Rivale looked at the human girl before him and felt a distinct sense of novelty. After all, a human with Fíliya's personality was extremely rare.
"I don't quite understand, little girl. If you believe I am telling the truth, shouldn't you leave me to fight Macht to the death?"
"Mm... Because I just like ruining other people's fun, especially for guys like you."
Fíliya's tone was frivolous, and the look she gave Rivale was filled with provocation.
"Angering the elderly isn't a good choice, youngster... Even a frail old man can be terrifying when he gets angry."
Rivale narrowed his eyes. The relaxed demeanor he held before instantly vanished, replaced by a biting, imposing aura.
"Heh... You guy, you're probably two meters tall. In what way does 'frail' apply to you? Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk to you..."
Fíliya shook her head, then glanced in Solitär's direction.
[How long can you hold out?]
She asked quietly using the team channel.
[Until you come back.]
Solitär gave her an affirmative answer. Although Fíliya's decision was completely impromptu, Solitär had already caught up with her train of thought.
[That confident?]
[Of course. Although Rivale is stronger than me, my advantage is versatility... If it's just stalling for time, no one is better at it than me.]
Is that so...
Fíliya nodded. Seeing Solitär so confident, her last doubts were dispelled.
Immediately, she cast High-Speed Movement Magic (Jilgravala) and vanished from her spot instantly.
"Oh? Interesting magic."
Rivale's figure didn't hesitate for even a moment; he directly followed Fíliya's pace. This startled Fíliya.
Are you kidding... Even Frieren needs a moment to react to this speed, but this guy chased up directly...? And he caught up to my High-Speed Movement Magic just with leg strength... Tsk, truly a monster.
In past battles, her always-successful High-Speed Movement seemed like it was going to stumble today... or was it?
Seeing Rivale's poleaxe chopping down towards her back, Fíliya directly turned most of her back into gold.
A sound of metal clashing exploded, and Fíliya used the impact force of Rivale's attack to shoot forward a long distance.
"This is..."
Fíliya's countermeasure made Rivale's eyes light up immediately. How could he not recognize this thing?
This was clearly Gold Transformation Magic (Di Agolze)... But it was strange. Why didn't the child use Gold Transformation on him? Hmm, it seems she can't do that.
Someone actually analyzed Macht's Gold Transformation Magic... No wonder this child is confident she can kill Macht.
In his shock, Rivale didn't stop his pursuit and soon caught up to Fíliya again.
But this time, Fíliya seemed completely unaware, just charging forward without using the Gold Transformation Magic for defense again.
Rivale swung his axe again without hesitation, but this time his attack was blocked by several heavy giant swords, two or three meters long, resembling gates.
These giant swords fell completely from the sky. After blocking the attack for Fíliya, dozens of small flying swords attacked.
Rivale cleanly blocked all the incoming flying swords, then looked in the direction Fíliya fled.
What a pity... Now I can't stop that youngster.
Rivale shook his head helplessly. He had already seen Fíliya's body merge into the Great Barrier of the Golden Land.
Although the barrier was covered in cracks, it wasn't completely destroyed yet. As long as that thing still stood there, the Demon Race could not enter it.
Thus, Rivale had to turn his gaze back to his old acquaintance.
"Solitär, I didn't expect you to really help humans."
Although the move to stop Fíliya had failed, Rivale wasn't very angry; he just felt it was a pity.
Then he thought, if he couldn't fight Macht... Solitär seemed like a good choice. Anyway, what he sought was just a hearty battle.
"I am only helping her."
Solitär descended slowly from the air, her tone very flat, as if saying only that person was special, and she wouldn't help other humans.
"Is that so... I still find it somewhat incredible. Clearly, both you and Aura cherish your lives, yet you choose to be my enemy at a time like this... Is that human little girl really worth betting your lives on?"
Rivale looked at Solitär with curiosity, even reaching out to stroke his chin, waiting quietly for her answer.
"I just suddenly understood that if only the number of years increases, living longer is just living in vain. That is the fact she made me understand."
"Well said... Then let me ask one last thing. You all... especially you, Aura. Can you really imagine the scene of fighting me?"
Rivale said, looking at Aura with a frivolous tone.
Aura had just arrived. Whether it was Fíliya, Rivale, or Solitär, their speed was still a bit too fast for her.
"Hah? I... I'm not afraid of you... You think living a long time makes you amazing?"
Aura retorted immediately, but her tone didn't sound confident at all.
"Be... Besides, Solitär is here too. It's two against one now. You should worry about yourself first."
Aura added.
"Is that so... Since both of you are full of fighting spirit, I should offer my respect."
Rivale smiled and launched a charge again.
His tall body approached rapidly, his momentum even more terrifying than a Dragon.
In the blink of an eye, Rivale rushed in front of Aura.
"!"
Fortunately, Aura could barely react to this speed. After all, in previous sparring, she had defended many times against Fíliya's sneak attacks using High-Speed Movement Magic. So at this moment, Aura was truly grateful for Fíliya's special training.
Aura quickly put up a pure white fluorescent shield in front of her, even a reinforced version covered in fish-scale patterns. It seems that apart from eating for free, she had indeed been improving herself during this time.
Rivale's axe chopped heavily on the Defensive Magic shield. Although Defensive Magic could withstand physical attacks from Warriors, against such high-intensity mass attacks, the shield often dissolved rapidly.
But that was enough.
As long as she blocked the initial strike and wasn't instantly killed, the rest would be much easier.
At the same moment Aura's Defensive Magic was shattered, dozens of Ordinary Attack Magic beams were fired from Solitär's direction.
Rivale obviously wasn't conceited enough to ignore Solitär's attacks. Seeing the sneak attack to behead Aura failed, he had to turn to deal with Solitär's light cannons.
After swinging his axe a few times to shatter those Ordinary Attack spells, Rivale immediately felt an attack from behind again.
That was Aura also using Ordinary Attack Magic to pincer him. While releasing white beams of mana bombardment, Aura quickly distanced herself from Rivale.
Oh? What a wonderful scene. That "Aura the Guillotine" actually possesses something like battle sense.
This is probably attributable to... that human little girl, right?
Rivale thought to himself, then neutralized all of Aura's attacks. Although he fell into a siege, he felt increasingly excited.
Yes, it has to be like this. If I can't feel even a trace of threat, what kind of battle is it?
And what happened next thoroughly ignited his interest in this duel.
He gently touched his abdomen. There was a shallow scratch, bringing out a very slight wound. Although the wound was very small, not even bleeding, the torn clothing proved one thing: he had been hurt.
And the person who made this shallow mark was that... demon brat he hadn't taken seriously from the start.
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