The Villainous Noble Who Kept Rewinding After Death: The Story Somehow Changed When I Committed Suicide

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The Villainous Noble Who Kept Rewinding After Death: The Story Somehow Changed When I Committed Suicide

Chapter 109 – For the Time Being

Ryan’s utterly selfish actions, along with him ignoring Lewis and challenging him to a duel unilaterally, made him resemble the person he hated the most.

As a result, Lewis, his anger reaching its peak, activated a barrier spell to separate himself and the surrounding elves from Ryan.

“W-what the…?”

“Don’t worry. I just set up a barrier so you can’t escape. Now you can duel to your heart’s content, just as you wanted.”

“R-really now? Blocking your own escape route is quite foolish. I’ll defeat you and show who truly deserves Shuvina!”

It seemed Ryan, misunderstanding something, thought that because Lewis had created a barrier, he had cut off his own escape. His expression shifted from anxious to brimming with confidence.

“Eir…”

Shuvina and Fiera, who were also inside the barrier, watched the duel unfold from a distance.

“Enough with the talk. Get on with the attack already. You’re wearing such fancy armor; it’d be boring if it’s over too quickly.”

Earlier, when Lewis assessed Ryan’s gear, he found that the robe amplified magic power, and the staff enhanced affinity with spirits.

Moreover, Ryan was equipped with earrings that increased elemental magic power and a ring that boosted activation speed; he was clad in gear that specialized in magic.

“Are you sure you can act so cocky? I’ll let you leave this country with Shuvina now if you promise to walk away.”

“Shut it. Just get on with it.”

“Tch. That cocky attitude really gets under my skin! ‘Flame Storm’!”

Ryan thrust both hands forward with force, creating a whirling inferno that scorched the very air.

“Ha ha ha! Burn to death!”

Lewis faced the approaching flame tornado, doing nothing but watching as he was engulfed by the flames without resistance.

“Eir!”

Upon seeing Lewis swallowed by the flame tornado without a fight, Shuvina couldn’t help but cry out in concern.

“Ha ha! You brought this on yourself by underestimating me! There’ll be nothing left, not even bones!”

Ryan, confident in his victory from the Flame Storm, had no intentions of pursuing him further.

“Hey. Is that it?”

“Ha… huh?”

Naturally, Lewis was not going to die from such a trifling attack, and as the flames subsided, Ryan wore a rather blank expression upon seeing Lewis completely unscathed.

“W-why?!”

“Wondering why I’m unhurt? You seriously think you can kill me with such weak fire magic? Come on, I’ll wait here, so keep going.”

“Ugh! Composite Magic ‘Meteor Shower’!”

Enraged by Lewis’s taunt, Ryan cast both earth and fire magic simultaneously, enveloping gigantic rocks in flames, launching them like meteors.

“Ice Sword!”

In response to the incoming barrage of meteorites, Lewis created a sword of ice in his right hand, slicing effortlessly through the falling stones one after another.

Dust clouds billowed around as the meteorites crashed, obscuring Louis from Ryan’s view.

“N-now for sure…”

“What do you mean ‘now for sure’?”

As the dust settled, what emerged were the two severed meteorites and an unharmed Lewis wielding an ice sword.

“No way… How did you…?”

“Simple. I just cut them.”

“…Huh? Cut them?”

“Your magic is so juvenile that it was easy to slice through.”

Ryan’s magic, enhanced by items, certainly had power, but due to his poor control over magic compared to Lewis, he couldn’t break the meticulously crafted ice sword and ended up getting sliced instead.

Incidentally, during the first Flame Storm, Ryan’s magic couldn’t even breach the magic barrier Lewis had set up, revealing just how juvenile it was.

“Damn it!! This can’t be!”

“Hey, isn’t it enough? Hurry and summon a spirit. Otherwise, you’re about to die in this way?”

Saying that, Lewis pulled a knife from storage and threw it, grazing Ryan’s cheek before it hit the barrier behind him.

“Urgh!! You keep underestimating me! Fine! I’ll summon as you wish! Come forth! Salamander!”

The moment Ryan called out the spirit’s name, a large fireball appeared in front of him, slowly taking shape.

What emerged was a red lizard-like spirit, with a bright red body and flames burning at the tip of its tail.

“Ha ha ha! This is my contracted spirit! The high-grade spirit Salamander!”

“Huh. What a disappointment.”

“W-what?!”

Indeed, the Salamander Ryan summoned seemed to possess considerable power.

However, due to Ryan’s low magic power, it seemed weaker than Dōna, showcasing its high potential but not its actual strength.

“That’s just a bluff! Go! Salamander!”

Following Ryan’s command, the Salamander gathered magic power in its mouth and shot flames at Lewis like a dragon.

“Boring.”

The flame was indeed hotter than the earlier Flame Storm, scorching the ground as it barreled toward Lewis, but he swung the ice sword in his right hand toward the flames.

The flames were sliced cleanly in half, veering harmlessly away from Lewis, and that very slash even cut through the Salamander.

“Gyaaaaah!”

The Salamander, cleaved in two, let out a pitiful cry before vanishing into flames.

What remained was Ryan, who still couldn’t comprehend the situation, and the ground burned away by the Salamander’s flames, along with Lewis, who had swung his ice sword.

“M-my Salamander… in one hit…”

“Ha. You’re definitely trash. I’m done here.”

Having lost interest in the fight, Lewis closed the distance to Ryan in an instant, severing all four of his limbs with his ice sword in one breath.

Without his legs to support him, Ryan lay on the ground, his severed stumps dropping to the ground.

“Gyah! Gyaaah!!!”

“Quit whining. The ice is freezing your wounds, so it doesn’t hurt, right?”

Ryan writhed on the ground raving, but without arms or legs, he could only roll around like an insect.

“I said I wouldn’t kill you quickly, didn’t I?”

With that, Lewis reversed his grip on the ice sword and brought it down toward Ryan’s abdomen, piercing it.

“It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!!!”

Ryan screamed in agony from the stab, but none of the elves around could intervene due to the barrier Lewis had erected.

“Ah ha! You can take this much, right? Hero!”

As Lewis continued to stab and burn Ryan with the ice sword, the barrier was suddenly broken by some unknown force.

“Wait!”

Seizing the moment that Lewis paused slightly due to the barrier breaking, Kaylee interjected himself between Lewis and Ryan to help.

“Get out of the way.”

“No way. I can’t do that. Sorry, but could you sheathe that sword?”

“Not happening. This is a duel he asked for. He can’t complain if he dies.”

“I truly feel sorry about that. But he’s still a precious son to me. Please, let this go.”

Kaylee said this, kneeling and bowing his head before Lewis, even with the other elves watching.

“Eir, I’m asking you too. This can’t go any further…”

Cecil, the one who had broken the barrier, approached Lewis with a spirit at her side.

“Cecil, you’ve helped me out before. But you’ve made the same request twice now; you really think the same plea would work twice?”

“I understand. That’s why this time, I think Kaylee has something to say.”

“Ah, sorry for making you wait. I’m formally entrusting the Hydra matter to you all. I apologize for discussing it like this, but could you forgive me for this?”

As Lewis listened to Kaylee’s words, he calmly began to explain the current situation to him.

“Kaylee, are you misunderstanding something? Sure, I asked you to fight the Hydra, but I don’t have to fight it myself. Worst case, it could revive and then destroy this kingdom before I ever fight it.

Yet, to say you’ll allow me to fight the Hydra if I spare that trash’s life… don’t you think that’s completely unbalanced?”

“Well, that is…”

Kaylee fell silent after hearing Lewis’s words, unable to respond, and after a moment, he looked at Lewis with a resolved expression.

“Then, how about I teach you spirit magic? I don’t know if you can use it, but we’ll do our best to teach you.

Also, you’re welcome to take any items you want. There are rare things in the treasury too. How about it? If you need, I’ll even offer you my arm or my eye. So please, I beg of you.”

(Spirit magic and items…)

Lewis had long had an interest in spirit magic, and Ryan’s items seemed to hold quite impressive effects.

There might even be items that suited him, so he decided this wasn’t a bad deal.

“Alright then. On those terms, I’ll let that guy’s life slide this time. Also, I don’t need your arm or eye. But next time…”

“I understand. If you make the same mistake again, I won’t hold back.”

“Understood.”

Lewis dispelled the ice sword he was holding, turning his back to Kaylee and the others, and headed back to where Fiera and the rest were waiting.