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The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road Chapter 192

The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road Chapter 192.

While Ars was heightening his tension facing his opponent, the other party was not.

Pion Glast, who was facing Ars, felt as if he had found a new toy.

‘It’s been a while since I’ve tasted blood.’

He didn’t feel even a shred of tension.

This was because Ars was covering his face with a mask and hood.

From this, Pion assumed that his opponent was also an elf.

As the 2nd ranked in the Guardian Order and sitting in the position of Guardian Commander, there was only one elf who could defeat him.

All others were inferior to him.

So he judged that the opponent before him was the same.

“Which faction do you belong to? The Open Country faction? Or the Isolationist faction?”

“…”

“Hurry up and tell me. That way I can kill you in one breath without capturing you.”

Pion raised the corner of his mouth while pointing his sword. He couldn’t hide his sneer when he saw Ars’ weapon grip.

A sword in the left hand and a spear in the right.

“Looks like you’re trying to hide your identity… No chance!”

Pion lunged in one breath, swinging his sword with the intention of beheading Ars immediately.

A sword brimming with aura

Ars avoided it by leaning his body backward.

“Not bad! Let’s see how long you can hold out!”

Just for avoiding one attack, Pion raised his evaluation of Ars.

He continued to press Ars.

Ars continued to endure, smoothly deflecting the sword Pion swung.

After exchanging blows for quite some time,

Pion narrowed his eyes, keeping his distance.

“You… Who are you?”

The part that felt odd was how well the opponent was enduring. To withstand his fierce attacks with such an outlandish grip style, using different weapons in each hand. That shouldn’t be possible.

He had to think that the opponent’s martial arts had a proper system.

However, there were no elven martial arts that Pion didn’t know. Which meant…

“Don’t tell me… You’re from outside?”

“…”

“Come to think of it, the Queen Mother mentioned it. That there was damage to the barrier a few days ago… Was that you?”

“Yes.

Ars finally spoke. Then he changed his stance.

Pion frowned at this attitude.

“What’s that? Are you saying you’ve been probing me all this time? Against me, Pion?”

“I don’t care if you’re Pion or whatever. I was just checking. Whether other guards would come due to the commotion earlier. And whether you would really call for reinforcements.”

“Oh ho. And?”

“It seems no guards are coming. And it looks like you have no intention of calling for help either. Then it’s simple. I’ll just have to end this quickly and go.”

“You dare talk big. You think you can defeat me…!”

Swish! Ars suddenly thrust his spear towards Pion’s brow, forcing him to hurriedly lower his upper body.

“What!?

Ars’ speed was astonishing to him.

A speed of a different dimension.

This was because Ars was going all out for a quick subjugation.

Ars was using aura along with body strengthening magic to the maximum.

At this moment, Ars possessed power surpassing not only his master Ilya but even Anton, the strongest vassal.

Moreover, the depth of his martial arts was on a different level.

A flurry of sword and spear attacks that deceived the eyes. Pion, experiencing this martial art for the first time, was unable to respond at all and allowed the attacks to land.

Stab! Slash! His right shoulder was pierced by the spear and his knee was cut.

“Kuhek!”

Pion was subdued in just 20 exchanges and thrown to the ground.

Ars put his sword to Pion’s neck and whispered.

“Where’s the way up? Depending on your answer, I might let you live.”

“…”

“If you don’t want to speak, fine.”

He raised his spear without hesitation. Pion averted his gaze and pointed to a spot.

“Over there. The stairs there lead to the upper floors.”

This was based on the judgment that there would be no problem even if he told him.

‘She’s up there anyway.’

Ars looked down at Pion once as if assessing the truth, then raised the corner of his mouth.

“As expected, you were just a pawn.”

“…!”

Thud! Ars kicked him in the chin, and Pion fainted, foaming at the mouth.

Ars took out a rope from the small backpack he was carrying, tied Pion’s hands and feet, gagged him, and hid him in a place with no signs of people before resuming his movement.

* * *

After eliminating the first hindrance, I quickly headed towards the upper floors using the stairs located where the guy named Pion had pointed.

‘There was an unexpected harvest.’

It was both in the information that guy spilled and in confirming the level of the guards here.

‘Even the level of the so-called Guardian Commander wasn’t much. It seems the royal guards here are the same as those in the Kingdom of Ellan.’

The guy from earlier was only slightly stronger than Lucretia. In terms of mental strength, he was even worse.

If it were Lucretia, she would have died rather than divulge information, and she wouldn’t have engaged in a one-on-one battle so arrogantly in the first place. She would have immediately called for reinforcements.

This also meant that the sense of crisis among the guards protecting this place was low.

It couldn’t be helped. The structure here prevents outsiders from entering the island in the first place. Naturally, there would have been almost no cases of outsiders infiltrating the building.

‘Good, from here on, the number of guards has decreased.’

Perhaps they didn’t anticipate anyone infiltrating this far, as there was only about one guard.

After the confrontation with the guy named Pion, I was confident that I could subdue them all one-on-one. There was no need to be intimidated.

I continued to move upwards, stealthily approaching and subduing the guards.

By the time I reached an appropriate upper floor, I needed to find the room where Eonia was staying.

For this purpose, I decided to reverse-trace the tracking magic placed on me.

The tracking magic Eo had placed on me activates differently depending on the distance. According to Eo’s explanation at the time, tracking was possible within a radius of about 10km, so it should be active now.

I thought there was a high possibility that Eo would come out to greet me, but there were no signs of that happening.

‘The fact that she’s not coming even though she knows I’m here means…’

It means she’s either being detained or doesn’t want to meet me.

Whatever the reason, I needed to confirm it.

One minute after starting the reverse-tracing, I quickly moved to Eo’s location that I had identified.

‘That room.’

It was a large room occupying half of the floor.

The space in front of that room’s door was wide open, and the door was guarded by a sentry holding a spear.

At the thought of reuniting with Eo, my steps unconsciously quickened.

There was only one guard to subdue. At best, they would be on the same level as that Pion guy.

The guard seemed to notice my presence and turned their gaze towards me.

I drew my sword and approached the guard.

Suddenly! I stopped in my tracks.

“Ugh…!”

My legs stopped involuntarily. This was more of an instinctive judgment rather than a rational one.

If I had approached any further, I would have been defeated by the opponent.

Click! I quickly drew my spear as well and assumed a stance.

My instincts were screaming at me to do so. That the opponent before me was dangerous.

This was the first time I had sensed this level of danger since coming to this continent. A sensation as if my heart was being tightly gripped.

“…”

The opponent rose leisurely. Only then could I observe their appearance closely.

It was a woman who appeared to be middle-aged. Her dark blue hair was tied in a bun, and for some reason, it reminded me of Eonia.

The woman spoke in a calm voice.

“An intruder. It’s been years since…”

I felt a pressure from the opponent comparable to Anton.

‘What is this…!?’

An aura of a completely different dimension from that Pion guy earlier.

“I won’t say much. Drop your weapons and surrender. If you do, I swear on my honor to guarantee you the right to explain yourself.”

This might have been an attractive offer before, but now with Eo right in front of me, it was an unacceptable proposal.

As I assumed a combat stance, the opponent looked regretful, but at the same time, as if excited, the corner of her mouth twitched.

“Hup…!”

I made the first move. Normally, I would have countered the opponent’s attacks while unraveling the situation, but this time I judged that wouldn’t work.

The opponent’s weapon was a long spear measuring 1.6 meters. She had the advantage in a distance fight.

“Ha!”

Stab stab stab stab! The opponent’s spear aimed for vital points.

‘Fast!’

I had to stop my approaching leg and deflect those attacks. If I hadn’t, I would have allowed several hits.

Clang! Clang! The loud sounds of weapon collisions echoed. I was getting increasingly anxious.

When I fought that Pion guy earlier, it was in a corner of the building, in a closed corridor, so despite the commotion, no one came. But this place was different.

It was the center of the floor, with windows wide open on both sides.

The sound of this duel would flow straight down.

I had subdued all the lone sentries while coming up here, so there might be some time, but I couldn’t be optimistic.

‘I need to end this quickly…!’

The opponent’s level exceeded my standards.

Above all, the depth of her martial arts was astonishing.

Most martial arts in this continent are loose. They train assuming battles with monsters, so they’re mostly weak in human-to-human combat.

But the opponent before me was different.

Nick! The spear blade grazed my forearm. It meant I wasn’t completely deflecting all of the opponent’s attacks.

‘She’s at least two levels above me…!’

Is this how it would feel if Anton or Master Ilya enhanced their combat power by learning magic?

There was that level of difference between the opponent and me.

“Haah!”

Bang! I crossed my sword and spear to strike down the opponent’s spear shaft and advanced one step.

‘One more step forward!’

Despite the difference in level with the opponent, I could fight evenly because I knew the opponent’s martial arts.

The opponent’s spear technique was exactly the same as what Eonia used. Although the details were slightly different, there was no doubt it was the same spear technique.

‘The martial arts of the Valkyrie…!’

I had experienced this spear technique countless times through Eonia, but the opponent was experiencing my martial arts for the first time.

Through this aspect, I could reduce the gap.

Finally, as I took one more step closer, the opponent shouted.

“Excellent! …Haa!”

However, as if to say that was the end, the opponent aimed for my heart as if she had been waiting for this moment.

‘I’ve been had…!’

Allowing me to get one step closer was bait to aim for this. Approaching carelessly turned out to be a mistake.

The opponent’s spear tip had already come beyond the defense range of my weapons. It was impossible to strike it down or block it. Then there was no choice but to grab it.

‘Chester-style…! Sun and Moon Fusion!’

A technique to grab the opponent’s weapon by crossing the spear and sword.

This alone would be too slow. I applied the pulling force of arcane aura to the maximum to grab the spear shaft.

Noticing this, the opponent also raised her aura to the maximum to neutralize it, but I was faster.

Stab! The spear tip piercing my chest. I barely managed to protect my heart.

“Kuk!”

I wanted to step back, but if I did, I would only suffer one-sided damage. I had to turn this crisis into an opportunity.

I decided to target the opponent by taking advantage of the fact that her spear had deeply penetrated.

“Haah!”

As I swung my sword towards the opponent’s arm holding the spear, she abandoned the spear without hesitation. Then she drew the sword at her waist and counterattacked instead.

I leaped into that sword strike, deflected the spear shaft, and then aimed for the opponent’s heart with the sword in my left hand.

“…!”

For the first time, I felt bewilderment from the opponent.

Swish! The opponent tried to avoid the attack by jumping backward. As a result, the attack missed by about 15cm.

‘Got you!’

A cone-shaped arcane magic formed instantly at the tip of the sword.

Due to the extreme concentration, the casting speed was at its highest level ever.

The distance was only 15cm. So I thought it was a certain hit.

But at that moment, the arcane magic dissolved as if melting away.

Along with that, I felt a stabbing heat in my outstretched left hand.

“Ugh…!?”

I quickly pulled back. And for a moment. As a heat haze rose around, the opponent’s clothing began to burn.

‘Damn, so they can use magic too.’

It seemed the opponent’s attribute was probably heat, a mixture of wind and fire. An attribute known to be rare but effective.

‘This looks quite dangerous.’

My left hand throbbed.

During that brief moment, my left hand had turned bright red as if it had been burned.

As the clothes burned away, the opponent’s true form was revealed.

They must have been wearing heat-resistant bikini armor under their clothes, as they transformed into quite a provocative appearance.

I decided to mock them, if only to appear nonchalant.

“You should consider your age. It’s embarrassing for me to see.”

The opponent laughed off my provocation lightly.

“Huh, is that so? I thought it was fine since the children of the Guardian Corps said I was beautiful.”

They were certainly beautiful. Their physique was still youthful, not matching their age.

“More importantly, you’re quite skilled. To think you’d push me this far. That martial art of wielding sword and spear simultaneously… I see. So that’s Guderian Chester’s sword-spear technique. It’s a more wondrous art than I imagined.”

“…!?”

How does this woman know about Guderian?

She continues speaking as if it’s nothing special.

“I’ve heard about it. That in the West, there’s a beastman named Guderian Chester who wields spear and sword simultaneously. That the Fensillon Empire has branded him a rebel and put a bounty on him.”

“That’s…”

“That’s right. I’m from the Central Continent… To be precise, from the Holy Kingdom of Kuravel.”

I had vaguely thought there might be such a possibility when I saw her using the same Valkyrie martial arts as Eo.

She says,

“Your goal is Eonia, isn’t it? Who are you? Someone sent by Ars Elaine, who was said to be that child’s lord? Or… Are you him yourself?”

“…I am him.”

“…”

The opponent swallowed hard. And her expression quickly turned to sadness.

“You’re a good lord. To enter such danger yourself for your vassal… If only you had come a little earlier…”

“What? Are you saying I’m too late?”

“Yes, you’re late. Hopelessly so.”

Tak! She kicked up the fallen spear with her toe, grasped it, and pointed it at me.

“I can’t let you meet Eonia. The Eo you knew is gone now. I’ll make arrangements for you to return to foreign lands somehow, so give up on Eo.”

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

“I’m truly… Sorry.”

The heat flowing around the opponent continued to intensify. That heat encroached on the surroundings and affected even me.

It was so hard to breathe that I took off my mask and removed the hood I was wearing.

“Phew!”

I took a deep breath.

This was probably my only chance to attack properly.

I raised my aura to its maximum and looked for an opportunity.

That’s when it happened.

“Ah…”

The opponent stared at me blankly. She muttered absently.

“Melian…?”

The opponent was bewildered. Whatever it was, it was an opportunity.

Tat! I dove in at once. The opponent seemed greatly shaken.

They seemed to hesitate to kill me, their movements were clumsy.

Although the opponent was a level above me, such clumsy movements weren’t enough to completely deflect all my attacks.

Ting! I struck down their spear shaft and swung my sword towards their neck.

This time there were no variables. I had surrounded myself with enough aura to prevent any interference from the opponent.

However, Bwoong! The sword cut through empty air.

It wasn’t that the opponent had dodged. The opponent’s figure simply disappeared before the sword reached their neck.

“Oh no! Teleportation scroll!”

To think they were using teleportation scroll for mere guard duty.

Not finishing off that woman was fatal. I don’t know where she teleported to, but she’ll surely come chasing after me again.

Moreover, I could sense the guards moving busily, having heard the commotion until now.

So I needed to quickly rescue Eo and escape.

“Kuk!”

Blood flowed from my chest where I had been stabbed by the spear earlier.

Although it hadn’t pierced deeply, it was only in the sense that it hadn’t stabbed my heart; the spear tip had cut through skin and penetrated bone.

That alone was a severe injury.

“Haa! Haa! Ugh…”

I used the hood I had taken off to apply pressure to my chest area, then headed towards the door of the room where Eo was.


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The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road

The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road

Score 9.2
Status: Completed Type: Author: Released: 2022 Native Language: Korean
I ended up possessing Ars Elaine, a supporting character in the game. Struggling to prevent my death, I pave my way.

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  1. Ori says:

    Oh they mind controlled her didn’t they.

    Well this is gunna take 10 chapters to sort out, or more.

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