Legion

Suddenly entering into his elf form, Grim activated [Breath of Thunder] and with a single step forward he appeared in front of a motionless Princia.

"Oh?"

*Crackle*

"RAIKIRI!!"

*SWOOSH!!*

Compressing all that lightning into his sheath and then releasing it in a single slash, he felt his sword meet some resistance as it tore through his target in a single stroke... Or so he thought.

[Legion Magic: Blink Castling]

[Blink Castling: When activated Princia can instantly switch places with one of her magic soldiers enabling her to dodge attacks and to place herself in a more advantageous position.]

And moments before Grim's sword had cut through her, Princia had activated [Blink Castling] and swapped places with one of her many soldiers.

*Grins*

"So that's how it is."

Seeing one her soldiers in place of the female wizard king, Grim immediately located her with his [Hyper Focus].

---

-Magic Tool Research Lab Branch 0-

After beating Asta, Noelle and Finral upon their entrance to the deepest part of the research facility. Conrad began using Marx's [Memory Magic] to list off their identities and magical attributes.

"Memory magic, it makes it quite easy to see what other people have experienced. Now invading another person's privacy is a bit distasteful, but it did allow me to locate this place so I guess I can ignore that bit for now."

"As for how to use this magic properly, let me show you-

Almost catching the words in his mouth, Conrad opened up various screens displaying what was currently happening in the capital in real time. But what he didn't account for was seeing a certain someone.

"Grim of the Black Bulls." He muttered seeing a familiar face from Marx's memory magic.

Although the hair colour was different and his eyes were glowing, there was no way he'd confuse that face.

'A troublesome boy indeed, but nothing that Princia can't handle.'

---

-Capital-

[Blink Castling]

*BANG!!*

[Blink Castling]

*BANG!!*

[Blink Castling]

*BANG!!*

As the two engaged in a game of cat and mouse, their battle had taken them all over the capital as many of Princia's Legion soldiers were placed all over the kingdom.

But what she couldn't figure out was how he was able to find her so quickly. Now matter how far she went he was there moments later. If it weren't so intriguing it'd be creepy.

"While your response may be fast, you'll never be able to catch me with that level of speed."

"Is that so?" He grinned and started raising his mana output.

"THEN TRY THIS OUT FOR SIZE!"

!!!

*BOOM!!*

Feeling a sudden change in the world's mana, the sky seemed to grow much darker as a bunch of storm clouds began gathering above the two.

What in the world-

[Breath of the Storm]

Suddenly feeling a sense of crisis, Princia was forced to jump back as a thick bolt of lightning descended from the sky and slammed into Grim's figure.

[Breath of the Storm: Fourth Form - Storm Chaser]

*FWOOSH!!*

Bursting out of the dust cloud that had formed after being hit with lightning, Grim now bearing his Stormguard flashed above Princia and slashed down.

[Breath of the Storm: First Form - Heavens Fall]

[Stormguard: An automatic form activated upon using Breath of the Storm. By grafting black storm clouds and vein-like lightning onto himself, Grim is able to protect and utilize this power to its fullest without it wrecking his body.]

By combining the speed of [Breath of Thunder] and the [Breath of Wind] ability to negate air resistance and its enhanced agility, Grim gained a level of speed far beyond that of a regular [Thunderclap and Flash].

[Blink Castling]

*BANG!!*

"Like I said before, with that level of speed you'll never-

*Clink*

Before she was able to finish that sentence, she realized that her wizard king medal had been scratched.

'When did he...'

"Looks like my speed is begining to catch up after all."

"A mere fluke." She replied.

"We'll see."

[Storm Chaser]

[Blink Castling]

[Storm Chaser]

[Blink Castling]

As the two continued their game, more and more cuts began appearing on Princia's clothes as she was forced to finally unsheath her own sword.

Clashing their blades against the other in a flurry of high intensity collisions, the pure amount of force produced from their swings were strong enough to create shockwaves and enough to blow away the crumbling houses around them.

"MORE!"

*CLANG!!*

"MORE!!"

*CLANG!!

"MOOOREEEE!!"

*CLANG!!!*

With each strike he made, the power behind Grim's swings seemed to increase as he slowly got faster and faster.

"TCHHHH!!" Princia gritted her teeth feeling a slight numbness begin to spread through her arms.

'What monsterous physical strength!'

"MORE!!"

'But this.'

"MORE!!"

'Is.'

"MORE!!"

'EXCITING!'

*BANG!!!*

Casting [Blink Castling] while using her swordsmanship to fend him off, a sense of anticipation began welling up in her heart as she slowly eased up on using the spell. In the short amount of time she had been using it, not only had he adapted to her casting speed, but with his weird ability to grasp her location, using it any longer was just a waste of time.

Even if she did have near infinite levels of mana due to Elsdocia, there was no need to pointlessly waste it.

Condensing a large amount of storm magic around the blade, dark winds began swirling around Grim's figure as he held the sword high above his head and slashed down with a [Heavens Fall] that surpassed all the previous.

"TAKE THISSSSSSS!!" He yelled putting everything he had into this attack.

*SWOOSH!!*

Watching as the sword descended upon her, a strange light flashed through her eyes as she realized-

'Its too fast for me to dodge.'

'Ha...Ha...Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.'

Unable to hold it back any longer, the feeling of this incoming slash was enough to uncap the real Princia. With her grimoire spread wide open, the book started flipping through pages at an impressive speed as his sword finally reached her.

*SLASH!!*

*BANG!!*

But instead of the usual feeling that came from slashing someone, a loud metallic noise rang out as Grim looked at Princia with wide eyes.

"Impossible..."

Standing before him and dressed in a full suit of armor, Princia's hand clamped around the Storm Blade.

'S-She stopped it!'

Even Zagred was unable to bear the full brunt of this attack and yet...

"You said you're name was Grim right?"

*Holds sword up high*

" I admit that you're not bad *Grins* But you're still to green to fight me."

*SLASH!!*