The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 100: "A Chance Meeting"

Author's note: We're finally at chapter 100. Thank you for reading this far.

When Rare arrived in the skies above La Colline, she looked down using Yoroizaka's field of vision and saw a huge flame below that seemed to be a campfire. She immediately closed her eyes and activated [Demonic Eyes]. In that pale pink world, she was able to see people-shaped magical power gathered around that fire.

"It looks like a battle. Pretty hardcore to be going at it in these ruins... If the city lord really did get away before, though, then they're probably involved."

As she descended, she could see who the two sides fighting were. It looked like one side consisted of four human-looking people controlling skeletons, while the other had knights and sellswords under the command of a well-dressed male human. Considering Rare's own circumstances, it was clear which side was her enemy. However, that didn't mean she had any reason to help the other side. After the battle was over, she could take care of the survivors then go find the city lord.

Rare initially thought the two sides were pretty evenly matched, but when she looked closer that wasn't entirely true. The skeleton side was steadily losing ground. It irked her to see the human side winning, but she was curious why neither side seemed afraid of injury. If any of these combatants were followers and they were fighting with the assumption that they could revive, then it could be dangerous for Rare to reveal herself.

At last, the numerical advantage shifted from the skeletons to the sellswords, which meant they had secured victory. Wanting to make certain of his win, the commander-looking man on the human side held up a bow and fixed an arrow to its string.

The moment she saw that, an unpleasant memory surfaced in Rare's mind.

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"Even though they're all strangers to me, just sitting back and watching someone get killed by arrow seems bad for my psyche," Rare grumbled to herself as she tossed aside the arrow that had been pinched between Yoroizaka's fingers.

There appeared to be three humans on the hill. In front of them, the sellswords who had been battling the red skeletons froze and looked up at her. The skeletons could have taken that opportunity to continue attacking, but they didn't. It seemed they were also concerned about Rare. The arrow had come from the man atop the hill, near the center. From his attire, he seemed to be a noble. It appeared that even though she had only just arrived, she may have already found her target. When she looked closer, the two knights on either side of him were the same knights she had encountered in the capital. Which meant this was absolutely her man.

Rare was about to call out to them when she realized that it was possible they didn't recognize Yoroizaka and wouldn't understand that it was her. She decided to exit from the armor.

"Hello! I just saw you earlier, my knightly friends. I'm glad to see you were able to return home safely! As for the gentleman—"

"Whoa, what the heck is that?! A robot?! It's a robot! It's huge! That's so awesome!!!"

Well that was rather startling. Rare guessed that it was the leader of the skeleton group that had been fighting the humans just now. Based on the clothing, she had thought it was a man, but based on the voice she now believed it was actually a woman. While Rare hesitated over what to say next, one of the other women spoke up first.

"M-Master, shouldn't you thank her first? She just saved us, you know?"

"That's where you're wrong, Azalea; she was going to say something really important just now, so we should let her keep talking—"

"Anyway, why don't we retreat just a little—"

She was having an even harder time collecting her thoughts now. More like, these girls were all just about to get massacred, what was with this carefree bickering?