Chapter 29
"Hey, is this all the mighty Apollo Familia has?"
Looking at the Apollo Familia members who had begun shrinking back in shock, Kiriya wore a smile full of contempt.
That smile pierced deeply into the adventurers’ pride.
"Don’t embarrass yourselves! We’re adventurers!"
"That’s right. He’s just one person! There are still eighty or ninety of us here!"
"If we don’t dare attack even now, how are we supposed to keep living in Orario after this?"
The lower and middle-ranking officers in the group kept encouraging everyone, gradually calming their minds.
When they looked at Kiriya again, their eyes were filled with murderous intent.
If they did not take down this bastard, they would probably become the laughingstock of all Orario.
Looking at their rapidly rising morale, then at the reinforcements constantly arriving from around the area, Kiriya nodded in satisfaction.
Then he did something no one expected.
He ran.
"Nigerundayo!"
Kiriya’s light laugh landed on the Apollo Familia like a slap to the face, turning their faces red with rage.
One by one, they howled and charged after him.
"Boom, boom, boom—"
Archers drew their bows, mages chanted spells, and they launched attack after attack at Kiriya’s back.
However, this man was not only as agile as a monkey, but also seemed capable of predicting the future.
He always avoided their attacks at exactly the right moment.
They chased him all the way until they were gasping for breath, yet they had not even brushed the corner of his clothes.
"Hey, are you guys even trying?"
Kiriya’s teasing voice rang out.
"With stamina like that, the girls in Orario will laugh at you!"
"Heh, look behind you before you talk."
A blond, long-eared male elf sneered and pointed behind Kiriya.
"Hm?"
Kiriya turned around and found that Hyacinthus had appeared at some point with a group of people, blocking his escape route.
With enemies in front and behind, he had nowhere left to run.
"Wow, this is really troublesome."
Kiriya scratched the back of his head and let out an utterly insincere "cry of despair."
Although Hyacinthus kept feeling that something was off about this man, now that the enemy had been surrounded, his confidence immediately grew.
Hyacinthus shouted, "Kiriya, you’re already surrounded. If you know what’s good for you, kneel, kowtow, and surrender. Otherwise, don’t blame us for being ruthless!"
"Hahahahaha—"
Laughter rang out from the Apollo side.
Looking at Kiriya, they felt a sense of satisfaction, as if they had finally gotten back at him.
’You treated us like monkeys earlier, didn’t you? Well now, you’re the damn joke!’
"I’m surrounded?"
Kiriya shook his head.
"To be precise, you’re the ones surrounded by me."
"Hah?"
Forget the Apollo Familia members. Even the many viewers watching through the Divine Mirrors felt that something was wrong with Kiriya’s brain.
’Is this just a bluff?’
That was what they thought.
But immediately afterward, Kiriya used his actions to give them another vivid lesson.
"Tap, tap—"
Kiriya stepped forward, taking one step toward the people who had chased him.
The momentum of that one step made those people unconsciously take one step back.
Once they realized it, shame at being toyed with flooded them.
"Kill him!"
Roars rose one after another.
"Tap—"
"Tap, tap—"
"Tap, tap, tap—"
Kiriya began moving.
His pace grew faster and faster, and then he charged straight into the enemy formation.
"Boom—"
Kiriya was like a heavy war chariot.
Wherever he passed, adventurers were blown into the air like trash, screaming as they crashed to the ground.
His sword never left its sheath. It remained hanging at his waist.
But that did not mean the enemies facing him were having an easy time.
His fists were like tigers descending the mountain. His legs were like dragons emerging from the sea.
The combat techniques he had copied from Akaza made every move, every punch and kick, possess tremendous power.
At least in the eyes of these Lv. 1s and Lv. 2s, it had destructive power comparable to a monster.
Every strike could knock the person hit into a daze, directly taking away their ability to fight.
It was not that no one tried rushing him all at once, but Kiriya simply used one person as a hammer and swept through them all.
It was not that no one tried ambushing him with magic either, but Kiriya saw through it in advance and dodged, causing them to injure many of their own allies instead.
He was like a death god on the battlefield, using the most elegant movements to bring about the most terrifying destruction.
"Elegant! Howwww elegant!"
"What’s going on? That effortless posture, that level of martial skill... Hestia’s child is actually this accomplished?"
"I want him! I want him too!"
"Ahh, Apollo, I think I’m starting to understand you a little."
Inside the meeting hall, the gods repeatedly exclaimed in admiration, amazed by Kiriya’s movements that had been refined to the extreme.
It was not as if they had never seen this kind of thing before, but that had been from high-class adventurers at Lv. 4 or above.
Someone at Kiriya’s level was almost unheard of.
Hestia stared fixedly at the Divine Mirror, treating the gods’ words as nothing but farts.
Her breathing followed Kiriya’s movements; sometimes she held her breath, sometimes she exhaled.
She had become completely immersed in the fight.
"That little runt really picked up a huge treasure this time."
...
On the other side, Hyacinthus felt endless rage.
This was supposed to be the stage where he commanded everything and achieved a great victory, thereby reclaiming Lord Apollo’s attention!
So why had the stage he carefully built instead become the perfect showcase for this hateful bastard?
"Go! Use any method you have to! Kill him!"
Hyacinthus roared.
He no longer cared about Apollo’s orders.
Only Kiriya.
He had to eliminate him to remove future trouble!
Kiriya was in the middle of tearing through enemies when he suddenly felt a bone-chilling sensation.
He quickly twisted around and grabbed the throat of an assassin wielding a dagger.
"Ghk... ghk..."
Noticing the killing intent in Kiriya’s eyes, the assassin’s legs went weak from fear.
"Do you also want to dance?"
Kiriya sneered.
"Now!"
At Hyacinthus’s order, the mages fired their spells all at once, actually intending to eliminate Kiriya together with their own companion.
"Boom, boom, boom—"
A chain of explosions rang out.
The scorching heat forced the nearby Familia members to retreat continuously.
Looking at Hyacinthus’s cold face, they felt chills run down their spines.
He would even attack his own comrades.
This captain... was truly ruthless!
"Did we get him?"
Hyacinthus did not care about what his subordinates thought. He only stared fixedly at the center of the explosion, wanting to see Kiriya’s broken corpse.
But he was destined to be disappointed.
At the center of the explosion, there was no corpse.
Instead, there was a sturdy defensive fortress made of layer after layer of wooden planks.
"Crack, crack—"
The wooden planks withdrew, revealing Kiriya’s figure. Beside him was the assassin, who had already fainted.
"You can even use magic like this?" Hyacinthus’s expression darkened.
"You people..."
Kiriya shook his head.
"I originally wanted to get along with you as an ordinary warrior, but this is how you treat me. Fine, I won’t pretend anymore. I’ll lay my cards on the table."
"Actually, I’m a mage too."
As he spoke, Kiriya quickly formed hand seals.
"Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence."
Before his voice even faded, large patches of green appeared across the hard stone walls.
They were trees.
Trees growing at tremendous speed!
"Retreat!"
Hyacinthus’s pupils shrank sharply.
With a roar, he took the lead and retreated. His extraordinary Lv. 3 reflexes were fully displayed at that moment.
He dodged, but the low-level adventurers around him were not so lucky.
They were immediately bound tightly by the trees. Once the energy absorption activated, they went limp and could no longer get up.
"This... Is this really something a Lv. 1 can do? Even if he leveled up to Lv. 2, this should be impossible, right?"
Hyacinthus was shaken by the dense greenery in front of him, his heart filled with disbelief.
But Kiriya knew the reason.
It was because he did not possess only this world’s power system, Falna.
He also had chakra.
He also had Hashirama’s cells.
Back when the transplant experiment had succeeded, he already possessed chakra no weaker than a Konoha Chunin.
Now that he had leveled up to Lv. 2—after all his ability values had reached their limits—his potential had been further developed.
His chakra was now excellent even among Jonin and was already close to the level of a Kage.
Because of that, using a small-scale Deep Forest Emergence was not a problem.
Looking at Hyacinthus, still shaken near the edge, Kiriya formed hand seals.
"It’s time to bring this farce to an end!"
The moment Hyacinthus saw that movement, an intense sense of danger surged through him.
He roared, "What are you all waiting for?!"
Kiriya froze for a moment, then sensed several figures rushing toward him from multiple directions, swords raised as they stabbed straight at his vital points.
These were all Lv. 2s specialized in speed, and they had even been enhanced with wind-attribute magic.
Their purpose was to kill Kiriya in one strike during the brief opening after he used a large move.
"Die!"
Looking at their twisted expressions, Kiriya smiled brightly.
"I was waiting for you."
He knew Hyacinthus was not a fool.
After noticing something abnormal about him, there was no way he would still stupidly think a frontal attack was enough.
He would definitely hold something back.
Now, his guess had been proven correct.
If this had been an ordinary adventurer who wandered into the wrong world, he really might have been caught.
Fortunately, Kiriya had also prepared beforehand.
"Blade—Storm—"
Kiriya’s clear voice rang through heaven and earth.
Then came endless, dazzling sword light.
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