A feeling of anxiety had taken root in Renya's heart as he feels the power that was hidden inside the duke transformed body.
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On the other side, Floria and the others is busy dealing with the black knights. While Renya protect the king and the prince, their job is to protect the queen and the princesses. Floria party is moving toward the hanging garden that is built inside the castle to get a better defense position there. But they meet troubles while they passing through a spacious passageway that leads to the garden.
They received another attack when they are about to reach the hanging garden. It was the mud dolls that attack them. Seeing the mud dolls appearance, they got surprised for a moment but manages to restore their senses quickly to respond to the attack. They act fast.
With the queen and princesses in the middle of the formation, Brenda and Therese act as the rear guard giving supporting fire while Floria and Elvira act as the vanguard. Floria and Elvira of course face the opposite side of each other to protect the other inside the formation.
Against the mud dolls that have swift movement like the black knights and use hit and run attack pattern, Brenda chooses to concentrate her magic for defensive purposes. Luckily, there is someone other than her that has better skill in giving supporting fire.
"I won't let you desu!"
Therese with her nimble finger fires rapid volley again and again, raining the enemy with a hail of bullets.
Therese acts as the sole supporting fire for the two vanguards, Floria and Elvira that fight up in the front. Like having some kind of sensor attached to her, Therese will immediately fire her gun to any target that enters her sensor net to restrain their movement. That fast reaction speed surprises even Brenda that guards the rear together with her.
Of course Brenda doesn't just stand there surprised all the time. If the supporting attack is enough then she just need to concentrate in defense.
She predicts when those mud dolls will be able to pass through Floria and Elvira and come trying to attack the inside formation and cast a strong defense barrier to prevent them from succeeding their attack.
The mud dolls isn't that many to begin with and when they recklessly charges forward, they got repelled back by Brenda's barrier just like a soccer ball kicked, they blown up easily and unsightly tumble in the floor of the spacious passageway. No matter how fast their movement is, they definitely can't break through Brenda's defense barrier easily with only their speed. Brenda who can read the flows of battle to judge whether she should take offensive and defensive approach, and also to be able to execute both of it perfectly is one of Brenda strong forte as a magician.
"I will protect this place no matter what!"
Meanwhile in Elvira's side, she makes the best use of her halberd advantage in range. She takes a counter posture to easily repel back any enemy that enters her weapon range. It was easy for her to follow the mud dolls swift movement but in this battle their priority is to protect the queen and the princesses so she didn't take the aggressive approach.
Elvira made sure to be always aware of her own attack range so that when enemies enter it, she can immediately swing her halberd to repel them. Even if they are stuck in a melee where they also need to be aware of their team mate position, Elvira who without any doubt swings her long halberd around displays her solemnity as a dragon even though her form now is that off a human.
In this situation where they are attacked by a force larger in number than their own, it is normally hard to prevent the enemy from trespassing their defense line. But these girls cover each of their blind spot perfectly in a great team play.
(... it is faint but I can feel another god power from this mud. Fighting them barehanded becomes a bit more troublesome I think)
And lastly in the other side, Floria forcefully repel the mud dolls with her raw strength that has been amplified with divine power. But as expected of a god, she also realizes the abnormality inside the mud dolls so she thinks of another way to efficiently beat those monsters.
What's more, the other girls fight too magnificently that she starts to look plain. Because of that, she decides to flaunt her ability here to make up to her position as 'the first lady' in Renya's harem.
Actually, the other three girls had uneasy feeling be it big or small because they definitely won't be able to take the first lady position from Floria because of her long relationship with Renya and them being 'almost' the same existence. But Floria being her usual airheaded self seems to not notice that.
Woman is a being that at times, would bend down their own logic for their pride.
(I was... a goddess that only holds gentle love within her heart, but this extreme passion I felt now had awoken the legendary power inside me)
While imagining a lot of information that probably will make the others scold her, she reminded herself of her new power, her new authority. Floria connected her own soul into 'Renya's world' where Renya keep his divine armaments.
Accessing 'Renya's world' is possible for Floria because after all, Renya inherit her father's war god power.
With that ability, Floria could indirectly access and use the divine armaments that slept within 'Renya's world'.
The day she realizes this ability is in that day where she becomes Renya's woman. From that self awareness of being Renya's woman, the authority that awoken from it was named "Love and Passion ♥ Art of War Replication" (Love Evolution).
"Art of War Replication! (Class – Insert)"
Floria draws her weapon with a dignified movement.
Half of her is her father, the one that is unparalleled and unrivaled in eternity. He is the war god that had left behind his own passage of legends.
And the other half of her is her husband, the one that is unparalleled and unrivaled in eternity. He is the war god that going to left behind his own passage of legends.
With that reason she descends into the battlefield. For the sake of her love, she will also bring along her extreme passion with her.
A divine brilliant light wraps her body. When the light particle scatters, her equipment had transformed. Her clothing got re-assembled into a battle outfit that perfectly matches the replicated art of war that she desires.
Suddenly, a great sword appears in her right hand.
It was a simple ornamental sword with wings shaped sword guard and white ornament adorned in its silver blade. The blade has a massive size be it in width and thickness that it was even possible to treat it as a shield.
And the equipment that wraps her body is a lightweight set of armor. Be it the gauntlet that only protects her left hand and the half plate that only covers her upper body, this lightweight set of armor is designed specifically so it won't obstruct her in the least from wielding the great sword freely.
A female warrior who wields a great sword.
Brandishing her great sword in her shoulder, Floria had manifested the supreme figure and skill of a female warrior. The silver battle goddess figure had descended in the middle of the battleground.
Of course the enemy won't just wait until Floria finishes her transforming. Before she could act, two mud dolls attacks her simultaneously, and seeing a chance to attack, another two mud dolls also join the attack, leaping from behind.
But Floria is already aware of the enemy coming to her and take a stance with her great sword. She held the great sword horizontally like wanting to show the thickness of its side, then slowly grasped the handle with her left hand.
"A sword and also a shield at the same time! Firm and solid, that spirit won't let any kind of blade get through! The indestructible guardian sword [Hervor]!"
With her own will, Floria activated the power that is hidden within the divine armaments. In that instant, an invisible wall formed in her surroundings.
In fantasy, a broad and bulky great sword or two handed sword that is also treated as a shield at the same time is not a rare thing. By putting that imagination in mind into reality, Renya had successfully made a divine armament that excels at both attack and defense.
In battle, this is the kind of weapon that can be swung around grandiosely to slice, smash, or blows away anything and everything that blocks its wielder path.
When wielded, it can instantly unfold an invisible barrier with its wielder as the center to thwart the enemies' invasion.
And that great sword name is Hervor. Its name that holds the meaning of the army protector is indeed the sword that the battle goddess holds in her hand.
The mud dolls that definitely don't know about this fact smashed their body to the invisible barrier in their top speed. And when they trying to recover themselves from the shock of smashing into the wall, they are just the same like a sitting duck target.
"Be gone!!"
One slashes from the great sword.
Even in this quite spacious passageway, the tip of the great sword almost reached both side walls with that rough yet delicate high speed horizontal slash. With that one slash, Floria managed to cut clean all the four mud dolls that surrounds her. From other people perspective, the figure of Floria who easily brandish such a big lump of steel like of a sword would definitely shock them to the core. That was exactly what the queen and the princesses are feeling right now when witnessing such scene before their eyes.
(... probably Mr. enemy is laughing out loud right now)
In fact, Floria is confidence that they could protect the queen party successfully if there aren't any other hidden cards from the enemy.
After all, even if the enemy reinforcement arrives, they probably will just be the same mud dolls like the one she had beaten so she won't worry much. She guessed that the real ace card would be played inside the audience room but she doesn't worry even for a bit.
The reason of her confidence is because of the presence of someone in the audience room that will definitely answer her trust.
And another reason is that this small fry enemies that easily got blown up by her sword even when she just batting around her sword randomly while thinking another thing. They are hardly a challenge for her.
She is just simply too overwhelming in terms of battle power. But as a maiden blinded by her love, saying anything to her would be futile.
Because no matter what anyone else would say, Floria only has one conclusion in her heart.
(Renya will definitely win)
Sooner or later, that phrase should be added to what Floria thinks but he is indeed the war god that definitely would snatches victory no matter what.
As the one who had seen his figure from up close for a long time, Floria can only swings her sword while believing that the other half of her soul that is not present by her side now will definitely achieve victory.
She is indeed a goddess that has the blood of the war god running inside her vein.