The Status Window Disappeared

Demon King’s Mercy (4)

Two months have passed.

Chris, who was undergoing harsh lessons under Gearic, started sparring against the undead of Elgar.

Even if you learn a skill every day under a great teacher, it is useless if you cannot use it yourself.

Fortunately, Elgar’s undead were very good sparring opponents.

Chris, who had his first sparring against the undead who knew neither fear nor death, almost lost his finger.

It was thanks to Gearick, who took Chris’ health bonus into consideration, and ordered the undead chosen for sparring to kill him.

“Get your mind right! If you don’t kill them, you will die.”

Hearing Gearic’s shouts, Chris belatedly engaged in sparring with sincerity and defeated the undead attacking him.

This was a couple of words, but in fact it was close to a fight to the death.

The low-level undead with low intelligence did not show any mercy according to the general’s orders.

“S, Master! Can I really kill you?”

“Take it easy. We cannot even die in Elgar-sama’s sight.”

Gearrick replied sneeringly, and Chris’s shield smashed the skeleton’s head.

However, the skeleton quickly recovers the body and attacks him again.

Originally, even the undead were not this persistent, but the energy emitted by Elgar strengthened them.

Chris, who had been dealing with undead forces all day long, could feel that the shield knight’s skills had become more familiar to him.

Gearic prepared various battlefields and enemies for him.

It’s been a month since I experienced group battles, daily fighting, and melee day and night.

Chris was finally able to learn the shield roar.

However, without the reward of obtaining permission at best, Chris was unable to progress on the last technique.

Unlike before, it was a skill that could not be learned using the status window.

In addition, the difficulty of the technique is the highest among those of the Shield Knight.

Even after a month of training, Chris couldn’t fully digest the roar of the shield.

Gearrick, who was watching him, reassured the impatient disciple.

“Don’t be too hasty. It took me more than 2 months to learn the roar of the shield, as I heard the sound of the greatest genius in the history of the knights.”

“So how long will it take me to learn this?”

Chris responded anxiously to the consolation that doubled as self-praise.

Gearic pondered briefly and then lightly gave an answer.

“Because I stick with you and teach you, about six months?”

“Everything, I’m glad.”

In a more realistic period than expected, Chris let out a sigh of relief.

Six months isn’t a short time by any means, but it’s a cheap price for learning such top-notch skills. Gearic’s talent is a talent, but his teaching skills are not bad either.

However, Elgar had no intention of waiting that long.

After studying the status window through Tyrone, she decided to move her wagon.

Chris thought of following her, but she reacted coldly.

“It’s enough if you lend me Gearrick, the best of my knights, for three months. Are you sure you want to hold onto my ankle?”

“Oh, no.”

Chris, who was facing her with Gearrick, sighed inwardly and lowered his head.

It’s very unfortunate, but it seemed that this was the end of Gearic’s teaching.

But Elgar didn’t stop there just like that.

Grabbing Chris, who was about to step back, she looked around for a moment, then pointed to her maid and said,

“Since you’ve shown mercy at best, you should check the results. A week from now, have a duel with my maid of honor. If you die at that time, I will accept you as the last member of my army.”

“yes? Elga-sama, that is too much!”

It was Illesis, not Chris, who boldly responded to the demon king’s order.

She stopped Elgar with an expression as if she would die any moment.

However, Elgar was not a great person to repeat the words he once uttered.

“What do you mean too much? If you can’t do even that much with my help, you deserve to die.”

“Ha, but Elga-sama… … .”

“all right.”

Chris was taken aback, giving a quick nod and stepping back before Illesis could speak back.

In fact, I expected this much from the time I received her help.

If it hadn’t been for this, she would have been called by a nickname like the generous tree, not the demon king.

To Elgar, Chris’ strength is not a big deal.

In any case, in front of the demon king, everyone is an equal weakling.

What matters is whether he has wasted her help.

The expression of Illesis, who had left Elgar’s carriage and approached the bonfire, was not very bright.

Thanks to learning magic from Elgar, she had a rough idea of the maid’s skills.

The Handmaidens of Death are a species that did not exist until Elgar created them.

Designed by the demon king himself, all of them were excellent wizards, and were much more dangerous than similar undead lich.

After listening to Illesis’ explanation, Chris was able to get a rough idea of his opponent.

“First of all, the most dangerous thing is the aura of absorption that sucks life and mana from enemies within 20 meters. And the aura of death that sucks in moisture from 10 meters away. Both are active at all times, and can be extended to 40 meters if desired. So, it would be best to avoid close combat as much as possible.”

“uh… My opponent is a mage, so I told her not to engage in close combat?”

Chris was tongue-in-cheek about his incredibly tricky special ability.

For warriors not to engage in melee against wizards means just die.

Illesis ponders for a moment, then shakes her head.

“No, since you can use the Anti-Magic Armor, it might be okay.”

“You can’t win with that.”

Gearrick, who had been listening to the two of them talking from the side, interrupted in an eerie voice.

As if he doesn’t want to kill the student he’s made so far, he approaches the strategy meeting with a serious attitude.

“The anti-horse armor has poor fuel economy, so it is the worst to deal with the aura that is always activated. It is a technique to get out of a crisis, not a technique to push the opponent.”

“that… I guess so. What the hell am I supposed to do?”

While Illesis was crying, Chris also tried his own calculations.

Once absorbed, the ring of mirrors is automatically sealed because of the aura of absorption.

Trying to disrupt by summoning an alternate body would only increase the opponent’s magic power.

That’s why you can’t use the phoenix’s magic bow, the opponent is a very good wizard.

Giving magic attacks to a good wizard is like fighting a monkey by climbing a tree.

The Blade of Grief is also hard to see a great effect against the undead, so after all, I can’t rely on epic items this time.

Chris shook his head to shake off his hopeless imagination and asked Illesis.

“Compared to the last singer I saw, who do you think is stronger?”

“I’m not sure, but the maid-in-waiting’s skills seemed to be just below the Six Kings.”

“Accurate. The lady-in-waiting is weaker than that cheeky bastard.”

Gearic confirms Illesis’ guess from the side.

Chris puts his hopes on his more cooperative attitude than expected.

“Th-then can I beat the lady-in-waiting?”

“There is a way. But I don’t want to teach you that in detail.”

“What does that mean?”

Illesis is puzzled by Gearic’s strange answer.

But Chris immediately understood what he meant.

Gearic was not a teacher who directly caught fish, but a teacher who taught him how to catch fish.

Elgar’s ordeal must be resolved by Chris using his own strength and resourcefulness.

Otherwise, the next time you face a similar ordeal, you will not be able to overcome it.

For now, it is enough to confirm that the odds are in place.

Chris thought so and began to figure out his problem.

He requested a sparring with Gearic and activated the armor of absorption while exchanging light sword strikes.

Shield Roar is a skill that absorbs an opponent’s attack, resonates and amplifies it, and returns it dozens of times.

Chris has already mastered the latter steps, resonance and amplification.

The problem was to pick and absorb the opponent’s attacks.

Chris needs to accumulate a similar kind of power to achieve resonance and amplification.

If the opponent strikes with the same power and the same method, the absorption will be completed immediately and the shield roar can be activated.

But in practice, the odds of that happening are extremely rare.

Because of this, the armor of absorption digs up the opponent’s attacks in detail and only takes out the kind of power that you need.

It was this sorting that Chris was struggling with right now.

To compare this to music, it was a task that was tantamount to picking out specific notes while a loud pop song was playing.

It is so difficult and difficult for Chris, who does not have such a talent as absolute pitch.

If you borrow the power of the status window, you can forcefully use it, but if you do that, you will not be able to use the skills of other classes.

Now, the shield knight’s skills that Chris directly unfolds are more sophisticated and sharper than those used through the status window.

Except for the armor of absorption, of course.

So maintaining the shield knight class because of one armor of absorption was such a big loss.

“I don’t know if I can make this in time… … .”

Chris, impatient, did not stop his limbs even as he complained.

In the meantime, Tyrone, who was captured by Elgar, joined and put their heads together, but he also failed to come up with a sharp answer.

In the end, all Chris could do was continue his usual training.

It would be natural if it was natural, but the miracle did not happen.

One week after Elgar’s notice.

Chris left the training ground with a feeling of helplessness.

The wagon, which she uses as her place of residence and transportation, is already ready for her journey.

The lower level Undead carrying their backpacks were in a position where they could start marching at any moment.

Chris faced Elgar’s maid at the place where the carriage had been parked earlier.

The space for the duel between the two was empty without any obstacles.

A small arena about 100 meters in height and width.

There was a bit of a narrow feeling for Chris and the maid-of-magnitude to rampage, but there were no complaints.

Anyway, for Chris, it’s good that there is no space for the opponent to escape.

Elgar and Illesis, Tyrone and the Death Knights. Gearic and the maids stood around the arena and watched the duel between the two.

As Elgar smiled with a meaningful smile and quietly raised his right hand, an intangible force enveloped the arena.

As a result, the two duelists could not go outside until she gave her permission.

Elgar’s maid of honor was pale and beautiful like the rest of her kind, but she gave off an unusual aura from the outside.

With her back to Chris, she knelt in front of Elgar and asked a very polite question.

“master. Master’s lowly attendant, may I dare to ask you a question?”

“What is it?”

When Elgar, who seemed somehow in a good mood, readily agreed, the maid trembled and asked again.

“I am afraid that, out of my foolishness, I will pervert your will and go against your will. What can I do with this person?”

The head maid circumspectively asks whether she should adjust her strength or not.

Elgar responded ruthlessly to the point of being a little mean in front of Chris and the others.

“Kill him.”

“Yes, master. Then we will start now.”

Upon receiving the master’s order, the lady-in-waiting did not hesitate any longer.

She raises her staff and immediately casts a protection spell.

Chris also quickly prepared for a counterattack with minimal buffs.

Under the guidance of Gearrick, he intended to take advantage of the opponent’s attacks and aim for an opening.

However, the lady-in-waiting seldom showed aggression, dispelling the nervous Chris.

“Guardian of Flame, Mercy of Incarnation, Bondage of Earth Mother!”

Layers of protective spells cover her body.

She even applied restraint spells to immobilize her body, and seemed to have given up attack spells altogether.

Chris, who noticed the situation belatedly, quickly went on the offensive, but it was too late.

The opponent has already become so hard that it can’t even be scratched with a few skills.

“Stop, please… no. This is too much!”

Illesis, who was watching the duel between the two, let out an ominous moan.

Tyrone, who was beside her, quietly asked her, as if he didn’t quite understand the situation yet.

“Why are you suddenly like this?”

“The lady-in-waiting is well aware of the shield knight’s weaknesses thanks to Gearrick. If you cast a superlative spell in that state, Chris won’t even have a chance to fight back.”

As soon as Illesis’ explanation was finished, the lady-in-waiting started a new chant.

Unlike the protection spells cast before, the new spell created a very large, ominous ball of fire.

Chris clicks his tongue when he realizes her goal.

The Shield Knight’s strengths are defense and counterattack.

So, in order to defeat him, it is best not to give him a chance to counterattack at all.

Surrounded by protective spells, if she takes a long time to prepare, even Chris can die in one shot.

Even the Anti-Magic Armor, a skill specialized in magic defense, cannot completely block the highest level of spells.

Even as he poured out meaningless attacks, the fireball created by the maid grew bigger and bigger.

Giving up on piercing the protective spell, Chris took a quick step back, catching his ragged breathing.