Kuro no Shoukanshi Chapter 12

“Seii! uuu !!!” (Raji)

Raji clad his right leg in red aura and attacked Clotho with a roundhouse kick using his entire body’s force.

It was a serious attack of a Rank B adventurer possessing true strength having enough power to blow a hole into the castle’s walls.

The pressure exerted resembled the power used to break Kelvin’s bottomless swamp he had conjured with Mud Bind.

It seems he learned this skill as an adventurer. Taking it on from the front would lead to an instant death with little chance to escape that fate.

Thinking of it as he had forged his [Martial Art] skill in his time as a mercenary, you could only call it a finishing move.

*poyon* …

The power of that finishing move struck Clotho’s body while giving off a stupid sound at the same time. It ended up being completely absorbed.

It was the effect of the skill [Stun Reduction by Half] Clotho possessed.

Thus, Raji’s compatibility towards Clotho was overwhelmingly bad.

“You shitty eyeball ! What’s this slime’s body made of !? My technique had no effect at all !” (Raji)

If Gimul had told Raji about Clotho’s status he had read by using [Eyes of Identification], he would have known about the reason for that.

Now there was no way for him to be aware of it though.

From the start Raji wasn’t someone who was overly knowledgeable about the details of skills.

“Gu, not yet !” (Raji)

Just like Clotho dealt with Gimul, it transformed a part of its body into a whip and began to attack Raji.

However, the number of whips had increased to 4.

The attacks approached Raji from all four directions. Focusing on defense, Raji’s somehow managed to endure the current situation by parrying the attacks.

The choice to avoid them didn’t even exist.

Clotho also rivaled Raji in physical strength and endurance. However, there was a hopeless difference in speed.

Consequently, there was nothing but Raji’s situation getting gradually worse and worse.

While being agitated, Raji suddenly threw himself on the ground in order to get out of the range of Clotho’s body whips.

Raju retreated from that body in the opposite direction.

“… What will you do now?” (Raji)

Following his line of sight, there was a quagmire ahead.

Incidentally comparing it to the size of Raji, it was very small.

Clotho absorbed the quagmire Kelvin had created with magic earlier.

—– In that case, Clotho transform the [Fetters of Quagmire – Mud Bind] that was torn earlier into nourishment for yourself.

Clotho faithfully followed Kelvin’s order and absorbed the magic power of Mud Bind.

The tiny damage it had received was completely healed. The excess magic power was stored away in [Storage].

Besides storing magic power this skill [Storage] was able to hold onto items, weapons and armor, so to speak it was an Item Box.

Furthermore it was possible for Clotho to store a part of its body in it to adjust the size of its own body in such manner.

“You, your power has also increased !?” (Raji)

The attacks of the whips further gained in strength. At last Raji became unable to move his body.

By now Raji was in a condition of being barely alive.

Seeing this chance, Clotho used its whips to entwine the limbs of Raji and thus sealed his movement.

It jumped up in a big way as is.

“I, I give uuuuuuuuup !!!” (Raji)

The large body crashed onto Raji.

Taking the full brunt Raji’s HP dropped to 0. Without care Clotho began to devour him … (T/N: *fufufufu*)

Cashel brandished his beloved sword and casted the Grade E White magic [Auspicious(TN: >> Osupishasu <<) Luck ] 1 on himself.

This magic granted the target automatic recovery and added a weak .

It was in order to increase the advantage in combat even if it was just a little. It was a popular tactic to use magic to apply strengthening to oneself.

In fact, Kelvin finished casting the Grade D Green magic [Wind Speed – Sonic Boots] on himself increasing his agility.

For adventurers having a limit on available skill points, they tended to focus on improving one skill.

Rather than obtaining a great number of Grade F skills, there also were a lot more benefits in the method of having one superior skill.

There were some people obtaining nothing but Grade F skills as well, but in reality there was a limit to how many skills you were able to possess.

That limit differed for each person, some could have 10 while others were able to have 20, too.

However, it was practically impossible to know the limit without actually testing it out.

Cashel was what the society would call a pretending prodigy considering the upper limit of the skill points he had earned.

But, he was still doing quite well as he had ranked up to Rank B.

That was the extent of his talent. However, he wasn’t able to breach the wall called Rank A.

He single-mindedly focused on leveling his [Sword Mastery] up until now, after having recently racked his brains about what to do.

Thinking about it, he might also have reached the title “Murderer” by aiming to gain vast amounts of experience.

This time he had planned to kill Gimul and Raji as well. Most likely that was the main reason for doing it.

Of course, because of Kelvin all his plans would come to nothing in the end.

“You are a monster trainer … no, a summoner, right?” (Cashel)

“… Ah, that’s right” (Kelvin)

“Hahaha, I have been an adventurer for a long time, but this is the first time I see one myself. That’s the summoning technique, huh? I see, it’s a powerful skill.” (Cashel)

Cashel nodded as if he was agreeing to something.

“If that’s the case, my level will increase some more if I defeat you, who holds this skill.” (Cashel)

“You, have you been murdering all this time for such a reason?” (Kelvin)

“It’s a cruel method, isn’t it? Killing people gives you a lot more experience than defeating monsters. And if it is a high level adventurer even more so.” (Cashel)

“You, aren’t you actually avoiding fighting those who are stronger than you?” (Kelvin)

“… What was that?” (Cashel)

The facial expression of Cashel, who was smiling up until now, became clouded.

“Didn’t you remain as a Rank D adventurer because you were scared of monsters that are stronger than you? Didn’t you only target rookie-adventurers because you were trembling in fear facing people who are stronger than you?” (Kelvin)

“D-Do-Don’t s-spout such f-fo-foolishness! For me such …” (Cashel)

“Maa, it seems you are not aware of it yourself. But I can’t accept that there are victims because of you.” (Kelvin)

Kelvin raised his wand.

“I am burning to win over those who are stronger than me. Won’t I stay a weakling forever, if I can’t do this much?” (Kelvin) 2

“Shut up! I’m not in denial! Aaaahh !!!” (Cashel)

Has he lost his cool? Cashel charged ahead with all his might.

He is trying to make up his naivety with guts.

He slipped right under Kelvin’s nose swiftly like the wind getting as close as point blank.

“Show me if you can dodge this!  3 !” (Cashel)

Cashel used his secret skill .

The sword disappeared and furthermore the sword assaulted Kelvin in an instant. Cashel himself switched into his [Spy] state in order to hit the target hidden next to it. At least, it was supposed to happen like this.

“Barrier … is it!?” (Cashel)

Before Cashel could swing down his sword, a huge, seriously strong barrier appeared reaching all the way to the high ceiling of the inner room.

It was the Rank C Green magic [Absolute Castle Wall of the Precipice 4 – Ground Rampart (T/N: >> Asuranpato <<)] belonging to the top-ranking defensive magic types.

As its durability exceeded a weaker castle wall, Cashel’s sword strike ended up losing all its meaning.

“This, it’s just like an earth wall!” (Cashel)

“Thanks to this wall you lost sight of me though.” (Kelvin)

“You …” (Cashel)

After Kelvin cast [Absolute Castle Wall of the Precipice – Ground Rampart], it was already too late for Cashel to come over from his side to Kelvin’s side.

While Cashel’s attention was bound to the wall in front of him, Kelvin used [Wind Speed – Sonic Boots] to boost his agility reaching a terrifying level of speed.

It wasn’t possible to perceive his movements anymore either.

“… the heck, you …” (Cashel)

Cashel eagerly turned around.

The last thing he saw was the tempest bastard sword — imitating its shape was the wand clad in surging winds.

With one swing of the sword Cashel was cut into two alongside the [Absolute Castle Wall of the Precipice – Ground Rampart].

Choosing the Grade A Green magic [Supreme Sword of the Insane Whirlwind 5 – Vortex Edge] spelled the end of the fight.

“Un, after all the sword of an amateur is no good. It looks like I have to get the [Sword Mastery] skill, huh?” (Kelvin)

That voice was the only sound left remaining.

Kelvin – 23 years old – male – Human – Summoner

Level: 17

Title: none

HP: 175/175

MP: 350/350 <-100 at the time Clotho is summoned, Merufina?>

STR: 38

STA: 39

AGI: 106

MATK: 172

LUK: 140

Skills:

Summoning (Grade S) Open Slots: 8

Eyes of Identification (Grade S)

Green Magic (Grade A)

Presence Perception (Grade D)

Hide (Grade B)

Courage (Grade C)

Army Commander (Grade B)

Growth rate x2

Skill points x2

Experience sharing

Translation Notes

1 No idea how to smartly spell it any other way. I split the katakana, got the spelling of the various parts and combined them again.

2 Kelvin expresses what he assesses Cashel to be thinking.

3 霞迅剣 for those wanting to know.

4 絶崖城壁 for those having a better idea.

5 狂飆の覇剣

Chapter end