Campione! - Volume 20 - Chapter 5.3

Part 3 

Just a while ago, right after they heard the notification of attack of two kings. 

Salvatore Doni murmured something like this.

「I see. So gramps and the sect founder will arrive here soon……! Then# before that. Let us fulfill our objective for coming here.」 

The one he made the request at was the master of Plutarch’s 

Mansion. 

The old man wearing toga of ancient Rome glared fiercely at Doni.「What is that objective?」

「Can you restore the corridor that Madam Aisha opened yesterday?」

「There is no nice way of putting it, but where is the idiot that make that request just now!」

「Hahahaha. He is right in front of you.」 

Even when the strict guard of history scolded with thunderous voice, the overly optimistic Campione only laughed foolishly. 

It was a dialogue that was going on inside the room where so many stone slates that could be said to be countless were scattered everywhere. 

On the other side Liliana was speaking to the one other Campione.

「Is something the matter, Madam Aisha?」

「Ah# no! That slate just took my attention a little so……」

「Those slates are history that we mankind had piled up――everything from the beginning until the present time were materialized in the shape of those slates……that’s what they are.」

「My. It seems there is still something else that you want to say Lily.」

「No, nothing. I was just thinking that if possible, I wish to ask Madam Aisha to not touch them with her usual carelessness.」

「And that is what my sworn friend is saying. Is it okay with you madam?」

「Uuh. It feels like the treatment of Liliana-san and Erica-san to me is gradually getting roughhh」

「Please interpret that as the distance between our heart shrinking closer.」 

Madam Aisha grew timid while Erica deceived the madam with roundabout talk. 

The master that managed Plutarch’s Mansion yelled with a sidelong glance at that.

「Eeei@ I won’t mind to consider about that request of you all later-」

「Eh? Really?」

「Yes! Well# I won’t know whether I will be able to open the corridor of that damned witch until I try it, I think that it will be something really difficult for me but, anyway I will give it a try-! That’s why Dejanstahl Voban and Luo Cuilian――don’t let those two to approach here!」 

The old man threw that sentence at Doni who was leaning forward. 

「The most foolish duo among the godslayers of this generation are here right now, while the most violent duo are approaching here right now. Just you two is still better than four devil kings gathering here!」 

Thus―― 

Salvatore Doni was heading to the battlefield.

「It also feels like I’m carried away by the flow though# well# it’s fine I guess.」 

That old man said『I’ll give it a try』, but in the end it was just a verbal promise. 

There was also a really high possibility that the old man would blurt『I tried but it failed』. 

However, Marquis Voban and Sect Founder Luo Hao were opponents that had to be defeated sooner or later. A phase where he would fight them would surely arrive somewhere. And that phase was right now.

「Somehow my wound is also healed huuh.」 

Doni pestered the old man and wangled out an elixir of restoration from him. 

Even Campione that couldn’t be affected by recovery magic could receive the benefit of elixir through oral administration. Especially because this secret medicine seemed to be the highest grade healing medicine that could even resurrect a human that almost died. 

Even the sword wound that was inflicted by Alec was finally closed up. 

Doni’s body was liberated from『divine protection of steel』 after a few hours putting it on continuously. 

Thanks to that his body and heart felt really light――!「Finally it isn’t making creaking noise anymore huuh.」 

When he used divine protection of steel, his joints would creak delicately. 

It was only slight, but his movement would become dull. It wasn’t to the degree like someone that covered their whole body with metal plate armor. But, it would feel like putting a quite heavy armor on his body. 

That would dull his sword handling just slightly. That was why, when he fought with swordsmanship using exquisiteness on top of exquisiteness# Doni wouldn’t turn his body into steel! 

Rather he would take off his protector and gambled everything on just his sword――!

「Finally various things are in order huuh.」 

Doni exited the underground corridor accompanied only by his beloved katana and arrived on the surface. 

That room littered with stone slate was underground. The surface part of Plutarch’s Mansion was a temple built in the foot of a bare hill. 

The surrounding was only waste land with short grass and shrub growing.

「The sun……is still hidden!」 

Heavily cloudy sky was spreading above. 

And then, three hundred cavalrymen were steadily marching on toward the temple. 

The army wasn’t in formation# the huge wolves that replaced the role of horse were in the middle of advance with running speed. They would arrive at his position after two more kilometers. 

Of course, the riders of the running wolves were knights of Dead Servant. 

Doni that was at the defender side unsheathed his katana and changed his right arm into silver.

「Tei-!」 

Doni faced the approaching enemy army and thrust his katana forward. 

Even though the three hundred dead servants were still in a distance of more than one kilometer. 

However, silver flash was launched from the tip. It became a very long『laser blade』that reached even one kilometer that pierced the cavalrymen that returned from Hades! 

It was the “long arm attack” that was also used at the ancient 

Gallia. With this one thrust, nearly fifty cavalrymen were skewered. *GOU!* Lightning fell!「UWAAAH!?」 

Doni was blown away by the lightning strike. Of course that was obviously something dropped by Marquis 

Voban! It seemed that overly energetic old man wasn’t among the fellows that were skewered just now. Doni was unharmed because he immediately turned his body into steel but――「As expected# a sneak attack from long range doesn’t work!」

Doni stood up vigorously and looked right away at the enemy army. 

The pack of huge wolves that the Dead Servants were riding was still keeping the same speed until now. They were starting to sprint in full speed. aaooOOON-! aaooOOON-! aaooOOON-! aaooOOON-! aaooOOON-! aaooOOON-! 

The pack that exceeded 200 wolves was overlapping fierce howl, they powerfully kicked on the ground and approached this way with *DODODODODODO-!* like a tsunami. 

They aimed at Doni whose subordinate was just a single sword and the Plutarch’s Mansion behind him!

「O mark of divine protection, become a wall of black steel!」 

Doni immediately chanted words of power. In exchange of Doni himself losing the protection of steel, large amount of rune letters――appeared at the surrounding! It was the same like when the female faction was protected a few hours ago by it. However, this was in a different scale from that time. This time the rune letters were enveloping Doni along with Plutarch’s Mansion! 

Impromptu castle wall was instantly built around the mansion. 

However# it wasn’t a steel or stone fortress# but a fortress made of vast rune letters that might reach several millions units spreading into a dome shape. *――GUSHA-!* The huge wolves and Dead Servants riding them until the mansion――were repelled back in succession! 

The canopy of rune letters they tried to rush into had the same hardness like the immortal steel body. What they did was the same like crashing oneself onto steel wall. 

Their bones broke, their fleshes crushed, they atrociously danced in the air and crashed on the ground. 

One, and then one more impacted the rune canopy, and self-destruction was repeated dozens of time. 

The following cavalrymen took lesson from that and finally stopped their full speed sprinting. They slowly approached 

Plutarch’s Mansion and began to carefully besiege the place! ――But there was no way the fierce old devil king would falter here. Suddenly lightning strikes came repeatedly. *GOU! GOU! GOU! GOU! GOU! GOU! GOU! GOU! GOU! GOU!*「Ooj. Gramps, so this time you are coming like that!?」 

Doni took stance without letting his guard down. 

Thunders were raining down without pause around Plutarch’s 

Mansion. Rain too. Large rain drops were mercilessly hitting the ground and Doni. 

Naturally wind was also coming. Strong wind was raging with whistling sound. 

The authority to manipulate wind, rain, and thunder as one pleased『Sturm und Drang』. It was the beginning of that. 

Even the canopy of rune that boasted steel wall protection could hardly claim that it could perfectly defended against the wind and thunder. 

And then―― 

OOOOOOoooooooonnnn-! 

A five meter giant wolf that looked like monster leaped out from inside the rain and wind, trying to swallow Doni from his head!

「Whoops!」 

Doni’s arm and body naturally moved and thrust his katana diagonally above. That was his sword of blank mind. A sure kill thrust pierced the lower jaw of the giant wolf# from that wound――the sword traveled from the jaw to the top of the head, and then it moved from the jaw until the groin and widened the wound. 

*zan* The abnormally huge wolf was instantly bisected into two.

「Fuh. It seems your wound is already better.」

「Hahahaha. You caught up again huuh gramps.」 

The old man clad in jet black coat arrived while getting struck by rain. 

The canopy of rune letters that wasn’t accompanied by material body was different from physical wall. Rather it had the same nature with magical defense barrier. 

Based from that, it was impossible for it to obstruct Campione who was hard to be affected by magic. 

But, this was exactly what Doni hoped for. 

It was unclear whether it was due to whim or prospects of victory 

But Marquis Voban came once more until the range where sword could reach. 

「Lily! It’s better for us to escape as fast as possible!」

「Yes. Along with Madam Aisha too.」 

Liliana also immediately agreed with Erica’s proposal! 

After the Campione of sword left, at the underground, inside the room that should be called as slate warehouse. 

The old man was whispering to himself while staring at a slate that was placed on an easel. Ahead of his gaze was a slate packed full with writing of long sentence in old Latin language. 

He didn’t seem like he had the leeway to pay attention to them.

「Let’s go madam! Stay at the side of me and Lily!」

「Hye, hyes-!」 

Madam Aisha was taken aback when Erica suddenly spoke to her. 

But, for the time being the three females gathered and sprinted in hurry through the underground corridor and climbed until the surface――at the inside of the Doria style temple!「Can we transfer after coming until this point……?」 

Liliana whispered and closed her eyes. She did that in order to form image of their destination. The field of vision of the three was painted with white light and they became unable to see anything inside the temple. It was the sign of the transfer starting. However. The ground they were standing on suddenly rumbled 

*GAaaaN!*.「KYAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?」 

Madam Aisha screamed. It felt like an earthquake. 

Right after that, the three females were thrown out to 

“outside”! They teleported from inside the temple toward another place.

「Ouch ouch ouch! What was that just now……」

「Di, did the transfer succeed?」

「That’s not it Lily@ We are still beside the Plutarch’s Mansion!」 

The one who noticed the fastest was Erica as expected. 

Where she was pointing at, around a hundred meter ahead there was an ancient Greek style temple. It was the surface part of Plutarch’s Mansion! 

Innumerable rune letters were drifting around the mansion. 

It looked like canopy of rune letter. And then, Dead Servant army was besieging it. They were riding wolves that were 

Marquis Voban’s subordinates――! 

The wind was bellowing rumblingly, the rain was also terrifyingly strong. 

Naturally thunder and lightning were also incessant. It was truly the arrival of storm. 

Everything was the proof of Balkan’s devil king’s presence! 

However, Liliana obtained an insight while in the middle of this upheaval.

「Just now……what interrupted our transfer was unmistakably――」

『Fufufufu! So you understand# my little brother’s knight!』 

A beautiful voice that was like a song came from above. 

Although they couldn’t see her figure# but it was none other than the emperor’s voice of the peerless beauty# Sect Founder Luo Hao. Erica and also Madam Aisha went ‘hah’ and looked up to the sky.

『All of you are already my captive……! However# with how the power of the witch Aisha has been sealed, it will be a problem if I, the ruler of martial world personally take you on.』 

It was a murmur that was really like the great woman who recognized herself as the supreme ruler of the highest status.

『Then I will dispatch this person. Display a battle that will not give shame to the name of your master――Kusanagi Godou!』 

This time a talisman fell down with flutters. 

It was a rectangle paper that recorded spell of Daoist magic. The characters『猴畏避之』 were written on it. (TN: Even monkey fear and avoid) 

This talisman――as soon as it touched the ground# it transformed into a white baboon. Its height reached four meter, a large anthropoid ape with huge frame that could outdo even mountain gorilla. 

GuuuuuuooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! 

The white baboon howled and repeatedly hit its thick chest with both fists loudly. 

Erica called the magic sword of lion Cuore de Lione, and Liliana called the magic sword of artisan Il Maestro, both of them summoned their respective weapon into their dominant hand and adjusted their battle readiness. It was at that time

「HYAAAAAAAAAAA-!」 

A girl in uniform dashed along with a yell of battle spirit. 

She converted the momentum of her sprint into charging power and she leaped. She flew lightly with body lightness that was like monkey and――she thrust her long sword to the nape of the neck of the white baboon!

「Everyone, thanks for waiting! To make up for the lateness, Ena will work hard now!」 

It was the princess shrine maiden of sword, Seishuuin Ena. 

Currently the long sword she was wielding with both hands was something unfamiliar. 

It was a straight sword with double edge. But, there were a total of six hooks, three at each side of the blade, growing like『tree branch』. Having its neck pierced through by this sword with mysterious shape, the white baboon born from the talisman easily collapsed.