“Rudy, I think it’s around here.”
Priscilla sniffed the floor and lifted her head.
“Oh, I feel it too.”
You can feel a strong flow of mana around you.
It wasn’t just one or two magic that was taking place.
“Have you given up on running away?”
Then Astina, who had been scouting from the sky, came down.
“There was no presence on the side of the carriage, and there was no other movement around.”
“You did a really good job.”
We looked forward.
I could feel the strong mana there.
Even if you didn’t feel the flow, anyone could feel it.
Priscilla looked at me and opened her mouth.
“Rudy, are you going in?”
“… … I should go in.”
Once I contacted the academy.
I don’t know how long it will take, but Gracie or Maguire will be here.
But I couldn’t wait for them.
I had to catch Jeffrey quickly.
If you stay in a place like this and hold on, someone may come to help.
In fact, you have settled in front of the opponent’s main base, so you cannot get out on your own without help.
either one
Either they risk death and make their last move, or they’re waiting for someone’s help.
I assumed the worst case.
Waiting in front of Gracie or Maguire until they arrive, and with the help of the rebels, they all miss it.
I didn’t want to miss the opportunity that was created.
“Astina-senpai.”
I looked at Astina.
“Branch. There is no time to wait.”
Astina seemed to have the same thoughts as me, so she moved without saying anything else.
“Oh, wait a minute.”
I stopped Astina like that.
Then he held out his hand.
Astina looked at my hand and tilted her head.
“what?”
“Catch it.”
“… … What?”
Astina’s expression, who had maintained her blunt attitude from before, changed.
“Let’s go holding hands.”
“Cow, why are you holding my hand?”
“If we enter psychedelic magic, there is a possibility that we will confuse each other as enemies. It won’t happen if we hold hands.”
Astina said ‘Hmmm’, cleared her throat and grabbed my hand tightly.
I felt the warmth of my hand.
Astina looked at her hand and smiled.
“Your hands are bigger than you think.”
“is that so?”
Seeing Astina like that, I smiled and headed forward.
“Come in.”
“okay.”
Together we marched towards hallucinogenic magic, followed by Priscilla.
As I stepped out toward the magic unfolding, my surroundings began to change.
The trees with green leaves gradually withered, and the leaves disappeared.
The surroundings were darker than usual, and a gloomy energy wafted through his body.
I was wearing plain clothes and a hood that could cover my face, and I felt cold.
“Is it hallucinatory magic?”
Astina also felt the cold and trembled slightly.
Seeing Astina like that, I held her hand stronger.
The body was cold, but the hands were warm by sharing each other’s temperature.
“Priscilla, how are you?”
“I’m a spirit, so I don’t know anything about cold anyway.”
It was difficult to determine whether it was hallucinatory magic or the real cold.
“I think I will have to be patient for a while. It’s better to save mana… … .”
When it comes to hallucinatory magic, the use of magic does not warm the body.
It’s controlling the senses, so it warms up a bit, but it doesn’t have much of an effect.
It was better to save mana and defeat the opponent quickly.
“okay. Hurry up and leave.”
We walked forward, relying on the warmth of our hands.
“ah?”
Then, in front of me, a staircase that looked like an altar appeared.
A woman was sitting on the stairs.
A woman sitting with her legs crossed wearing a witch’s cape.
She was a woman of mature beauty.
It looked different from the one I had seen before, but I could tell that the woman was Jeffrey.
“Welcome. Did you have any difficulties getting here?”
Jeffrey waved at us and gave us a bewitching smile.
“Is it difficult to come when there is nothing around?”
“okay? Wasn’t it cold? It must have been pretty cold?”
Jeffrey stood up.
“This space was created with the help of the spirit wizards. Isn’t it just plain cold? There are several abilities added to it.”
I narrowed my brow.
It is impossible to determine whether this cold is because the temperature is really low, or whether it is a sensation created by hallucinations.
Even if I figured it out, it didn’t change much.
Because the human senses are not controlled by the person themselves, but are automatically and relatively judged.
It was easy to tell by looking at Astina, who was feeling colder than me.
It was cold enough to endure to some extent, but it seemed to be a strong cold for Astina, who doesn’t usually feel cold.
“Astina-senpai, it’s over quickly.”
“okay.”
Astina raised her hand.
“Gravity.”
Then the surrounding trees were uprooted and stones popped out and floated into the air.
Stones and trees flew towards Jeffrin.
“I haven’t finished talking yet. Aren’t they disrespectful?”
Jeffrey did not lose his smile as trees and stones flew at him.
He could only avoid the flying tree by twisting his body slightly.
However, it was not completely avoided.
A branch scraped through Jeffrin’s cheek.
“ah?”
At the same time, I felt a tingling sensation in my cheeks.
I felt strange and put my hand to my cheek.
“… … blood?”
I looked at the blood-stained hands and saw Astina.
Astina also had blood running down her cheek.
“Astina-senpai! Stop!”
“Well?”
Astina stopped the magic at my words.
All sorts of things that flew to Jeffrin fell to the ground.
However, Astina’s attacks had already occurred several times.
“Ugh… … .”
Astina and I were wounded and bleeding.
Those wounds were in the same place as those on Jeffrin’s body.
Jeffrey opened his mouth, wiping the blood from his cheek.
“Yeah, you should hear the whole story.”
“Does it hurt the same?”
The location of the wounds that Jeffrin suffered and the wounds we received are the same.
This fact alone was enough to understand the situation.
Our attacks hurt us too.
It was like the magic that Jeffrey had made.
“If you want to kill me, you must die too.”
Jeffrin said in a relaxed manner.
“Or, freeze to death.”
As Jeffrey said that, the cold grew stronger.
As the cold grew stronger, my body trembled.
“Ugh… … .”
“senior!”
As the cold grew stronger, Astina frowned.
Then Priscilla came to Astina’s side.
Astina was wrapped in Priscilla’s warm fur.
“Creung… … .”
Looking at Priscilla’s appearance, she was wounded in the same place as us.
Even if it was a spirit, it could be hurt because it was materialized now.
I looked at Astina.
Although he was shivering in the cold, he hadn’t used a lot of mana yet, so his condition didn’t look bad.
enough to fight.
I thought slowly.
There is a clear contradiction in Jeffrin’s words.
Inflicting both cold and scars on us, forcing us to choose two options.
Either endure the cold, or kill yourself and die together.
If I had been here alone, I don’t know what choice I would have made.
The only way to save power and win was to attack Zeppelin.
If you think that all of these are hallucinations, you can break the hallucinations by attacking the other person.
It’s just a fear-inducing action, and he might be preparing for a different move.
Once you know the situation, it is best to attack the opponent.
However, this seemed like a trap.
What if these wounds and the cold are real?
What if he was deliberately inducing Jeffrin to attack him?
I thought a lot, but I couldn’t come up with an exact answer.
“… … It just happened.”
There was no reason to worry about this.
Astina is still shivering from the cold, and by the time this situation is over, the professors from the academy will come.
“Senior, shall we just go the ignorant way?”
“What?”
“That altar… … No, everything around here.”
I smiled.
“Can you break it?”
You can definitely feel the flow of mana here.
taken from noblemtl.com
Mana flowing from this whole land.
The whole land was moving like a magic tool.
You might think that there is hallucinatory magic going on here, but I went further.
Feeling the flow of mana is not just feeling that mana.
You have to think about the situation and the other person.
The opponent is a psychedelic wizard.
A psychedelic wizard we’ve already dealt with once.
The psychedelic wizard’s power is reduced several times after being dealt with once.
So there’s a possibility that Jeffrin was twisted.
The mana spread around is not due to hallucinatory magic, but is really using the entire land as a magic tool.
I assumed so.
But, even if it wasn’t, it didn’t matter.
If you are practicing hallucination magic, there must be a magic tool that will be the center of hallucination magic inside.
If you destroy the entire area around you, you can destroy that magic tool as well.
Astina thought for a moment, then nodded.
“Don’t do what you say.”
Astina moved her mana.
“Whew… … .”
Kugugugung-
Astina raised her hand and the surroundings reverberated.
the axis moves
The surrounding ground begins to crack, and the impact is also applied to the altar.
It didn’t matter what the other person did.
Actually, what I was worried about was thinking about what to do after doing something, and it is not difficult to break the current situation.
Astina is enough to overwhelm all other forces with overwhelming power.
“… … .”
Jeffrin opened his eyes wide and looked at the crumbling altar and the cracking ground.
I smiled at Jeffrey like that.
“Hey, did you tell us to choose?”
I shrugged.
“Now what? you choose will you stop us? Or will you just watch?”