I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

Chapter 67: Disappearing in the Holy Light

Just as Tifarian was looking for the skeleton warrior's flaws, the skeleton warrior also began to move sideways, looking for Tifarian's weaknesses. Tifarian's body was now filled with holy light. If it was just ordinary holy energy containing impurities, it would be fine, but this holy light was extremely pure, as pure as the holy statues in the church hall. Even if the skeleton warrior had the strength of level 30, he did not dare to get close to her.

Quick fight.

This thought emerged in the skeleton warrior's mind. Although the strengthening magic has a time limit, it is difficult to guarantee that he will still have full strength after the strengthening magic. The threat of holy energy is too great. Just its existence will cause him to continue to be injured, so it is best to use a big move to quickly determine the outcome.

With one hand he held up a round shield in front of him, and with the other he raised his sword in a classic offensive and defensive stance.

"You can't defeat me. Surrender now and I'll give you a quick death."

"We'll have to try to see if we can win!"

Contrary to her previous defensive stance, Tifarian rushed forward and lifted the rapier from the bottom up, and the sacred light attached to the sword body fluctuated like a substance.

Although their thinking was opposite to that of the Skeleton Warrior, their conclusions were exactly the same. Tifarian had never cooperated with Ella before, so she had no idea how long Ella's enhanced magic would last, so she had to end the battle as quickly as possible.

clang.

Once again, the swung rapier was blocked by the round shield. The skeleton warrior swept the round shield in his left hand, deflecting Tifarian's rapier, and then stabbed with the long sword in his right hand.

He is simply a battle-hardened warrior, his movements are without any sluggishness, and his combat experience is in no way inferior to Tifarian's.

『Water flow acceleration』

Dodging the skeleton warrior's thrust sideways, Tifarian retracted her rapier and attempted to use the sword guard to block the skeleton warrior's long sword - the rapier guard did have this design, using the metal hook on the top to hook the opponent's weapon, in order to deflect the attack and make the enemy unstable. In fact, nobles would also deliberately wear cloaks or daggers to hook the opponent's rapier when dueling.

But the skeleton warriors are not purely strength-based warriors.

He immediately retracted his longsword and swung it horizontally towards Tifarian with a surging momentum as if to cut the rapier in half.

【not good. 】

It's not that they are worried that the rapier will be cut off, but the strength of the guard cannot resist the strength of the opponent's long sword tip. The reason why the skeleton can change the thrust into a sweep is because the skeleton has characteristics that humans do not have. It does not feel pain and is not limited by muscle strength. According to human standards, it is almost impossible to perform that set of movements smoothly, and there will be a pause for a moment no matter what.

“Hmm!”

Although she blocked the longsword with her rapier, the huge force still caused Tifarian to be knocked against the wall. The air in her lungs was squeezed out in an instant, and unbearable pain and suffocation surged into her throat.

But now was not the time to show pain on his face. The skeleton warrior was holding up his round shield and performing "Instant Move", rushing towards him with the momentum that seemed to crush him.

Should I retract my rapier? It was impossible to catch up. I could even feel the intense wind pressure from the skeleton warrior, but avoiding the impact was impossible. Since I couldn't resist, I could only fight at the cost of sacrificing an arm.

Tifarian slightly sideways to avoid the vital points, twisted the rapier, and struck the diving skeleton's face with the blunt end of the hilt.

Bang—bang.

The sound of the round shield hitting Tifarian's left arm and the sound of the hilt of the rapier hitting the side of the skeleton's face sounded almost simultaneously.

“Guuuu!”

Tifarian groaned in pain, and severe pain traveled along every nerve in her left arm to her brain.

Broken? No, that blow had definitely shattered her left arm. Without treatment with the rare "panacea," it would be impossible to recover. In other words, her left arm was gone forever. The "panacea" was in extremely low supply, and if she hadn't made significant contributions to the kingdom, it would be impossible for a princess like herself, who had only recently made her fortune, to obtain it.

But we can't give up here. Although it was a spur-of-the-moment attack and the power was slightly insufficient, the side of the skeleton warrior's face was still cracked from the beating.

Can such injuries really cause damage?

Tifarian couldn't help but feel suspicious. Undead creatures don't feel pain. If it had been a human, they might have died from that blow. But the skeleton was fine. It didn't care about the hilt of the rapier still stuck in Tifarian's face. It just used the round shield that hit the wall as a fulcrum to rotate its body, trying to press Tifarian against the wall with its back. If nothing unexpected happened, this blow would definitely crush Tifarian's ribs.

Because her left arm was pressed against the wall by the skeleton warrior, she could not avoid the attack, but Tifarian was not in a dead end.

Should I use that move? If I use that move, the skeleton will definitely suffer great damage, but after using it, I will also be unable to participate in the battle for a short period of time. Therefore, if I can't kill the skeleton in one blow, I will be sentenced to death.

[No, now is not the time. There are other ways.]

Enduring the blinding pain in her left arm, Tifarian used magic.

"fortress"

His whole body flashed with orange-red light. The "Fortress" magic can not only be used on weapons, but also on the body. Although the effect will be somewhat worse, on a scale of ten, it is only the difference between 10 and 8. The reason why it was not cast when he lost his left arm before was because the cooling time of "Fortress" was extremely long, and it had to be saved for life-saving purposes.

Click.

Under the effect of the "Fortress", the skeleton warrior crashed into Tifarian's back, and there was a sound of broken bones - but it was the attacking skeleton that was damaged.

Immediately rolling forward, in order to prevent Tifarian from continuing to use unknown magic to pursue, the skeleton warrior gave up the fight and opened the battle line again.

"You're quite capable."

The skeleton warrior turned around and looked at Tifarian who slowly stood up and adjusted her breathing.

"Hmph, you were a warrior of the Kingdom before you died, right?"

"Wow? I was discovered."

"Even the fighting style is the same as the standard military movements. It's easy to spot if you pay attention."

Tifarian's right hand, which was holding the rapier, kept shaking - the explosive pain from her left arm had spread throughout her body, but strangely, her left arm could still make simple movements, and there was no sign of deformation after the fracture.

"No fractures? Impossible. That kind of attack would have shattered everything... Could it be because of this clothing? As expected of a Crimson Gold Rank."

Tifarian shifted her gaze to the swordsman's suit with a white base and black decorations. This was the clothes that Ella had borrowed from her temporarily. Before, because she didn't know the effect, she didn't inject magic into it without authorization. Now it seems that even without injecting magic, it still has a very strong defensive power. At least her left arm did not show any strange bending except for the pain, and its normal function was still well preserved.

Tifarian couldn't help but feel a little surprised that she didn't lose her left arm.

In contrast to Tifarian's surprise, the skeleton looked completely miserable, with its side face and several ribs broken, and its entire back turned black due to contact with Tifarian, who was blessed by the Holy Light.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's such pure divine energy! If the church guys saw it, they would definitely mistake it for a saint. Unfortunately, you are doomed to fail here. As for that girl, it would be better if I could take her back to my Lord."

The skeleton warrior tilted his head at a strange angle and laughed.

In fact, after the previous confrontation, although it was apparently the Skeleton Warrior's defeat, Tifarian would be defeated no matter what. In close combat, there is no chanting magic and there is a gap between the use of magic. Tifarian had just used "Water Acceleration" and "Fortress", so the Skeleton Warrior would have the advantage next - the Skeleton Warrior had only used "Instant Movement" so far.

Hearing the words of the skeleton warrior, Tifarian couldn't help but look at the battlefield behind the skeleton warrior, where Ella and the soldiers were fighting.

Every time a burst of golden light appeared, a group of soldiers would be thrown into the air. Although the situation inside could not be seen because there were too many people surrounding Ella, judging from the bruised and panicked appearance of the soldiers on the periphery, Ella should have a complete advantage.

"That's enough, can't you just give up?"

I seemed to hear someone shouting that it was troublesome, and then the temperature in the room began to drop rapidly.

"Never mind, let's make this quick, 'Ice Hockey'."

ka ka ka-

The walls of the entire room, including the ceiling, were instantly covered with a layer of ice. Countless ice balls gathered together and were arranged in a regular pattern to form a large, flat "ice wall" that took up half the room. From Ella's perspective, it should be called a fly swatter. As countless soldiers looked up with their mouths wide open, screaming in fear, and fleeing with their heads in their hands, it fell like a punishment from heaven.

Fierce, heavy, and merciless, it hit the floor.

boom!

Like an earthquake, the ground began to shake, cracks appeared on the ceiling, and exploded ice flew everywhere. The floor hit by the ice ball even sank a full centimeter, making people wonder if this place had been stepped on hard by a frost giant.

Feeling satisfied, Ella shook her hands and sighed as she looked at the soldiers whose teeth were chattering, with only one head sticking out from the thick ice.

"That's it. Now we need to help Tifarian."

“No, that’s not the case…”

Tifarian, who took all of this in, couldn't help but open her mouth slightly. She really couldn't imagine that Ella had such a level of strength. Of course, the high-level skeleton warriors were also shocked. Although the undead creatures had resistance to cold, the point was not here. The attack just now was obviously the fourth-level magic "Frozen Fury". If it was replaced with the holy magic of the same level, the skeleton warriors would have imagined their own ending in their minds.

Fear rose in his heart for the first time, and the skeleton warrior began to move slowly towards the door.

Upon seeing this, Tifarian immediately blocked the door with her rapier. Although it would be wise to let the skeleton warrior pass now - that way she could pass through the hall smoothly and find the evidence hidden in Marquis Sepro's room - she couldn't do that. Loti was in the passage behind, and if she let the skeleton warrior pass, it would definitely be a devastating disaster.

"Get lost!"

The skeleton warrior roared angrily, raised his sword high and swung it at Tifarian. Then, a dark red light flashed in his deep eye sockets - "Petrification Ray". Although it would consume all magic power at once, it could turn everything in front of him into stone statues.

Unfortunately, Tifarian still raised her rapier to block the skeleton warrior's attack.

"How can it be?!"

"I don't know what it was exactly, but you used magic just now, right?"

The skeleton's panicked tone made Tifarian grin. If she guessed correctly, the armor that Ella temporarily lent her was definitely not just scarlet gold grade, but an excellent item that had reached the artifact grade - there was only one such item in the entire Kingdom of Baris.

"Impossible, impossible, impossible!"

The skeleton warrior threw away his round shield and pressed his hands hard on the sword like a madman, trying to cut off the rapier that Tifarian held in front of him.

Since her left hand had recovered, Tifarian also gritted her teeth. While resisting the skeleton warrior's brute force with both hands, she poured all her remaining strength into her silver-wrapped metal boots and kicked the skeleton warrior hard. Since the skeleton warrior was concentrating all his strength on his hands, the blow from his abdomen directly made him fly backwards.

The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

The skeleton warriors who have lost all their magic power have no resistance at all. The so-called undead creatures are just made up of negative life and magic power.

"you--!"

"Phew—I forgot to mention that I'm an adventurer, so there's nothing wrong with kicking people."

Gasping for breath, Tifarian supported her body with her rapier, barely recovered from a half-kneeling position on the ground to a standing position, and slowly walked towards the fallen skeleton.

"The dead should remain where the dead are. So, farewell, 'vanish in the holy light.'"

Tifarian held the hilt of the rapier with both hands and activated the strongest magic stored in the golden rapier. Without any hesitation, she inserted the tip of the sword burning with the holy flame of light into the skeleton. In an instant, the golden flame enveloped the high-level skeleton warrior, and the undead monster was purified.

"Ha ha--"

Tifarian sat down on the ground in an unruly manner, constantly adjusting her breathing.

"Tifarian? Are you okay?"

After the battle, Ella quickly ran to Tifarian.

"I'm fine. You know the 'Blessing of Vitality', right? Quickly heal me and then we'll go to the last room."

"Hmm, alright, let's cheer for the energy—"Magic Shield"

呲呲呲.

Lightning exploded on the "Magic Shield" that Ella deployed.

"Hehehe, he's only level 19, but he managed to block my attack. What an interesting fellow."

A palm-sized black cloud flashed across the room.

Chapter 68: Seal of Gluttony

Although she had only seen it from a distance in the snowy mountains, Ella could recognize that the black mist in front of her was the true form of the Seal of Original Sin. This was also the reason why she had suddenly interrupted the "Blessing of Vitality" and switched to the "Magic Shield" just now - the "Terrain Search" cast with the Fire Arrow could detect all creatures below level 50.

To put it another way, the Mark of Original Sin standing in front of him was actually less than level 50.

While the Seal of Original Sin was speaking, Ella cast another "Blessing of Vitality" on Tifarian, pulling her up from the ground. Although she could handle enemies below level 50 at her current level, her attack methods were too limited. Currently, she could only use "Ice Ball" and "Holy Pestle". Facing such an energy target, it would be better to use magic such as "Glorious Holy Flame" if possible, so she should try to delay time and wait for Camisia to arrive.

After making her decision, Ella used a "low-level appraisal" to probe the ability of the Seal of Original Sin while attempting to communicate with it.

"'Gluttony'?"

He asked tentative questions to confirm the identity. Most of the information he had about the Seal of Original Sin was hearsay, so it was necessary to confirm it in person. As for how he knew that the other party was "Gluttony", it was the information he got when he first met the ghost in Ryan Town.

An ominous black cloud began to float around the entire room, and the genderless voice made people feel creepy.

"Oh my, this is the first time I've ever seen someone see my true form. Can you tell me who you are?"

As if considering something, the black cloud's voice paused for a moment.

"In that case, I might show mercy and let you go."

Boom boom boom boom.

As if being subjected to a magical carpet bombing, the entire underground facility began to shake violently, gravel from the ceiling began to fall continuously, and the sound of something collapsing could be heard in the distant passage - Lotte's "Eye of Loki" corroded the load-bearing part of the underground facility.

Even though he noticed this, Gluttony didn't show any anger. He still walked slowly around the room with Ella and Tifarian at the center.

"What exactly is your intention in coming to the Kingdom of Barris?!"

Supporting her body with her rapier, Tifarian roared at Gluttony, but this did not pose any threat at all. The first time she saw Gluttony, Tifarian realized that this was an opponent beyond her standards, and she would not be able to defeat him even if there were ten more of her.

"Intentions? That's not something you can know. Fools should be raised like fools. Knowing too much can get you killed—ah, ah, ah, it's the Demon King's daughter. How rude! After all, she's the descendant of my previous master. Not only did I not recognize her immediately, but I had to rely on surface consciousness to figure out her identity. I'm really weak with my power scattered."

Gluttony's tone was as if he was shaking his head and sighing for himself, but the content of his words made Ella extremely alert in an instant.

While reading surface consciousness isn't as terrifying as telepathy, considering what Gluttony said about his "power being dispersed," it means that Gluttony isn't in its full state right now. If it were, it wouldn't be impossible for him to directly use telepathy. That would put the subsequent battle in an extremely disadvantageous position—an enemy who can see through one's thoughts is, in any case, extremely difficult to deal with.

Seeing through Ella's thoughts once again, Gluttony let out a shrill, evil laugh, like metal rubbing against each other.

"If you're waiting for Camisia to rescue you, I'd agree if you just said it directly. Things have developed to this point. Although it's the worst possible outcome, it's still within our tolerance range. We originally planned to subjugate the kingdom through gentle means, but now it seems we have no choice but to use force. As for Camisia..."