The next day, Rein and his team left very early to find the dragonfly strange beast. Rein did not do anything and just stayed beside his girls to observe them. Luna and Lopas did all the work.
First Lopas cast a spell called "Eye of Heaven". This was a spell that she had created and it was a sky affinity spell. It allowed her to observe a large area from the sky. It was a very good scouting spell. The area this spell could search would be increasing with Lopas' advancement as a mage. Currently as a peak rank 3 mage, she was able to observe an area of 69 sq km easily. If she strained a little bit, she could increase the area to close to 100 sq km.
As the strange beast was hiding inside a forest that was lit too large, Lopas did not have any trouble finding the beast without straining herself. And after finding it, she immediately went to fight it.
But before that Luna cast a Star affinity magic called "Blessing of the Celestials". This spell increased Lopas' mana regeneration and casting speed. The mana regeneration boost was a big help if the battle turned out to be a battle of attrition. As for the casting speed increase, it was not very useful to Lopas as her casting speed was already almost at the peak for her rank but still any little bit of help mattered.
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To start the battle, Lopas created a giant stake made of gold and threw it toward the dragonfly. At the same time she also created a few thin but long rods and threw them toward different directions.
Just as she had expected, the dragonfly was extremely fast and was able to avoid the stake without any problem. But the area where it moved after avoiding the stake was also an area where Lopas had thrown a rod, so it was still in danger.
But with exceptional agility, it was also able to move out of the way from the golden rod. But the dragonfly was not completely unharmed. Its exoskeleton was still glazed by it a little bit. But that was definitely not a serious injury.
The idea that she came up with was very risky but other than that, she had no other ideas. Lopas was not having any trouble fighting this strange beast with her strength. She was sure that this dragonfly did not have the strength to kill her. But at the same time, she was also incapable of killing it. So they were in a stalemate.
To break this stalemate, Lopas needed to take a little risk. After hardening her determination, she decided to just do it. So according to her plan, while attacking the beast just like before, she also started to close the distance between them.
In this process, soon Lopas found herself at the edge of the fire domain. There she cast a spell called Air Barrier to protect herself from the fire and entered the domain. Her barrier soon broke due to the high heat but a new barrier soon took its place. Just like this she was able to keep herself safe from the fire.
As Lopas got closer to the Beast, she started wielding a sword made of gold and attacked the beast in close distance. The dragonfly also fought back. After a little fighting, Lopas showed a flaw in her defense and the dragonfly took advantage of that and attacked Lopas.
But it turned out that this flaw was created by her on purpose and when the dragonfly crashed against her, she somehow protected herself with a multilayered barrier and trapped both of them inside a golden cube. Then finally she cast the Fallen Sky spell.
In its desperation, the dragonfly started to burn the whole area with the hottest fire it could produce. But Lopas greeted het teeth and endured it. She made sure to not dispell the trapping cube while waiting for Fallen Sky to take effect.
Soon the spell took effect and the cube created by Lopas was crushed alongside the dragonfly and her own self. But a mage had decent resistance against their own spell so even though she was hurt, she was still alive. But that was not the case for the dragonfly strange beast. It had turned into an unrecognisable meat chunk.
That was how Lopas had won her first big battle.