An Unruly Summon: Volume 1 by Cathfach

Author:Cathfach [CATHFACH]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22: Battle Aura

Echoes of clanging metal resounded throughout the courtyard as I exchanged blows with Christine at superhuman speeds. With my superior base stats and mana, I’d hoped to dominate our mock battle, but despite her youth, her experience was not something to be ignored so lightly. Able to predict my parries and the path they would leave her weapon, she placed herself perfectly for follow-up attacks. She was obviously thinking three or four moves ahead, correctly predicting my reactions to her reactions.

But two could play at that game.

I felt like I was riding a bicycle for the first time in a decade, like a long disused skill, never completely lost, being pulled back to the surface. The experience was strange, but exciting. If only quantum mechanics back in university had been so intuitive.

I ducked under her swing and swept with a leg. She backstepped with perfect timing, simply stepping over my sweep, but this was what I’d expected, and I’d already followed up with a thrust. She twisted to avoid it, but that sent her momentarily off-balance, so I turned my thrust into a swing. She parried, but it left her further off-balance. I let my sword bounce off hers, reversing the direction and pirouetting, attacking from her other side before she could recover. Staggering, and with her sword out of position, she had no way to escape.

She raised her arm, placing her gauntlet in the way of my swing. A decent option, given the situation, but armor had its limits. It could only absorb so much force, and we were both using body strengthening. I’d already crumpled the breastplate of a knight with my bare hands. There was no way she could simply block my swing; she’d more than likely suffer a broken arm. Thankfully, we had two healers available.

My sword impacted her wrist with all the effect of a moth flying into a brick wall. Despite the booming impact, her arm didn’t budge an inch, nor did her gauntlet receive a single scratch. The impulse of striking such an unmovable barrier was so unexpected that it knocked the sword out of my hand, sending streamers of burning cold up my arm.

“My win,” declared Christine, holding the tip of her blade up against my throat.

“What was that?!” I complained.

“Oh, Master! Your fingers!” shouted Mary from the sidelines.

No wonder my arm felt so weird. Two of my fingers had obviously been dislocated when my sword had been ripped out of my grip, bent backward at an angle no healthy finger should experience.

“Sanatio,” I chanted, causing them to snap back into position.

“I wish you’d rely on me for healing,” grumbled Mary. “I need to learn Sanatio.”

“That was battle aura,” belatedly answered Christine. “An advanced technique, but a useful one. It’s something you need to watch out for if you ever see an experienced melee combatant wearing light armor, like mine, or even no armor at all.”

“Oh? I assumed you were only wearing that instead of heavier plate because of the whole harem thing.

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