Chapter 902 – #196_Cataclysm(5)
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One.
Hierarchical difference.
Any witch who dedicates her life to magic knows how big a gap a single number can lead to.
In general, an apprentice witch with excellent intelligence and talent selected by the prophecy agency inherits the stigma.
You have to invest a whole century for magic to raise one level.
The higher the hierarchy, the longer and wider the gap.
The difference between the 21st and 22nd ranks rather than the difference between the 20th and 21st ranks.
The difference between the 22nd and 23rd ranks is bigger than the difference between the 21st and 22nd ranks.
If you calculate it arithmetically, when the 22nd and 23rd ranks are attached, the underdog’s odds are no, but it means the same.
Still, there are a number of cases that could lead this underdog match to an upset.
However, if the underdog has magnetic magic more suitable for battle than the top dog.
Two, if the underdog has more combat experience than the top dog.
Third, if the underdog’s magic has a superiority over the topdog’s magic.
“… !”
Golden and white mana collided violently and sparks flew.
Dorothy stretched out her wings and wrapped them around her body, feeling her eyes turn white.
A sense of crisis, as if the existence itself would disappear, reached the tip of her chin.
“Hmm, it’s not fun for what I used to be particularly nervous about.”
Already crashed 5 times.
Contrary to Dorothy’s bluish complexion, Lydia was perfectly calm.
This alone made it clear which side had the upper hand.
Dorothy calmly took a breath and examined the current situation.
We examine all possibilities one by one to come up with a plan to overturn the inferiority.
One, is Dorothy’s magic more suitable for battle than Lydia’s, magnetic magic?
Not like that.
Lydia is not someone who has been studying magic in a safe enclosure all her life.
She is a witch who has maintained her position in public life longer than Dorothy by striking and killing her rivals.
Two, did Dorothy have more combat experience than Lydia?
Not like that.
Unlike Dorothy, who lived a leisurely life avoiding possible conflict, Lydia was a warlike witch who willingly dipped her toe into the battlefield.
There are only five great witches known to have died at the hands of Lydia.
Third, does Dorothy’s magic have an advantage over Lydia’s magic?
Unfortunately, most of all
Not like that.
Lydia and Dorothy’s compatibility was the worst of the worst.
The exhaustion felt by consuming extreme mana.
She looked forward as she felt the magic circuit that had been repeatedly overloaded by the angel’s ring and felt a burning pain.
“…”
First, Lydia’s ‘Poison Moth of Valuelessness’.
Its speed itself is insignificant, and just floating around doesn’t pose a direct threat.
However, the effect is absolute beyond Dorothy’s absolute power.
An unrealistic ability that corrodes the value of everything it touches and renders any defense or attack powerless.
If even one touches directly, the difference in weight between the two people who keep their balance will be widened.
So Dorothy had to respond by ejecting her feathers to intercept them, or by sweeping them away with the wind.
However, the real scary thing about poisonous moths is different.
“Are you going to end up catching bugs like that?”
When Lydia flicked the gold coin again, the group of poisonous moths began to float, flapping their wings again as if they had disappeared.
In this way, poisonous moths are created without end even after killing them.
No matter how well the optimization was done, or because gold coins were used as totems, there was almost no consumption of mana.
For Lydia, it’s like a low-cost checker, but
If Dorothy allowed even one gap, the battle would be decisive.
Even this was just one of the factors that made Lydia difficult.
“If you don’t come, will I go?”
Lydia’s hand stirred the air as if commanding.
Golden flames rippling like waves burning the floor of the cathedral.
The magic that Lydia herself identified as the ‘flame of destruction’ was also the magic that prevented Dorothy’s blow with absolute power in the first place.
– Flutter!
Dorothy flapped her wings and took off into the air.
He broke the condition of ‘Advent’ to use absolute power with his own hands and took an evasive maneuver.
Dorothy uses extreme defensive power to strike and counter with her shield.
There was a reason why he turned his back on an honest frontal attack that was not skillful.
Strictly speaking, the effect of the ‘flame of destruction’, which is more suitable for the expression of the shimmering of fine golden particles rather than flame, was indeed simple and clear.
It denies and destroys the symbolic system of magic drawn by a long history and common images.
For Dorothy, who uses the power of an angel by borrowing the symbolic system of the barrier and the courtesy, it is indeed magic like a natural enemy.
With all the scorecards pointing to despair…
Dorothy hadn’t given up the fight yet.
I have felt even more despair than this.
Every moment of living a worthless life aimlessly was more painful than this battle.
Dorothy’s fighting spirit is unbreakable now that she has a desire to go back no matter what hardships and adversity she has to face.
“Haap!”
Dorothy, who hovered around Lydia like a hawk seeking prey, found a tiny gap.
The flames of the attack and defense that swayed in all directions and covered even Lydia’s body.
However, no matter how much the flame of destruction was, it could not blow away the absolute power itself as if it were evaporating.
Just as a large sugar cube retains its shape for a moment even when put in coffee, Dorothy’s symbol is maintained if it is only in contact for a moment.
If only I could use the angel’s ring to give the symbol a shot before it completely melts in the fiery flames…
-Kiiiiing!
The angel’s ring spins like crazy, sucking in magic from the surroundings.
Re-accelerate twice with distinct flapping of wings.
Even the magic of the nun’s uniform, which is usually devoted to defense, is put into the sword and coated to the limit.
At this rate, it should withstand the flames of destruction for at least 2 seconds.
At the same time, weighted by gravity itself, he pressed down the poisonous moth that fluttered like a jellyfish and struck her knife at Lydia’s exposed gap.
The ability to improvise without panic even when the tactics they have been adhering to have not worked at all.
A delicate magical ability to use two or three magics at the same time.
Dorothy, too, hadn’t survived the world obediently.
For the first time, Lydia, who had been dealing with Dorothy in her place, showed a surprised look.
But that’s for a while.
“Prove it.”
After bouncing another gold coin, the space around Lydia was distorted and a long pike was created.
Due to its length of about 1M, it is more appropriate to describe it as a large stake rather than a spear.
Dorothy hesitated for a moment at the indescribable twist at the tip of the spear blade.
I can’t even guess what effect it had.
But as the tip of the javelin, which emitted a radiant light, spun around and aimed at Dorothy, she felt the suffocating pressure on her.
Her breathing is disturbed by visions of her death opening her mouth before her eyes.
It was an intuition born of her experience.
“Chit…”
Stop the attack.
Dorothy’s teeth clenched as she glided past her short spear, giving Lydia only a threat.
As in all battles, excessive air and defense switching in magic battles inevitably accompanies gaps.
There is no way that the seasoned Lydia missed the gap Dorothy was aware of.
If a pursuing blow came through this gap, he would have to take considerable damage.
“It looks good.”
But Lydia had her arms crossed and she hadn’t taken any further blows.
Even the short spear that gave Dorothy a sense of crisis and forced her to switch between offense and defense is silent.
“Really~ They fight like crazy.”
“Thank you, Abu. You know it’s too late to surrender, right?”
Lydia is not blind to Dorothy’s flaws.
She was clearly aware, and if she wanted to, she could win the game with tenacious pursuit.
But she doesn’t.
The reason was really simple.
Throwing a winning number is the same as saying that she shows that kind of gap.
It is to block in advance the variables that will arise, even if they are very fine, even though they are already overwhelming Dorothy.
Instead of trying to knock her out like an unpopular well-rounder champ, she drags opponents into a battlefield she can’t lose.
Contrary to her warlike tone, Lydia took to the battle with a cool and thorough business mindset.
“Whoa…”
As a result, what Dorothy feels is nervousness and psychological pressure.
A short spear that has been quiet without ever revealing its base.
No matter how hard he tries to close the gap, he does not match and sticks to his tactics.
I have a keen sense of what the phrase ‘wither to death’ means.
The more pressured time passes, the narrower the options for victory will become.
While Lydia had only shown two cards, Dorothy had opened quite a few cards.
In the end, under Lydia’s thorough planning, she has no choice but to throw a gamble as she intended.
-Kiiiiing!!!!
Dorothy gathered all her remaining magic.
Prepare for her best blow, ‘Judgment’.
-Koo-Goo-Goo-Gung
An earthquake-like vibration spreads throughout the chapel.
The atmosphere creaks and screams, and magic spreads like leaf veins on the pillars supporting the chapel.
This chapel is also Dorothy’s magic itself.
A beautiful melody like a chant accompanied by an organ echoed through the chapel like thunder.
Lydia looked up at the lofty ceiling.
An overwhelming sense of pressure, as if your legs would loosen up just by standing below it.
Divinity stemming from power that is tantamount to violence.
“This is kind of scary.”
A huge crown made of white brilliance and a single sword are visible.
In the center of the huge crown, which is about 50 meters in diameter, a huge sword is standing tall and aiming at Lydia.
“I’m going to lock you up with a crown and kill you with a sword, right?”
The fiery sword that often appears as a symbol of angels is not actually burning.
However, the divine power to do God’s will only shines like a flickering flame in human eyes.
– Whoa, whoa!
Poisonous moths burst out with only the air bursting under the pressure of that power, and the flames of destruction staggered dangerously like candles that were about to go out.
Yet.
————!!!!!!!
The sword of brilliant light fell like a guillotine blade, and the entire huge chapel collapsed.
The sanctuary fulfills its duty as a sanctuary until just before the judgment takes place.
If heaven and earth are connected and God’s will resonates in the earth, the sanctuary also fulfills its duty.
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