Rebethra panicked because magic attack came at him before he could even feel any mana movement.
Going past his hair, an icicle got stuck in the dirty water far behind him. The icicle was exuding white mist as if it was showing off how cold it was.
‘This… I better get a grip.’
Their opponent just sent them the first attack. Now that this happened, they could not just sit politely and die. So… Rebethra and Hurial exchanged looks and nodded.
‘First, we will use the corpses to draw her gaze away. After that, we can either prepare flame magic for the counter, or… we can choose to use the instant teleportation to escape…’
Their plan was for Rebethra to prepare the best barrier that he knew and Hurial to choose between the two options.
“I do not know how you were revived, but…”
Nainiae’s scarlet coat was waving. She pulled her left hand back and swung it in a large motion. When she did, a wave of flame rushed toward Rebethra and Hurial from their rear.
“… it does not look like the situation calls for a congratulation, so…’
Having heard the sound of flame burning up from the back, they took quick looks behind their backs.
‘From the back?’
It was a wall of fire, it was between beginners to intermediate level flame type magic. However… The wall was very wide as if it was pulling the burning path to the back. This kind of arrangement was not in Rebethra’s or Hurial’s memories.
‘What a bizarre thing!’
Rebethra had his barrier focused to the front. He tumbled and turned his gaze to block the wall of fire that was coming toward them from the back. However, he suddenly felt heat coming from the front. He held his breath.
“Uuuughk!”
Before anyone realized, there were dozens of boulder-sized fireballs colliding with Rebethra’s barrier.
“Tsk!”
Having realized his ally was in trouble, Hurial promptly prepared water magic and had it overlapped on top of Rebethra’s barrier. Hurial then started to recite another magic.
‘Is the Young Master not going to step in?’
The defense became a little easier with Hurial’s water magic. Anxious, Rebethra looked at Riley who was standing with his arms crossed.
“…”
He had a vacant look on his face.
He was even yawning occasionally.
Riley was leisurely looking at where Rebethra and Hurial were standing. Having noticed this, Rebethra ground his teeth hard.
‘Those eyes. He looks like he knows how this battle will turn out already.’
Riley could not look more leisurely than this. Rebethra clicked his tongue as if he acknowledged that he really lost this one time, and then he started to prepare another blessing magic that he could use as an Archbishop.
‘… They got us this time.’
Rebethra lived for a very long time.
At the moment, he was the Archbishop of the Holy Temple who was revered by the citizens of Solia. However… Throughout his past, he had tricked many people.
He tricked commoners. He fooled nobilities. He even tricked a king. He even tricked a priestess.
Just like how he had been successfully lying to everyone, he figured he could be sly and fool everyone again and could make even the great Goddess to bite on her handkerchief. He was thinking that.
‘Looks like I got very dull. I became dull.’
However, it was arrogance.
Because the boy named Riley was infamous for being lazy and even had the title of Lazy-Sword from the Iphalleta House, Rebethra underestimated him although he was the one in the divine message that the Priestess received.
“Hurial.”
Rebethra, who was preparing the blessing, called Hurial, who was on a tug war of magic against Nainiae.
“Kuk.”
Hurial was not able to answer.
Nainiae was continuously bombarding them with magic. Against Nainiae’s magic attacks, all Hurial could do was hitting back with barely enough magic to neutralize them.
Nainiae was pouring out endless bombardment of magic. It was as if she was trying to not give Hurial any time to recite long spells. Because of this… Hurial could not even dream of using Seven Circles magic that Astroa could use.
‘How is it possible for her to cast magic like that?’
Hurial hit back and neutralized Nainiae’s magic attacks once again. He was sweating like a pig. He had a look of disbelief on his face. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
He combined his own knowledge and Astroa’s knowledge on magic and thought about this. However, he felt that what Nainiae was doing at the moment was impossible.
‘She didn’t even recite any spell, so how?’
Waving her scarlet coat in the air, she moved her finger around in the air or briefly moved her lips. However, doing just those resulted in barrage of magic attacks. Hurial crumpled his face, thinking this was impossible. Meanwhile, he completed a long spell he had been reciting.
“Flame Strike!”
It could not be said that this was the most powerful attack he could use. However, it was a pretty destructive flame type magic. It was completed and shot toward the target. Hurial smiled contently.
‘I did it! She cannot sto…’
It looked like Nainiae was not doing anything in particular to respond to the attack. Hurial thought he was going to be able to finally get a good shot at her, so he smiled. However, the tip of Hurial’s smile flinched.
“…?”