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Transformed Lia suddenly started looking around.
She continued to exude ferocious energy.
“I’m full, and I’ve had a good drink. But my body is itching. Don’t you also feel the same way, Black Hawk?”
Black Hawk?
I turned my head, retracing the path of Lia’s eyes.
At the end of the sight, there was Kaneff, sipping beer.
“It’s been a long time since I quit the itchy lifestyle. Now I’m a person who is in-charge of a farm.”
“ Bullsh*t. Peaceful farm life doesn’t fit you leader. We belong in the battlefield, ripping off the enemy’s throat.”
“How rude. I always thought I was a perfect farm person.”
Kaneff accepted Lia’s change as if he was familiar with it.
So did Andras, who was next to me.
Lia turned to me again.
“Hey dimwit! There’s only one thing I want.”
“……?”
“If the members are gathered like this, isn’t it fun to rank them?”
“Rank?”
“Yes, rank! We have to figure out who’s the strongest member of the group!”
Suddenly ranking at a picnic?
“Hey … this is an ordinary farm. we don’t need to be find the rank. . . . . . . . . . ”
“SHUT UP. I’m not asking your fu*king  permission.”
Speranza was surprised by Lia’s rough behavior and hugged my leg tightly.
Lia glared at me with her blazing eyes.
“The world is controlled by the powerful. The one who has the power can have anything. This farm is no exception.”
Lia’s reckless behavior was very confusing.
Naturally, I looked at Kaneff with a look asking for help.
‘Do something, boss!’
Faced with my eyes, Kaneff put down his beer can and opened his mouth.
“That’s great. Actually, I was itching to go on a rampage after a long time.”
“What?!”
“Hahahahahahah, now we’re on the same page. As expected of the leader.”
Lia nodded her head with an expression of satisfaction.
And immediately left the table and headed to a place where the meadow was spread out.
I asked, perplexed by the sudden development of the situation.
“B…Boss? Are you really going to do a ranking battle? No, more importantly, why did Lia suddenly change like that?”
“Ah, It’s too hard to explain. Just think of it as a bad drinking habit.”
What…
Who in the world would ask for a ranking battle due to a bad drinking habit?!
“What are you doing? Come out quickly?”
Lia shouted at us as if she was a little annoyed.
There was already a terrible force around her.
“What are you doing Andras? Look, she’s calling you?”
“…what?”
“Get out there and deal with her.”
Andras looked genuinely bewildered.
“Hey Boss… didn’t you say you were itching a minute ago?”
“I said it was itching, I never said I was itching to fight?”
Andras looked around the table.
There was only Alfred, who was dozing off because of getting drunk upto the neck, and me, who was hugging Speranza.
“What are you looking at? If you think it’s that, you have to wake her up quickly!”
Almost half-threateningly, Kaneff forced Andras to go.
Andras trudged towards Lia with a resigned look.
The backside couldn’t have been so pathetic.
“Boss, are you really going to make them fight? What do we do if any one of them gets hurt?”
“It’s OK. It used to be a daily routine. They both can take care of themselves.”
“No matter how….”
“Didn’t you say a picnic is about uniting and socializing among us?”
“Yes.”
“Don’t they say that bonds get stronger after a fight.?”
“I….don’t think the saying is about fist fights.”
“And most importantly……”
Kanef murmured seriously as he picked a new can of beer.
“Watching fighting is the most fun thing.. and if it can be watched with a delicious beer, then it’s heaven… …I’m glad I came to the picnic!”
Kaneff was excited as if he was getting ready to watch a wrestling match.
“Hik….”
Once again, there is no answer from Alfred, dozing next to me.
In this messy situation, all I could do was pray for Andras, who was the only normal farm member.
Please, I hope it will end up as a normal picnic…
Andras and Lia face each other on a wide meadow.
“What? You’re not the leader, you’re the loser?”
“I’m telling you again, my name is Andras, not loser.”
“I don’t care. I was going to knock everything down anyway.”
Little artifacts emerged from the sleeves of Andras as he opened his arms.
Artifacts wandered around Andras as if to protect their owner.
“Annoying flies?”
“It’s not a fly, it has a nice name – Shahit…”
BAM
Lia attacked Andras with her right hand, which had transformed.
The attack, which took place in an instant, was blocked by the defense shield triggered by the Artifact.
“Hahahahah, prove with force whether it’s a fly or not.”
“Don’t worry. That’s what I was going to do.”
Andras’ artifacts quickly spread around for a counterattack.
Lia moved back to avoid being surrounded by artifacts.
Woooooooh
Artifacts began pouring out powerful magic with a heavy vibration sound.
Each one contained power, powerful enough to inflict fatal wounds.
Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!
The place where Lia was standing a little while ago became a large hole.
Lia launched a full-fledged counterattack, narrowly escaping the Artifact’s attack.
With a sharp sound like a tear of the metal, a red energy formed around Lia’s right hand.
When she waved her hand, the red energy immediately hit the artifact that was nearby.
Andras hurriedly deployed the shield.
But the red energy crushed the artifact with the shield, as if crushing a beer can.
The artifact exploded and scattered debris everywhere.
Realizing that it was difficult to defend only with the artifacts, Andras continued his offensive by maintaining a safe distance.
A shrewd attack that took advantage of the distance put Lia on the defensive again.
Lia criticized Andras for his way of fighting with sarcasm.
“Aren’t you too scared? Do you think it’ll be fun to fight if you just run away like that?”
“I won’t fall for such childish provocations. And it’s not a running away, it’s a strategic move.”
Andras calmly responded to Lia’s provocation.
And he continued to undermine Lia’s power with a thorough outfighter strategy.
At that time, Lia, who had been looking for artifacts, suddenly turned around and rushed toward Andras.
It was a surprise attack aimed at a situation where Andras was far from the artifact.
Lia quickly reached the corner of Andras, leaving a red afterimage.
But…
“I expected you would come out like this!”
Boom Boom!
Woohoo!
Artifacts hidden on the ground around Andras appeared at the same time.
In an instant, they surrounded Lia’s body and deployed a shield.
As if caught in a trap, Lia was trapped in a shield deployed by artifacts.
“That’s it, Ms.Lia.”
“You really think that’s it?”
“The design is perfect. Quit the pointless resistance…?!”
Lia showed an artifact held in her right hand.
As soon as Andras saw it, his expression turned pale.
“Oh, how did you? ”
“The flies are a little bit more annoying, but the way they are is the same”
“Ms.Lia, calm down, slowly put down the artifact…..”
– kwajik! – pajijijik
Liane smashed the artifact in her hand with a wicked smile.
“Ah..No,No,Noooooooooooooo”
At the same time as his scream, the artifacts that were spreading the shield stopped working
“ It’s over.”
“What?”
“Now that the most important Artifact is broken, it will be harder for Andras to fight.”
” What’s happening? Didn’t Andras overpower Lia a few seconds ago?”
Kaneff placed the empty beer can on the table and continued.
“On the surface, Yes. Andras anticipated Lia’s surprise attack and dug her a trap, but Lia took advantage of it and exploited her opponent’s weakness.”
“…?”
“At first glance, it might look like each artifact is acting on its own command, but in fact, there’s a command artifact that takes orders to control the artifacts around it.”
“Uh… is that so? Didn’t they all just look the same?”
“Of course they will look the same. Where in the world is a fool who exposes his weaknesses openly?”
“But what does it mean by Lia taking advantage of the trap?”
I asked with a puzzled look.
Kaneff gave me a pathetic look.
“If you had the most important and most important thing to protect, where would you put it?”
“Well, I will put it in a strong safe, or put it in my body…Ah”
Little by little, the battlefield was starting to make sense.
“When Lia jumped into the trap, she expected that there was an important artifact near Andras?”
“Yes, it was a plan to let Andras let down his guard, making him think it’s an offensive raid.”
“By the way, there were a lot of artifacts around Andras. How did she find the command artifact among them?”
“You see, fighters who have a lot of experience or people with great talent for fighting can find such things with just a glance……”
“What …?”
“Like a predator which instinctively knows, attacking which place would cause the opponent a fatal wound.”
Kaneff’s last words gave me a slight shudder.
Convinced of the opponent’s weakness with just intuition, and jumped into the trap in a disadvantageous situation…
The red energy-stained claws of Lia gave me the creeps as it was strangling my neck.
“In the first place, Andras was at a disadvantage. Destruction and order are extremely bad. But he did his best, though.”
“I didn’t want to say this, but it’s a lot more fun than I thought.”
“Hahaha. Isn’t it? There’s nothing like this!”
It was hard to take my eyes off the clash between the two, like watching a CG action scene of a blockbuster movie.
Plus the tension of the fight that could be felt from afar!
I wanted to wake Alfred, who was sleeping on the table.
Speranza, who I thought would be scared, also watched the fight until the end with her eyes wide open.
This must be why the ancient Romans built large Colosseum.
Andras returned with the remains of the artifact in both hands with drooping shoulders and sad eyes
I felt a little guilty and more sorry for him.
“Great Battle, Andras.”
“It was really cool.”
Despite the comfort of Speranza and me, Andras smiled artificially.
“Now that you’re a vice-captain, I thought I could just relax… …tsk, tsk!”
“I’m sorry, Mr. Kaneff.”
“Hiding weaknesses with strengths is a method that only works for the relatively weak. If you don’t change, you’ll just keep getting bitten.”
“I’ll just keep it in mind.”
Andras took the advice in an unusually heavy and serious manner.
Kaneff slowly rose from his seat.
Then he patted Andras on the shoulder.
That alone brightened Andras’ expression.
Kaneff, who walked out, stood in front of Lia.
A big smile formed around Lia’s mouth.
“You finally came. Leader”
“Hey, you look like you’ve had enough. Why don’t you call it a day and go in quietly?”
“I can’t leave without eating the most important dessert.”
“You ate a lot of delicious food earlier. It’s healthy to eat in moderation.”
“Didn’t you know? There’s a separate stomach for dessert.”
The two seem to have a casual conversation.
But around them, scary energy gradually gathered.
“Have you ever heard of the term stomach ache.?”
CLING CLANG
The chains on Kaneff’s left hand began to shake.