behind that rank 1 warrior cla.s.s Kurozakku was leading Miduchi's horse and happily grinning.
"Ku...I understand."
Harugozon's voice appears from just a bit of distance away. She can hear footsteps running nearby.
Miduchi was,
(So that voice from just now was Kurozakku-san huh?)
thinking that while still keeping the long sword in her hand as she approached the two and said.
"Kurozakku-san. Rank 1 warrior, Midu~ritto.Chizumagurol has successfully finished the type 4 headpiece mission and just returned. Afterwards I will report the details to head warrior Zageruforu but this is..Umm..."
Kurozakku who was grinning until just a moment ago nodded hearing Miduchi's words and said something to Akein. Hearing that Akein nods once and,
"Chizumagurol. I'm sorry about the sudden practice match...Ask about the reason later. I need to heal the injured."
And said with a slightly apologetic face. He quickly changed his expression to a more severe one and,
"Harugozon! I'll look after everyone in this area! After that you b.a.s.t.a.r.d! Even if the opponent was a rank 1, what in the world is meaning losing seven versus one! After this I'll retrain you from the start myself! Prepare yourself!"
And shouted that before heading to the woman that was Miduchi's opponent just now.
Seeing Miduchi make an expression like she had no idea what was going on, Kurozakku said.
"Thank you for your work. First off let's return to Erurehei. I'm sure you're exhausted from the long journey, I really would love to let you get some rest right away but after you take a shower and get refreshed appear before the head warrior and receive an explanation. However, you did quite well against seven opponents. I'm sure he'll praise you. I guarantee it."
He said that while showing his teeth as he smiled.