Magic: New World-Style Kidō! (Please Keep Reading)

Chapter 17: Magic: New World-Style Kidō! (Please Keep Reading)

Seeing that bets had actually been opened on his spar with Rex, Yoru Machi had wanted to make a quick profit too. Unfortunately, he was currently broke, so he could only miss this opportunity.

"Aah—!"

"Take this! Martial Skill: Lightning Slash!"

Rex knew quite well that, judging from their previous sparring experiences with Yoru Machi, his chances of winning a one-on-one fight against him were extremely slim.

If he waited for Yoru Machi to attack first, he might lose the duel without even getting a chance to strike back.

So Rex's thinking was quite clear right now. Even if he lost, he had to lose spectacularly. At the very least, he could not lose too badly in front of so many people.

"No way, that kid Rex looks like he's getting serious. He's actually using a martial skill like that against a newcomer. Is he trying to kill the rookie?!"

Just as Yoru Machi had previously learned, nearly everyone in Gran Bahamar could wield magic. Some highly skilled adventurers could even combine their martial skills with magic to create even more formidable techniques.

The martial skill Rex was using at this moment was precisely such a power.

Golden light instantly flowed into the longsword in Rex's hand along with his magic power, while arcs of golden electricity continuously danced across its blade.

Because of this martial skill, Rex's speed had clearly increased considerably. In the blink of an eye, he had dashed right in front of Yoru Machi.

Unlike the startled crowd around him, Yoru Machi was not particularly alarmed by the martial skill Rex had used. He was more curious than anything else.

After all, he had only arrived in this world recently. This was his first time encountering this world's magic.

When Rex and the other two had been beaten up one-sidedly by Yoru Machi before, they had not used magic.

It was not that they had not wanted to. Yoru Machi's Hakuda had simply been too fast, and Rex's group had underestimated him, leaving them without even enough time to use magic.

Watching the Lightning Slash come down at him like a bolt of lightning, Yoru Machi calmly tightened his grip on the crudely made bone blade in his hand and raised it horizontally to block the downward strike.

"Boom—!"

With both hands gripping his sword, Rex brought it down hard. The instant his longsword collided with Yoru Machi's horizontally held bone blade, a tremendous shockwave erupted. Violent lightning surged outward, and the blinding flash instantly stole everyone's sight.

"Rex, are you insane? Yoru Machi is still just a newcomer, and you actually..."

As the violent lightning flashed, its raging arcs shattered the ground and kicked up a great cloud of dust. Watching Rex and Yoru Machi vanish behind the curtain of sand, Soya immediately shouted at Rex in fury.

Originally, Soya had thought that sparring with Rex would help Yoru Machi recognize his own limits. Though he might get injured, that was still better than dying at the hands of monsters because he did not know his place.

But Soya had never expected Rex to strike so heavily in what was supposed to be an ordinary spar. That martial skill just now had clearly been intended to kill!

However, Soya had only gotten halfway through berating Rex when the scene before her abruptly cut off her words. She did not even know whether she should still be angry.

It was not just her. The sight before them left even the other adventurers watching nearby with dumbfounded, shocked expressions. Some had even forgotten to drink the ale in their hands.

Everyone present had previously seen Rex grip his sword with both hands and unleash Lightning Slash at Yoru Machi. The rookie adventurer had stood rooted to the spot, apparently without even time to dodge, and could only defend passively.

Although the raised curtain of dust had obscured the two of them, most people believed the spar had already been decided. The only question was how badly Yoru Machi had been injured.

But what had they just seen? The figure that had shot out of the dust with a whoosh seemed to be Rex, the one who had just used his martial skill and whom everyone thought had already won!

At first, everyone thought their eyes were playing tricks on them. But when another figure slowly emerged from the dust, holding a blade in one hand, they realized in astonishment that the person sent flying really was Rex!

So this is what they call magic and martial skills. It's quite a powerful force. It feels somewhat similar to the Kidō I've mastered, but it's a different kind of power.

Come to think of it, can I still use Kidō in this world? This is as good a time as any to try.

Rex's so-called Lightning Slash had felt somewhat like a spiritual-pressure slash to Yoru Machi. Its power was rather weak, but the way it used energy had opened his eyes.

"Ruler of the heavens! Mask of flesh and bone, myriad things, wingbeat, you who bear the name of man! Scorching heat and strife, rolling across the sea, march southward!

Hadō #31: Crimson Fire Cannon!"

Yoru Machi slowly walked out of the dust, holding the bone blade now covered in cracks in one hand while extending his other hand forward and rapidly chanting the incantation for Kidō.

Since the system had converted his power system into one corresponding to this world's local system, a red magic circle appeared before Yoru Machi's palm as he chanted the Kidō.

His spiritual pressure transformed into magic power and rose from his body, while the fierce wind swirling around him instantly blew away the surrounding dust.

The next second, a crimson fireball more than three meters in diameter emerged from the magic circle before Yoru Machi's palm and shot toward the direction Rex had been sent flying at an astonishing speed.

Yoru Machi was stunned. He had clearly held back his spiritual pressure, yet he had never expected the Crimson Fire Cannon to become so ridiculously large.

Moreover, after Kidō had been converted into magic, it had lost its original ability to be maintained without being released. Almost the instant he finished chanting, the Crimson Fire Cannon shot from his hand.

As the crimson fireball, comparable to a small sun, swept through the guild hall and left a scorched trail across the floor, Yoru Machi moved at the same instant.

He was kidding, right? Although he was unhappy with Rex's earlier actions, he had only intended to teach him a lesson. He had no intention of killing anyone.

From their earlier exchange, he already had a clear understanding of Rex's strength. If Rex took this New World version of the Crimson Fire Cannon head-on, he would have almost no chance of surviving!

He had only registered as an adventurer today, and he still intended to operate under that identity for some time. He did not want to somehow become a wanted criminal for accidentally killing someone.

Yoru Machi tapped rapidly against the ground with both feet. Empowered by Shunpo, his figure vanished from everyone's sight in an instant. When the people present recovered their senses, they discovered in shock that Yoru Machi had already arrived in front of the crimson fireball he had unleashed!

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