Bellbroke Subjugation Battle (11)
All the monsters that had been swept away were scattered in pieces, and the high sky came into view again.
Lucy looked at the sky with blurry eyes. He was on the verge of losing consciousness, but he knew that Belle Broke had hit him hard.
Throughout history, there are not many people who know how to use the highest level elemental magic.
And, even those highest level magics were often siege magics that were barely cast after several days and nights of preparation.
Casting such a large-scale spell on one’s own was truly an act of eccentricity that seemed to deny the science of magic itself.
Nevertheless, Belbroke does not fall.
Velbroke’s scales have a certain level of resistance to all types of magic… Even the highest level magic that goes beyond common sense is almost neutralized.
As it was a large-scale elemental magic that Lucy used with all her might, Belbroke also let out a roar of pain. But all I felt was pain.
The group of monsters that covered the sky disappeared in an instant… Soon, new monsters are overrun by the summoning circle summoned by Belbroke again.
Even though it was a blow that took all of her strength, Lucy’s efforts quickly become meaningless.
And, the great sage Sylvania stands upright on the broken spire in the living quarters plaza.
She appeared with a single swing of her huge staff and lifted the high-level magic ‘Space Curtain’.
The aspect magic that twists and bends space and hides in the gap transcends virtually all laws of physics and allows you to temporarily block any attacks.
The downside is that the casting time is very long, the range is narrow, and since you are also trapped between the curtains of space, it is difficult to judge the external situation easily. In short, since you are crouching quietly in one place with your eyes closed, it is easy to be surprised when you have just released the spell.
Nevertheless, the absolute defense ability to be safe from any attack is an advantage that can offset all disadvantages.
It is natural for anyone to be swept away by Lucy’s magic, but they survived without even a single scratch. That alone made discussing its power more meaningless.
And then, I look down at Lucy from the top of the broken spire.
Lucy’s pure white blouse has already lost its original color and is turning red. Only the ends of the sleeves and the inner hem of the skirt still have traces of the original color.
The hem of the skirt is torn, and the white knee socks are so dirty that they do not maintain their original shape.
And, as always, hostility is finally beginning to appear in those blank eyes.
There is something similar to will in the way he looks up at Sylvania with his eyes strained.
Lucy looked up at Sylvania and spoke as if wondering what was wrong with the figure curled up asleep in the corner of the bachelor’s office.
“Horsepower conversion speed.”
Lucy, who is gifted with a natural sense, finally catches Sylvania’s loophole.
Sylvania Robester is a pioneer of aspect magic and a rare genius who has achieved magical achievements that no one can match.
The same goes for the field of combat magic. Natural magical power, fast calculation speed, and appropriate determination.
In the field of duel magic, he already possesses abilities comparable to those of great men… It’s hard for Lucy, who is already exhausted, to cope.
However, general magic power and aspect magic power are completely different in nature.
If you want to draw down magic power to deal with general elemental magic, you have to scatter away all that magic power and draw out new aspect magic power. This is truly the height of inefficiency.
Therefore, it is difficult to use aspect magic and general magic in parallel.
Although it may not seem like there is much difference in speed to the average wizard, in battles between the best wizards in the world, the slight gap in the transition is visible.
It’s a small gap where you can finally see the part only after exchanging tens or hundreds of won… Lucy Mayril noticed it in just three or four minutes.
Sylvania Robester’s Aspect Magic is a means close to a cheat that ignores all compatibility and irrationally suppresses enemies… It’s not that there are no gaps.
There may be a chance of victory if you tie them down with elemental magic that is difficult to counter, force them to defend, and then take advantage of the opportunity to cast aspect magic to land a surprise attack. The reason Ed was able to plunge a dagger into that shoulder was because he used his death as collateral to create a gap in the magic conversion.
If we fight strength against strength, we really have no chance of winning.
What remains is technique and sense.
And, Lucy Mayril, who was born with the blessings of a star, has skills and senses that are far beyond those of ordinary people. After quickly establishing a strategy to subdue Sylvania, he raises his body’s magical power.
However, there is little magical power left in the body.
After exchanging a few words with Sylvania, he is exhausted from the magical power he poured into temporarily neutralizing Velbroke.
My head hurts when I try to cast even a single middle-level magic, let alone a high-level magic.
In a perfect state, Lucy was able to embody dozens or hundreds of high-ranking magic circles like a meal. Realizing how cornered he is, he frowns at himself.
The shadow of death creeps up the back of Lucy’s neck.
End point of life.
If you want to survive and run away, now is the last time.
If you want to go any further and face the enemy, you must risk your life.
Life crisis.
A word that is very far from a strong person like Lucy Mayril.
However, the blond fallen nobleman was carrying weights as if he was eating food. The shadow of a man who clenched his teeth and lived until the end, facing a crisis that could cost him his life at any time, is placed on Lucy’s back.
There is nothing you cannot escape from. I’m not the type of person who cares about things like pride or honor.
However, running away from here… I got the feeling that it wasn’t polite to that man… Lucy Mayril doesn’t even worry.
He clenches his teeth and gathers up his depleted magic power again and again, continuing the fight relying on his skills and senses.
Basic wind magic, six or seven ‘wind blades’ fly towards Sylvania.
Sylvania snorts and swings her staff to neutralize them all.
Only when the firepower is comparable to that of high-level magic can it be meaningful to use evasive maneuvers. Basic magic will never reach Sylvania’s body.
However, Lucy paid no heed and just waved her arms and performed the basic fire magic ‘Ignition’.
The fireworks blooming around Lucy block the view. Then, he manifested the basic earth magic ‘Earth Wall’ and hid himself between the rising walls.
At this point Sylvania noticed.
Lucy really has no magical power left anymore. To the extent that he has to use even mid-level magic that he can manifest casually sparingly.
The proof is the basic magic that has been rampant since a while ago. That Lucy Mayril uses basic magic. It’s like a small crossbow arrow coming out of a huge ballista.
Lucy thought as she ran across the earthen wall.
──You can’t win.
──Probably, he will die here.
In that case, you should at least take Sylvania with you.
Ed Rothtaylor said there was a way to prevent Belbroke, that massive disaster.
However, I have never heard anything about Sylvania Robester. The resurrection of Great Sage Sylvania was something that was completely beyond Ed Rosstaylor’s calculations.
A magic duel is basically a battle of firepower, but if you go into details, there is much more to the area of calculation.
And, the basic premise of calculation in a duel is to put one’s own safety first.
It means that if you rush in with the determination to throw your life away, you will go beyond the realm of rational calculation.
In other words, you will be able to catch your opponent off guard.
Just once.
If only he could risk his life and create an opening to strike Sylvania…
If you can hit the vital point and kill with one hit… At least the first hint of disaster can be eliminated. The stake is Lucy’s own life.
In the end, Bellbroke will have to be defeated by someone else…
Lucy has no doubts about Ed’s words. Bellbroke will be resolved somehow. If so, your role is clear.
“Ooh, uh… Huh… Ugh… Sobbing… .”
Sylvania lands from the spire toward the plaza, with a face that doesn’t tell whether she’s smiling or crying.
Now that Lucy Mayril has realized that she doesn’t have much strength left to resist… There is no reason to hold back further.
The earthen walls are tangled like a maze.
These are earthen walls implemented to make the opponent wander even a little, but such tactics do not work on the strong.
– Bang!!
An earthen wall created with basic magic can be completely shattered just by pouring in magical power.
Lucy’s maze, made up of several layers of fire and earthen walls, is instantly neutralized, and Lucy, bleeding and limping away, comes into view at a glance.
Sylvania raised her arm and unleashed the elemental magic of ice to deliver the final blow. Lucy already has little strength to resist.
That was the moment when the ice spear was struck into Lucy’s body.
Lucy’s body shattered and disappeared.
“… ?”
A person is a creature that splatters blood and spills out internal organs when stabbed by an ice spear, and does not disappear into pieces like machine parts. It was an illusion from the beginning.
A wise Sylvanian would not fall into such a one-dimensional trap.
A girl who has been consumed by madness and has almost lost her sense of reason. Since Sylvania was only focused on destroying the enemies in front of her, she failed to take into account the fact that Lucy was also good at quick wits and improvisation.
Blocking the view with earthen walls and ignitions was simply to buy time to set up new traps in the gap.
It embodies the basic freezing magic ‘Ice Knife’ and makes it rise from the ground. An illusionary imprint is engraved on the shiny surface using magic.
Lucy does not have the magical power to use proper high-level illusion magic. Using catching techniques and making bait is all that can be done right now. Rather, because high-level illusion magic left a strong magical aftereffect, there was a possibility that it could be easily seen by high-level magicians like Sylvania.
Therefore, he tries to deceive the enemy by somehow drawing out what little magical power he has left.
No matter what anyone says, this is the fighting style of the weak.
Trick, run away, throw sand in your eyes, pick up rocks and hit them, rip off your hair, drive in your nails, bite your thighs…
This type of battle, where the power gap is filled with cunning and trickery, is something that someone like Lucy cannot experience in her entire life.
Because Lucy Mayril lived her whole life as a strong person. Pressing down with the magnitude of her strength is her fight she has been fighting all her life.
So, this kind of fighting method… Lucy didn’t wake up on her own.
– Quang!!
Lucy, bleeding profusely and hiding with camouflage magic, stands up behind Sylvania.
Sylvania was startled and scattered magic behind her, but that too was just an illusion of Lucy imprinted on the ice knife.
Lucy… It was floating above Sylvania’s head, hiding itself in the rising smoke.
Covered in blood, it looked like a corpse, but it was definitely alive. Lucy’s hand, which came out through the smoke, had already collected the magic power that had been scraped up to the floor.
On the tree of the hut camp, on the roof of the hut, on the Altar of Change at the top of the mountain, in the Ross Taylor mansion, in the combat club sparring hall…
I was sitting there blankly looking down at the man’s fight.
Before you know it, it is engraved in Lucy Mayril’s eyes.
Those bright eyes that seem to be filled with starlight.
This is not the honorable fight as a wizard that Lucy learned from Glokt when she was young.
It’s not like a duel that the wizards of the Magic Tower engage in with courtesy.
Lucy Mayril lived her whole life as a strong woman.
Ed Rosstaylor lived his entire life as an underdog.
Since they are two people who have faced each other as if their backs to each other, their way of life and way of fighting are bound to be completely opposite. It shouldn’t have been possible to understand each person’s position.
─That’s why Lucy had to be miserably defeated by Sylvania.
In front of the great sage Sylvania, Lucy, who was completely exhausted, was literally in the position of the weak. I fully expected Lucy, who could not possibly understand the position of the weak, to be crushed and defeated by the difference in power.
However, you don’t know what’s going on in the world.
Not knowing what the future will be because it is full of unknown variables is perhaps the best part of life.
The back of Glockt, sitting in an armchair and warming up by a bonfire.
I decided that day that I was wondering if there was a good place to take a nap, so I went to a wooden shelter I found by chance while walking through the northern forest and fell asleep.
Then, a connection occurred that turned around and created the Lucy Mayril she is today.
Lucy Mayril felt a sense of irony and was drawn to the series of strange and inexplicable coincidences.
– Hwaaaaaaa!
Frowning, Sylvania turned her head back to Lucy. As she tried to swing the huge wand, she noticed that the young magic power in Lucy’s hands was dark red.
It is the magic power of the Aspect.
Here the numbers are twisted once more.
The fact that he was able to bring out Aspect magic power, which consumes much more mental power than normal magic power, means that it will end here.
This is because using Aspect magic when already pushed to the limit is close to an act of suicide. He never thought he would use aspect magic at this exact moment, pushing himself further to the limit.
Is the magic that appears a ‘time prison’? From Lucy’s point of view, who had to subdue Sylvania in one blow, she would have had to implement suppression magic anyway.
No matter what, once you are overcome, you will definitely be overcome.
But that… This is a story about when targeting an opponent who cannot use Aspect magic.
It is ridiculous to discuss aspect magic in front of Sylvania, the master of aspect magic.
Disperses the raised magic power and instantly raises the magic power of the star level.
Aspect magic can only be countered by Aspect magic. If you quickly dissipate Lucy’s aspect magic, all that will remain is death for Lucy, who no longer has the strength to fight.
So, it was a moment to deal with it by raising the magic power of the Aspect.
– Hwaaaaaaaaaaa!
In the hands of Lucy Mayril, who lands towards Sylvania, a young… That red aura is disappearing.
Eventually, the red energy completely disappeared due to the elemental magic brought out by Lucy.
“what… ?”
Sylvania couldn’t believe her eyes.
If you want to convert from Aspect magic power to general magic power, an inefficient process arises where you have to first disturb the accumulated magic power.
For a wizard who has reached the peak like Lucy or Sylvania, the time difference is less than a second. That brief gap of 0.5 seconds or not is not a significant drawback against most magicians.
However, in this urgent situation of battle of numbers, it is a completely different story.
He forcibly closes the distance and draws them out through a battle of wits. No matter what anyone says, Lucy’s strategy of finding the opponent’s flaws and digging into them was very similar to Ed Rothtaylor’s fighting style.
However, how does Lucy achieve magical power conversion so quickly?
Even Sylvania, a master of aspect magic, ends up with a very small gap, but Lucy’s ability to convert magical power without even allowing for that moment makes no sense theoretically.
However, when Sylvania saw Lucy’s arm that was soon revealed, she stuck her tongue out.
In the first place, he didn’t even manifest his magic power.
What Lucy manifested was general magical power. Since there was no process of converting magic power, it was much more than the amount of magic power produced by Sylvania.
What looked like dark red magic power was not magic power.
Affected by the burning flame of ignition magic, Lucy’s magic also only appeared dark red.
──Lucy set her arm on fire. Just for a simple trick.
Just for a moment… A smudged burn came into view. It is clear that it is a scar that will probably not disappear even if it lasts a lifetime. The pain that rushes in will not be normal.
A clear decision. The two fakes using illusions in the first place were traps set up to make the situation more urgent and lead Sylvania to take hasty action.
Three ice spears gathered around Lucy using only the magical power accumulated in this short period of time.
The strategy may have been taken from Ed Rosstaylor’s method, but it was possible because of Lucy’s basic magic sensitivity and ability to pull off even this middle-level magic in a short period of time, such as a few seconds.
There wasn’t much time allowed for Sylvania. Because of Lucy’s fake, he drew out his magic power, so he had less than a second to gather his magic power.
There is a limit to the star magic power that Sylvania gathered in that split second.
Still, if you use it to defend against Lucy’s ice spear… Fatal injuries can be avoided.
Although it is not possible to manifest high-level magic, it is possible to exert a certain amount of physical power simply by discharging the accumulated star magic.
– Quaaaaaaaaaa!
This entire flow of thought is completed in less than a second…
Lucy’s ice spear hit the square, causing a huge cloud of dust to rise.
*“Ugh, wow… ”
A last-ditch attack that Lucy, who was cornered, used all the means she had.
The last blow he attempted was to burn one of his arms… Unfortunately, I missed it.
“Huh… Huh… ”
Sylvania was frowning and out of breath.
The ice spear that landed in front of his nose had its trajectory forcibly distorted by the influence of the magic power of the constellation, and fell into the bare ground.
However, even if the orbits had been slightly less divergent, the ice spear would have split his head open.
Lucy’s strategy didn’t work in the end.
One last variable that Lucy failed to take into account. It was ‘luck’.
In order to widen the attack range as much as possible, all of the magical energy was used to create three ice spears, but in the end, the space twisted by the star magic succeeded in bending the ice spear’s trajectory.
Lucy was spread out on the floor, covered in blood.
Sylvania frowned and looked at Lucy.
In terms of absolute amount of magical power, operational ability, and size of power itself, Sylvania may surpass Lucy.
However, even in the most extreme situations, the quickness and improvisation that configures the environment just to achieve victory. A fighting style that seeks to win by forcing even a 0.1% chance.
That’s not something you can learn from a wizard.
Sylvania shook her head and pointed her magic wand at Lucy, who was lying down.
This is someone who should never be left alive. The moment that thought filled his head, Lucy’s blood-red eyes flashed white.
Lucy suddenly opened her eyes and glared at Sylvania. Gritting her teeth, she tries to bring out her magic again. Now, only magical power flowed out that was so weak that it was embarrassing to even call it magical power, but Lucy used that magical power as support to raise herself up again.
Lucy, with her tattered school uniform hanging down, barely raised her head and glared at Sylvania. The fighting spirit is still evident in the sound of breathing.
Lucy thinks.
Even if death approaches, I have no intention of running away.
Even as the fear of death crawled through his body, the man always stood upright.
The same goes for you.
Since he has received a life, he gives his life for that man. In some ways, this can be seen as a natural thing, isn’t it?
Even for 10 seconds. No, not even for one more second… If Sylvania’s feet could be tied, if only that would make the man’s chances of survival even 0.1% more certain.
Life is thrown away as a stake without any hesitation.
That decision has never changed.
Even as she watched Sylvania unleash her magic, Lucy stood upright without wavering.
I wonder if there is any way to resist further… I guess that’s probably it.
The brightening light of magical power makes my vision become distant. Lucy gently closed her eyes.
I can feel the warm light of a bonfire.
I now understand the sight of Glokt peeking out from under the cotton blanket.
At the end of life, at the end of a life that I thought was just a meaningless life…
Still, it was good to be alive. If I could monologue… How meaningful it is in itself.
I felt like I finally understood what those words meant.
I met a man, and I died for him.
If you could recall that it was a meaningful life, how valuable was it?
That’s why a gentle smile could come out of Lucy’s mouth.
Just like that, my vision became distant.
*- Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
However, the scene you face when you open your eyes is not the afterlife.
This is a reality where people still bleed and somehow grit their teeth to survive.
“Listen carefully, Lucy.”
When he realized that he was being held in the arms of a man covered in blood just like him, amidst the remains of the broken spire… . She was already losing her mind.
However, Lucy knows well the scent of the man holding her.
Amid the bloody smell, the smell of grass that had so reassured Lucy rises.
“No matter what happens, never, ever accept death… .”
The magic that Sylvania used was temporarily neutralized by Yenica Palover’s spirit magic. It was a magic she used urgently, but just receiving it made Jenica grit her teeth.
When Lucy opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was Ed running towards her, rolling on the floor and grabbing her, followed by the group blocking Sylvania.
They were Ed’s companions who had escaped from the royal residence.
“You held up really well, Lucy… really… It held up well… thanks… but… ”
Ed, who was embracing Lucy, who was covered in blood, was also already covered in blood.
It was difficult to see both of them as alive, but… Somehow I gritted my teeth and survived.
“Resist death at all costs… . Death… Never accept it… ”
Lucy opened her eyes and looked up at Ed.
Ed endured the excruciating pain throughout his body and lifted himself up while hugging Lucy.
“We flee to Ofilis Pavilion. Reinforcements… We’ll gather there… ”
Saying that, Ed gritted his teeth while pulling Lucy, who was hanging limply from lack of strength in her entire body.
Lucy looked up at Ed and instantly burst into tears.
Was it because he was relieved to see that Ed was alive?
Or was he somehow relieved that he was alive?
Probably because it’s both… Lucy shed tears even as she held on to her fading spirit.
Although her face was covered in blood and tears, she looked terrible, but Ed still wiped away Lucy’s tears.
What a touching moment 😭