Chapter Eighty-four Ambush on the Road

  It was almost an hour later when everyone had gathered in front of the "Ring of Stone" at the entrance of the Academy.

  The place of gathering is the "gate" connecting the Academy and the Elemental Spirit Realm.

  This ruin existed before the Academy was established and is not a technology of the Empire itself.

  Regarding the use and various maintenance techniques of this so-called "gate", except for some remaining ancient scrolls preserved by the major empires, all other places have been lost.

  All contestants will enter the Elemental Spirit Realm through this gate and then take a boat prepared by the "Shen Yi Yuan" to the venue of the Spiritual Sword Dance Festival.

  It's called a boat, but it doesn't sail on the sea, instead it flies in the sky.

  When all members of Aua team arrived, the other two teams representing the college had been waiting there for a long time.

  In Veil Serealia's team, Yakumo Mukuro unexpectedly saw the God. Beside him stood a girl whose body was almost completely leaning against his.

  "Fiyana, don't, don't be like this..."

  "What's the big deal, or rather, what do you think, genius?"

  After that, I don't know what Fianna whispered in the ear of the god, but the god who had been somewhat resistant before completely gave up his resistance, and with a red face allowed the girl to tease him in various ways.

  Although others couldn't hear it, Yakumo's sharp hearing picked up the phone conversation. The girl named Fianna said "Do you want your past identity as Ren Ashbell to be exposed?"

  This Fianna is the second princess of the Odessa Empire, who was rescued by God and Yakumo Sumi, who happened to be passing through the Elemental Spirit Forest three years ago during the Sword Dance Festival.

  It seems that after that incident, the girl fell in love with the god-like person.

  The arrival of Aua team did not seem to elicit much enthusiasm from the other two teams.

  After all, although they were from the same academy, they were still enemies in the Sword Dance Festival.

  Only Veleselia nodded at Akane in a friendly manner while curiously looking at Yakumo Suke and Yui.

  However, as Veirsea's sister, Alice did not go forward and chat with her own sister.

  It seems like the two sisters don't get along.

  "The time has come, everyone enter 'The Circle of Stone'!"

  Freyja's fingertips, which were responsible for opening the door and sending everyone over, drew a magic circle on the stone pillar.

  The ancient bluestone floor suddenly surged with a green glow.

  One hand holding Yui, one hand holding Mei, Yakumo Suke walked into the transmission array.

  The feeling of dizziness suddenly swept over his head.

  As I opened my eyes, the first thing that came into view was a lush and verdant forest.

  In front of us is a huge lake.

  After everyone had been transported over, a streamlined, whale-shaped airship slowly descended from the sky.

  According to the materials he saw in the academy library, Yakumo Suketaka knew that the power source of this airship was a spirit engine made by the Kingdom of Balusutan, and the exterior material seemed to be made from a divine tree with an age of over 6,000 years.

  "Everyone, you must work hard!"

  After mutual encouragement, everyone boarded the flying boat.

  In the ethereal cloud sea, the flying ship sailed at an extremely fast speed.

  Although it was very fast, due to the magic circle set up on the ship, everyone didn't have that feeling of rapid movement at all.

  The destination of the advance is one of the sacred places of the Elemental Spirit Realm - the floating island "Ragnar Is".

  The venue for this Spirit Sword Dance Festival.

  Normally, only the shrine maidens of the "Shin'ei-in" who serve the Spirit King are allowed to enter, but during the Spirit Sword Dance Festival, it is specially open to the general public.

  Sitting in the rest room assigned to Aua team, everyone started enjoying the fun of traveling.

  On the soft red carpet there are exquisite embroidery, and the walls are made of polished marble.

  Sitting on the soft sofa, Akane took out a whole set of tea utensils from Yakumo's opened gap and began to carefully prepare red tea.

  These years of living with Hachiyumi Sumi, Midori has already understood her husband's habits like the back of her hand.

  How to put it, Yakumo Mukuro is really a person who loves to enjoy himself, or you could say he's an oni who likes to indulge.

  In Gensokyo, there was the all-around housework of Reimu's care, and here, the task of taking care of him naturally fell on Myon's shoulders as his wife.

  "Wow! Senior, these tea sets look amazing!"

  Linsley's eyes, like green gemstones, shone brightly as she gazed at the exquisite tea set before her.

  This set of tea utensils, along with the tea leaves, were brought from Gensokyo by Yakumo Yukari.

  The tea set is made from soil that has been imbued with magical energy for many years in the Magical Forest, and the tea leaves are a special type of dark tea unique to the White Jade Pavilion.

  Zi and Youyouzi have always had a good relationship.

  As the most beloved little brother of Zi, Ba Yun Mo naturally enjoyed the top-grade tea leaves in the White Jade Building.

  "Rather than letting that foodie savor these tea leaves raw, it's better for us to enjoy them."

  These are the original words of Yakumo Kōki.

  Naturally, Youyouzi couldn't help but find trouble with Bayunmo after hearing these words.

  A refreshing fragrance began to waft through the room.

  "Mmm - smells so good!"

  Linsley's small nose wing moved slightly.

  Asagiri handed a cup of red tea over to Yakumo Sumeragi.

  Taking over the teacup from Akane, Yakumo Saku lowered his head and began to savor it.

  "It feels like you two seniors are being overly affectionate..."

  "I still don't know what kind of husband I will have in the future——"

  "I just hope there's no bad habit!"

  The girls looked at Yakumo Suke and Ashinano with envy on their faces as they stood together, seemingly oblivious to the world around them.

  Kerry was lying on the sofa, her skirt flipped up, and her chubby thighs were about to be exposed.

  "By the way, there's an opening ceremony tonight, have you guys prepared your evening attire?"

  "Hmph, as the eldest daughter of the Lauren Frost family, how could I possibly not be prepared."

  "I'm ready too, how about you seniors?"

  When Alice asked, Akane nodded and said: "I've already prepared in advance."

  "That's great!"

  The hull suddenly emitted a violent shaking, and Linsley, who was tasting the Minaduki red tea, accidentally knocked over the teacup in her hand.

  "What's going on?!"

  "It seems like the airship is under attack!"

  Baiyun Mo ignored the noisy girls and stood up, opening the door of the room and walking out.

  Standing on the deck, looking down at the flowing sea of clouds.

  "That is—"

  Baiyun's eyebrows furrowed tightly together.

  In the sea of clouds, there is a huge shadow.

  That was a gigantic monster about ten meters in length, like an eel.

  However, the monster's head had a huge crimson single eye.

  The girls who ran out of the room looked down one after another, and Alice exclaimed: "Isn't that the 'Destruction Spirit' of the Second Flying Corps!?"

  Destroyer Spirit, is a military spirit used by the main force of the Doragnia army.

  According to the treaty of the mainland nations, this spirit should have been abolished after the end of the Azure War.

  Seeing that military spirit swimming in the sea of clouds, ready to attack the airship again at any time, Yakumo Moku narrowed his eyes slightly.

  Is... Muya in control?

  Mia Arnezahl, ranked second in the Academy's power ranking, is a girl who is only inferior to God.

  The cursed tool "Fool's Giant Pliers" drives the used spirit mad, forcing it to dig out power, but at the cost of the spirit not being able to withstand for too long, and the user cannot use it for too long either.

  Mia is now allied with Rubi, just like Hachigen and Byakuren.

  To be precise, this Muya is one of the core members of the Hell's Apostle team led by Rubia to participate in the Elf Sword Dance Festival!

  "Why would military spirits attack this spaceship?"

  Meinari raised her voice and asked.

  "Maybe it's what representative teams from other countries do, after all there are members of our and other en route countries' representative teams on this airship."

  "If we can settle this here, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the number of opponents in this Sword Dance Festival!"

  Linsleyte made an explanation and immediately opened her right hand, reciting the summoning spell.

  "Fierce beast of icy fangs, ruthless forest hunter!"

  "In this place, fulfill the contract of blood, obey my command!"

  A flurry of icy crystals swept through the air, and the ice spirit Fenrir suddenly appeared.

  The demon wolf instantly transformed into a white light point and disappeared, finally gathering in Linslet's right hand to form an ice crystal magic bow.

  It's Linselette's Spirit Gear.

  "Frostbite, pierce through! — 'Magic Ice Arrow'!"

  Drawing his bow, a single arrow of divine energy shot towards the massive body of the military spirit below!