Chapter 29 – Mage vs. Mage Mage
It was Baron Bettendorf who broke up the fight first.
The baron muttered, waving his short staff that looked like a baton in the air.
“Stakato”
Starter words are a kind of self-suggestion.
By chanting the words that the caster has designated in advance, a specific memory (spell) stored in the brain is replayed.
For magic from the 1st to the 3rd tier, common starter words are fixed, but wizards who have been promoted to the 4th tier, where all elements can be synthesized, create original spells and starter words from then on.
Because it is to carve out one’s own path, it is magic.
Since the starter words and original spells were no different from fingerprints that reveal the caster’s personality and identity, the form varied greatly depending on the person.
“Let’s start with a simple greeting.”
The waves that rose from the ground following Baron Bettendorf’s staff turned into fierce bullets and flew to Dorothea.
“Tsk, tricks.”
She snorted and stamped her feet.
Then, a wall of red flame soared up, instantly evaporating the bullets of water.
After hitting the floor a couple more times, eight pillars of fire erupted from the floor and surrounded Baron Bettendorf from all sides.
However, the baron was also not taken aback by this level of attack.
“Mezzo forte”
Like a conductor playing an orchestra, an elderly gentleman in a blue tailcoat waved his staff, and water in the shape of a dolphin gushed from the floor and extinguished the pillar of fire at once.
But the fight has only just begun.
Tadak!
Red-hot fireworks follow the red-haired girl, who moves swiftly by making use of her small body, and shoots up on the roadside like a haze.
Eventually, Dorothea’s slender body, accelerating in an instant, spun in the air.
Her pointed heel struck the defenseless old man on the head, but a wall of water that appeared in her air blocked her attack.
But the attack doesn’t end there.
Fuhuaaaaa!!
The walls of water evaporated in an instant due to the intense flames that spewed out from Dorothea’s toes in succession.
As a result, misty steam rose up, momentarily blocking the two’s vision, and the two began pounding each other’s bodies at close range.
A powerful shockwave explodes whenever Dorothea’s fist, which has destructive power that is unbelievable to come from a slender body, and Baron Bettendorf’s fist, who has a stocky physique for his age, collide.
Even compared to the trained knights, the physical abilities of the two were never inferior.
All of this is thanks to the strengthening magic called Sorcery Armament.
All wizards had an attribute that they used as a long term, and depending on that attribute or user, the effect of magic armament differed sharply.
The old man wrapped waves around her, and the girl wrapped sparks around her.
“Annoying!”
It was Dorothea who made the decision to win first, perhaps feeling nervous about the ongoing battle.
Instead of momentarily showing his back, he used a back kick with destructive power that would make even bones impossible to guess if hit.
But Baron Bettendorf didn’t miss that moment.
The old man’s arms, wrapped in white waves on both of her hands, dug in front of her, struck her outstretched legs with her forearms, and then patted the girl’s stomach, revealing her gaps.
“Kahak!”
Dorothea flew away vomiting blood with the pain of twisting her intestines.
She immediately rolled over and stood up, but Baron Bettendorf, who fired a counterattack in the blink of an eye, was already preparing for the next attack.
The huge spear of ice floating on his palm had a terrifying mass no matter who saw it.
If you get hit, it won’t end in pain.
“This is a bonus!”
“Kuh. A senile old man!”
Not even having time to stamp her feet, Dorothea hurriedly put her hands on the ground.
Then, a flame in the shape of a snake’s head broke through the ground and chewed up an ice spear the size of a house and swallowed it.
Dorothea, who hastily extinguished the fire, spewed flames under her shoes as she jumped in front of her without a chance to catch her breath.
Explosive hyperacceleration by continuous jets of flame.
Before long, her entire body was engulfed in flames that rose from her ruby shoes.
It looked like a cat.
Dorothea stepped on boxes and walls in the street and jumped into the air like acrobatics.
In that state, as she twisted her body, her centrifugal force put weight on her two legs, and the huge claws formed below her knees struck Baron Bettendorf’s upper body.
“Cool!”
Just as Dorothea had been caught off guard and had been hit with a single blow, the old gentleman also slashed her across the chest with her flaming claws, which effortlessly pierced her defenses.
In fact, for a normal person, this alone would have been fatal.
However, perhaps because of the water magic weapon worn on her body, the cut on her chest healed quickly, and the burn mark also completely disappeared as if time had been reversed.
Unlike Dorothea, who gained explosive speed and attack power by wearing flames around her legs, the old man’s magical weapon possessed abilities specialized in purely defense and regeneration, befitting the water attribute with healing properties.
The two of them exchanged a room each other like that, and read the sympathy in each other’s eyes.
“Fortissimo!”
At the gesture of the old gentleman, huge waves rushed in from all sides of her.
Buildings nearby are submerged in an instant by the sudden large amount of water.
Without her proper footing, Dorothea, who avoided the whip-like current of water by running swiftly up the wall, grabbed the trolley installed on top of her building and whirled around, knocking her heels against each other.
Then dozens of fireballs were created in the dark sky.
“Gehenna Sturm!”
When Dorothea, who had insisted on only chanting until now, uttered the proper starter for the first time, blue flames of hellfire rained down from the dark sky like a meteor shower.
It was an unavoidable disaster itself.
Since Min Min was a 5th tier great magic, the old gentleman waved the staff in her right hand with a firm expression.
Each time an element is stacked, its power increases exponentially.
Therefore, to block that magic, he has no choice but to use the same level of magic.
Came to this conclusion.
“Forte!”
As Baron Bettendorf shouted, a huge figure appeared at the feet.
It was a blue whale whose body was made of transparent water.
As if to protect its creator, Baron Bettendorf, the blue whale swam in a puddle and jumped high into the sky.
Ku-gu-gu-gu-gu-gung!
Blue fireballs pouring down from the sky and whales made of water collided in the air, making a tremendous explosion and shaking the earth’s axis.
The aftermath of the shock was vividly felt not only by the two of them, but by everyone inside the Hamburg Fortress.
“Kuk!”
Because of the steam created by the evaporation of a large amount of water and the enormous wind pressure created by it, Dorothea, who was light in weight, had no choice but to hold on to the flagpole in front of her like a lifeline and hold on to the end.
“What!”
However, in the moment when I couldn’t open my eyes because of the strong wind, the image of Baron Bettendorf, who was clearly below, disappeared completely.
The moment she hurriedly stepped back at the sensation of a chill running down her spine, she heard the voice of an elderly gentleman right next to her.
“The play is over.”
Dorothea, who tried to distance herself, realized belatedly that her own feet were already frozen.
An elderly gentleman in a blue tailcoat climbed onto her roof and touched her mustache.
“You still don’t know? Your and my abilities are completely interrelated.”
Water puts out fire.
This is a natural common sense based on the theory of the four elements.
I don’t know if it would have been better to fight a lower-ranking opponent, but since Baron Bettendorf became an archmage at an age of infidelity and had been polishing himself for decades since then, it wasn’t difficult to subdue Dorothea, who still lacked combat experience.
In addition, the Vulcan Mountains are a land of severe cold where snow falls all year round.
There was no better combat environment than this for a mage who handles water and ice.
Tumble- Tumble-
The old gentleman, who had walked with heavy footsteps, spoke to Dorothea, who was completely overpowered by the ice covering him up to the top of his neck.
“It was a fun fight after a long time. Opportunities to fight between wizards of the same level are very rare.”
“Mummuk! Mummummuk!”
Dorothea said something with wide eyes, but Baron Bettendorf didn’t care and raised his staff.
“When you meet your disciples in the underworld, please say hello. Your master has avenged his enemies instead.”
That was the moment.
“You have to do that yourself.”
The masked man suddenly fell from the sky.
