bookpub Chapter 1327: Melissa’s Sparring
Chapter 1327: Melissa’s Sparring
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The queen led us to the large area downstairs, where we reached a small corner where Melissa was sparring with the little Gustav. Though it was more like she was tanking his hits while Gustav learned how to evade attacks coming at him.
"Hya! Hya! Hya!"
CLASH!
Gustav swung a sword clumsily, sometimes releasing small shocks of crimson electricity from his attacks, which dealt little damage to Melissa, but made her step back in awe.
"You’re doing well, young prince. Your lightning seems to be an innate ability within your body," she said. "Try using it as much as possible against me."
"O-Okay!" Gustav nodded, charging forward. "Hyaaa!"
FLUOSH!
The little prince’s aura transformed, becoming crimson lightning in the shape of a multi-headed hydra that wrapped around his body. Your journey continues at novelhall.Côm
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
And then, he attacked Melissa continuously, releasing explosions of crimson thunder that seemed very strong, but that dealt very little damage to her.
"Oh, that was strong!" Melissa smiled. "Well done, prince Gustav."
"Ugh... Haaa... I feel like I’m still lacking so much," Gustav complained, feeling frustrated. "Thank you for accepting to spar with me, Melisa... Nobody else wanted!"
"I suppose it’s because they’re afraid they could hurt the prince," said Melisa. "Honestly I am also afraid. But I’m happy that my curse doesn’t affect you, while I am also quite high level, so we both take minimum damage from one another, making each other good sparring partners, or at least that’s what I think."
"Yeah! I just discovered my magic powers back then... W-When I almost got kidnaped," sighed Gustav. "I don’t want that to happen ever again! Even if I’m alone, I want to... I want to defend myself somehow..."
"I know," nodded Melissa. "I also can relate to that feeling of hopelessness quite a lot. You’ve got great potential prince, maybe you need to level up hunting monsters next. I wonder if you can see your status?"
"I can!" said Gustav. "But... Hmm, there’s a bunch of stuff I don’t understand well, like the numbers and other things... Uh, I don’t know if I can read this that well... Sorry!"
She was indeed very beautiful in her own way, like a beautiful amalgamation of many traits that somehow perfectly blended together into a demon girl. If anything, she was an exotic beauty.
"W-Wow, so that’s how Melissa looks like?"
"I have never seen a demi human quite like her."
"So peculiar!"
"Her horns... Are they damaged?"
"So she has scales too?"
"Six eyes! I bet she can see a lot with that."
"Oh? Who’s the cutie over there?! I’ve never seen someone with such a vibrant appearance!"
"It’s Melissa? Wait, really?!"
"Why was she hiding herself like that?"
The soldiers walking around stopped to admire her appearance, although some were a bit shocked, others seemed to smile and even flirt with her.
Melisa covered her face in embarrassment though, she was cute.
"So this is her true appearance!" said the Queen. "Interesting, she’s quite peculiar. Not like any race I’ve ever seen before, right?"
"Yeah," nodded the King. "If anything she looks like... I don’t want to sound offensive, but she resembles a little demon girl."
"Woaah! You’re so cool Melissa!" said Gustav, blushing as he gasped by seeing her appearance. "Scales, and horns too?! And you got SIX eyes?! I wish I had all of that!"
"Hahah, you flatter me," Melissa giggled, feeling embarrassed. "Thank you Planta, this... this is all I could’ve ever asked for. It finally feels like I can begin enjoying this world."
"You’re welcome!"
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