[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 80: Attacks (1)

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"Suckers! Crypim! Defend barrier! "

Noelle frantically shouted at Cryll who was busy exerting his strength to defend the barrier.

Despite that, it was clear that Cryll would not be able to last much longer, as his hands began to tremble and blood began to drip from the corners of his lips.

"How long do I have to defend this damn barrier?! "

Cryll yells back at Noelle.

"Until all my preparations are done! "

Noelle frantically used her telekinesis ability to control the sword and injured her left hand which she pointed to the sky.

The slash wound on her hand made the blood liquid flow freely onto the wooden floor of the ship that was still intact thanks to Cryll's protection, but it was clear that the ship would be destroyed soon.

Meanwhile, the situation around them was the same. Dyland frantically pulled Norman and Iris into his arms while his other hand exerted a small light barrier that was enough to protect everyone in the Norman group.

(As expected of a bastard holy knight! But .. )

Noelle smiled fiercely as she looked at Dyland in the corner of her gaze who was protecting everyone with barrier magic.

But Noelle's face immediately turned grim after realizing that it was all just a temporary measure.

As Cryll and Dyland were busy defending the barrier, the pillar of light that struck them grew bigger and began to evaporate all the river water around them.

"Suckers! Noel! Have you finished your preparations?! I'm almost at the limit! "

Cryll shouted as the barrier he created began to crack due to the intensity of the light pillar that exceeded his ability.

The light pillar grew bigger and stronger, making the cracks on the light barrier protecting them even more spread out.

Not only Cryll, but the barrier that Dyland had put out also seemed almost at its limit.

"I'm done! Oy you! Gather near me if you don't want to die! Crypim! Sorry, hang on in a minute! Livia, help Cryll! "

Noelle starts issuing orders, and Olivia unhesitatingly helps Cryll to supply the magic energy and maintain the barrier form that protects them.

Not with David, though. He yelled at Noelle, "What are you going to do damn it?! "

"Easy! Just follow my words and get closer here! Do you want the Prince and the others to turn into grilled meat?! "

"Khh– But–"

"Dyland, we follow his words" Norman said,

Even though he himself felt afraid and surprised by this sudden situation, he should not make up thoughts and ways that would endanger everyone.

Norman tried to maintain his calm expression even though his hands and feet were numb from the sudden tension.

" … Alright … "

David with an unhappy face obeyed Norman and slowly walked up to Noelle while trying to maintain the barrier.

Along with her movements, the people who had taken refuge in the same barrier as her slowly followed her movements to approach Noelle.

"Oi! Why are you guys taking so long?! Come here, you son of a bitch! "

"Can you be patient?! It was hard to move while maintaining this barrier! "

"As if I care about that! Hurry up here or you'll die now! "

"Khh–"

Noelle and Dyland continued to shout at each other with furious expressions on their faces.

While Noelle had already finished her preparations, Dyland who was slowly approaching her had a glance towards Charlotte which helped Cryll to maintain the barrier without anyone being ordered.

(I think I've seen that girl somewhere .. )

"Can you go faster?! We don't have any more time! "

Dyland continued walking while trying to maintain the barrier and ignored Noelle's cries with full concentration.

Stella, Olivia, and Charlotte remain focused on supplying magic energy so that Cryll can maintain his artificial barrier, chloe controls all the shadows nearby to circle the area around them and protect Noelle and the others from the remains of projectiles flying towards them due to the shockwave.

The pillar of light that hit their ship was already getting bigger and destroying the other unprotected parts of the ship.

"Now what? "

Dyland calmly asked Noelle after she arrived nearby.

"You just have to shut up and prepare for the worst! "

The blood that dripped from Noelle's hands and formed a puddle on the floor was quickly floated in the air and formed a dome lining the Cryll barrier.

"With this at least we can add a few seconds! "

Noelle's blood lining the barrier dome then hardened and covered their view from the glare of the pillar of light.

"Cryll's! Release the barrier as soon as I command! "

Noelle's sudden scream made Cryll almost doubt his ears, but he nodded and replied, "I understand! "

"Now ...《Reign》"

As soon as Noelle uttered her spell, a huge magic circle appeared right above them and shocked everyone.

"What are you doing?! "

Perhaps because he had never seen such a type of magic circle, Dyland directly pointed his sword at Noelle with a threatening gesture.

"Be quiet! "

Noelle shouted as she continued to put a large amount of mana into the magic circle.

The magic circle that Noelle was releasing was spinning increasingly faster and giving off a different light from that pillar of light, then enveloping him and everyone around him.

"Cryll's! Now! "

As soon as Noelle ordered it, Cryll without saying anything else instantly unleashed the barrier spell he had been maintaining.

The dome of light that protected them shattered into a grain of light, and the pillar of light quickly submerged them.

Fortunately,《Reign》which Noelle did managed to make it in time has first moved him and everyone into his mini-dimensional make.

Of course, with a little sacrifice.

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"Ughh ... Where do we … "

Cryll tries to endure the pain that strikes his head and tries to get up to look around.

(It seems that almost everyone is here .. )

Cryll nodded his head after he saw everyone he knew were in the same place as him at the moment.

"Now ... Noelle ... What is this place? "

Frowning, Cryll asked what everyone there wanted to ask.

Olivia and Charlotte also looked confused as they looked around.

Their current place was a very spacious room filled with shelves and filled with books in various thicknesses and sizes.

In short, it is a library.

They were all standing right above the altar that was on one side of the room.

" … Noelle? "

Cryll tries to make sure by calling her name, but Noelle still does not answer.

A worried expression was clearly imprinted on Cryll's face, and he watched his surroundings frantically.

"Hey! Where are you fucking?! "

" … Noelle .. There … "

Olivia with a trembling body spoke, then slowly stood up and with a limping motion, she tried to reach Noelle's place.

Cryll looked in the direction Olivia was heading, and sure enough, there was the body of a person he knew well enough to be lying on the floor of the velvet carpet covered in blood.

"Noelle?! "

Cryll's frantic shout resuscitated everyone and made them look back at him.

Everyone was no exception with Dyland completely shocked when he saw Noelle's figure filled with blood.

Olivia, who was conscious, reached Noelle's place and shook her body as if to wake her up.

Cryll without saying anything else immediately ran to where Noelle was, followed by Dyland, Norman, and the others behind him.

Although Chloe …

" … Isn't this《Reign》m belongs to the master? This looks different from the last time … "

Upon Cryll's arrival where Noelle was, he immediately reached out his hand to check Noelle's heartbeat and pulse.

" … He is alive .. " Cryll said in astonishment.

No matter how strong Noelle was, she should not be able to return alive under such circumstances.

At least that's what Cryll and everyone thinks.

But Olivia and Charlotte easily refute her thoughts.

"Of course ... Noelle .. Won't die easily" Olivia said.

"Mmhmm .. Noelle couldn't have died just because of that" Charlotte said.

Cryll asked the two of them with astonished faces.

" ……… "

Olivia did not answer. He just kept staring at Noelle and cleaned her face and white hair that was splashed by her own blood.

(So, yes .. He is very sure)

Cryll smiled as he thought about it.

As for Charlotte, she flat-facedly intended to interrupt Cryll's thoughts with the phrase 'No, it's because she's immortal', but immediately went back to swallowing her words because she didn't want to disturb the atmosphere.

After all, Charlotte was interested in the development of the misunderstanding that was to come next.

Unbeknownst to her, Noelle's interest in a social misunderstanding has been transmitted to herself.

A while after that, Noelle slowly opened her eyes and took a sitting position with her body still covered in blood.

"Ughh .. My head … "

Even though all of his external injuries had regenerated, and he did not feel any pain, the shock effects transferred to his brain were really painful.

Noelle absentmindedly glanced around her and found Olivia and Cryll staring at her worriedly.

" ……? "

Noelle wrapped her head in confusion. However, he immediately felt a strangeness in his body.

" … Is Noelle okay? "

Ignoring Olivia who asked him, Noelle felt her own body, then moved her lips to call Brackas.

After Noelle called out her name, a giant wolf appeared before everyone and made Dyland draw his sword in vigilance.

"Brackas, did you see my left hand? "

"Hm? "

Olivia and Cryll simultaneously tilted their heads in confusion upon hearing Noelle's question.

Noelle who saw them then sighed tiredly and took off the robe she had been wearing all this time.

"Look, my left hand is gone and has not regenerated. It means that my left hand is still somewhere in one piece. .. It should be … "

Perhaps because the armor she always used had an automatic restoration effect, neither Olivia nor anyone else knew Noelle had lost her arm.

When Noelle's left hand was cut off, the harness automatically fixed the part of the arm that was cut off. Because, the armor will only repair itself without giving the regeneration effect to the user.

Olivia and Cryll nodded understandingly upon hearing Noelle's explanation.

" … Useless armour."

"Agreed."

The two of them smiled wryly as they thought about it, while Brackas had already disappeared in search of Noelle's hand.

"Wait, why are you so calm?! His hand just got cut off, right?! "

Norman resentfully interrupted their casual conversation.

"Hey, are you okay? " ask Dyland to Noelle.

Noelle only glanced at them for a moment, then replied nonchalantly.

"No problem, my hands will instantly regenerate when Brackas returns with that severed hand."

After all, Noelle and Olivia's body regeneration types were not as powerful as the ones in their skill descriptions.

They will only regenerate if their body pieces have been connected. Of course they could instantly regenerate without the need to connect the other pieces of their bodies, only, it required an enormous amount of magic power and it would be troublesome to do so.

However, if that body piece had been destroyed in such a terrible state, Noelle and Olivia could freely choose to regenerate without the need to connect organs or even without the need for such great magic energy.

"But ... Still I wonder ... Who attacked us? "

The question posed by one of the people in the Norman group broke the silence and made everyone think hard.

Of course, Noelle already had an estimate of the perpetrator of the attack. Still, he hesitated about his thoughts. Because, he established Terneth as the main culprit behind the attack.

Noelle developed that doubt because the pillar of light that attacked them earlier was not magic, but something else.

He found no trace of magic on the pillar of light. After all, if the pillar of light was really a magic, Noelle could instantly cancel her attack by using《Magic Interference》.

Noelle tried it while she was setting up《Reign》. However, it did not stop the attack from the pillar of light at all.

"What is it ... Terneth …? "

Shortly after the silence again dominated the room, Dyland muttered in a fairly low voice, however, it was precisely easily heard by everyone there.

"Wait, Dyland. Why do you think Mr Terneth did it? "

Norman asked with narrowed eyes at Dyland.

Dyland then answered him after a conflict in his mind for a while.

"That .. I don't know why, but .. My instinct just has to say that Terneth is not a good person. Of course there is a possibility that my guess is wrong, since Terneth is a witch, he should have no way of issuing such an attack .. But .. Still I am sure that he did … "

(So she also noticed it, huh .. )

-–As expected of a holy knight.

Noelle wanted to say that, but she immediately swallowed her words back as she had just corrected the conclusion she had made just a moment ago.

" … Should be .. There is more than one perpetrator … "

Noelle suddenly said and made everyone look at her.

(Ughh .. Don't look at me like that .. I'm not playing detective roles here .. )

It was painful when all the reincarnations of his former classmates were looking at him like that.

But Noelle kept her flat expression and explained the reason why she could make such a conclusion.

"Look, my left hand could be cut off because of something sharp. It was very different from the light pillar's attack earlier."

Noelle showed a neat slash mark at the base of her elbow.

"Seeing from anywhere, the pillar of light had a destructive type of attack that would destroy any subject or object that hit it using superheated light. I think it would be appropriate to describe it as .. Hyperion or a hot laser attack in a science fiction movie … "

Noelle uttered the final part of her sentence in a low voice so that it would not be heard by anyone but people with super sharp hearing like Olivia and Charlotte.

(But ... If the culprit is not Terneth ... Then who? Did Harold and [Red Eagle] start moving? No. I guess it was too soon .. The message Terneth sent them did contain a request to come as soon as possible, but .. Still it was too soon.)

Noelle frowned in frustration. They have too little information to draw conclusions.

(Which villain desperately wants to finish off the Prince and the successor of the other noble house .. That bastard is really annoying .. )

"Well, forget about that. Brackas found my hand."

Just as he said, Brackas suddenly emerged from his shadow carrying Noelle's arm in a terrible state in his mouth.

"Good job."

Noelle took her hand from Brackas' mouth and stroked his head for a while.

"Uwaahh~ This is really in a terrible state … "

Noelle grimaced as she looked at her already almost formless hand. It already had no fingers, and its skin had also melted in some parts, revealing a disgusting part of the flesh.

(Luckily I didn't use the ring on my finger on this trip .. )

Noelle was always careful in keeping her engagement ring with Olivia. Just in case, he always used it as a necklace that he always kept in a pouch in his armor robe.

"Now … "

Noelle poured her magic energy into her already shapeless hand. And instantly, the hand that could not be called was instantly restoring its appearance and slowly fused with the slash marks that were on Noelle's elbow.

"And ... Regeneration completed … "

Noelle's hand has returned to its original form. He cheerfully tried to do some movements with his hands for stretching.

"Mhmm, magic is amazing, isn't it? "

(No, only you can do that.)

Cryll with a sour face thought that.

As they were all still speechless, Lilith slowly came forward and opened her lips to talk to Noelle, however …

"Umhmm .. Iz–Noelle … "

"And I guess we should also continue on foot, huh … "

Noelle easily switched the conversation and pretended not to hear Lilith's call.

"I've seen the situation outside through Brackas, and .. The ship we boarded earlier is completely destroyed. And all the staff who served there were also killed by the light pillar attack or drowned while trying to escape."

Noelle with an expression that seemed to say she had not heard or even seen Lilith's whereabouts standing picked up one of the books on a nearby shelf.

(Luckily I have changed the contents of《Reign》 some time ago .. )

A smile of relief began to form on Noelle's face which was now focused on her book.

"For while you can rest here, I also still have to recover myself."

The use of mana to activate《Reign》maaih is large enough for Noelle to do it regularly. Therefore he had to rest to recover the magic power he used for《Reign》.

Wellh, someday and somehow Noelle will do something for that one magic spell.

Anyway《Reign》have many advantages in the fight …

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