Chapter 103 : Magical Girl HAZARD

“…”

“…”

We faced each other in the red sky.

I wordlessly drew out a silver sword, and she silently drew out a reddish-brown great sword.

All words had been exchanged that day with our contract.

Now all that remained was to prove.

I will definitely win.

[Deception] Magical Girl’s Unique Skill

Cause and Effect Reversal

The first swing of the sword is light, then gradually becomes dazzling.

The path of the sword gradually escalates like a conductor orchestrating destruction.

What the sword tip draws is a thread of destruction.

Swish swish swish―

Silver threads

The sword strikes I shot towards Animus remained as thin silver threads embroidering the air with an eerie sound.

Traces that should have disappeared as momentary flashes remained in the real world, ignoring the laws and leaving sharp scars.

Swish swish swish―

From silver threads

To silver lines

From silver lines

To silver waves

The silver waves, which had grown to hundreds of meters to swallow the strongest enemy standing before me, advanced with an increasingly high and sharp sound, threatening to engulf all the space in front.

Tsutsutsutsu!

The hundreds of meters of space between Animus and me was filled with waves of silver blades that crushed everything.

Tsutsutsutsu!

The huge silver waves that should have lost their way, unable to handle their own power, and spread towards empty space, rushed towards a single place.

Silver waves filling hundreds of meters ahead.

Endless waves of destruction.

In front of the waves of destruction like a sea of mercury poured into a huge flask, Animus merely held her great sword with an expressionless face.

‘…She’s not even trying to avoid it.’

From the beginning, I poured out starlight from the Glass Star close to infinity, with enough force to completely grind Animus.

The magical girl of [War] I knew would not be frozen with mere fear or confusion.

To confirm a fragment of the power she would show with 4 stars floating behind her back, I continued to pour out starlight and develop attacks, forming huge waves of destruction.

Until sword energy was swept away by another sword energy.

Until the huge stems that could split a radius of tens of meters with a single stroke were intertwined countless times to look like a giant silver rope.

Tsutsutsutsu!!

A shape like thousands of huge silver snakes intertwined and rushing with open mouths.

Animus looked at it expressionlessly, then casually swung her huge reddish-brown great sword horizontally.

Swoosh―

Though the start clearly seemed slow as if stopped, the end of the full swing was so fast it didn’t even leave an afterimage.

―!

The sword tip that was swung so fast that even sound couldn’t keep up glowed reddish-brown, and the reddish-brown glow soon burned white with a flash.

Flash

The silver waves rushed into the flash filling the view.

Two enormous powers facing each other.

Boooooom!!!

An ear-splitting explosion.

Reddish-brown flash.

The silver waves containing destructive power disappeared one by one as they met the reddish-brown flash.

Shak

Shak

Shak

In the explosion filled with flashes, thousands of huge silver sword energies unraveled and decomposed like rotten ropes in the reddish-brown flash. The silver sword energies nearly hundreds of meters long decomposed in an instant, leaving only the wind from the explosion.

By the time that wind brushed past my cheek, the scales of greed were already complete.

Click

The scales of greed tilted and began to absorb the surrounding starlight full of reddish-brown flashes with a high sound.

Restored vision

[Deception] Magical Girl’s Unique Skill

Dream World

Cognition Acceleration

I used cognition acceleration to momentarily increase Animus’s cognition speed. But even in the extremely extended cognition, Animus was moving her eyes to match my movements.

Her fate of being able to demonstrate all abilities at their best on the battlefield.

“It’s… useless.”

Animus spoke a bit slowly, as if the cognition acceleration wasn’t completely blocked.

“No! I can feel your mental image!”

“Then… you should know.”

As she said, Animus wasn’t flustered at all.

I broke out in cold sweat watching such an Animus.

‘Damn! Is the cause and effect reversal getting blocked more and more…?! Is this the power of 4-star?’

To somehow increase the chances of victory rapidly disappearing in the cause and effect reversal I had set up earlier.

I tried every method I could use.

If even a tiny possibility arises, the cause and effect reversal will return.

Dream World

Cognition Acceleration

Cause and Effect Reversal

Perception Change

Illusions arose to interfere with Animus’s vision. Hallucinations arose to invade Animus’s cognition.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

From scythe to sword and back to scythe.

The desolate silver crescent drawn by the scythe larger than a person was instantly sucked into the flames of the reddish-brown great sword, and the waves of destruction drawn by the silver sword disappeared futilely into the cracks of tearing space.

Endless combo attacks, endless collisions.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

As soon as the attack started, we extended our attacks towards where each other’s attacks would reach.

The endless barrage like something out of a Hollywood movie was made possible by our monstrous reaction speeds that recognized each other’s attacks as soon as they started.

But the balance gradually crumbled.

After the two weapons clashed, there was a huge rupturing sound and my unique weapon was shattered.

‘Animus’s great sword is intact!’

I couldn’t block the huge great sword rushing in with my broken weapon.

Clang!

As my unique weapon endlessly shattered and split, I discarded it without hesitation and drew out another from the starlight.

And the combo attacks continued again.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Animus crushed each of my attacks with precise sword strikes.

We barely maintained balance by repeating destruction and regeneration.

I had starlight close to infinity, and she had the fourth star filled with unknown power.

In our collision that seemed like it would continue endlessly, a moment’s gap occurred.

Animus didn’t miss it and created distance before swinging her great sword widely.

A huge reddish-brown wave like an army of hundreds.

A destructive sword strike shown by a true war lord.

Baaaaaaang!

Tak-tak-tak-tak!!

The moment she raised her hand holding the great sword, I instinctively brought out an illusion curtain for defense.

A reddish-brown wave rushed towards me.

The curtain shook greatly at the enormous wave and the shock it couldn’t absorb hit me.

Boom-bang!!!

In the huge impact of the reddish-brown wave eroding the curtain, I endured while clenching my teeth like they would break. My right hand extending the curtain trembled from the shock and gradually lost sensation.

“Ugh…!”

I barely blocked the reddish-brown flames coming from the great sword Animus was swinging through the curtain, but I felt like I would collapse from the impact that seemed to turn my insides upside down.

“Kugh?!”

“It’s over.”

Animus trying to strike my neck that had faltered for a moment.

As soon as I confirmed that, I snapped my left fingers to bring out doppelgangers.

Woong!

Clang!

The two clones that appeared to save the original body in crisis were futilely sliced along with the scythes they had drawn. But in that gap, I created distance again and deployed the Dream World.

As I endlessly deployed huge prisms and illusions interfering with Animus’s vision, my possibilities revived again in the cause and effect reversal that had been pushed to the limit.

<Animus will allow an attack in the confusion.>

Clang!!

Animus blocked the silver scythe I had swung with all my might with her great sword in a movement close to acrobatics.

“If you can’t avoid an attack, you can block it.”

“Damn it! Who doesn’t know that?”

Having created distance again, I kept Animus in check by firing thousands of rainbow-colored arrows with a silver bow, and she nonchalantly blocked them by spinning her reddish-brown great sword like a windmill.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Every time an arrow was deflected, buildings exploded and shockwaves occurred.

Boooom!

Rumble!

A radius of several kilometers where Animus and I were fighting had completely turned into ruins.

Acrid smoke

Burning reddish-brown flames

Red sky

And the screams of hundreds of demons bursting from the aftermath of the battle.

“■■■■■!!!”

We fought fiercely in the midst of it all.

The explosions created by the chaotic mixing of my silver and her reddish-brown grew larger and larger, becoming a sparkling mass filling a radius of hundreds of meters.

For hundreds of meters in all directions, everything was covered in flashes, showing only afterimages like rough pencil scribbles.

Dozens of sword clashes tangled chaotically in between.

I deflected all of them while sometimes using scythes and arrows to counter Animus’s attacks.

What shines at the tip of the swung scythe is a silver crescent.

A silver net created by hundreds of fired arrows.

Changing weapons like gladiators of ancient times.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

And sword strikes advancing again as chaotic silver waves.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

In the noise like hundreds of blacksmiths frantically hammering iron, Animus and I swung our swords frantically.

We blocked or deflected attacks as soon as we swung our weapons.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

Every time the swords clashed, shockwaves spread hundreds of meters outwards.

Every time the silver and reddish-brown sword energies remained and exploded, all the windows of buildings kilometers away shattered.

The shape of destruction.

Animus and I tried to take each other down by projecting all our starlight towards each other in the middle of the battlefield where the five guardians and magical girls were fighting.

Boooooom!!!

Another explosion occurred.

But I was pushed back in it.

The gap with Animus widened again.

Reddish-brown eyes quietly observing me across the gap.

“Kugh…”

“…”

[Conquest] Magical Girl’s Unique Skill

Divine Manifestation

Divinity of War

“Appear. Divinity of humanity. Faith born in war.”

“A second alias…”

The huge 4 stars behind Animus resonated and emitted a reddish-brown halo.

Huge power slowly gathering and taking shape behind the reddish-brown halo.

Reddish-brown starlights filling the gap between her and me, surrounding us like an arena barrier.

While emitting an incomparably holy light, Animus called out.

“Ares.”

“Ugh…?!”

A crack hundreds of meters wide opened behind Animus, and through it, an idol with shining eyes inside a helmet holding a huge spear emerged with tremendous pressure.

Divinity

Faith

Idol

She had summoned an object of belief with the mere body of a human magical girl.

Rumble

Lights flashed with thunder in the reddish-brown dark clouds, splitting the red sky.

The desperate wishes humanity once had while waging war.

The faith humanity once felt through war.

The idol of a god embodying all of this possessed power on a different dimension from the guardians protecting the obelisks.

Dong―

Dong―

Dong―

The sound of war drums from the palace far beyond the sky Animus was facing grew louder and louder.

“Here I come. With the maximum power the will of the stars has allowed me.”

“…”

As Animus pointed her huge great sword at me, the manifested idol of Ares aimed its reddish-brown spear that seemed over 10 meters long.

I tried to block it by drawing out infinite starlight.