Magic, what is it.
[Reverse the magic circle. 】
If we want to analyze its essence, even the wise man Henry Meyer in this world would have difficulty in doing so.
[Reconstruction of the body. 】
And if we just analyze its composition principles and spell-casting steps, even if it is based on the premise that both parties have basic knowledge about magic, the discussion will take a long time.
[Analyze, characterize, enable. 】
So the answer to this question, broadly speaking, is "No one knows what it is."
Because even the elves with the highest magical attainments among the five tribes actually only have the most outstanding talents at the "application" level of magic.
[In terms of magic power, there is as much magic power as you need around here. 】
Just as people drink water, use hydraulic transportation, water crops and feed livestock, life can survive and civilization can prosper. Life and civilization itself are extremely dependent on this. Strong countries are often accompanied by fertile rivers, but people do not know how water is formed and where it comes from.
The White Holy Book says, "You don't need to know where this water and food come from, you just need to be grateful and understand that this is a gift from the great and the highest."
Like many other large-scale religions, its relationship with intellectually curious magicians is complex. Sometimes cooperative, sometimes hostile.
[Even if it’s only for a short time, I want to gain enough strength to fight on equal terms. 】
But even in the darkest era for magicians, that era when they were called heretics and blasphemers, they beheaded and confiscated their homes and had to cut off their bloodline as soon as they were discovered.
[No, this is my fight. 】
People explore.
【My alone battle】
Never stopped either.
So what is magic?
The answer may not be about its nature.
Rather it is something that is given to it.
"Things that don't work miracles."
"What's magic called?"
"Wha--" The short spear javelin, which was exactly the same as the White Witch, was suspended in mid-air.
This is extravagant extravagance, which is completely different from the careful calculation of their own magic power by humans and elven magicians. Only beings with magic power that is full to the overflow level can cast it. There is no need for any spells or elemental conversion, it is purely condensed into substance from extremely corrosive magic particles.
An attack using magic power itself.
The witch who had lost the last of her humanity had no hesitation. She was like a wild beast defending her own territory. Her red eyes were cold and hostile, and she launched an attack straight away.
"Bang - hoo -!!" The javelin flew out at high speed.
There was a sonic boom.
In less than a second, it crossed the distance of several hundred meters and arrived in front of everyone.
There is no way to avoid it.
They didn't even have time to react.
What are the factors that measure the attack power of strike weapons?
If there is still room at this moment, our little Mila will probably tell you seriously that it is weight and speed.
Weight needs no explanation; even a complete layman will understand that heavier weapons are more lethal.
However, weapons used to deal with humans, especially sharp weapons such as swords, are usually very light. This is determined by the latter factor.
Twice the mass only gives twice the kinetic energy, but twice the speed gives four times the kinetic energy. Although most people in this era are not aware of this, sharp weapons that are lighter and can be wielded faster are often more lethal than heavier counterparts.
The same goes for shooting weapons. A winch-loaded heavy crossbow that can penetrate plate armor uses a 20-gram crossbow bolt fired at a speed of 300 steps per second.
And based on this standard, the javelin, which is much larger than the crossbow bolt and is condensed with magic power, flies at more than three times the speed of a heavy crossbow.
Its destructive power is probably enough to penetrate any existing armor in the world.
Even the city walls.
A weapon that surpasses the speed of sound and can penetrate everything.
This was a battle beyond their imagination.
But Horno.
Palms raised.
What is magic?
The answer is not found in ancient scrolls that are dusty, gnawed by bookworms, and mottled with traces of history and a musty smell.
Nor does the answer lie in the spitting boasts of the instructor of the Royal Society of Astrology and Alchemy of Padrosi.
The answer is.
An innocent child with sparkling eyes.
"Bang!!!!——"
The wind pressure hit, and the fallen leaves all over the sky danced wildly. Everyone closed their eyes and their hair and cloaks swayed wildly.
“Boom——!!!”
The eardrums were hit by the huge roar and lost their sensitivity, and people could no longer hear clearly what seemed like a continuous succession of the loudest war drums they had ever heard in their lives. But the vibrations coming from the air and their skeletons told the fact that the witch's attack was still unfinished.
An attack that not even a battering ram can match.
Like Thor's heavy hammer.
Unrivaled and terrifying.
But Horno.
Stopped it.
"Huh--" Miss Elf breathed out.
Then he raised his other hand.
"BOOM!!!!!!"
The wind was raging wildly, and a shock wave even more powerful than before came down again. Henry and Erica inserted their weapons and blocked Adolphus at the front, while everyone behind them was blown so hard that their faces felt like It hurts like a knife.
The world became quiet in a short period of time.
There was silence, as if there was nothing here.
In addition to the constant ringing in their ears and the swelling feeling in their heads, it was difficult for them to even stand firmly on level ground.
"...Okay, leave it to me next." Horno said without looking back, but people couldn't hear him completely because of the tinnitus.
"You go, leave the rest to me." Obviously noticing this, the blond elf repeated it again.
"You can open your eyes." Henry's voice was close at hand, and then he seemed to leave in front of her, because Mira immediately felt that the front of her eyes had become brighter, just like closing her eyes and being enveloped by the sun on a summer afternoon. Direct radiation is normal.
——No, but.
Shouldn't it be cloudy?
Cloudy day in the woods.
Is there anything so bright?
"..." Mira slowly opened her eyes. She still felt a roar in her eardrums. Although she did not suffer any substantial damage, her heart was beating wildly.
"Ah -" Like everyone else, the Luoan girl subconsciously turned her head because of the suddenly bright scene in front of her, not daring to look directly at the dazzling light.
And she soon noticed why.
The reason why the surroundings become brighter.
The tree is gone.
There are no more ghouls either.
Even the earth in front of him no longer exists.
Within a distance of 500 meters from where Horno was standing, the only person still standing was a witch dressed in black.
A big hole was opened in the black clouds in the sky. The blue sky and gray clouds formed a shocking contrast, and the permafrost on the ground was also blown away, revealing the soft black mud inside. earth.
"Although I don't want to admit it, it's time for us to leave." Adolphus, who was covered in cold sweat under his helmet, expressed everyone's thoughts. Even Henry and Erica were unable to intervene in a battle of this scale.
"The pinnacle of the ivory tower called magic——"
"A class that only exists in legends——" The magic instructor, whose face was pale due to the consumption of magic power and inner shock, murmured and stretched out his hand to the elf's back.
"Come on, Camilo—" Erica grabbed his collar and lifted him up.
"The Great Magician——"
"Tap tap tap——"
The sound of hurried footsteps sounded from behind. Horno did not look back, but she breathed a sigh of relief knowing that her teammates had evacuated.
"call--"
Horno closed his eyes, exhaled a breath, and then reopened his eyes that exuded dazzling golden light.
The witch slowly approached and stood about two hundred meters away from her.
This distance is a bit difficult for human eyes, but it is not difficult for an elf with excellent eyesight. She can clearly see every detail of the other party.
"You...have grown so big." There were only two of them in this empty space where Ghoul, Henry and others no longer existed.
The growth period of the long-lived elves is also quite long. Even though Horno is quite old according to the human concept of time, she still looks immature in appearance.
The witch is just the opposite.
"Even if the other half's blood comes from a short-lived human being, and it only takes a few months to become such a mature posture, it can only be said that it is."
"It goes against common sense." She tilted her head and looked at her daughter: "Yeah..."
The face is very similar to his own, but at least a head taller. Like him, he has dazzling black hair.
"I thought my mood would fluctuate violently at this moment."
"But I didn't expect that there was only peace."
"I think I have probably expected this ending."
"I have read similar examples in ancient scrolls. I have long understood that there is a reproductive barrier between elves and humans. It makes no sense that I would be the exception."
"But humans are such stupid creatures." Horno used Elvish here, not specifically referring to humans, but the broad concepts of "individual" and "total" of the five major races including himself.
"Even if I know that there will be a tragic ending later, I still want to immerse myself in the beauty of this moment. Even if I know that everything will definitely end, I still deceive myself and hope that these days will never end."
She closed her dazzling golden eyes again, her mouth was still saying irrelevant words, but her hair and even her whole body were floating. The magic power began to vibrate, and the intensity was so high that even the air reacted. The witch became alert, and many dark javelins appeared next to her again.
"melt."
"Pah!" However, this time he couldn't even ejaculate. Under Horno's faint words, they disappeared into the air like bursting bubbles.
"——!" The witch was obviously unprepared for this. She looked around with confusion, and then formed a new javelin again, but every time it formed, it dissipated in the air again.
"It's useless." The elf shook his head.
"You and I are not at the same level of understanding of magic power itself." She tilted her head, looked at her daughter with half-closed eyes that exuded a mesmerizing golden light, and said word by word:
"Letting you take the first step is my mother's atonement for your infertility."
"Next." She raised her hand, and the restless magic power began to emit fluctuations like a heartbeat.
"You are an unfilial daughter who raised spikes against your biological mother."
"Are you ready to be taught a lesson?"
"——" The witch obviously put on a vigilant posture, and she put up a shield. This thing, which was exactly the same as the javelin, was also made of wasteful pure magic power.
"..." Horno was silent.
The witch congealed the javelin again while raising her shield.
The extravagant and wasteful way of operating magic, the simple and crude way that makes magicians like Camilo gnash their teeth in anger. There is no need to calculate carefully, no need to think about how to release powerful magical effects with the smallest mobilization of magic power, just simply.
Smash the magic out.
Denying all their boasted glory, wisdom, and even the inheritance of knowledge.
Like a mountain giant with a club, he has no rules and only knows how to use brute force, but he can kill any knight with superb swordsmanship.
Simply because of the huge amount, it is unrivaled.
--So.
Even for a short time, if anyone.
If anyone has the same level of magic power——
Who can.
If you stand on a par with the witch——
"You must remember that the way of magic is the way of knowledge."
Horno raised his hand and easily used strong wind pressure to repel the rapidly attacking javelin.
"You must remember that the way of magic is the way of truth."
Even though the witch has huge magic power, she is always easily swatted away by Horno.
"You must remember that the way of magic is the way of life."
She approached step by step and quickly closed the distance.
"You must remember that the way of magic is the way of heaven and earth."
"I am not a follower of rules and regulations, but a person who knows the world."
"I am, Orno Nidora Vanessa Ratisuthhir (the one who watches the world quietly with wise eyes)"
"I am."
"The Master of the Elements."
"Grand Magister——" The moment she said her true name, glittering golden lines appeared all over her body.
All the magic in the air disappeared in an instant, and then ice cones appeared from all directions, spinning at high speed towards the witch.
"Bang!!!"
She arrogantly blocked the blow with black magic power. The conflict between the two huge magic powers caused the surrounding ground to be covered with a thin layer of frost - but this was not the end.
"Boom!!" Immediately after the ice cone struck, Horno's specialty, impact-type air magic, followed by strong vibrations, shattered the witch's magic shield and dissipated in the air, and the third one was already prepared. Horno, who was on foot, this time attacked the huge flames from high in the sky.
"Bang bang bang bang!!!" The charred soil flew in all directions, and the chaotic elements caused the air to become thin and blurry.
"Suppressed..." Mira, who was hiding in the distance, murmured.
"So that's it. The saturation attack and the continuous attacks of elements with different attributes make the magic protection unable to keep up with the speed of change, leading to chaos."
"collapse--"
"There's no time to explain over there. There are still ghouls who are not dead. That's our responsibility. We can't let them get close to her. She can't withstand any physical attack now." Henry said this, mentioning it first Kramer.
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"Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Besides this, do we have any other options?"
"Even you can't get close to her."
"There is only one other peak that can be beaten as the pinnacle of magic."
"I'm tired too, Mr. Sage."
"The escaping, scheming, and thinking along the way are actually just escaping."
"I'm tired of it all, and as one little girl said."
"My baby is crying."
"It's funny to say it, but after living for such a long time, it is only at this last moment that you humans learned that besides love, it is another equally important treasure."
"What even the person I love has never given me, comes from a little girl who is obviously only a fraction of my age."
“The courage to face the truth.”
"Although they are small, although they are weak, they are more precious than those who have no power and do nothing."
"She was the one who made my mind up."
"This magic circle is originally for human use. It extracts magic power from the earth in order to resurrect lost lives. The principles are the same. It only needs to modify some details, even though the magic power in this land is on the verge of exhaustion."
"But when it comes to magic, look around carefully."
"You can have as many as you want."
"Don't look at me like this."
"After all, he is also among the elves."
"A character that can be considered a genius——"
"Bang bang——"
The ice shattered, the flames disappeared, and the whirlwind gradually dissipated in the air. When the dust settled, Horno raised his hands condescendingly and looked at his daughter expressionlessly.
The witch knelt on one knee, and the black magic power beside her tore through the space like lightning and appeared restlessly, but it was obviously suppressed by something else.
She instinctively wanted to mobilize her magic power to resist, but found that her original easy-to-capture approach was now difficult to achieve.
"We're back here, although you probably don't remember."
"But this is where you are truly born."
"It's such a terrible instinct. When I got here, I realized that all the magic circles that were originally drawn were destroyed by you. Is it because I felt a potential threat?"
"But it doesn't matter."
"Did you know that as an individual with magical power, the magician himself is the moving material of the magic circle."
"The restless magic power that is filling this body now is more precious than the ones I worked so hard to collect back then."
"Don't underestimate the wisdom and accumulated knowledge passed down by people for thousands of years."
"You stupid daughter."
Horno raised his hand and cut his wrist open with the wind condensed on his fingertips.
As if they felt something, everyone who killed the last ghoul turned around.
