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She strains her stuff neck back up, sitting leisurely on the seat as the chained blade begins to pull back. Before it slips out of reach, her grip snaps onto it.
"Hmm? What's this?" (Yggdrasil)
Attempting to keep up a casual tone of voice, the veins on the back of her palm pulsed with pressure. No signal until the last moment, she sensed the attack because magic was expended to launch this weapon at a lethal velocity. There was no going around that, even with a silencer a gun will still make a sound. Even with a jammer, an explosion will still leak a bit of a magic signal.
Conversely, by sending magic down this chain she can track the whereabouts of the attacker if they're on the direct end of it. She can't use {Feed}, not right now... But plain magical energy while not lethal to the enemy, any magical girl could send it as long as they were transformed. As it stood, she was a spiritual entity closer to a monster than human. She can use it without transforming.
An invisible pulse slips into the metal before she let's go.
"Ah!" (Yggdrasil)
Pretending that it got yanked from her hands, she lets go and the chain flies back at high speeds. Everyone stared in silence as it left a hole in the front of the classroom. Swiftly, Yggdrasil got off her chair and bent downwards below the table.
"Quick! Take cover!" (Yggdrasil)
Numerous screams filled the classroom, and even Ms Lily could be seen huddling below her desk, staring intently at the hole. This is going to cause a commotion... The general public shouldn't know about magic. That is a deliberate directive by the government, what are they going to do now?
Yggdrasil had a strange feeling about it. The speed of that chain was around D or C grade levels of human reaction and strength output. She could achieve it too if she pushed her vessel. Lastia has defeated two heavenly kings, each pushing her level up by 2 grades. Likely the result of absorbing their magical energy, learning from them, so to speak.
It was only with these particularly powerful enemies that the improvement would look so blatantly obvious. With weaker enemies, the improvements look almost imperceptible, but this was likely the culprit behind her surpassing Sariel. It wasn't Sariel's fault for being weak, Lastia was just an unreasonable monster of a magical girl.
All of it to say... Right, this enemy feels a bit similar to Lastia. Rather than an ambush, it seemed like they were just testing themselves, and testing her. Fishing for information with a weak attack, the enemy themselves would be a disappointment if they loss to such a thing. The actual Lastia would have died though, it fired as quickly as a bullet, and Yggdrasil dodged so quickly that no one noticed she had dodged. She just 'happened' to have bent down and avoided that inexplicable attack.
The sentinels might come after them. Lastia was clearly the target. A second after ducking, her magic energy came back with the results. A jammer, that much was obvious. Her energy got absorbed by the jammer and this meagre feedback she felt was the vestiges of it that split off. Every 10 metres after it left the classroom, a portion of it split off at varying speeds. The final quantity of magic was meant to be used to calculate how far away the perpetrators were. If hopeful, maybe the magic would reach to the end and identify what they were too.
They're smart. Some camouflage skills? They're controlling the amount of information that comes out and goes in. This is undoubtedly an enemy no matter who they were. She looked over to Arin, her eyes were wide open. Her brow furrows and her gaze lingers on the hole deep in thought. Sariel on the other hand had transformed and teleported out of the classroom. She was on the outside of the classroom, floating outside the building many floors in the air. She was positioned just behind Yggdrasil, so if an attack were to target her they would go for Yggdrasil first.
This wasn't some deliberate attempt to harm her, if anything she had faith that Yggdrasil would be fine. She stopped the first attack without transforming after all, she saw through her movements and realised she was capable even without transforming. It was inexplicable, but the explanations come after the ordeal. For now she stationed herself outside the building so she could better respond while transformed.
Done, the enemy was... 20 metres away? But... There's no sound from the next classroom. Looking closely, the hole in the wall was pitch black. Another space? The portal was opened inside the wall... With an attack aimed at her. If the enemy could attack like this while keeping themselves completely safe...
"Arin...!" (Yggdrasil)
"I'm okay, Tia!" (Arin)
She shows a resolute expression, reassuring her companion. Yggdrasil signals with her eyes, but Arin discretely shook her head. Observe, the teacher will report this, we'll wait for the next move. Leave space manipulation to the expert, Sariel. Yggdrasil felt bad for essentially making Sariel a support type magical girl, she was genuinely talented if she was A grade or S grade she might have been able to beat the Super Satellite on her own.
She was impressed once more. Sariel was sharp, likely realising the nature of the attack and putting herself on standby. In other words, while Lastia was bait she had planned on intervening the next attack from the very start. Yes, just like this-
Whoever shot the chained blade a second time was now receiving it. Sariel tracked the coordinates and sent it flying straight back. The portal vanished but the blade was already flying at high speeds.
***(?)
"Block it!?" (???)
"{Nerve}." (???)
An invisible barrier unfolds and the blade spits out sparks with ferocity. Flashing a field motes out lights, the chains lose their power and fall to the ground right after. A failed attack. The master wasn't playing around, this was the result after putting up every precaution possible.
"... Stop the pursuit, we got what we came for. These legacies left behind by the demon king 11000 years ago, there's a lot of em lying around ownerless...
If we're to kill Lastia, we knew it would have taken far more than that from the start anyway. Cursed my lateness, I only just reincarnated... " (???)
The mastermind, the abject leader of the group acknowledged as much. The other two heavenly kings are dead. Their corse laid in another dimension. In the best case scenario Lastia's group could hack and track the coordinates of those cores through the bodies of her fallen comrades. In the worst case, she could find the coordinates on her own by some unknown means and tear open the fabric between dimensions herself. She was the most dangerous enemy short of Eterna, the last deity of the garden.