The Peace In A Beautiful World
Chapter 73: Snow Sword Dance

"Rid Archie, do you want to train a match with me?" asked Irene's daughter.

"Training a match with princess Irene ? well I don't matter anyway. But is princess Irene okay to compete with me?," I asked.

"I just want to try it feels like fighting against the 1st rank, even though I'm sure I won't win" said Irene's daughter.

"Daughter Irene is too humble, I hope I'm not frozen in this match practice" I said.

In the middle of the training ground was a large area that had nothing there, so I assumed in the middle it was for the training ground. Both of you decided to go to the middle to train there.

"Sorry daughter Irene, this is indeed just a match practice but are the terms of winning the loss the same as in the daily match?," I asked.

"Yes, the conditions are the same. What distinguishes there is no point that increases or decreases in this match practice," said princess Irene.

"Alright, then I will calculate the time to start this match practice," I said.

"Yes, please" said princess Irene.

We were both getting ready to start the fight. Then I began to calculate the time to start training the match.

"3, 2, 1-" I said.

Then suddenly.

~Glacier Strike~

Princess Irene immediately launched an attack from her rapier on me. I immediately slashed the attack with my sword and the attack was split in two past me.

"A magic attack from his weapon ? ah I see, it's appropriate that I don't see him turning his weapon into a magic weapon first. It turned out that his weapon had been turned into a magic weapon. No wonder he was able to directly attack me with a magic attack. Pretty good too, princess Irene," I thought.

"My sudden attack could be broken even making my attack split in half. As expected of rank 1" said princess Irene.

I just realized that if I slashed at princess Irene's attack with reflexes, I usually just held back or avoided the attack.

~Ice Magic, Create Magic Weapon, Sixtuple Ice Rapier~

Princess Irene continued her attack by taking out the 6 ice rapiers surrounding her body.

"The technique was the same as the one he used in the second stage entrance examination. Making a magic surround her like that, is princess Irene already able to spread her Mananya around her?," I thought.

~Magic Boost~

~Power Boost~

~Speed Boost~

Princess Irene used the boost to improve her abilities.

~Ice Skating~

Princess Irene moved quickly towards me by skating like on an ice field, even though the floor of this training ground was not made of ice.

~San Lucia Art, Snow Blade Dance Technique~

Princess Irene then tried to attack me with Rapier in her hand but managed to hold it with my sword. After I held the rapier in his hand, the 6 ice rapiers surrounding him tried to attack me one by one. I also pushed princess Irene to use my sword to get away and try to avoid the attacks from the 6 ice rapiers surrounding her. 6 The rapier attacked me. There was a rapier who tried to slash me and someone tried to stab me. I also avoided the 6 rapiers one by one. Other than those 6 ice rapiers, princess Irene also kept attacking me using her rapier. In this situation, I was like fighting 7 rapier users at once.

"When princess Irene attacked directly using her rapier or did not attack, the 6 rapiers kept attacking me continuously. And again, the pattern of the six rapiers' attacks was different. How could princess Irene control those six rapiers at once ? Is princess Irene also an expert in ~Mind Magic~ ?," I thought.

Since I only use 1 sword, I can only withstand 1 attack and avoid other attacks. I decided to continue resisting the rapier attack used directly by princess Irene and dodging the other six rapiers.

Princess Irene attacked me by thrusting her rapier towards me, but I managed to hold her with my sword despite being pushed back a few steps. When I was pushed back, the six rapiers surrounding him attacked me in a row but I managed to avoid it.

"It looks like these six rapiers won't stop if they're not destroyed" I thought.

Then princess Irene attacked me directly using her rapier but I immediately held her down with my sword. I know this pattern, if Princess Irene attacks me with her rapier directly and I manage to hold it. 6 rapiers surrounding her will attack me immediately when I resist the direct attack of princess Irene. And sure enough, those 6 rapiers directly attacked me. I immediately pushed back Princess Irene with my sword and intended to directly face the 6 rapiers. An ice rapier began to approach to slash me, then I prepared an attack from my sword.

~Ice Crusher~

I slashed an ice rapier that led to me and instantly destroyed the ice rapier. The other ice rapiers began to point at me one by one. Then I used ~Ice Crusher~ every time the ice rapier attacked me until finally the six ice rapiers were all destroyed.

"It looks like the ice rapier you made is no longer left, daughter Irene," I said.

"Yes, you're right. Though I'm sure that the ice rapier I made was pretty hard. But I'm not surprised that you can destroy it" said Irene's daughter.

"Let's end this match practice on this last attack" said Irene's daughter.

Looks like princess Irene is intending to finish this match practice as soon as possible.

"All right," I said.

Princess Irene seemed to catch her breath and took it out again and prepared to carry out her attack.

~Ice Magic, Frozen Rapier~

Princess Irene turned her rapier into a frozen rapier.

"~Frozen Rapier~ ? So he was willing to use that technique for this final attack huh," I thought.

~Ice Skating~

Princess Irene moved quickly towards me while skating.

"It seems that holding back that technique in the usual way is not a good idea, it's better that I also use my technique to clash with that technique," I thought

Princess Irene finally managed to get closer to me and let out her attack.

~San Lucia Art, Freezing Air Slash~

I also pulled out my sword technique.

~Sword Art, Half Moon Slash~

Both of our techniques collided and resulted in a very strong impact. Due to the attack from princess Irene, my sword slowly began to freeze. But before my sword froze completely, I strengthened my attack and managed to push back Princess Irene a few steps back.

Some of my sword froze and the trajectory of the slash that princess Irene carried was also frozen in the air. At the training ground, there was a bit of ice fog that seemed to be the effect of the collision of our attacks.

"Even this attack you managed to withstand yes, as expected of the first rank," said princess Irene.

"Even though I ranked first, the difference in points we both had was only 5 points, daughter Irene. You also get perfect points in the second and third stage entrance examination. It indicates that you are strong too" I said.

"Yes, indeed the difference in points we are both only 5 points. But in this match practice I realized that our power difference is very large, even you do not use magic in our match practice," said princess Irene.

"I gave up, I admitted to losing this match practice" said Irene's daughter.

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