Heavenly Scales!
It was similar to the Dragon Race's unique skill, Dragon Scales.
It possessed extremely high magic resistance and could even grant immunity to some low-level magic damage.
At this moment, the Fire Spirit couldn't even break through the girl's defense.
Sophia's face regained its smile. She looked at the Fire Spirit wrapped around her with utter mockery, opening her small mouth to reveal two fangs, her eyes glowing a blood-red light. Her true form was indeed the legendary Vampire; although not quite on the level of the Fairy Race, it was still an ancient race.
"Trash!"
Amidst the burning fire, the girl, wearing armor made of black scales, reached out and grabbed the Fire Spirit, crushing it with a forceful squeeze. Accompanied by a shriek from the Fire Spirit, the surrounding flames vanished instantly, but the temperature in the air did not drop; instead, it became hotter and hotter.
The originally confident Sophia was somewhat stunned.
"That's...?!"
The hooded person's magic was ready.
Terrifying flames transformed into a holy cross behind her. It radiated an incredibly divine aura, yet gave off a sense of dread as if the end of the world were coming. That flaming cross seemed capable of destroying the world, just like the name of the skill.
Twilight!
This was also the first time Tsukasa had used this ultimate-tier magic. According to the skill description, this magic could deal ten times the damage of the mana input—meaning when she input
When MP is sufficient, this magic can unleash points of damage. What's even more terrifying is that this magic ignores all resistances. Even if the opponent has fire resistance, it's useless against this move because this magic deals fixed true damage.
Due to insufficient time, plus this magic being extremely difficult to control, low Skill level, and other reasons, Tsukasa-chan only input less than 2000 MP this time, but this power has already reached a full points of true damage. Even a Giant Spider would be severely wounded and on the brink of death if hit by this.
Sophia, who was originally about to launch an attack, stopped her movement when she saw that flash of fire. Although she didn't know what effect the Hooded Person's Skill had, all her detection-type Skills gave her the same response: run away quickly. If she took this hit head-on, there would be absolutely no chance of survival. Even she, a True Ancestor, would be instantly annihilated. Her scales couldn't block that move.
The fiery cross behind the Hooded Person gradually glowed brighter. Even the maze's terrain began to melt under the residual heat of this light. The prelude alone was already this exaggerated. If actually hit, she probably wouldn't even leave ashes behind. Sophia's hair stood on end all over her body, her expression turning ferocious. An incredibly strong desire to survive drove her to sprint with all her might toward the passageway exit. The only thought in her mind was to run as far as she could while she still could.
"Damn it, where did this monster come from! Does that guy even know there's such a vicious monster hidden in this maze?!" Sophia had completely lost the confidence she had just a second ago. After all, she had never heard of magic on that scale before. Not even the Demon Lord or her master had mastered magic of this level. Who exactly was this Hooded Person? And did the master who sent them into the maze for training know about this Hooded Person's existence? Although these questions flashed through her mind, her escape speed didn't slow down at all—instead, it got faster and faster.
The Hooded Person behind maintained her casting posture, watching helplessly as this Vampire Girl escaped right before her eyes. It must be said that the points of speed were truly ridiculously fast. Someone like her with only 5000 points of speed couldn't even clearly see the other's movements. Although the magic she was currently releasing was extremely powerful, the wind-up was just too long. Not to mention the casting time, even after casting was complete, she still had to wait for the cross behind her to rise to a certain height. Although attacks against her would be blocked by the cross during this time, if the opponent decided to flee, she had no way to stop them.
Just like now.
By the time she could release it, that girl had long since disappeared without a trace.
"Ugh..."
Tsukasa-chan couldn't help but let out a humiliating whimper.
She felt ashamed of her own strength. Indeed, she was still very weak now, and being too specialized really wasn't advisable. Even if she had powerful attack moves, they were meaningless if they couldn't hit. Should she learn some wind-element magic after all? She remembered that wind-element magic had spells that could temporarily increase speed. Back when the Godwind Tiger King was evolving, he used wind-element magic to multiply his speed attribute several times during battle. However, attributes boosted this way naturally had flaws—they definitely weren't as good as real attributes gained through training. Otherwise, the Tiger King who had attribute superiority over the Wolf King back then wouldn't have fought so hard. But this was currently the fastest shortcut to improvement.
The cross slowly dissipated. One could see that the surrounding walls bore marks from the high temperature, with some places even flowing with magma. Moreover, the ceiling above her had been burned through, leading directly to the middle layer of the maze. The Skill hadn't even been fully released yet, and it already had this much power. Tsukasa-chan suddenly felt somewhat Fortunately she hadn't released this move just now,
otherwise she might very well have been killed by her own Skill.
"That's right!"
Tsukasa-chan quickly turned to look at her Bone Dragon—she had almost forgotten about her summon. Looking now, she saw that half of the Bone Dragon's body had melted away. The soul fire in its eyes flickered weakly as it curled up in a corner, looking at its master with Wronged. Seeing the Bone Dragon's pitiful state, she somewhat awkwardly reached up to pull her hood aside, turning her head away, silently apologizing to the Bone Dragon in her heart.
The Bone Dragon Baby looked Wronged.
Because it had been standing behind its master at the time, loyally protecting its casting master with its own body, never imagining that its master's magic would deal damage indiscriminately. The moment that cross appeared, it melted half its body away.
"Tsukasa-chan, that move just now... let's treat it as a forbidden technique from now on. That move's power is too strong—it even affects the surrounding space to some extent. Even if I could teleport you through space, I wouldn't know where we'd end up." Eidor, who had flown out from under Tsukasa-chan's clothes, also said with a look of lingering fear. She hadn't spoken up to warn earlier because she knew that Vampire Girl opposite was very strong and didn't want to distract Tsukasa-chan.
But after the battle ended,
she had to wake Tsukasa-chan up.
Tsukasa-chan nodded, indicating she understood: "I know. I'll be careful from now on. But you know the opponent just now—if I hadn't used this move, we would have had no choice but to flee at that time."
Although it might seem like she had the upper hand now.
That wasn't actually the case at all.
If she hadn't used this forbidden technique, she would have had no chance of defeating that girl whose average attribute values were at points. Don't be fooled just because she also had attribute values reaching points—that girl was a genius whose attributes were comprehensively at that level in all areas, completely different from a mediocre specialist like her. Moreover, that girl had anti-magic Skills similar to dragon scales, It can be said she was the natural counter to fragile mages like her.
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