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章節 632: Overwhelming

The shock from the lightning bolts incapacitated all of the Adventurers on the walls, with some of them outright losing their consciousness. With the spreading smell of something burnt, someone from within the castle shouted, "T-the walls' defenses are gone!"

With no one to intercept them from higher grounds, Koneko and Aika were able to approach the partially and drenched wall unimpeded.

Once the wall came into Koneko's reach, the nekomata went into a front stance. While the Adventurers of the Apollo Familia and its helpers were still scrambling to gather their remaining forces, the air around Koneko started rotating as she pushed her fist forward, "Ei!"

A split second after Koneko's fist collided with the wall, there was silence. But soon after, cracks started appearing all over the wall, before it exploded inwards, crushing the people who were gathering on the other side, "AHHHH!!!"

"NOO!!!"

"PLEASE HELP ME!!!"

"WHAT'S HAPPENING!!?"

Screams of panic, confusion, and fear ensued as Aika sauntered through the newly demolished wall.

"THE WALL HAS BEEN BREACHED!!! I REPEAT! THE WALL HAS BEEN BREACHED! IMMEDIATELY INTERCEPT THE ENEMY!", shouted one of the commanders that just came out.

Most of the Apollo Familia and allied forces rushed out and encircled Aika, who was leisurely walking through the castle grounds, and got ready to attack her.

But despite the overwhelming number of people surrounding her, Aika just calmly put the tip of her sheathed blade on the ground, resting her arms on the hilt. She then closed her eyes and took a deep breath before opening her eyes again and shouting with all her strength, "GET LOST!!!"

As the shockwave from her dragon-infused voice passed through everyone in the castle, all the Level 1s and weaker Level 2s instantly lost their consciousness as they fell to the ground.

While the rest of Level 2s were enduring a large headache, the Level 3s had their ears ringing and all of them were covered in a cold sweat. They all had a feeling that that shout just now wasn't one of a human, but instead of a terrifying beast, asserting its domination.

But instead of a face full of fear and pain, all of them were making the same shocked expressions, as they watched almost everyone fall to the ground without being able to resist. From their overwhelming number of more than 500 people, just 50 odd people were left standing, and not all of them were able to fight.

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"A BIG UPSET!!!", shouted Ibri, "With one surprising thing after another, in an instant, the Hestia Familia was able to take out one of the Apollo Familia's biggest advantages!!! However, most people still don't understand what just happened, including me! But fear not, we have someone who could explain things here on stage!"

Ibri then introduced the newcomer, "Since Ganesha-sama was useless as a commentator, we've invited an experienced Adventurer, the Captain of Ganesha Familia, Shakti 'Ankusha' Varma! Shakti-sama! Please explain to us what just happened!"

With a serious expression, Shakti answered, "I'm also not too sure what exactly transpired, but I could give you my conjectures."

"That's fine! Please do so."

Nodding, Shakti continued, "Well then, to start with, two of their magic casters disabled the defenses of the walls, allowing their vanguard to approach it safely. The first one, water magic in a shape of a giant snake, drenched the area and the people defending the walls while also weakening the integrity of the structure."

"The second magic was lightning magic that caused immense shock, especially to those who were wet, causing them to lose their consciousness or being paralyzed, effectively disabling the most important defense of a castle siege."

"One of the vanguards, Shirone Toujou, then approached the undefended and structurally weakened wall and used strengthening magic on herself before smashing it open."

"Using that chance, Aika Kiryuu entered the stronghold and used some sort of intimidation magic to take out those who were vastly weaker than her. And that's how we came into this situation."

But even after explaining it herself, Shakti still believed that her explanation was done poorly and she only oversimplified it for the common people to be satisfied. For one, their magic was too strange and too strong for new Level 3s that could do something like this almost instantly without any prior incantations or activation words, 'How do others view this? Even for my experience, this is really too strange. The Hestia Familia... I'll have to look more into them.'

"But couldn't Aika Kiryuu have used that intimidation magic from outside of the castle? Why did she have to do it inside?", asked Ibri suddenly.

"Most of the Apollo Familia may have been disabled, but the core of their strength was still fully intact. If she had done it outside, before breaking the wall, those stronger members could have immediately gone to the wall to strengthen it."

"By breaking the wall first, they created a situation where the Apollo Familia wouldn't have a wall to reinforce anymore, forcing them to fight on an equal battleground."

Just as Shakti finished speaking, Sona, Akeno and Irina followed their vanguard inside the wall and faced the Apollo Familia who were all gritting their teeth.

"This is the first time we are meeting, Hyakinthos Clio. It's nice to finally meet you. Also, I've always wanted to complain about something when I meet you." Sona then glared at the leader of the Apollo Familia who's standing on the castle's balcony looking at them with a grave expression, "Your members have annoyed us to no end, and you'll have to take responsibility for all of that. For starters, why don't you surrender and apologize for everything?"

Hyakinthos was shocked when all of the Level 1s and some Level 2s who were within the throne room with him suddenly dropped down unconscious after the 'beastly' roar that came from outside and hurriedly brought everyone outside to see what was happening, only to discover that most of the forces couldn't fight anymore within just a few minutes of the clash with their enemies.

He wanted to ask someone for clarification on what really happened, but after Sona addressed him with a tone that was looking down on him, he instantly lost his cool, "What are you all doing!? They're here! Attack them now!"

The prideful Hyakinthos couldn't take someone looking down on him and most certainly not from a lowly 'Level 2' from a tiny Familia whose Goddess had to work herself. Apologize? He didn't do anything wrong, and even if he did, he still had nothing to apologize over. It was their fault for being weak and joining a weak Familia.

If not for Apollo wanting them, he wanted nothing to do with them. In fact, thanks to them 'stealing' the affection and attention of his beloved God away from him, he wanted to kill them from the bottom of his heart.

Among the 21 Level 3s, 11 of them went to attack the group with some odd Level 2s, "Did you think that you had the upper hand just because you were able to reduce our number? If yes, then it's clear why you're a newbie and from a nondescript Familia. Let me show you the truth of the world. The reason why Levels are absolute!", declared Hyakinthos.

However, after a few minutes, those who were sent to fight the group still couldn't get the upper hand in the battle despite the gap in Level and number. In fact, aside from their new members, the contested people, Sona, Koneko and Aika, still hadn't received a single blow and kept counterattacking, slowly tiring out their assailants.

"W-what is this?" Hyakinthos couldn't believe what he was seeing.


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: Man, that guy is still super hateable in all forms of fanfiction and canon. Wild. The Trio are going super easy on these guys to let The Duo get used to their bodies and the combat style of this world I guess? Their training is literal torture even compared to the literal torturous training that Serafall DOES know about after all… Kisuke and Serafall are with the kids, watching this huh? Phis-chama gets to see her… chosen(?) fight. Claire gets to see her aunties fight too (because if they’re her Nii-chan’s wives, that makes them her big sisters!). Serafall gets to watch her little sister’s progress too. Fun for the whole family!

Alexander: And finally, I get to read about my favourite Koneko again, who destroyed the castle walls with a deadpan expression while just saying “Ei!” We definitely need more content from her! By the way, maybe Ophis should smack the ‘broken’ Ganesha on the head to repair him. “I’m Ganesha” isn’t funny, if that’s all he can say.

章節 633: Enemies that cannot be made

Within a certain room of the Twilight Manor, the executives who were watching the War Game were speechless for a long time and the first one to speak up was Finn, with his chin resting on the back of his hands, "I'll be damned... To think they have such a trump card to reduce their numbers significantly that easily. And it was done in a way that the Apollo Familia won't be able to respond easily either."

"But aren't they being too confident? They could have rushed them when the enemy forces still hadn't consolidated but instead, they chose to wait for them to gather and swarm them like that? Even if they are stronger, they'll be overwhelmed at some point.", commented Tione with a frown on her face.

"Right! They're underestimating their opponents!", added Tiona.

Ais was also confused as to why they would put themselves at such a disadvantage.

They said this because they knew their fighting abilities from when they joined their expedition.

However, Finn, Gareth and Riveria, instantly understood what was going on, "We're wrong on one thing.", uttered Finn.

With question marks painted on their faces, Finn continued, "We've indeed seen them fight monsters in the Dungeon and all of you could tell that although they knew how to fight, they were beginners as Adventurers. It also felt strange at that time, but now I understand what was going on."

"What do you mean?", asked Tiona. Meanwhile, Tione and Ais looked back up to the screen to confirm their guesses.

"It means that although they don't know much about fighting monsters, they're very well versed in fighting against other people. If a comparison were to be made, almost at Finn's level?", answered Riveria the clueless Tiona.

"!?" Tiona was stunned and immediately looked back up like the other two and carefully watched their movements. And indeed, if they were on the same level, they couldn't have done the same thing.

"While my anti-personnel abilities come from experience, theirs is clearly from a systematic training.", added Finn, 'But even then, it's really hard to imagine what sort of training they have gone through. Training to fight against another person is a lot harder than training to fight a monster with a limited set of moves and very limited intelligence. And on top of that, practical experience is much more needed and dangerous than the experience required to effectively fight monsters. Have they been fighting since their childhood? Even then, this level of mastery is too much.'

However, everyone's deep concentration was broken by a knock on the door, "Who is it?" Riveria asked.

"It's me!" Raul's voice resounded from the other side and he opened the door.

"What's wrong?"

"Uhmm... A lot of people are asking for a refund and are starting to get heated up."

Riveria sighed. She already knew that this would happen and said, "Don't entertain them. If they want to get violent, smack them down and kick them out. You're allowed to get rough on those stubborn ones, but never hurt the elderly."

"Understood.", Raul nodded and closed the door again. Now that they have the permission to fight back, it'd be a lot easier for them.

But the moment, Raul closed the door, Gareth suddenly started laughing out loud, "Fuhahaha! I really like this guy's guts!"

Confused, everyone else also focused on the ongoing fight but couldn't find anything funny about it. Seeing their expressions, Gareth then explained, "Not the fight. At certain angles, you'll see him."

'Him?', was what they all asked inwardly until the screen showed a different angle that could see the balcony where Hyakinthos and the other Level 3s were watching. Beside them was the familiar figure of a man wearing a bucket hat with a white fan covering half of his face.

With a twitching mouth, Tione commented, "How can he blend in so well with them? And look at those eyes... It's as if he's carefully appraising the fight below."

Riveria could only put the palm of her hand on her face as she sighed, "He could have ended this by taking out the enemy Familia's Captain and no one would hold it against him."

"It doesn't look like he plans to do that.", replied Ais.

"Maybe he wanted to mess with them more? After all, it's him we're talking about here.". wondered Tiona.

Recalling their prior engagements with him, Riveria, Ais and Tione couldn't think of any words to refute her.

At that time, something clicked within Finn's mind, "Ais, Tiona, Tione. Tell me. When you chased him around the 18th floor, did you hold back?"

The three looked at each other before Tione replied, "Have we not told you about it, Captain? That Ais used everything she's got as if she was after some strong monster."

Finn got a massive headache and clicked his tongue, "What a mistake... Due to his Level, I thought you all held back as a condition to catch him and I didn't confirm it with you as it was the most logical conclusion."

Finn then looked at the girls with a grave expression, "It seems that there's a miscommunication regarding what he can do between us. I'd really appreciate it if you were to inform me of things... Including you, Riveria."

The three girls became a bit scared while Riveria became apologetic, "The fault lies with me. As there were some things that we agreed not to disclose with Loki as an intermediary, I can only reveal a few things. But with how complicated and convoluted things surrounding them are, it's easier not to say anything as long as it won't put our Familia in danger. With that in mind, I asked the others not to say anything as much as possible."

"You know excuses like that won't cut it."

"I know... Give me some time. I'll arrange the information I have on them and tell you everything I know that I'm able to reveal."

Finn nodded and said, "I'll wait for it. But I wonder what sort of secrets are they that you're not allowed to reveal even among fellow Familia members?"

Finn watched their expressions and caught a hint of wariness and fear, 'Enough to make them scared?' However, he didn't wait for them to reply and said, "Don't worry. I won't force you to break your oath. Just be mindful of new things that you can say. That way, we won't easily get off guard."

Finn then returned his attention to the screen, "With that said, I severely underestimated the Hestia Familia. In fact, I think we should consider them as someone who rivals us in terms of strength."

Bete, who had been quietly watching all this time finally spoke up, "What are you saying, Finn?"

"It's in consideration of the things they can't reveal... Right?"

Hearing that, Riveria suddenly raised her hand and spoke up, "Just let me say one thing for now. We may antagonize Hestia Familia if they do something that is against our beliefs and policy, but please, we should never ever make enemies with Kisuke Urahara, Yoruichi Shihouin, Kuroka Toujou, Medusa and Serafall Sitri."

Finn, Gareth and Bete became incredibly confused because of her contradicting words.

The other girls, meanwhile, nodded in agreement.


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors: 

28th00: Ah, the SS-class and above Threat Level characters. Since Ultimate-Class is something like a Minor-God level in power, with Kuroka being the weakest (Medusa possibly, her Divine Core is still being healed and feeding her two other aspects, her sisters, to revive them, I think I remember that happening at least) and Kisuke being the strongest, being able to fight against conceptual level reality warping as shown with Ares, but not even close to True Ophis and Great Red who are basically just living concepts in physical form (mostly).

Alexander: Well, think of it as them being level 50, while the trio are on level 70, Kuroka on level 10 and the ‘Big four’ are in the range of level 200. As for Ophis and Great red, they are basically on admin level.

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