Summoned and Unwanted

764 The power of the legendary sword is about to be revealed publicly

As wave after wave of vines emerged and started to become a bother, the annoyed bear shot a wave of projectiles. The vines climbing and whipping its legs were easily ripped, yet like a wild plant growing in a garden, the vines kept emerging.

Two shadow lines wrapped around Ester’s shoulder. With a strong pull upwards, she was pulled high up in the sky.

*Tap* Ester’s body stopped, and two hands tapped reassuringly on her back.

Ester moved her gaze and saw Awa on one side and Night on the other. They were slowly falling as if their body was as light as a feather.

“Ester. I can not stay like this for much longer.” Said Awa.

Awa and Night had used a lot of their shared mana pool to recover their current shadow bodies. They were running out of mana soon.

Ester had noticed Awa and Night’s shadow bodies were less condensed than before. The dark body was slightly see-through, as if they were composed of smoke about to disperse soon.

Ester believed Awa could hold on for around one more minute. This meant there was not much time for second chances. They had to defeat the towering bear soon, or like Lupa, Awa would be the next fighter to stop fighting.

“Good to know. ” Ester responded while nodding. With a determined gaze, she continued, “Can you distract this monster while I concrete and use all my mana?”

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“As a woman of my clan leader, I trust you will not fail. ” Awa said confidently.

Ester smiled. She felt happy to have a person she did not know for a long time place their trust in her.

“If I fail, I hope you have my back.”

“Until my body stops being that of a warrior, I will have your back at any given time.”

*Neigh*

“Night will also have your back.”

Awa and Night left go of Ester. They extended their leg and shot a shadow line at the towering bear. Each landed on an injured area caused by the mana absorbing and temporary mana flow disruption.

This meant they were about to start targeting the weak spots Ester created to recover her mana and top up more mana than her mana pool could handle.

With a burst of speed, the two landed with great force. The loud sound of the impact and the loud cracking sound of hardened earth breaking caught the attention of most audience members spectating their side of the fight.

The bear glared murderously at Awa and Night. Protruding earth spikes extended to impale them, earth shards shot at them to pierce them, and the two large arms began to move to crush them.

However, try as it might, the bear could not hit them after they hastily jumped away the moment they landed.

While the bear was distracted by the vines gradually emerging from the ground less and less frequently, and while Awa and Night duo relentlessly attacked before their power-up duration ended, Ester constantly tapped her feet to remain in the sky and danced.

Ester swung her arms in a cross pattern before spinning her swords with her fingers. Her breathing lowered the more concentrated she became. Her crimson eyes burning with conviction, barely blinked.

While Ester’s focus reached its peak, she twisted her body while swinging her arm. Elsie was thrown at the bear at that moment.

The bear swung its arm and caught the spinning dark blade. After the grip closed, Elsie could not be seen anymore.

The audience could not understand why Ester would throw her weapon so recklessly at the bear. Now she lost one of her weapons because of this. Even Luciano frowned after seeing Ester do such a thing.

“Ladies and gentlemen. The fight of the tallest combatant is still developing, yet we are starting to see that if the Lionheart team does not do anything different than what they tried before, the grizzly bear familiar will end up winning in the end.”

The representative became opportunistic after hearing the commentator speak in favor of the team he was representing.

“Hah. Women can not beat the specially trained grizzly bear familiar.” He courageously said while his legs stopped slightly shivering from the anxiety of becoming a slave if his side lost.

“Women, you said?” Darwin questioned.

“That is right. No matter their power, they can not win unless they ganged on the specially trained grizzly bear familiar.” The representative smirked mockingly and added, “Maybe if they were twenty women, they might stand a chance.”

As Darwin wanted, the representative’s words caused many women to frown. They were being mocked as being less powerful than men.

With a pair of sly eyes and a faint victorious smirk, Darwin told the person who landed in his trap, “If women are weak, then does that mean Royal Guardian Duchess Karta Milloween is not strong enough to defeat your specially trained grizzly bear familiar?”

The representative’s body shook the moment he understood he had landed in Darwin’s trap. He turned his head to look at the field and didn’t open his mouth to say another word.

“Marquis Darwin, what are your current thoughts? How do you think the fight is going to unfold in the next few minutes?” Updat𝒆d fr𝒐m nov𝒆lb(i)n.c(o)m

Darwin moved his gaze to look at Ester. He focused his gaze on Eslir as it became brighter by the second, and the wind was entering the shining blade like a black hole.

With a confident smile on his face, Darwin responded, “I believe Ester Lionheart’s next move will be the deciding factor of who will win and who will lose.”

“Luciano. You sure are happy to see your granddaughter performing well. It’s not often that I see you grin.” The king told Luciano.

Luciano touched his lips. He almost gasped to know the king was right. As his life is mostly busy and stressful taking care of the kingdom until one of the king’s heirs becomes eligible to take the throne, the old man Luciano only moved his lips to do a social smile. A genuine smile was as rare as winning a lottery.

“I wonder if I should keep her by my side instead of letting her go to your kingdom with you.” The king teased to commemorate seeing Luciano grin genuinely.

Anna moved her head to look at her father. A pleasant smile was on her face. “Father. Do you mean it? Will I be able to have Ester as my royal guard?”

“Haha.” The king laughed to see his daughter so interested in another person that wasn’t a man. “Sure. I might even increase their nobility rank since she is the granddaughter of my old friend.”

“Hmm. That is not a bad idea since the world will soon know that the Lionheart family has a sigil mage that can use her spells without getting harmed.” Karta added.

Luciano did not want to argue while Ester was about to perform her final attack. He focused his eyes on Ester and hoped she would succeed in what she had planned.

Ester could feel almost all eyes of the audience were on her, yet she was so focused that ignoring their gazes was as easy as breathing. Elsir continuously amplified the wind sigils and gathered a scary amount of destructive power.

On the other side, Mimi was about to land a critical hit on Slaveone. But as her bloody claws reached the one-armed gladiator, the arm holding the shield raised to block her attack.

Slaveone did not express being in pain after the initial rush of pain from having his arm severed. With a grip firm enough to bend the handle, he swung his shield to block and shield bash Mimi.

Mimi frowned. She prepared to have her attack blocked as she started controlling the flying rapier and shield to attack Slaveone.

As Mimi was preparing, her eyes wide, and her lips formed a grin. Four condensed bullets of mana shot with great accuracy passed very close to her body.

Two landed in the heart area of the chest. The other two projectiles landed in the only shoulder with an arm attached to it.

The shield stopped getting closer to Mimi. This allowed her to perform an attack without being stopped, and perform she did.

The rapier and the shield stopped flying. They fell to the ground. The blood on them returned to ordinary liquid blood. As this happened, her claws became longer, thicker, and sharper looking than before.

Her arm muscles tensed before swinging with all her might. The claws reached Slaveone’s neck. The result was a bloody mess.

Slaveone’s blood sprayed on Mimi before he started gasping for air. Mimi landed on her feet, and Slaveone took a couple of steps back.

Mimi shook her head, and her hair drenched. Her enemy’s blood splattered on the ground. “Do you want to do the honors?” She told Vincent while her arm twitched slightly as if she had pulled a muscle.

Vincent chuckled and joked, “I don’t want to hear your father come to me and complain that I am a terrible monster for taking your kill. Or that he should kill me for taking your kill.”

*Snap* After Mimi snapped her fingers, the blood on her rapier and the blood on her shield shot toward Slaveone. The large swole gladiator didn’t take long for him to slam to the ground and gasp for the last time.

Vincent and Mimi moved their gaze at Ester and the radiant sword Elsir condensing power by the second.

[Vincent. I think Ester is going to use Elsir’s Equivalent Trade skill to kill the monstrous mutated bear.]