Chapter 67: Scuffle with Apostle

Rihito, floating in the sky, looked at the person floating opposite him with silver wings. It was a beautiful woman with long silver hair and blue eyes, and she had a monotonic expression. She wore a combat outfit consisting of a white sleeveless dress with metal plates covering both sides of her waist, a winged helmet on her head, gauntlets on her arms, and greaves over her legs. When Rihito saw her, the first thing that came to his mind was the word 'Valkyrie.' 

No matter from which angle he saw her, it was a Valkyrie-style get-up. Seeing himself getting distracted, he shook those thoughts away.

[An apostle, wasn't she supposed to be in Heiligh kingdom? Why is she here?] Rihito thought. 

[That strange magic signature is also coming from her.] Rihito using <Super Human Speed> pondered the things he previously read about apostles. If he remembers correctly then apostles are beings created by that bastard to act as he bids, removing the undesirable elements as the bastard wishes.

Thinking that he mentally nodded [I see, she is an artificial being, no wonder her Magic signature is strange. It feels like somewhere between an object and a living being.]

Rihito stopped using <Super Human Speed> and spoke, "Hello there miss, Fancy meeting you here. May I know your name," I said smiling, awaiting her response.

"Vessal, I am Hearst, who shall capture and present you in front of my lord," said the apostle in a robotic tone.

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[I should have guessed she would reply like that. And her name is Hearst. A different apostle, huh?] Rihito thought.

"Sorry, but I have no interest in your lord or whatever." I thought for a moment and decided to make it clear, "You know what tell him, stay the fuck away from us until we leave, after that, he can fuck around as much as he likes," I said already knowing what the response will be, or so I thought. 

"That's not possible, my lord has deemed you as his chosen vessal. So, I shall present you to him," Hearst said in her plain monotonic voice.

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Rihito, completely baffled, looked at Hearst, "He… wants me… as his vessal?" Rihito was confused and didn't understand for a second. He thought, he misinterpreted things, so he processed those words again, but the result was the same, and it made him angry, "THE FUCK does you mean he wants my body."

Rihito's face under his mask was full of anger and disgust, he shouted, "FUCK YOU AND YOUR GOD, if he tried to pull that shit, I will fucking shove a sword in his ass and hang him to the world to see." Rihito cursed.

Hearst, upon hearing the vessel curse her lord, did not react at all. She has been dealing with her lord's enemies for a long time and heard worse. If it had been her first time, she might have been angry. However, over time, she has realised that against overwhelming strength, the only thing the weak can do is curse. She is going to capture the vessel for her lord, and his curses will amount to nothing in the end.

Hearst then pulled out two silver and blue coloured great swords from a small portal and pointed one of the blades at the vessel.

[She has a storage skill, huh? still, it's inferior to mine.] Rihito observed and compared.

"Vessal, you are coming with me, whether you gave your consent or not, it doesn't matter," Hearst said narrowing her eyes.

Rihito took a deep breath, calmed himself, put a smile on his face, and pulled out Muramasa. "I say, it will be impossible for you, but you will try anyway, right?"

This time Hearst didn't respond, taking the silence as her consent, and the fight began. Hearst's body shone silver; her whole body radiated silver light. She then lunged towards Rihito at supersonic speed, leaving a silver afterglow.

Rihito saw the silver glow and thought [<Limit Break> Huh?] The first swing of her came from the left blade, a swing from the top.

"Clang!"

I blocked the left sword and noticed she swung the other blade horizontally, aiming the attack at my waist, which I dodged by stepping back.

"Hey, are you trying to kill me? What happened to the part about presenting me in front of your lord," I asked in a sarcastic tone.

To my sarcastic tone, she answered in her monotonic voice, "It doesn't matter if it's one piece or ten pieces, my lord's wish was to keep you alive and bring the vessal in front of him, nothing else matters."

"Ouch, you hurt my heart," I act as if I felt pain hearing her words.

Hearst seeing me fainning pain squinted her eyes. She then took a stance keeping both of her swords horizontal on the left side of her body.

Seeing her in that stance I prepare for a long-range attack. But, to my surprise, she disappeared from my sight, appearing right behind me to swing both of her swords at once.

"Clang!!"

The sharp, crisp sound of swords clashing reverberated. Rihito, without looking, positioned Muramasa behind him with one hand blocking the two strikes. 

Just when I was about to swing Muramasa, Hearst used <Teleportation > again and disappeared, again appearing in her previous position.

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"Wow, you really wanted to slice me in half, didn't you? But too bad for you, I have eyes on my back," I joked again, making her eyes twitch.

Noticing the slight twitch of her eyes, my smile widened, too bad for her she couldn't see it. I pointed Muramasa at her, "It's my turn now, don't blink, or you might die."

[This is a good chance. Let's test out how strong my body really is.]

I used only pure physical strength and footwork and shot like a bullet easily breaking the sound barrier.

"Boom!"

I instantaneously appeared in front of Hearst and delivered a horizontal slash.

Hearst, seeing the vessel instantaneously appearing before her, widened her eyes, [Fast] She thought. But, still in her current Limit Breaking state. She could still see the vessal moving, and using this to her advantage she decided to block his attack with one of her swords and she will finish this fight with the other. Thinking that she proceeded to do so.

"Clang!!"

As planned, she blocked the strike. But before she could swing her other blade she was blown away. The force the vessal put in that strike was too much for her to handle with just one hand. As a result, Hearst was blown away hurtling towards the castle.

"Booom!!!"

After seeing her being blown away, I ignored it and checked on myself, "Hmm... as expected, I was slower compared to when I use <Super Human Speed>. That's only natural," I thought to myself as I nodded. "My strength has grown again. I should increase the weight for gravity training."

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Tohru, crushing most of the demons in her way, stood near the stairs of the demon castle. She looked up in the sky and saw her master engaging in a fight with a winged woman. She was about to fly and help him deal with that woman.

Right then, Tohru instinctively backed away dodging a sticky black substance about to hit her.

Tohru frowned and looked up at the top of the stairs. There was a demon standing with a big black spider behind him. Ignoring the demon, she focused on the spider. It had pincers and a poison tail. Was it a scorpion? Then again, it could spit a sticky substance. Maybe it was a mix of the two.

"Well, well, what do we have here? A girl with a maid outfit is causing a ruckus," the demon said with a cold smile.

"What shall I do with you?" the smiling demon said.

Tohru seeing the smile on the demon's face which said 'I am a superior being' irritated her. She was just a moment away from helping her master and this guy interrupted her, which Tohru didn't like at all.

The demon thinking what to do noticed the beauty of the maid [What a pity, if only she was a demon. Still, at least I can use her as a slave.] he thought licking her lips, "It's decided, I, Celeka, the vice commander of the demon army, will give you the honour of being my slave. Now gravel befor…"

Before he could say more, the mutated monster behind him appeared before him trying to block the incoming breath attack. Celeka smiled seeing this, he knew something like this could happen, and that's why he kept his little pet with him. This black spider was mutated specially to make it extremely resistant to heat, and on top of that, it can regenerate. So, killing it with heat is almost impossible. He smiled cruelly and thought about, how he would punish the girl and make her obedient.

In the middle of his delusion, Celeka noticed, something was off. Seeing his pet standing there and doing nothing, he shouted, "Oii, what are you doing, attack her."

Upon closer observation, to his surprise, Celeka noticed that his pet's heat-resistant shell was turning red and slowly melting away. It was at this moment that he realized his pet was dead, and it was going to explode. "Shit!"

"Booom!"

When the explosion was about to happen, he moved as far away as possible and used his protective artefact. Although demons are skilled in magic, that doesn't mean they are proficient in every type of magic. For example, Celeka excelled in fire and wind magic, but in his current situation, he would have been helpless if he hadn't had the protection artefact, which saved him from the explosion.

"Damn it, what just happened? Why did it explode?" He questioned himself as he stood up. His battle attire was slightly singed, and smoke hindered his sight because of the explosion.

Unable to see anything in this dust-filled place he decided to retreat and group up with his soldiers. After that, he will make that woman pay. With a dark smile, he turned only to come across two glowing orange eyes with a slit staring at him.

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"Chapter end"

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