Chapter 807 – 807. Calamity Assault (4)
Cooong!
Even though I hit the barrier with all my might, the barrier didn’t even budge.
“Ah, really!”
Frustrated, Erin lashed out at her, but nothing changed.
“What the hell is this wall?”
She tried a few times, but she couldn’t help but be annoyed to see the barrier undamaged.
Even Erin’s thrust, which had the penetrating power that had been raised to the limit by concentrating all of her power into one point, couldn’t even scratch her barrier.
No, damaging her wasn’t that difficult.
The problem was then.
“It cuts, stabs, and even if you break it, it keeps regenerating!”
No matter how damaged the barrier was, it continued to be restored to its original state.
The solution itself wasn’t that difficult.
All I had to do was break the barrier.
However, the condition of having to inflict enormous damage with overwhelming attack power to the extent that the barrier did not give a chance to recover was too vicious.
Although it could certainly penetrate the barrier, it was impossible to inflict lethal damage with only the level of damage corresponding to the tip of the rapier’s blade and its small area.
Eventually, after several scuffles, Erin had to give up.
“… It’s annoying.”
I didn’t like it very much that I missed the intruders who lazily fled right in front of her eyes, but the realistically unavoidable thing was that it couldn’t be helped.
“…”
Erin looked at the man sprawled on the floor.
She was the intruder whom she had knocked out and stunned in the previous engagement.
She let out a small sigh and grabbed one of the intruder’s legs and dragged her along.
The place Erin reached was inside the main gate, where Nera was.
“Nera.”
“…”
“Nera?”
“Uh, huh?”
Nera, who was making a blank expression with her stiff attitude, woke up to Erin’s voice calling her.
“Let’s go back.”
“… Where?”
“Yes? Where is it? It’s a mage tower.”
By now, she should have felt this situation in the Magic Tower as well.
She was sealed away from using magic that naturally blended into their daily lives.
There was no way she wouldn’t respond at all from the Mage Tower side.
“Yeah, yes.”
Nera was quite taken aback by Erin’s calm response.
In this sudden situation, Erin was very calm and put her rational judgment into her mouth.
She couldn’t adapt because her appearance was so new that she was completely different from herself, the elder of the Mage Tower.
‘… What is this child?’
The reason she was embarrassed was that Erin’s appearance she was showing now was so different from her first impression.
There was no trace of an innocent woman who wanted to be loved by Eunhyeon and Illyana, or who acted like a puppy wagging her tail.
Erin, now in front of Nera, was showing the appearance of a ruthless adventurer who thoroughly excluded enemies.
The gap between them was enough to embarrass Nera.
“They a little while ago. ‘I said the goal was achieved.'”
Erin didn’t care about Nera’s embarrassed attitude and put her concerns into her mouth.
“That…”
Nera unconsciously shifted her gaze into the air, staring at the sealed barrier that covered the entire city.
The meaning of achieving the goal probably means that the barrier of the seal was successfully installed.
The reason why he dared to break into the city and play with the guards was to check whether the barrier was working.
If the barrier didn’t work properly, the wizards would have flown to the front door using magic right away.
If you think of the barrier of the seal that was installed as if you had waited for the defense barrier to be suddenly broken, the story fits perfectly.
“… “
-The purpose has been achieved.
Those words lingered in Erin’s mind.
The city of the Mage Tower was isolated from the outside world, and magic was sealed from the wizards inside the Mage Tower.
The purpose was obvious.
They intend to attack the Magic Tower and this city.
This sealing barrier must have been the cornerstone for that.
“What the hell are you trying to do?”
However, Erin could not predict what the intruders who attacked the front gate of the Mage Tower would do in the future.
“… Well.”
Nera, who was very embarrassed because this was the first time she had experienced this situation, did not come up with a clear answer.
“…”
Erin felt frustrated with her worries that no answer came out even after she thought about them.
‘If Hyun…’
Could you have predicted your opponent’s next move in this situation?
If it were Eun-hyeon, he would have come up with a secret plan to find out what their identity was and what they were aiming for.
But Erin wasn’t smart enough to do that.
She was more confident than anyone else when it came to simply subduing the enemy in front of her eyes, but this was not her specialty as Erinn.
Right now, Eunhyeon couldn’t move due to the metamorphosis of her bones, as she was in the midst of reorganizing her new body.
It was hard to expect his help.
“Ha…”
Erin sighed involuntarily.
As soon as she realized that she couldn’t get Eun-hyeon’s help, she felt cramped, but she realized that she was still far away.
“Anyone else I can ask for advice…”
As she hurriedly returned to the Mage’s Tower, Erin thought of someone other than Eunhyeon she could ask for advice on this situation.
“… Miss Illyana. Are you busy right now?”
Of all the people Erin knew, Illyana was the only one with as much expertise as Eunhyun when it came to magic.
However, since she must be very busy now that Illyana is in the process of transforming her Eunhyeon’s body, it was questionable whether she would be able to receive a call from him.
“Ah, I don’t know. Let’s start by communicating.”
Erin activated the communication function attached to her earring.
◆ ◆ ◆
As Erin expected, an emergency meeting began at the Mage Tower.
The meeting was held as soon as we faced the current situation, starting with a completely unexpected storm of magical power striking and breaking the defense barrier surrounding the entire city, and the current situation where the sealing barrier covered the entire city.
“How did this happen!? Magic sealed… !”
One of the top digit wizards in the meeting hit the table of the large round table hard and asked.
He seemed to be feeling strong anxiety about the current situation where he couldn’t use magic.
Having sealed the magic that was taken for granted to use like limbs, he now feels the same as if his limbs were taken away, so in a way, it was a natural reaction.
The other wizards, who were not able to answer the wizard’s question easily and were in pain, had a similar reaction.
“Let’s start by figuring out the current situation.”
When the meeting didn’t make any progress, Nera stepped in and lucked out first.
First of all, the first topic was the fact that the barrier of the magic tower was broken due to an attack from the outside.
“How… Can you? The defense barrier protecting the city is broken…”
The defensive barrier that protected the city of the Mage Tower was something of pride for the wizards of the Mage Tower.
Just as the holy kingdom and temples of Erenia take great pride in the sacred barriers that protect their cities and guarantee their safety, the mage tower’s defensive barriers, which are designed to withstand even eight-digit high-ranking magic, are magicians who make magic their business. It was a great pride and a lifeline for him.
But if it was destroyed by an external attack, who the hell would trust and look up to the Mage Tower?
“Perhaps… It might have been possible with magic of eight digits or more, and a level above that…”
“Do you really think that is possible?”
It was her enemy elder, who held the same eldership as her, who was unclean, laughing at Nera’s murmurs, which she carefully put into her mouth.
“A nine-digit magic spell? Ha, that’s ridiculous.”
Among wizards, the highest level known was the eight-digit number.
It is the end of the realm that can be reached with human effort and talent.
The Red Elder and many other wizards at the meeting at once denied Nera’s cautious guess.
It seemed as if the realm of the nine-digit number itself could not be acknowledged.
“…”
Nera frowned.
The reason the Red Elder denied his guess was purely because of his pride.
Like Illyana, he was a high-ranking magician with an eight-digit level, but he was an unlucky wizard who had been compared to Illyana, who abandoned the Mage Tower and went outside.
Even at the same eight-digit level, there was a huge wall between Illyana and the Red Elder, and he could not erase the perception that the Red Elder was always lagging behind Illyana.
He, who had spent his entire life studying and honing magic, could not accept that his talent was inferior to the witch who had abandoned the tower.
The hostility the Red Elder showed towards Illyana was genuine.
Perhaps even the enemy general felt it.
Perhaps Illyana has already surpassed her eight-digit mark.
She personally confirmed the top-notch magic crystal that she said she had made by hand, and felt keenly by seeing the manufacturing method disclosed by her.
Even so, the enemy elder could not acknowledge Illyana because of his pride.
There were not only the Red Elders, but also many wizards who didn’t like the fact that Illyana, who once abandoned the Mage Tower and went outside, returned to her Mage Tower casually.
Of course, not a single one of them openly expressed their dissatisfaction with the disclosure of the method of producing the highest-grade magic stone and the successful production of the ‘Philosopher’s Stone’.
“… That’s a problem, but isn’t that the problem that needs to be addressed right now?”
It was Aden who evoked the strange flow of the atmosphere with the red elder’s sarcasm and Nera’s annoyed attitude.
“We will consider later whether magic with overwhelming attack power enough to destroy the defense barrier really exists at a new level of nine-digit magic. Now, what to do with that barrier that seals the use of magic and blocks the city from the outside is the urgent priority.”
“… You’re right.”
Nera nodded her head in affirmation.
Not only himself and Aden, but all the wizards in the meeting agreed on how fatal this situation of not being able to use magic would be for wizards.
“Treve.”
“Yes. Elder.”
“Have you figured out the identity of the sealing barrier currently covering the city?”
“Yes.”
Trev immediately rose from his seat.
In any case, the sealing barrier is a special barrier that is manifested through an artifact engraved with a specific spell.
Cheongtap, which mainly deals with the production and research of artifacts inside the Mage Tower, immediately began investigating the sealing barrier that covered the city and was able to uncover its identity.
He and the wizards of the Blue Tower began to explain what they had investigated.
“The identity of the sealing barrier is ‘Dispel’.”
“What?”
“‘Dispel’?”
After hearing Trev’s explanation, many wizards tilted their heads.
“Isn’t ‘Dispel’ a three-digit sub-order?”
Dispel is a magic that nullifies the activation of magic itself by disrupting the flow of magical power in a specific place and destroying the composed formula.
It was magic that removed the effects of so-called magic, but it was also magic that had a wide variety of uses depending on the user’s capabilities.
This is because the dispels used by low-level, low-digit wizards are lousy and ineffective, but the dispels used by high-digit wizards create a terrifying effect that ties the hands and feet of lower-digit wizards.
“… Nonsense!”
The red elder frowned and showed an annoyed expression.
The magic of dispel is also limited to maintaining a certain area for a certain amount of time, even for a high-ranking magician.
It is impossible to spread the effect of dispel over the entire city for such a long time.
Even if it was possible, the enemy elder never wanted to admit it.
It meant that if he, who had reached the highest level of eight digits, as a wizard, could not ascend any further, if his magic was sealed by that dispell, the person who cast the dispel was at a higher level than he was.
That added credence to the fact that the ‘nine-digit or higher magician’ that Nera had initially mentioned as a possibility actually existed.
