Dark Magus Returns-Chapter 1755: A Mass Amount Of Magic
Liam had been meticulously watching the strange, impossible way Idore was able to redirect their combined attacks. He hadn’t just been blindly throwing his energy at the Grand Magus; he had been observing it all with cold, calculating precision, analyzing the spatial anomalies utilizing the advanced interface of his System.
Because his eyes could process information far beyond normal human limitations, he noticed a hidden, complex pattern in the chaos.
He saw exactly where attacks would be redirected to when they struck the invisible barrier from a certain point. He tracked the entry and exit vectors. But more importantly, he noticed something else when the others were frantically attacking from all sides: he saw what would happen if the spatial exits were forced to perfectly overlap with each other.
The redirecting spell would still activate, desperately trying to transpose the energy. But for a microscopic, split second, if there was some type of attack that landed in the exact same spatial coordinate from two opposite directions, the dimensional fabric would stutter. In that tiny window of lag, raw particles of magic or Qi would be able to slip completely through the barrier.
This was the precise moment when Liam had gotten his bold idea, but it needed a staggering amount of variables to work flawlessly, and a lot of things to get absolutely right. For instance, Liam had to perfectly time the assault so both of them attacked the barrier at the exact same millisecond.
That was why he told Forma to count to ten, establishing a rigid metronome so he could seamlessly time both of their attacks across the chaotic battlefield. Thankfully, they had someone on their side like Forma, a legendary sniper who could also create several thousand small, dense instances of power to blanket the entire front surface area of the mysterious orb that surrounded Idore.
Then there was the final, most impossible hurdle. Seeing the trajectory of Forma’s raining arrows, Liam had to mathematically guess and attack the exact same exit spots where her attack would be redirected to in the rear. By doing this, it forced the transposed arrows and his energy lasers to violently hit each other inside the spatial loop. It effectively jammed the invisible doorways, forcing every other attack that was subsequently thrown by the Crimson Crane to punch through the newly created, gaping holes in the defense.
To be able to perfectly predict, to visually track, and to know exactly where every single one of those ten thousand arrows would be spatially redirected... it was a calculation entirely impossible for a normal human mind to process in real-time.
Idore intimately knew the theoretical weaknesses hidden within this strange, spatial barrier of his. What the arrogant Grand Magus didn’t know, however, was that there was a person on this battlefield uniquely capable of calculating all ten thousand of those spatial instances at the exact same time.
The dust from the explosion lingered in the air, a suffocating cloud of ash and heat.
"I knew you Pagna warriors were extremely dangerous," a calm, chilling voice said, carried effortlessly by the wind.
Suddenly, large, gale-force amounts of wind violently blew outward from the epicenter of the blast, instantly clearing all of the dark, choking smoke created from the detonated flames. As the air cleared, Idore could be seen hovering exactly where he was before. However, he was now protected by a brilliant, glowing light barrier—a smaller, incredibly dense orb of pure white energy.
The Pagna warriors had seen something exactly like this specific aura before. It was high-tier Light magic, fundamentally similar to the holy energy that Safa could use, where everything within the designated area would be purged of harm and perfectly healed. So, even though all of the others had brilliantly struck him, and his own hyper-condensed fire magic had detonated right next to his physical body, the Grand Magus was completely unharmed. Not a single hair on his head was out of place.
"I didn’t think taking down a god was going to be that easy anyway. But his spatial shield is gone! Now we actually have a chance to hit him!" Rayna shouted, her eyes blazing with determination as she charged forward.
With her special-tier enchanted boots, she felt a surge of incredible speed. She was confident that even if Idore tried to quickly cast a spell to push her away, her momentum and agility would allow her to close the gap and land a lethal strike with her spear.
"This whole situation is becoming rather infuriating!" Idore claimed, his calm facade finally cracking slightly as he lifted his hand up toward the charging warrior.
Rayna leaped high into the midair, her spear pointed directly toward Idore’s heart. Because she was airborne, she couldn’t freely change her trajectory. That’s when she suddenly felt an intense, blistering heat radiating not from the Magus, but from the ground directly beneath her. She didn’t want to take her eyes away from Idore for even a second, terrified that if she blinked, he would throw a lethal spell directly at her face.
But the heat grew unbearable.
Then, she suddenly felt something thick and fibrous tightly wrap around her stomach. Before she could even register what it was, she was violently yanked backward through the air. As she was pulled away from her attack path, she looked down and saw a giant, roaring vortex of flames erupting from the exact spot she had just been occupying. If she hadn’t been pulled, the pillar of fire would have wrapped around her and instantly consumed her entire body, turning her to ash.
She eventually landed heavily on one of the sturdy earth pillars that B had created. Standing right beside her was Lince, who was calmly retracting the long, durable cloth wrappings around his arms that he had used to pull her out of the inferno.
"We can’t have Raze’s wife go down so easily," Lince commented, keeping his eyes locked on the hovering Magus. "Otherwise, who knows? Raze might even make us his next enemy if that happens under our watch."
Rayna gritted her teeth and desperately wanted to reply back at the teasing comment, wanting to remind him that she was only married to Raze in name only for political convenience. But the words died in her throat as she looked back up at the sky.
She could see that the relentless ranged attacks from both Lince and Forma had abruptly stopped. In fact, the desperate barrage from everyone else had ceased entirely. Because, once again, their attacks couldn’t even come close to touching Idore.
Surrounding the Grand Magus now—acting as if they were , towering pillars themselves—were five gigantic, raging vortexes of pure magic erupting from the ground to the sky. And they were all terrifyingly different elements.
One was a howling wind violently mixed with jagged ice, flash-freezing everything in its immediate path. Another was a roaring pillar of crimson flames. Next to it was a vortex of heavy, jagged rocks and earth that were spinning at extremely high, lethal speeds. There was a surging, high-pressure geyser of water, and finally, one that looked as if it was made of pure, blinding, chaotic lightning.
When the Pagna warriors tried to attack through them, the vortexes autonomously reacted. The condensed magic aggressively lashed out and latched onto whatever projectile or person came close, acting as if they were living, breathing guardians protecting their master.
"I was partly saving my vast reserves of strength just in case he managed to somehow get out of my spatial labyrinth," Idore said, his voice echoing with absolute authority. "But you all have proven to be an incredibly large annoyance that I simply do not have the patience for anymore."
With a flick of his wrist, he commanded the towering tunnel of flames to move directly toward the earth pillar where Rayna and Lince were standing. The heat was apocalyptic, melting the stone beneath their feet before it even arrived.
But before the fire vortex even reached them, a new, terrifyingly dense attack came falling out from the air above.
It was pitch black in color, absorbing all the light around it. When the wave of dark energy slammed into the roaring flames, the sheer density of the attack caused the towering fire vortex to instantly disperse, violently breaking it down into nothing but harmless, glowing particles of ambient mana.
"I’m very happy to see that you all... are still alive."
Instantly, Rayna’s heart leaped in her chest. She knew exactly whose voice that was.
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