I started by opening the courtroom doors.
I stepped into the courthouse corridor.
There was no one around.
It seemed the area had been cleared of people.
I began walking down the hallway.
Eventually, I reached the courthouse lobby.
There should have been a receptionist or two here…
But right now, it was completely empty.
Only one woman stood at the center of the lobby.
She wore a toga reminiscent of ancient Rome.
About 175 centimeters tall.
Her hair, which reached just to her shoulders, was a deep blue.
Her eyes were golden.
She had a strange aura.
There was something sacred about her presence…
Our eyes met.
And in that instant,
A chilling shiver shot down my spine.
Every cell in my body screamed danger.
This was just like,
….When I stood before the spirit Nea.
「———!!」
I panicked and layered my psychokinesis to its maximum, erecting a barrier.
Immediately after.
The woman closed the distance with unbelievable speed and swung her fist at me.
「Guh———!!!!?」
I crossed my arms to block the punch.
It landed squarely on my forearms with incomprehensible force.
The sheer destructive power overwhelmed everything, it tore through my psychokinetic barrier like paper.
But,
「NuoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAA!!」
I forced more power into the barrier with sheer will.
The shattered layers of psychokinesis reconstructed themselves, reducing the force of the punch as much as possible.
Then,
「!!」
Her punch stopped.
I thought the impact would collapse the entire courthouse, but to my surprise, the surroundings were completely unaffected.
It was as if she had focused all the force into a single point, using a technique that didn’t let a single ounce of pressure leak out.
「Impressive」
She said, sounding genuinely amazed.
「To think you actually withstood my attack… That’s no human-level defense.」
「Heh… Of course. No attack can break through my ironclad defenses.」
…It was a bluff.
I was just putting on a brave face.
If I kept taking blows like that, I’d be dead in seconds.
Not even the spirit Nea had this kind of offensive power.
「Are you… the spirit of this country?」
The guardian spirit of the warrior nation Bernada.
I didn’t know her name.
I had never met her in the game either.
「That’s right. I am Seraphina. Guardian spirit of the Warrior Kingdom of Bernada, also known as the Warrior Spirit.」
「The Warrior Spirit…」
Fitting for Bernada, the land of warriors.
A spirit specialized entirely in combat.
And her striking power far surpassed that of Nea.
A fair fight would be suicide.
I had no choice but to end this in an instant, with ‘Spatial Severance’ before she could strike again.
I began preparing the spell.
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