Mushoku Tensei: Reincarnated as the weakest Sword God

I followed Orsted through the maze of teleportation circles for about three minutes until we stopped at a circle with nothing special in particular.

Without saying anything we both jumped into it and were teleported, when I opened my eyes I found myself inside a stone ruin, the same ones I used in Beggarit and in the teleportation labyrinth.

"Follow me" Orsted said so I followed him to the outskirts of the ruin, when we came out we were in a common forest, not as lush as Sharia's so we left it quickly and arrived at a grassy plain.

I looked in disbelief at the landscape ahead of me.

"We are now in the south of Asura, there are no human settlements for days, we will be fine here" Orsted said as he walked towards the plain.

We walked for about three minutes until we were in the center of the plain and then Orsted stopped, we were twenty steps away from each other.

Orsted was totally calm as he looked at me so I took out the Tsukikage sword from its sheath and got into a combat stance.

"Well, as I said before, depending on the outcome of this battle, that will be how we proceed with your strategy" Orsted said as he crouched slightly and stood on guard.

I nodded, closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

Eris had been trained by Gull Farion and me for years with the simple purpose of defeating Orsted, I knew that determination was good, but that dream was simply absurd, knowing that there would always be someone stronger than me out there kept me grounded my entire life, even now.

Gull said: "When facing Orsted there are always three things you should not do when facing him, never make the first move"

His Water God Style level is divine level, I have already defeated Reida, but Orsted is a god, my Dragon Phoenix sword could have penetrated his touki but it broke...

Also, he is able to use the long sword of light with only his hand...but the solution is simple, I just have to cut off his hand before he reaches his maximum speed...

And also this guy usually uses words to provoke, but we are in a practice fight.

I put these thoughts out of my mind as I got into a combat stance and...I lunged at him without hesitation.

[3rd POV]

Orsted knew Gino Britz in a more intimate way than he ever imagined in his countless loops, he could be considered a co-worker or even if they went later they could be considered friends, now Gino Britz was stronger than he had ever been, Orsted had no doubt that Gino could defeat Laplace alone, but even so, he had to be 100% sure.

The proposal that he had made him a few hours ago took Orsted completely off guard, he would never have thought of such a thing and even believed that it could work, and after all, Orsted had reserved his mana specifically to fight against Laplace.

and now the opportunity was presented to him sooner than he could have ever imagined.

And now he was in front of him, Orsted was on guard, his eyes fixed on Gino, he was faster, stronger and more cunning than the other loops' versions.

Orsted couldn't afford to let his guard down, and so Gino bent his knees slightly as he held his father's sword in front of him, his expression calm and determined.

And so, Gino made a huge leap, the distance of ten steps was closed in less than a thousandth of a second and...

Orsted realized that he had a sword at his neck!!!

"!!!!"

[Gino Pov]

(Krakabooom!!!)

The sound of my sword hitting Orsted's neck echoed across the plain raising a cloud of smoke. I quickly ran towards Orsted until I put my sword on his neck but he never moved. I thought he would stop my attack at the last second but my sword crashed into his neck at my maximum speed and wounded him, but even with all my strength I only made a superficial cut.

His dragon Touki is simply an incredible thing.

But even so, just with the force of my attack, Orsted was thrown backwards. I followed his trajectory while running and began to deal him countless sword blows in just thousandths of a second.

Little by little the cuts began to appear on his skin and I could see how his eyes slowly opened wide, he was just realizing the first attack and I had already given him more than 100 attacks.

But right at the 101st attack, Orsted flipped in the air at an impressive speed and kicked me in the chest. I was able to react to this and stopped his blow with my sword, but the force of his attack threw me back, but I cushioned the blow with wind magic.

When Orsted fell to the ground, he was already completely healed, as if the wounds had never been there in the first place, the only testimony of this is that his white robe had slight scratches.

I immediately realized that he surpassed me in brute strength and his regeneration was almost immediate, but I already knew that, I just had to prove what I was capable of.

"Interesting..." I heard Orsted murmur while he had a small smile on his face.

I could only shudder at this as I looked at him, I could feel the sweat running down my forehead, before me was the strongest man in this world, I could not afford to let my guard down.

Less than a second after this, Orsted lunged at me at a terrifying speed, but it was a speed I could react to.

His right fist was clenched and in a hook position and his left hand was straight and facing the other, this guy always uses martial arts before anything else.

I dodged the blow with ease, Orsted passed by me and I took advantage of this to attack him at the waist, it was an arc movement at the speed of light, my sword reached his waist and I hit him there, his body crashed into the ground at an overwhelming speed, but with a movement that scared me, he got up from the ground and with a kick to the solar plexus, the guy sent me flying, I felt my organs collapsing inside my body under the overwhelming force of this guy and I flew out and fell on the ground like a rag doll, I had to use advanced level magic to heal myself from the inside.

Orsted just stared at me as he looked at me, it seemed like he was analyzing me.

I quickly got up from the ground and put myself on guard.

Orsted raised his right hand until it was above his head.

I was about to make a long sword of light!!

Orsted lowered his hand at the speed of light but I ran towards him at full speed, I caught up with him until his hand was at the height of his chest and I made my own long sword of light that... blew his hand away!

His severed hand flew out, I could see the surprise on Orsted's face, I quickly crouched down and kicked him in the chest but it barely made him stagger, at this the bastard grabbed my leg with his left hand and with his right elbow he broke my leg in a quick movement.

I couldn't even twist my face in pain as he threw me back with a punch, and jumped back grabbing his severed hand in the air, joining it with his severed stump and gluing it together like it was nothing...

fucking monster...

"I see... you're strong Gino Britz, you're faster than me apparently" he murmured.

I just stayed on guard against this while I healed my leg, I have to distract him with something...

In my left hand was my sword and at the same time I healed my broken leg, my right hand was free and Orsted was already getting into combat stance again.

He lunged at me at great speed, but with my hand I aimed at him and threw a stone bullet that hit him right in the chest and made him retreat, he opened his eyes wide as he looked at me.

The stone bullet was hollow and inside it had a small but powerful explosion.

Even this attack managed to damage Orsted, his tunic was stained and parts of his hair were charred.

He kept advancing towards me and I kept shooting, he moved to the right and I to the left, he moved to the right and I in the opposite direction.

He advanced and I threw a stone bullet at him that made him retreat, you might wonder why I was taking so much trouble, but you must understand that we both moved at speeds that were equal to that of light, my mana did not move so fast towards my leg.

When he was three steps away from me, I felt my leg, it was already healed, he throws a punch at me and I dodge it and throw my sword at his head.

Orsted did not have time to react and my sword cut one of his cheeks... no! He reacted and his fist went to my ribs!!.

With wind magic I got away from him as fast as I could.

His fist only hit the air leaving him exposed, but the bastard went for my sword...

If you want it, take it, invecil!!

"haaaa!!" With a war cry I threw a long sword of light towards his hands that effectively cut his fingers, but Orsted did not flinch, with his three-fingerless hand he stopped my sword, the blade penetrated his skin almost splitting his hand in half, all my momentum stopped, it felt like I had hit a wall, but now I was not a hammer, I was a simple fist hitting a concrete wall.

His left hand went towards me at an immense speed, I gave up on my sword and threw myself backwards, quickly I accumulated the mana in my hand and I threw an electric shock at him with all the mana I could gather in my hand, the impact hit him squarely in the chest and I could feel that the impact made him fall.

I no longer had my sword so I was exposed, my sword had been buried in Orsted so I did not know if it was intact, as long as I did not have my sword, this battle was lost for me.

(krakaboooom!!)

A huge explosion followed by a shockwave sounded from the other side of the plain, and from it came Orsted, his tunic was gone, and on his chest the flesh was exposed and scorched, his hand was already as good as new and he had my sword in his left hand.

At this I felt a chill run down my spine, Orsted took my sword as if it were a spear and threw it at me at an incredible speed, I could barely dodge it but it left a huge cut on my cheek.

I tried to grab my sword before it fell to the ground but...

Maybe it was instinct or something else, but I turned to look at Orsted, the guy was already in front of me with his fist almost at my chest.

I barely had time to dodge the attack, and he kept going, I ducked down in that instant and grabbed my sword, but when I got up Orsted was already there, he had a slight smile on his face as he ran towards me which made him even more terrifying, with all my strength I threw a long sword of light at him which he couldn't repel and cut him in the chest, but the fucker didn't even flinch and kept running towards me.

I could see that he had only been using martial arts this whole time, in fact there was no need to use more against me, but it feels disappointing.

I threw another long sword of light at him which cut his left wrist and I took the opportunity that he turned his gaze to grab his hand again and cut his leg off with a long sword of light.

The guy staggered leaning on his left hand as he looked at me in surprise, I could see genuine shock on his face.

He was wounded, and on his knees on the ground, I had caused that...

But again this vision didn't blind me, I quickly tried to throw another long sword of light towards his other arm, but the bastard threw an electric bolt at me at a speed that caught me off guard.

I didn't have the ability to repel it so I had no choice but to dodge it.

But this was enough for Orsted to recover.

"I guess I have no choice..." I heard him murmur.

This made my skin crawl and fear took over me.

The image of Orsted that was so clear throughout the fight, vanished with a speed that I couldn't see, only by instinct I crouched, but there was nothing, with a sonic boom I jumped into the air but there was nothing.

When I was falling to the ground I used another sonic boom to cushion my fall, but something was strange...

I looked at my right arm that held my sword, it wasn't there...

"!!!"

I looked in shock at my surroundings before the pain invaded me.

And then I felt it, Orsted was heading towards me, with all my strength I searched for my arm, I hadn't felt the moment he cut me, I never felt it.

I ran towards my arm that was about twenty meters away from me, but when I took my sword I felt him behind me, I barely had time to react and with my left hand I intercepted Orsted's sword, but that's just a euphemism, my sword only collided with his while his attack was directed towards my other arm.

But his strength was superior and my sword gave in to his attack, tearing off my left wrist with a jerk and then being sent flying again by a kick.

Apparently I was unconscious from this because when I woke up Orsted was next to me and healing my wounds.

"..."

"Well done, with your skills you are able to defeat Laplace" he said with a small smile.

I simply sighed at this and fainted.

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Give me power stones!!!