She Professed Herself The Pupil Of The Wiseman

Chapter 70 - 67: Staircase to the Sky (3)

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Just like there were certain skills only mages were able to use, there were similarly exclusive skills for the warrior classes.

But since they only fought with weapons, all they had involved their fighting spirit and it's application.

For them, fighting spirit was analogous to what mana is for a mage. It would start rising when a fight was about to start, and only increase the longer the fight was carried on for. It was the only power warriors could actually use.

Applying that fighting spirit meant channeling that driving force into more physical effects once it had risen enough.

And the application Heinrich had used was a really common one and was considered one of the basics, but it was obvious he had put special care in mastering it.

If he applied the fighting spirit he had built up to a simple thrust, it would extend the hit and give it such a piercing strength it would be able to cut through the bedrock. It was also possible to change the fighting spirit into flames, which manifested along the blade, or also use it to strengthen one's own body for some time.

There were a multitude of applications like that, and it was even possible to layer them and combine them together, which led to many warriors to focus on their own style of fighting.

And application's effects would also increase the more they used it, and Heinrich had just demonstrated how strong a single attack could eventually be.

「I also have to strive to do better then!」

Mira got motivated to do something herself and she almost ran off too, but she stopped just an instant later. And it was not that there was something like flowers she did not want to trample on in front of her or anything like that, but she had just been thinking about all the past events.

(Phew, that was close. I was just about to make Meilin even more famous.)

If she used her sage skills, those two would start talking about how incredible sages were. And after enough past experiences, Mira had learned her lesson so she stopped her feet just at the right time. Then, she gave the Dark Knight who had been standing by silently its first order in a long while.

「Slaughter them all!」

As if replying to that cold voice, the darkness enveloping the Dark Knight thickened, it's red eyes like flickering embers turned a deep crimson, and a moment later, it leaped forward like a cannonball.

The only thing that could be heard afterwards was the slight quivering of throats that expired before a scream could be formed. The Dark Knight was not fighting the monsters with a blade, but it was crushing them with its own body. After dominating the scene with such a massacre, the Dark Knight's presence seemed somewhat unfit for that kind of battlefield.

「It might not look that way, but you're pretty nasty, you know.」

Gilbert muttered with a bitter smile after witnessing that scene.

「Just what is…」

Heinrich had ran forward trying to show off, but he also stood still in shock seeing the Dark Knight in action.

「I can't permit myself to fall behind!」

A couple minutes passed since the battle began. The one man and one entity quickly overpowered everything else in the battlefield and the fight was over.