Black Summoner: Volume 19 (eBook)

Doufu Mayoi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7584-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The threat of the Ten Authorities continues to loom as gigantic stakes appear across the world and several powerful figures are attacked.

Baldogg has been assigned to Serge, while a mysterious hooded man has gone after Goldiana. How will they fare? With so many unknowns as the Ten Authorities try to face off against the strongest in the world, will it even be a fight? What of those left behind in Lumiest, like Dorothiara? And what is Kelvin doing while all this is happening?

Meanwhile, Luquille continues to lurk and scheme in the shadows. Fights, intrigue, and rescue missions abound in this new volume of Black Summoner!

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Chapter 1: Tempering

Having manifested his Authority, a pair of wings unfolded out of his back. They were white, despite the fact that he was a fallen angel. Actually, rather than wings, they were more like a mass of particles. The trees, flowers, grass, rocks, and even the earth itself were being broken down into pure energy and stored in his wings.

“Smiths who have reached the realm of the divine no longer care to choose the place, materials, or even tools. They are able to always create the best arms and armor no matter the situation. But my smithy happens to be somewhat dangerous. Anything without a will, or more importantly, anything weak, will be dismantled. This is my Authority: Tempering!” Baldogg boasted.

“Mm-hmm, it looks like I can expect a little entertainment from this?” Serge muttered. “Well, words alone mean nothing, anyway!”

On the other side, Serge morphed her Holy Sword Will into its club form, Holy Club Nyoibou, twirling it around in place of her warm-up exercises. The weapon was long, seemingly around two meters, but she was spinning it with incredible speed, making the club invisible to the naked eye. It wasn’t even at the level of leaving behind afterimages. The club had quite literally become invisible.

“Hmph, pretty interesting trick,” said Baldogg. “But do you really think that’ll be enough to beat me?”

“I wonder,” replied Serge. “Well, I guess it depends on how hard you fight?”

A portion of the particles of Baldogg’s wings gathered in his hand, instantly forming a bow. Furthermore, various swords and spears were formed in the air around him. It was as though the very air surrounding him was a forge.

“Scatter and vanish.” Baldogg pointed the bow in his hands at Serge, and the weapons around him locked on to his target as well. The next instant, they all flew at her, as if having been flung.

Clang!

Each impact came with an explosion powerful enough to change the landscape. Of course they did, since each weapon was powerful enough to be Rank S. Merely throwing them produced enough destructive might to easily produce such casualties.

“I can’t measure how much confidence you have in your strength, but don’t you think it was careless not to move at all, even in the face of all those explosions? No matter how fast you swing your weapon, it’s impossible to sweep away all of mine. They’re absolutely stronger than yours—the stuff of myths.”

In front of Baldogg were a multitude of craters, each with a weapon in the center, stuck into the earth. Unfortunately, these craters were also thick with black smoke, so it was impossible to see through them. But given all the explosions, even on the off chance his enemy survived all that, his mass of weapons was powerful enough to be Rank S and had vicious skills to match. Baldogg was sure that the battle was won, convinced that no human could do anything against him.

Which...well, set up a flag, in a certain sense. He was better at it than Serge already.

“Whoa there, how am I alive? Was I lucky? Or does my opponent just have no control at all?” Serge taunted him. “Either way, you should aim better. There wasn’t even any need for me to dodge.”

“Huh?” Baldogg responded angrily after a moment. Suddenly, a fierce wind whipped up, blowing away all the smoke. It looked like Serge had done this from within by spinning her club. And as her flippant attitude indicated, she was totally fine—completely untouched, in fact.

The weapons Baldogg had thrown had definitely managed to create several large craters, destroying their surroundings. There was no doubt about that. However, that was all. The weapons he was so proud of, which he had unleashed at Serge, had all gone off in wild directions. It was as if they’d purposefully avoided her, as only the area she was standing on was safe from the destruction.

What?! She’s completely unhurt?! That’s impossible! The arrow I just shot is supposed to chase its target to the ends of the universe! And it’s unthinkable for all the weapons to have missed her when she didn’t move at all! There’s no way they’d scatter so conveniently like that! Baldogg screamed internally.

The things he trusted most in this world were the weapons made by his own hand. His trust in them was equal to his adoration of the wicked god, Addams, whom he worshipped as the one and only god. And that was exactly why he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Even if his target was the strongest obstacle in this world that could oppose them, he could never have imagined his weapons would throw up an error against a mere human.

I’m a maiden, in the end; I don’t want to get my hair dirty. I’m glad I went with Nyoibou, since I was able to drive away all that smoke and dust, Serge thought.

While Baldogg was flabbergasted, she simply continued to spin her club. She was maintaining the invisibility of her weapon, though it was creating an eerie, alien sound as it sliced through the air.

So...mm-hmm, mm-hmm, judging from that elated, smug face he was making until just a moment ago, he’s got no detection skills to speak of? Serge pondered her observations. Actually, it doesn’t seem like he knows all that much about me. Awww, that’s so sad for him. So he really came to fight me all ignorant like that. That would’ve been huge points in his favor if only he’d been a cute girl. But for him to be a man... I’m so unlucky!

Serge was exasperatingly narcissistic. However, she had started to think about her next move. Her enemy had shown a disappointingly wide opening. She wasn’t such a bleeding heart that she’d let such a chance pass her by.

Kaboom!

The sound of a scathing blunt blow came from Baldogg’s cheek. An even more severe sense of pain came afterward. Though he’d given her an opening, for a moment, Baldogg didn’t understand what had attacked him. Still, he immediately understood after looking at Serge. She was holding a club that had extended to an impossible length.

By continuing the high-speed rotation that made the weapon invisible, and furthermore having it extend with good timing, she had been able to land a beautiful hit on his face. Although the logic of it was simple, it was a godly move that likely only she could pull off.

But Serge reacted like she’d hit a target in a shooting game at a fair, saying, “Oooh, I hit it!”

“You falsified your weapon?!” Baldogg shouted accusingly.

“What do you mean, falsified? It’s Nyoibou. Of course it extends,” Serge replied. “Well, I guess I did hit you pretty hard, so I should praise you for not having your head fly off, though, you did lose your glasses.”

Baldogg let out a strangled noise as veins popped out on his face in anger. He was in a pose one step away from falling flat after being hit that hard, with one hand on the ground to help stabilize him. He slammed the ground with that hand, turning the entire area into energy that enveloped his body, transforming him.

He took a couple deep, deliberate breaths. “Fine, I will acknowledge you as an enemy and finish you with all my might.”

Baldogg stood up, now clad in a gaudy full set of armor. It shone so bright it was impossible to believe that it used to be dirt, and it emanated a force that unconsciously pressured those who looked upon the wearer to prostrate themselves. That was likely some sort of ability of the armor itself, but the one who was currently looking at it only thought that the wearer seemed kind of arrogant.

“What, you weren’t being serious?! Wow, I’m shocked! You have no sense of danger!” Serge feigned surprise.

“Stop your drivel!” Baldogg shouted.

Serge’s obvious playacting had exhausted Baldogg’s store of patience. He could no longer find it in himself to show any mercy, so he started to bring out materials that had been in Storage since the age of the gods. He created and deployed numerous “mythical” weapons, each of which was the equal of Melfina’s Holy Lance Answerer.

“Wow, now that’s a spectacle!” Serge exclaimed. “Then let me get in on this too! Holy Sword Willjillion!”

As if competing with Baldogg’s mass of weapons, Serge deployed even more copies of Holy Sword Willjillion. This face-off of massed weapons, just one set of which could warp space-time, made it seem like the end of the world was coming.

The host of Holy Sword Willjillions clashed with that of the mythical weapons. The damage done whenever blades clashed was beyond words. No matter which side won, this entire area would be turned into a wasteland.

In the midst of such a disastrous conflict, Serge had morphed the Will in her hand into its bow form, Holy Bow Artemis. Of course, Baldogg had a bow in his hands as well, which meant the next moment was filled with an intense exchange of shots. But neither side managed to land an effective hit on the other. Serge’s arrows would strike Baldogg every time, but his armor made it so that he essentially took no damage. Given that a single arrow from Holy Bow Artemis could create a large crater in the ground, one could only imagine how absurd the defense value of the armor was. As things stood, not even hundreds of arrows could bring Baldogg down.

On the other hand, Baldogg’s arrows had yet to land a single hit on Serge. Following the...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.11.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Black Summoner
• Illustrationen: Kurogin (DIGS), DaiXt
• Übersetzer: Kevin Chen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: action • Adventure • Comedy • Fantasy • Isekai • Light Novel • RPG
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-7584-0 / 1718375840
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-7584-0 / 9781718375840