CH 164

Decisive battle 1

Translated by NotBlueYet

Edited by Kingavent

The sounds of battle cease and an uncomfortable silence envelops you.

I quickened my steps and headed for the spot where Natalie the witch was.

Using my physical enhancements, I run for a while before reaching a point where I can visually see the face of the witch Natalie.

There, I found Berg lying on the ground.

Berg was badly injured, as if he had been torn all over his body, but he was still breathing.

It’s obvious who did this.

Fortunately, the witch Natalie is not looking at us.

I called out to Berg.

“Are you okay?”

“Owen. ……”

Berg slowly raises himself up.

“It’s much more bearable when I get hit by your Ifrit.”

Berg showed a toothy grin on his face that showed no pain or anxiety at all.

Even in this situation, Berg is cool.

It’s not about the face, it’s about the heart.

It’s more than that.

Berg shifted his gaze to the sky above.

With that, I looked up, and my eyes met with the witch Natalie’s.

The closer I look, the more I feel like she’s not Natalie.

Natalie doesn’t look so emotionless and cold-hearted.

She’s a witch wearing Natalie’s face.

The witch Natalie deployed a dozen or so magic circles and fired a gray bullet at me.

“Borrow the power of the earth, and emerge– a mass earth barrier.”

A sturdy earthen wall, two meters long and one meter wide, unfolded in front of us.

This is the strongest defensive magic I can produce.

Although the earth barrier prevents the gray bullets from being fired over and over, the air vibrates every time a bullet hits the wall.

Sooner or later, the barriers will be broken down.

“I’ll fight you here!”

I shouted out over the constant roar.

“That’s absurd!”

Berg speaks in a tone of voice that is not to be outdone.

“You can’t beat that thing!”

I told him as I pushed him away.

Then Berg gave me a pained look.

Just then, Natalie’s onslaught came to a halt.

“Don’t get me wrong, I’m just saying I have the advantage when it comes to airborne enemies, and Berg has his own thing to do.”

I don’t mean to imply that I’m stronger than Berg.

It’s simply that I’m better suited to deal with the witch Natalie.

I do have a way to counter a flying opponent.

“Yes, I know, I’ve fought you many times, I know that much.”

On the second quadrennial, Berg cornered me as I fled into the air.

“I’ll take care of it.”

Berg thrusts his fist into the airt.

“Oh.”

I hit my fist against Berg’s fist.

“Let’s go!”

As soon as I said it, Berg kicked the ground.

That moment–

“Thunder Flash”

Lightning strikes from overhead.

It was a technique Natalie was very good at.

You Witch don’t use that, I felt indignant.

I started running left, Berg right, and lightning struck between us.

Without a pause, the witch Natalie unleashed her magic.

I counter with a burst of bullets to distract her from Berg.

From there, me and the witch Natalie had a long-distance magic strike battle.

The back-and-forth battle continues for a while.

In the meantime, I’ve learned that the witch Natalie uses three main strains of magic.

The first is the lightning magic that Natalie was so good at.

The second is the gravity magic I’m so good at.

And the third is spatial magic.

The most annoying of these is space magic.

Both offensive and defensive spatial magic is powerful, and at a moment’s notice, a spatial twist will occur, distorting the surroundings.

I thought it would be impossible to solve the problem like this, so I did magic circulation and used physical strengthening.

While avoiding the lightning, I approach the witch Natalie.

And —-.

“…gravitational release.”

Just before the activation of gravity magic, I kicked the ground and combined it with my initial speed to approach the witch Natalie in the sky.

“Spatial Resection.”

The space in a straight line connecting me and the witch Natalie was distorted.

I didn’t slow down my flight speed, only shifted my direction of travel and avoided the twisted space.

“Ifrit!”

I’m going to unleash the flames of karma on the witch Natalie.

Its power is several steps higher than the flames I’ve been using.

Disastrous black sparks and flames burned the atmosphere and headed towards the witch Natalie.

The witch Natalie chanted, “Spatial transference.”

The next moment, the flames disappeared into the void, and right after that – flames appeared from right beside me.

“Mudwall!”

I quickly create a wall between me and the flames.

But

“Gaaah!”

The flames pierced through the earthen wall and struck me.

Even though the momentum had been reduced by the wall, the Ifrit’s flames were still quite powerful.

My whole body burns and I contort my face in pain.

“Fall to the ground– weighted bullets.”

In addition, in the next moment, magic circles were deployed from all directions to surround me.

And the gray bullets were fired from all directions.

I make full use of gravity magic and avoid bullets by moving in the air — but the bullet hit my right shoulder..

At that moment, my right shoulder suddenly became heavy.

In addition, the gravitational magic disrupts my control and I fall to the ground.

“Gravitational pull release!”

My opponent’s gravity magic, “Kajiu no Dan-Gan”, is countered by my gravity magic, “Yinryoku Kaiho.”

But right after.

“Lighting Strike”

From above my head, the witch Natalie unleashed her lightning magic.

“Red flame”

The Lighting Strike and the Flame collide, and the sound explodes.

With my vision obscured by the explosion, I pointed my right index finger skyward.

“Bullet —-!”

A black bullet rips through the wind and heads towards the witch Natalie.

“Spatial Resection.”

The air in front of the witch Natalie’s eyes distorts and the bullets disappear into the void.

At that moment, I felt a chill.

She looked down at me from directly above and began to chant.

At the same time, the jewel in her ring emits light.

“Burn with the flames of karma, Ifrit!”

I’ll unleash my magic before the witch Natalie finishes her chant.

However, before the flames could reach the witch Natalie, she had finished her chanting and a magic circle had appeared.

The witch Natalie mutters a word.

“—- Void.”