“I didn’t get the impression…that the black staff’s anti-magic barrier reacted all that fast,” said Lunaère. “Kanata, let’s destroy it with numbers.”
I nodded and stopped Wolzottl from fleeing. He did a sharp turn in midair so we faced Lucifer again.
I split my thoughts into two, increasing the number of magic circles I could make at the same time using the Twin Minds Method Lunaère taught me. I steadied my breathing and formed two magic circles.
“Fire Magic Level 14: Inferno Sphere!” I shouted and raised my sword. Two deep crimson balls of fire more than thirty feet in diameter appeared in the air.
“Lightning Magic Level 17: Indradhanush.”
Lunaère was on the other side of Lucifer, where she closed her eyes and lined up three magic circles. It seemed for her it wasn’t just the Twin Minds Method, it was the Triplet Minds Method.
Several lightning bolts shot out of each of the magic circles Lunaère made, filling the vicinity with a bright-white glow. I launched my two balls of fire at the same time, then immediately started preparing my next magic circles once those spells were done.
Fire and lighting crashed together again and again with Lucifer in the middle.
I saw Lucifer appear, fleeing from the explosion. “You seriously just pummeling me with spell after spell?!”
Patches of his skin were burnt and peeling. Just like Lunaère noticed, the Black Staff’s anti-magic barrier couldn’t keep up.
“You call yourself the ruler of Locklore, but you really aren’t all that much,” said Lunaère. “I imagine you’ve mostly only used your superior strength to defeat weaker enemies. You’ve never really fought someone as strong as you. You’re good at overwhelming with your stats if you have control…but the moment you’re fighting a defensive battle, it all falls apart.”
“You worm! You’ll regret that!” said Lucifer, baring his teeth. “Space-time Magic Level 25: Mirrored Wormhole!”
A gigantic magic circle appeared centered on Lucifer. The next moment, my surroundings warped, space twisting in places and black hole-like things appearing.
“What the…?” I gasped. Everything around me looked weird. The scale of this spell was just way too big.
“This spell warps space in the area, forming holes that only the user can pass through!” cried Lunaère. “Kanata, be careful! While space is warped, he can move freely where he wants within range!”
“Hah, so you know about it?”
“But just knowing about it…”
“…Doesn’t mean you can handle this spell’s terrifying abilities!” Lucifer’s location changed with each moment. Unlike simple teleportation space-time magic, there was no casting time for shifting location once the spell was active.
This spell wasn’t just very hard to deal with—it was impossible.
“Kanata, don’t stop firing multi-attacks! Even if we don’t know where he’ll appear, we should be able to limit his movements if we keep hitting him with magic!” said Lunaère.
She kept up her magic circles for her lightning spell and fired them desperately at Lucifer.
“O-okay!” I formed two magic circles using the Twin Minds Method, then I sensed Lucifer behind me.
“I see you, dumbass. Since you’re using the Twin Minds Method, you don’t pay as much attention to other stuff!” he said.
By the time I spun around, Lucifer’s claws were already in front of my face. His teleportation was just too fast. While I was reeling back, a magic circle appeared between me and Lucifer, and Lunaère flew out.
“What?!” cried Lucifer.
“I knew you’d try to ambush Kanata. You don’t have the guts to fight me when it’s two against one. The moment you used this huge-scale spell, it was obvious you’d be going after Kanata,” said Lunaère.
She’d secretly hid the magic formulas for a teleportation spell in among the three magic circles she’d made. Perhaps she had us stick to the same strategy because she guessed Lucifer would try to get behind me.
“I will not let you lay a single finger on Kanata again,” she said.
“Damn you!”
After being a moment too slow, Lucifer swung his claws at Lunaère. She moved far to the side to dodge, then slammed Lucifer with the lightning magic spells she’d prepared. I hit him at the same time with two shots of fire magic.
Lucifer held his staff in front of him and formed a magic circle, defending against our barrage of spells with the Black Staff’s anti-magic barrier.
“Didn’t I tell you it’s pointless?! Just give up already!” he shouted.
“That ability…isn’t something you should use at such close range,” said Lunaère. She somersaulted backward in the air, and her foot smashed into the hand Lucifer used to hold the Black Staff. It flew high into the air.
“Agh!” Lucifer scowled.
Lunaère used the rebound of her kick to move back next to me. “Kanata…”
I could see in her eyes that she was sending me a signal to do the same as she did, and I instinctively knew what spell I should use. The two of us made our magic circles at the same time.
“Gravity Bomb!”
“Gravity Bomb!”
We were completely in sync. Black light appeared to the right and left of Lucifer.
“Dammit, gravity magic!” Lucifer’s face paled.
“Gravity can interact with extra dimensions as well… There’s no running away into the warped space-time of your Mirrored Wormhole. You seem capable of forcing your way out when there’s only one of them…but I’m sure even you can’t escape if you’re trapped between two,” explained Lunaère.
“This is a load of crap! I’m the most powerful person in Locklore! I don’t accept this! I don’t! These pathetic nobodies can’t beat—!”
The two castings of Gravity Bomb grabbed Lucifer and imploded. His body was torn apart, pulled both left and right, the extreme gravity wells compressing him into separate pieces before exploding.