I Was Called Incompetent ch.87

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Translator: Raizu
Editor: Schwartz13

Episode 87 : Sloth

[Gotcha!]

The moment Gungnir was distracted by the overflowing monsters, Carla’s magic struck her.

[…..!?]

Suddenly the air in front of her exploded, causing Gungnir to lose her balance and fall from the air.
Carla jumped up and received her adversary’s falling body by punching down while at the same time activating her magecraft as her fist connected, sending Gungnir’s body hurling to the ground below.

[Did you really think you’re out of my reach!? Serve you ri…huh!?]

Carla looked satisfied after landing that explosive-laced fist, but her expression quickly soured.
Despite taking a supposedly heavy attack, Gungnir rose from under the debris with an unchanged expressionless face. As if nothing really happened to her.
Normally, anyone caught in Carla’s explosion would have their body turned into charcoal.
However, Gungnir sustained nary an injury from that attack. Just a light stain on her face that was easily wiped with her hand.

[What…the hell…]

At that point, Carla remembered what her opponent called herself.
She definitely introduced herself as “Gungnir”.
Gungnir is known as the name of the spear that the god of storms wielded. And her power clearly matched that.
Carla also has read Hadras’ report about a certain adventurer called Rhode who fights with some sort of summoning magic.
It’s said that the young man used a giant club and a bow to summon a giantess, who could defeat a named cyclops in a single blow.
And this adventurer was also the person with whom Levi was traveling.

[No way… It’s him!]

Only then did Carla finally realize.
Their enemies’ goal was actually to rescue Levi.
The destruction of the space transfer device? It was nothing more than a ploy to distract the demon’s forces.
Carla turned around, ignoring her opponent. Intending to go to assist the demon king.
However, knowing the demon king may consider her aid as a form of humiliation, she hesitated.
But that moment of hesitation was what cost her her life.

[Ah…?]

Suddenly, Carla felt something pushing her back.
In front of Carla, Gungnir held her hand up. The two stared at each other in a snowstorm without blinking.
A silver spear bursted out from Carla’s chest, making it a second time that same spear drilled a hole right through her body today.
Gungnir slowly closed her open hand.
Carla was able to see what happened next very clearly as if time had slowed down for her.
The moment Gungnir closed her hand, a storm was generated from her silver spear, spilling out of Carla’s body and turning it into dust.
She commanded her spear to return, caught it, then whispered.

[Rhode, good luck.]

But she couldn’t return to him just yet.
She still had one more thing to do.

[Protect…everyone]

Thus, in order to fulfill her promise to Rhode, Gungnir swung her spear once more.

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Shortly before Carla lost her life.

Surrounded by over 100 monsters, Geed was intending to use his trump card, which he didn’t actually want to use much.
He could guess what Hadras was planning.
And so, he could only try to breakthrough with overwhelming strength.

[Come, little fries. Prepare to be erased.]

Perhaps knowing that Geed was taunting them, the monsters around him charged as soon as he finished talking.
Their number was not a problem for Geed.
It’s the shadow that they produced.
He knew that Hadras would take full advantage of that.

Even Geed himself knows that his incapacitating magic is by no means invincible.
He couldn’t cast it against a target he can’t see, and it’s not like it can activate automatically.
There are two steps he has to take to use his magic; confirming the target, then hitting it with his magic power.
Therefore, he could be a bit slow in reacting to attacks that he doesn’t expect.
However, he still has his trump card.
There will be consequences in using that, but that’s not important now.
He is well aware that to do great things, there will always be sacrifices to be made.

Thus he released his trump card.
“Space of Sloth, Accadia” is what he called it. It’s the trump card that embodies his nickname.
The growling ogre’s fist closed in upon Geed.
But it stopped before even reaching him.

[Gi, giigaa!?]

The ogre was of course, confused.
Its punch, undoubtedly packing a lot of force, was rendered powerless the closer it was to its target.
Other monsters also attacked one after another, but all of them similarly lost their power before reaching him.
Meanwhile, Geed’s fists rained back on them unchallenged.

[Gebu!?]

The monsters that should have sturdy bodies quickly turned into meat chunks, as if they were made of paper.
The “Sloth Space, Accadia” that Geed had casted, allows him to fight while having his magic affect everything within its range.
No attack would be able to reach him, while his attack would ignore all kinds of protection.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that he’s practically invincible while it’s active.

[Chi…still chickening out huh? Then wait until I drag you out…!]

Geed muttered as he jumped into the horde of monsters.
Hadras, still hiding in the shadows, became concerned after seeing how the monsters were dealt with one by one by a single blow each.
Until just now, he’s safe inside the shadow since Hadras discovered that Geed’s magic only works on those who are directly visible to him.
But now even an attack coming from behind him, where Geed has no direct sight, was neutered as well.

If Hadras attempts to attack Geed from a blind spot, he’d still be incapacitated. Big chances that he’ll die in one blow afterwards.
Therefore, Hadras continued to move around while keeping his distance.
He analyzed that Geed shouldn’t be able to maintain it for too long.
And he correctly guessed that.
Naturally, such a strong ability would have a time limit and drawback.

A few minutes have already passed since the ability was activated, and the impatience began to appear on Geed’s face.
Hadras hadn’t shown his face again, while the number of monster corpses continued to pile up.
If this goes on, he’ll eventually decimate all the monsters.
However, on the other hand, once the ability’s duration runs out, Geed would be defenseless.
He won’t be able to defeat Hadras in that state.

The skull of the last remaining monster was shattered.
Geed ended up killing all the monsters there, but not even once Hadras made any appearance. On the other hand, his time limit was approaching.
Around the same time Geed noticed that Carla’s body was torn apart by a gust of storm, he suddenly fell to his knee.

[F, fuck…!]

Hadras would not miss that moment.
He instantly emerged from the shadow behind Geed. His hands reaching out to Geed’s neck…

[Guh…!?]

[I told you, didn’t I… I’ll drag you out.]

Geed’s elbow struck Hadras’ already fractured ribs.
The effect of magic had disappeared, but it makes little difference if he’s attacking an already damaged part.
And that attack managed to stun Hadras, even if only for a moment.

[Uh…!]

A silver spear that swished past Geed’s by a hair breadth pierced Hadras’ chest.
Hadras touched the spear that had pierced him, spewing blood from his mouth in the process.

[This… I…?]

[Yeah… it’s over for you, jackass.]

The silver spear proceeded to carry Hadras to the air, before it turned into a storm that tore the demonkin’s body.
Geed looked over his back, and thanked Gungnir who was walking toward him.

[Huh…thanks for saving my sorry ass, young lady]

The girl in question shook her head then corrected him.

[It’s Gungnir]

[Ahh… thanks a lot, Gungnir.]

[Un.]

[Well, I can’t use my magic for a while now…uah, so cold!]

With the effect of his magic gone, the snowstorm coldness hit Geed in full force.
“Space of Sloth, Accadia” has a drawback that once its duration is over, its effect would be applied to Geed instead for a while.
However, in addition to helping the collapse of Almrond Castle in the first place, since Geed had continued to use his magic so far, his magic power has been exhausted now.
Seeing this, Gungnir created a barrier made of wind around Geed to keep him warm.

[…you don’t have to.]

[It’s nothing]

At the same time, something emerged from Geed’s shadow.
It’s too late when Geed realized that it was the bloodied Hadras.

[Na…!]

[Not dead yet!?]

At that moment, something that ran through at a tremendous speed blew Hadras away, sending him flying in the air with a 90 degrees bent neck.
Hadras’ body bounced back to the air several times as he landed back on the ground. Ending up landing face first on a pile of snow, where he finally stopped moving.
After confirming his target had completely stopped moving, the man turned toward Geed and raised his thumb up.

[The Hero… is here!]

[Za… Zawan!?]

The man in golden armor who had just arrived like a gale while carrying Tia was the same SS rank adventurer that the King of Celt regarded as ‘noisy’.
He was on Titan when Ban asked him to run all the way here to help. It was only possible thanks to his Godspeed magic.

[B, but… why!?]

[Don’t tell anyone. The Hero…always comes late!]

[No one here is asking…]

[How many times must I tell you… I am Zawan! The golden star that shines the brightest! Start calling me that.]

[Don’t wanna…]

[I ran with all my might! With all my soul! How come you ran out of magic power!? Isn’t that dangerous!?]

[That’s not what I asked…]

[Ah, you must be hungry!]

[Argh…it’s so tiring whenever I meet this guy…]

[All thanks to this Hero.]

[Ah! Right, right…wasn’t there another group of monsters in that direction a while ago…]

Geed hurriedly looked around and saw something moving in the snowstorm.
There was still some distance away from them, but it’s obvious to him that they’re already surrounded.

[Chi…they follow you here…]

[Impossible… I ran way too fast for them!]

[You kicked up a lot of snow behind you when you ran…!]

[Ah! Now that you mention it!]

[Good grief… you haven’t changed at all. But well, thanks to that I was able to join up with you all here.]

King of Celt spoke as he appeared before them.
A large amount of blood seeped from his flank, and his face was terribly pale.
He suffered quite a heavy wound.

[Ohー! You are here as well, old man! You are injured!? Quickly, we need to stop the bleeding!]

[Yes, sorry for troubling you, Zawan. I can roughly guess why you are here. Oh, you also rescued Tia.]

[It is my duty as a Hero! Well, to be honest… I just have to do it!]

[Geed, use this. I will make do with my magic.]

Having said that, King Orlando lent Geed his sword.

[I’m not much of a swordsman, but…thanks.]

At that time, a violent explosion sound was heard from Bloodwell Castle.
Yes, another battle had just begun.

[We can’t let those small fries get in Rhode’s way…!]

[Hey, Gungnir. I leave the little girl…no, Tia, to you.]

[Got it.]

[Hero won’t lose… anytime, anywhere!]

The snowstorm was becoming stronger, and the demon city was about to be fully covered by ice and snow.
However, because they all believe in Rhode, they’re willing to risk their life for him.

[So, who is this Rhode anyway?]

[…shut the hell up, will ya!]

[Nuhaha! To another rampage… here I go!]

The battle of Inhelm was about to reach its climax.