Chapter 273

Chapter 273 Strongest Sage, Foresees Attacks

"Gotchaaaaaa!"

Just as I passed right below the spear, the man cast another magic on his spear .

But, it's too late .

The move magic he used in the beginning was something he had prepared beforehand . As such, its cast time was quick .

Compared to that, this magic was cast impromptu as a reaction against me dodging the spear .

Hence, I've got enough time to cast a counter magic .

"Mwu!?"

The man sounded confused when he saw his own spear .

As the spear's trajectory didn't curve out .

The reason is simple .

I've put a defensive magic on the 『Enemy's Spear』 to block magical interferences on it .

And the opening created from my dodge is enough to end this fight .

I swing my sword within the range .

An unavoidable strike aiming for the enemy's center of gravity .

"–Kuh!"

The man pulled back his spear in an attempt to defend his body .

This is exactly the timing I was waiting for .

I cast move magic on my sword which was going for the enemy's waist and changed its aim .

–My target is the enemy's arm .

His arm was wide open precisely because he was trying to defend his waist instead of dodging .

"Gaaaaah!"

The enemy's arm flew in the air as a pained scream reverberated .

My sword has cut off his arm .

The enemy moved away from me even while screaming in agony .

That he would still trying to calmly salvage the situation even after he got one arm cut off is a testament of an ancient magic combatant . . . . The fact that he's lost one arm still remains though .

But the match is as good as over now .

I came out on top even when the enemy still had both arms .

Now that he's lost one arm needed to swing his spear, there's no way he can fight properly .

Or so I thought, but . . .

"It grew back!?"

Alma was shocked when she saw the enemy .

For some reason, the man's arm that had been cut off has regrown .

. . . I've never seen this phenomena even with recovery magic .

Regrowing arms are not an impossible feat like [Dead Revival], but there are better ways to do it .

" . . . It's a by-product of dead revival, ya see! Cool huh!"

The man shouted so while checking out his new arm .

It seems like Dead Revival has an additional limb restoration effect included .

Since I didn't sense anything like this on Grevil, this must be an original magic or something created by the guy who revived these [Warmongers] .

I could sense a hint of fluctuation on the unnatural spell formula imprinted on the enemy when he regrew his arm .

I fix my sword stance in front of the man .

"The end result won't change even if you have both arms . "

"Yer' certainly better than me alright! . . . But winning or losing is all about luck . Who knows, it might even be me who came out victorious!"

" . . . Unfortunately, that's not going to happen . "

I closed in on the man as I said that .

The man thrust his spear while casting his magic in an attempt to kill me–however, an extremely simple magic I cast completely neutralized both his spear and magic .

Then a moment later, my sword has been thrust before his neck .

"How! How come you dodged my spear!"

"Your moves are too easy to read . . . You'd better put some effort into increasing your patterns if you ever get revived again . "

The man's eyes were wide open .

He must have been shocked to see his spear that had taken so many lives got so easily nullified .

Of course I'd read his spear .

After all, he thrust his spear the same way he did in the beginning and even used the exact same move magic as an assist .

This man must have reached his current strength by polishing that same pattern in many battles .

It would have eventually been countered off if he kept fighting that way–but since this man killed all opponents he defeated, he never had to worry about that .

To the man, completely mastering one pattern made all other patterns redundant .

But that tactic is not applicable to opponents who have a wealth of experience under their belt .

They'd see through the fact that he only had one pattern by looking at the way he thrust his spear .

One's battle predisposition shows in the way they carry their weapon, the way they approach their opponent and also their line of sight as well as mana flows .

Once one failed their first attack against such an opponent–the only thing waiting for them is defeat .