Chapter 72: “The Overture to Ruin”
In contrast to the previous event, this event was supposed to follow the theme of “an extension of everyday life,” or at least that was how the admins described it. Therefore, there was no formal kickoff to the event.
The NPCs must not have had any idea what was happening. The townspeople were just going about their normal, everyday lives. On the other hand, some sellswords were frantically racing in and out of the city, and the residents just watched them with bemusement. Those ones must have been players.
Rare was currently high up in the sky, looking down on Erfahren. She wasn’t watching through Ominous or a Kenzaki—she was up there herself. Of course, she was wearing Yoroizaka.
After reincarnating, Yoroizaka’s race became “Divine Fortress.” She had gone from Living Mail to Divine Mail to Divine Fortress. Not that Rare knew what exactly was “divine” about the latter two. She still had the slender build of a female body, but the most dramatic change was her size; she was now about three meters tall, almost twice as tall as Rare was. To explain how Rare could wear her now… well, strictly speaking, she wasn’t.
There was a kind of door in Yoroizaka’s lower back, and Rare could enter her from there. Going inside was like being transported to an extra-dimensional space that was about 4.5 square meters large. If Rare moved her own body in the space, Yoroizaka would perform the same movements. Inside this little room, what went on outside was projected all around her except behind her, where the entrance to the room was. This meant she had no blind spots except that one spot behind her; the only way to check that spot was for Yoroizaka to turn, but that was true for normal armor too. Rather, since there was no visor limiting her field of view, and she had a wider range of view than a normal human’s, it was easier to see things in here than with her own eyes. Since Yoroizaka had learned [Enhanced Vision] and [Enhanced Hearing], both of which were replicated in this space, Rare had an extraordinarily complete grasp on what was happening outside.
As for her battle effectiveness, the “fortress” part was right on the money. When they set up a sparring match between Yoroizaka and the adamantite series, none of the adamantite soldiers’ attacks had any effect on her. As a last resort, one of the adamanleaders abandoned its sword and just tried to punch her directly—the most powerful attack they could perform—but even that didn’t leave a scratch on her; in fact, the adamanleader’s fist ended up breaking apart first.
Magic was the same. No matter the element of spell the adamanmages tried to shoot at her, she took no damage. Even when they tried again using treant staves, there was no appreciable difference. With world tree staves, only [Lightning Magic] was able to inflict damage, but even that was quickly recovered with her natural regen.
Then there were her attacks. With a single swing of her arm, she could lay out several adamanknights. With Kenzaki Ichirou in hand, there didn’t seem to be anything she couldn’t split in half.
Speaking of the Kenzakis, all five brothers, Ichirou through Gorou, became just as big as Yoroizaka did. The choices available when the Kenzakis evolved were longsword and greatsword, so Rare chose greatsword. Realistically thinking, as greatswords they were just too big for a human to lift, but with enough STR it wouldn’t be a problem to swing them around. But with Yoroizaka as she was now, their proportions to one another were preserved, so it still appeared as though she was wielding a normal one-handed sword. The Kenzakis’ current race was “Divine Arm.” A weapon of the gods. Since everyone had already been exposed to Yoroizaka’s new size first, their gigantic evolution wasn’t as surprising.