chapter 14
14. Midterm (2) * Modified *
Since the first head of the Acacia family summoned my summoned beasts, no one has appeared who can handle the family’s pets as well as Shira Acacia.
And Shiira Acacia, her hobby was hunting flying animals using summoned animals.
─Beep, beep, beep!
Due to its nature, Violet Mamba’s fangs, which are more dangerous to humans and the same summoned beasts than monsters, are stuck in the neck of the gust hawk.
The poisonous poison that is deadly to even a pet of the same rank hovers around the whole body of the gust hawk, which is one star lower than me.
When an African elephant arrives, the venom that kills it in an instant spreads through its body, causing the gust of hawk to bubble and collapse.
However, they are not killed by the magical power in the arena. The blast hawk continued to wriggle and tormented by the poison.
─Peek! peek, peek!
Shira smiled as she looked at the summoned beast in so much pain. The Stellar team’s summoner screamed.
“What-! It’s a foul, it’s a foul!”
“what?”
“Your summons are 1 star! Where’s the use of the family’s summons!?”
“Aren’t you also using the summons of your family?”
“–That’s it! That and this are different!”
Stabbed in the corner, she tried to make an excuse, but Shiira’s sudden anomalous behavior and the painful screams of my minions made me unable to make a proper judgment.
In the end, she looked at the teacher with tears in her eyes. meaning to do something.
Playna, the referee and teacher, looked at Shiira and asked.
“… … Are you really okay? If you come out like that.”
In the next match, Stella Eritz will also summon the summons of my family.
And her summoned beast was Ifrit, the four-star Fire Spirit, equal to the principal.
“it’s okay.”
Shira knew that, but smiled and nodded her head. It was here that she could declare her defeat and end with a victory for the Stellar team.
However, Playna chose a different option in order to make her student, the girl of the Iritz family, float even more.
‘It’s stupid.’
With the theme that has been continuously losing for a while, has there been a sense of victory now? If he had to win so ugly, he wouldn’t be able to beat Stella in the next match.
“good night. Victory-, Shiira Acacia.”
When the referee declares that, the result spreads widely throughout the arena.
“Hey, that’s okay… … ?”
“Isn’t it because the teacher allowed it?”
“Is that important? If he comes out like that, then… .”
Hearing the murmur of the children, Shira came down the stadium. Then he approached Ian, who was watching the game below.
“how was it?”
“Well done.”
“Is not it? right?”
Heck, she smiled so that all her teeth could be seen, and she looked at Ian. Since he summoned the family’s pet, the Stella he will face will also summon the family’s pet.
However, there was not much worry on his face as he had to face the 4-star summons.
‘What else do you want me to show you?’
It is said that it is easier to beat 4 stars with 3 stars than it is to beat 3 stars with 2 stars.
Nevertheless, the difference of one star was a difference that could not be easily overcome. Even unlike Shira, who has a different gender, Ian’s summoned pet is not even related to Stella, isn’t it?
‘If the… … If you win this game.’
Unimaginable surprise. If he showed that, Shira was ready to give him everything.
“Should I win?”
“Of course.”
Since there was a bet at stake, Ian thought so and went up on the pitch.
* * *
[Next, the last three games. Ian Clark vs. Stella Eritz!]
woo woo woo!
cowardly!
Coward!
die!
‘Noisy.’
Arrows of blind accusation hit the arena. Naturally, they didn’t do anything like throwing something.
If you did something like that at the sacred academy, you would be eroding the family’s honor, and hopefully you could be expelled from the academy.
In contrast, the audience on Stella’s side was cheering and shouting at her. Her eyes were burning hot when she came up to the stadium listening to all kinds of cheers.
Standing on the pitch, she immediately looked at me and asked.
“Is that what you did?”
“what?”
“It’s all about having the other one go first, and having Shiira use the family’s summons.”
“If so?”
Hearing that, Stella lowered her head slightly and clenched her fists. His eyes burned with anger.
“… … A cowardly child who knows no honor.”
Those eyes are so damn hot.
It burns hot, yet it is cold.
“I was stupid for thinking that a guy like you had talent, even for a moment.”
He said he must have cheated on something at the summoning ceremony.
Everything you’ve accomplished is just a trick.
She sold me so.
I quietly listened to what she had to say, then nodded and moved forward. The pattern of the paladin engraved on the back of his hand gleamed.
“Yeah, right.”
Everything I’ve achieved is thanks to the system. It was possible because this world was a game, and it was also a feat that I was able to achieve because I was the possessor.
‘therefore.’
But what does that mean? The world has chosen me, I have been chosen, and I have been obligated to present myself worthy of it.
“To you, all of this will feel like cheating.”
“… … What?”
“Of course, you won’t believe it when you see this.”
I lightly tapped the back of my hand. A system window pops up in front of you. Anna’s status window was floating there.
[Paladin of Salvation]
She saved a kingdom.
She saved hundreds of thousands of people.
So her prayer reached heaven.
Experience 100% / 100%
LEVEL UP!!! (requires soul stone)
The experience points obtained by hunting the monsters that invaded the academy with Noah, and the experience points from then on, were satisfied, but they were unable to level up due to lack of soul stones.
And now, in my hand, I have the soul stone that Dinoir gave me.
‘I’ll write well, senpai.’
He clicked the button, giving strength to the soul stone in his hand. After a while, the system began to shake and shudder.
[LEVEL ÚΡ!]
The wings of the pattern on the back of their hands twinkle and grow large. I held out my hand and performed the summons.
“Anna.”
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Behind her, which protruded from her wide-spread wings, as always, had wings she had never seen before.
Although she was a half-human and half-angel, her angelic characteristics began to appear in her human form.
“… … Master, what is this?”
“Ifrit.”
Before Anna could even ask a question, Stella likewise reached out and summoned her summoned beast.
Whoops!
A great spirit that heats up everything in the world just by appearing and imagines a disaster just by being there has been revealed.
─Ah ha ha ha! I thought I wouldn’t be able to go out today!
Summoned Ifrit looked at Anna with an excited face. She was ready to set the two of us on fire at any time.
After confirming that the two of us had been summoned, the referee stepped forward and raised his hand.
“Come on then. Fairly—start!”
At the same time as the start, a pillar of fire rose from Anna’s feet.
* * *
Staring at the blazing pillar of fire, Stella recalled the previous situation.
Shira deceived others and summoned a family’s 3-star summoner, not my own, and thus defeated my team’s 2-star summoner.
‘Cowardly.’
Of course, the teachers at the academy looked good at Ian’s team, who played an active part in the line that did not deviate from the rules they had set.
However, the still young academy cadets, the so-called noble Stella, were different.
‘Breaking the rules and winning?’
She has only been educated as a public princess, but has never experienced proper practical work or war.
The ego she had as a young princess.
‘For a man like that… … .’
For a brief moment, I resent myself for losing my heart. It’s embarrassing. Stella decided to cut ties with him completely.
If you win this match, your debt relationship with him will be sorted out.
‘If you don’t have debts like you-.’
And then, the burning pillar of fire subsides, and Ian and Anna inside are revealed.
The two appeared without a single hair on fire. Stella, who saw this, looked at Ifrit in bewilderment.
“what!?”
—Uh, huh? Why is that… … ?
However, Ifrit was also surprised to see something she had never imagined.
Again, something unexpected happened.
He always broke common sense like this. Stella clenched her teeth and used the original arts.
“Ifrit! Flame Buster!”
─… … No, I’d rather wait for a while now.
“You mean ignoring the summoner’s orders!?”
─… okay.
Ifrit suppressed a slightly reluctant feeling and used her skill against the two who had just appeared.
Ian and Anna, who had just emerged from the pillar of fire, looked at Ifrit and smiled.
“Anna, can you stand it?”
“yes! Master, it would have been impossible in the past… … Now.”
Saying so, Anna flapped the little wings that sprouted from her back. Even before being summoned, the gap with Ifrit was overwhelming.
However, not now.
‘I don’t know what the Master did– I got stronger.’
Unlike before, when I couldn’t stand one shot of the original arts, I was able to survive one.
She is a paladin of salvation, a body that sacrificed herself to block tens of thousands of forces. My body was on fire, I was used to it.
Wow-!
The sparks that had gathered at one point shot towards Anna. Anna raised her shield and completely blocked the attack like a giant beam.
Little by little, Anna pushed forward the attack. Seeing this, Ifrit shouted in disbelief.
─This is ridiculous!
It wasn’t firepower that a 3-star pet could withstand at best. It’s the same no matter how much Anna plays the role of the tank that Anna gave her.
Even if you bring a stone turtle that is said to have the best defense among the three stars, it will melt away in an instant.
“sorry but… … !”
Whoops, Anna let out a hot breath. The heat that enveloped her was heating up her body equally.
However, it is impossible to stop her by just warming her body.
“I am, a paladin! It will not be broken by any adversity!”
indomitable will.
Another original arts she owns.
No matter what kind of attack, it survives only once.
And, so far, she has been attacked quite a lot.
“Take it.”
He held out his sword towards Ifrit, who was floating in the air, which he would not have reached in the first place.
sword of condemnation.
An extreme counter skill that returns all damage she has received in one hit.
Flutter!
The small newly formed wings flapped on her back. So she soars high into the air that she has never been able to overcome.
Ifrit unconsciously raised her arms to protect her face. It was stupid. This fight is not a death-and-death fight, and even if you want to die, you cannot die.
You should have prepared to get stabbed by the sword and either counterattack or dodge the attack.
Fu-wook!
-aah
All the attacks he has done so far are pierced with a single sword. How painful it was, ifrit could not even explain.
However, it was possible to express pain with the whole body.
Whoops, whoops!
Flames were scattered from Ifrit’s whole body in all directions. The appearance of Ifrit and Anna falling to the floor with a sword sticking out was reminiscent of David and Goliath who killed giants.
thud! thud! thud! thud!
“hook! Whoops! Now, surrender! do it!”
Anna fell to the floor and smashed Ifrit with both hands on her shield. Ifrit’s body, which was several times larger than that of any other human, swayed to and fro.
“… … No, that’s ridiculous.”
“Where in the world is there such a thing as nonsense?”
Ian approached Stella, who could not hide her astonishment.
Ian politely asked the referee.
“It seems that the match has already been won, do you plan to do more?”
thud! thud!
“… … Yes, it is.”
When the referee saw Anna smacking Ifrit’s jaw in the jaw, the referee finally declared.
The winner is-