I Was Reincarnated as a Mob Noble, and I Swear I'll Protect the Villainess Who Got Married Off to Me No Matter What ~To Dodge Our Total Downfall, I Went All Out Training My Trash Skill [Super Recovery] Through Crazy Hard Work, and Before I Knew It, I Could Totally Wreck the Game Protagonist Who Condemned My Wife Easily - Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Hey, Isn’t the Attack Power of My New Magic [Excessive Recovery] Higher Than the Sword Saint’s?

The next day at noon—

When I got to the main castle’s warehouse, it was totally packed with the wreckage of Balzark Empire golem soldiers.

I walked through the warehouse with Valeria, where metal carcasses were scattered all over.

“…So these are the empire’s golem soldiers? This is the first time I’ve seen one for real.”

Valeria looked really interested.

“These guys have some seriously high physical defense. Even with combat skills, it’s tough to break through their armor… I mean, they’re developed by First Imperial Princess Leticia specifically to counter us in the Greivan frontier count army, y’know.”

The golem soldiers’ giant bodies, nearly 3 meters tall, were made from a special alloy called “Damascus steel.”

Damascus steel was super hard and top-notch as material for weapons or armor. These golem soldiers were hauled here to the warehouse to be reborn as our equipment in the workshop.

“I see. So they’re the worst matchup for the frontier count army that values swordsmanship above all. But if you use weapons made of the same Damascus steel, you can cut through the armor?”

As expected, Valeria got it right away.

“That’s right. But there’s one more counter for golem soldiers. Using magic.”

I put my right hand on a golem soldier’s wreckage and focused my mind.
Their magic defense was just average at best.

Dad only now asked for help from exceptional mages like Valeria or the Schwarz Ritter probably ’cause he realized that.

The empire army’s basic tactic was to let the golem soldiers handle the front line while the rear mages fired attack magic.
Accidents sometimes happened where they friendly-fired the golem soldiers’ backs.

“[Excessive Recovery]!”

My right hand started glowing.
The reason I came to this warehouse was to test how well my new attack magic [Excessive Recovery] worked on golem soldiers.

I needed to check stuff like range and activation speed too.

[Excessive Recovery] sounded like it only worked on living things from the name, but…

We watched with bated breath, and the golem soldier’s armor crumbled away like sand. A huge hole opened in its chest—you could see the wall right behind it.

“Whoa, whoa…!?”

The unexpected destructive power blew me away.

“This… did you corrode and destroy the Damascus steel? I can’t believe it made a hole this big…”

Valeria stared at the now well-ventilated golem soldier, her face full of shock.

“Yes! This is usable magic, even if the range is short!”

Since the back wall wasn’t damaged, I figured the effective range was about 1 meter at most.

But for a magic used in close combat, it matched me as a swordsman perfectly.
Not just against enemies tough to physical attacks, it’d be handy too when my weapon broke.

Finding out this game-unseen magic was super useful had me hyped as hell.

And this was the magic I planned to use for assassinating Prince Lucian.
If I surrendered to the empire army and got captured as a POW, they’d take all my weapons.

If [Excessive Recovery] had low power, I’d have to think about finishing him barehanded.

“…Um, so next, we should try activating it with magic power supplied.”

Valeria held out her right hand.

“Your [Excessive Recovery] probably gets stronger the more 【Magic Power】MP you pour into it, right?”

“Yeah, that’s right…”

Holding hands with a national treasure-level beauty like Valeria still made me all nervous and stuff.

Even though we’d slept in the same bed twice already for the lovey-dovey act.

To sell the story that we’d eloped and defected to the empire, me and Valeria were playing the part of a lovey-dovey couple in front of everyone.

“Ah…”

When we held hands, Valeria’s face turned red like an apple.

…Huh, w-what’s with this cute, shy reaction?

No way Valeria was actually aware of me as a guy and getting nervous, right?

Yesterday she was saying stuff in bed like “I won’t forgive you for not wanting to kiss me!” which was super embarrassing.

Of course, I flat-out refused the kiss.

She said her first kiss was still hers.
Even if it was acting to beat the empire army, I couldn’t bring myself to take her lips like that.

Valeria pouted all dissatisfied…

But last night, I spent the whole time in bed facing away from her to hold out.
If I didn’t, my self-control would’ve flown out the window.

That Felix guy made Valeria wear this see-through negligee that showed off her body lines super clearly, and sent her off with some weird cheer like “Miss, fight on!”

And Valeria actually went along with it, asking “Will Zenon like me in this?” and slipped into my bed looking so erotic I couldn’t even look straight at her.

Even for lovey-dovey acting, that was way over the top.

But to fool the empire army, I had to fool our allies too, so I got pushed to my rational limits.

Because of that, I ended up seeing Valeria even more as a girl.

If a cute girl like this, my fiancée, begged for a kiss in bed, any guy would lose it, right!?

“W-What’s up…?”
“N-Nothing. It’s like an involuntary movement that happens when supplying magic power.”

Valeria turned away, all embarrassed.
Huh? Involuntary movement is when your body moves on its own without your will…

“Does that kinda thing really happen?”

“S-Sometimes people have that body type, and I’m one of ’em!”

Valeria yelled, getting all worked up for some reason.

Then she looked down and muttered under her breath.

“…Ugh, thinking too much, it’s weird…”

“Huh, what’d you say?”

“N-Nothing! C’mon, let’s test it quick. We can’t waste precious time!”

“Y-Yeah!”

Valeria was seriously trying to help me as my fiancée.

Not just the lovey-dovey act, she even sold the necklace and rings she was wearing to make military funds to hire as many mercenaries as possible.

She said she wanted to do whatever she could for victory.

Believing in my plan and cooperating this much? She’s the best fiancée ever.

“Alright, next target’s this one.”

“What a massive body. Did Sword Saint Baldo take it down?”

“Yeah. It’s the strongest golem soldier so far.”

This time, we targeted an even bigger one, about 5 meters long.
Dad pierced its chest with his sword and took it down—a tough enemy.

To stop the enemy from repairing and reusing it, they dragged it here using a few cows.

“I see. Big damage on the armor. Couldn’t beat it without the Sword Saint’s power…”

Valeria held my hand.

Massive magic power flowed into me through that hand all at once.

[Excessive Recovery] normally cost 10 【Magic Power】MP to activate, but I cranked it up to 10 times that—100.

Power should scale with 【Magic Power】MP spent, but…

“[Excessive Recovery] !”

DOOSHAAAAA!

The huge golem turned straight into sand grains and totally collapsed in an instant.

“Th-This is… amazing…”

I couldn’t even find more words.

A magic that one-shots huge monsters to instant death.

That said, since it’s close-range only and needs Valeria’s magic supply, usage spots are limited…

While I was thinking about where to use it, Valeria next to me looked scared stiff.

“…It’s just like Lot’s wife, turned into a pillar of salt by God’s wrath.”

She was quoting a line from the Bible story.

The game devs based it on Christianity’s Old Testament, so it had lots in common with the Bible from my pre-reincarnation Earth.
The Holy Church too—this world’s religions all branched from that Bible.

“God’s wrath isn’t that dramatic, I don’t think…”

“What’re you saying?”

Valeria gave me a dumbfounded look.

“No doubt about it, [Excessive Recovery]’s power surpasses the Sword Saint’s attack power!”