『Here we are now in the quarterfinals! On one side, the hero of the black cat-kin, the Black Lightning Princess, Fra~n! Haven’t changed much since the last tournament, she’s as small as ever, but everyone knows how strong she is!』

The crowd’s excitement was at its peak in the quarterfinals, it was so loud that it caused the ground to rumble.

『On the other side, the red mercenary who have been fending off numerous strong opponents with her overwhelming destructive power, Sibylla~!』

Fran and Sibylla finally met face to face on the stage.

「Yo! We met again」

「Nn」

「I saw your fight with Biscot, but you haven’t been serious at all, right?」

「You’ll see it yourself」

「Kukukuh. You’re right!」

『A match between the last year’s dark horse and this year’s dark horse! Which one will win!?』

I see, this is certainly a dark horse matchup.

「Brilliant Lightning Rush!」

「Hohou? So, it’s true that you’re an evolved black cat kin」

Sibylla smiled heartily when she sees the black lightning flickering around Fran.

She must have gathered some intel about Fran in advance. Well, Fran is famous so it should be easy to get her information.

Therefore, we should proceed with the assumption that she already had some information about us to some extent.

「Now, show me the power that makes you one of the top adventurers!」

「Needless to say!」

『Well then, let the match begin!』

「Shyaah!」

「Nnh!」

Sibylla charged forward immediately after the match begin. This was rather unexpected. After all, she has been taking a wait-and-see approach first in her previous matches, but…

I guess this means that she is serious.

She thrusted her sword while moving at a high speed while aiming at Fran’s throat.

But even though this was unexpected, this possibility was not something that we had completely ruled out.

『Air Shield Stacks!』

After all, I’m going full throttle from the start too. I created multiple shields of wind and parried Sibylla’s attack.

「Chantless, huh!?」

「Fuh!」

Fran then fires a slash toward Sibylla’s flank which is now defenseless.

It should have been a hit, but――

「Kuhahaha! That’s so weak!」

「Muh」

I didn’t feel like cutting anything at all.

It’s not that I was repelled by a barrier. It definitely hit her, and there’s the sound as well, but it felt dull, it was as if I was hitting a tire with a steel pipe.

Fran’s black lighting also does not seem to deal any damage to Sibylla.

(Master)

『I don’t get it yet!』

It seems that she really has a skill to reduce any damage taken. For her to have physical as well as thunderbolt resistance, how did she conveniently have resistance that matches our attributes?

「Doryaah!」

A counterattack then flies from our other flank. It was quite fast, but not fast enough to catch Fran.

Fran, who avoided the slash with minimal movement, struck a kick, this time to Sibylla’s leg. It was a low kick aimed at her inner thigh.

But that didn’t seem to work either.

『Then let’s find her weakness!』

「Nn!」

From then on, a fierce exchange of slashes ensues.

But even after dozens of exchanges, neither Fran nor Sibylla had suffered any serious injury.

With Fran that dodged all of Sibylla’s attacks, and Sibylla that doesn’t seem to take any damage from Fran’s attack.

From head to toe, no matter what place we slashed, Sibylla did not bleed at all. Not even a thrust to the eyeball leaves a scratch on her.

Even the Evil Crusher, Magic Poison Fang, and various Attribute Sword had no effect on her.

「Nice aim, but it’s useless!」

『Then let’s use magic!』

I then left the evasion to Fran and unleashed multiple magic spells at once toward Sibylla as she swung her sword down at us.

I used Flame, Storm, Earth, Water, Thunderbolt, Ice and Snow, Molten Iron, Dust, Poison, Darkness, Light, and Space and Time magic spells that cause direct damage.

By manipulating fire, water, earth, poison, and wind-based skills, I also unleashed non-magical attribute attacks.

But Sibylla makes no attempt to avoid it.

As expected, it seems that her skill is not a resistance type but a damage-cutting skill. After all, it is hard to believe that she’s resistant to all the attacks I just unleashed.

「That’s nowhere near enough to hurt me!」

「If so, take this!」

Sibylla continued to approach while parrying our attack with her body.

Fran then held me at waist height while ducking to avoid a side slash before unleashes me with Sheath of Wind drawing technique and aimed the god-speed drawing technique at Sibylla’s neck.

If it were a normal opponent, this would have been the finishing blow that would have decided the match. However, Sibylla did not seem to mind even this.

I’ve been assuming that her skill was a skill that reduce damage taken below a certain level, but how it could even nullify our single powerful blow?

Was it the Physical attack nullification? But that doesn’t explain why Fran’s black lighting doesn’t work either.

In her previous match, Colbert managed to injure her with his ultimate move.

It was certainly an amazing technique, but our Sheaths of Wind shouldn’t have been inferior to it. Rather, the damage output should have been higher due to my added attack power.

So why did she take no damage at all?

『What kind of trick she used!?』

「That’s a good blow! A good blow indeed! But that won’t defeat me! I’m just getting warmed up! Let’s get serious!」

Sibylla shouted so, and the pressure she exerted suddenly increased, and red magical power overflowed from her entire body.