Guild Boss's Ambition

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11. The untraceable steps (Ehard)

(Mener-Ehard)

Seeing me and the clown appear, the other adventurers who came to the arena in the morning all looked over. One reason was that ViVi's clown performances were famous throughout the city, and the other was that I seldom fought in public, so the outside world had different speculations about my strength. Some people said that I was very strong, while others said that I was vulnerable. As long as today was over, the truth would come to light.

I watched ViVi on the opposite field without blinking. Before the battle started, the distance between the two sides was about fifteen meters, neither too long nor too short.

Gugugugugu──

The arena's countdown clock chicken made funny noises.

What will the Joker do at the first moment of the battle?

She stood there motionless, smiling at me, with thick white mist rising around her.

According to rumors, ViVi is an acrobat who is good at using the art of clones and water magic. The weapons she uses are usually two desert scimitars. In addition, she has a variety of props, but the most impressive thing is her mouth that can influence people's hearts. Many adventurers who have had disputes with her have said that it is best to learn the magic of silence before dealing with the clown.

However, I still only have those three tricks that seem to remain the same.

Seeing the mist spreading, I didn't step forward to stop it.

Judging from the speed at which this layer of water mist spreads, I estimate that by the time I rush in front of ViVi, she will have already set the trap.

In the thick mist, our vision, which we have always relied on the most, will be greatly weakened. On the contrary, our less important senses such as hearing, touch, smell, etc. will suddenly become our most sensitive senses. Unfortunately, in these aspects, ViVi, who was born with the blood of the fox orcs, has a more favorable advantage -

She will "see" it sooner than I will.

She will take the initiative in the battle.

But as a knight, the initiative is something we lost early on.

I listened carefully.

She had no words, no laughter, and no footsteps in the fog.

She was so quiet that she seemed to have disappeared.

But what is certain is that she was also looking for me in the fog.

At this moment, the biggest sounds I made were just my heartbeat and breathing. But even with a pair of fox ears, our naked eyes would probably see each other in the fog long before she heard that faint sound.

While waiting, a blue-haired fox girl walked out from the other side of the fog.

She walked towards me slowly, step by step.

This reminds me of the art of clones that she was good at using.

Generally speaking, the clones of the clone technique have no vision. If the blue-haired fox girl in front of him is just ViVi's clone, then its existence is just an illusion that poses no threat. Attacking it will only expose one's own position in vain.

I silently watched the blue-haired fox girl walking towards me.

Its eyes were cloudy and lifeless, and its limbs seemed mechanically stiff.

"eccentric."

But at this moment, a sudden chill crept into my heart.

On impulse, I swung my long-handled battle axe towards the stiff-moving fox girl. At that moment, the fox girl's dull eyes became mischievous and she took a step back, dodging the tip of my axe by a millimeter.

"It's revealed! It's revealed! It turns out that President Ehard has a brain too!"

She screamed, turned and ran towards the fog.

How could I let her go back into the dark again after discovering her? I immediately chased after her, while constantly spinning the long-handled battle axe in my hand to disperse the white mist nearby. In fact, if she had been avoiding fighting, the game would have ended in a draw. However, I believed that ViVi also wanted to decide the winner in this game.

In the end, the agile clown still managed to get rid of me.

And in the next moment, four lively clowns jumped out of the fog.

"Come on, come on! Kill, kill!"

"President Ehard, be good! Open your mouth wide and I'll treat you to bananas!"

"Look at my four-stage killing method!"

"I can't believe these idiots and I are from the same brain."

The four clowns running out of the fog each have their own postures. They are either holding two blades or two bananas. Although their overall words and actions are chaotic, they have formed a unified and unpredictable killing formation. The best way to fight against the clone technique is to give them all a range skill. As long as they are hit by the attack, the illusion without substance will usually reveal flaws.

A great earthquake struck.

I don't know many large-scale skills, this is the only one.

But wherever there's a floor, I can smash it into a pile of sand.

There was a boom.

The pile of sand and gravel that the battle axe knocked up all over the four clowns at once, and among them, only the blue-eared fox girl holding the banana successfully evaded and blocked the attack. From this, it can be concluded that she is the entity of ViVi──

“No──” Seeing the three clones all turned into a puddle of water, ViVi cried out in grief and turned to look at me with hatred: “Evil man, you destroyed my home and took my money. I wanted to hide and keep the peace, but now you are so cruel that you even let my wife and children go. This is really too much! Too much──”

After talking nonsense for a while, the fox girl clown turned around neatly and threw the things in her hands one after another.

"Try my Banana!"

"Stop using Banana to fool people!"

Looking coldly at the two bananas that drew yellow shadows in the air, I was speechless, so I casually chopped them into two halves and four parts with an axe while walking. Unexpectedly, a loud sound like a dragon's roar rang in my ears!

Boom──

Vi──

The flying prop that looked like a banana was actually a sonic boom bomb made by the goblins. I was hit at close range and my mind went blank. The only sound in my ears was the remnant of VI──VI──. When I came to my senses, the two scimitars of the fox clown were cutting towards my throat from the left and right. At the critical moment, I raised my left and right hand guards and used the protective gear to block the attack of the scimitars.

"hateful……"

Feeling the pain of my arms being cut, I cursed inwardly and immediately kicked the clown in the stomach, pushing her away slightly with a sly smile on her face, and took the opportunity to readjust my fighting stance.

But the fox clown was also agile. As soon as she realized my intention, she immediately attacked again.

In this round of attack, I lost the initiative and gradually went to defeat in this evenly matched battle. After a while of parrying, the clown's scimitar swept across the axe handle sharply, forcing me to retract all my fingers. The heavy axe was pulled out of my control by gravity and fell to the yellow earth with a clang.

“It’s over!”

ViVi smiled triumphantly and stabbed the two scimitars straight into my eyes.

Puff.

Blood splattered across her face and the scimitar pierced my palm.

Since her scimitar had no guard, my pierced palm was just enough to hold her hands holding the knife.

At this scene, it’s my turn to laugh.

"Got you, you naughty fox."

"President, you are indeed very dangerous—"

"Are you ready to be beaten?" I narrowed my eyes sinisterly.

"It's still unclear who will get beaten──" She stuck out her little lilac tongue hatefully.

Enduring the severe pain in my palm, I used all my strength to headbutt the captured clown in the face.

Boom.

The self-destructive headbutt of a high-level knight should not be underestimated. My desperate attack was immediately recognized by the formation magic, and an aqua-blue defensive shield blocked my headbutt halfway. However, because the momentum was too strong, my forehead was also broken in the collision with the defensive shield, and a star appeared in my vision.

I tried to keep my balance and looked at the unharmed fox clown opposite me, feeling completely unbalanced.

"How come I'm covered in wounds even though I won the game!"

“Forget it, forget it. Anyway, I’ll go bathe in the holy light later, and then everything will be fine…”

"By the way, the cost of one treatment seems to be thirty silver coins, right?"

"Damn it!"

Generally speaking, after a fight, both sides have the obligation to send the injured party to a doctor for treatment, but will our clown ViVi really do that? Is she a virtuous fox woman?

"President Ehard, why do you want to hurt yourself? Your body and hair are given by your parents. If your parents knew that you treated your body like this, they would be so sad! Okay, okay, stop looking at me with longing eyes. This time I will take you to see a doctor. If you hurt yourself again next time, I will not care about you!"

After saying a lot of infuriating words, the clown ViVi helped me to the resident priest nearby. The priest was a senior old nun. She quickly used holy light and purification magic to remove most of the negative conditions on my body. The only thing was that I felt a little dizzy due to excessive blood loss. In addition, I have to say that there was one thing that ViVi really said -

After the treatment, the old nun lectured me unhappily: "Since you are on your period, you should try to avoid strenuous exercise. Even if a little bleeding won't kill you, with your reckless style of fighting, you might damage the Holy Grail in your belly. If you are left with a hidden disease and can't have children, don't blame us on the on-site first aid workers for our poor skills!"

"Yes Yes!"

Seeing me being scolded, the foxy clown beside me quickly bowed and apologized for me: "Old nun, you are right. We will definitely take good care of our woman in the future. As long as she comes during those few days, we will not let her go anywhere! Let her stay at home and rest, eat more food that is good for her body, and keep her fat and white so that she can give birth to a healthy daughter in the future!"

"Who is your woman? You are such a pervert with a big mouth!"

I threw a punch -

She turned her head and dodged easily -

The old nun chuckled softly -

"You two have such a good relationship."

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12. Forgotten (Ehrhard)

(Mener-Ehard)

After receiving treatment with ViVi, I stayed in the arena and played two games in Group A.

Naturally, both games ended in failure.

But apart from being taught a lesson by the old nun who was a paramedic because of my injury, I was quite satisfied with the result of the defeat. At least in the battle with the platinum-level strongman, I saw many new combat skills, such as the continuous shield strikes of the shield warrior and the arrow dance of the shortbow ranger. In general, although today's journey was tiring, I also gained a lot.

At midnight, I had a casual dinner at the Windmill Arena.

And when I returned to the stone house, it was about nine o'clock.

The pub area is the busiest at this time.

Amid the shouts of the drinkers, I could always hear the wonderful sound of coins touching each other, but since I was really tired today, I didn't chat with the familiar adventurers and invite them to drink like I usually do. Instead, I just walked straight through the busy corridor, went out to the second floor, and returned to my own dormitory.

Crack!

I opened the door.

Something fell gently on my head.

It was a teddy bear doll tied with a gift ribbon.

I love bear dolls, and not many people know this.

Besides Anne, there were only Branny and Ebisu.

"Happy birthday, sis."

Seeing me return, the ice-cold girl who was sitting on my bed reading a book turned her eyes away and closed the book she was lovingly reading.

She is my favorite sister, the one I cherish the most. She has snow-white hair and looks like a witch living in the snowy mountains. She is always so quiet, precocious and steady. Basically, she doesn't need others to worry about her. Or maybe she prefers to observe rather than participate. Sometimes she will secretly make herself invisible until the plot requires her role, or someone with ulterior motives finds her alone.

But, to be honest, I was a little surprised.

I was surprised that I was so busy that I even forgot my birthday.

"So, after tonight, I will be seventeen years old?"

"Hmm - unlike sixteen and eighteen, there doesn't seem to be anything special about seventeen?"

"I just got a year older..."

I was slightly sad for a hundredth of a second because of my age, and then I was immediately healed and overjoyed by the sixteen little bears displayed on the glass cabinet. In the past, I would receive a stuffed bear from my family on my birthday every year, and even in the first two years of the recession, Blanny and the others did not save the gold coins to buy these stuffed bears.

You know, such a cute little bear is very precious!

There is no way to bring them from the boutique without a gold coin or two.

"Thank you, our most lovely and thoughtful Brannie! You are the only one who remembers my birthday."

I deliberately praised my little sister in an exaggerated tone, and then hugged her cheerfully -