Chapter 176 How Do We Take Him Down?
Io Suleiman's "Sage" Job can handle all attribute magic except for Space magic.
However, as if it's a trade-off, the number of "Extension Spells" that can be acquired is relatively small, making it difficult for Io to use high-level magic compared to other magicians who specialize in one attribute.
This is a clear weakness of the "Sage" Job.
The world may think that this Job is excellent, but it's not as strong as people think. Rather, Io has always struggled with the mediocre performance of this Job.
However, thanks to his activities in the Wooden Sword Way, Io has come to realize the true way to use the "Sage" Job.
――If high-level magic is difficult to use, then don't use it at all, and that's it.
Through unconventional training methods, such as using magic to carve wood and create wooden swords, Io's fundamental abilities, including magical energy control, spell construction strength, and spell maintenance ability, have greatly improved.
As a result, the magicians belonging to the ≪Wooden Sword Way≫ can be said to have become incredibly strong.
Improving the fundamental abilities of magic usage is equivalent to acquiring the necessary abilities to fight with magic.
So, if the foundation ability improves, one can apply it to other areas as well. "Extension Magic" isn't necessary; if they can control their magical energy and strengthen their magic construction, they can even use completely new magic that they've never seen before. It's only possible because of their fundamental power, but it's more efficient than relying on "Extension Magic".
So, with the abilities they've gained through training, what kind of magic should they create?
Io thinks about it.
――Question: How do we take him down?
From a classification standpoint, he's human. Most attacks are dodged at high speed, and he can counter with skills or magic. Even large-scale area magic is normally neutralized, and if they think they've landed a direct hit, he's protected by his aura armor or scales. Even if they try to exhaust his magical energy through a prolonged battle, they've never seen him run out of energy. However, if they can land a critical hit without being defended, they can kill him with even basic magic (although that's not the case when [Chaos Strength] is activated).
In other words, choosing large-scale magic or high-level magic to take him down is just asking for trouble. What they need to focus on is basic magic that can be activated quickly.
Io, convinced of this, instructed the clan's magicians to improve the speed, power, and accuracy of basic magic, particularly bullet-type magic.
At the same time, Io was also developing new magic.
That was [Elemental Meteor Bullet], a magic that can continuously and relentlessly fire all attribute magic except for Space magic.
Dealing with multiple bullets with different attributes is difficult, and in reality, Io could have cornered Ail with just this magic alone. [Meteor Bullet] can control its trajectory and rotate around itself at high speed, making it possible to neutralize all of Ail's attacks just by floating numerous bullets around it. This could become a robust defense mechanism.
However, Io was concerned that prolonging the battle would expand the damage to the surroundings, so he used the unnecessary [Divine Robe].
Everything is to settle the fight early.
――[Divine Robe]
This is Io's trump card, a magic developed to destroy the demon. By layering numerous support magics, it can secure combat power to rival the demon in a short time, and possibly bind it in an instant――or so it seems.
If the demon is fully naked, wouldn't it be good to just bind it with clothes?――or so Io thought, maybe.
Anti-Full-Nude Magic (Divine Robe)――[Elemental Orb Robe: Orb Break]
Io, still floating in mid-air, swung the giant cocoon he grasped with his left hand.
Ail was trapped inside. The elemental orb robe, which emits a rainbow-colored light, converts the magic's power from support to attack, continuously striking the being inside. Restraint and attack. The increasing pressure inside the orb robe wouldn't even allow resistance.
"――――Hah!!"
Io then swung his left hand, releasing the orb robe towards the ground. Towards the earth.
The orb robe, falling at an angle, collided with the ground with a force like a meteor.
It fell onto a different rotary horse carriage, where Aaron and the others were fighting, separate from the one they were at. The orb robe crashed into the crowded square, where numerous horse carriages were abandoned, and the monster army was concentrated――,
BOOOOMMMM!!!!
And, with an intense and heavy crash, the sound echoed.
The countless monsters were crushed, and a crater was formed on the stone pavement. The magic power raging inside was still far from being exhausted. The fact that the armor itself was not "consumed" was proof of that.
However, even so, Io cancelled the magic.
Not because of arrogance or complacency, but because he knew that if he continued, Ail would die.
As the monster army moved away from the crater, the orb robe that wrapped Ail, disappeared into particles of light.
And then, Io, who had reactivated his flight magic, approached.
"...What the... ...After barely surviving, I get to see this... This is the worst, isn't it..."
Ail, with broken arms and legs, covered in burns and frostbite, spitting out blood, lay helpless, gazing up at the sky.
In his field of vision, Io was descending slowly, using his flight magic.
The sight of the old man's naked body floating down from the sky was, even at the moment of death, still utterly ridiculous.
"Ail, I'll restrain you."
Io said, his face stern, and Ail laughed weakly, "Hah..."
"No need to restrain me... I can't move, anyway...!!"
Even with the regeneration ability of an "adept", it would take a considerable amount of time to heal these wounds. Fighting was absolutely out of the question.
And, Ail thought...
(Unbelievable, Io has opened up such a huge gap...)
Without relying on the power of an "adept", his friend had obtained this level of power through sheer training alone. He doesn't know the details, but he can imagine. He must have put in an enormous amount of effort.
Against him, how is he?
He doesn't intend to say that the power of an "adept" is external or something. However, he's aware that this power isn't based on honest effort. And yet, he still lost. Crushingly.
He did what he had to do. Whether he achieved what he was supposed to is still unclear, but he doesn't regret it. Yet, it seems like he was misled by his friend's strength.
Ail was told this:
"You're not allowed to die on your own. Live, and I'll make you atone."
"Phew... do as you like."
Here, the battle between the two came to an end.
"Phew... do as you like."
And there was someone who heard those words from afar.
It was a person who, amidst the chaos of Stampede, hid themselves in the city while tracking the whereabouts of both Logan and Ail using [Space Perception], always observing them.
This person was the only one who witnessed the intense battles unfolding in 2 different battlefields, 2 different locations.
The imagination was stimulated to the max, sparks were flying, and the thrilling scenery was unstoppable, causing her to float a cracked smile.
Their laughter wouldn't stop.
"Hahahaha, haha, ahahahahaha...!! Do as you like, and it's fine, right...?!"
They'll note down the outcome of Ail and Io's battle for now.
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