Another World Mall-Chapter 636: Shield as a Weapon

Ragna took a deep breath. Unlike his opponent, who needed to do everything he could to win, there was no pressure on his back.

Still, if it was possible, he wished to win. After all, he was still a guardian of the Libation Fiesta.

If he couldn't win, he might not be able to repay Clovis' kindness.

With both parties raising their weapons, Utaha immediately started the countdown. "Now that both parties are ready, let's not wait any further. Let's count together."

"3…"

"2…"

"1…"

"Go!"

The moment they heard the signal, Matthew leaped toward Ragna.

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In the end, Ragna looked much smaller and lacked power compared to the big Matthew. Hence, the original plan was to overpower him.

Matthew struck Ragna's shield with all his strength.

Ragna took advantage of his petite figure to tilt his shield upward. This way, Matthew's blade would slide on his shield and gradually move up, away from him.

"!!!" Matthew looked surprised at first. Ragna wanted to use this opportunity to knock Matthew out of balance, but Matthew was much stronger than all his opponents so far.

When he was about to push his shield, Matthew struck the other tip of the shield with his other blade, planting that shield to the ground.

After that, the blade that had slid off the shield returned and wanted to cut him from behind.

Ragna ducked, allowing the blade to hit the back of his shield.

Even though he missed, Ragna's arm was still attached to the shield. Hence, Matthew immediately pushed down to cut his arm. With this much damage, the referees would definitely stop the match.

Yet all three Tier 8 referees didn't make their move.

In fact, a clicking sound echoed in his ears, which startled Matthew. There was supposed to be no more metal that could block his sword. At the same time, he could feel the bump strong enough to make his sword slide on its surface. The problem was that this surface was where Ragna's arm was supposed to be.

"T-This is…" Utaha stood up in shock.

Even Matthew couldn't help but look at what happened to Ragna's hand. He thought the beast soul would be similar to Kanaria's. Or at least, the beast soul would be much more noticeable.

He never thought that Ragna actually chose a scale as his beast soul.

That was right. Scales emerged from his skin, covering his arms, legs, and a part of his cheeks.

"Scales?!" Utaha gasped.

"Tier 6 Madtsoia's scale. The original beast soul's function is to strengthen one's skin, but with the new beast soul technology, we're able to create the original scale." Hana smirked. "And it won't be easy to defeat Ragna at this point."

As Hana said, the moment Matthew's attack failed, Ragna immediately pushed the blades away before thrusting his spear.

"!!!" Matthew tilted his neck at the last second, causing the spear to graze his neck. "Kh."

He didn't think a guardian like Ragna would be the first one making him bleed.

Gritting his teeth, Matthew struck Ragna in rapid succession.

Ragna shifted his stance one more time, taking the attacks earnestly. In the end, there were a lot of ways for Ragna to win.

The first would be exhausting Matthew's stamina by continuously defending. There was also a chance for Matthew to lower his guard when he was too focused on attacking.

The second way was to fight Matthew head-on, which would be impossible because they were specialized in different things.

Last but not least, it was to taunt Matthew. In the end, he knew Matthew had to defeat him. Even a draw wouldn't be forgiven.

Still, this fight was a way to promote their group as well as the products. Hence, he couldn't make the match boring by choosing the first option or bringing down the group's reputation by trash-talking.

Hence, Ragna wanted to challenge himself by choosing the second path.

The moment he chose this path, Ragna immediately tilted his shield.

'An opening!' Matthew hurriedly joined both swords and struck his shield in order to knock it down. The moment he cracked open that shield, he could defeat Ragna.

To everyone's surprise, Ragna actually shifted his shield away from the blades' trajectory. Instead, he was planning to take the attack with his arm instead.

"!!!" Matthew couldn't be more delighted, since he could definitely defeat Ragna like this.

Meanwhile, the three referees panicked. If this attack didn't get stopped, Ragna would lose his arm.

Alan and the general were ready to take action the moment they saw the blade slashing a bit of Ragna's arm.

Even if Ragna's arm got cut, no one would really blame him because Ragna was the one inviting this problem on his own. Even then, they couldn't afford such a result. At the very least, they were capable enough to stop the blade from fully cutting the arm, which should be able to be fixed later.

Yet, Ragna surprised them once again when even both blades attacked the same spot. The blade only broke the scale and cut a thin layer of flesh off Ragna's arm, refusing to go further. Ragna only needed to position his arm in a way that the blades would slide down.

Then, after the blades failed to cut through its target, Ragna twisted the arm and his wrist before banging Matthew with his shield.

"Gah!" Matthew was stunned. This was Ragna's goal from the beginning. Instead of using his shield as a defensive tool, he wanted the shield to act like an offensive one.

With him getting knocked to the side, Ragna hurriedly thrust his spear toward his chest.

Matthew desperately put the blade on its path and struck it weakly, deflecting the spear to his side.

The spear scraped the flesh on the left side of his chest, which unfortunately wasn't fatal.

Still, no one in the stadium would think Ragna is unable to win. In fact, Ragna had been controlling the flow of the battle this whole time.

The most shocking thing was that the wound on his arm was already healed.