Whooosh. Pop!
The flame swallowed her body in an instant. Along with a sound that felt like something huge was being popped, it became quiet all of sudden.
‘Just what is that…’
With his two ears and eyes, Hurial definitely heard his magic hitting the target, and he definitely saw his magic hitting the target.
However, it seemed Nainiae was not affected by it at all.
‘What the? Am I just seeing things?’
Although she was engulfed in flames, she was firing barrage of magic attacks again with a leisurely look. Hurial and Rebethra quickly raised barrier and protected themselves.
‘It cannot be…’
Hurial looked outside the barrier. He saw that some of the flame that he shot at Nainiae still remained on her.
What was odd about it was that the flame was on… the scarlet coat on her shoulders.
‘That coat… The flame?’
The flame died out on the coat as if it was absorbed by the coat. Hurial crumpled his face.
‘That coat is no ordinary item.’
Nainiae mumbled her lips again, and six magic circles of the very magic that Hurial just shot at her were drawn behind her.
‘That crazy… She is at a different height.’
That perfectly described the situation.
Hurial thought that her way of casting magic and her efficiency were completely different from the people of the Magic Tower.
‘At this rate, we won’t be able to last 10 minutes. No… we won’t even last 3 minutes.’
Rebethra quickly glanced at Hurial looking anxious. As if he was feeling this cannot go on anymore, Rebethra said,
“Hurial.”
It seemed Hurial heard Rebethra. He was fully focused on the barrier, but he turned his head and looked at Rebethra.
“We will need to use ‘that.’”
Crack!
The barrier developed a crack from Nainiae’s magic attacks colliding with it. Hurial cringed and asked Rebethra,
“You are going to bring that out already? You don’t know what’s going to happen if you bring that out now. You are going to do it here?”
“Given the situation, we have no other choice.”
“…”
“30 seconds.”
Rebethra whispered to Hurial and asked him to buy some time. After saying that, Rebethra gently closed his eyes and focused on imaging in his mind.
‘What is this?’
Of the two layers of barriers, one layer disappeared. Having noticed this, Nainiae’s eyebrow wiggled slightly.
She was not sure what they were up to exactly, but as if she judged that it would be no good to let this drag on any further, she started to rotate the magic ring of mana inside her heart to prepare a spell that was going to be a little taxing to herself.
‘Nainiae, I am temporarily forbidding you from using magic that would overexert your body. Use lower Circles magic if possible.’
Nainiae thought about what Andal, her master, said. Thinking this could not be helped, she bit her lips and completed a Seven Circles magic. She held the magic floating on her left hand.
‘I am sorry, master. I will overexert myself just this once.’
Fire, ice, poison, lightning…
Because of the influence from her, all of them had almost ash-like color. Four spheres, each with different elemental type, circled around on top of Nainiae’s left palm.
Hurial knew that this spell was a Seven Circles level magic. He opened his eyes big and opened his mouth.
‘… Insane?!’
It seemed it was going to take all of the mana he had, mana he didn’t have, and all mana that he would be using in the future to keep his life through this.
He didn’t have long to be surprised. Hurial tumbled and prepared a Seven Circles level barrier that could withstand Nainiae’s magic. He gritted his teeth and extended his arm.
‘I need to block this!’
‘I’m going to break through them!’
Nainiae and Hurial each had opposing thoughts as they showed gleam in their eyes. At that moment, the magic that Nainiae shot collided with Hurial’s barrier.
‘Uuuuk?!’
It was significantly more powerful than what Hurial expected. With his arm to the front, he had been maintaining the barrier. However, with his cheek swollen up, he got pushed and dragged back.
“Uuuuuweeeek!”
Hurial had been standing his ground as he coughed blood. With his eyes cringed, he looked at Rebethra.
‘Just a little longer.’
“… Ugh.”