Orc Harem Vol 3 Chapter 20

Chapter 20: The King’s Talents and The King’s Qualification

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I drew out the true sword of oracle that Kururu forged for me and ran.

My twin spirit crests were already shining in full force.

This wasn’t an opponent that I could hold back against.

However, I didn’t use the seal release because I could only use it for several seconds and had to choose the timing to use it.

I wouldn’t be able to match him in magic battle.

I had no other choice but to close the distance and fought him in sword range.

And then our distance shortened until ten meter.

With my ground shrinker technique, I could traverse such distance with one step.

「You chose the bests option. But, I had seen you doing that tens of thousands of times before.」

There was 0,014 second before my sword made contact.

And yet, his magic made it in time to intercept me. Iron spear flew toward me.

The interception magic acted as a counter. The iron spear’s force would increase the faster I moved. But I charged forward even knowing that.

(I believed that he can do at least this much if it’s him.)

I had prepared hardening magic since the start.

I concentrated my magic power into the impact point in an instant.

I swung my sword to the finish even while receiving a great impact on my body.

It was shallow. Khalil had detonated his magic power to blow himself backward.

I tried to attack him further, but the damage made my feet stopped and a distance was opened between us.

「How reckless. Isn’t that hurt?」

「It really hurts it feels like I’ll die, but you yourself are also in pain right?」

It was an attack from one of the demon king’s four heavenly kings. That title wasn’t just for show. Two of the four iron spears pierced my hardening. Blood spurted out when I pulled out those iron spears, but the blood stopped with the strengthening of my self-healing.

The damage wasn’t light.

But, I got the feedback from my sword that it didn’t just cut his skin, but even his flesh.

The start of the duel ended up in a draw.

「Only four people have managed to wound me until now. ……I underestimated you a little. I’ll get serious now.」

There was a bundle of card on his hand.

Golden colored pattern was drawn on the cards.

It was a technique to make it possible to activate magic instantly.

When using magic, there was the process of forming the magic formula and pouring magic power into it.

That was why it would take time until the magic was activated.

But, just now he didn’t go through such process.

The magic was activated the moment he threw a card.

(If the magic formula had been engraved on the card surface beforehand, the magic can activate just by pouring magic power through it. I understand that.)

That technique itself wasn’t rare. Even I had created several such magic items.

But, it was impossible to engrave complicated magic formula like the magic that he used on card like that. In the first place, when the formula was engraved at the outside like that, some of the magic power that was poured would leak out and get wasted, and it also took time.

Because of that, this method was faster than using magic normally, but the power and accuracy would drop. It was something at such level.

And yet…….

「Come on come on come on, what’s the matter? You are completely at the defensive.」

Khalil’s card activated instantly and its precision and power also didn’t drop at all. It was like a cheat item.

Flame blast, earth avalanche, and cold blizzard were assaulting me one after another.

All of them were grand magic.

Far from closing the distance, just avoiding lethal injury was the best I could do.

I would have died a long time ago if I didn’t fully release the power of the spirit crests. This sword would have snapped since a long time ago if it wasn’t the true sword of oracle.

It was an abnormal situation that I was being pushed back this one-sidedly even considering the difference of strength between Khalil and me in magic.

Not only the instant activation of the grand magic, his total capacity of magic power and instantaneous magic power output were also too overwhelming.

(There is a trick behind this. If not this is impossible.)

Although the opponent was one the four heavenly kings, in the end he still hadn’t left the category of monster.

Opponents that I was helpless against until now were existences like the world tree devouring demon bug or the god of disaster, fellows who lived in a completely different dimension.

Although the magic capacity of Golden Crystal tribe was overwhelming, I myself was the son of the demon king and the hero. I had absurd latent potential, received the special education from heroes like the great sage, and on top of that I was boosted by twin spirit crests.

There was no way someone like me could be overwhelmed by pure strength.

Also, it was mysterious that Khalil wasn’t running out of breath even though he was using grand magic this lavishly right from the start.

「Show me your cool side. Are you going to end just like this?」

Although I was barely avoiding getting lethally wounded, I couldn’t completely block the attacks and I was just one step away from dying. Burn, laceration, and frostbite covered my whole body. In addition my left arm was broken. Many of my bones were also cracked.

I was wounded all over.

I was strengthening my self-healing ability but it couldn’t keep up.

Far from closing the distance to get into the sword range, I couldn’t even close the distance at all.

At this rate I would be checkmated in 27 more seconds.

(If I can’t close the distance then-)

I flew backward with all my strength to open the distance even more.

The distance widened until more than 30 meter. It was completely the distance for long range magic battle.

It was the distance that Khalil specialized the most in.

I had no method to attack from here. It was a suicidal act that would make me got one-sidedly toyed to death.

However, I judged that there was a way of survival for me here.

「You aren’t thinking that you can win against me from that range aren’t you?」

「Yeah. But, I have confidence that you won’t be able to finish me off in this range.」

If there was distance, then the time needed for his magic to hit me would be lengthened. I could observe his magic formula, formed the counter magic formula, and I would have the leeway to be able to defend or dodge more effectively.

Also, in the range just now Khalil could one-sidedly use attack magic to attack me using the difference in magic formula construction speed, but at this range I would also be able to use attack magic.

If I couldn’t close the distance to switch into offense, I should give up attacking altogether and focused on defense.

I aimed for a protracted battle.

「That’s not confidence but conceit. I’ll test out whether your confidence is right or not!」

Just like before, he activated absurd grand magic in succession.

However, I dodged those that I could dodge, and created effective counter magic against those that I couldn’t dodge to blur the difference in power between us. Depending on the situation I would use the true sword of oracle that could cut even god to slash the magic and defend myself.

(Just as I thought. My healing can catch up if I focus all my strength into defense in this range.)

My strengthened self-healing could make it.

I noticed after taking distance like this and could observe my opponent carefully.

My opponent was the super genius magician. But, in the end he was still nothing more than a magician.

He was only able to use advanced and powerful magic in succession but he wasn’t a warrior.

Reading the opponent’s rhythm, dodging, taking the opponent by surprise. Khalil’s attacks were monotone and didn’t have that kind of martial knowledge.

Instead I had grasped Khalil’s rhythm.

I was able to predict his action until several moves ahead. If I could predict his action, my initial movement to deal with it could go even faster.

The speed of initial movement that was less than even a few moments could create overwhelming advantage in this kind of battle.

In addition, that composure helped me in exposing the trick of the genius Khalil.

(So that’s how.)

With that method, there wouldn’t be no loss of time from pouring magic power into the card, and the magic’s power and precision also wouldn’t degrade. No wonder he didn’t run out of magic.

I handled Khalil’s grand magic one after another.

「How can you defend against this many grand magic like that?」

Khalil started to lose his composure.

His trick to rapidly activate grand magic had a limit to it. His bundle of card only had limited number.

「It’s because I’m strong. ……Khalil, stop this already. That’s not something that can be used so casually like that right?」

Khalil’s expression changed.

He realized that I had seen through his trick.

Khalil stopped his rapid casting of grand magic.

「Whaat, so you have realized it huh? That’s right. I’m fighting together with her. I’ll change this rotten world together with her.」

He returned the bundle of card into his pouch.

「So you have given up?」

「There is no way I’ll give up. But, I understand that I can’t defeat the current Ork-kun with just half-baked power. ……I’ll go at my full power. I’ll launch an attack that you won’t be able to defend even if you know the trick behind it.」

He took out a large card from his breast pocket.

The golden pattern drawn on it was even more complicated and huge. It was clear that it was a powerful magic formula.

And in his case, the size of the magic formula also corresponded to the amount of the magic power that could be poured into it.

「It was fun. Sayonara. Watch my secret technique closely from there, Ariahait(Golden Sun)」

That magic was unleashed with a smile from Khalil.

A golden sun with the radiance of golden crystal.

It wasn’t a flame type magic, it was a magic that disintegrated everything it touched.

It was a super magic that only he could use.

I wouldn’t be able to dodge it in time.

Even the true sword of oracle that was made from orichalcum would be disintegrated if it touched that magic.

In a glance, this looked like checkmate.

But, he committed two misses.

Those misses created a chance of victory for me.

I took a posture with a palm of my hand pointed forward.

「First Limit Release」

If it was a checkmate for me with my current strength, then I’d pour even more power.

The three layers of seal, I released the first layer of it and withdraw twenty percent of my sealed power of Evol Orc.

Even this much was insufficient to challenge the power of the golden sun.

Every day, in order to protect my beloved women even if powerful enemy appeared before me, I continued training and groping for a way to use my sealed power skillfully.

Now I released the technique that I learned from that effort.

「Second Limit Release - Imitate」

That technique was the Second Limit Release – Imitate.

I instantly compressed the power that overflowed out from the release of the first limit.

The usage time limit that was originally eight seconds became just a fragment of a second.

By paying that much compensation, I could produce power that rivaled the Second Limit Release with First Limit Release that I could control with 100% precision.

Stability and mighty power were in my possession for just a moment.

But just this fragment of second was enough.

I charged forward with my palm thrust forward.

I rushed straight toward the golden sun.

(Here I come!)

The first miss that the genius Khalil committed.

It was how he took out his trump card from his breast pocket instead of from among his bundle of cards. It was like him exposing his own trick that it was a special card.

That was why I had raised my wariness toward it since from the instant he took it out.

From the drawn pattern, I predicted the magic formula before its activation and I managed to prepare the counter magic.

The card used that much sun formula in it. I had observed the card pattern and the magic interrelation from all the cards he had been using until now.

And his second miss.

He used up too many cards.

Thanks to that other than the card pattern and the magic formula’s interrelation, I noticed the secret of the card itself.

The instant activation of the card as well as the height of its power and control. How Khalil wasn’t running out of strength at all even after using that many grand magic.

Such feats were possible only because he had omitted the process of filling the card with magic power.

I noticed late because of my preconception that it was impossible to fill a card that size with such immense magic power.

What made that impossibility possible was the heart of the Golden Crystal tribe, the golden crystal.

The golden crystal that was filled with immense magic power was processed into ink that was used to draw the pattern.

Most likely it was his lover’s heart that he took back from Prince Falta.

He had been fighting together with his lover all this time. After realizing that, I was able to predict the amount of magic power that was filling the card from the amount of the golden ink used.

I was charging forward only because I had seen the magic formula and able to predict its power too.

If this golden sun was used from the very beginning, I would get disintegrated helplessly.

「Pierce」

All my specs jumped up from the release of Evol Orc’s blood.

The special quality(strength) of the many races that were engraved in Evol Orc’s blood manifested.

My body accelerated, I sensed the world with super senses, my mystic eyes saw through even the unseen.

I could see that there was a little, just a little seam in the seemingly perfect magic that was formed by this genius.

My speed in forming the counter magic was like light speed.

I covered the tip of the true sword of oracle with the counter magic and pierced the tiny seam, that single point in the golden sun with a palm thrust.

The golden sun’s magic formula broke down and dispersed.

My charge’s momentum didn’t decrease.

The radiance of golden sun dazzled even the eyes of the genius Khalil. Both physically and mentally.

That was why, he noticed me piercing through the golden sun late and allowed me to invade into the distance that was already too late for him even if he tried to use his card.

I forcefully diverted my sword thrust so that I wouldn’t kill him while landing a palm thrust on his stomach as we passed each other.

His body bent forward and he vomited out blood.

「Guhah, n-no way. My, greatest magic, I, who am fighting together, with her, there is no way, I can lose」

「……Sorry, I myself am not fighting alone. We are fighting under the same condition.」

Tita and Kururu, their hearts were one with me even if we were separated.

The power that they gave me, the power that I trained for their sake allowed me to grasp victory.

I sheathed my sword.

「Don’t joke」

That’s all he said. I caught the body of the unconscious Khalil.

Fuu, I somehow stopped Khalil with this.

But, this wasn’t the end. There was still problem remaining.

I tied up Khalil on a tree. I also confiscated all his cards because they were dangerous. In addition I put a restriction tool that dispersed magic power on his neck so that he couldn’t use magic.

A super first class magician could still use magic even in such state, but that was all. His speed in constructing magic formula and his magic’s power and precision would drop drastically.

Even if he woke up and tried to escape, I could deal with that.

After I finished tying him up, Rurine came running toward me.

「Ork-niisama, that was amazing amazing amazing amazing! It was my first time seeing something like that. It was like watching a hero of a tale but even better than that! Something like that is impossible even for the hero of azure thunder Mireille-sama.」

She hugged me in a very excited state.

Unlike Tita and Kururu, she accurately understood just how abnormal I was because she had received serious sword training.

I felt a bit awkward.

「Well, that’s, you know. Onii-chan is amazing right?」

「Yes-. I like Ork-niisama even more now even though I had already liked you before! It has only been several days since I met Ork-niisama, but Ork-niisama is always cool, smart, kind, and correct. It feels like Rurine can’t think of anything else other than Ork-niisama anymore.」

「You are praising me too much.」

「No, this is still not enough. As I thought, Ork-niisama should become the king. It’s a lie that you don’t have the qualification.」

「I’m not lying. Rurine is just unable to see my flaw.」

「Eeeee, even though Ork-niisama is this wonderful. Rurine love you Ork-niisama!」

I was happy with her feeling.

But, her mixing up her adoration and love toward me had become even worse.

I wanted to do something about it, but I couldn’t think up of any good idea.

I groaned wondering if there was a good way to deal with this, but then I suddenly felt an intense chill and pushed Rurine away.

「Kyah」

Rurine screamed. I glanced at her briefly while pulling out my sword.

「Khalil, surely you don’t think that you will make it!」

Khalil woke up and he was forming a magic.

His recovery from his unconsciousness was too quick. Even though he should have fainted completely……don’t tell me, did he have something like drug to pretend to be unconscious behind the back of his teeth or something?

But, fortunately the restrain was obstructing his magic.

The usual Khalil would already finished constructing the magic formula since a long time ago already, but right now he wasn’t even half finished.

The magic formula that he was constructing was for teleportation. It was one of the super difficult magic. Other than him, nobody would even consider using such magic while being restrained with magic binding tool.

「I’ll make it. After all you are kind Ork-kun.」

Khalil stuck out his tongue. There was a card there that was hidden inside his stomach. Because it was extremely small, it was only engraved with a simple formula. It was several level inferior than the cards he used before.

It was a light type attack magic formula.

I could dodge if he aimed at me.

But, his target wasn’t me.

Crap.

「Rurine-!」

The light pierced Rurine.

It was an instantaneous activation of light magic. It was impossible to dodge that for someone of Rurine’s level.

Rurine crumbled while spurting out blood.

I instantly grasped her condition.

If it was now, if I treated her right away then I would be able to heal her perfectly without any complication.

There might be impairment remaining in her body if I delayed the treatment by five seconds.

She might be beyond saving if I delayed it by ten seconds.

It would be too late for her if I delayed the treatment by thirty seconds.

I looked toward Khalil. The completion of his teleportation magic was approaching as each second passed.

It would take me twelve seconds to neutralize a resisting Khalil.

If I ran toward Rurine, the teleportation magic would be completed and Khalil would get away. And then he would act behind the scene once more to cause a war. Next time I might not be able to stop him.

I had to choose between two options. This wasn’t a coincidence. Khalil intentionally made this situation. He should be able to kill Rurine instantly if he wanted.

My hesitation only lasted for an instant. ……I chose to save Rurine.

I hugged her before she collapsed and borrowed the power of spirits while treating her.

「Don’t worry, you will be alright if it’s just something like this.」

「W-, w-why?」

What Rurine muttered with a pale face wasn’t gratitude because she was saved or resentment because I couldn’t protect her. It was a question that asked me why.

She asked me why I chose to save her.

As expected from a favorite of the wise king Vareo.

She noticed the wrong that I committed.

「Aa, as I thought you will act like that. You are kind after all Ork-kun.」

The teleportation magic would be finished in several more seconds.

I couldn’t stop Rurine’s treatment.

I couldn’t stop Khalil anymore.

Yes, I couldn’t.

「Let’s meet again. Sayona, eh, aaaaaaaaaaaa」

Khalil shrieked in pain.

I believed that person would stop him.

A single arrow flew from the far beyond.

The arrow missed the vital spot. It wouldn’t kill, but the intense pain disturbed Khalil’s delicate and complicated teleportation magic formula. The magic was dispersed.

It was really something.

The world’s best sniper. His skill hadn’t degraded at all.

「D-don’t tell me, Kurlina is, at me. Did you, choose to save that girl, because you know, Kurlina is lurking around here?」

「I didn’t know. But, I was hoping that if it’s Kurlina he would do that.」

「KURLINAAAAAAAAAAA! Why, even though we are close friends! Even though you understand my pain, yet you get on my WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!」

Khalil fainted with those words as his last.

I let out a long sigh, and then I concentrated on healing Rurine.

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