The Peace In A Beautiful World
Chapter 76: Aqua Longsword

~San Fulgen Art Water Technique, Rain Swords~

Suddenly many water swords appeared above Charles and revolved around him.

"That technique, don't tell me it's similar to Irene's daughter" I thought.

Then Charles moved towards me to attack me. Charles directed his attack at me and I resisted the attack. As I was holding back the attack, the water swords surrounding him prepared to hit me. I immediately threw Charles down and avoided the water swords. As the water swords rained down on the floor of the arena, the water swords shattered and turned into ordinary water. However, new water swords appeared surrounding Charles. Every time he attacked and I managed to resist, the water swords immediately attacked me and instantly shattered into water as soon as they hit the floor of the arena but the new water swords appeared again. This situation happens continuously.

"Although the technique was similar to that of princess Irene but it turned out to be different. Irene's snow sword dance technique created an extremely hard ice rapier that surrounded her. Even the ice rapiers surrounding it could plunge the floor without destroying the ice rapier. Moreover, those ice rapiers could attack at will without waiting for princess Irene to make an attack first. While the rain sword technique belongs to Charles only attacked after Charles made an attack. Whether the attack was withheld or hit, it seemed like the water swords would still attack after making an attack. Although not as strong as the ice rapier of princess Irene because the water sword was instantly destroyed when it hit the arena floor, but the new water swords will appear again after that. The situation will be endless if it doesn't defeat Charles right away" I thought.

~Water Slash~

Charles let out a slash of water from a considerable distance towards me. I suspect that it wasn't an ordinary water slash.

"If I use this technique, I want to know what the other reaction will be like. Well it doesn't seem like a problem to use this technique, after all it's just an ordinary technique," I thought.

The slash of water was getting closer to me.

~Sword Art, Slash~ Counter

I slashed a sword towards the water. And the slash of water turned towards Charles. The speed of the water slash increased by 2x that of Charles. Charles was surprised to see that. And when the water slash hit Charles, it exploded.

*TWOAAAAARRRRR

Smoke was also created due to the explosion.

"How could he return that slash with just a swing of the sword ?,"

"What was that just now purely from sword movements alone ? not using magic like ~Mirror Magic~ ?,"

"That's it, but if the one who did that was Rid, it seems like we shouldn't be surprised" said the students who seemed surprised that I could do that.

The smoke that appeared slowly began to disappear. Charles emerged from the smoke that was slowly disappearing. He had a slight injury from the explosion and now his body was surrounded by the water swords.

"It seems that in addition to serving to attack, those water swords also serve for defense," I thought.

"So it was almost. If I am not protected by these water swords, it looks like I will get a decent wound. On the other hand, you are also great because you can restore my water slash with your sword technique. If you have that technique, it doesn't mean you can return all attacks" Charles said.

"My technique just now wasn't that powerful. This technique can only restore the attack that I know its movement just like the water slash earlier. I can also use water magic and that water slash is a basic technique for weapon users who use water magic. So it is easy to know the movement to do the water slash. If I know the movement of the attack, then I can return it. If I don't know the moves, then I can't give them back. For example, the swords that surround you. That's your family's secret technique, right, it's impossible for me to know the movements so I can't bring back the water swords' attacks" I said.

"Is that so, is it okay for you to leak that technique of yours to me that is your current opponent?," asked Charles.

"Only 1-2 techniques seem to be okay. I have other techniques, after all," I said.

"Hahaha right too, then." said Charles.

Charles held his sword with both hands.

"Join my swords, let's be one" said Charles.

~San Fulgen Art Water Technique, Aqua Longsword~

The water swords surrounding him began to move and joined the water sword he was holding. Each one of the water swords merged into the water sword Charles was holding, the water sword Charles was holding grew longer. It continued to extend until finally all the water swords surrounding it had merged into the water sword it was holding. The length of the sword was probably about 3x longer than its original size. Even so if you look more carefully, the size of the sword is still as it was and the elongated it is water magic that surrounds the sword.

After the process of unifying the sword was completed, Charles switched back to using the sword with 1 hand.

~Aqua Larett~

Charles launched a horizontal slash at me. The slash of water was 3x larger than the usual slash of water, probably because it came from a longsword. I don't know if I can reverse that slash but I prefer to avoid it. Since the slash was horizontal, I chose to jump over the slash and immediately move towards Charles.

Charles prepared the next attack.

~Aqua Lodrett~

This time Charles did a vertical slash towards me, but I directly avoided the slash. When I dodged the slash, Charles prepared another attack.

This time it was a stab attack from a considerable distance. It seems Charles assumed that I would not be ready to take this attack because I had just dodged the previous attack but I easily avoided the stabbing attack.

"Even with those attacks still can't hit you, Rid" said Charles.

I smiled and moved back to Charles.

~Magic Boost 2x~

~Power Boost 2x~

~Defense Boost 2x~

~Speed Boost 2x~

Charles increased his strength with a boost. Then Charles prepared to make another attack that would be directed at me.

~Aqua Destroyer~

Charles directly pointed his longsword towards me. But I also prepared to carry out an attack.

~Sword Art, Water Destroying Slash~

I aimed my slash at Charles' longsword. Our attacks collided and a clash ensued. But the collision did not happen for long, due to the nature of my water-destroying technique, Charles' water-covered longsword began to crack and slowly began to disintegrate. The longsword returned to its original sword form. Charles was surprised to see that. While Charles was in shock, I launched a further attack on him.

~Roaring Thrust~

I rolled a stab at Charles and hit his stomach.

"Arrrgghhh," Charles grimaced in pain.

After that, Charles crashed and crashed into the arena wall.

*DUMMMMM

There was a bang as Charles hit the arena wall. Smoke rises where Charles hits the wall. The atmosphere in the arena became silent, the students watching the match seemed to be processing what had just happened in the arena. Then after a moment of silence, the disciples began to chat.

"Rid it, he's too strong,"

"Even Prince Charles was nothing against Rid,"

"Has the prince lost ?,"

"If the prince alone cannot defeat Rid, then who in our year can defeat him ? do you think the ice princess can beat Rid?" said the students who chatted with each other.

"How is that the supervisor ? is this match over and Rid wins?" asked one of the students to the supervisor Elgin.

"I haven't seen Charles' condition so I can't determine if the game is over or not" the Elgin supervisor said.

Smoke was still gathering at Charles's place. And it is not yet known how he is. I calmly waited for the smoke to dissipate so I could see Charles' condition. Suddenly though...

~Great Waves Thrust~

A huge water attack suddenly emerged from behind the smoke and hit me. Luckily I was still able to withstand the attack with my sword. But this attack was so big that it caused me to be pushed backwards while holding it.

"This attack, don't tell me" said I, who was still trying to contain the attack.

The smoke disappeared due to the attack. Now it is clear Charles' condition. He sustained a decent injury from hitting the arena wall. But he could still get up and stand. And now he was holding a sword covered in water that was moving very fast and irregularly.

~San Fulgen Art Water Technique, Waves Sword~

"At last you used that technique, Charles," I said, smiling as I continued to resist the attack.

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