"I……"
"I retract what I said in the previous chapter."
"I'm an idiot! A complete idiot!!!"
...
El thought that the wind blade he had thrown out was easily caught by Keomi with his sword, and the wind blade suddenly disappeared without hindering his steps.
and……
He... he deflected the wind blade back!!!
The wind blade cleaved her in two to Elsie's astonishment.
This was the most painful death she had ever suffered, because Keomi forgot to finish her off...
[Tsk tsk tsk, dead again. What were you thinking? You knew their sword could nullify magic, yet you stubbornly persisted?]
"Ahhh, stop yelling! Stop yelling!"
I never expected my opponent to be so skilled in martial arts. Even though I deliberately aimed for the right angle to release the wind blade, my opponent still managed to catch it.
"Ah, I see. You... think only the sword is immune to magic, not the Blackcrown King? Ha! Do you think he's the kind of guy who relies on equipment? Does he seem like it?"
Unlike some people who could easily follow the main storyline with tons of free god-tier items to keep them entertained, but instead choose to play the side quests.
What? You think the main storyline is too easy?
Elsie: t^t
Okay, I'm done yelling, and now he's here.
"No way! Again!" Elsie wielded her heavy sword, this time choosing to wrap sword energy around the blade.
Since magic is useless, let's break the deadlock with sword energy!
A misty sword aura rose from the greatsword. She stared at Keomi, who was walking towards her, but he suddenly stopped.
His blue eyes were fixed on the sword aura emanating from Elsie's greatsword. He seemed to remember something, glanced at Elsie again, and then asked a question...
"Sword energy?"
His voice was slightly hoarse, and there seemed to be some kind of anger beneath his calm demeanor.
Um, I'll wait for your next resurrection...
"What a joke, at least let me take one hit this time, right?" Elsie made the first move.
This time, she feigned an opening, instantly retracting her sword to slash at his leg... Huh? He didn't move!?
Elsie looked up and was surprised to find that Keomi's blue eyes had been following her every move!
He seems to be able to read her mind? That's so unfair!
Keomi raised his left foot and firmly stepped on the sword. With a "stomp," the sword instantly shattered and sank into the soil.
Elsie hurriedly dropped her sword to protect her hand, but it was too late. The corpse claws had already seized her head, and with a cracking sound...
Elsie woke up...
Congratulations, you've died yet again!
"Fine, magic immunity? Then I'll use magic for defense, okay?!" Elsie seized the opportunity.
From their previous encounters, she realized that her opponent did not have any magical attack methods.
Moreover, they lack equipment to increase their defense and even have some fear of magic.
He is not a god!
"He's just a zombie, a zombie without any special bloodline!" Elsie seemed to realize what the nameless skeleton meant.
"This is the Black Crown. Even the lowest race, without relying on bloodline, equipment, or skills, bearing a curse and all alone, can still have the ability to slay the crown."
As she spoke, footsteps echoed again from within the mist.
The zombie named Keomi came back once again, sword in hand.
“I understand now. A person’s strength shouldn’t be bound by so-called data templates.” Elsie’s eyelashes trembled: “This is the fate of the champion.”
"How many of the ten chances the skeleton mentioned have I actually died?"
Let me count, exactly five times!
“Five more times…” Elsie was a little nervous. She knew that she would inevitably have to face Blackcrown someday, and if she couldn’t learn something from this time, she would be in trouble.
There will be danger to my life in the future!
"His skills are useless to me, I can naturally increase my physical strength through training, but I can't learn combat experience, only..."
Elsie set her sights on the natural disasters listed in the opponent's data panel.
Only those who rule the crown are qualified to comprehend "Cataclysm"!
“I don’t have that much time to learn, so I need you to teach me…” Elsie’s magic surged.
As Keomi sprinted forward, she instantly erected an air shield!
"!"
However, Keomi did not use the Calamity. He simply leaped into the air, slashing straight down with his longsword, accompanied by a roar that made Elsie lose her composure.
"Heavy blow!"
"Click—"
The air shield shattered instantly...
[A chill ran down my neck...]
"Alright! Don't make me remember!" Elsie shook her head, snapping out of her reverie.
She glanced at the black button in her hand. Perhaps if she infused it with magic once more, she could return, but... she couldn't just leave like this today!
"Alright, alright, so you're staying here all day, huh?"
"That was just an accident. If one air shield isn't enough, then bring ten!"
"I can even create my own wind magic!"
El looked in the direction from which Keomi was about to attack, and instantly the magic energy in his hand formed dozens of magic walls.
She also prepared a more advanced magical sealing array to seal herself off.
[Good! Drawing a circle around oneself and imprisoning oneself! It's like being stabbed in the back door with a knife—it's eye-opening!]
As expected, Keomi stopped in front of this series of magic walls. He seemed to know the thickness of these magic walls and that he would probably be shaken to pieces by force!
"..." He remained silent for a moment, his blue eyes fixed on Elsie inside the magic wall.
Suddenly, Elsie felt the ground beneath her feet tremble, and her inner turmoil was beyond words.
Keomi: "Earthquake."
As those two words were uttered from his mouth, the surrounding magical elements began to become chaotic, or rather, disappeared!
Dozens of magic walls collapsed instantly, and the sealing magic circle that Elsie was building suddenly failed to function!
She remembered!
That duel with Noah that day, it was that voice! That voice in my mind!
Earthquakes transform the extraordinary into the ordinary; all powers beyond the mundane will be erased by the Black Crown.
So, have you figured it out?
"I didn't see it clearly..."
The damage from dozens of magical backlashes instantly shattered Elsie, and when she awoke again, she was back in that misty world.
You have three chances left...
"Actually, it's already over."
The voice of the nameless skeleton rang in her ears.
"It's you!" Elsie noticed the skeletal figure behind the mist.
The nameless skeleton raised its bone claws, stopping Elsie's advance. It said, "Kaomi is about to wake up. Your actions have awakened his dormant rage. This world can no longer contain him."
"I sealed him away for so long, but in the end I still have to face this endless fate."
“We’re the same, Elsie,” said the nameless skeleton. “You’d better hurry up and learn the Scourge.”
"Only the power of natural disasters is the power that truly belongs to you; natural disasters will never betray you."
"You will eventually fight the true Black Crown King, just like me."
"Let's go back..."
As the mist dissipated, Elsie's consciousness returned to the inn...
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