The Noble Lady of Lust Chapter 365: My Mark On This World

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"Can I ask what this is about?"

This bastard suddenly challenged , and with everyone watching, I had no choice but to step forward.

I could already guess what it was about, but I asked anyway, just to be sure. If this idiot says he wants to court , I’ll kill him right here.

"...it’s ti to settle this."

"I really don’t understand. You and I have nothing to do with each other, right?"

I played dumb, it might save this, but it was obvious why he did it. I looked in the direction of Alice, who was now facing ; her face looked calm.

She’s seen beat them up a lot—training with him many tis with Alexander, so she shouldn’t worry.

But there was a strange expectation in her eyes.

That made smile. I already knew what her pretty eyes wanted to convey to , so I gave her a little wink; she imdiately went from calm to a very intense red.

’Yes, your reactions are very cute. Hmm, I guess it’s ti.’

I turned my gaze back to Alexander, and he, seeing our exchange, didn’t seem calm at all.

He seed hesitant for a mont, but finally spoke to again.

"...Miss Silvercrest, don’t feign ignorance. This is for Alice."

"Huh? So you’re telling that if you win, I have to stay away from Alice, and if I win, she’s mine?"

"No! Alice is not an object, she can decide for herself. I just want to make things clear. Once I win, I want to—"

"Unnecessary! You know, I liked that answer, so I’ll give you mine easily: as you think, Alice and I are dating, we’re in a romantic relationship. Well, you heard it. I hope that’s enough for you."

"Ugh!... So it was like those bastards said... Even so, this isn’t over, I have sothing to prove and I don’t know if—"

"Haah~ Save it! If it’s that nonsense about ’being worthy,’ it’s futile; even if you beat and prove that you’re stronger than and that I’m not worthy of her, it’s not sothing that will change Alice’s thoughts, because we didn’t spare each other this."

"No... I still want to know."

"Fine, since you want to fight so badly, we’ll do it; I hope you give up on Alice after that."

Yes, I tried to avoid it until the end, but since I couldn’t, at least I guess I could use it to end Alice’s annoyance.

"...I won’t..."

"Hey, what the hel—" ’Oh no, I have to swear or Elena will kill !’ "—Ahem, then I don’t see the reason why—"

’What’s going on!?... Oh! I rembered who Orvahal was; so he’s the god of solid rock. I was scared for a mont!’

’Huh? What’s going on all of a sudden? Didn’t you say you wouldn’t see this side until you were done?

’Yes, but the goddess’s order has arrived—or rather, whoever is watching over us. Well, make Alexander into mush; we’ll be rewarded with Quintessentia.’

’Oh! Free stats. Oh, I see ’Aeloria’s satisfaction’—or rather, I wonder, is it that angel’s satisfaction? Does she have sothing against Alexander’s god? Is she the sa bastard from our previous life?’

’Who cares; the good thing is that we finally have confirmation of how the protection works.’

..

"both parties agree to the duel?"

"Yes."

’Let’s talk later.’

"...yes."

Well, it was useless to keep talking; the referee seed to be losing patience, and even divine forces wanted to slap Alexander.

"The duel begins now."

Bang!

"Ugh! What was that... huh?"

I wanted to finish quickly, so without wasting a mont, I made the first attack. A crystal projectile quickly shot out of my hand in the shape of a pistol and hit Alexander in the shoulder.

I had already made arrangents with my father’s help, so it didn’t matter if I used crystal magic.

Bang! Bang!

Several more projectiles shot out of my finger and began to aggressively attack Alexander, but he wasn’t so easy to defeat.

By the second impact, he had already placed an earth elent barrier around himself, and then began to form three large stone stakes around him.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

I fired three shots at high speed, and they hit his three stakes with the intention of destroying them—unfortunately, it was sowhat difficult to do without my eyes of lust, and I myself taught him not to let others break his magic easily.

In the end, I only broke one of his stakes, and the other two ca toward .

Bang! Bang!

I fired two more shots: I was able to destroy one before it reached , but I couldn’t do it with the last one.

Boom!

I molded mana in my hand and ford a crystal staff that hit the stake and deflected it.

’Well, after all, he did not receive my training in vain. hmm... I wonder how much I should show?’.

That’s what I thought, but then I rembered that he’s not soone I should have those thoughts about.

Quickly, three giant spikes of earth erged from three different sides, attacking simultaneously. They were huge, so there was no room to escape.

’Okay, I’m going to try this; first, Darkness.’

Bang!

Unfortunately for him, I was just as fast and fired a crystal projectile; what looked like a crystal staff was more like a crystal musket rifle, so I aid it at one of the stakes and destroyed it.

The power was higher than when I did it with my bare hand.

I opened a gap and was able to escape the encirclent.

’Okay, now, Plant.’

Thud! Thud!

But he didn’t wait a second and imdiately conjured what looked like stone snakes; there were five of them, and they were highly mobile and flexible, despite being made of stone.

It was too complex and powerful a spell; to do it so quickly, even with affinity, and this was because of the self-suggestion I taught him.

Striking his staff against the ground was his activator, and what he chose was a powerful spell that, even with his affinity, required him to chant.

’Light’

Bang! Bang!

The stone snakes were coming at from different directions. I kept moving and dodging while shooting and trying to destroy them.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

He kept hitting the ground, sending snake at an even faster rate than I could destroy them.

I may be getting caught up in continuing to use only the crystal gun when I have other thods, but there was sothing I wanted to test.

Boom! Bang!

I kept shooting rapidly and added another rifle in my other hand.

’Lightning’

Alexander was too fast with his own affinity and autosuggestion; any other mage of his rank would have been easily destroyed by him, but I kept up with him.

Bang! Bang!

The stone snakes kept on coming and coming.; I felt the pressure of being increasingly surrounded, and not only that: I feel that Alexander is using this space to prepare other things in the background.

Still, I didn’t stop using only the glass rifles and managed to create a third one that floated and fired.

I continued moving and dodging the snakes that I couldn’t destroy, which is not unusual for a wizard who knows how to make magical reinforcents.

’Hellfire’

I felt that with each shot I understood better what I wanted to achieve; it was the first ti I had put them into action, it was sothing that was still in its trial and error stages, sothing that, if it workedwould help to reach my full combat potential as a mage-warrior.

the art of shining, an art that my alternative self created to break free from the shackles of being a pure magician, and honestly the one that best suits for what I want, but it was tied to a single elent, like the rest of the arts.

Therein lay the problem: unlike my alternate self, I have multiple affinities.

Among all the libraries of arts I have in my head, the only one that escaped that rule was the art of lust which can work with all affinities and even mix them.

But the elents were not its focal point, only a support like all combat arts.

So I thought: how to solve this.

Contrary to my alternate self, I wanted to escape the feeling of being on the side of a warrior and casting support magic while fighting, even though it works, it didn’t quite convince .

There was a certain balance in his art, but his middle ground was not mine, so I sought my own balance point.

Having a doppelgänger free most of the ti, along with a personal preference, I ca up with sothing that I believe is the beginning of what could be considered my personal magical art.

Bang!

"Ugh!"

Among so many stone snakes I found a gap and pointed one of the pistols in Alexander’s direction. This ti, instead of crystal bullets, rapid bursts of light ca out.

Alexander was taken by surprise, but those bullets were only ant to blind him.

Bang! Bang!

"What was that! Argh!"

But the next three perfectly coordinated crystal bullets broke through his defense.

’Ice’

By this ti, I had even created another musket rifle, so I had four; but that wasn’t all. I was also preparing sothing in the background and had six crystal bullets floating near .

Crystal magic was a type of magic that I really liked; it had the speed of light magic and at the sa ti the hardness of earth magic.

Two elents that were very far apart, but they worked so well together that I took a special liking to it and used it as the basis for this new magical art.

"Ugh... You always go so unnoticed, but, as Chris says, ssing with you is no simple matter."

He reassembled his defensive spells almost imdiately and even started talking to . I understood what he was doing; it’s a simple tactic, but often effective, but I played along.

"Hee~ and after so many warnings, you go and challenge . How foolish!"

"That’s not why, it’s just that now I know you won’t die from this. Get ready! Here is my everything and my resolve: Pluvia Saxorum."

"Well, it seems you just wanted to buy a few seconds."

I looked up and a huge, colossal ball of stone had ford; it was already descending and I only had a few seconds left.

There was no room to escape, but to begin with, I let him complete it because it was my chance to try out what I was also preparing.

’I hope it works. Okay, now Affinity for Runes.’

"Lux Vinculum, Lun Ferrum,"

I quickly joined the four rifles together and a larger one was ford; I reinforced it to make it harder.

The sa thing happened with the six bullets: they lted into one, even though what I did seed simple I was using all my concentration, the slightest mistake and it could be ruined.

I finally put it in the rifle and pointed it upwards.

As I concentrated, this art, which is still in its early stages, circulated through my body.

I won’t deny that I cheated a little and used the fundantals of the art of lust.

It is the only art that can use all the elents, and I truly believe that no one has ever thought of creating an art based on them.

The arts of the fourteen legacies are very complete and perfect; they lack nothing. Anything created based on them would only be an imitation or sothing poorly done.

And maybe it’s true that this art will never surpass the art of lust, and maybe it won’t result in sothing really powerful, but I didn’t care.

’Hey, this doesn’t feel right, stop!’

The mana circulating through my body finally passed into the crystal weapon. I thought I heard soone, but I was too focused on this.

"Art Of The Nexus Ballistic "

Yes, it may just be one more art among the thousands that already exist, one more among the dozens I already have.

"First Stance"

But it’s sothing that wasn’t given to ; this is sothing that is mine.

"Chaos Bullet"

’My mark on this world.’

BANG!

I saw how, even though I reinforced the crystal rifle, it was destroyed and my hand was torn off.

But I focused on the bullet, which despite this managed to fly out at high speed.

I felt it was an important mont and everything seed to go in slow motion. I saw the tiny little bullet hit the colossal rock...

Nothing happened, not imdiately, but a fraction of a second later

BOOOMMM!

A loud explosion sounded.

’What the hell, that’s too much power! Holy shi—!’

And before I could finish thinking, everything went white.

I don’t know what the hell I created.

[Protection of lust A >>> Protection of lust EX]