(3rd person POV)
Clouds already covered the entire sky and sun and cheering for the duel of sacred treasures by echoing the wasteland with thunderclaps.
In the air, Einar was watching Artoria with activated Excalibur on her hand. He knew that he had greatly underestimated the power of Excalibur and Avalon combined.
In the time he spent with Vivian, he used Avalon and Excalibur but they didn't work like they were working in the hands of Artoria. It proves that only Artoria was capable of using such treasures to full strength just like he could use Chastiefol like none other.
Well, there is no use in crying over spilled milk.
'Can't believe that my new technique has proven useless against her.'
He was a little sad that such powerful close combat technique didn't even hold a candle against her. No, it would be useless against any opponent if they are equipped with cheat like Avalon.
If he was against any knight, he would have already chopped knight into pieces but Artoria's defense was making it hard to deliver a decisive blow.
Vivian even said that if someone was using Avalon effectively then the only way to defeat such an opponent was to chop the head of the opponent.
Although he was eager to win against her, he can't behead Artoria, can he?
Another way to nullify Avalon's abilities is to attack the enemy till he/she exhaust its mana until unable to defend or heal anymore.
'Sounds good to me.'
After taking a final breath to relax and selecting the second option, he waved his hand and shot the spear towards Artoria.
Boom*
Artoria dodged the spear that destroyed the place where she was standing, by leaping backward and blocked another strike of the flying spear.
"Hah!" Artoria slashed and cut the spear in half with her Excalibur. "Seems like you didn't learn your lesson, Einar," Artoria smirked after she destroyed Einar's trademark weapon.
"Well, I was only buying a little time."
"Ah shit."
She looked above and saw a huge magic circle. She knew that Einar has a cheat book to cast this kind of magic attack where he only needs to adjust the position of the attack and calling its name.
"Explosion!" Just like a certain girl of Crimson Demon Clan, Einar stated the name of his attack.
A big energy ball started to form before taking the form of mini sun and covering the entire wasteland with bright light. Artoria could also be seen running from such an attack but it was too late as she was also engulfed by said sun.
BOOOOOM*
It slowly exploded with an extremely loud roaring boom. The explosion was so destructive that it devastated the wasteland and made a huge carter on the sad place. Even a small circle formed in clouds from the impact.
Tip* tip* tip*
Rain also started to drop on wasteland.
"Oh shoot, have I gone a little far?" Einar sweatdropped when he thought that he had gone a little ahead from what he estimated. "Hm?" But then he saw a dim glow in the dust.
It was naturally Artoria who was on her knees and rough breath and holding Avalon.
"Of course, how could I forget that?!"
Avalon was made to take even an anti-mountain attack. Although Einar's attack was not on that level, it was a small-scale attack for Avalon to defend its holder easily.
Artoria, on other hand, was lucky to use Avalon as a shield against such a large-scale explosion. She was also grateful for Avalon to not completely exhaust her remaining mana. Her breath was rough only because of the sudden decline in her mana. Overall she was okay. Another reason why she was able to survive was because of her Magic Resistance.
To face a troublesome mage like Einar, Artoria had asked Merlin to train her to make her immune to magic attacks. That training what makes Artoria fearsome to magicians as normal attacks won't even work on her. However, Einar was another story since he could cast such spells in seconds that would take for any magician an hour.
She then stood up after stabilizing her momentum and looked at Einar as if mocking him to come and get some!
Einar could only scorn since his other attempt to exhaust her gone useless. It was not a complete failure as he could tell that Artoria must have also exhausted her mana reserve so he was also not going to stop and continue to attack her.
He then raised repaired Chastiefol spear and scattered it into 30 small spears.
"Chastiefol Form Five: Increase."
All the spears pointed at Artoria and started to spin. Einar then raised his hand looking at Artoria who was ready with her activated Excalibur.
"Fight Fire with Fire-Raining daggers."
He stated the name and turned it finer down.
As if following the drops of rain, small spears also lashed down on Artoria.
Artoria, who was ready to face such an attack, didn't waste a single millisecond and started to run while reflecting every possible strike.
Boom* boom* boom*
Every space she leaves was getting destroyed by a rain of daggers. She was reflecting on some attacks while others were striking at her critical parts. Though they were getting healed, her mana was also getting depleted at the same rate. The rate of mana consumption already exceeded that of production. She already detected Einar's strategy to exhaust her mana. She can't let that happen.
She then boosted her speed and began to destroy every small spear that was coming on her way. In this way, Einar will take some time to repair it and in the meantime, she will gather enough mana for the final strike.
"So she is using that strategy." Einar also discovered her strategy and called back Chastiefol's normal form.
As if selecting another wicked technique, he then few 120 degrees above Artoria and expanded his arms.
Artoria also took her guard for any incoming attack. She knew that Einar was going to use something crafty and she can't detect any attack until she saw them.
Chastiefol also started to reshape and soon took the form of the glowing sun.
[Chastiefol Form Seven: Chastiefol transforms into a luminescent, ringed sphere that illuminates the surrounding area. It acts as a torch that allows the user to easily see in dark places. However, depending on magic, it could glow as bright as a sun to illuminate the several kilometers of area.]
Einar closed his eyes and placed his hands close to the center of his face with the fingers spread toward his eyes. He then called out the most cringy name of the technique. "Solar Flare!"
It provoked the light that was illuminating the area into a soaring flare and blinding everything.
"Aaa!" Artoria also tried to cover her eyes but it was too late as it light was fired at her eyes before she had time to cover them and she became blind for the moment.
Einar also didn't miss this chance and shot himself towards blinded Artoria after buffing his right leg with strengthing buffs and called the most cringe name of his technique. "Fairy Kick!"
He few at lightning speed and his foot connected to Artoria's face and kicked her away.
Bam*
---
Don't even think about leaving without dropping Power Stones.
1.4k power stones/ 2 chapters in the end of week.
1.8k power stones/ 3 chapters in the end of week.
Is that called robing? Hell yeah!
Thank you~
If you want advance chapters or more omake then check out:
https://www.patr eon.com