Esoteric Buddhism: To live as king in America

Is it my problem that I can't do anything?

Ain's heart skipped a beat. Ain had always believed that her inability to become a knight stemmed from a lack of power, but now that the lord had granted her that power, she still couldn't resolve the situation. Did that mean... did that mean...?

Am I not worthy of being a knight?

The tentacles that wrapped around her neck, hands, and feet tightened more and more, making it difficult to breathe. In the darkness woven by her oxygen-deprived brain and tentacles, it seemed that Ain's heart was also about to sink completely, never to see the light of day again.

Just then, a voice suddenly came from outside into the tentacle cocoon.

"You idiot, what are you always saying? Haven't you heard we need to give young people enough time?"

The voice was loud and resolute. And accompanying this sound was another, even more violent, noise.

"boom--"

Its daybreak.

The tentacles that had been binding Ain's body seemed to suddenly lose their power and scattered on the ground. Ain then abruptly opened her eyes from this state of despair and gasped for fresh air. However, she immediately saw that the unfinished building, which had been mostly intact just moments before, seemed to have collapsed all at once.

And just then, Mian rushed over from the side, holding a sword in one hand and grabbing Ain's hand with the other, leading her to run desperately towards a place where they wouldn't be affected by the collapse.

Mian had long realized that the other party was able to use the tentacles so flexibly and in such a variety of ways because he had extended the tentacles out in advance and attached them to the entire unfinished building.

Although he can control very few tentacles at the same time, these few tentacles can emerge from any place where tentacles are attached and launch attacks from all sorts of tricky angles.

And how to solve it is quite simple.

If I can't solve the spell, can't I at least solve the problem of the terrain?

So while Matt was entangled with Ein, Mian finally found an opportunity to get close to the load-bearing pillar of the unfinished building.

Mian was initially worried that his sword might not be sharp enough to cut through the supporting pillar.

But it turned out he was overthinking it. Although the cheat system always talked nonsense and the power-ups it gave usually only partially overlapped with the description, Mian always felt that the cheat system gave "Ifaratamuya" a surprisingly generous amount of stats.

Faced with a thick load-bearing wall, with just a couple of casual moves and hardly any force, it was cut open as easily as cutting butter.

It felt even stronger to Mian than the previous Holy Sword.

Does this mean that cheat codes can also inflate their stats? What if I find the Holy Sword again later?

The situation didn't allow Mian to think too much about this. Seeing that Ein seemed to be suppressed by Matt again, he accelerated the pace of destruction.

And just before Ein could hold on any longer, Mian successfully caused the collapse of the entire unfinished building, which had more than ten floors.

However... even though I deliberately made the collapse point more towards Matt, with my current physical condition, I shouldn't be unable to escape, right?

As soon as the thought crossed Mian's mind, seeing the rubble about to hit her, Ai Yin, whom she was holding, reacted and, carrying Mian, rushed out of the unfinished building at full speed before it completely collapsed.

As for Matt, who was so confident just moments before, the tentacles he had laid out on the entire unfinished building collapsed with the building's fall. Without his tentacles, he was powerless against the falling concrete slabs and could only cast a hateful glare at Mian before being buried under the rubble.

"My lord..."

Seeing that Mian was once again in danger because of her, Ain's eyes welled up with tears again.

"...Ain failed again. You gave me that power, but because of my own actions, I almost...Is Ain unworthy to be a knight?"

In response, Mian simply freed herself from the embrace, jumped to her feet, patted her head, and said with a smile:

"How old is that guy? How old are you? He's not ashamed to say that. A knight's skills can be honed, and a knight's experience can be accumulated, but the key to becoming a knight is always you, whether you have a knight's heart. Ain is a good kid, and no one has the right to deny your qualifications as a Silver Knight, not even that bastard."

Ayn sniffed and said with a wronged expression:

"What if something like that happens again?"

Mian showed her three missing front teeth and pointed to herself.

"If this happens again, I'm still here. Before Ain matures, I, as her elder, will definitely protect her, just like this time."

"But you've never had one before..."

Ai Yin tilted her head and asked a question in a silly way, almost making Mian choke on her own saliva.

"Ahem, it was just a minor accident. Adults make mistakes too... Let's not discuss this now."

Mian changed the subject:

"There's still a bastard waiting for us to deal with."

Mian turned her gaze to the ruins. The ruins, made of concrete slabs and load-bearing pillars, undulated slightly, as if something was moving stealthily beneath them, trying to leave.

That was undoubtedly Matt in a sorry state.

As a seasoned superhuman, even if it's just an avatar, even if he had already suffered severe injuries, Matt wouldn't die just because of the collapse of this building.

Despite losing the tentacles he had deployed beforehand, Matt could still extend tentacles from his own body to barely sustain himself. After all, those tentacles had originally originated from his body.

However, being fixed to a fragile body is not as strong and powerful as being fixed to a wall. Matt was still badly injured, and both his physical strength and the materials for casting spells were completely exhausted.

Even if he were to leave now, he would likely have completely lost the ability to fight Mian and Ain. Therefore, he only wanted to escape as quickly as possible.

But as he emerged from the ruins in the opposite direction from Mian, an iron rod smashed down on the guy's head.

"This is a holy war."

After settling Lisa elsewhere, Leo, having received prior instructions from Mian, stayed here, holding an iron rod that had been enchanted into a sword.

Matt's face immediately lit up with a smile. He gritted his teeth and tried to use his tentacles, but Ayn had already spotted him and pounced on him, pinning him to the ground. Matt could only watch as Leo stepped forward and severed all of his tentacles one by one.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it... How could this happen? Shouldn't these guys just be petty thieves who gained power by chance? Why am I the one who lost?"

Matt felt an overwhelming bitterness welling up inside him, but before him, Mian, shirtless, was already walking towards him step by step, carrying that sword.

Faced with this life-or-death moment, Matt grinned, revealing his earlier gentlemanly smile, and said:

"Hey, is it possible to reconcile?"