Succubus' Life in Another World

Chapter 164: Event No.1 Death Bridge 2nd Half

Now then, its time! Event No. 1 Death Bridge!! Ready? Go!!! Whoah! How quick! Team As Kief! And team Ds Urania! Both started with the ideal starting dash!

On Sharls signal, the participants of the first event ran all at once. However, the ones that got a head start were these two; Urania of team D and Kief of team A.

Both of them share one thing in common, theyre dog ear-kins that specialize in wind attribute magic. The two of them gathered magic power on their back and the sole of their foot before the start signal and simultaneously activated their magic with the start of the race. With explosive momentum, the two of them had a brilliant starting dash.

While a step behind the struggle for the first place, team Cs Mahara isnt backing down!

Despite falling behind, Mahara of team C is still chasing after the two of them. It seems that she also intended to do a wind attribute assisted starting dash, but because of her weaker physicality due to being purely human, it resulted in her being a step behind them.

Now for our feature participant! Did team Bs Liev misjudge her output!? Even so, she immediately got up and pursued the three in front! Do your best! Give us mages the chance to dream!

Liev of team B stumbled on her start dash. While she can now use magic instead of magecraft after granting her a grimoire, as to be expected, shes the least proficient among the four. Due to her loading more magic power than she imagined, she tripped and was drastically far behind. Even so, she immediately stood up and once again focused her magic power to catch up with the other three and ran.

Damn! How come youre so fast despite beingdiseased! Effort. Oh, is that so!

While seemingly having an exchange, Urania and Kief got over the first obstacle. As though the wall wasnt even there, they easily jumped over it while Mahara needed a moment of charging to jump over it. Liev also took some time but, even so, she still got over it much faster than the mages during the demo, showing the extreme ability gap between magic and magecraft.

Our four participants passed through the first obstacle without a sweat! The top two, in particular, ran through it as if the obstacle didnt exist to begin with! Ahh, do your best Liev! Dont ever turn around!!

Likely hooked by this statement, Liev turned around and saw that the wall that she just climbed is about to be gnawed on by a giant mouth. Thats right, the moment the four of them passed through the first obstacle, Bigmouth appeared at the starting area. Moreover, it isnt the mini version like it was at the demo, but one bigger than the bridges width. Its speed is also completely different.

Hii!? Ahh, run, Liev! Run! But be careful! Youll be at the second obstacle soon!

Seeing how gigantic the mouth is, Liev frantically ran while shrieking, successfully gaining distance from it. However, right before her is the second obstacle. This second obstacle, where innumerable spikes jut out from above and below, isnt the type to injure even if you accidentally got hit by the spikes. However, getting hit by the spikes will immobilize the victim for a while and naturally, this victim will get swallowed altogether with the spikes by the Bigmouth following behind them.

Urania and Kief run through it effortlessly while Mahara intercepts the projected spikes with wind magic as she moves onward. Needing to intercept these, Mahara will end up falling greatly behind the two sprinters but if she becomes negligent with the interception, shell quickly get pinned down. As such, she could only grind her teeth while seeing the two off.

At this point, Mahara and Liev are hopelessly too far behind to compete for first place.

Youre really! Fast, you know! Praising me, wont, do you anything! Still! This time! I wont lose!

Easily passing through the collapsing floors of the third obstacle, the two dog ear-kin also ran through the fourth and fifth obstacles just as easily and are still keeping pace with each other. Urania occasionally runs on walls, jumps great distances, and creates footholds using Wall; in contrast, Kief uses wind magic to launch herself like a bullet, trampling the obstacles as she runs over them. While different with their methods, their speed is roughly the same.

From here on! Ill be leaving you in the dust! Awooo! Suddenly! A howl from Kief! What is her aim here- Wait, Kiefs body is getting bigger No, greatly swelling up! Unbelievable! Kief has used the beastkins trump card! The Beast Transformation!

Kief abruptly howled to the sky and immediately her silhouette expanded into the figure of a wolf running on four legs. The wolf, seemingly clad in wind, shot a quick glance at Urania before running twice faster than it did up until now, leaving Urania in a blink of an eye.

Seeing the wolf away, Urania frustratedly grits her teeth. Urania is diseased and due to the medicine administered to her in her childhood, she isnt capable of using Beast Transformation. Perhaps she has some yearning and envy for this that she had long lost.

But even if I cant use Beast Transformation, I still have.

Urania muttered something, but her words didnt reach my ears. Still, seeing her face, I can tell. She hasnt given up yet. Rather, she seems to have locked onto an enemy worth defeating, Kief.

! ! ! Urania is saying something but I cant quite catch it! The distance between her and Kief is already quite large! Does she still have some way to recover from this!?

In preparation, Urania cast several spells. With a level of magic power manipulation equal to mine, she gathers the minimum required magic power. Eventually done with the preparations, she smirked only for a moment before bracing herself and initiating her first acceleration.

Whoah! Urania! She suddenly sped up! What in the world just happened!?

Its not particularly complicated. Urania simply launched herself with a Wall to gain a burst of speed. Naturally, she also used Wind, manipulating the air around her to decrease air resistance as much as possible. Doing so, Urania transformed herself into a bullet, now being so fast that shes leaving a contrail.

Obviously, no matter how little her air resistance is now, she cant stay in the air forever. Its different if she uses Levitation like I do but if she does, Urania will eventually halt midair as she would have no way of gaining more momentum.1

However, immediately as Urania touched the ground, she accelerated exactly as she did earlier. Thats because she instantly recast Wall magic. Urania applied her Wall magic not on the ground, but on the sole of her shoes. By casting Wall in advance, it activates as she lands, and the instant shes launched, she terminates the magic and decreases any excess weight, successfully achieving consecutive bursts of acceleration.

Urania! Amazing, amazing! Using only the basic magic Wall and Wind, shes catching up to Kief in the beast form! Are you kidding me!?

Not expecting Urania to pursue, Kief yelled out loud in beast form. While her speed has greatly increased in beast form, her large build has made Kief struggle with breaking through the obstacles. In contrast, since Urania purely increased in speed, she can still go over the obstacles as easily as she did before.

The distance between the two quickly closed up, and as they returned to being next to each other

Im, stepping up a gear, okay?

Uranias words finally left Kief speechless. Up until now, Urania wasnt taking things seriously. Well, obviously she must have spared no effort. After all, Urania isnt the type to intentionally mess around to make light of her opponents. However, just because she puts in her full effort doesnt mean that shes not holding back. After all, there are still more events, meaning its necessary for her to save her trump card so that her opponents wouldnt know of it.

What Urania did after that was something only a few people could probably understand. Well, no, anyone that looks at the path she ran through could likely understand what exactly she did. The ground Urania ran through had a large number of walls protruding. Yup, instead of leaping a great distance, Urania simply ran and used Wall as she kicked the ground.

Demanding tight control as one misstep would make her trip and fall, Urania continues accelerating. Erasing her own wind resistance and even having the wind to propel her, she borrowed the help of the same earth shes treading on and reached the goal with first place.

Goal!! First place! Urania! Second place! Kief! Third place! Liev!2 Fourth place! Mahara!

Seeing everyone reach the goal without getting swallowed by Bigmouth, Sharl announced the placements. I expected Liev who was falling behind in the beginning to just land fourth place but Mahara failed to conserve her magic power, causing her to lose momentum on the way and be somehow overtaken by Liev, resulting in their final placement.

This Death Bridge was made exaggeratedly but as I thought, its pretty tepid for sorcerers. As a result, most of the obstacles were simply jumped over, Ill need to take this into consideration from here on out.

1. Lyly: Wind magic could propel her, but its not going to be as fast as literally launching herself like a bullet
2. Lyly: Wait, what? When!? Anyhow, good job Liev! Lol Silva: She must have run as if her life depended on it upon seeing the bigmouth