Free Web NovelAnna thought she had already been cautious enough.
To capture a living fledgling Hero, the Church had paid a heavy price this time.
In recent years, the sleepers they had planted in Deerhorn City had all been activated for this operation.
Everyone had been preparing for a long time.
They burned themselves in unseen corners, drawing enemy attention, confusing enemy eyes... even if their end was to die without leaving a corpse!
But those who chose this path never regretted it!
“High-ranking ones indulge at will, raising slave girls of all races for pleasure; doing nothing, letting corruption spread unchecked, while Heroes can only move under the rules they wrote! Ridiculous!”
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“Humanity never needed Heroes. The existence of Heroes is nothing but a tool for those in the Royal Capital, the high and mighty, to preserve their rule! Heroes—reduced to hounds and claws! Pitiful!”
Anna gnashed her teeth. Her beautiful face, lit by countless spell runes, seemed like that of a god of endless wrath, wanting to use divine sorcery in her hand to subdue every rebel!
“Ridiculous! Detestable! Pitiful!”
“This fate will be cut down beneath my sorcery!”
Anna swept her eyes across the street. New spells were forming in her hands. She would not allow this mission to fail!
“We have never fought alone!”
At the sound of her furious voice, a dangerous signal lit up deep in Vieya’s heart and surged rapidly to its peak.
Something bad was quietly happening on this battlefield.
Invisible, Vieya sighed helplessly. She had to pause her observation, put aside her curiosity, and begin retreating.
A fierce, colorless, odorless poison gas spread across the entire street.
It seeped into every corner of the air without a blind spot.
The slime-girl curiously inhaled a breath of the toxin.
“I thought I was the only Hero shameless enough to ever use poison.”
Vieya was speechless, her green eyes carrying a trace of pity.
Unfortunately, Anna’s poison was specialized against humans, and had little effect on a monster girl.
“So, you assumed I was human, and that’s why you used a tailored poison?”
Vieya, not human, sighed.
Almost fell for it.
Good thing she had long since solved the weakness of being human.
“So, were those words you just said meant for me?”
In front of the wall, Vieya revealed herself. She half-covered her nose, emerald eyes quietly watching Anna, asking once again:
“To you, are Heroes truly so worthless? Besides effectively striking monsters, when facing people and things you cannot stand, you can only sit on the sidelines, helplessly swallowing down the anger in your heart?”
“......”
Impossible...
Her complexion perfect, not even her clothes torn?
Anna did not answer. She only turned toward the voice. Her blue eyes held undisguised shock.
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Her original target was not this unknown wild Hero child, but the Violet Hero—the newest and shallowest of all Heroes.
But plans never kept up with changes. Every time you had a goal, the world mercilessly piled obstacles in front of you!
Heh.
Wasn’t this child Hero’s ability supposed to be reflection? Strange. Had she run into a hidden boss instead?
After a brief daze, Anna forced a smile, giving Vieya a strained grin.
“Kid, you’re strong.”
“Mm.”
“If it were before, I’d have wanted to be your friend. Might even have asked you to team up with me to fight the Demon King.”
“Oh.”
“Tsk, so cold. But being cold to enemies is right.” Anna sounded helpless. She looked at Vieya. “But didn’t anyone ever tell you to smile more? A Hero who is always cold won’t be welcomed... Compared to a freezing sword, people always prefer warmer companions...”
“What are you trying to say?” Vieya put her hands on her waist, eyes tinged with pity. “I don’t know what you’ve gone through, but I don’t need you teaching me how to be a Hero.”
“Short kid, but the words coming out of your mouth sound so old-fashioned, like an—”
Anna cut off the rude word on her tongue and raised her staff toward Vieya once more.
“But what I will say is this: I will not lose to you...”
“Annoying.”
This time, Vieya didn’t give her any chance to show off spells. She clenched her fist and rushed forward.
“Ice Shield! Three thousand layers!”
For a mage, avoid close combat if possible—that had always been Anna’s tactic ever since gaining the authority of [Art].
With just a glance, the moisture in the air condensed into countless shields stacked before Vieya.
“Your body’s so small. Even if your talent is ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) high, how much strength can you really have?”
Anna shifted tactics. “If I can’t harm you, then I’ll restrain you! I’ll lock you in place!”
“Is that so?”
Vieya raised her little fist, lips curling in a smile that sent a chill through Anna’s heart.
“I can do multi-casting too. Watch carefully—this is a fist with three thousand times gravity added!”
Bang!
Terrifying! Three thousand ice shields shattered in an instant!
Anna’s eyelids twitched—she spun and ran!
“Don’t run! What, even a child’s fist you have to dodge?” Vieya jeered shamelessly, “A fledgling Hero is beating up an apostate Hero senior~”
“......”
Under the mockery, Anna cast six [Divine Step] buffs on herself, then threw eighteen [Slow] spells back at the chasing Vieya.
This way, whether she dodged or not, time would be wasted—and if she didn’t dodge, all the better...
Anna thought.
“Quick fight, quick end.”
With gravity stacked on herself, Vieya’s mana drained rapidly. Damn! Back when she was a Hero, her mana bar had been so long! Why was it so short now?!
Short bar aside, with overuse her body even shrank—her hard-won grown-up slime form deflated at once.
“Super–Light-and-Heavy Rock Technique!”
Vieya chanted silently, slashing her weight down, then suddenly shot forward at Anna!
“Heavy!”
State switch!
Vieya swung a kick midair, stomping hard toward Anna’s chest.
Submit to me, vile apostate Hero!
“You’ve got to be kidding?!”
Anna struggled to flee. But no matter what she used, she couldn’t open the distance—on the contrary, it only grew shorter.
“Such battle experience, such free mastery of authority power!”
No way this was a newbie Hero. More like an old hag!
Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
Suddenly!
Anna stopped running. In a burst, spell-weaving threads surged like a tide, instantly knitting tens of thousands of spells, pelting toward Vieya like a storm of rain.
And then.
The golden-haired girl in her pretty dress was stomped on the soft chest by Vieya’s foot.
