Hearing what Xenovia said, Arin had the urge to cough up blood. But she managed to manage her emotions so as not to aggravate her internal injuries.
Many people didn't know but when her spear collided with Xenovia's sword, she received a backlash of golden energy that she was strangely unable to block.
Of course, although the God-King Spear Gungir had the ability to cancel magic. Actually it was not effective for all magic, only the magic from the Ira archive was truly capable of being canceled with 100% effectiveness.
Even so, in terms of destructive power— the God-King Spear Gungir was extremely powerful and was the highest level magic weapon in this world. There was no way he could lose to any other magic weapon.
However, Arin realized that she had underestimated the sword in Xenovia's hands too much. She also forgot the fact that the girl was from another world and the origin of the weapon called the Holy Sword was definitely not inferior to her spear.
Still, Arin was a little embarrassed to hear what Eiji said in his inner voice. If she hadn't said something earlier when attacking Xenovia from behind. Would her attack have succeeded and not been blocked?
"I'm serious. Of course, I haven't pulled out everything I have yet."
"Oh? Then let's continue."
Seeing that Arin had stood up again, Xenovia changed her posture. However, in the eyes of Arin and the audience. That posture did not look like a swordsman preparing to fight.
The blue-haired girl simply stuck her sword into the ground and held the hilt with both hands.
They wondered what Xenovia was doing?
But before that...
[What? Xenovia-san successfully blocked Arin-san's attack! Not only was her reaction speed amazing. Her sword was also able to push back the God-King Spear Gungir! Eiji-san, do you know why that happened?]
[Hoho. I'm also curious about the origin of the sword Xenovia used. Not only that, she wasn't pushed back at all when blocking Arin's attack.]
Selina and Master Biblia commented and asked Eiji.
Master Liber, Abyss Trinity and the audience glanced at him.
Those people were curious but the first two seemed very happy to be commentators.
"...." Eiji wondered why the plot or painting style became like this? As the protagonist— I mean the one who lives his life like a harem protagonist.
Instead of getting a lot of attention by joining the battle, he was getting a lot of attention just by sitting and holding a mic in his hand.
This change made him feel a little strange.
[That's natural. The sword in Xenovia's hand is definitely not an ordinary magic sword. The name of the sword is Durandal. One of the most powerful Holy Swords in our world that is said to be equivalent to the famous Excalibur in the myth of King Arthur in England.]
[The sword is not infused with magic, but holy power that makes the magic canceling ability of God-King Spear Gungir ineffective.]
[And in terms of destructive power. Durandal itself is known as the Holy Sword with the strongest destructive power compared to other holy swords.]
[The sword's level is not lower than God-King Spear Gungir. Not everyone can use this sword. In our current world, there are only two people who are known to be able to wield it well and Xenovia is one of them.]
[Xenovia's own physical strength has surpassed most swordsmen and even a Dragon King in our world. So it's impossible for the impact of the explosion at that level to push her away at all.]
[That's my girl.]
"!!!!"
Xenovia was happy to hear Eiji's words. She had the urge to ride that man for three days and two nights to make him feel her love.
The other heroines, especially those who did not participate in the tournament began to regret.
Why didn't they participate?
If they did and showed off in this match, Eiji would have praised them too!
By the way during this time Yuki, Celis, Koneko, Zekka, and the others sat in the audience seats and mingled with the students from Royal Biblia Academy.
The representatives of Kuoh Academy in this tournament were only Rias, Akeno, Mio and Xenovia who each wanted to compete for the title of the strongest heroine among them.
Still, Selina and the others were dumbfounded. Not only because of Durandal's background which they easily understood thanks to Eiji's explanation, but also because of Xenovia's physical strength.
Is it true that the tomboyish girl who looks sexy actually has physical strength that surpasses a dragon? And it wasn't an ordinary dragon but a Dragon King!
Although they didn't know how strong the Dragon King was in Eiji's world. They didn't know Xenovia was even able to defeat one of the Heavenly Dragons, the Red Dragon Emperor using her sword. But, their imaginations as mages were able to imagine that the dragon was very strong and large.
They shuddered at the thought of a girl like Xenovia being able to throw a dragon and break their bones with her bare hands.
However, the students of the Royal Akasha Academy who were previously in love with Eiji became heartbroken at Eiji's last words.
My girl? That means Xenovia is his girlfriend?!
Even so, many of them soon thought that it made sense that a boy as handsome as Eiji already had a girlfriend. Even if he had more than one girlfriend and opened a harem. They felt it was normal and some had the strange idea that they wouldn't mind being his concubine or mistress.
Eiji's popularity among the Royal Akasha Academy students increased again.
On the other side of the tall stadium wall.
"Ana, are you sure you can still win?" Asked Arsha with some concern about their plan.
The girls from Kuoh Academy seemed to be stronger than they thought.
"Arsha, don't worry. It's just a holy swordsman who has physical strength as strong as a dragon. I'm still confident in my power."
Anastasia said with a smile.
But Arsha felt she heard a slight barb in her words.
Was the girl jealous to hear the boy she liked praising another girl?
At this moment—
**Boom!**
A loud explosion occurred in the arena and the victim in that incident was Arin who had just been sent flying until her body hit the wall.
A moment ago, Xenovia who was just standing still while sticking her sword into the ground suddenly emitted a golden light from her body.
That was holy power.
At that moment, Xenovia finally raised her sword and swung it vertically from her position.
The scene was so fast that the audience could only see a stadium-high golden slash flying straight towards Arin who was frantically using a Chaotic Rune to create a barrier.
However, it was useless.
Arin's barrier was as fragile as glass in front of Xenovia's holy slash. In the end she used her own spear, God-King Spear Gungir to block the attack but she was still thrown into the wall.
The girl vomited a mouthful of blood from her mouth and immediately fainted. Not only that, the spectators faintly heard cracking sounds.
They did not know the crack came from God-King Spear Gungir.
[A-Arin-san fainted! She was defeated by a single attack from Xenovia-san! Durandal's destructive power is very strong!]
[Actually, it's not that much. Xenovia restrained herself. Otherwise, although I don't like saying cruel things about a girl, God-King Spear Gungir would have broken and Arin would have been cut in half.]
[That's brutal! Wait, I remember Xenovia-san cutting this school in half before. Fortunately this time Xenovia-san restrained herself and remembered this is a school competition.]
[Hahaha! That was an anti-climax.]
Selina and Eiji were busy commenting. The last comment was Master Biblia's.
"Arin!!"
Seeing Arin who had just been slammed hard into unconsciousness, Arata shouted worriedly.
However, he himself was not in a position to worry about others because right now—
"Are you worried about Arin or afraid that you'll lose and not be able to continue to the next round?"
Mio whose red hair was slightly flying by the crimson aura on her body said indifferently. The oppression she exuded could be felt by the audience.
If the power that Xenovia had previously shown felt holy, the power that Mio emitted was the opposite.
The girl's power felt dark and made the audience shudder.
"What are you saying? Of course I'm worried about Arin!"
Arata said that from his mouth. He sounded like he was telling the truth. But, Eiji and the heroines knew the boy was half-lying.
After all, his inner voice was heard.
{It's true but it would be good if the girl didn't faint. Even if she couldn't defeat Xenovia. She should at least tire her out so that my chances of victory are high! Damn, Arin is useless. I regret choosing her as my partner.}
{I should have picked Yui! With her dream magic, she might be able to make Eiji's girls sleepy in the match so that they lose focus and I can beat them easily.}
The protagonist's personality was becoming increasingly dark and self-centered.
Eiji gave a thumbs up to Mio who provoked Arata to say that with her question.
Mio smiled at the movement of Eiji who was sitting in the VIP seat. Her wingman operation was successful, she made Arata even more disliked by the heroines.
"Husband..."
Arin who was now lying on a stretcher and was being carried to the hospital by several students was actually awake.
She heard what Arata thought of her and felt sad.
It was true that she had disappointed that boy by losing to Xenovia so easily, but did he have to call her useless?
Although Arin's expression didn't change much, her heart ached.
Arata was getting stranger and stranger.
He seemed to be turning into a different person and was no longer the future husband she loved.
If Eiji could see how much Arin's positive level had changed in Arata now. It would be reduced by 42 points from 81.
[Arata is amazing. He thinks like that about the girl who loves him. If it were me, I would only blame myself for being weak and wouldn't rely on my woman power to withstand an overpowered enemy.]
After Eiji said that in his heart. He saw many notifications from Leme. He got some positive points from the girls, especially Arin who gave him 4 points.
The girl wasn't in love with him yet but she clearly had better feelings for him.
At this moment, Arata wasted no time. He hurriedly used the ninja moves he had learned from Levi to create a clone of himself.
It was not like in the Sky Library. Thanks to his brief training, he managed to increase the number of his clones to a hundred each holding a magic gun.
From the viewpoint of the audience, they saw many Arata surrounding Mio. Many of them were amazed by the Magic King Candidate's magic, but some of them were also a little disgusted.
The sight was like seeing a bunch of cockroaches surrounding a girl.
[What is that?! Arata-san cloned himself? I feel it's familiar to someone's magic.]
[Hahaha! Selina-chan, did you forget the magic of one of our Trinity Seven, Levi?]
[Ah! I finally remembered. It's the magic from the Invidia archives that Levi sometimes uses to prank people and fight! But isn't there too much of it?]
[Well Arata-kun seems to be able to make himself that many because of his magic talent and campacity as a Magic King. He developed that magic to a higher level. I can feel that each clone has real power.]
[I-It's... That's amazing! How can Mio-san defeat all of them?! Eiji-san, please give us your opinion.]
While Arata felt proud to hear Selina and Master Biblia's comments that sounded surprised and even praised him, he didn't forget to glance at Eiji because he thought the boy would be worried about the girl he was about to defeat.
However, he was disappointed because the boy looked very calm.
He even said something that annoyed him.
[It's just a clone, Mio will be fine.]
[Eiji-san, you really believe in Mio-san. Oh wait! Isn't there still Xenovia-san? She's not alone.]
[No, not because of that. Xenovia doesn't even need to help Mio.]
[Really? Is there a special reason?]
[There's no special reason. I only believe in Mio because she is my fiancee and the Demon Princess of the Demon Realm. She won't lose just because of 100 Arata. Even if there are 1000 Arata, Mio will still win.]
Eiji's words filled with confidence and arrogance about Mio left the audience in awe.
The girls looked at Mio with envy.
Mio was of course very happy to hear what her fiancé said. She lowered her head and giggled.
"Fufufu."
Arata who saw Mio giggling didn't think she was funny at all. The girl looked even creepier, especially when the crimson aura on her body blazed like fire, her red hair flying high and making all the gravel above the arena tremble.
A pair of long, flame-burnt horns even sprouted from her head.
She truly looked like a demon.
Arata panicked, he immediately ordered all his clones to attack simultaneously!
The target was Mio. As for Xenovia? That girl had now come out of the arena barrier and was sitting in the audience seats with the other Eiji girls.
She seemed to have no intention of interfering.
That's good!
Arata did not hesitate to pour 50– no, 70% of his magic in this attack.
""Go, Meteor Dragonar!""
All of Arata shouted the name of his new move.
This time it was no longer Meteo Punisher, but Meteor Dragonar which looked like an eastern dragon laser.
Although Arata had not learned the Enchant Conception spell from Akio. He was able to create the same move by combining the half-baked Outer Alchemic Realize that he had once learned from Lilith and his Magic King Element.
So the 100 laser dragons he unleashed did not look real like in the manga. The dragons were black in color and appeared to be made of pure Magic King Element.
In terms of power it was indeed no worse than the original work and even stronger.
Even so, Mio did not panic at all. After transforming into her demonic form which made a pair of horns grow from the top of her head.
Her perception increased sharply and in her eyes, the hundred dragons that were about to pounce on her looked very slow.
She raised one of her hands to the sky and said.
"Field of Hellfire."
Instantly, under the gazes of the astonished spectators.
Tornado-like red flames exploded from Mio's body and it swallowed all of Arata's attacks. The dragons were dragged into the center of the fire tornado and burned until their existence disappeared.
This proved that the fire Mio released was even capable of burning the Magic King Element.
However, what horrified many of them was that the flames grew to cover the entire arena, breaking the arena's magic barrier and soaring into the sky.
Arata was of course devoured by the flames and they could vaguely hear his screams.
Many of them didn't care because they were worried about themselves! From the audience seats, they could feel the heat of Mio's flames and worried that it would burn them!
Fortunately, this only lasted three seconds before a new, stronger magic barrier enveloped the arena and even blocked the heat.
The barrier was created by Eiji snapping his fingers again.
Master Liber and Master Biblia let out a sigh of relief. If it was them, they were worried that their magic barrier wasn't even strong enough to block the flames that Mio released.
A few seconds later, Mio's inferno was finally extinguished and the crowd fell silent at the sight of the charred arena.
Mio still stood in her position gracefully and unharmed by her own flames. But Arata?
They naturally searched for the boy's whereabouts and wondered if he died from the attack?
Some of them panicked because this was a competition between schools, they were of course forbidden from killing.
However, in the corner of the arena they finally saw a small green magic barrier that seemed to favor defense over space.
The barrier broke. Sora knelt on the ground and panted before returning to her gremoire form due to running out of magic. There was only the unconscious Arata left. His clothes were scorched from burning and his body was badly injured.
Many girls immediately averted their eyes because it was scary and disgusting.
[T-The winner of the competition in the first round was Kuoh Academy!]
After Selina announced the winner in the match.
The audience applauded and it was very lively.
Of course, the school medical team wasn't cruel enough to ignore Arata. So the boy was immediately taken to the hospital.
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