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Chapter 279: Gift of the Sword
🕑 Added 2025-07-04 03:35:49 +0000 UTCIn an open space on a certain commercial street, a figure with flowing golden hair moved swiftly between the trunks of three man-eating flower monsters, occasionally creating sword qi that struck their green scales.
However, because she had no sword in hand, the power of her sword qi was too weak to penetrate their defense, only emitting metallic clanging sounds.
Even a concentrated sword qi could only cause minor injuries and couldn’t achieve a complete kill, and it consumed quite a bit of stamina. It had to be said—a swordsman without a sword and one with a sword were on completely different levels. Of course, Ais didn’t intend to defeat these monsters bare-handed; she was merely stalling them.
“…Fairy Archer, True Shot…”
Behind her, an orange-haired elf girl was diligently chanting a spell, preparing to activate her magic. For these monsters with extremely high physical resistance and formidable durability, Level 3 Lefiya’s magic was actually more effective than Ais’s, who was close to Level 6.
CRACK—!
However, just as Lefiya’s magic was halfway activated, the ground began to crack open, and thorny vines suddenly shot out, rapidly piercing toward Lefiya.
“It’s reacting to magic…!”
Staring blankly at the vines piercing toward her, Lefiya was completely unable to react, only able to greet the impending attack with horror. If she were hit, broken ribs would likely be the least of it; it could easily be a severe, fatal piercing wound. And although Ais noticed this from afar, she was entangled with three monsters, and due to the distance, there was no possibility of her reaching Lefiya in time!
THWACK—!
At the very last moment, a figure appeared like a ghost, without anyone reacting, blocking between Lefiya and the thorny vines, and casually grasping one.
“…!”
After snapping out of her daze, Lefiya stared in astonishment at the silver-haired young man in front of her. She never expected Blake to appear like a prince from a fairy tale at this critical moment to save her.
“What a disgusting monster.”
Blake was unaware of Lefiya’s frantic thoughts. He merely frowned, gripping the struggling monster that couldn’t break free, and said with disgust.
CRUNCH—!
The next moment, under Lefiya’s shocked gaze, Blake slightly raised his palm, and the entire ground cracked open. The monster hidden underground was directly pulled out by its roots and thrown into the air, then mysteriously exploded into ashes.
“Ais, going out without a sword is a bad habit. Here, catch.”
Blake then looked towards Ais. His spatial ring shimmered slightly, and the cool Holy Sword of Dragon Slayer appeared in his hand, then flicked toward Ais.
“Sorry. Thank you.”
Hearing this, Ais, who was in combat, paused for a moment, then her pretty face flushed slightly as she mumbled these words. She then turned her body and valiantly caught the sword. After that, in less than a few seconds, after a flash of cold light, the monsters that had been quite troublesome earlier were instantly cut into several pieces by Ais, decisively slain.
“Well done. Your strength is much greater than before.”
Seeing this, Blake nodded in satisfaction. In the original story, Ais even had a tough time fighting alongside Tiona and Tione, and even suffered a minor loss when her sword broke. Now, with a sword, she could instantly kill them.
“Ais, with your habits, you shouldn’t forget to bring your sword, right?”
After Ais walked over, Blake slightly raised an eyebrow and asked.
“Well, the borrowed sword developed quite a few nicks from sparring, so I took it for repairs, and the old man even lectured me for it…”
Hearing this, Ais pouted slightly, sounding a bit wronged. Her expression became clearer than ever before.
“…!”
Hearing this, Blake’s mouth twitched slightly. Fine, so it was his fault after all…
“This sword is very good; it gives me a very special feeling.”
Ais then brandished the Holy Sword of Dragon Slayer.
“Yes, this is the Holy Sword of Dragon Slayer, Ascalon. In terms of sword quality, there’s probably no other sword in this world that can compare to it. It also comes with a dragon-slaying attribute bonus.”
Blake gently stroked the blade with a nostalgic expression, sighing. This was given to him by Archangel Michael to deal with the White Dragon Emperor. However, with his current power, he no longer had any use for this sword.
“Ais, I’ll give you this sword. It seems to like you very much.”
The next moment, Blake suddenly said.
“…Is that really okay?”
Hearing this, Ais was stunned, a clear joy in her golden eyes. She gripped the sword tightly and spoke very quickly.
“Yes, the sword spirit itself agreed.”
Seeing Ais’s expression, Blake smiled casually, gently stroking Ais’s golden hair, and said softly.
“Sword spirit…”
Hearing this, although she didn’t understand Blake’s meaning, Ais’s intuition told her that the sword had acknowledged her.
“Although I wanted to give you a stronger Sacred Gear, I don’t have anything suitable for you right now. We’ll talk about it later.”
Blake then shook his head. Due to his increased strength, the effectiveness of Caliburn no longer significantly boosted his attack power as it once did. At best, it provided a small bonus; that’s the so-called “upper limit.” However, even though it wasn’t very useful to him anymore, he couldn’t give it to Ais for now. After all, he needed both Caliburn and its scabbard to travel to the Nasuverse (Type-Moon world). Given Blake’s understanding of the system’s nature, this definitely pertained to a hidden quest, so both items were indispensable.
“Um, thank you for saving me.”
While the two were chatting intimately, showing their teacher-disciple bond, Lefiya finally couldn’t stand it anymore and slowly spoke up. Although her perception of Blake had changed dramatically due to several incidents, seeing him act so affectionately with Miss Ais in front of her still made her inevitably envious.
“You don’t need to thank me; it was just on my way.”
Glancing at Lefiya, Blake said casually. He had no particular thoughts about this elf girl who was obsessed with Yuri with Ais. Good looks were useless. After all, this girl had interrupted his chances to show affection with Ais three times already.
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