The Holy Knight's Dark Road: Volume 1 by Yusaku Sakaishi

Author:Yusaku Sakaishi [SAKAISHI, YUSAKU]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

“Watch your six,” said Melia as she engaged another monster.

The warning tore Alicia from her thoughts and she felt a sudden chill at her back. She spun around to find the blood-colored monster baring its fangs at her.

It swiped at her with its claws. Alicia raised her palm, then momentarily paused; they were standing too close to one another for her to retaliate without risking damage from her own spell.

“...Flare!”

Nevertheless, she roared the word. Her instincts screamed that she couldn’t afford to defend herself any other way.

She braced herself as the explosion consumed her, only to then send her flying backward.

“Ugh!”

While airborne, she managed a glance at the monster. Like before, it hadn’t taken a speck of damage. Then, her back made abrupt contact with the wall, knocking the air out of her lungs.

Forcing out a pained groan, Alicia pushed herself to her knees to find Melia by her side.

“Are you okay?”

“Could have given me a hand—ow, god, that hurts—if you saw the thing...”

“Well, as you’ve probably realized, that monster nullifies the vast majority of magic thrown at it, which makes it exceptionally difficult to keep it from moving...” she lamented.

For Alicia, the admission had a quelling effect on her growing sense of envious resentment. It felt as though she had just found the first smear on the image of perfection that was Melia. There were, she thought, some things that even the attendant could not do.

“Melia, how’s your side?” she asked, eyes still fixed on the blood-red monster.

“I’ve cleaned up the mob. All that’s left is this thing.”

Despite saying she’d focus on the colossal beast, Melia had still probably killed many times more monsters than Alicia had. Only now did she realize that Sain had been the placating lubricant in their group. With him gone, the skill gap between her and Melia was painfully obvious.

She swallowed a mouthful of spit and, along with it, the mass of bitter emotions swirling within her. This was neither the time nor place.

“What are we going to do about it?”

“Defeat it, of course.”

“...And how, exactly?”

Melia responded by sheathing her dagger.

“Technically, there is a way for me to kill that thing, but I’ll need a pretty big opening. So, I’d like you, Miss Alicia, to distract it for me.”

“Wait, didn’t you just say it nullifies magic? How am I supposed to distract it, then?”

“It can nullify magic, but that doesn’t mean it’s completely immune. You might not be able to damage it, but you can trip it up. I’ll take a few swipes while I’m charging up as well. Let’s figure out a good rhythm so we can chip away at it together.”

“...Okay, but what are you going to do to actually kill it?”

“Good question. Let’s just say... something like light magic.”

Alicia nodded, then did a double take.

“I don’t have time to go into the details, but that monster can only be hurt by light or dark magic. And I happen to be able to use the kind of light magic that can take it down.

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