Chapter 25

RATH 25

TL: Eevee

3. And so the story begins. (9)

Madness. Just what the heck did she do to get the emperor to acknowledge an elopement with me?

But aside from the moments when she was getting hit with the bat and metal bat I don’t recall her every lying to me?

Let’s check first.

“If you lie, you get hit.”

“How do you have that cursed magic weapon!”

“I used it when that rascal Rood came.”

“I lost a comrade.”

“He isn’t dead.”

“Sometimes people find more solace in death. Getting hit by that magic weapon is one of those moments. Rood would also have preferred you to finish him off cleanly with a sword if for the sake of nothing but old relationships.”

Sia said with a hateful look at the metal bat.

“Now, Master! Throw away that useless thing and come with me!”

“I refuse.”

-Wow owner! Slightly touched!

“Then you can bring that too…”

“I didn’t necessarily refuse just because of this.”

-Ahhhhht! Return my emotions!

A life with Sia, I will have to refuse. The organization’s gone under as well. I might as well aim for the farming king life I gave up in the past.

“Will I simply give up like that?”

“Probably not.”

“Yes, Master. I will take you with me no matter what.”

Click.

The moment she snapped her fingers, the mood changed.

“To face Master, I thought for a long time. And my answer was numbers and ranged attacks.”

At the same time she said that, torches started to light up the cave one, two at a time. The final count being at least a hundred.

“I brought special poisons that can paralyze even an ogre with so much as a scratch. And the numbers I brought were the most I could muster. Now, Master.”

Why is it that whenever my disciples come to fight me, they always bring a mob with them?

“If you sleep for just a bit, once you wake up all that’s left is to live happily in the home I have prepared for us.”

As Sia slowly drew away with a bright smile, I could hear the sound of hundreds of arrows flying towards me.

But there’s way too many? Is this a death route? She knows perfectly well that I can’t block that if I don’t have mana?

-Wow, prep work OP. She’s owner’s disciple alright! Plus she even said she had a house ready, since owner doesn’t have a home right how in’t that a chance?

-But you’d probably be melted down.

-No, no way!

This rascal still doesn’t know what it’s done.

Sure I was the one laying out the beatings but the tool was this metal bat.

I guarantee it, if it’s Sia then she’ll do something like the movie based off the legendary novel and create a Fellowship of the Bat to throw it in Stioris Volcano that was even said to have melted an archdevil, just to get rid of this rascal from the world somehow.

No matter how much suffering and sacrifices they had to make, if it’s Sia then she’ll endure it all to melt down the metal bat.

-And so. The moment I fall is also the moment you die!

-Owner and I share the same fate! We’re bonded by the strong bond of our souls!

And so that this thing and I can both survive, those arrows need to be blocked!

“Not even Master could parry away all these arrows.”

She said loudly from all the way over there.

Sure, normally you wouldn’t be able to block these numbers. You’d just get pincushioned and die, right?

But Siaaa?

Did you realise your voice was shaking as you said that? She still has that shard of uncertainty somewhere in her heart.

Well, from an objective point of view, Sia’s evaluation of me is correct. To normal swordsmen with high mana, long-distance attacks are poorly effective.

Unless the opponent is a bowmaster or something that can pour in mana into arrows, normal archers have a hard time penetrating through the sword ki of a swordsman with mana. Putting mana into a sword and maintaining it takes massive amounts of effort by itself, so how much harder would it to maintain that mana in an arrow that’s flying away from you?

So the role of an archer is, to just beat the crap out of ordinary soldiers, and they don’t even work that well against heavy armour either.

But to me without mana, there isn’t a weapon deadlier than an arrow.

And because of that, I made very thorough preparations against archers.

“Block it, metal bat!”

-You’re making a weak frail girl like me block that scawy thing! Owner is a bad man!

If the product of one of best dwarven clans the Black Anvil, the thing that’s suspected to be tougher than a Dragon Lord’s scales, is weak and frail, then a normal dragon is a tutorial-level monster.

In that case the tutorial is too hard. What is that level which sounds like you’d accidentally go into hell level difficulty and diligently hurt yourself to raise resistances with? (1)

“What!”

Hoho, why are you surprised. There’s no such thing as impossible for this metal bat with transform skills that would put a D**to to shame!(2)

The bat wavers and becomes a thin shield in my hand. Even if it’s this thin it’s still an invincible shield that tanked the hammer strikes of dwarven swordsmaster-class warriors.

And now all that’s left is the finisher! The romance of men!

-Fusion!

-Uwah! O, owner and my bodies are becoming oneeeeeee!

The original purpose in the creation of this thing was as a higher rank weapon than the bat as well as to defend against my weaknesses.

The original goal was to make separate weapons and armour, but due to monetary and material shortages I couldn’t do it.

Although it looks like a lump of iron on the outside, it’s actually the sole item in existence made of the metal that only appears in dwarven legends, Mithteil. (3)

Mithteil is only made when a mithril mine is hit by a Meteo or a similar impact to be pressurized at insane temperatures.

If I didn’t sneak it out together with the princess then I’d never have been able to make this.

And so, since I’m making it anyway, I made it so that it could be used for attacking and defending!

-Ultimate fusion, Arcanaruan!

-What’s that childish name.

-Haang, what do you mean childish. This goddess Arcadia even gave it four letters of her name!

All that happened was the metal bat covered my body in a very thin layer like armour from the middle ages, but because of that my defenses have skyrocketed.

And if I use a regular attack in this state then there is a massive bonus damage added on top of that!

Although sure, there’s no actual damage that goes through, but since it can render them unable to attack, an armour where offense and defense are one, is this not the perfect armour!

“Were you prepared for this?”

“…I don’t think there’s anyone aside from Master who would imagine something like that.”

Seeing as the arrows just bounced off with no effect, Sia sighed heavily but drew her sword and said.

“Even so, this chance… I can’t give it up.”

With a serious expression, an overwhelming amount of mana flowed into her sword. A thicker and stronger magic power than sword ki.

-Ohhh! Izza a swordsmaster! A swordsmaster! Even the kingdom next door doesn’t have more than ten of them!

-Ah, I killed a lot of them last time so there’s only three left. And even then two of them only awoke at the last second.

Swordsmaster.

I did see her on the verge of breaking through at the end of training, but to think she could so perfectly master it.

As a teacher I am so happy… my ass. A swordsmaster’s chasing after me so if I’m happy about that then I’m a pervert!

“All units, cleared for close quarter combat. As long as you don’t kill him you are free to use any means and method available!”

Sword ki and sword auras began to form on everyone’s swords. If sword ki is pouring mana into the sword, what they call aura is adding even more energy and compressing it. To a beginner they might look like the same thing, but in reality it’s the difference between heaven and earth if you face it.

-But neither of those does anything to this boddyyyyy!

But it can’t leave the tiniest scratch on the metal bat’s armour.

“You, you mean that not even sword aura works on that thing?!”

-Take this, Aru-chan finisher, tentacle attack!

“Hiiik!”

Sure even if it’s the metal bat, even if I’ve thrown in legendary metals like they were scraps you do leave scratches if it keeps getting hit by sword aura. It might even get cut if it’s hit often enough. But, like I’ve said before, this metal bat can change shape freely like a D**to.

That means, whether it’s scratched, or cut, it can be put back together! And automatically! And on top of that as a passive it reflects the enemy’s attacks!

And like it’s perverted personality, the long wavy tentacle attack that comes from the left arm is a freebie!

“Ma, Master? I think something perverted came out of your arm!”

“That’s something the metal bat made on its own so I can’t help with that.”

“This, this cursed magic weapon!”

“Kuaaaaak!”

-Haang, where do you think you’re going pretty unni? Wiiiin? What’s this dirty man! I wouldn’t know if you were a cute boy, but since it’s a promised loss if I take off that mask so for the sake of my sanity I’ll just abandon you!

The people that had been chasing after Sia were all defeated by the metal bat’s tentacle attack and were pathetically thrown aside.

“Do, don’t run away!”

“But, but how do we!”

“Kurk! I, I can’t dodge!”

-Hiya! Ayap! I don’t need men! Unless you’re a pretty boy then git lost! My goal is that tasty-looking unni! This unni will dote on unni a lot!

-So just who’s supposed to be the unni again…

To do some work as well, I formed a sword in my right hand, but the left hand’s tentacle defeats the enemy before they even come near. Autoattacking even as I’m standing still. It is convenient but…

-How much mana do you have?

-Haang, I don’t worry about afterwards! That’s this Arcadia’s cweed!

-I do have to worry about afterwards though?

Even though the metal bat recharges by itself, it has its limits.

And what if, that mana ran out? The defenses of metal bat is done, at the same time I’m also done for.

The only things left are a nice boat or imprisonment end, just those two.

-Then, for owner! Ultimate Hundred Tentacle Violator attaaaack!

“Ku, kuaaak!””Block it!”

“Kuaaak, the damage comes through even if we block iiiiiiiiiittt!”

“Dodge! I, I’m done for…”

“Master! Just what the heck did Master create!”

What was in my field of vision was seriously around a hundred or so tentacles sprouting from my left hand and people getting violated by those left and right. And Sia who was horrified at the sight.

Sorry, I don’t know what I made either. Nor do I want to know.

-Haang, what owner made is of course the beautiful goddess, Arcadia! You don’t have to be embawassed! If you’re embarrassed then you lose owner!

-Then I will become a loser today! After losing I will gain the freedom to be embarrassed!

-Haang, owner can’t be honest.

Now the faceless masked assassins are mostly down for the count. Facing me was Sia who was glaring at me while biting down on her red lips.

“Do you really hate me that much? To bring out that monstrosity!”

-Monstrosity! This unni’s been treating me really awfully for a while now?

“Hate… I don’t hate you. But I don’t like you either. Just a cute disciple overflowing with personality. That’s what I think of you.”

-You’re the student, I’m the teacher! And I’m the punishment tool in between! The three of us are tied by the schoolyard string of fate! So don’t hate meee, pretty unni!

Ignoring the declaration that casually pushed everyone’s school years into hell, Sia was shaking with her head bowed down at my words. Just what is she feeling I wonder?

Shame? Embarrassment? If she was a normal woman she’d be crying having had her passionate proposal rejected…

-Embarrassed because she was rejected?

-Like my disciples would ever be like that.

Her subordinates are all down, close combat is impossible. If there was anything she could do then…

“After I parted from Master, the contract I managed to make, great goddess of hell, Styx. Master.”

-Owner, owner? Those eyes are dangerous! Really dangerous you know? Eyes are all spinny spinny? It looks like she’ll run at us to die together? The contracted goddess is the goddess of hell!

“Master. No matter what Master says I can’t give up on you. So…”

Yep. I think I know what’s coming.

“Together with me.”

-According to the will of my contractor.

God. Existences that can be compared among hell’s archdevils among summons. Another world’s absolute beings…

“On you go.”

-Die… Kuaaaaaaaaaht?!

Kang!

-Haang, this world’s only goddess is me, the one and only Arcadia!

“…Eh?”

Was blown away with a crisp sound.

“Desummoned? A god? In one hit? Urrk.”

Whether she received a critical mental hit, I hit Sia’s stomach while she was stunned.

“Bad… man…”

“Once you wake up you will already be at your house.”

“..ster’s…. Not wi…”

She was muttering something but she couldn’t take the following strike and passed out.

-Owner, what’re you going to do? Kill’em all?

-I don’t kill my disicples.

-Ho? Was owner a kind of person someone who cared about that?

-I am that kind of person.

-Owner is a person! I thought you were a devil at least!

Although to save this noisy child’s mana I want to undo the transformation, but just in case of a final strike, there could be agents lying in ambush so I should go out like this for now.

Because just when I exit I could have the princess waiting for me with thousands of soldiers saying “I was waiting for you!” or the organization’s boss that I’ve never seen before with bloodshot eyes yelling “Because of you, our thousand-year history of Howling is!” could be waiting for me.

-Weiiing? Someone’s there!

Look here! Is there not already something on the metal bat’s radar!

I’m already everyone’s enemy! So before I get hit first I will be the one to get the first strike!

-Go, batmon, tentacle attack!

-Aru aru!

“Kuaaaaaht?!”

Eh, wait, this sounds familiar…

-Ahn, it’s a disciple.

Sorry.