“Take this.” The radiance of the magic circles reached its peak and rays of incredibly hot light shot wildly toward the ground. Most of the surrounding aether had been used up in the attack, but there was still enough left to be used by a human.
Gathering the remaining aether together, Leticiel prepared the same spell technique while avoiding the light beams. Naturally, hers was a Darkness spell, not a Light one.
Leticiel ran while casting her spell techniques. Black light burst out of them, destroying the magic circles that had caused the rays. But just one of the magic circles managed to fire off a beam of light before it broke.
Without having to look, Leticiel could tell that the forest behind her was burning. One of the light beams had passed right by Leticiel, hitting the trees behind her and setting them on fire. “This is bad…”
If she didn’t do something, the flames would spread to the rest of the forest. Leticiel unleashed a flash of light at the spirits, not to harm them but to blind them just long enough to create an opening.
“Eek!”
“Wah!”
While the twins rubbed their eyes, Leticiel dug her heels in and jumped into the air. During the moment she passed over the burning trees, she quickly launched a series of Water formulas in a net shape and threw them below.
The net of water burst when it hit the trees, turning into a waterfall that poured into the forest. She was relieved that the fire had been safely put out.
“We won’t let you go.” Another high-power beam of light flew toward Leticiel. Since she was in the air and couldn’t dodge, she turned the water she’d released earlier into a barrier that she covered with a Darkness barrier.
The light and darkness crashed together, heat and ice colliding to produce an intense water vapor. She didn’t think she could surpass the ray of light with it, but if she could just hold it off until she reached the ground, she’d be happy.
Leticiel landed on the ground just as the duration of the technique ended and the light beams faded away. She felt a searing pain on her right arm, but when she checked, it was merely a burn from when she’d been hit with the sorcery earlier. The damage itself wasn’t that bad.
What can I do? What should I do to neutralize those two? Leticiel calmly analyzed the situation while, using as little sorcery as possible, dodging the constant attacks being shot her way.
Maybe it was because they were only using large-scale technique or because they were still inexperienced due to their young age, but the twins didn’t seem to have much control over their sorcery. They relied on power instead of accuracy.
They also didn’t seem to be very good at defending themselves. The flash of light Leticiel had used earlier to blind them was relatively easy to prevent or dispel if you recognized that it was being cast, but they hadn’t done either of those things.
I suppose it’s all or nothing. Magic circles appeared once more in the sky. Apparently, they planned to once again use the technique that shot random beams of light. Leticiel rushed to implement the idea that popped into her mind.
Light was weak against darkness, but it could also reflect off of mirrors. She would use that characteristic to deflect the attacks and send them back toward the spirits.
It was a strategy based on the assumption that the twins weren’t good at defending themselves. If Leticiel was wrong, her plan would be useless, and she would have no choice but to come up with a new strategy.
Casting a strengthening technique on her own body and sharpening her concentration to its limits, Leticiel judged the beams’ positions from the locations of the magic circles. The girl continuously attacked her with her sorcery, but she and the boy were unaware of Leticiel’s intentions.
One of the attacks had hit her leg, but thanks to her physical enhancement, she didn’t feel much pain. Running through the battlefield, Leticiel marked her landing positions one after another.
Since she’d seen the technique earlier, she had a good idea of its characteristics. Its biggest weaknesses were that the direction in which the beams were fired was fixed and that there was a time lag between the appearance of the magic circle and the actual start of the attack.
“…Now!”
Overhead, the magic circles’ rotations reached their peak, and they began to glow in preparation to launch their attacks. That was the moment Leticiel had been waiting for. Leticiel pressed her hand to the ground at the same time that the beams of light fired.
A huge magic circle appeared in her hand and all the places she’d marked earlier let off a blue light. They were a myriad of water mirrors, their surfaces coated with ice so pure it was reflective.
The beams of light struck the ice mirrors. The ice couldn’t withstand the weight of the light and quickly cracked, but it was fine because they managed to reflect the rays for just a moment.
Guided by the angles of the water mirrors she had placed, the reflected light refracted in various directions with every beam ultimately converged on the twin spirits. That was why all the mirrors were set at different angles.
The twins’ faces visibly paled for a split second. A moment later, an explosion of light pierced the heavens, so mighty that it even outshone the sun. It was so bright that Leticiel closed her eyes and looked away, but she was a second too late and a sharp pain raced through her left eye. A high-pitched, somewhat metallic sound trailed off as the light eventually scattered into all directions in the forest.
“Hah… Hah…”
It was the first time since she had reincarnated that she’d consumed so much aether and used a series of wide-range and advanced techniques. Panting, Leticiel endured the computational load that weighed on her and somehow managed to keep herself upright, her body aching from overusing the physical enhancement.
The vision in her left eye was hazy, turning white. It seemed like part of her eyeball had burned, but she hadn’t gone completely blind. She quickly cast a healing spell on her eye. Her head pounded with an intense pain as a result of pushing her concentration to its limit earlier. For a while, all she could do was press her hands against her eyes, unable to move.
“Ow…”