Chapter 46 – Qualifications of a Warrior (5)
Kalt looked ahead.
“Ryaaaaa!”
Maybelle moves quickly alone and swings her sword while dodging the Ogre’s attacks.
It’s still just a small wound, but it definitely makes you bleed.
Before the remaining wounds were completely healed, the blade of wind that Ianna flew was dealing an additional blow, causing a little more damage.
“Maybelle! It’s done!”
“Huh?”
Maybelle turned around at the sound of Kalt’s voice.
Maybelle was surprised to see the incomplete mana blade fluttering from Kalt’s sword.
“Wow, this really works?”
‘I told you to do it!’
“Then why don’t you come quickly? Come quickly! Show off Kalt’s awakened skills thanks to me!”
“What thanks to you!”
Kalt lost his temper at Maybelle’s words and kicked the ground.
“I told you to wake up, so that’s it!”
“Say something that makes sense!”
Kalt kicked the ground.
Kalt, whose blessing had not yet been extinguished, arrived right in front of the ogre in an instant.
-Cooooo!
Did she feel that there was no point in attacking Maybelle, who was already avoiding her?
The Ogre swung its ax down at Kalt, who appeared in front again.
“This is all… The result of my hard work!”
Kalt’s sword, which she swung while twisting her waist, drew a crescent moon above.
The Ogre’s arms were in the path of the blue crescent moon.
Suddenly!
It was cut cleanly.
-Cooooo!
‘Is this the Mana Blade? Even though it hasn’t been properly formed yet, it’s still like this?’
There was no feeling of something catching when swinging the sword.
It just felt like I was splitting the air.
Kalt finally understood why the vanguards were singing Mana Blade, Mana Blade.
“Ah! I got cut!”
Maybelle took the opportunity and her eyes lit up.
“If all the skin and muscles are exposed like that! It’s easy to cut!”
Maybelle gathered her blessings to the maximum.
Maybelle jumped vigorously and twisted her waist, spinning her body like a top.
Sigh!
Maybelle’s sword, rotating at high speed under the power of divine protection, cut into the cross-section of Kalt’s amputated arm.
The leather of the auger is torn from the inside starting from the cutting edge.
Maybelle’s sword, which maximizes the protection applied from underneath the skin, not the outside, tears the Ogre’s skin to pieces.
“Ryaaaaa!”
Just like that, Maybelle went up like a salmon flowing back down a waterfall, up to the top of Ogre’s shoulder.
Maybelle arrived right next to the Ogre’s head and used the power of rotation that had not yet disappeared.
“Haaaaap!”
I struck the side of the ogre’s face with the blade.
“Fall down!”
Ogre’s unstable balance as he raises his arm in pain from having his arm cut by Kalt.
Maybelle’s blow was struck in that state.
Cuuuuu!
We succeeded in making the ogre’s heavy body fall.
“Khalt! Hurry up! Cut off your head!”
“I know even if you don’t say it!”
The first mana blade I made.
Although he couldn’t feel the excitement when he swung once, Kalt could feel Mabel spinning like a top and cutting the Ogre’s arm.
‘If you concentrate, you’ll be relieved quickly! Plus, it eats up a lot of mana!’
The unstable Mana Blade rapidly consumed Kalt’s mana due to lack of skill and not being able to properly capture it.
Kalt concentrated on forming the mana blade and quickly moved towards the fallen Ogre’s neck.
“Haaaaa!”
Suddenly!
I quickly cut off the ogre’s head before it could get up again.
And from that day on, the Maybelle Party became known as the Veteran Party and began to become more famous.
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“Wow…!”
After hearing Kalt’s story, Nellis looked at Kalt with her eyes wide open, her excitement still intact.
The story just now wasn’t just about Maybelle’s party becoming a full-fledged veteran party.
‘It’s about Mr. Kalt’s first experience with the Mana Blade!’
She could say that it was the awakening scene to use the Mana Blade that she so desperately wanted to achieve.
Moreover, thanks to Kalt’s deep voice, it wasn’t boring to listen to, and the explanations were so lively that I could easily imagine them in my head.
While Nellis was immersed in her emotion and excitement, Scarlett crossed her arms and looked somewhat dissatisfied.
“Yes, Kalt.”
“Yes.”
“That’s Maybelle. The fastest hero. Just hearing about it… Isn’t she an adult? She’s acting like an angry little kid.”
“That’s right. Her personality has been the same since she was a child.”
“Ugh…”
When Kalt said yes, Scarlett was disgusted.
As a sloth party, Scarlett also had a deep admiration for Maybelle’s party.
She says she wants to become strong like that.
If you listen to Kalt’s words, he clearly has skills.
No matter how much divine protection she has, the fact that she can fight using that speed is proof of her strength.
But even so, she realized that Maybelle, the fastest hero of the Maybelle party that she secretly admired, was actually just a kid with power.
It was a moment when the image of the coolest and fastest warrior in my imagination was completely shattered.
“You said Maybelle was the hero from the beginning, right? No, why didn’t you break up first and stay together?”
“I told you. It was Aunty and Uncle Maybelle who took care of me after my parents died due to the epidemic. No matter how cheap she was, she was the precious daughter of those who helped me in the end. I can’t let her die.”
“Kalt…”
Arya looked with respect and affection at Kalt’s reply, saying he cherished her grace.
“Well… He actually expelled me.”
“Is Kalt okay? He was expelled.”
Haha, there’s no way it’s going to be okay, right? Even thinking about it now makes me feel sick.”
“”Ah…””
Even though he was smiling affectionately, the atmosphere coming from his body was scary.
Nellis Party, who felt that energy, thought at the same time.
Even if you ask about old times, never bring up the topic of when you were deported.
“Anyway, the story ends here.”
Kalt stood up.
“Then everyone can rest comfortably today…”
Kwaang!
“Hey, hey, it’s a big deal!”
A man who runs a bakery in the village roughly opened the inn door and came in.
“”… ?””
“Mr. Beckery?”
“What’s going on?”
Nellis, Scarlett, and Aria meet the sudden appearance of the bakery owner. And when Nadia and Runia were puzzled.
Kalt immediately approached the bakery owner and asked.
“What happened?”
“Kobolds, kobolds! A horde of kobolds is invading the village now!”
“Yes!?”
“A horde of kobolds?”
“Suddenly?”
“How did you know?”
“Hey, Dicko in charge of the scout tower is hurrying to inform people!”
At the entrance to the village, there was a wooden scout tower built slightly high.
“Well, I heard there’s a swarm of kobolds coming towards our village from afar! Come on, help us! At this rate, our village is annihilated!”
It was right then.
“Everyone, kobolds! It’s a horde of kobolds! A horde of kobolds is coming!”
A man presumed to be Dicko was heard hurriedly shouting at the villagers.
And the sound got closer and closer!
“Nadia! Runia! A swarm of kobolds is coming! There are warriors in the party right now… Ah, Uncle Bakery.”
“Di, Dico! I just told this to the warrior party.”
“I see. Hey, hero! Please ask my colleagues!”
Dicko was a young man who still looked young.
“You are the only ones in this village right now. Please, please! Please save the village!”
Nellis Party felt the seriousness of the situation upon seeing the urgent appearance of the young man who was said to be in charge of the scout tower after the bakery owner.
“How many kobolds are there?”
“Just by looking at it from a distance, there were 50 or 50 of them.”
“50?!”
Even counting the number of kobolds that Nellis’ party had caught so far, it was well over 50.
However, the risk level is different between 50 fish caught step by step every day and 50 caught all at once.
Despair appeared on Bakery and Dicko’s faces after seeing the three people in surprise.
No matter how much a warrior party is, there are limits.
If 50 kobolds come, will they be able to fight back?
In the worst case, they could have left the village alone.
Unfortunately, no hero has ever emerged from this village.
Therefore, the kingdom never provided proper support and was unable to strengthen the village’s fence or directly hire an adventurer party to reside there.
Therefore, there were no adventurers to catch, so the village would have been truly dangerous without Nellis’ party.
However, Nellis Party, who has been protecting the village from the sudden increase in kobolds for almost a month, is also embarrassed and shocked.
Is this the end for our village?
When you are thinking like that.
“I understand.”
A profound and trustworthy voice was heard.
Dicko and Beckery’s eyes turned to Kalt.
When Kalt heard the story, he was not embarrassed, shocked, or despaired.
She just smiled like a good young man and clenched her fist.
“Please leave it to us. We will definitely protect the village.”
“Ah…”
“Really?”
“Yes. Instead…”
After a moment’s pause, Kalt chuckled and spoke to Beckery.
“When I get back from defeating everyone, I’ll ask for some warm bread. I think I’ll be hungry by the time I finish everything.”
“Ah, ah! Of course! Of course! I will make the best bread of my life!”
“I’m looking forward to it.”
Kalt immediately turned around and spoke to Nellis and the others.
“Nellis, Scarlett, Aria. Let’s get ready right away.”
“Yes, yes! Mr. Kalt!”
“Okay!”
“Yes, Kalt!”
Nellis and the others hurriedly ran to the room where their equipment was located, and Kalt also ran straight towards the second floor.
“”Ah…””
Bakery, the owner of the bakery, and Dico in charge of the scout tower.
“Mr. Kalt…””
And Nadia and Runia.
In the eyes of the people of this village, Kalt’s back was very reliable.