On the second floor of Bornter's mansion in the barony, it is safe to say that the battle going on there was gradually gaining the Ray's advantage.
　First of all, the only wizard in the group waiting for Ray, the middle-aged woman wizard, loses her fighting spirit the moment she sees him and sits on the floor.
　Then Tenda, who was gathering the robbers of the Azot trade, was blown away by Ray's death-size blow and fainted, and it seemed impossible for the archer, who had repeatedly aimed at Murt, to deal with Seto, who had now been knocked down on the floor and put his paw on his back completely.
　Thus, the Azotian adventurers who are now able to fight are three of the snow wolves, the rank C party, fighting Fluorocarbons and Blaso, and...

「……」

　There were only four of Harbard's men who approached Ray silently with Harbard in their arms.

(He's pretty good at it, after all.I heard that the only adventurer in Rank B is the Galah dove...It seems that there are many unexpected characters, called Tenda, who was a thief.No, he said that he had never seen a Gala pigeon or a Mult in relation to this Harbard man, so it can't be helped.)

　Looking at the person approaching him, Ray also takes a step forward with his death size in mind.
　And then we get closer to each other...

"What!"
"Huh!"

　As soon as each of them gets ready, Ray gets his death size.Each man wields his own halberd.
　It's roaring!
　Long weapons wielded by each other cut through the air...
　They bump into each other with a high-pitched metallic sound.It's not just once or twice.Many times in a row.
　Harbard's axe and a huge blade of death size collide many times and play each other's weapons.
　Ray looks light and surprised at the impact he feels in his hand.

(Even if you say you haven't put enough magic into it yet, it's a weapon that can clash with death size? Magic item!)

　Ray is not the only one who looks surprised.The same was true for men.I had no idea that I had a weapon to confront myself, who had fought countless battles and had won everything, and, above all, Harbard, the most trusted partner in the world.Yes, his own halberd, a magic item created by a legendary alchemist.

「……」

　The man looks at Ray with admiration in silence and leaves Harbard once to distance himself.
　Originally, it was a scene where he should have chased him, but Ray sees off the man who keeps his distance, being wary of Harbard, who is even with his death size.

(Although Fluorocarbons and Brasso are even so far, the difference in the number of people should affect them one of these days.You know, I've been working all day today.As my physical ability and other abilities are not as strong as mine, I'm sure I'll get physically tougher.Then Seto swooned the archer and went to his aid, or I beat the Harbard messenger and went to his aid.)

　He thought a lot of things inside, but never took his gaze off the man in front of him.
　They were staring at each other in silence.In an effort to do something about it, she puts a slight strain on her hand holding the death size, takes half a step, and deliberately turns her gaze to an unrelated side to create a gap.
　But the man confronting Ray is probably used to fighting with people.Instead of accepting Ray's invitation at all, he invites him to attack by setting up several similar feints.
　Face each other for a few minutes, trying to get the other person's chance.Considered to be exhausting, Fluorocarbons and Blaso, who will gradually lose ground if they don't move together, Ray takes an unexpected step to move things around.

"Magic Shield".

　One of Desize's acquired skills, with a one-time limit, forms a magical shield to prevent any attack."Huh!"

　While the man is surprised at the sudden appearance of the light shield near Ray, he takes a moment to kick the ground and shrinks his distance to fit the man inside the interval, waving his death size.Then he invokes his death-size skill to release the next move.

"The Wind's Hand!"

　The death size you're waving around.A colorless and transparent tentacle is made from the tip of the handle.
　He understood that Ray had set something up, but it seemed impossible to grasp the colorless and transparent tentacles in an instant, and he quickly looked around with a helmet-covered face.Eventually, however, nothing is found, and the man, who decides to be Bluff, sets up Harbard to attack Ray, who wields his death size.

"Huh!"

　A death size that is shaken down with a sharp voice.The man had also stepped forward to prevent a blow before the full force of death-size had been exerted.

"There!"
"What!"

　He manipulated the wind's hand and secured the man's right ankle with the tip.At the same time.

"Powerslash!"

　As if it's just a closing blow, I'm going to use my skill.
　The blow was fired at the man, whose right foot was fixed by the wind's hand, and unable to move.Powerslash is a skill that has the effect of reducing the sharpness of the blade instead of increasing the power of a blow, but in this case, it was still good.for the Gara pigeons have asked us not to kill our enemies as much as possible.The wielded death size is directed in the direction without a blade, and the peak part of the sword is shot at the man.

"What!"

　Even though the right foot is fixed by wind tentacles, the level of wind tentacles is only 1.At a higher level, he could have kept his ankle in place, but when he found out that his ankle had been blocked by some movement, he pulled it out of the wind by force and swung it straight at Rey.
　I thought it was impossible to prevent Ray's blow unharmed, and at least it was aimed at a stroke."

(That's about it.)

　Ray muttered inwardly, grinning around his mouth, and shaking his death size without showing any concern for Harbard.
　Harbard, who was shot at Ray's head, is on the verge of getting hit...
　The shield of light floating around Ray with a metallic shrilling sound catches Harbard's blow, and the shield of light plays a role and scatters like a haze.At the same time, the death size was driven into the side of the full plate mail.
　Over 100kg of dead weight, Ray's own extraordinary strength, and the blow, delivered by his powerslash skill, easily crushes and blows off the body of the man's full-plate mail, with a dull sound around him.

"Oops!"

　The man's voice, which he had heard for the first time since entering the room, was a voice of anguish to endure the pain and shock.

"Well, I'm done... what?"

　The blow would have knocked him unconscious.Ray turned to Fluorocarbons and Brasso, but he was dumbfounded and looked back at the sound coming from behind.Tenda is unconscious after taking a normal blow to the side.Nevertheless, Ray could not believe that the man who received the blow with a power slash was still conscious.Of course, what Tenda was equipped with was a leather armour that, like a thief, emphasizes mobility rather than defense.It was nothing compared to full plate mail in terms of defense, but it was still a blow with a power slash.Unless it's a magic item, whether it's a leather armor or a full plate mail, its protection should only be within the margin of error.

"Are you really just a human being? No, I don't think you're a normal human being, given your toughness... but you're tall for a dwarf, and an elf would be weaker than a human being in the first place.Or a subracial race that I don't know..."

　Although he was a little slow, he still asked the man who stood up, but he kept silent and took Harbard.

(It hurts that it's forbidden, if you don't mind killing me.Then, after all, one or two of his limbs would have been broken... no, most of his ribs would have been broken in the way he responded.But I didn't know it would be effective for him to break his arms and legs anymore... wait, move...)

　It had not been a minute since the man stood up, but the man in front of him was certainly moving smoothly.It's just like before I got hurt.(Like before he got hurt?)

　Something passed through his mind, but the man came forward with Harbard in his hand, as if it was too late to give him time.
　The movement has little effect on broken ribs.

(Oh!? Is it a magic item like a dropstone of love that always has a healing effect like Seto wears?)

　This is one of the rarest magic items.Therefore, Ray takes some time to reach the possibility, and the man wields Harbard as if he were taking the opportunity.He mowed it off with an axe at the tip, thrusted it with a spear, and struck it with a sharp spike extending from the other side of the axe.Ray plays or shakes off such an attack with a death-size blade and plays with a handle.
　There were those who watched the battle as if it had been a repetition.
　near the entrance of the dance hall, the Gala pigeon and its bodyguard, Multo.Kenmai (sword dance) that rank C and D can hardly do... no, it's a kind of enmai, and they just take their breath away.
　Both attacks, whether death-size or Harbard, were sharp and fast, and, above all, they were so overwhelmingly powerful that even a single blow would surely kill them.

(That's... the same Harbard messenger as me? The skill is too different.)

　Murt is overwhelmed by the man's skill in fighting Ray inside.
　Murt naturally wants Ray to win, but he uses the same weapons as himself.I can't help but put my shoulders on the man.
　However, such performances did not last long, and soon they began to end.
　The first person to notice this was, of course, the Gala pigeon, who was ranked higher than Murt and had more experience in combat.

"...we won,"
"What?"

　Murt, who was unable to listen to Gala pigeon's words, was unable to follow him from this distance with his eyes, but he still seemed to be even in his eyes.But why did Gara pigeons believe Ray would win?I couldn't understand even when I was looking at him, so I asked with my eyes.

"Don't you understand?"
"Yes, it looks quite even in my eyes."
"Well, it looks even.For now... but look a little more carefully.and you'll see something else."

　After listening to Gala pigeon's words, Murto closely observes Desize and Harbard's performance, and gradually understands what Gala pigeon means.

"Oh? Is Harbard's man getting less responsive?"

　muttering in spite of himself. Yes, just a little in his eyes.It seemed to me that the Harbard man had been slow to respond to Ray's attack.But Gala pigeon shakes his head slightly at Murto's words.

"That's too bad. It's meaningful, but it's not accurate.It's not that Harbard's man's reaction is slowing down, it's that Ray's speed is increasing.It was quite unexpected that there would be another step up from that situation."

(Or perhaps the effects of the last blow have come into play here.)

　a little... but a Gala Pigeon muttering inwardly, watching the situation certainly lean towards Ray.
　Beyond that gaze, indeed, gradually, indeed, but gradually, as Gala pigeon said, the death-size Ray wielded exceeded the speed at which he wielded the halberd, and began to scratch the full-plate mail in small but numerous ways.
　If things go on as they are, we'll probably be able to win within ten minutes.The Gara pigeon and Multo thought so, but the next moment, their expectations were greatly different.
　When Ray's death-size blow left a large line of scar on the chest of the full-plate mail covering the man, for some reason he began to take a step or two backward."...what's the matter?"

　Ray muttered when he saw such a man.
　This blow, indeed, must have had some impact on him, even though it was over his armour.However, it is true that this single blow was not enough to determine the outcome, but the man who had been fighting Ray until just a few seconds ago stepped back and kept his distance from Ray.
　No, I did not keep my distance, but I went straight to the back door of the dance hall.
　He said nothing in particular, and while he was shaking his head at the scene of his unilateral withdrawal from the battle, Ray did not act as if he was pursuing him.

(As long as you have magic items with automatic recovery effects, it's hard to say that you're powerless without killing them as promised with Gala pigeons.If you're going to step back from yourself, there's nothing better than that.and if he reappears in the room where he is probably hiding, all he has to do is to fight.Even so, the man's current abilities were not as good as those of Rank B.Why are people of such ability cooperating like Bornter?

　He leaned his head inward, but at any rate his hands were free, so he took a step forward, ready to attack the snow wolf where Fluorocarbons and Blaso were fighting from behind.