Amazake-no Knight's & Magic: Volume 7 (Light Novel)

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7183-8865-9
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Knight's & Magic (Light Novel)

We last left our intrepid (read: obsessed) protagonist stranded in the Great Bocuse Forest, lost, and without the love of his life: silhouette knights. Thankfully, Ernie and his aide/childhood friend, Adeltrude Alter, have also found a lead-a new race of humanoids?!

New discoveries are waiting just around the corner. Faced with the possibility of not only making powerful allies but also escaping the dangerous forest, what will Ernie do? (The answer is make more silhouette knights.) There's another rescue operation underway as well, so there's no way Ernie and Addy won't make it out of these woods...right?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amazake-no, Hisago

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kurogin

Chen, Kevin

Leseproben

Chapter 57: Fighting in a Sage’s Query (Battle)

The village settled by Genos De Caelleus, an astragali clan, was currently in the midst of an unusually heated mood. This was because they were watching a query between heroes that had been agreed to while they had been making preparations for a different sage’s query.

Every giant, regardless of age or gender, gathered at the center of the village. At the center of the circle they formed was a three-eyed giant with the Fortissimos title, as well as a human boy who wasn’t even tall enough to reach the giant’s knees.

This strange and outrageous pairing was about to fight...

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While everyone’s eyes were on the fight, Adeltrude, wearing her Descendrad, snuck into the village.

Each time the three-eyed hero and Ernesti exchanged blows, the giants groaned or cheered. Addy quietly made her way toward the circle of giants to peek at the fight.

When the giant swung his stone axe, shaking the earth, Ernie swiftly evaded.

Addy held up her gauntleted hand to shade her eyes as she muttered, “Is Ernie...mad?”

It was possible he was angry that he wasn’t being listened to, or possibly because this was a fight without silhouette knights.

“Actually, it might be both,” Addy said to herself. “Oh well, whatever. Anyway, I should take this chance...”

Thanks to Ernie fighting the hero head-on, the tents were basically unguarded. Addy kept as quiet as she could as she infiltrated one.

“There’s not much stuff in here.” The inside of the giant-sized tent was much emptier than she’d been expecting. Pretty much everything inside were tools that had to do with hunting or fighting. Armor in the midst of repairs as well as simple weapons like stone axes or clubs littered the tent too. Some weapons that looked like spears were also mixed in—a line of weapons with sharpened points attached to thin handles. They were most likely for throwing.

There was also a pile of what seemed to be preserved food, so the tent was filled with a terrible smell.

“Urgh... Maybe I should have been the one fighting!”

She found other sundry tools, but nothing that looked like it was for construction or industry. The giants were possessed of powerful bodies, so they didn’t need much for survival. They only needed equipment to hunt with, and even their weapons and armor used stone or monster materials at best.

“If this is all they have, it’ll be pretty much impossible to make a silhouette knight,” Addy said.

The giants’ culture was not what they’d hoped for.

Would Ernie be disappointed? Actually, probably not. He was the type to challenge the heights of what was possible, but cleanly give up on what wasn’t.

“They have basically no technology, which means at best all they’ll be useful for is manual labor,” Addy reasoned to herself.

The fact that she was already treating the race she was once afraid of as nothing but manpower showed how Ernie had influenced her.

And so Addy toured around the entire village. With that, even if “negotiations” with the giants went bust, they would have achieved the bare minimum. Then, she heard a large commotion coming from the village square.

“Well, nothing really stood out, so I guess I should go help Ernie?” she said to no one in particular. Addy then dashed off toward the square.

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The giant axe crashed through, accompanied by roaring winds.

Attacks from both silhouette knights and giants would easily kill a human. The destructive force generated by their size and weight was tremendous.

But that was only if the attacks hit.

The small enemy fighting the giant Fortissimos—Ernesti—was fearsomely quick. Not even the wind generated by the axe swings grazed him. The hero had tasted this speed multiple times before the start of this query, but once again the difficulty of this fight was being impressed upon him.

“To think a goblin would prove such a formidable foe! It seems my eyes are still clouded over!”

Normally, to a giant, hunting and fighting meant a task of hitting the enemy as hard as possible while defending against their attacks in return. Tricks and strategies weren’t needed in a fight between large creatures sporting overwhelming power.

Thus, even though the giant had earned the title of Fortissimos, he hadn’t much experience trying to hit a small and fast target. His misfortune was that he’d matched up against Ernesti, who specialized in extreme high-speed combat, even among knight runners.

The three-eyed hero attempted to outsmart Ernie by varying the speed of his swings. However, he’d already tried this before, so Ernie wouldn’t be caught so easily.

The hero realized that he wasn’t getting anywhere, so he boldly started stepping further into his attacks. He’d obviously started to ignore his defense.

It was understandable. After all, the goblin’s tiny blade wasn’t much of a threat. It was already dubious whether it would be able to pierce the giant’s skin, and he wore armor made using monster shells over that. So why was the goblin fighting so confidently? The answer was revealed very suddenly.

The moment the three-eyed hero tried to step in for an attack, a ball of fire appeared out of nowhere beside him.

“What?!” The hero was shocked. The fire was small, but he couldn’t ignore it. He attempted to dodge by forcefully canceling out the momentum from his step and bending backward.

Meanwhile, Ernie backed away from the hero, observing both the giant and their surroundings.

“Where did that fire come from?” The giant was certain it hadn’t come from the goblin’s direction. “Is this goblin a Marga instead of a Fortissimos? I don’t understand.” He understood that the fire was the result of magic. However, the fact that it had come out of nowhere was baffling to him.

“I think it’s about time.” Only Ernie was calm in the midst of this confusion. “You’ve had plenty of time on the offense. Now it’s my turn.”

The hero stepped in forcefully in lieu of a response. No matter what the goblin was planning, he wasn’t about to allow it to go unchallenged. He would crush his enemy head-on.

Ernie’s plan was revealed immediately. Fire spawned in the air once more, but this time there was more than a single ball of flame. Many fireballs came flying in from multiple angles, and not even the giant could dodge all of them. His armor was left with scorch marks.

Strangely, none of the surrounding giants could understand Ernie’s attacks either. The fireballs seemed to them to spawn out of nowhere—though of course, there was a trick behind it.

Something was flying through the air; it was just too small for them to see.

“If I were in my Ikaruga, these would be called...Rahu’s Fists.” He was referring to one of his partner Ikaruga’s weapons—hands that could fly freely, connected to Ikaruga by silver nerves, to launch magic from different angles. In theory, it was the same thing as a Wire Anchor—something that transmitted magic through a silver nerve while moving using the crystal tissue that surrounded it.

“Unfortunately, I’m forced to fight this without Ikaruga, but...I’ll just have to endure. I need to make sure I don’t lose my touch,” Ernie muttered as he advanced. At the same time, the device at his waist shot out a Wire Anchor. The sounds of gaseous jets were audible as it flew through the air.

Originally, the Wire Anchor was meant to assist in movement. Now, though, it was being used as a terminal for him to shoot magic out of. Following the script it was receiving through its silver nerve, the Wire Anchor continuously cast Fireball.

If the three-eyed giant had been straining his eyes, he might have been able to notice the movement of the Wire Anchor. However, he was concentrating on Ernie. He refused to let his nimble foe out of his sight, so he couldn’t divert any attention to anything else.

So, while sending out his Wire Anchor to do his bidding, Ernie approached the giant with Winchesters in hand. He continuously launched fireballs out of those as well, and before anyone else had noticed, the three-eyed hero was surrounded.

That truth, along with the continuous explosions, served to irritate the three-eyed hero more and more. Each fireball was small, but it was supremely annoying to be attacked from seemingly everywhere all at once.

But then, the hero adjusted his thinking. It was surprising for the goblin to mount an offense of this level, but the magic was insignificant in the end. It lacked power, and even if it hit his skin directly it wouldn’t cause much damage.

“A splendid display, goblin Fortissimos,” he said. “But this is nothing more than an itch!”

The giant forcefully went on the attack, allowing himself to be bathed in spells. This would be over as long as he defeated his enemy first. He built up speed and made a fierce attack. The axe came crashing down with staggering momentum.

“I’ve been waiting for a telegraphed attack like that,” said Ernie with a grin. Then, he switched what spell he was using.

The tips of his gunlike staves glowed faintly with the premonitions of magic. This glow turned into spears of...