Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

"Okay, whatever you want."

“Praise the Lord!”

Sister Alice immediately relayed their request to Valena. If Anna won, Valena would have to explain why she blocked the road and dueled like a bandit.

Valena hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

"No problem. I won't lose."

"Please enlighten me."

Anna also became serious. First, she had to let Valenna know that she couldn't humiliate her master casually. Second, she was now fighting on behalf of her master and she absolutely could not lose.

then--

Valenna was killed instantly by Anna.

"what……"

Angelica looked a little surprised.

It's not that anything was skipped. The battle was really unremarkable. In just one encounter and one round, Anna's chains were as nimble as her fingers. She easily avoided Valenna's rapier and hit Valenna's forehead directly.

Anna wanted to teach Valena a lesson...but she didn't expect to knock Valena unconscious. If you must say it, Anna's chain hitting her head directly would naturally cause her to faint. What Anna didn't expect was that Valena was so weak that she had no means of defense and was even unable to react. It's hard to say whether Valena has reached the level of a magician.

The duel suddenly turned into a rescue competition, and Sister Alice and Anna hurriedly treated the unconscious Valenna.

288 Sharp Sword

Sometimes people think that healing magic can cause harm to the undead and vampires. On the one hand, this comes from the propaganda of the church to shape its own image. On the other hand, holy light magic can indeed hunt down the undead, but the damage to the vampires is often exaggerated.

It is true that healing magic can cause harm to vampires, but it is impossible to cause instant death as the stories say. It is probably to the extent of being scalded by boiling water. It seems that this kind of injury will leave a permanent mark on the body. However, vampires have powerful self-healing abilities and no scars will be left on their bodies.

But just like Angelica, although she will not die, she will try her best to avoid resetting herself. After all, Angelica can still feel the pain of death, and the same is true for Sister Alice.

As Sister Alice released her healing magic, it was also constantly hurting her body as a vampire, but at the same time, she was constantly healing herself. Burn marks appeared on her fingers, but she immediately healed herself with her vampire physique. Sister Alice always had a smile on her face, and she didn't look like she was pretending to be strong.

Speaking of which, Angelica had done some research on the curse cast on Hades when she broke it. The curse that Ecclesia experienced was strictly a reverse effect. After all, there was no way to guarantee that the descendant of the "Healing" Hero would be a girl, and it was possible that the mother would be a boy.

According to Angelica's analysis, if the descendant of the "Healing" Hero is male, then the curse of Hades will reverse it and turn it into a female with a lower body. From this, it can be seen that the curse of Hades is a pre-set program. And this means that there is a possibility... Sister Alice has symptoms similar to painlessness.

She should have experienced the pain of death of the person with whom she had established a karmic relationship, but Sister Alice did not mind it at all. From then on, Angelica had her doubts. She had a full say in experiencing death, and she was sure that it was impossible for anyone to get used to the taste of death, unless they had mental abnormalities or were indifferent to pain.

Sister Alice's healing magic took effect, and soon Valenna stood up unsteadily.

"What am I...?"

"You just challenged my maid to a duel, and unfortunately lost."

"……what."

Valena opened her mouth and looked lucky that she had not been beaten to amnesia.

"It doesn't count!"

"Eh?"

"Her...her weapon is too weird, so it doesn't count!"

Valenna's eyes were wandering. Although the elves were sometimes arrogant without reason, Valenna should know that she was unreasonable and was just being stubborn.

If you must say, chains are indeed not normal weapons. Anna's chains are, in a sense, part of her body, so they can exert functions far beyond common sense.

"So you want to have another competition?"

"...No, it's not. What I meant is that I didn't explain it clearly at the beginning. The duel is a best-of-three game. It's not that I regret it. There are new rules for the second game. You must use the same weapon: the sword."

Anna and Angelica looked at each other, then shook their heads helplessly after getting their master's permission.

"I'm sorry, Anna doesn't have any other weapons. Is Lady Valenna willing to accept this?"

Anna manipulated the chains into the shape of a sword, then blew gently, and a layer of ice covered the chains, fixing them into a frozen blade.

"Yeah, no problem!"

Anna's claim that she had no other weapons gave Valena great confidence. She felt that Anna must not be good at using other weapons. As long as she could pull Anna into her territory, winning the duel would be absolutely easy.

The second round of duel began. The ice sword in Anna's hand looked extremely heavy, but Anna's seemingly delicate wrist did not feel any discomfort at all.

"Is it really possible?"

Sister Alice, who had retreated to Angelica, was filled with worry and made the sign of the cross, hoping that the two would not be injured.

"It's okay, Anna knows her limits..."

"Whoa?!"

"You see."

Anna knocked the rapier out of Valenna's hand and she staggered and fell to the ground. Anna pointed the ice sword at Valenna's throat, declaring her victory.

Neither of them was injured, or it could be said that the situation was too one-sided.

"You...are you a maid who gave up her knighthood...?"

"Lady Valenna, you are worrying too much. Anna is just an ordinary maid. She only has the sword skills to cope with the master when she needs to practice."

Anna answered truthfully that she was designed to be omnipotent, so she could handle many things that seemed irrelevant to her. Anna's magic power consumption was extremely huge, which was also due to the fact that she had too much content on board.

But even with sword fighting at the sparring level, Anna was enough to defeat Valenna.

Valena gritted her teeth. Logically, she should have admitted defeat, but unexpectedly, she stood up again with a subtle and somewhat sad expression.

It seems that there is indeed a reason behind her obsession with duels... Although Angelica is not interested, Valena seems to be the kind of woman who will never stop, so she has to deal with it properly.

"It's a best-of-three game. Anna has already won two games... but the third game is still necessary. After all, if you win, it counts as winning one of the games, which is different from losing both games directly."

"Uh... yes, that's it..."

Valenna regrouped, she did have a reason to win the duel.

Since Angelica said so, it was impossible for the smart maid not to see the hidden meaning of her master.

"Then how about our third game being a contest of magic?"

"it is good."

Valenna nodded, but she was unsure because she was not a good magician.

Why not just play the trump card right from the start...!

Thinking this, Valenna cast her magic first in the third round.

"Gold (Citrinitas) Sequence 6: Mana Recharge!"

The magic power took shape in Valenna's hands and flew towards Anna. The magic power charging of the Gold (Citrinitas) Sequence 6 is the most common attack method of magicians. To put it simply, it is a magic bullet, which is an offensive launched by refining magic into tangible energy. Although it does not have a gorgeous effect, it is a convenient and easy-to-use magic. Many magic schools on the human continent regard the ability to learn magic power charging magic as the benchmark for going from a magic apprentice to a magician.

"Gold (Citrinitas) Sequence 6: Mana Recharge."

Anna used the same magic as Valena, but she cast it later and chanted it faster, completing the chant before Valena's magic bullet hit her.

289 Elf's Lover

Valenna closed her eyes subconsciously. She had some common sense about magic and understood what it meant to chant faster. The purpose of chanting magic was to complete the magic and to ensure stability. Arbitrarily shortening the chanting time would lead to the possibility of magic failure and magic power running wild, which would hurt the magician himself.

In other words, if you encounter a magician whose magic chanting time is shorter, it basically means that the other party's magic talent is superior to yours.

I'm going to lose. This was the thought that naturally came to Varenna's mind.

"what……"

But what I heard was Anna's cry... It was not a scream, probably the sound of someone accidentally falling. In short, it could be assumed that Anna was in trouble.

When Valena opened her eyes again, she saw Anna sitting on the ground in a duck position with a frustrated look on her face.

"It seems that Lady Valenna is superior."

"Eh? Could it be that..."

"you win."

Angelica declared Valena's victory. Since Valena was so scared that she closed her eyes, the problem was much easier to solve. Anna adjusted the magic of mana recharging to a level that basically matched Valena's, and then fell down.

It's just that...Valenna's magic seems a little...

It took Valena a full half minute to realize that she had won, and she jumped up excitedly.

"We win! Ninety-nine more wins to go!"

"Uh... Lady Valenna, do you want to compete ninety-nine more times?"

"I will only win once from the same person. But..."

Valenna looked at Angelica and Sister Alice with burning eyes, and she seemed to be determined to win three victories.

But Valena's evil intention was immediately opposed by Anna.

"I refuse. You cannot duel the Master."

"Why, why..."

Valena seemed to be intimidated by Anna's aura. After all, Valena's strength could not harm Angelica, but even if Valena was harmless, Anna would not allow anyone to challenge her master.

"Okay, okay, stop arguing. The duel is over."

Sister Alice came to the middle to mediate the fight, and then turned to Valena with an extremely kind smile.

"Congratulations on achieving a valuable victory under the watchful eyes of God. However, the duel is a best-of-three format. Judging from the final result, we should be the ones to claim the spoils from you."

"I'm willing to admit defeat. What are you going to ask for?"

"I hope to understand your concern. I can feel that Lady Valena's soul is longing for redemption. Cleansing the sins in her soul is my mission as a servant of God."

"Miss Sister wants to ask why you are so persistent in dueling."

Angelica simplified Sister Alice's irrelevant answer. It takes some skills to communicate with people with deep-rooted religious beliefs.

Varenna suddenly realized that this was not something that she was embarrassed to talk about.

"I need to win a hundred duels to gild my reputation."

"Your soul is still calling you. No matter what kind of suffering you go through, you can be truly redeemed by confessing to God. God is always watching over the world He loves..."

"What she wants to say is that there must be other reasons behind it."

Rather than saying that Sister Alice failed to grasp the point, it would be better to say that this is exactly the logic of her thinking.

When asked why she was so obsessed with dueling, Valena was unusually shy.

"Because... it's a promise."

"Promise?"

"My lover and I agreed that when we both become successful, we will invite everyone around us to send our blessings to our wedding."

"Lady Valenna's way to fame is to complete a hundred duels?"

"That's right... I admire the dueling culture of human knights, but unfortunately my hometown regards it as dregs. Fortunately, my lover always supports me and tells me to try it if I like. Knights need duels to improve their reputation. Once I win a hundred duels, I will definitely become a qualified knight."

Valena's face lit up when she mentioned her lover. I guess her heart was full of love for her lover.

"Have you been staying here, waiting for the duelist to arrive?"

"Yes, that's what we agreed upon in the beginning. I'll be waiting here for any knights passing by and challenge them with my honor. But no knight has passed by for a long time, and I'm getting a little impatient, so I lowered the standard and anyone can be a human."

Elves do not have a knight culture, so Valenna will not challenge the elves to a knighthood. Strictly speaking, Angelica and the others can hardly be considered human. Alice is a vampire, Anna is a doll, and as for Angelica, although she has not given up her human identity, others will think that a witch who has obtained eternal life cannot be considered human.

Valenna's reason for dueling is simple and sufficient, even though it will cause a lot of trouble for others.

...If it hadn’t happened here, Angelica and the others would definitely think so.

There is a weird loophole.

"Why do you want to duel with human knights on the island of Albion?"

Sister Alice expressed their common doubts. This was really incomprehensible. The Elf Island was naturally unfriendly to foreign visitors. How could it allow human knights to easily set foot on the Elf Island? If the elves did not like to leave Albion Island, they chose to challenge human knights in their homeland, then a hundred targets was too exaggerated. Even reducing it to ten was too much.

No matter from which angle you think about it, challenging a hundred human knights on the Elf Island is a completely illogical agreement.

Besides, Valenna's victory over Anna seemed to be Valenna's first victory... How long had she been waiting here? Even if the elves had a long lifespan, a long and endless wait was still meaningless.