Jobless Reincarnation: Sword, Magic Hat and Romance System

Chapter 34 Allen vs. Rudy, Rudy anticipates his opponent's moves.

As soon as he finished speaking, the dirt around Allen's feet was suddenly kicked up, and he rushed towards Rudy's position like a cannonball.

Then a real "cannonball" was thrown in front of him.

Those were dense water spheres, each nearly a meter in diameter, packed together in the air like blue balloons forming a spherical "water wall," and it wasn't just a thin wall.

The water balloon magic continues to unfold, and the thickness of the wall keeps increasing.

Allen smiled, his hand on his knife, his eyes narrowed.

The wind seemed to have calmed down considerably.

"That's impressive, but this time I won't just use the Sword God style. I need to cut through the water sphere while maintaining high speed, and I also need a sufficiently deep attack range. Twenty slashes won't do. So..."

"Hokushin-ryu - Practical Style - Standard Forms, Second Form."

Debris and dirt exploded behind Allen's feet. His right leg lifted off the ground, his body twisting in mid-air. The blade swung around him as he spun, and as he unleashed his powerful slash, the wall of water spheres was right in front of him. He could even see the sun's reflection on the water spheres.

Fighting spirit surged forth.

"Sky-Round Slash!"

The fighting spirit enveloped the blade, making the blade light seem to extend extremely far.

The water wall was cleaved in two, and Allen's body burst out from the gap!

He cleaved through the oncoming water spheres with a single stroke, weaving back and forth between them as the gaps widened considerably. The water spheres exploded one by one around him, creating ripples across the grass.

Amidst the waves, Allen treads the water forward, his speed increasing rather than decreasing.

He looked up at Rudy in the distance, who was continuously shooting water balloons from his palms while his body bounced and retreated rapidly like a balloon. He was using a series of blowing spells to quickly increase the distance between himself and Allen.

"No wonder the water balloons were so scattered; it turns out Rudy couldn't aim properly while leaping. It's a leaping air magic trick, isn't it? It releases air twice during a leap: once to create a reaction force on his body, propelling him forward, and the second time to release it on his feet, helping to absorb the shock and making it easier to jump again."

"But it's not fast enough."

The dense water ball spells, now lacking accuracy, were utterly ineffective in stopping Allen's advance. His dynamic nerves had been pushed to their limits, and each water ball futilely exploded around him, turning into turbulent currents on the ground. Yet, like a butterfly flitting across a lake, he maintained his forward momentum, his body moving without the slightest hesitation.

The two were now fifty meters apart!

Seeing this from a distance, Rudy gritted his teeth.

"Waterfall! Icicles!"

Allen instinctively dodged the ice pillar beneath his feet, only to find that no ice had formed at all. He looked up at Rudy.

The latter was surrounded by a huge cylindrical stream of water that poured down instantly! The enormous volume of water almost soaked the ground, forming a shallow stream, and then a column of ice suddenly appeared at his feet.

"Rock shell!"

Rudy flicked his wrist, unleashing a rock projectile compressed into a blade shape. With a snap, the icicle was sliced ​​into a slab of ice large enough to stand on. He then stepped onto the slab, raised his hand, and shouted at Allen.

"Rock shell!"

Allen dodged, but found that no rock cannonballs were coming. Looking up, he saw that Rudy in the distance was just pretending to shout. In reality, he was using a blowing magic trick, using the reverse momentum to quickly slide the ice shards under his feet into the distance through the grass and water.

It's more than twice as fast as just blowing air.

Allen was speechless.

"You can play it like that?"

Suddenly, a rock cannonball came flying at him. Allen deflected the rock cannonball with a slash, and the Dragon Saint Battle Qi nascent core in his abdomen suddenly contracted and expanded, squeezing out gurgling streams that melted into the original battle qi in his limbs and bones.

He sliced ​​through the oncoming ice spears with a single stroke, plowing through the water in front of him with high waves, and began to run at breakneck speed. Rock cannonballs shot up layers of mud behind him, but they could not lock onto his figure at all.

His fighting spirit surged wildly, and Allen's movements were so fast that he almost left afterimages!

In just a few breaths, the distance between the two closed again, to thirty meters!

Seeing that the rock cannonballs couldn't hit Allen at all, Rudy showed no panic whatsoever. His eyes gleamed with excitement as he shouted loudly.

"Allen, watch closely, this is a combination magic trick!"

"mud!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a knowing glint flashed in Allen's eyes.

As a fan of the original novel, how could I ignore Rudy's signature magic trick? However, Rudy is not yet able to instantly create a large-scale mud swamp. In the novel, when he fought Paul at the end of his childhood, he used a mud swamp magic trick with a diameter of two meters.

Allen chuckled, then swung his sword at his feet. The wind pressure parted the rapidly turning muddy ground, and he leaped high into the air, escaping the swamp. He then cleaved the treacherous ice spear that was flying towards him with a single stroke.

It landed on the ground five meters away.

One foot plunged into the mud.

"?"

Allen looked at his legs, which were stuck in the mud, and then looked at Rudy in surprise.

Rudy, who was some distance away, had stopped his rapid retreat and shouted excitedly at Allen.

"My Water Ball and Waterfall spells aren't just for your amusement! Look around! These are extra-large area magic spells I specially prepared for you!"

Allen shattered the ice spear that had been launched at him as Rudy spoke, then squinted and quickly scanned his surroundings.

The area below the hillside had long been a muddy mess.

Rudy can't instantly create a large-scale swamp yet, but what if the conditions are already prepared in advance?

During the battle, the massive flow of water from the water cannons and waterfalls had completely soaked the ground below the hillside. Rudy was only one 'trigger' away from completing his large-scale mud magic.

The entire area below the hill was now covered in mud.

Allen stared silently at his legs, which were stuck in the mud, while Rudy in the distance suddenly unleashed a series of massive ice spears that pierced the surrounding area.

"but!"

Rudy crossed his arms and chuckled.

"Even if you are trapped in the swamp and your movement speed is slowed down, I still cannot effectively deter you. You can sense my magic with the Water God Flow and cut it open."

Allen squinted at him and smiled.

"so what?"

Rudy waved his hand, releasing a fireball that shattered the surrounding water guns. The collision of ice and fire, along with the thick moisture from the hillside, created wisps of mist.

Rudy pointed to his eyes.

"Therefore I will blind your senses!"

He then bent down and touched the ground with both hands, keeping his gaze on Allen, and chuckled, quite pleased with himself.

"Intermediate Magic—Geothermal! Mixed Magic—Dense Fog! Natives of the world of swords and magic, experience the wonders of physics!"

Allen felt heat emanating from the depths of the swamp, and plumes of steam rose from the marshland below the hillside, soon turning the surroundings into a misty haze.

"Tsk, so smug, huh? You're even shouting out your inner thoughts. You really think I can't understand you, huh?"

He twisted his neck, raised his long sword, aimed it at the crouching figure who was gradually becoming indistinct in the mist, still touching the ground with his hand, and asked with a smile.

"But if you kill the person performing the magic when you release geothermal heat, the magic will be interrupted, right?"

Rudy's eyebrows twitched violently.

"What do you mean? Even if you can come over, I can use magic to run away."

Allen held the knife behind his ear, assuming a throwing stance, and looked at Rudy, speaking each word clearly.

"The Kitakami-ryu school has a swordsmanship technique that involves throwing the blade. If this were a life-or-death battle, you would have died the moment you crouched down."

(End of this chapter)