The Great Sage Who Did not Remain in Legend - 36.3

Dodging Vanessa’s charge with ease and also avoiding the incoming arrows with smooth movements.

“Too soft.”

Mergin moves swiftly to dodge, and Rikka’s sword comes down where he was.

Really good teamwork. With this, I can trust Iris to them.

“Protection!”

*Clink*

Rikka’s sword, aimed to strike down, is deflected by a shield of light. Next, Vanessa comes in low, attacking with swift, upward slashes.

*Clink* *Clink*

Then, with a delay, arrows fired by Cisco rain down from above. All are deflected by the Protection spell stretched out above like an umbrella.

“What… What was that just now…”

Rose is stunned by the magic Mergin used. She becomes certain that she wouldn’t be able to handle such an attack if it were directed at her.

“Not yet!”

Vanessa, undeterred by having her sword repeatedly deflected, continues to jump around and attack Mergin from unpredictable angles.

*Clink* *Clink* *Clink*

“Damn it. If that’s the case, I’ll show you my real technique!”

Vanessa feints an attack from below, then leaps out of sight, spinning and attacking from both sides.

*Thud*

Vanessa, with a powerful attack, crashes into the Protection and loses consciousness.

“Hey, are you alright?”

It looks like she hit her face against the Protection, with her nose turning red, but she seems to be fine otherwise. I’ll let her rest as she is.

Mergin spreads out a blanket and takes off his coat to cover Vanessa.

“Cisco, did you get it? This is the Protection spell. It’s not difficult to cast it broadly or to envelop ourselves, but it uses a lot of magic power. To use it efficiently while conserving magic, you need to train to cast it precisely and instantaneously, like now. What will you do? Want to try this?”

“If I could master it, it would be amazing. But can I? Also, if there’s magic to increase the power of my bow, that might be better.”

“Don’t worry about the bow’s power. We can handle that without magic.”

“Huh?”

“I’ll give you this.”

Mergin produces an unfamiliar, unusual bow.

“What is this?”

“It’s called a compound bow.”

Mergin explains how to use it.

“It’s different from the bow you’re using now, so you’ll need to get used to it. Try it out.”

Cisco draws the string of the compound bow as instructed.

“Does it really have such power with so little effort? And it requires almost no strength when drawn this much.”

“Aim and pull the trigger of the release.”

*Whoosh*

“Huh?”

“See? It has enough power, right? I’m giving this to you. I’ll also prepare extra arrows. What about the Protection spell?”

“I’ll take that too.”