The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

Jade flicked his fingers, and a large barrier was created around the three of them.

“With this, even if we go a little wild, Master won’t find out.”

At Jade’s words, Precia smiled with a face full of fighting spirit.

“That’s fortunate. It means there won’t be any interruptions even if I beat you up with all my might.”

As Precia provoked Jade, Gilbert was startled.

The Precia Gilbert had seen was always the epitome of a knight who never lost her cool.

If he had witnessed Precia warning Demiway a few days ago that she wouldn’t let it slide if Yuan got hurt, he wouldn’t have been this surprised.

“That’s my line, but don’t worry too much. I’m not the type of person to mercilessly use violence against a lady.”

At Jade’s words, Precia felt a definite anger more than any other provocation.

“Let’s see if you can still say that when you’re cornered.”

But at the same time as anger, she felt her heart pounding with competitive spirit at the mana Jade was exuding.

It would have been perfect if the opponent was wielding a sword, but she couldn’t underestimate him just because he was a magician.

Her trained instincts were screaming that the opponent in front of her was a threat.

Between the two who were facing each other and assessing, Precia rushed in first.

“Whoa!”

As she closed the distance at a speed beyond common sense, Jade was surprised and surrounded himself with a barrier.

Clang!

Precia’s sword was blocked by Jade’s barrier.

Jade thought it was only natural that he had blocked the sword and let his guard down.

At that moment,

“Hup!”

Cla-cla-clang-!

Precia took a half-breath and created sword energy with her sword, shredding Jade’s barrier as if grinding it.

Jade was sent flying with his barrier half-destroyed and slammed into the ground.

Fortunately, the blade that had shredded the barrier didn’t injure Jade’s body, but it was an attack that made his spine shiver.

He instinctively felt that Precia could have cut him in half with that previous strike.

“How disappointing. You were lecturing me about being a lady with just this level?”

Precia looked at Jade as if he were a rookie not even worth dealing with.

Jade felt humiliated by her gaze.

Although he was aware it was a somewhat arrogant thought, he had believed that if he went outside the mountains, there wouldn’t be many who could match him.

It wasn’t a very wrong thought, as Jade had received rigorous combat training from Yekatrice for a long time to hunt the great demons scattered throughout the mountains.

It’s just that he had the misfortune of letting his guard down against the wrong opponent.

“I was just careless. It will be different from now on!”

As Jade swung his magic staff filled with mana, ice condensed in the air and transformed into arrow shapes.

“Shoot, seventy-two arrows!”

The ice arrows were shot aiming at Precia from different directions.

Precia ran in a zigzag pattern to avoid the arrows and approached Jade once again.

“Rise! Thirty-six pillars!”

Jade predicted Precia’s movements and created ice pillars to obstruct her path.

As Precia hesitated for a moment at the suddenly rising ice pillars, the ice arrows hovering in the air changed their trajectories and aimed at Precia’s back.

Precia quickly twisted her body while supporting herself on the ground and dodged, and the ice arrows pierced the pillars instead of her body.

“How’s that!”

As Jade shouted triumphantly, Precia chuckled and cut down the ice pillars with her sword.

“Still far from it.”

Right after those words, Precia disappeared from Jade’s sight.

“Huh?! Teleportation?”

Jade was startled but soon realized that she was just moving too fast for his dynamic vision to keep up.

At the same time as that judgment, he felt a chill run down his spine as all the hairs on his body stood on end.

Jade instinctively expanded his barrier with all his might.

Boom-!

Precia, who had approached behind him at some point, swung her sword with all her strength and it was blocked by Jade’s barrier.

As the much sturdier barrier than the first one and the sword clad in sword energy collided, an explosive sound echoed in all directions.

Jade identified the direction Precia was in from the impact felt on the barrier and launched his magic.

“Devour! Ice wolf!”

A giant ice wolf rose from the ground, opened its jaws, and swallowed the spot where Precia had been.

But Precia was no longer there.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Five sword strikes from different directions poured down in an instant.

It felt almost simultaneous because it was so fast, but Jade sensed Precia’s movements from the subtle differences in the impact.

Jade once again created ice pillars to disrupt Precia’s movements.

However, Precia’s speed was much faster than the time it took for the magic to be completed.

When he used magic while looking at Precia, she had already dug into his blind spot again and swung her sword.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Each time Precia’s sword pounded on the barrier, Jade felt his mana being consumed in chunks and staggered with dizziness.

If he didn’t find a way quickly, he would collapse from mana depletion without being able to lift a finger.

“Spread out! Ice crystals!”

As Jade struck the ground with his magic staff, the air rapidly cooled, and snow-like ice crystals formed in all directions.

Precia surrounded her whole body with mana to protect herself and became wary of the suddenly formed ice crystals.

However, contrary to Precia’s wariness, the ice crystals did not harm her.

“What kind of magic is this? Are you giving up? If so, I’ll end it now.”

Precia took a deep breath and quickly rushed towards Jade.

Jade still couldn’t follow Precia’s movements with his eyes, but he smiled mischievously.

“Ugh!”

The ice arrows Jade shot poured down, keeping up with Precia’s speed.

Precia deflected and dodged the ice arrows, but ice pillars rose diagonally at the right timing and attacked her.

She twisted her upper body to avoid the pillars, sweating nervously.

Precia was startled when Jade, who couldn’t keep up with her speed until just now, started using magic as if he had adapted in a short time.

But she soon smiled bitterly.

“I see. These snow crystals floating in the air are reading my movements.”

Jade nodded at Precia’s guess.

“To be precise, they identify your current location and inform me of the impact force and direction generated when the crystals collide with you.”

If you miss it with your eyes because it’s too fast, you just need to detect it in a different way.

By knowing the speed from the impact force of the ice crystals and the path from the direction, it was a simple matter to predict and use magic.

As the method he thought of on the spot worked better than expected, Jade cheered inwardly.

“Hmph! That only slightly narrowed the gap.”

“We’ll have to see about that.”

The two were even more fired up with their stimulated competitive spirit and aimed their respective weapons at each other.

Jade pressured Precia using a variety of magic as if it were just the beginning, and Precia constantly moved and aimed for Jade’s blind spots.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Jade’s magic and Precia’s sword energy collided, turning the surroundings into ruins.

“Aaahh! I told you to stop! Save me, Young Master!”

Meanwhile, Gilbert, who had followed to stop the two, was running around like a shrimp trying to survive in a fight between whales, endlessly deflecting the ice fragments flying at him with his sword. He was trapped in the barrier Jade had set up and couldn’t even run away.

Gilbert vowed to never come to stop them again, not caring if the two of them got seriously hurt or scolded by the young master, and continued his struggle for survival.

Ignoring Gilbert’s screams, the two who were fiercely fighting gradually increased the intensity of their magic and sword energy.

“Try cutting this too!”

Above Jade’s head, a huge mass of cold energy in the shape of a dragon roared.

Jade’s face was flushed with excitement.

It was the first time he had fought with all his might to this extent.

It was the same for Precia.

Before they knew it, the two had forgotten their original intention of making the other apologize and were smiling at each other with competitive spirit.

“You’re acting all high and mighty with just that level!”

Strong energy beyond sword energy was created on Precia’s sword.

Just as Jade’s magic and Precia’s sword were about to collide, an old man intervened from outside, breaking the barrier.

“Enough!”

The old man reverse-engineered Jade’s magic and dismantled it, and spatially transferred the strong energy Precia had unleashed, making it disappear.

Kwa-aang-!

The mass of strong energy that was spatially transferred far away cut through a mountain ridge and caused a huge landslide.

“I was just going to watch as you young ones sharpened each other, but you both went too far! Were you trying to kill each other?!”

At the sudden shout of the old man who appeared, Precia and Jade froze.

The old man’s voice carried an unapproachable dignity and power.

“Speak up! Jade! Did that red-haired child do something bad enough to be killed by you?!”

The old man scolded Jade first, who had created the great magic.

“Ah, no.”

“You brat! And yet you used such great magic?!”

“Th-that’s because I thought that person could sufficiently handle it…”

“You cheeky brat! You’re still talking back?! Is that how Yekatrice taught you?!”

Jade shrank back at the old man’s scolding.

“And you too!”

As the old man turned his arrow towards Precia, she also shrank back, overwhelmed by the old man’s momentum.

“I may not have much insight into swordsmanship. But child, the sword you used just now was clearly not one to be used in a spar. Am I wrong?!”

“Th-that’s right.”

“I don’t know who the master is that taught you the sword, but your master wouldn’t have taught you to wield a sword so recklessly either! Are you not even ashamed to use such a sword in a spar?!”

“I’m… sorry.”

Precia lowered her head, feeling ashamed.

The old man sighed deeply and approached Gilbert, who had collapsed powerlessly.

“Child, you must have had a hard time trying to stop those immature brats.”

As the old man extended his hand, Gilbert took it with a dazed face and stood up.

“No. In the end, I couldn’t stop them.”

“It’s alright. That fight just now wasn’t something anyone could easily stop. Don’t blame yourself for your shortcomings, and strive to move forward.”

Before Gilbert could ask the old man who he was, the old man started a storm-like nagging at Precia and Jade again, glaring at them.

“Kids these days, I tell you, they don’t think before they act and just do whatever they want. Relying on their meager talent and acting up, if they die somewhere…”

At the long speech-like nagging, the two froze and shrank back like children being punished.

As the storm-like nagging continued, one person flew over from the distant hut.

“Dalanta? When did you arrive?”

“Long time no see, Yekatrice. Is there any frozen rice left? I was worried about a friend who can’t even cook.”

As Yekatrice arrived, Dalanta also stopped his nagging and greeted his old friend.

“You came at a good time. I was just running out of stock food.”

Yekatrice hugged him joyfully in greeting, then examined the surroundings that had turned into ruins without even glancing at Jade and asked,

“Was this your doing?”

“Th-that’s…!”

Jade tried to make an excuse, but he couldn’t think of anything.

At first, he had a plausible justification that it was for his master’s sake, but in the end, he had escalated the situation because of his competitive spirit, so that justification was worse than even a rotten apple.

“I’m disappointed, Jade.”

At his master’s incomparably cold gaze, unlike usual, Jade lowered his head with a sense of guilt.

“You two guests, go and have dinner. Yuan is waiting for you.”

At Yekatrice’s words, Precia and Gilbert broke out in a cold sweat.

They didn’t know what kind of stern order would be given since they had caused an incident at the residence of the Sage of the Winter Wood, whom they were supposed to form a friendly relationship with.

Precia, in particular, trembled with anxiety as the one who had caused the incident.

She was afraid of Yuan giving her the same cold gaze as Jade receiving from his master.