Three days passed.

　The day of the martial arts tournament. In the end, I was the only one other than the elves to participate in the tournament.

　Fifteen people from the elves, including powerful nobles, sons of ministers, and generals of the country's armed forces, had gathered for the tournament. Including me, there were a total of sixteen of us competing in this tournament.

　Since it was expected that there would be a lot of commotion if the people were informed of Tina's return, only the nobles and royalty had come to the venue. Still, there are about a hundred spectators.

　Once the winner of the tournament, or Tina's fiancé, has been chosen, he will announce it to the people along with Tina's return.

　The Elf King stood on the fighting table.

As you all know, our hero, Tina Halibel, returned the other day and we are very happy for her. "As you all know, our hero Tina Halibel returned the other day and we are very happy for her. And today, I hereby announce a tournament to determine the strongest man to be united with her!

　The entire audience cheered.
　A leaf was delivered to the Elf King.

　It was the leaf of the World Tree. Every year, only one leaf from the World Tree falls in Alheim. The leaf of the World Tree is an extremely valuable magic item.

　They can be used to make elixirs to bring the dead back to life and high-powered wands.

"I declare to the Wind Spirit King Sisyphus that I will protect us. "I hereby ordain a tournament to determine who will mate with our hero, Tina Halibel.

　The Elf King raised the leaf of the World Tree to the sky.

"In exchange for the leaf of the World Tree, may God bless Tina and the winner of the tournament! And I hope for world peace.

　A gentle breeze blew through the entire hall. I noticed that the leaves of the World Tree had disappeared from the Elf King's hand.

''Sylph, the Spirit King of the Wind, is watching this tournament. Everyone, fight with all your might!''

　And so the tournament began.


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　The leaf from the World Tree that disappeared from the Elf King's hand.

　It is now in my hand.
　The sylphs brought it to me.

　I am a contractor to the Sylph.
　We made a deal yesterday.

　When I was introduced to Undine and Efreet, it was easy for them to sign a contract with me - or rather, the sylphs had already heard about me from Mai and May's father, and they were originally going to sign a contract with me.

　It seems that the voice I heard on the hill that overlooks Alheimers was Sylph's.

I don't want to give you back the leaves I give you every year. Do you want a halt?

　Sylph speaks to me in a voice that only I can hear. The figure is also made to be visible only to me.

　The sylph is a spirit in the form of a girl who wears the wind.

"I need it, I need it so much!

Oh, really? Then I'll get a bunch of them?

No, I'm not so sure about that but I'll tell you when you need me anyway.

Okay, all right.

　She's a good, honest girl.

'By the way, Hurt wants to marry Tina, doesn't he?

Yes.

　Honestly, I feel like I'm not ready to get married, but at least I'm not going to let another man take Tina away from me.

'I'm going to marry Tina, Hurt! And I wonder if all the elves would listen to me?

'Hmm, I don't think it's that easy. I'd rather have Sylph do something more than that.

　I told Sisyphus about the plan.

"What's that?　It's fun!　I do!

Thank you. Now, when I say go, give me the signal.

'Hey!　I got it.

　With that, Sylph disappeared.


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　The first round began.

　My opponent is the general of the national army, considered the strongest in the country. I feel like the combination is being manipulated. But that doesn't change what I have to do.

　All I have to do is win.

"I can't stand that a human competes in this tournament. "I can't stand that a human competes in this tournament. So let's just win it.

　The general wore wind on his body and struck at me at high speed. I put magic power on my body and manage to avoid it by increasing my physical ability.

　I can avoid the attack.
　But my attack doesn't even hit the opponent.

　I know that I'm the strongest among the elves.
　He's very fast, and he moves very fast.

　The high speed arrows that Rifa shoots out turn into human form and come at you from various directions.

　It's hard to go on the offensive because I'm too busy avoiding it. I can't win at this point, so I decided to use magic.

''Fire Lance!''

　He created 10 fire knights.

What kind of magic is that?

Since you're so fast, we'll have to attack you with more than one.

　The fire knight charges the general.
　The general tries to return fire, but...

Oh, be careful not to attack that thing with wind magic, as it will explode...


　Boom-boom.

　Too late.

　The general seemed to have struck at him with his wind-clad fist. Reacting with the wind magic, the flame knight burned violently and caused a huge explosion.

　When fighting a high-level enemy that couldn't be defeated by more than one flame knight, the flame knight had explosive magic built into it so that it could self-destruct as a last resort.

　Attacking a flame knight with wind magic is like pressing that self-destruct switch.

　The general who was caught in the explosion at close range was blown away while being scorched black.

　I think he's dead.

　Well, Luca (the dragon priestess) is here, and we can manage at worst.

　The general was alive somehow.
　And I won the first round.


　I won the first round.

　I won the second and third rounds the same way.

　The general was said to be the strongest in the country, so there was no way I, who defeated him, would struggle.

''........Elves don't use anything but wind magic?''

'Not really, but I'm most used to using it and it comes out on the spur of the moment.

　Rifa answers me.
　He attacks himself and gets caught in the explosion.

　From the side, I can only call him an idiot.

　I seem to remember the same thing that happened in the Steel Forest, and Rifa turns over with a red face.

　Anyway, we made it to the final.

　Next time, if I win, I can prevent Tina from marrying an elf from this country.

　I made my way to the arena.