Bashi!!
Along with a sound as if the atmosphere is being cut the electricity from {Lightning Bolt} surges out of Miduchi's left hand and stretches towards one of the dark elves that was trying to circle around her knocking them out in an instant.
"Eh!!"
His left hand reflexively stretched out to the nape of his neck where the dart hit but the man then fell to both knees and collapsed.
One more left.
It's regretful that her bow and arrows went somewhere while she was flying through the air. However, if it's just one more person then she should be able to somehow deal with them. Rather than letting things drag out, even if it's a bit dangerous she should charge in and finish things off all at once. If she leaves them alone the two who were hit by the initial {Lightning Bolt} and convulsing might be able to recover.
She carefully scans her surroundings but wasn't able to find the remaining person. Miduchi switches her remaining dart with the paralysis poison on it to her right hand as she stands up and moves to the side of the opponent she just rendered powerless with the other dart, she sticks her blade up to the neck of the fallen opponent and provokes the remaining person.
"Hey coward who suddenly attacks without informing the reason! I'm right here! I only have one knife and dart remaining! Now, come out and have a match with me!"
She raises her voice and continues.
"If you don't come out then in 5 seconds I'll kill this man! Five~!"
The groans of the dark elves who got stuck in the bog and took Miduchi's attack spells echo around the area.
"Four!"
She can hear the sound of a horse coming from higher up the mountain. It should be the person who raised their voice and informed her of the danger just now.
"Three!"
A {Stone Arrow} came flying from her left shoulder. Miduchi easily avoids that. Next an arrow will probably come flying.
Just as predicted an arrow came from the same direction. If she already knows the direction it's coming from then it's easy for Miduchi to avoid an arrow. Around 30 m away there's a single dark elf woman preparing another arrow on her bow.
She charges towards her. Of course she doesn't aim at her in a straight line. She runs along a slightly shifted path. The instant an arrow was fired in the position Miduchi was heading, she lowered her the posture of her body and threw the dart she had while rolling.
The woman avoids the dart and draws the long sword from her waist as she throws down her bow. Miduchi looks at her remaining knife and after quickly fixing her grip on that she lowered her stance while going on guard. Seeing that the woman remembered the Miduchi's only remaining weapon was her knife. A bit of composure could be seen in her tense face.
With the knife still at the ready in her right hand Miduchi ran towards the woman. The distance quickly was closed..the woman used wind magic right in front of her and send herself flying. And then, before it could be noticed she threw the knife in her left hand aimed at Miduchi. With a hair's breadth, the fact that she was able to use the knife in her hand to repel that was in part thanks to good luck.
The rank 3 warrior class woman used wind magic once again against her own back and this time charged in at a tremendous speed with her long sword in hand. She instantly used wind magic in front of her and while pulling back a bit herself, distances the woman coming from in front. In reality she'd like to use earth magic to make a wall here but it takes several split seconds from the moment the wall is formed until it raises up from the dirt. She had no other choice than to give up on it because the distance is too close.
While confronting the woman with several meters in between, Miduchi lowered her back and changed her stance so her right hand is sticking out as she remains ready with her knife. The woman is on guard with her long sword in her right hand and she has her left hand meeting the side of that. In order to use attack magic at this distance it's meaningless unless you have a level of mastery on that mans level. The activation time that the dark elves define as mastery level is less than 1 second but even then it takes several fractions of a second. Of course, even then as they get closer to the top of the sorcerers the activation time gets that much faster.
The woman licks her lips with her forked tongue. She must have confidence in her sword skills.
The length of the blade o the woman's long sword is about 80 cm.
They step in once more and both of the blades were brandished.
Their blades are locked together.
The long sword the woman was using was normally supposed to be used in one hand so the grip is short but even then there's enough room for her left hand.
While they're pushing back against each other Miduchi's stance continues to get worse.
The match seemed as if it had reached it's conclusion.
"Shit!! Where are you!?"
It seems Harugozon has already recovered.
Her own right arm which was holding her long sword, there was a dart being held by Miduchi's left hand stabbing into it.
If she were to try and raise her voice here she felt like she would lose all the power in her body all at once.
Even that's at best a few seconds.
"I didn't say that I only had one dart remaining. Being unprepared is your greatest enemy."
As the woman lost all of her strength and collapsed Miduchi looked over her with cold eyes and said.
Her aim is the last remaining one, most likely the commander Harugozon.
As a matter of fact Miduchi already has almost no mana remaining.
It won't work for anything more than restraining.
However, Miduchi(This is plenty to manage) thought that. Putting aside a veteran, when it comes to fighting against rank 2 or 3 warriors one on one who aren't all that difference in age from her she couldn't think of any reason she would lose. Even just now she skillfully deceived the opponent and overturned the disadvantage in equipment.
It's fine if she calmly does it the next time as well. There's already almost no disadvantage in equipment. She returns her knife to it's scabbard on her thigh and tightens her grip on the woman's long sword while moving without making a sound. The name of Miduchi the Silent isn't just for show. Among the rank 1 warrior class which is filled with masters, Miduchi's techniques at erasing her presence are already able to rival the veteran warriors at her young age of 16. She's capable of plenty for rank 1 head warrior Zageruforu to put his seal of approval on just her assassination techniques.
"Isn't that already fine! Isn't it already Chizumagurol's victory!? Hey, Harugozon! Heal the injured!"
Rank 2 head warrior Akein appeared from somewhere and declared. Just a bit behind that rank 1 warrior class Kurozakku was leading Miduchi's horse and happily grinning.
"Ku...I understand."
Harugozon's voice appears from just a bit of distance away. She can hear footsteps running nearby.
He said that while showing his teeth as he smiled.