Reincarnated as a Son of the Sword Saint and the Sage

"You see me through, huh? I guess you will find it eventually, but it's sooner than expected."

Iris said those words with a face void of expressions, so I could not read her properly. But there was one thing I could be sure of: I definitely caught her hiding her real identity. However, I still loved her, and I actually did not know what to do.

"Iris, you are truly concealing something. What will you do next? Will you disclose the information I am seeking?"

"Isolating me here and purposefully baiting me with your tricks... I see. You set me up, aren't you?"

"It doesn't matter. I am sorry, but I have to do this. I know it's hard to believe, but no matter who or what you are, I will accept who you are because I really love you, Iris. I just want to know who you really are. So please..."

What I just said was genuine, and it all came from my heart. It was true that I trapped her in his situation, but I was eager to learn more about her.

She would be my wife, and if she loved and trusted me, she would not be afraid to hide her real self from me. On the other hand, it would be unfair if she was the only one to disclose their own secrets. Therefore, I should be revealing mine as well.

"Hm." Iris curled the corners of her lips. "Usually, I should be disposing of anyone who has discovered the mask I have been wearing in order to cover my identity."

"So that means you are going to kill me right here, right now..."

Even if she said that, I could not sense any hostility coming off of her. Nevertheless, it was probably one of her abilities, so I prepared myself for a possible attack by discreetly maximizing my senses and buffs and deploying defenses.

"It's such a waste, Raphael. I am sorry, but I have to do this. Regretfully, I truly enjoyed our time together."

Just then, Iris graciously waved her hand, commencing her attack. But instead of what I expected to be a moderate-to-strong gale, an extremely powerful and destructive gust of wind was coming toward me at an unimaginable speed.

"?!"

I instinctively racked my mind to its full speed as soon as she moved. Throughout my entire life, it might not have been the most powerful, but this was definitely the most dangerous form of offense that I had seen or encountered, much more than my parents' strongest spell and technique, Melville's divine art, or even Czarina's Atomic Age.

My entire defensive system was alarming me desperately and did not seem to settle. The attack was absolutely going to destroy my entire existence, and it was undoubtedly unavoidable.

I would die at this rate. I had no reason to hold back and hide. Without hesitation, I released the trigger that released the activation of Ultimate Arts' Impregnable Fortress that I cast beforehand, and then I let the attack engulf me.

WHOOSH!!!

The powerful gust of wind blew up the area near me and obliterated everything in its path. My radar was in full operation, and I was aware of my surroundings. I was shocked by how much damage her attack had done to this floor so far.

The earth around me was blown out and scraped a few dozens of meters of dirt from the surface across an area of several square kilometers. The winds were so turbulent that a few twisters were formed throughout the 101st floor.

From what I had observed, Iris did not seem to use a spell or a technique, as I failed to sense a hint of mana or fighting energy. I could not conclude it was a skill either. Even so, this attack might have a lethal amount of soul-damaging properties that not even Unique Skill: Immortal could sustain.

All I could guess was that she was simply using her sheer strength with a pinch of fatality, which was actually terrifying to think about. A single wave of her hand caused this violent storm. It was somewhat similar to the literal meaning of the butterfly effect.

I vaguely had an idea why she was doing this or what her intentions were. I would sure make her answer that, but before anything, I had to deal with her first.

My entire vision was filled with dust and mind, limiting my field of view. In spite of that, I did not move a muscle so that I could entirely focus my senses on an incoming attack, but nothing came after that.

Even though the attack was done, its winds continued to ravage the area. A single cast of Impregnable Fortress was not enough to block it all, so I had to recast it to protect myself longer, adding five more seconds to the shield's duration.

Fortunately, the fatality of the gust did not last ten seconds, but the winds were still there. When the ultimate defense technique ended, the nonfatal, sharp winds relentlessly scraped my skin, but I did not pay heed to them. Just in case, I prepared a precast Impregnable Fortress.

A few seconds later, the violent winds eventually dissipated, and a chaotic scene unfolded before my eyes. I found myself hovering in the middle of a wide pit. The attack was so powerful that it even made the grass beside the black wall bow.

"Fufu." A girly chuckle rang out in the middle of this calamity. "As expected, you were able to withstand that."

"...Why are you doing this, Iris?" I stared at her seriously. "I thought that you loved me. So all the words you said to me were all lies? So this is the real you, huh?"

"Even if you don't believe me, I really love you, Raphael."

"But then again, why are you doing this? Why are you going to kill me?"

"You just used Impregnable Fortress, don't you?"

"—?!"

Just now, she casually uttered the name of the exact ability that I used. However, my shock was irrelevant. The question was, how did she know that?