As soon as Iri's self-proclaimed incredibly imposing declaration was made, she stood on the tip of her right foot and exerted force… After a cracking sound from the floor, Iri's figure instantly vanished from everyone's sight.
All that could be seen was a not-too-big, not-too-small cracked pit on the floor where Iri had stood a second ago. Gaguran, being a battle-hardened warrior, could not be seen by the audience outside, but her attention was always on Iri, and she still caught Iri's figure rushing towards her.
Actually, Iri could have achieved that speed without damaging the floor at all. The reason she did it… Atmosphere! Atmosphere!
"Heaven and Earth, One-Hit Kill Punch!" Iri shouted a ridiculously chuunibyou move name, plagiarized from who-knows-where, as she attacked. Hearing the move name, it sounded incredibly formidable, but it was just a simple straight punch, only meant to scare Gaguran.
"!" Lakyus, who was watching from the side, was instantly captivated by the move name Iri shouted. It seemed… that the decision to let Iri-meimei join Blue Rose was indeed correct.
Of course, this punch, which seemed full of atmosphere and even had an incredibly embarrassing move name, was not thrown seriously by Iri at all.
Neither its power nor speed could compare to Sebas's. Iri did this on purpose, also to show Klem and Brian.
After all, she still needed to create the illusion that she was Sebas's disciple, so a mere show was enough. Therefore, Gaguran's extremely difficult dodge was within Iri's expectations. Since the straight punch was dodged, then for the next move...
Relying on her relatively strong physical prowess and the unique sense of crisis gained from years of combat, Gaguran barely managed to turn her body sideways just before Iri's small fist hammered her chest, dodging the blow. However, Iri seemed to have anticipated that her punch would miss, immediately following up with a sweeping kick.
Don't worry, although she was wearing a short skirt that was convenient for movement and also aesthetically pleasing, after the lesson of the previous wardrobe malfunction, this time Iri had learned her lesson. Underneath the short skirt, she wore what could be called the greatest invention in human history… safety shorts. So, it didn't matter how much she messed around.
Gaguran put all her strength into raising her warhammer to block this attack. However, this was also Iri deliberately holding back. After all, she didn't know what Gaguran's hammer was made of, and besides, kicking it would hurt!
So Iri deliberately restrained herself, only brushing the lower part of the hammer handle with her foot, and then she jumped away. It looked like a failed attack where she was regrouping, but it was actually just to give Gaguran time to breathe.
Gaguran, who had dodged a punch head-on and then hard-blocked a kick, now had shaking hands. Just a light brush had such a huge impact. How strong was this little sister's physical prowess!
"Hey! Iri-meimei, are you really a magic 'caster'?" Gaguran now simply didn't believe Iri was a magic 'caster'.
Ugh… Even holding back to this extent, she was still misunderstood. How difficult!
Since Gaguran asked, if she didn't use some "magic," people would still be suspicious. So, she would use her pseudo-magic. But what to use?
She couldn't just open a hole in her with a Pure Throwing Spear, could she? Currently, the only skill she had mastered that had a bit of a magical feel was the Ice Aura learned from Insect Lord Cocytus. So, she would use that, and incidentally, she wanted to test if her creative idea was feasible.
"Of course, I am a magic 'caster'. It's just that one of my teachers who educated me was very good at physical techniques, so I learned a little bit," Iri said discontentedly, and began to gather Ice Aura in both of her hands.
Was that just a little bit? Klem and Brian were both astonished by Iri's understated words. Klem and Brian, who had witnessed Sebas-san's strength, saw Iri's two moves just now… and thought she was almost identical to Sebas-san.
"Then let me show you my original magic! Frost Generation… Blade of Extreme Ice!" Iri once again gave her self-conceived "move" an embarrassing name.
"Or-… Original magic?!" As soon as they heard the words "original," Lakyus and Arshe's eyes widened. Lakyus had always told her teammates that she was developing original magic, but that was actually just an excuse to cover up her secret writing. She truly couldn't develop any original magic.
Although Arshe knew Iri was strong, the fact that even her magic was original was simply outrageous.
After Iri shouted her on-the-spot "magic" name, the frost gathered in her hands gradually took shape and solidified into ice, and then gradually formed… Finally, what appeared in Iri's hands were two greatswords condensed from ice.
"That is!" Irubyue was best at using ice magic, which basically involved condensing it into ice pillars or ice arrows to 'shoot' out.
This was the first time she had seen ice generated by magic directly made into a melee weapon, and the shape of those two greatswords looked quite familiar… Wasn't that a replica of Fei Fei-daren's greatsword?! Although it was crude, the general shape was correct!
"Round Two!" After the greatswords were created, they naturally had to be tested. Although Iri, when she was alive, had learned from certain sources that ice condensed at a certain low temperature could exceed the hardness of granite, it was just… to what extent?
Iri couldn't quite grasp this point. The control of Ice Aura didn't give her a thermometer to display the temperature, so she could only 'feel' her way. So Iri, wielding the two greatswords, rushed forward again, delivering an unadorned, top-to-bottom vertical slash.
Gaguran raised her hammer to defend. Without surprise, after Iri's ice sword struck Gaguran's hammer, it immediately shattered.
This was also within Irubyue's expectations. Being skilled in ice magic, she naturally knew the hardness of ice. The hardness of ice generated by normal magic would not be very great, plus Iri's absurd wrist strength, so shattering was expected.
"That's all there is to it." Seeing this, Gaguran, after Iri's first sword shattered, swung her hammer in counterattack. Iri raised her remaining sword to defend, and after colliding with Gaguran's hammer, the second ice Sword Also shattered.
"Ugh… It's even stronger than I imagined!" Iri took two steps back and said.
Iri had anticipated it would shatter, after all, this was just ordinary solid ice generated using Level 3 Ice Aura, and no Level 4 cold control had been applied.
"Iri-meimei, you're also not simple. Let's just… consider…" Gaguran was about to surrender. Anyway, she had already witnessed Iri-meimei's strength. Putting aside the qualities of a magic 'caster', her physical ability alone was enough to surpass her.
"Then! Again!" Iri did not give Gaguran a chance to surrender. Instead, she raised her hands again, and in an instant… faster than the first time, two greatswords were generated in her hands again, and this time, a layer of frost was wrapped around the blades of the ice swords.
Before Gaguran could react, Iri's sword slashed down again. The first strike was the same, just a simple vertical cut. Gaguran still raised her hammer to defend. This time… Iri's ice sword did not shatter like the first time.
This time, not to mention shattering, there wasn't even a single crack. This original "magic" could generally be considered a success, right?
After taking this sword strike head-on, in order to test the hardness of the ice sword, Iri unadornedly used various incredibly simple horizontal and vertical slashes to attack Gaguran, and the target of the attack was the hammer in Gaguran's hand. Since it was to test the reliability of the ice sword, attacking the main body was not necessary.
"This sharp and clean swordsmanship… it's just like Fei Fei-daren's swordsmanship." Irubyue watched Iri attack Gaguran with her two ice greatswords, and her tone of voice became much gentler.
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