Chapter 133.
Milpia was exhausted; she gasped for breath as she followed the two people who had already disappeared. The two monstrous people flew so fast that they seemed to reach the speed of sound. While they flew away, they used mana detection interference magic and concealment magic to avoid being seen by the imperial troops stationed in the capital.
After the two people left her in the dust, Milpia was only able to chase after them because of the unique markings of the Big Mama Information Agency occasionally put on the ground by Big Mama, who was also Talaria Blade.
"Whew-." Milpia sighed once again, organizing her complicated thoughts.
She had encountered Den several times when she hung out with Yuria and Alice, but she never imagined he was Talaria"s nephew. At the same time, however, it was clear why Talaria stopped the investigation into Den during the attempted poisoning of a civil servant case. If they had tried to investigate Den hastily, they would definitely have unexpectedly suffered unimaginable damage.
As Milpia almost reached where Den and Talaria were, she tried to speed up despite the fatigue, but she heard Talaria"s voice through magic.
-Stop there. No, retreat further.
Milpia stopped and retreated on Talaria"s orders. She couldn"t understand why Talaria ordered her to retreat when she was 10 kilometers away from where they were, but she followed the order due to habit.
And a few minutes later, Milpia could see why Talaria asked her to back away. Milpia witnessed a scene that seemed to have been literally carried here from a mythological era.
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"If we really must, then let"s do it!"
At the same time as when Den shouted, the two flew into the sky.
"Wind! Wind! Wind! Blow her away, wind flurry!”
The mana stones circling the magic wand that Den held started to rotate fiercely and amplified Den’s mana. Then with Den as the center, wind began to form around him violently.
In the midst of the wind that was threatening to blow her away, Talaria dispersed the wind with magic. The wind made it difficult to keep steady. The reason for creating this gust of wind was to keep Talaria from approaching easily.
Talaria smiled and injected a huge amount of mana into both of her swords. When she swung the G.o.d swords, Den’s mana that was dominating the surrounding was sliced apart, and the gusts of wind ceased to exist. The surrounding area was filled with trees that had been uprooted by the gusts that Den created.
As Talaria flew quickly towards Den, Den shot a myriad of magic bullets. Talaria cut through the magic bullets as she approached and launched a knee kick at Den"s abdomen. When Talaria"s knee made contact with Den, he dispersed into the air. Realizing that it was an illusion, Talaria looked around.
"Where are you looking, Aunt? That"s just my illusion." Dozens of Dens appeared everywhere around Talaria and aimed their magic wands at her.
Fl.u.s.tered, Talaria opened her senses to locate the real Den, but she could feel a presence from all of the illusions of Den.
"I am the real one. Who are you looking at?”
"No, I"m the real one."
"It"s all a lie. I am the real one."
"No way. I am the real one."
All of Den"s illusions laughed, each saying that they were the real ones.
Talaria cooled down her heart and lifted her sword.
"I understand you"re trying to make me fl.u.s.tered, but-" Talaria smiled and unleashed a fierce martial aura.
"It’s over if I just consider all of them to be real and fight, my nephew." Talaria quickly rushed to one of the Dens and slashed at it ruthlessly.
"Ttang! That was a fake." The bisected Den smiled and disappeared.
"Aren’t you being too mean?" Den"s illusions spoke in unison and criticized Talaria.
"How could you slash at your lovely nephew without any hesitation?”
And at the same time, the surrounding illusions of Den fired magic. Hot flames, sharp winds, ice arrows, and lightning all flew in unison toward Talaria.
Talaria wrapped her swords in sword aura and wiped out the magic that flew at her. Then she threw sword aura at each of Den"s illusions, but Den"s illusions quickly evaded them. Still, many of the illusions disappeared due to her blows.
"Tsunami of the earth!" The earth trembled greatly at Den"s magic, and hundreds of meters of earth rose up and struck Talaria.
Talaria cut open a hole in the ma.s.sive wall of earth that was approaching from all sides and escaped. Yet, as if it had been waiting for her escape, hot flames poured down on her.
"Tch!" Talaria clicked her tongue and launched a wind with her left sword to disperse the flames that were pouring towards her.
At the same time, she fired sword auras with her right sword to reduce the number of Den"s illusions.
Before she knew it, there was one Den left. She looked at him and spoke. “Let"s stop the warm-up now.”
“That’s fine by me.”
Although the area had already been upturned due to their warm-up, they did not care, raising their martial aura.
"Iya, it"s nice not to have anything in the way." Den had never fought properly because he feared the capital would be destroyed and innocent people would be swept away by the magic.
Den smiled with a relieved look. “Shooting little bits of magic bullets really doesn’t fit my nature.”
Talaria nodded. "I agree. The bad thing about the capital is that there"s no room to swing the sword freely."
The two faced each other and clashed again.
"Minefield!" Den"s mana spread in all directions, and transparent magic mines formed everywhere.
Sensing the underlying mana in the surrounding, Talaria launched sword aura all around her to blow up the mines.
Kw.a.n.g! Kwa-gwa-gw.a.n.g-!
Hundreds of mines exploded at once, filling the area with smoke.
"The Girl of the Wind!"
You couldn"t even see what was before you within the smoke-filled area, but wind spikes flew out from it toward Talaria. Even in the s.p.a.ce with zero visibility, she sensed the mana and cut away all the wind spikes that flew at her.
Then she took a deep breath, poured mana into her sword, and swung it at the empty s.p.a.ce. The intense pressure from the sword blew the smoke away in an instant. Talaria used her senses again and found Den.
Den created the illusions again and attacked Talaria.
Kang!
She struck away Den with her right sword and, at the same time, used the left sword to slash towards Den. The cut Den scattered like smoke, causing Talaria to become fl.u.s.tered. She was sure it was real when she struck it with her sword, but he turned into an illusion when she hit him.
Just as she was trying to figure out the situation, Den"s illusions simultaneously attacked her from behind, below, and the right. Talaria wrapped her leg in aura, kicking the one attacking from the bottom. She then spun around and slashed at the ones attacking from behind her and the right.
"Aim complete." In the meantime, Den had been preparing a large-scale magic spell from afar. He immediately aimed at Talaria as soon as the magic was completed, and the mana stone that drifted around the magic wand spun so quickly that it created a circle with an afterimage.
"Thunder that Races Across the Sky! Fire!" With Den"s magic trigger, a roar came from the magic wand, and a house-sized beam of white light shot out.
Feeling a sense of danger, Talaria quickly dodged. The Thunder that Races Across the Sky, which just barely missed her by a short distance, destroyed the top of a vast mountain behind her. Talaria was shocked and had cold sweat at the sight.
Den took out an improved mana recovery potion from his pocket s.p.a.ce and threw away the empty bottle. Taking a deep breath and quickly recovering his mana, Den immediately prepared the next magic.
"The dusk that dominates the sky."
Talaria sensed that the mana that was gathering towards Den was much greater than the mana for the previous magic. She judged that when the magic was completed, the entire vicinity, let alone just a mountain, would be devastated, so she quickly approached Den before the magic could be finished.
"The land where the light disappears and the wicked gospel sinks."
However, Den"s illusions blocked Talaria’s approach. One of the illusions stabbed her towards her shoulder. At the same time, another illusion cut at her back.
"Defender of balance, a level Libra, unwavering vigilance."
As soon as she dealt with the one stabbing at her shoulder, another illusion stabbed towards her open ribs. And when she dealt with the illusion cutting at her back, another illusion tried to cut her right leg. She approached Den as she got rid of the never-ending illusions, but Den"s magic had already been completed.
"White feathers placed on the dark axis."
Den spoke the last incantation with a mischievous smile. "World Reversal!"
From Den"s magic wand, a white mana bead as big as a child"s fist fell to the ground. When she saw this, Talaria desperately flew upwards to the sky with all her might. Before she knew it, the illusions blocking her movements had disappeared. Talaria climbed higher than she had ever before but continued to soar higher.
As soon as the white mana bead that Den dropped touched the ground, the whole area was overturned into darkness. Talaria got gooseb.u.mps as she saw the scene from high up in the sky. Instinctively, she could feel that if she had been touched by that darkness, not even a corpse would be left.
"Wow, it"s my first time using this magic, but it seems I"ll have to put a seal on it."
Before she knew it, Den had arrived next to Talaria with a smile. Looking at the smile, Talaria could feel her body s.h.i.+vering.
"The old lady Mirpa taught you this magic?" Talaria looked at Den like she couldn’t believe it.
Den casually shrugged. "Ayy, no way. I taught it to myself.”
"Crazy punk." Talaria shuddered from the bottom of her heart.
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The large hemisphere made of darkness gradually diminished and disappeared quickly. In the place where the darkness was, a huge crater was created as if nothing had ever been there, with only soil left around the mountain area.
It seemed there wouldn’t be any need to go through the effort of cultivating this land. I bet the farmers will love it. But anyway, the magic I created was dozens of times more powerful than what I imagined it to be.
In my mind, it was a magic about 100 meters in diameter sent to the world of reversal, but the result was a radius of one kilometer that was sent to the world of reversal. It was good that I used simple and easy to control magic like magic bullets when I was in the capital.
When I was in my hometown, I couldn’t produce the power I wanted unless I used large-scale magic. Therefore, I only trained large-scale magic for combat magic. However, because of that, I couldn’t use any proper attack magic outside of my hometown.
To steadily train me to reduce my power output, I had to practice far away from the capital like this. The tail will get stepped on if it is too long. If I keep creating craters like this, I might get caught.
In addition, if I freely used magic however I wanted, there might not be a capital by now. Come to think of it; it took more mana to put Arelia to sleep and maintain it at the ball than to make that hemisphere.
What on earth were anti-magicians made of?
There was a chance that Arelia might have easily survived in that hemisphere. No, she would surely survive.
I looked at my aunt and asked, "So are you going to keep fighting?”
When I pointed my magic wand at her, my aunt replied with a fed-up expression.