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 361: Wall

The third match would begin.

Standing before Lavienne next was Shuvina, radiating an intensely sharp murderous intent like a finely honed blade, with an air that radiated neither complacency nor arrogance.

“Whoa, this is seriously thrilling!”

In front of such a Shuvina, Lavienne didn’t cower but instead smiled in ecstasy while hugging herself, trembling with excitement.

“You’re stronger than I imagined.”

“Hehe. You guys are surprisingly strong too, so I’m having fun!”

“True. Thanks to you, I’ve understood your abilities better, and I’m grateful to the previous two.”

“Wow, so I guess those two matches really gave it away, huh?”

“Well, there are still gaps in the information, but your ability to manipulate shadows, right? It seems to have a connection to spirits.”

“Correct! But I won’t be teaching you any more than that, so you’ll have to confirm the rest on your own!”

“Got it!”

With that, Shuvina pulled a bow from her back, gripping an arrow from the storage magic ring, and nocked it on the bowstring.

In response, Lavienne pulled out two daggers from her holder, fixing her gaze intently on Shuvina’s poised bow.

“Shh!”

The arrow released by Shuvina, enveloped in a golden aura as if wrapped in fighting spirit, was far faster and more powerful than a regular arrow.

“Aha!!”

Instead of dodging the incoming arrow laced with fighting spirit, Lavienne crossed her daggers to catch it, being pushed back rapidly by the force.

Just at the moment Lavienne absorbed the blow (but it caused her to retreat), the arrowhead and Lavienne’s daggers shattered, particles raining down to the ground.

“Wow. It broke!”

“I can’t believe you managed to absorb it like that. Well, I kind of expected it, but what now? Your weapons seem to be gone; what will you do next?”

Even as she said this, Shuvina remained cautious, waiting for Lavienne’s next move, when shadows at Lavienne’s feet began to flicker like flames, revealing a pitch-black scythe in her hand.

“Then, I guess it’s time to take out my real weapon!”

“Gotcha. It seems you still have a few tricks up your sleeve.”

As Shuvina watched Lavienne twirling the ebony scythe in front of her, she trembled slightly at the depth of her opponent.

“Seriously. It’s been a while since I’ve faced someone this unpredictable.”

“You, on the other hand, still don’t seem fully serious.”

“Of course not. This is a rare opportunity, so I plan to use it to grow a little bit!”

“Ahaha. So you think of me as a stepping stone or something?”

“More like a wall I have to overcome. Like your chest.”

“Huh?”

The moment Shuvina mentioned Lavienne’s modest chest, her demeanor shifted completely, her glare sharpened.

“That kinda ticked me off. And you certainly can’t talk considering your own is practically non-existent!”

“That’s not true! At the very least, I have more than you, who’s almost like a wall! Because of that, I learned something. While there are those above me, there are also those below me.”

“Ugh, I’m totally fuming! Honestly, do you think you can mock me when compared to Fiera and the others? Doesn’t that feel a bit empty?”

“Hehe. Just a sore loser’s whimper. Whatever a wall says, it doesn’t affect me. Ah, this is the difference between those who have and those who don’t. It feels a bit good.”

“How annoying! That’s it. I’m taking you down without giving you time to stall!”

“Oh? With that chest of yours, you might actually stand a chance. I guess I should be more careful since that wall looks painful.”

“I won’t forgive you once this is over!”

Though Lavienne wouldn’t normally allow her chest to be mocked, she unleashed her magic and pulled back the scythe, closing the distance to Shuvina in an instant, swinging the scythe mercilessly towards Shuvina’s neck.

“Die!”

“Quick as always. Not as fast as Fiera though.”

However, Shuvina skillfully spotted Lavienne’s strike and bent back to evade, nocking an arrow for a counterattack.

“Whoa!”

The arrow aimed at Lavienne’s face merely grazed her cheek as she swiftly dodged, hitting the barrier ceiling before falling to the ground.

“Unbelievable. To dodge at this distance… that’s incredible reflexes.”

“You too, for not losing sight of my movements, impressive!”

“Well, I’ve had a hard time with Fiera, so watching her made my reflexes improve.”

“I see. But I’ve had my fair share of trouble with you guys too. So I’ll take this chance to vent all my frustration from that time today!”

“Alright. I’ve had enough playing around, let’s get serious now. Dōna!”

“Yay!!”

As Shuvina summoned Dōna, enveloping herself in fighting spirit, she entrusted the frontline to Dōna and began launching arrows at Lavienne from behind.

“Ah! Did you know? The best tool for cutting weeds and rice is a scythe! In other words, if you get tangled up with my scythe, your spirit’s plants will be nothing but pests!!!”

“Ugh! Dōna’s plants are not weeds!”

Perhaps displeased by the comparison to “weeds,” Dōna mercilessly unleashed roots and vines to ensnare Lavienne, but instead, Lavienne used Dōna’s roots as leverage to dodge the vines and began slicing through them with her scythe, closing the distance with Shuvina and the others.

“‘Piercing Star’!”

But in response to such Lavienne, Shuvina fired an arrow compressed with fighting spirit, which pierced through the roots Dōna summoned and continued with unyielding power, heading straight for Lavienne.

“‘Shadow Bind’!”

Realizing she couldn’t simply block it, Lavienne manipulated shadows with her racial magic to form a wall of shadows in front of her.

Then, at the moment the arrow touched the shadow, it seemed to be absorbed into the shadow, only to emerge again attacking Shuvina from the shadows at her feet.

“Ugh!”

“Shuvi!!”

Caught off guard by the unexpected counterattack, Shuvina was hit by an arrow that appeared from her feet, blowing her left arm, which held the bow, clean off. With a thud, she lost both arm and weapon.

“Are you okay?!”

“I’m fine. Dōna. More importantly, I didn’t expect you could interfere with my shadow. I thought you could only control your own shadow.”

Having witnessed the battle with Iris, Shuvina thought Lavienne could only manipulate her own shadow.

But that assumption was proven wrong, and in this very moment, she learned that Lavienne could control not just her own shadow but even others.

“What will you do? Continuing?”

With Dōna worriedly pausing her attack, Lavienne swiftly approached Shuvina, gazing down at her kneeling form, scythe resting on her shoulder.

“Well, I should theoretically give up here, but that would be a bit dull, wouldn’t it?”

“So, you’re going to continue?”

“Yes. But since my arm’s in this state, fighting normally would be impossible. Ugh. I actually wanted to show this after I got better at handling it, but since you’re here, I’ll use you as a practice partner.”

“Practice partner?”

“Dōna, let’s do this!”

“Yay! Whenever you’re ready!!”

As Shuvina stood, pressing on her wound, she signaled to Dōna, who gleefully fluttered around her.

“Wow. What are you going to show me this time?”

“I’ll wipe that cockiness right off you. ‘Spirit Possession’!”

As Shuvina smirked and murmured all of this, the next moment, both her and Dōna’s bodies shone brilliantly, and when the light settled, only Shuvina stood there, her hair transformed from blonde to light green.

Moreover, affixed to her previously missing left arm was a wooden prosthetic, and her right hand gripped a spear of a beautiful green like new leaves.

“Phew. That went well.”

“Wow, this is impressive!”

Spirit Possession. It was a secret technique only available to certain elves who could contract with spirits, requiring a robust sense of self from the spirit along with complementary affinity and trust between the contractor and spirit.

Using this technique allows for temporary merging with the spirit, enabling direct use of spirit magic usually only accessible to spirits themselves and absorbing natural magic present in the air, granting almost infinite magical abilities.

Shuvina only recently became able to use Spirit Possession. Dōna advanced to a higher spirit form, which clarified her sense of self, fulfilling the initial requirements, but Shuvina had struggled to control Dōna’s power until now.

However, seeing Lewis and Fiera grow stronger made Shuvina unwilling to be left behind, and with unyielding practice, she finally learned to use Spirit Possession, albeit for a short time.

“I wish I could take more time to experiment with various techniques, but I still haven’t mastered it much, and I can’t maintain this form for long, so let’s wrap this up quickly.”

Currently, Shuvina could maintain Spirit Possession for only three minutes, so she declared this and attacked Lavienne with all her strength right from the start.

With thrusts and horizontal slashes from the spear, attacks from blind spots using plants, and even area attacks, it felt like she was fighting an entire forest at once, overwhelming Lavienne, whose pressure forced the barrier to shatter one layer after another from within.

“Ahahaha! This is so much fun!!!!”

Despite this situation, Lavienne laughed even more joyously than before, wrapping herself in shadow energy, moving faster than ever, swinging her scythe powerfully.

It was like a battle between nature and loggers, as Shuvina’s magically created roots and vines were slashed by Lavienne’s scythe, but there was no reduction in their numbers, and more of Shuvina’s plants kept appearing.

“This will settle it!”

Seeing the situation where all Lavienne’s strikes were cutting through her attacks, Shuvina dropped her stance lower, pouring all her magic into her spear, intent on finishing the fight with a single blow.

“‘One Finger of the Spirit Tree’!”

The full thrust unleashed by Shuvina dug fiercely into the ground as if nature itself was expressing its fury, rocketing straight toward Lavienne.

“Hehe. As expected, you guys are the best. In gratitude for the entertainment, I’ll take that technique head-on. ‘Shadow Wave’!”

Lavienne declared as she channeled magic into her pitch-black scythe, the scythe cloaked in a dark aura. Then, she swung the scythe sideways.

In an instant, silence enveloped the area, and dark shadows spread like waves adjoining the scythe’s trajectory, engulfing the nearby roots and vines, ultimately swallowing even the full-force thrust from Shuvina.

“Phew, phew… Seriously. It’s been a while since I felt this kind of jealousy.”

As Shuvina’s full-force thrust was effortlessly nullified, her spirit possession wore off at just the right moment, and she sank to the ground, trying to catch her breath.

“Ahahaha! You’re so jealous of my strength that you want to challenge me again, huh?”

“Of course. Who do you think I’ve been following to get this far? After seeing your strength displayed now, my heart isn’t weak enough to break easily!”

“That’s definitely true. So? Are we still going?”

“No. I’ll stop here. I’m already exhausted and have no magic left.”

“Got it! And by the way, Shuvina, you might want to learn a bit more about using that spear. You still have a lot of unnecessary movements, and you seem unaccustomed to it!”

“Yeah, I’m well aware of that myself.”

“Then it’s settled! I had a really fun time! Thank you!”

With Lavienne’s words marking the end of their battle, Shuvina was supported by an anxious Iris rushing over, and they headed toward Sephiria for treatment.

Later, Lewis, who had replaced the barrier, quickly repaired the damaged training ground with magic. After a short break, it was Sonia’s turn to take the stage.