After ordering Nainiae to watch the bastard to make sure he does not escape, Riley made the flame on his sword to burn more intensely and said,
“Wow… Your rejuvenated self looks great?”
As the Archbishop of the Holy Temple, Rebethra had eye catching white beard in the past. Remembering this, Riley observed Rebethra who hadn’t just gotten a little younger but had completely reverted to being a child. Riley asked him,
“What’s your secret?”
“It’s thanks to the great one. I was reborn.”
It seemed that he was trying to pay respect to the one he served. He lowered his head a little and praised the being he served. Noticing his response, Riley’s eyebrows flinched.
“Wow… I never knew.”
Rebethra walked toward Riley. Riley was facing him. While suppressing his anger, Riley asked as if he was patronizing Rebethra,
“I never knew that the bitch was… also an expert in plastic surgery.”
“Plastic… surgery?”
It seemed Rebethra didn’t know what that was. He tilted his head to the side. As if he was trying to say never mind, Riley shook his head and said,
“It’s nothing. Even if you knew what it meant, you will just yell at me saying I spoke ill of your great one or whatever. It would be better for you to not know what it means.”
“…”
Rebethra narrowed his eyes to say that he did not like what Riley just said. Of the two arms he had open wide, he lightly closed his right hand.
“… No. Wait.”
Kwang!
It sounded like something had been shot.
Phang!
Sounds of explosions in the air repeated.
“Did you think I was just sitting around because I didn’t expect you to try pulling off a sneak attack?”
Kwang!
Again, it sounded like something was launched from behind Rebethra.
Phang!
Again, from the sword that Riley swung, what sounded like a balloon pop could be heard repeatedly.
“Tsk…”
Having realized that his surprise attack had failed, Rebethra clicked his tongue. Instead of using one at a time, this time, he used the ability to generate multiple of them to pour down at Riley.
To draw comparison to the magic of this world, it was like a magic arrow, which was a basic magic. However…There were a lot of them and one thing unique was that they were invisible.
“You think increasing the number a bit is going to make a difference?”
Riley asked lightly. Surrounding Riley, the sounds of things being shot and popping explosions continued.
‘How did he figure it out? Is it not some ordinary senses?’
Rebethra could not understand how Riley noticed his ability, which is supposed to be invisible to naked eyes. Rebethra looked at the sword with white flame that was on Riley’s hand.
‘Is it because of the sword?’
In the past, Inaril, the Right Hand, had this bandage wrapped sword hidden. Now… in Riley’s hand, it was exuding white flame for some reason and showing off how majestic and brilliant the sword looked.
‘When the great one asked me to bring that sword, I wondered why she was so interested in that sword that didn’t seemed to have any significance, but… I see. It was a weapon that was worth worrying about.’
His black spaces and hands… They were things that should have been impossible to cut. However, the sword did. Remembering these, Rebethra glared at the sword and prepared his next ability.
‘Should I try that? Or this?’
Rebethra was rolling his eyes around. Looking at his face, Riley seemed amused. Riley said,
“You seem to have a lot of margins to spare? Are you considering your options?”
“…?!”
“Everything you can do, everything you can use… It would be best for you to try them all.”
Before Rebethra realized, Riley’s voice was coming from his back. Rebethra gasped for air. He saturated his hand with purple light and swung it.
“I might made a mistake, controlling my power, and…”
“Kuk!”
Rebethra’s eyes were opened wide.
“… if you died, then that would be bad for me!”
As he finished speaking, Riley swung his sword. Riley cleanly avoided Rebethra’s purple light hand, and at the same time, he cross cut Rebethra’s shoulder in a long diagonal line.
“Uuuugk?!”
In an instant, his shoulder was cut off clean. Rebethra’s face filled with pain.
‘When did he move to the back?’
He gritted his teeth due to pain. To retrieve the right hand that was cut off, Rebethra quickly extended his left hand.