Ersha stares at the black knight who is Reysha in disguise full of vigor. Reysha in return started sweating coldly because she thinks that Ersha is an inch closer to finding out her identity.
“Now that it has come to this, I have no choice but to end this fight as quickly as possible!” Reysha thought as she points her sword towards Ersha.
“So, that’s how is it going to be? Black Knight, now I know that you do not uphold any honor nor dignity. You shall perish here!” Ersha angrily growled as she points her sword too to the black knight.
Ersha charges again at Reysha and crosses sword with her. Her attacks are far much fiercer than ever as she enchanted her weapon with magic together with her whole body raising her overall combat capabilities to the limits that no normal human can ever imagine to do.
Reysha felt the surging power coming from Ersha as she gradually goes all out. Every single hit creates small gust and ever single impact makes her hand numb from so much force. Her concentration on her flight magic is slowly getting dull.
“Now is the time!” Reysha said inwardly as she saw Ersha slowly getting absorbed in her own assault.
For the very instant that Ersha pulls her sword away, Reysha explosively enhances her body that puts Ersha’s enhancement to shame. She pulls her sword backward and clenched her fist. In a single flash that could only be described as a blink, Ersha was blown away with dented armor…
BAM!
Ersha was sent flying towards the pool of her own men watching their fight. She was able to barely keep her consciousness from the attack. Reysha immediately retracts her enhancement and goes stares at Ersha.
“You were holding an ace in your sleeve…black knight! I knew you are a strong person!” Ersha shouted as she touches the armor in her breast dented. However, there is one thing that made her mind go blank…
Ersha’s sight immediately shoots towards the Black Knight, Reysha, and stares daggers at her. It is for the reason that that handkerchief that Ersha showed earlier was now in Reysha’s possession.
“Bastard…! You…!” Ersha curses towards the black knight as she stares at her treasure.
“I better destroy such thing…I don’t think I can sleep well tonight thinking that someone is sniffing my sweat.” Reysha thought as she waves the handkerchief and set it ablaze. “I wonder what Ersha would do now…”
Despair, anguish, sorrow, lamentation, and dread altogether shows on Ersha’s face as she watches her treasure burns away. She grits her teeth in anger and hatred as she looks at the black knight with so much hostility.
“BLACK KNIGHT!!!” Ersha shouted.
“Ah…this is unexpected…but it’s a good way to be exempted from any suspicion…” Reysha sheepishly thought as a little load problem was lifted from her shoulder. However, she feels a little sorry for Ersha but she will not support her perversion.
“Shoot the black knight! Shoot that bastard to the ground! Don’t let him escape or even live!” Ersha commanded her whole army. Since it is considered a bastion of a whole kingdom, Reysha pales as she already foresaw how the army will respond.
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Magic circles appeared everywhere. The knight and soldiers draw their bow and arrow and aim at her. They have prepared long ago so the preparations were brief or to say, in the very instant Ersha’s very fist word of command.
Tens of thousands of arrows are going to fly towards Reysha. All of those arrows are imbued with magic that could even pierce her fortified barrier. The arrows will fly so fast like a bullet and it will leave a little burn as it finds its way to a flesh.
This is the Kerias Kingdom’s Army winning signature, a barrage of the magical arrow that could instantly destroy a whole city. Reysha knows well that she will perish in the rain of magical arrows without abandon.
It is even too late now even if she reveals her true identity just to survive.
“Shoot! Ersha shouted and her army shot the arrow that passed through the magic circles. The arrows glow in golden color and flew so past.
“No way! I am going to become a sponge at this rate!” Reysha regretfully thought as she began flying away from the arrows range. However, she could not hope to outrun such speed.
“Kuh…I am going to really die now! I have no choice…I really have to use that…my…cheat skill.” Reysha said inwardly as she started inhaling and stopped her breathing.
Since being born in this world, Reysha’s very first discovery about herself is that…she have a cheat skill, a skill that defies the rule of this world and breaks the common and norms of this world’s rule. It is a skill that gods didn’t granted her, it was another entity, a white dragon with seraphic crests in its back.
No one else but Reysha herself is aware of such power. However, her mastery of the cheat skill is a little insufficient.
“Now! World Lapse!” Reysha shouted in her mind as she invokes the cheat skill.
At the nick of time, before even the very tip of an arrow pierces her neck, time slowly stops. Gradually, time becomes slower until nothing can move anymore. With that, Reysha’s body began glowing as an insignia appeared behind her.
A new void, a dimension was created that stops everything. However Reysha herself is not immune from her power, she can only move in a slow motion but her power doesn’t stop there.
As Reysha struggles to fly away from the rain of arrows, a new phenomenon happens.
The twisting of time and lapsing causes the even to reel back which means, the arrows that almost hit Reysha earlier started moving backward…
“One second…” Reysha said inside her mind as one second has already lapsed. The arrow moves a little further away from her. It is evident that even one second, the arrow traveled at a surprising speed.
“Two seconds…three seconds…” Reysha’s head started aching upon the activation of the cheat skill. At the first second, it didn’t hurt that much, however, at three-second mark, she felt like her head is splitting into two.
“Four seconds…F-Five seconds…ack…!” Reysha was able to hold off for five seconds until the skill deactivated again. Her eyes started tearing up from a pounding headache. Her breathing becomes rough as she was holding it off.
The arrows earlier returned back to the magic circle before it passes. It was now enough for Reysha to escape unscathed…at least, from the enemy’s attacks.
The arrows flew again towards Reysha but no one had any idea what happened. They just shot the arrow as they are commanded. Even Ersha didn’t know that miraculous phenomenon happened.
Reysha flew faster again and she left the arrow in the dust.
“What happened?! The black knight didn’t get hit even by one arrow?!” Ersha shouted quizzically as she looks at the back of the fleeing black knight.
After a few more seconds, the black knight was no longer in sight as it flew towards the forest. Ersha raises her palm to command her army to halt. Even in her rage, she was able to make a calm and respected decision.
“We are not going to pursue him any longer. We have lost too much time. We will move on again after taking a break.” Ersha announces as her men collapse from the tension.
She showed a calm and expressionless countenance to her people but inside, something else was boiling deep down.
“Black Knight, I swear I am going to slay you whatever it takes! The Black Knight of West.” Ersha promised that to her mind and harbors hatred to the black knight.
Meanwhile…
“I am sooooo…not going to wear this armor anymore!” Reysha shouted inside of her mind as she soars through the sky full of regrets.