One-way traffic

"Why? Why did this happen?!"

"That...it seems that Knight Julius accepted the challenge that Lord Accelerator presented at the royal selection meeting just now, and then..."

"We must stop them immediately!"

"No—well, their battle has been forcibly ended."

"Ah? What did you say?"

Ferut raised her eyebrows in surprise; the other chosen ones, no, everyone was in the same situation.

The battle is over, so doesn't that mean there's nothing to worry about?

Given this situation, is it still necessary to come to Wang Xuan's location to report?

Although everyone else looked surprised, Emilia was the only one who didn't.

It was an expression of immediate relief.

"That would be wonderful..."

"No! Not good at all! Now, the most important thing is coming up—!"

Although he spoke with a slight lisp, the knight continued to say what he was about to say.

He shouted each word clearly, in a voice loud enough for everyone to hear.

"The one who stopped Knight Julius from continuing the fight was Knight Reinhard, and now—!!"

"Reinhard is currently engaged in a formal duel with Accelerator!"

"puff--!!!"

The councilors who were drinking water earlier suddenly started spitting it out.

"What, what did you just say?!"

"Reinhardt and that silver-haired guy are fighting?"

"This, this must be a joke, right? That Reinhard actually made a move... No! Won't this get even worse?!"

"That Reinhard is too powerful. If he makes a move, it might affect the entire Lugnica!"

The contemporary swordsman Reinhard is a name known to all.

Even the kingdom's strongest mage, Roswaal, might not be able to defeat him.

And now, such a being is about to make its move.

Fighting someone who came from who-knows-where and has the same hair color as a half-demon.

"Li, immediately end their fighting!"

"Understood!"

No one could remain silent any longer, and everyone rose up in revolt.

Reinhard engaged in battle with someone called Accelerator, and the consequences of that battle were completely unknown to them.

However, if that Accelerator really does possess power that even Roswaal cannot match.

The battle between these two might even destroy the kingdom in one fell swoop.

That would be a development on the scale of a natural disaster.

Emilia's eyes trembled, and she took several steps back in disbelief.

It's all because of her.

If it weren't for her identity, Accelerator wouldn't have been criticized by those officials, and if it weren't for her, there would never have been so much trouble.

It was all her own fault.

Therefore, no matter what... we must stop those two from fighting!

Thinking this, the silver-haired girl bit her lip and ran out of the hall at top speed.

"Lady Emilia! You can't go! It's too dangerous there!"

The knight tried to stop her, but the girl paid no attention to any of their words.

She rushed out of the room all by herself.

"We must hurry and get there; we absolutely cannot allow a battle of that scale to break out!"

The members of the Royal Guard also rushed over.

Only Roswaal remained in the same spot.

"A battle between the Sword Saint and that person?"

He chuckled softly and narrowed his eyes.

"Although the book doesn't record this information, it's still worth checking out."

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The venue has been changed.

The training ground was moved to a huge open-air stage, which was even larger than the previous training ground, and the midday sun shone on the area.

Two people stood on the left and right sides.

"Yifang! You, you really want to fight that Reinhard...?"

Hatsune Miku stood anxiously beside the person in first place.

She had previously heard Accelerator mention things related to Reinhard.

"Didn't you say that person might be very strong? Well, if that's the case, this battle won't be easy... right? There's a high chance of getting injured!"

"There's no need to worry about me."

He waved his hand and left Hatsune Miku's side.

"All of this is exactly what I wanted."

Hatsune Miku blinked, still unable to understand what Accelerator was trying to express.

He had already vanished from her sight.

On the field, the two faced off against each other.

"It's truly a moving scene."

"What do you want to say?"

"You are my friend, yet I am now forced to engage in this duel with you... It's truly a poignant situation."

"You were the one who insisted on fighting me, weren't you?"

Accelerator curled his lip.

He had more or less guessed why Julius was fighting him. It wasn't because of what he had said at the royal selection that he was dueling with Julius; there must be a deeper meaning behind it.

He never imagined that Reinhard would fight him.

Even without this duel, he still really wanted to fight his opponent.

He wanted to find out just how deep Reinhard's strength really was.

This will also be a very helpful reference for him.

Reinhard wore the Dragon Sword at his waist, still dressed in the uniform of the Royal Guard Knights.

"Please be careful, I will try my best to suppress my power."

"Hold them back? There's no need."

The villains facing him said with a cold laugh.

"Who do you think I am?"

"...That's true."

The knight, who bore the title of Sword Saint, chuckled and shook his head.

"So."

With nearly a hundred people watching.

Boom! A deafening explosion, signaling the start of the duel, rang out in mid-air.

Their battle had begun, completely.

then.

The two of them took a step forward together.

call--! ! !

The wind picked up.

Those were two forces of completely different scales.

Approaching Nahart was a magical wind with a slightly bluish hue.

Accelerator controls a storm with a speed exceeding that of a Category 12 typhoon.

The two tornadoes converged in an instant, intertwining like a dance.

They canceled each other out.

But in an instant, Reinhard sensed something was different.

It is indeed true that the storm he created with his own blessing canceled out Accelerator's storm.

However, the residual shockwaves after the initial neutralization were once again manipulated by the other side, forming a new tornado.

"I see."

The Dragon Sword Saint seemed to be deep in thought for a moment.

"Can you control the blessing of all powers?"

At that moment, he once again did something extraordinary.

Snap! His body landed on the ground in an instant, and the shockwave of a hundred-meter radius instantly expanded. With rocket-like speed, he shot into the sky in a flash.

With a raised arm, he used his own body to instantly slice through the tornado that was traveling at Mach 5.

But that's not the end.

In the instant the tornado was torn apart, everyone saw a figure enveloped in the wind and waves.

He is the first ability user with white hair and red eyes.

Thump—! The punch slammed towards Reinhard, its power so immense that it forcibly altered the flow of air.

However, the opponent was not knocked away.

Accelerator glanced at the situation in front of him in surprise. The punch had indeed landed on Reinhard, but some strange fluctuation distorted the attack.

Reinhardt also started to move.

His right foot was wrapped in a hurricane, and with a force no less than Accelerator's before, he instantly met the attack.

The attacks were intertwined.

Accelerator and Reinhardt's bodies were instantly covered in dust, and in a flash, they reappeared on the ground.

but.

"...It hurt me."

There was obvious blood on the first person's arm.

Although few in number, they do exist.

The reflection did not work.

This feeling wasn't a result of Accelerator failing to understand the other's power system, but rather that something had erased his reflexes.

Just like the right hand of that Level 0 powerless person.

However, similarly.

"Although I made contact with one side during the attack just now, it was not successful."