The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 134: Silent Strike

Thanks to the powerful enhancement provided by Selene, her spell was truly powerful, hurting the weakest among those present. At that moment, Selene, without any enhancement, also cast an ice spell to defend and hold back, those who overtook Eira’s attack.

Selene had no affinity, so she relied on her use of runes, which she was surprisingly good at despite how she acted. The same was true of smithing; her younger sister was a prodigy at many things but common sense.

Certainly, both had always learned what the other should, thanks to her skill. Oddly, however, Selene had always been good at magic despite having slow mana growth and having skills that would be for a warrior, while Eira, was good at close combat.

Despite only being able to increase her strength reasonably with the mana breathing exercise, it was as if her talents had been reversed.

But now, Selene, had had a growth in mana to the point of being almost on par with her, who strives daily, Eira didn’t want to be left behind, but simply she couldn’t match her sister now.

Finally, they continued their attack methodology and changed the direction of the resonance, improving Selene’s strenght.

Thus, the physical enhancement was not so good, but as usual, Selene was ahead. With her new axe, which was a gift from Cristian, it was a very special axe; especially for Selene, it had the quality of getting heavier the more mana you put in.

Cristian gave it to her especially because he knew Selene’s combat style, plus what would result from her resonance with Eira, who only has mana as an advantage. Selene, even with her sleepy face, attacked like a beast despite her appearance and the axe that was bigger than her, which was a disconcerting sight.

Bamm!!!!...crack

The first and strongest tried to block Selene’s attack, but the axe was overwhelming, immediately breaking his warrior stance and destroying his weapon and armor. He was sent flying.

Selene, without stopping, went to the second, who looked like a wizard. Even so, he was quickly subjugated, as the axe broke through all defenses.

Selene wasn’t even using her art to attack, just brute force and mana on the axe, quickly subjugating the rest.

It was all so quick and easy that Eira couldn’t act anymore; it didn’t even seem necessary. Well, Selene wasn’t that overwhelming on her own. What Eira hadn’t noticed yet, due to her astonishment, was that Cristian activated his resonance and imbued Selene with his enhancer. With Cristian’s stats added, Selene also became overwhelming.

While resonance was an ability that seemed like power could grow without limit as long as the body could support it, it had two restrictions: the first was that they could only share base stats, and the second, that it could only be done in one direction at a time, the same as when Selene and eira were interleaved to receive the enhancement, and could not be boosted at the same time.

In the optimal scenario of this ability, it was that one person could receive two enhancements, while another only received one, leaving the third without enhancement. That was the limit with three people, as long as their bodies could handle it.

But what if they added one more person? Well, that’s why skills are so important to bridge the gaps between levels of existence.

Cristian wasn’t afraid that Selene would be hurt by the side effects of resonance, because thanks to Alice’s addition, her vitality was also at the fourth metamorphosis.

And they found that having high vitality and defense helped sustain the resonance more easily, even with two enhancements at once, at least for a longer time.

On the other hand, even when she realized that her sister was also improved by Cristian, it didn’t take away the bad feeling she had, Eira got angry, but the target of her anger was not anyone else but herself.

The credo she followed since she was a child, was repeated in her head ’You have to be strong, you can’t be weak’.

If she were, she would not be able to protect her sister, Eria right now can barely hold Selene’s power when they resonate, if Christian wanted to, he could explode her, with an ability, which was supposed to be beneficial, while her sister is holding all that power without problems.

At this point, she was barely holding resonance with her sister for more than a few minute, even though she could do so almost limitlessly before.

was falling too far behind, and Eira notice it more clearly than anyone else thanks to its resonance., Eira decided that she had to become strong even if she had to pay a high price, to do so.

’I will do whatever it takes’

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Third point of view: Moments before.

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A few moments earlier, when Elena dragged Daric away from the other battles and thought she was far enough away, she disappeared from the sight of her pursuer. Daric, who knew Elena could disappear, was attentive.

Daric didn’t know if it was an ability, characteristic of the art, a spell or a blessing, but he would definitely find her using a secondary function of her blessing.

He concentrated and listened to everything around him like an equalizer; he only had to make a small sound and he would immediately find things even miles away.

Daric He was one of the main ones in charge of collecting scattered students, and in fact, he took his leader where the strongest ones seemed to be near his initial location.

He separated from his leader, and he along with his companions were supposed to search for more. But he realized that most had escaped their leader and he had no choice but to catch them himself.

Their leader seemed fine and was only temporarily trapped in a barrier, talking to a girl who was a priority target to be kidnapped.

So he confidently went to catch those girls who, although he felt they were strong for their age, he was sure they had only passed four existence barriers, which meant they had only four metamorphoses, something easy for him.

Though his carelessness led to him getting hurt. That was all it was; now he had to catch that girl.

Concentrating on finding any trace of her, Daric knew that all living things emit sound, so their method of location was almost absolute. Even if they used concealment spells, he could find them. After all, a blessing from a god is more powerful than anything created with magic.

Daric found her, though it was more difficult than he thought and he almost didn’t detect her. He couldn’t reflect much on the reason, because Elena was already just inches away from him, aiming at his neck with a sword.

He barely managed to block Elena’s attack, who, without any warning, made a vertical slash with her other hand.

Daric had enough reflexes to dodge her attack at the last moment, although, for some reason, he had ignored the second sword until it was too close.

He was a warrior with physical attributes in good shape; although defense was his strength, he realized that the girl’s weapons could cause him quite a bit of damage.

He even had to admit that he had felt the blow through his armor. He didn’t understand how someone so young had such a powerful weapon.

But, even more troubling, he was unable to concentrate on Elena’s movements. He knew she used double swords, he had seen it before, so he must have taken it into account.

However, it was only when he sensed mortal danger that he remembered and recognized the existence of the other sword, narrowly avoiding it.

Elena’s movements were strange, so Daric became more cautious.

”!!!Hey bitch, what kind of moves are those, what’s the secret?!!!! ”

He said, imbuing his blessing in his voice. Daric was completely a defensive warrior, and although his mana was scarce, this blessing granted him a detection ability better than many mages and allowed him to attack from a distance without expending any resources, just with his voice, Daric had perfect balance.

”....”

Hearing his voice, Elena lost her concentration, feeling somewhat confused. She didn’t even know how she could hear him, considering her eardrums were already burst; it was as if the sound was transmitted directly to her head.

The fight seemed disadvantageous for Elena. Not only could Daric locate her, but he also had a solid defense and could perform mental attacks. Coupled with her range of existence, the odds were not in her favor. But still, he had to find a way to win.

Fortunately, Daric was not particularly fast or agile, so Elena managed to gain some distance and get a few seconds to think clearly.

Her mind, stunted by the annoying voice, was able to gather enough wits to, with difficulty, think of what to do, remembering something her Lady Seraphina had told her.

He came up with an idea, though he didn’t know if it would work. She began to stimulate her own blessing; her blessing was only concealment, which only made her hide and conceal things, or so she thought. But Seraphina had told her it was more than that.

[”Look, Elena, blessings, depending on what they are, are a part of a god’s authority.You know you’re blessed by the god of darkness?how do I know that? Well ....., I read it...yes I read a lot of reading!Well, the point is that the god of darkness is a big shot among the gods, and although he is only limited to occultation, the whole concept of occultation enters into anything that has to do with occultation.Theoretically, it is possible to do anything with your blessing that encompasses that concept.”]]

Elena began to stimulate her blessing, not to attach it to a spell as she usually did, but to use it in its purest form. That strange energy, a manifestation of a concept, began to surround her.

It had no shape, color, or any visible characteristics, but Elena, connected to it, could feel it.

elena thought ’if I can hide others, be it presence, sound and visibility I should also be able to hide things from myself’, with that thought, Elena was using her raw blessing to separate and reject everything she didn’t want to see and hear by hiding them from her, as if they didn’t exist for her.

”...”

now All was silence, but for her it was paradise, at last she could fight in silence.

”...”

Now All was silence, but for her it was paradise, at last she could fight in silence.

”.....”

Daric seemed to talk about something with a lot of confidence, and maybe he could be imbuing his voice with his blessing, but Elena didn’t hear anything; she only saw how he, with a confident smile, approached.

Elena, concentrating her blessing to the maximum, disappeared again, surprising Daric. He tried to detect her again, but this time he could not. The difference between ’the god of annoying sound’ and ’the god of darkness’ was immense.

Now that Elena was stimulating his blessing to the max, albeit in a crude form, he couldn’t find her. He panicked, but his experience and instincts were acute.

He couldn’t feel her, but when a shiver ran down his spine, he knew it was time. He immediately turned and blocked Elena’s attack, or so he thought, as the only thing coming towards him was a dagger, thrown from what appeared to be a hand made of darkness.

It was something created only with darkness, a decoy. Daric parried the dagger, dangerous in itself, but for a moment he thought it was just a distraction and that the real attack was imminent.

He waited on high alert, but in the blink of an eye, just a slight involuntary eye movement, suddenly and without warning Elena was in front of him, staring impassively at him without making a move, about ten feet away.

Something was wrong; it was strange that she would just give up out of the blue when she had put up so much resistance before. But Maybe she had understood the difference between them, and finally this childish game was about to end.

Elena was a great talent and would be handsomely rewarded when he brought her to his organization.

Daric, seeing her doing nothing, set out to subdue her and get on with his work. The more he managed to recruit, the more profit he would make. But as he took the first step, he sensed something was amiss.

’What’s wrong? Something is wrong.’

he thought. Maybe Elena had done something, but he couldn’t figure out what it was, the only thing he understood and felt was that it was cold, very cold.

Of all the thoughts Daric had when he looked at Elena, he had only been right about one thing, this was over.

the cold daric felt was the cold of death. That was the first and last time he would feel it, it was a unique experience.

Yes, Daric was already dead, that first step was what he needed to realize.

”Art of the Dark Veil: Silent Strike.”

And only then did he hear a sound... the voice wasn’t coming from Elena, at least not the current one. It was a late echo heard only now, as if caught in its occultation.

Perhaps her blessing had helped to hear it, but that too would be the last thing he would hear in this life. vison became blurred and the angle of his vision tilted to finally drop.

His head separated from his neck with such a clean cut that it took him a few seconds to notice he was dead.

Elena didn’t mind saying the name of the technique out loud, why? Because even if it contradicted her essence, elena could hide any sound that would come from her she could hide everything.

As Daric had thought, the dagger was a decoy that distracted him for a few moments, and in that instant, his art and his blessing were elevated to the extreme of their current capcity.

The ’Art Darkveil’ had the ability to make people pay no attention to her to the point of consciously ignoring her, allowing her to move even in front of them without being noticed.

That was complemented by her ability to hide thanks to her blessing. Certainly, any enemy at her level wouldn’t stand a chance at all.

Elena did her best to hide herself well, letting nothing escape her concealment including her murderous intentions, she was so ermetic to the point of not giving her away at all.

And in the end, it was only on the first step that Daric finally realized that something was wrong and that he had basically been dead for a few seconds, and the sound came only when Elena deactivated her blessing.

By the time Daric saw her in front of him, it was over.