The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Vol. 5: The Promised Land by Mato Sato and nilitsu

Author:Mato Sato and nilitsu [Sato, Mato / nilitsu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00

The second shot.

Just as the echo faded, Momo rose to the challenge and came charging straight toward Sahara.

She was sitting atop the head of a tall monster with her knee raised in order to keep watch on her opponent’s movements.

After the first shot, she’d elected not to move. Momo had sensed that Sahara didn’t intend to hide and came after her.

Exactly as she’d planned. Sahara had remained where she was to give herself away intentionally.

“Simpleminded moron.”

Momo was a heavily impulsive person. When faced with a contest of perseverance, she naturally grew impatient and ran straight for the source.

And Sahara would be waiting to take her down.

She aimed for the pink-haired head as it sped toward her. Her right arm—now a sniper rifle-style Guiding gun—absorbed her Guiding Force and produced a bullet of pure power. Feeling it snap into place, Sahara squeezed the trigger.

The third shot.

For a second, the friction of the Guiding Force bullet lancing through the barrel shook the air. The heat warped Sahara’s view through the scope, but she saw Momo bend backward.

Got her—wait.

Momo hadn’t stopped moving. She was unharmed despite taking a direct hit, and Sahara knew why.

“Barrier.”

She’d used the barrier crest in her priestess robes to block the projectile, just as Sahara knew she would.

Guiding guns were dangerous weapons because anyone could use them. Still, they were also easy enough for members of the Faust to deal with for one simple reason: They weren’t powerful enough to pierce the barrier crest conjuring inside every priestess’s robe.

However, crest conjurings took two or three seconds after each invocation before they could be used again. A few ultra-skilled users could produce a second crest conjuring in less than a second, but that was exceedingly rare. The only examples Sahara knew of were Menou, Master Flare, and perhaps a few priestesses of the bishop rank or higher.

Momo didn’t have anywhere near Menou’s Guiding Force finesse. Her barrier was down. If another shot came now, her only choice was to evade. The next few moments hinged on whether she could dodge that next shot. At least, that was undoubtedly what Momo believed.

Sahara lowered the still-warm barrel and stood. Though her approach didn’t slow, Momo looked puzzled by this un-sniper-like move.

The distance was too short for sniping now, and that was perfect.

Sahara wasn’t much of a sharpshooter anyhow.

Guiding Force: Merge Materials—Prosthetic Arm, Inner Seal Conjuration—Activate [Skill: Medium-Range Strafing Form]

Sahara’s gun arm reconstructed itself again.

The slender silhouette was replaced with a thick, crude, round shape. The barrel became a combination of several cylinders.

Sahara was beginning to understand exactly what her right arm was.

The Primary Color conjuring materials that made up her prosthetic limb… They were basically an aggregation of minuscule conjured soldiers.

Although inorganic, they could transform into something organic. The materials of the three Primary Colors were capable of combining into anything at will. Depending on how they were ordered, it was even possible to form a consciousness. The conjured puppets of Primary Colors were the ultimate realization of that: a man-made, intelligent, nonhuman life-form.

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