LGHTNOVELBOOK 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 My Virtual Library Empire
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!"
"Well it's fine," Melisa said. "As long as you can feel some progression, then we're doing things the right way. And… Ah! P-Planta?!"
Melisa and Gustav were very invested into their own conversations, which surprised me quite a bit. I never expected these two to get along so well! But as they explained, maybe it has to do with their own powers and how they cancel each other or something.
"Melissa!" I said. "I brought you the accessories I promised you, please come here."
"Oh, thank you!" she ran towards me, grabbing them and equipping them one by one. "Ooh! T-These look so stylish! And they fit just right?! How did you even make them!"
"Well I got some good eye and can adjust how I create things, so they fit my clients," I explained. "Now, the accessory will not only help you suppress the aura, but it will continuously accumulate the aura into essence you can use offensively or even defensively."
"Like this…? Oh!"
FLUOSH!
The moment Melissa equipped all the items, her cursed aura constantly being exuded from her body gathered within her accessories instead, rapidly accumulating the energy without harming her environment.
At the same time, her entire "presence" changed, the reason she was always constantly covering her entire body was because her appearance, despite not looking bad at all, contained some sort of visual curse within it.
This made it so mostly all NPC felt a natural "repulsion" and "fear" to her, unless she covered her entire body, without revealing a single speck of skin!
But now? That was different, and it would change forever.
"Now, how about you take off the clothes covering you?" I asked her. "There's plenty of NPCs here, so we can test if it works or not."
"B-But!" she complained, feeling a bit afraid.
"Don't be afraid, this is fine," I said, patting her head. "Come on, let's do it."
"Ugh… O-Okay then, I'll trust you, Planta," she nodded.
Melisa took out her hoodie, her black mask, her robes, and even the many other clothes covering every inch of her body, revealing her true appearance. She had red skin with some black skin spots here and there. Six eyes, three were red, the other three were dark purple.
There were two malformed-looking horns growing from her forehead, looking like she had cut them off a lot so they wouldn't get in the way of her clothes, which was always a bit sad to see. But now, I think she'll be able to grow them as much as she wants without worrying.
Also, she had pointy ears with black scales on them, and she also had black scales in her neck all the way to the cheeks of her face, she also had silvery-white hair, with red and purple colors at the sharp ends.
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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