Luck and Magna immediately thought of a new solution.
Since visual perception and magic sensing were both unreliable, they decided to use the purest, most violent, and most unreasonable area-of-effect magic to destroy everything in this region.
No matter if it was an ice crystal or an illusion, in the face of absolute power, everything would be reduced to dust.
"Ahhhhh! Come feel a man's wrath!"
Magna was the first to attack, pressing his hands to the ground as the pages of his grimoire frantically flipped.
Fire Magic: Exploding Buckshot!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
From his body, dozens of scorching fireballs of varying sizes shot into the sky, like a volcanic eruption, carrying rolling heatwaves, indiscriminately blasting in all directions.
It was a fiery downpour!
A thorough carpet bombing!
On the other side, Luck was not to be outdone.
He let out a long howl, his entire body's magic exploding without reservation.
Sizzle!
Blinding blue electrical light shot into the sky, forming a gigantic lightning tornado around him. Furious currents wildly diffused outwards.
The lightning tornado intertwined with the exploding fireballs.
Everything in this space, whether ice crystal, air, or earth, was mercilessly torn apart by the violent fire and lightning.
"Hey! Are these two idiots trying to demolish the base?!"
Behind them, Vanessa's smile finally faltered.
She could clearly see several out-of-control fireballs and rampant electrical arcs heading straight for their safe zone.
"Ahhhhh! It—it's coming!"
Finral was even more terrified, his face pale, as getting hit by this was no laughing matter.
Just as he was about to open a door to run away with Vanessa and Ryoma—
A voice, too calm for the situation, sounded in his ear.
"Don't worry."
It was Ryoma.
He didn't even turn his head, simply uttering two words faintly.
Finral's hand, which was about to rise, froze in mid-air.
Immediately after, he suddenly felt a subtle, imperceptible cold magic quietly connect to him.
It was just for an instant.
"Hmm?"
Finral felt an indescribable chill, rushing from his soles to the top of his head.
The scene before his eyes began to distort ever so slightly.
Luck and Magna, rampaging in the distance, became somewhat blurry, as if seen through rippling water.
At this moment.
Whoosh!
A fire orb the size of a millstone detached from the main blast area, whistling towards Finral's face at a tricky angle.
"Ahhhhh!"
Finral no longer paid attention to Ryoma's instruction, frantically extending his hands and slashing them in front of him.
Spatial Magic: Fallen Angel Gate!
A silver-grey circular hole instantly opened before him.
According to his intention, the exit of this gate should have opened dozens of meters away, behind Vanessa, who was relatively safe.
However, something bizarre happened. The exit of the gate did not appear behind Vanessa.
It... actually appeared at the other end of the battlefield, directly in front of Magna.
"Huh?"
Magna had just finished unleashing his ultimate move, staring blankly at the silver-grey opening that had suddenly appeared before him.
Before he could react—
Luck, on the other side, also unleashed his killer move to thoroughly break Ryoma's illusion.
Lightning Magic: Thunderclap Crumbling Orb!
A highly compressed orb of lightning, containing terrifying penetrative power, was supposed to shoot towards the location of Ryoma's illusion in his memory.
But its trajectory, without deviation, aimed precisely at the gate Finral had just opened.
Puff!
The lightning orb drilled into it with extreme precision.
The next second.
It suddenly shot out from the gate in front of Magna.
Magna's pupils dilated to the extreme in that instant. He watched with wide eyes as the familiar lightning orb, with a piercing shriek, slammed into the ground not far from him.
Boom!!!
A deafening roar, more terrifying than any previous explosion sounded.
"AHHHHHHH!!!"
Magna let out a scream ten times more agonizing than before, his entire body sent flying into the air by the violent lightning energy, spinning seven hundred and twenty degrees.
Then he crashed heavily to the ground, twitching all over, no longer spitting foam, but black smoke.
The chaos on the battlefield instantly doubled at this moment.
"Finral... you bastard!"
Magna used his last bit of strength, raising a charred finger, trembling as he pointed in Finral's direction, his eyes filled with the anger of betrayal and disbelief.
He actually... teamed up with that rookie to attack me?!
"No... It wasn't me!"
Finral looked at his out-of-control Spatial Magic, then at Magna glaring at him from a distance, and was plunged into an unprecedented state of panic. He couldn't explain himself.
"Finral! Do you want to fight too?"
Luck stopped his attack, looking at Finral with surprise.
In an instant, Finral became the focus of the entire scene, mistaken as an enemy by both Magna and Luck.
"I didn't! I really didn't!"
Finral was on the verge of tears, frantically waving his hands, trying to explain.
But Magna and Luck, blinded by anger, wouldn't listen to his explanation.
"Bastard! I'm going to kill you!"
Magna struggled to get up, another fireball condensing.
"Let's fight!"
Lightning flashed around Luck again.
It's over!
It's completely over!
Finral's mind went blank, his only thought was to run first. He desperately opened another gate in front of him.
The silver-grey gate hummed open. However, as Finral passed through the gate, the scene reflected on the other side made him pause.
It was a face.
A poker-faced, scruffy, very close face.
It was the captain of the Black Bulls, Yami.
Finral's brain, at the sight of that face, somewhat crashed.
Yami just calmly watched Finral, who had suddenly appeared.
Then, the gate behind Finral closed by itself.
He remained frozen in his forward-lunging posture, cold sweat instantly soaking his back.
It's over.
Why am I so unlucky?
He inexplicably provoked the craziest battle maniac in the squad and even opened a gate right in the captain's face.
Is today my dying day?
Finral's despair didn't last even a second before it was interrupted by a new round of explosions from behind him.
"Finral! You're not getting away!" Magna's roar was like thunder.
Boom!
Another huge fireball grazed Finral's scalp and slammed heavily into a nearby wall.
Bricks exploded, and dust flew everywhere.
"How fun! Finral, come on! Come and fight me!" Luck's laughter was filled with ecstasy.
Sizzle!
A thick bolt of lightning followed closely, striking the spot where Finral had just stood, leaving charred ravines on the ground.
"I told you it wasn't me!"
Finral scurried away, clutching his head, desperately activating Spatial Magic again. However, under Ryoma's imperceptible magic interference, his Spatial Magic had become a complete disaster.
A gate opened to his left, and a fireball Magna shot at Finral entered it. The next second, it shot out from behind Luck, slamming into Luck's back.
Puff!
Luck stumbled, his smile disappearing from his face for the first time.
"Magna... you bastard!"
Another gate opened above Magna's head, and the lightning Luck shot at Finral entered it.
The next second, it appeared from above Magna's head and struck vertically downwards.