Modern Weapons in Another World

Volume 5 Chapter 8

Perhaps due to May blues, my writing activities are progressing slowly. 

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The Gulfarless Magic Holy Knight Order headed towards Chitose and Chiyoda, known as formidable opponents. Meanwhile, the Roen Church Knight Order and the top-ranked Holy Maiden Alexia Islacia headed towards Cecilia, their deeply connected nemesis.

On the other hand, the assassins’ group, Bloody Fang, remained in place without making any moves, perhaps observing the unfolding battle. Unaware that it would become their final resting place.

“Archers, ready!! Fire!!”

Just before Chitose and Chiyoda, who had drawn their weapons and rushed towards the Gulfarless Magic Holy Knight Order, clashed, the archers of his knight order took the initiative and released magical arrows called “Golden Arrows” and “Silver Arrows” from their magical weapons called Akkinu Fort (a bow with no wasted movements), which had a perfect hit rate.

A swarm of nearly a hundred magical arrows, with slight angles and drawing nearly horizontal parabolic arcs, rushed towards Chitose and Chiyoda as if guided by their intentions.

However, Chitose and Chiyoda were not so fragile as to be defeated by such magical arrows.

“Shoot them down!”

At the same time Chiyoda shouted while charging, all the magical arrows were knocked down by an unseen force and embedded into the ground.

“What!?”

“No way!”

“How did she manage to bring down all the arrows!?”

The archers, astonished by the fact that all the perfectly aimed magical arrows were forcefully brought down to the ground, were unaware that Chiyoda’s arm contained a gravity weapon.

Although Chiyoda’s gravity weapon, which had also demonstrated its effectiveness in the Hydra battle, had not yet reached completion, it had been improved in terms of power, duration, and effective range.

Therefore, regardless of the distance or the wide area, it was possible to shoot down every single magical arrow.

“Don’t panic! Next!”

“Understood! Pierce through, Gáe Bolg!”

“Pierce through, Gungnir!”

After witnessing the interception of the magical arrows, two magical spears, imbued with the concept of always hitting the target, were thrown toward Chitose and Chiyoda from among the charging knights.

“Take this back!!”

However, shouting the names of their magical weapons proved fatal for the spear throwers.

Chitose and Chiyoda, well aware of the effects of the famous spears, swiftly grabbed the spears flying towards their vital points, just before they pierced their hearts and threw them back at their enemies.

“Ugya!”

“Guh!”

“GYAAA!”

Despite being spears that were supposed to have a guaranteed hit rate, they were ultimately thrown at a speed that humans accelerated with magic.

For Chitose, who transcended the framework of a human, and Chiyoda, an artificial intelligence infused with emotions and equipped with a combat-oriented bio-terminal, such speeds were not a threat. It was easy for them to catch and neutralize the spears just before they hit.

The spears, Gay Bolg and Gungnir, thrown back at more than twice the speed of the knights who threw them, impaled not only their owners but also the knights behind them, finally coming to a stop.

“Die!”

“Take this!”

Without even pausing their steps, Chitose and Chiyoda not only defended against the enemy’s attacks but also counterattacked. They infiltrated the openings of the disoriented knight order, who possessed powerful magic weapons, and effortlessly slew them one after another as if performing a martial arts demonstration.

“Don’t get in my way!”

Immediately after jumping into the midst of the enemy and engaging in close combat, Chitose swiftly beheaded five knights

“When a knight wielding the immortal sword Durandal approached, delivering a fierce slash, it was effortlessly deflected and countered by a swift swing of a Japanese katana. The knight’s wrist spun as he retaliated, attempting to decapitate his opponent. However, the knight’s arms, grasping the demonic sword Flunting, were severed in one swift motion.

With his arms severed, the knight cried out in agony as Chitose, who had taken Flunting, proceeded to attack him relentlessly with a dual-wielding style of Japanese katana and Flunting. Inflicting maximum pain, she skillfully delivered precise strikes to the knight’s neck and body, severing his limbs and causing him excruciating torment with each strike.

“S-Save me! Gyyyyahhh!”

“You monster! My sword—Gwah!?”

“Die in agony!”

Amidst the splattering blood and raging storm of slashes, Chitose, the source of the tempest, continued to swing her blades fueled by anger.

“Now, who among you wants to become a pile of flesh?”

Meanwhile, Chiyoda was crushing the knights surrounding her while wielding all her armaments.

“Uwoooooo!”

“Go, go!”

“Get ’em!”

The knights surrounding Chiyoda, provoked by her taunts, moved in unison.

However, their lives were trampled beneath Chiyoda’s fingertips alone.

“Sink.”

Pointing her index finger downward with a gruesome smile, she uttered just one word.

Immediately after, a squelching sound of flesh being crushed resonated, and dozens of crimson stains and scraps of armor and demonic weapons formed a macabre scene around Chiyoda.

“Not… enough!”

“Don’t underestimate us!”

“So, the minions are getting confident.”

Driven by reckless courage in the face of their comrades’ gruesome deaths, the knights continued to charge one after another.

While gazing at the knights with eyes that could even see them as mere roadside trash, Chiyoda fought back with blades, guns hidden in her arms and legs, and deadly poisons.

“Le-let go! Gyyahh! Aaaaahhh! It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts! Help! Someone, help me! Gyaahhh!”

“Save me! Someone, help!”

The knight wielding the Blue-Red Sword and the knight wielding the Heaven-Reaching Sword had their demonic weapons destroyed and were at Chiyoda’s mercy.

The one with his right hand had his arm dismantled and dismembered while still alive by a chain blade hidden in Chiyoda’s arm. The one with his left hand had his face burned by the acidic venom extracted from a demon called Poison Frog, which was poured from a built-in tube in Chiyoda’s palm. Finally, his head was severed, and he breathed his last.

“Hiiii!”

In the face of such gruesome deaths, the knights momentarily froze.

“Heh, like shooting ducks.”

Although it was only a moment, Chiyoda laughed and swept away the knights who had become sitting ducks with a small-caliber concealed gun hidden in her elbow.

As countless bullets rained down, the knights, having finished their strange dance, collapsed one after another, forming a mountain of corpses.

“Let’s… continue!”

“We won’t be underestimated!”

“Let’s go, all out!”

Without a moment to catch their breath, Chitose and Chiyoda, having annihilated the knights around them in an instant, readied their weapons once more and plunged back into the midst of the remaining enemies.

“Your life will be the price to pay

However, amidst the knights who had begun to flee, there was someone who stood firm and calmly confronted the approaching slime, raising their sword.

“Hmph!”

A flash. The blade swung down from above, releasing an invisible edge that sliced through the ground and the air, and then cut the slime’s body in half, right through its round core at the center.

The slime, now divided into two halves, trembled and then lost its shape, liquefying completely. Finally, its liquid form seeped into the ground, disappearing from sight.

“You finally showed up, Alexia.”

Ignoring the defeated slime, Sericia wore a smirk, twisting her lips into a crescent moon shape.

“You, who refuse to follow the gods, the enemy of the divine. You, the heretic who worships the evil god. May my sword rust through your wickedness.”

“Well…”

However, upon seeing Alexia, who held her Buster Blade in front of her with an empty expression, Sericia’s smile vanished in an instant.

She frowned and let out a heavy sigh.

“To manipulate Alexia’s consciousness and control her at will… One could say this is the pinnacle of depravity. But it seems fitting to call you an outlaw.”

“I did not wish for such a thing either. However, it is all your fault. Because you filled Saint Alexia’s pure heart with lies and deceit, doubt has arisen within her. It’s your fault! You misled her!”

Bishop Levelc, a high-ranking bishop who had appeared behind Alexia, glared at Sericia with a fierce expression as he spoke.

“Lies and deceit? How absurd. I merely exposed your wicked actions.”

“To think you would audaciously say such things! Not content with your fall into heresy, you even delude the heart of the Saint with your false words! Unforgivable! Indeed, you cannot be allowed to live! Saint Alexia, under the name of God, eliminate that heretic woman!”

“Understood.”

Without any expression, Alexia nodded in response to Levelc’s words and swiftly closed the distance between her and Sericia. She swung her Buster Blade down towards Sericia’s head.

“It’s useless.”

However, Alexia’s blade did not harm Sericia’s body.

“What!? Ugh!!”

Not only that but as Alexia attacked Sericia, she was blown away with tremendous force and crashed into a pile of rubble.

“Ugh… Guuuh… Gyaah!!… Ugh, ughh…”

As Alexia tried to stand up after crashing into the rubble, a gust of wind sliced through her, dealing a devastating blow to her entire body, even through her armor.

And just as her armor, which had protected her master until the very end, shattered, Alexia also lost consciousness, her strength completely drained.

“S-Saint Alexia!? What madness!! Stand up, Alexia! You must… eliminate that heretic woman!”

In a frenzy upon realizing that Alexia had been defeated, Levelc suddenly appeared like a ghost, intervened between Sericia and Alexia, and sent Alexia flying, pursuing her to the point of incapacitation. Witnessing this, his eyes widened.

“Are you alright, Sericia?”

“Yes, thanks to you, I have not a single scratch. Adele. Your timing for appearing was perfect as well.”

“I see.”

Sericia, with a warm smile reminiscent of a young girl, praised Adele, who had appeared before her by deactivating her optical camouflage.

However, Adele, wearing a stern expression and exuding a dark and eerie aura from her body, responded briefly to Sericia’s words and immediately shifted her gaze forward.

“Now then, let me express my gratitude first.

Adel, who had brushed off the blood and fat of Levelc from the Holy Sword and sheathed it, had lost all the hesitation that had always been there and instead harbored a strong resolve in her eyes as she glared at Levelc.

By almost losing Kazuya, Adel had a clear understanding of her feelings toward him and stopped deceiving herself. She had undoubtedly become stronger than before.

“Aah, aaah, aaahh!! My, my body… aaaaah!!”

“Well, well.”

As Levelc, oozing internal organs and dripping fresh blood from the severed area, writhed in excruciating pain, Ceresia, hiding a delighted smile on her lips, approached.

“Well, well… what a… undignified sight. It suits you quite well, though.”

“Grrrr!! How dare you!! How dare you, you heretic!! You defiled woman!! I won’t forgive you, I won’t!!”

“…Hmm, seems to have worked nicely.”

Despite losing half of her body, Levelc continued to shower her with insults, and Ceresia nodded repeatedly, satisfied.

“You, you scum!! Why are you nodding—”

“Silence!! Did you think I would easily forgive someone like you? The sin of insulting Kazuya-sama and disparaging our faith will never be forgiven!!”

“Gyaah!! Gyaahhh!! Why… why can’t I die?!”

Ceresia, engulfed in an aura and with a changed tone, vented her anger and gouged Levelc’s heart with a knife she had.

As a result, copious amounts of blood spurted from Levelc’s chest, but Levelc did not die.

“I had your body assimilated by a slime. Without my permission, you cannot die anymore. Suffer for eternity.”

“A slime!? But slimes were—”

“Hmph, it’s inconceivable for my trump card, the slime, to be just an ordinary slime. Well, it doesn’t matter anymore. Shut your mouth, let your body return to normal, and we’ll continue this on the mainland.”

With an expression of disdain, Ceresia laughed at Levelc through her nose, and as she said so, the slime that should have been defeated and absorbed by Alexia appeared from the ground and inside Levelc’s body, repairing the bisected body.

“Ugogogogogoo!!”

Assimilated by the slime and transformed into part of it, Levelc was denied the right to die and was destined to experience a living hell through torture inflicted by Ceresia and the followers of the Nagato sect.

“…Ceresia, won’t you kill him?”

“Well, yes. I won’t be satisfied until I’ve tormented him a bit more.”

“I see.”

Adel, who had tried to stylishly cut Levelc in half and kill him, had her plans thwarted by Ceresia, and she responded with a slightly disappointed expression.

“Now then, it’s Alexia’s turn.”

Having dealt with Levelc, Ceresia, accompanied by the slightly dejected Adel, walked towards the unconscious Alexia.

“…How pitiful. To be manipulated like a puppet by such a man. But it’s alright now. Not as a repayment, but I will save you.”

Along with Ceresia’s words of pity, Alexia’s body was entwined by numerous vines.

“Don’t worry. There’s nothing to be concerned about. By the time you wake up next, you will have obtained the qualification to serve the true god, just like everyone else.”

Having witnessed Alexia’s unconscious body being dropped into a pitcher plant’s trap, Ceresia wore a wicked expression