Wistoria: Wand and Sword (杖と剣のウィストリア)

Are you afraid of opening your eyes again?

Do you hate being like a stranger to yourself?

Even if you realize you have no talent

Does that become a pretext to keep running away?

To respond to the screams echoing within

Who is there to answer them?

At least, in the few moments of your life

I want you to be an honest actor

What if today is that day?

Are you afraid of opening your eyes again?

Do you hate being like a stranger to yourself?

But you've realized, haven't you? Your body can't stop moving

"If I think of you, who I can't bear to lose, my fears seem trivial."

Even if I expose my life and sing

In time, you will understand

Will it end here?

You wouldn't want that, would you?

The one-thousandth rule.

A conversion formula the Tower uses for the credit system.

One credit assigned to a monster is equal to a mage with a strength of 1,000 credits.

A monster worth 270 credits.

Therefore, when converting a 270-credit monster,

it's equal to a mage with strength of...

...270,000 credits.

Evil Grand Duke!

Dodge it!

You've got to be kidding me! It's so strong!

Lihanna, we have to retreat! There's a passageway there.

Run!

Go on ahead!

Hear my call!

Come forth! Grow!

Alfs Ringhul!

Wignall! Hurry up!

Yeah.

It tore my illusion magic with brute force?

That was way too absurd.

What the heck is that monster?

I've read about it in the Academy's library.

Evil Grand Duke.

It's a greater-class demon-type of the evil family on the 25th floor.

The 25th floor?!

What's a monster like that doing here?

It's probably the work of those mages who used Gate.

Did we outrun it?

No, it's looking for us.

There are so many Evil Guards and Sentinels.

Grand Duke must have ordered them to search for us.

So the reason why there's a mass outbreak of Sentinels on the 11th floor is that monster.

Hey! Are you saying that we can't escape from here?

We can't get out from this demon-infested floor?

Are you saying that we're all going to die here?

We're exhausted, injured, and in the worst kind of situation...

The despair is crushing everyone's hearts.

What should we do?

Let's fight.

We've no choice but to defeat that Grand Duke.

When there's a Baron or higher-ranked Lord,

Evil-type monsters will establish a domain across the other floors.

But if we take out the Lord, they'll lose their chain of command.

It could give us an opening.

Now that the monsters' leader has been summoned here using Gate,

if we make the lower-ranking monsters into disarray,

it would make it easier for the Academy to rescue us.

Is that what you mean?

Don't be stupid!

Have you lost your mind, no-talent?

There's no way we could kill that monster.

I have a plan.

I can't force it on you all.

Because I can't use magic.

Obviously!

Who's going to believe in your plan?

- I believe him. - Who's going to believe in your plan?

I've already been saved several times by his wisdom and dedication.

I'm willing to trust him too this time.

I believe in him too.

Will knows the dungeon better than anyone else.

If we're just gonna be chased, I'd rather stand and fight.

Don't take this as me agreeing with that flunkee, got it?

Wignall, Colette, and even Sion.

Lihanna, I let him touch me.

I want you to trust an elf's sworn friend.

It seems I've been wrong from the start.

You're not a shield, but a leader.

You're the only one here who's yet to be crushed by despair.

Lihanna...

If Wignall, whom I trust the most, believes in you,

then I'll entrust it all to you.

Serfort... No.

Will. Give us the orders.

We'll do as you say.

Got it! Let's get out of here alive!

Have you all lost your minds?

There's no way we can win with this no-talent's plan-

You're right, Julius.

My plan alone can't defeat it.

You're the key here.

Please, lend us your power.

What?

I'll teach you the trick of Elfie's spell.

Cage of frozen Earth,

hail that rends the skies.

Far into-

Far into eternity.

The fleeting moments pass.

A lyre of tears, playing an azure ice melody.

All things fall motionless.

Albis Vina's trick, you say?

Yeah.

Elfie's Ars Weiss allows you to carry on incantations.

Carry on?

Normally, a spell can't be cast if the incantation is interrupted.

But with Elfie's Ars Weiss,

you can continue where the chant stopped.

If a clone gets destroyed and the incantation is interrupted,

another clone can pick up the incantation.

By doing that, you can cast advanced spells that require long incantations.

Offer up the blood, swear on my corpse.

You think spell-casting is easy? Damn you, no-talent!

Do they understand how hard it is to use Ars Weiss?

I can't believe he's making me do this.

Damn it!

I am the protector.

The guard of Narcia's grave.

Everyone, cover Julius!

It's fine to use low-tier spells, just pin the enemy down!

Colette!

Sion!

Wignall!

- Verdes Lana! - Frubas Julier! - Ignis Rooks!

It's completely unscathed?

Darn!

It has iron curtain wings.

Just like Will said.

If the information in the library is correct, the Grand Duke has iron curtain wings.

Which means our attacks won't get through.

We just need to be decoys.

Until Julius begins his barrage, we'll divert its attention.

O wind!

Take shape, O coffin of azure steel!

Go forth, O flourishing arctic grove!

Armenta Auliscas!

Julius' trump card, the ice magic barrage...

It managed to block that.

But it is a monster worth 270 credits.

It might be able to defend against Julius' trump card.

So, to finish it...

Lihanna!

Owen Sique, Lisolde Dua.

Algiz!

Even if it is able to defend against the barrage,