Warriors’ Adventures After the Doomed End by the Most Powerful Villainous Aristocrat 〜I Failed to Avoid the Doomed End, but I Was Saved by the Main Heroine, a Saint Who Turned Into a Yandere Just Before the Execution. Now I’m Going to Get Serious and Become a Warrior~
“Holy Barrier!”
When I opened my eyes, the pale blue rays were blocked by a translucent barrier that appeared to envelop me.
“V-vane san… Are you okay…?”
Then, along with that delicate voice, a girl rushed over.
It was Chloe.
Why are you here…?!
“Chloe?! It’s dangerous, run away!”
I hurriedly stopped Chloe.
This is too much.
“Chloe! Please run away! This thing is a monster! Even I might not be able to protect you!”
“No, I will not run away…”
“Why…?”
I asked her in a slightly angry voice.
“I can’t just stand by and watch the person I love die!”
Chloe opened her eyes wide and said that.
“It’s okay, I won’t be defeated… Let me help you.”
“Hey, Chloe?!”
Chloe turned toward the male dragonkin and began to chant something.
It seemed she was serious about fighting.
Support was welcome, but… Chloe was still a rear guard.
I had to do something to keep him from targeting Chloe…!
“Hmm… One more person.”
The man muttered with interest.
Damn… He looks so confident…!
At this point, I couldn’t worry about the details.
Should I use that…?
“Support magic—〈Extreme Enhancement〉”
The next moment, a power unlike anything before surged through my entire body.
〈Extreme Enhancement〉 is a super-class support magic. It’s a cheat magic that increases all abilities by 100%.
In other words, combined with the effect of 〈Solitude〉, my abilities were all multiplied by six.
…However, there are naturally drawbacks to this.
The effect lasts only five minutes, and once it ends, the user faints.
That’s why—I’ll take this guy down quickly!
I kicked the ground hard enough to create a crater, closing the distance to the dragon-kin in an instant.
“Just… fall already!”
And before the momentum could be broken, I swung at the horn with a flash.
“Hmph…”
However, my sword was blocked just as it was about to touch the horn.
Not yet!!!
I spun my body around…
“It’s over!”
Using the technique of a spinning slash, I swung my sword horizontally, slicing through the dragon-human’s sword along with it.
Alright, this is my victory—
“—That’s why I said you’re too naive!”
The dragon-human had already grabbed my sword with his other hand.
Huh…?
He blocked my enhanced strike with his bare hands…?
At that moment, I finally noticed something off.
This guy… the aura he’s emanating is completely different from before…!
It’s like… a seasoned warrior.
I felt an aura that surpassed even that of a sword saint.
Could it be… the effect of the technique he used earlier, “Liberation”?
But wait! There’s still the follow-up attack from “Wrapped Wind”!
The blast wave struck the dragon-kin who had blocked my sword.
“…Huh?”
However, the dragon-kin stood there without flinching.
“There’s no way a mere breeze could blow me away.”
“Huh?!”
That was… a breeze?
What’s going on… ?
It worked earlier…
Is this his true power…?!
“Who… who are you…?”
I stepped back from him and asked.
“Me… ? …Well, I’ll tell you as a parting gift.”
He cleared his throat and said,
“I am Ornikus, the Dragon Emperor… once hailed as the strongest of the dragon-kin.”
“Huh…?”
Dragon Emperor Ornikus… I know that name.
The strongest figure in history, the king of the dragon race… That’s how he was described in the original story.
And his power is probably on par with that of the final boss, the Evil God.
But what surprised me even more was…
“You’re… supposed to be dead, right…?”
In the story, Ornikus is already explained to have died 100 years ago.
“Hmm… you knew that too… Yes, I died 100 years ago.”
“What?!… Then, why are you here…”
“I have no obligation to tell you that…”
Ornikus said that, then drew another sword from his back.
Could it be… two swords?!
Orniks didn’t even give me time to be surprised, closing the distance between us in an instant.
It seemed he was trying to settle this in an instant.
“Huh?!”
Orniks’ sword swung down toward my neck.
I managed to block it with my sword—
“Guh…”
An incredible shock traveled through my arm along the sword.
Damn… what kind of strength is this?
My arm throbbed slightly.
Then, another sword attacked from the left.
“Damn…!”
Just as the sword was about to slice through my shoulder, I twisted my body and dodged it.
Even with the “Ultimate Enhancement,” I could barely dodge it…
“Damn…”
From then on, I was on the defensive.
Orniks skillfully wielded both swords and launched a relentless attack on me.
As a result, I had no opportunity to attack.
Block, dodge, parry, dodge…
Repeating that cycle.
In terms of sword technique and skill, I was clearly superior.
However… even with “Extreme Enhancement,” the difference in physical strength between me and Ornikus, hailed as the strongest in history, was insurmountable.
“Damn…”
It had been nearly three minutes since I had used “Extreme Enhancement.”
Damn it… I need to attack soon…!
Just as I was thinking that, a pitiful “snap” shook my eardrums.
“What…?”
When I looked in the direction of the sound, there was my sword, snapped clean in half.
No… Could it be that it couldn’t withstand Orniks’ brute strength…?!
“The battle is over, I suppose.”
Then, a sharp strike came down from above.
With a broken sword, I didn’t think I could block it.
Damn it… Am I going to die here…?!
“――Raika!!!”
In an instant, a bolt of lightning struck Orniks from the side.
No way…!?
“Vane! I’ve come to help you!”
There stood Felt, wielding a large staff.
That guy… I thought he had run away, but he had gone to get his staff.
“Hmph… More obstacles.”
Orniks, hit directly by Felt’s attack, flinched for a moment.
During that time, I distanced myself from Orniks and looked around for something that could be used as a sword—
“Holy Sword Summon! Vane, take this!”
After finishing her long incantation, Chloe threw a sword at me.
“Holy Sword Summon?!”
I recognized that spell.
Because… wasn’t that the spell Chloe learned when Felt was in trouble toward the end of the original story…?
“Well, never mind! Chloe, you saved me!”
I drew the Holy Sword from its sheath.
In an instant, an unprecedented power surged through my entire body.
The Holy Sword has the ability to buff the user’s entire stats.
Could it be… that the buff from the Holy Sword is now five times stronger due?!
“With this… I can win!”
I closed the distance to Ornikus at bullet-like speed.
And first, a diagonal slash!
“Fast…!?”
Ornikus’ face contorts in agony.
Yes, thanks to the Holy Sword’s effect, my attack speed was now incomparable to before.
Now, Ornikus was forced to defend himself.
Diagonal slash, straight slash, reverse diagonal slash… I slash at Ornikus from various directions, and then—
“What…!?”
For a moment, Orniks couldn’t withstand my attack and lost his balance.
“—Holy Chain!”
Taking advantage of that opening, a golden chain appeared from the ground.
The chain wrapped around Orniks’ entire body.
—It was Chloe.
She must have timed it perfectly to provide support.
I closed the distance in one swift move, aiming for Ornikus’s neck, which was immobilized by the Holy Chain—
“We’ve won!”
A flash.
Ornikus couldn’t dodge and had his neck cut, his head rolling onto the ground.
“Did we defeat him…?”
Ornikus hailed as the strongest in history… Ornikus said to be as powerful as a demon god… did we defeat him?
“We did it!”
Then, Felt, holding his staff, ran over to me and jumped into my arms.
“We did it!”
“Guh…”
However, Felt, who had tried to jump on me, was knocked away by Chloe in midair and flew off into the distance.
Are you okay? That sounded pretty dull…
Then, Chloe ran over and hugged me from behind.
I caught Chloe and hugged her back.
“Chloe… Holy Sword, you really saved me…”
“No, no! …It was worth it to have mastered the ‘Holy Sword Summoning’ technique back then…”
Back then… mastered?
Wait, what? This skill isn’t something you can just master that easily, is it…?
“Hahahaha!!!”
Suddenly, a loud laugh echoed from somewhere.
Could it be…
“Impressive teamwork! Well done! But… don’t think you’ve won yet?”
Then, the head of Orniks—which was now just a head—began to speak.
Maiasa