"It seems some fool dared to attack me..."
"Hahahahahahahhhhhahahaha..." Ana continually, laughed on my head, at some point she even held her stomach and kicked her legs in the air.
This is just her way of expressing her immaturity after seeing me use a skill of hers she didn't teach me nor tell me about.
All the Knights were seriously injured, some of them too injured to continue. Denethor was nowhere to be found.
"Did the enemy capture him...?" I looked at the wrecked chariot, "How on earth am I supposed to reach the capital, I don't even know where it is."
I bent and touched the head of the Knight closest to me, "Heal."
With a soft glow on the point of contact, his wounds started to close up, aided by ethers that discharged from my body through the spell cast.
"You are adapting to this thing faster than I even thought, will you not truly tell me how you are able to use ars elementum impetum when I didn't even tell you about it."
"Don't stress yourself too much... heal..." I stood up and looked at her while she floated in the air.
"Omni Ingenio suppose to maximise my knowledge about everything. Right from when you talked about ars praesidium, I was already thinking of the possibility of there being an absolute attack skill, if there was an absolute defence skill. Omni Ingenio optimised my knowledge of it, though I can only use ars ignis even though I know about everything, if I use ars ignis one more time, I could exhaust my ether and collapse. That skill uses up a lot of ether, but it isn't bad when you look at the firepower. I could even blow up the entire dungeon with that... heal..." I healed the next target and moved unto the next.
"Indeed, I never thought Goshujin would outsmart me like that but it's fine, you can't use it too much anyway since it'd be placing a huge recoil on your body. You can try to hide it but I know your hand is aching from using it. Plus I know you can only use boiling point since it's the lowest-ranked of all the ars ignis skill-set.
"Skillset, sub-skill, just too many skills... heal..."
"What do you expect of an overpowered ring?"
After healing all of them I sat atop the broken chariot and patiently waited for them. I had no choice since I didn't know the way to the capital.
Someone's whisper crept into my ears from behind. I looked back and into the chariot through the window and dipped my hand inside, the broken woods and glass would have scratched me but the golden armour protected me from even measly injuries like that, I grabbed Siegfried and brought him out.
"Hey, little man how have you been?"
"Sure sure, I will..."
"Will you look at this guy, you have the guts to complain. By the way, what's a grand skill." Ana asked after threatening him with a slap.
"Yea sought of..."
"Who else of course it would be Goshujin who's the ring bearer of this overpowered ring!" Right when I was about to proudly answer him, her voice stole the glory. I could feel does praises weren't for me even though she referred to me in it.
"You've not answered the question!" She said to him.
"I see..." I responded to him, having gained a reasonable understanding of his explanation. "By the way Siegfried."
"Why do you seem like you fear Anastasia, do you by chance know what she is?"
I looked at both of them and scoffed, I had suspected that the vassal weapons summoning into this world had something to do with the other rings, it seemed Anastasia also suspected and this was confirming both our suspicions.
The knights slowly got up one after the other, holding their necks and other places that hurt. But after standing they quickly looked around only to find me sitting on the broken chariot.
"My lord! I am very sorry. I deserve to be punished for incompetence." He shouted and began to slam his head on the floor. 'This bastard, when did he get so loyal or is he pretending?' I couldn't tell, wish I knew how to go about mind-reading magic.
"Knight Gustav, that's enough," I said to him, it was hard to believe he was the same guy trying to make Knight Denethor bully me some days ago. "...what happened here?"