Nanomancer Reborn 141-150

But when Shiro glared back at the few who had looked at her with jealous, they quickly shifted their eyes away.

"Che… Cowards." Shiro scorned slightly.

"What did you say!" One of them shouted back as he just heard her ridicule him.

"Oh? You can hear me?" Shiro widened her eyes.

"Do you think I'm deaf?! Of course I can hear you!" He gritted his teeth.

His response only caused Shiro to smile since this means she could communicate without her phone.

"Hahahaha!"

The crowd was stunned hearing Shiro's laugh as some even slipped from a moment of distraction.

Her voice was like a gentle breeze that relaxed their entire body and trapped them in its wonder.

"This miss can finally talk!" She grinned.

"Don't ignore m-"

He was cut off when he saw Shiro suddenly appear in front of him. Her sword rested on his neck as her emotionless eyes bore into his.

"This miss is in a good mood right now. Do you want to ruin it?" She spoke, blandly.

The man paled as sweat dripped off his back. He couldn't even react to her approaching him. Now that she had her blade to his neck, he had less of a chance to survive if he should fight her.
[CLEAR FTE AGAINST A HIGH LEVEL ADVENTURER]
- CHAPTER 141
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Shiro frowned when she saw the circle since poison type mages were the worst kind of opponent to fight against.

Depending on their proficiency one could even get poisoned just by being in their presence.

However, due to the fact that she had received the calamity's will augment in one of the trials, she had certain resistances to poison. While only limited to tier 2, it was just enough for her to stay in Lianna's presence without being poisoned. Of course, this could also be attributed to the fact that her proficiency with poison hadn't reached an extreme point yet.
[SHIRO HAS RESISTANCE TO POISON]
- CHAPTER 141
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"Kanae…"

"What is it Shiro-nee?"

"Why are you latching onto the back of my head like a koala?" Shiro asked with a weary smile.

"Because Shiro-nee is like a cold pillow." Kanae replied as her eyes started to close.

"Aiya! You're drooling!" Shiro cried out in slight panic and quickly pulled Kanae off the moment she felt saliva run down her hair.

"Ah sorry." Kanae quickly apologised since it was so comfy for her to hug Shiro that she almost fell asleep.
[SHIRO COMFY]
- CHAPTER 142
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Their actions caught the attention of Lianni.

"Che, that geezer should be coming soon. A few hostages should be fine." She said and aimed her palm at the group.

Before the ice tendrils could even reach them, Shiro dashed in front of the attack and swiped left with her hand.

*BOOM!!!

"!!!" Lianni was shocked feeling her ice magic being ripped from her grasp.

Narrowing her eyes at Shiro who tapped her necklace and summoned four swords, Lianni knew Shiro was the biggest threat in the room.
[YOINKS LIANNI'S ICE DESPITE HER BEING LEVEL 76]
- CHAPTER 142
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All she needed to do was to buy enough time for the person who sent her flying to arrive. Once he arrived, her job would be finished

Lianni tried to block the four swords with her ice magic once more but that was a mistake.

Ice Domain!

With a simple click of her fingers, the ice spread apart like a blooming flower and exposed Lianni to the swords.

"Don't get cocky!" She shouted out in anger and reached out for the swords. Raising her palm, Lianni sent out a pulse of mana which caused Shiro to widened her eyes in shock.

Rift Wa-

*BANG!

"GAH!"

Her body was launched backwards from the pulse and smashed against the wall. Coughing up some blood, Shiro gritted her teeth and stood back up.

She had opted for Rift Walker instead of Faded Snow Movement since she would still be launched back. Faded Snow Movement would only turn a small portion of her body into snow. The mana pulse Lianni had sent out hit her entire body rather than just a small part.

However, she wasn't able to enter the rift quick enough so her body had to suffer the damage.

Thankfully, she was also making some mana absorption equipment with her nanotech armour creation skill as a back-up.

If not for that, she would literally be on her breath.

"Since you can control ice, I might as well use mana on its own you brat!" Lianni gnashed her teeth in annoyance. The humiliation of being suppressed, even just for a moment by her, wasn't a feeling she was going to tolerate. Not to mention, they were 31 levels apart!
[YOINKS LIANNI'S ICE AGAIN DESPITE THE 31 LEVEL DIFFERENCE. IT'S A LITERAL STOMP MATCH]
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"Hehe, might want to look behind you." Shiro grinned.

"Hm?...!!!!" Suddenly sensing something approaching fast, Lianni turned around and raised her palms quickly.

A three fold magic circle appeared in front of her and erected a multi layered ice shield.

However, all would have been fine if not for the fact that Shiro was nearby.

"Break!" She commanded and clenched her fist.

*PING!

On her command, the ice shattered apart causing Lianni to glare at her in anger.

*BOOM!!!!

A golden arrow pierced Lianni's shoulder and ripped her left arm out of its sockets.

"Sh*t!!" Quickly drinking a potion, her arm started to regenerate.

She couldn't stay here for long.

"Just you wait!" She threatened before her body started to turn to ice.

"Did you forget what I can do?" Shiro smirked and flexed her finger at Lianni once more.

"^%$^£$"!!!!" Cursing out loud, Lianni had to resort to reinforcing her body in order to run away.

Chuckling to herself, Shiro coughed up a bit of blood again.
[BREAKS LIANNI'S SHIELD AND STOPS HER FROM TELEPORTING WITH HER ICE]
- CHAPTER 142
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While the duo dashed forward to attack the boss, Shiro stood near the back using her swords and glacial magic to support them.

Silvia was speechless seeing the support Shiro was giving the duo. Even without them saying anything, she was able to protect them at the perfect moment along with parrying the monster with her ice so that an attack would miss.

'Wow…' She thought in awe.

"The key thing about being a support is observation." Shiro said, taking this moment to educate Silvia a little.

"While a normal party would have people calling out for support, by the time they call out, it would be too dangerous. Therefore, it's the healer's job to look at every party member and attend to them when needed.

"Plus, there should also be a sense of trust between the party and the support. The reason as to why the two of them don't call out for support is because they trust their backs to me. Unless they need something such as a blessing from you, they would focus on the boss." Shiro smiled.
[SHIRO CAN PLAY THE SUPPORTING ROLE PERFECTLY]
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"Heeeh~ so the boss is a giant Dinosaur with wings huh?" Shiro said whilst craning her neck up to see the boss.

While she was marvelling at the boss, the trio behind her was in shock since they were making eye contact with the monster.

It was as if it was contemplating about how it should eat them.

"Welp. Let's clip its wings first." Shiro grinned.

*Click

Snapping her finger, a giant two fold magic circle expanded out from under the boss.

*BANG BANG!

Two giant hands made from ice shot upwards and grabbed the monster's wings.

Cracking sounds could be heard as the wings were being crushed.
[CRUSHES THE WINGS OF A GIANT DINOSAUR THAT YOU HAVE TO CRANE TO SEE WITH GLACIAL MAGIC]
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"But take a sword just in case." She said and floated one of her swords over to Silvia.

Grabbing the sword, Silvia was a little surprised by how heavy they were.

"Wow, these things are heavy." She admitted whilst trying to hold the sword steady but eventually failed.

"Really? They feel kinda light." Shiro tilted her head whilst juggling two swords in the air.

Looking at Shiro who was juggling the swords like they were bean bags, she couldn't help but feel a twitch on the corner of her lips.

'Little miss! I'm not abnormal like you!' She thought in her mind.

"Shiro's right you know, these are kinda light." Lyrica said as Madison nodded. They both felt the weight of the swords and swung them around with ease.

'But you're warrior based classes! Shiro's a mage!!!'

She only thought this since the moment she dropped the sword on the ground, she could clearly see it sink downwards. While it was true that swords were heavier the higher level you are because of a person's strength increase. However, even then, it wasn't something a mage should be able to handle.

Which only meant…

'Shiro's STR should be ridiculously high!' Silvia thought in disbelief.
[SHIRO IS REALLY STRONG AND ASCENDENT DREAM SWORDS ARE REALLY HEAVY, SINKING INTO THE FLOOR WHEN DROPPED]
- CHAPTER 146
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Switching her grip on the sword into a reverse grip, Shiro twisted her body clockwise and ripped out a chunk of the serpent's eye.

"Go!" She commanded as all four swords dived into the eye and started to wreak havoc inside the serpent's body.

Looking at their fellow serpent brother convulse in pain before dying, the remaining three serpents retreated hastily back into the lake.
[WHILE ATTACKING A GIANT MONSTER, RIPPING OUT ITS EYE ALLOWS ALL THE ASCENDANT DREAM SWORD TO DIVE INSIDE IT AND DICE IT FROM THE INSIDE OUT]
- CHAPTER 147
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Leading the group into the cave, Shiro frowned seeing the visibility drop massively.

It was as if they walked through a realm and entered a plain of darkness.

"Everyone stay close to each other." Shiro called out.

However, when she got no reply, she started to worry.

Moving around, Shiro tried to look her for the girls but she couldn't feel anything. One of the strangest aspects in this area was that she couldn't feel the walls either. The longer she stayed here, the lower her eyesight became.

Eventually, she couldn't see anything but darkness. No shades of black, no nothing.

'Seems like the trial has started already.' Shiro frowned.

Tapping her necklace, she summoned her swords once more. Holding one sword in her right hand, she allowed the other three to orbit around her.

Suddenly, a dense amount of killing intent assaulted her senses. The density rivalled her own much to her shock.

A feeling of danger washed over her as she moved to the side on instinct.

"ARG!" She suddenly felt a blade pierce her left shoulder.

'Ssss! Is this trial scaled to one's capabilities?' Shiro thought to herself whilst increasing the defences around her.

Filtering out the killing intent with her own intent, Shiro tried to lock on to the assailant. However, she frowned when she realised her other senses being cut off. She could see, hear or touch anything.

Even the feeling of her hand gripping the handle of her sword faded away.

During this, an idea popped into her head.

"Che, what an annoying way to cultivate one's sense of danger." Shiro muttered with a click of her tongue.

She understood that by cutting off the senses, one would start to rely more on their instincts.

'Fine, I'll play along for now.'

Relaxing her entire body, her aura started to fade. It was as if she suddenly died on the spot.

Allowing herself to sink into her instincts, Shiro waited patiently for the assailant to take the bait.

She felt danger overwhelm her from above and flicked her fingers. Two swords stabbed upwards but failed to pierce anything.

"You think a feint can mislead this miss?" Shiro said coldly, appearing in front of her assailant.

Her sword plunged into its neck, stopping it in its tracks.

Gripping its face, Shiro sunk her fingers into all the openings she could feel. The eyes, nose and ear.

'A small head.' She thought before slamming the pommel of her other sword into its jaw.

The result of her action was the complete separation of the upper skull to the jaw the to the two opposing forces she applied on the assailant's skull.

Its death returned all of her senses back to her.
[SHIRO USES HER BATTLE INSTINCTS TO READ A FEINT AND BEAT AN OPPONENT WHEN LITERALLY ALL OF HER SENSES ARE LOCKED AWAY]
- CHAPTER 147
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"Wait for me here, I'll go buy some medicine for you."

However, before Shiro could leave, a new concern popped into her head.

'With a beautiful girl like Lyrica injured and defenceless near a tree, isn't that asking for her to be *ahem* attacked?' Shiro thought to herself.

"Actually, let me move you to somewhere more suitable." Shiro said, changing her mind.

Lyrica only nodded her head obediently.

Scooping her up into a princess carry once more, Shiro made sure that Lyrica was comfortable by using Third Phantom.

By transferring all of the momentum and recoil into her own body, she can avoid harming Lyrica.

'It's like a bed…' Lyrica thought to herself. Apart from the wind blowing on her face along with subtle shaking to inform her that they were moving, Lyrica felt like she was currently resting her body on a small ice bed.

Looking around the area, Shiro found an obscure cave that was situated at the side of a mountain. To get to the cave, one would need to parkour from one side of the mountain to the other.

'This should be fine. Not many people can get up here.' Shiro thought to herself.

"This should be quite safe for you. Wait for me here ok?" Shiro smiled.

"Un." Lyrica nodded her head.
[THIRD PHANTOM ALLOWS SHIRO TO WALK AND PARKOUR AROUND WITH SERIOUSLY INJURED PEOPLE WITHOUT MOVING THEM AROUND]
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"Hais… I swear the amount of guys I've seen that act the same way as you." Shiro said whilst glaring at him with disdain.

"Old man, let this princess teach you something…" She continued as she grabbed him by the throat.

"This princess ain't something you can obtain. F*ck that, you're not even worth a strand of my hair." Shiro said coldly.

Her eyes radiated merciless killing intent that would destroy everything in life that she hated.

The old man paled slightly before his body started to convulse.

Reeling back in disgust, Shiro threw his body against the wall.

*SPLAT!

The force of her throw turned his body into a meat paste that sent blood and flesh all over the room.

Walking into the room with disregard of the meat paste, Shiro started to shuffle through all the drawers for something she could use.
[SHIRO TURNS SOMEONE INTO PASTE WITH A CASUAL THROW]
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Locking swords with her, he retreated a few steps.

"Has anyone told you about taking the initiative and not waste time? No? Let me acquaint you." Shiro said whilst shifting her grip into a reverse grip and twisted her body.

*BANG!

Giving the demon a devastating roundhouse kick to the head, Shiro threw her sword towards him.

*KLING!

The demon was able to raise his hand just quick enough to deflect the sword. But due to the fact that all four swords were linked to her, controlling the sword in the air was an easy feat for Shiro.

Flicking her fingers, Shiro controlled the sword to stab through the back of his hand.

"GAH!"

Grabbing his wrist, Shiro grinned before stomping the back of his elbow.

*CRACK!

The demon gritted his teeth and tried to slash at her but Shiro dodged easily.
[CAN CONTROL ASCENDANT DREAM SWORDS AFTER THROWING THEM FOR SURPRISE ATTACKS]
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Grabbing his sword, the watcher only smiled before slashing his sword downwards.

*BANG!!!!!

A single swing of his sword caused a deep trench to form in the arena as well as shatter all of Lyrica's thorns.

Pivoting her body to the side, Lyrica avoided the slash and tried to uppercut The Watcher.
[WATCHER IS FUCKING STRONK]
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The two of them continued to spar as Shiro got bored and decided to play around with her swords.

Keeping her eye on The Watcher, she started to engrave his movements into her mind.

It was the same process that she had used to learn Yin Style Phantom Arts. She would 'record' their movements into her mind and continuously simulate it until she got it right.

Looking at his sword style, she could tell that it heavily emphasises the point of attacking weak spots.

Parry then attack weak spot. Sneak around then attack weak spot. Counter then attack once more.

Wielding both swords in his hands, The Watcher continuously attacked Lyrica's weak points.

Not saying a word, Shiro hopped from her branch and walked away.

"Shiro?" Madison called out, curious as to why she suddenly started to walk away.

"Don't worry, I'm just going to practice for a bit." Shiro smiled.

Tapping her necklace, she summoned her swords and had them float as if two people were facing off against each other.

*CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG!

The four swords repeatedly collided with each other with Shiro making small corrections to their course every so often.

"Hey… Don't you think that kinda looks like what The Watcher is doing?" Silvia asked, pointing over at Shiro.

"Now that you mention it, yeah it does." Madison nodded her head slowly.

However, since Shiro didn't know how much the watcher was hiding in his sword style, she could only improvise in some aspects.

Naturally, she could see the massive flaws in her improvisations but she was never a swordsman to begin with.

She used guns and giant fortresses rather than swords.

But no one was born a master of their craft. If people could become grandmaster swordsman, why couldn't she? She did become the apex after all.

'Copying 100% of The Watcher's sword arts will only limit myself since me and him are different people. I can take inspiration but I cannot just take everything. I need to mould it around my own fighting style.' Shiro thought to herself.

*CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG!

The swords started to speed up as Shiro continuously analysed her sword style to erase the flaws and instead replace them with opportunities. When she included the fact that she had the chance to remaster her full body control, she could be more adventurous with her martial arts.

'I can combine Yin Style Phantom Arts to increase the lethality of this sword art. The Phantom Arts revolve around being almost undetectable as well as counter-attacking. Paired up with The Watcher's sword art that is all about attacking weak points, I'll be able to create a decent assassination style sword art that is the extremity of attack type martial arts.' Shiro thought with an excited grin.

The Watcher glanced over curiously as his instincts were telling him that something interesting was about to happen.

However, when he looked over, his eyes widened in shock seeing Shiro merging his sword arts into a mysterious martial arts.

The two was strangely compatible as they both revolve around similar concepts.

*DANG!

"Where are you watching." Lyrica said with a frown as she slashed towards his head.

The Watcher didn't reply as he would spare some of his attention on Shiro.

Moments passed as Shiro continued to refine her newly merged martial arts. It was in situations like this where her ability shined since she could create several tens to hundreds of simulations for her new martial arts. How they would work, where it would fail.

Through constant refinement, her martial arts became smoother with fewer flaws.

Eventually, she stopped and retrieved the floating swords.

"She's done it…" The watcher muttered in disbelief.

In his life, he had ever seen talent like Shiro's. Even with the chosen one in front of him, he could tell that Shiro was unmatched.

Which led to the question of why wasn't she chosen?

Just a single glance at his sword arts allowed her to merge it together with her current martial arts. With such talent, surely she was more suitable when compared to the chosen one in front of him.

Looking at her sword, Shiro smiled with pride.
[AFTER LOOKING AT A SINGLE FIGHT WATCHER HAD, SHIRO ADAPTED HIS STYLE TO CREATE HER OWN UNIQUE AND NEW STYLE WITH FEWER FLAWS THAT SHE CAN USE VIA TK WITH ASCENDANT DREAM]
- CHAPTER 150
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