Unfortunately, even though Violet didn’t know how to counter such methods, she could still brute force through them.
In battles between peers, the scene and the combat environment are crucial, and engaging in a battle away from home should be avoided whenever possible.
Terrain, or rather, barrier magic, is Violet’s specialty.
Her usual sixth-tier magic, “Radiant Protection,” has a maximum range of only two kilometers, which is too low-grade and might be somewhat limiting in these conditions.
The priestess pondered briefly.
Among her teammates, the weakest is at the legendary level, so the information flow damage from high-level magic should not be too severe. There’s nothing to worry about.
She spread her arms, and the surging flames, blooming like flowers, erupted at her feet.
“【Eternal Light’s Protection】”
The flower of radiant flames enveloped Violet’s petite figure. She transformed into the flower’s core, and then, suddenly, transparent and clear, golden crystal ripples burst forth like brilliance!
The light wall endlessly extended, spreading to all directions, into the sky, towards the distant horizon. With each layer of newly blooming petals, it continued to grow, and grow.
Endlessly growing.
It broke through the oppressive gray clouds, dispelling the mist, turning the world into a sanctuary of supreme radiance.
The darkness of the night could not suppress this infinite purity of light. In the blink of an eye, the golden blossoming light screen had soared to a height of a thousand meters, illuminating the black night as if it were a dazzling daylight.
The entire Forest of Calamity, inner circle, outer circle, tens of thousands of square kilometers of land, in just a dozen breaths, was completely covered by this sacred light screen.
Its lingering radiance even illuminated the entire southern border of the Bolt Kingdom.
After that, countless layers stacked upon each other, forming the splendid central flower of the light curtain core gradually unfolding. A black-haired girl in a white robe gracefully rose into the air with wings flapping, overlooking the surroundings.
The gray mist had already been purified to nothing under the power of 10th-tier magic. As a fusion skill of the supreme Holy Light series and barrier magic, the prowess of 【Eternal Light’s Protection】 was beyond doubt.
But...
“?”
Faced with the mysterious and unpredictable technique of “Southern Calamity,” although Violet didn’t say it out loud, she had already adopted a very cautious attitude, treating it as an equal opponent to deal with. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have started with 10th-tier magic right away.
Is it supposed to be eliminated like this? It shouldn’t be, right?
Even though 【Eternal Light’s Protection】 is powerful, it is purely a defensive and barrier magic and does not possess any attacking power. Even if “Illusionary Cloud” is only around level 70, it should not be instantly eradicated by the purification effect it carries. At most, it would weaken it.
After all, this magic is released from the inside out, not directly attacking “Illusionary Cloud.”
The black-haired girl looked around.
Surrounded by dense fog, it was still the central area of the Forest of Calamity. Violet even saw Edwina and the others on the ground at a loss, and the little dragon girl rapidly flying towards her.
However, the breath of the dragon had already disappeared without a trace, and it did not cause any damage to the ground.
Although Xiao Guang’s dragon breath is similar to her initial innate abilities, it’s effective as long as it works. Even if not used to its full potential, its power should at least rival 8th or even 9th-tier attack magic.
Can “Illusionary Cloud” neutralize it without leaving a trace but not withstand a 10th-tier defense-oriented barrier magic?
This is clearly unreasonable.
“....Did it run away?”
All the seeds left by the “Illusionary Cloud” throughout the Forest of Calamity, the gray mist named “Calamity,” should have been purified by Violet. Setting aside the calamitous beasts, most of the plants should have returned to normal.
“Southern Calamity” definitely wasn’t eliminated; it feigned death.
Throughout the journey, Violet vaguely sensed a peculiar feeling, similar to the eye on Epunia’s chest, being stared at in many places. This sensation was particularly pronounced in the Forest of Calamity.
And now, that feeling hadn’t disappeared, it had just become quite weak, like... espionage.
“Master! Did you encounter an attack?!”
The little dragon girl naturally recognized the 10th-tier magic, 【Eternal Light’s Protection】. Without using SP, it was one of Violet’s strongest barrier magic.
As she rushed to Violet’s side, Xiao Guang immediately used her skill called “Dragon’s Eye” to investigate the priestess’s HP. Seeing that it was at full value, her expression gradually eased.
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“No, it’s just inconvenient to fight on someone else’s turf. I thought of releasing a field magic to give us an advantage, but this... well, what’s the situation on your end?”
Such tactical maneuvers were often used by the master and servant before, so Xiao Guang had no doubts and nodded.
“When I emitted my breath just now, there was a special change in the surrounding environment. It felt like we were temporarily transferred to a space similar to a barrier. The dragon breath also didn’t have the sensation of hitting an object. As I was planning to investigate further, the master took the initiative.”
“Well... is that so.”
During the appearance of “Illusionary Cloud,” Violet never felt the fluctuation of spatial magic. Both she and Xiao Guang inherently had resistance to spatial teleportation.
Previously, it seemed that “Illusionary Cloud” had constructed a temporary illusory space in place, similar to Violet’s ability “Iron-Blooded Arena.”
However, the level of this illusory space wasn’t high, it was directly crushed by the barrier-type magic 【Eternal Light’s Protection】, which belonged to the same category.
In other words, that wasn’t the true full power of “Illusionary Cloud” after all. It was merely forced to appear and created an illusion of defeat using a similar method.
Cunning thing...
“Let’s go down and join them. Things won’t end so easily.”
“Sure, master.”
As soon as she landed, Violet saw Edwina and the others standing at the outer petals of the radiant flower of the 【Eternal Light’s Protection】, casting their gazes in her direction.
After the illusory space set up by “Illusionary Cloud” was dispelled, the four people nearby were the first to see the black-haired girl rising like a star in the dazzling thousand-petaled flower about a hundred meters away. They immediately understood that this was Violet’s doing.
However, the priestess felt that their expressions were a bit off compared to usual.
Apart from the usual emotions of awe, admiration, and disbelief, their expressions all carried varying degrees of reverence, as if mortals meeting a deity. Among them, Edwina, who was already a devotee of a goddess, was the most affected.
The girl’s body under the armor trembled slightly, too excited to contain herself. It could even be said that she had a look of contentment as if she had no regrets in this lifetime.
If it weren’t for the inappropriate timing, Violet suspected she would kneel down and pray without hesitation.
Strange...
Edwina, or even Leila and Rene, was understandable. After all, they were followers of a certain deity and had an ingrained reverence for things beyond or transcending understanding.
But Epunia clearly stated before that he was an atheist. It couldn’t be that he suddenly believed in gods just because he saw a 10th-tier magic, could it?
This is definitely not normal.
Could it be... contamination in the information flow?
As her thoughts raced, Violet immediately thought of the real reason.
It seems that even legendary beings can’t completely avoid the influence of 10th-tier magic. Indeed, the decision to avoid using high-tier magic in front of low-tier beings as much as possible was the right one.
This information flow contamination is not just a simple negative state or harm, the consequences are completely unknown.
To be honest, even the priestess doesn’t currently know what means to use or whether it can be quickly eliminated.
However, thinking back to the time when Lilya and others witnessed the 9th-tier magic “Blessing from the Heavens” without any abnormal reactions afterward, it should be okay, right?
Wait a minute!
At this moment, Violet suddenly remembered that she had seemingly cast the 10th-tier magic “Creation of Flowing Light” on a group of ordinary people in the Iris Flower Orphanage’s prison cell, perhaps due to a momentary lapse in judgment.
However, those people were in a semi-conscious state at the time and couldn’t give any reaction. After healing them, Violet didn’t pay much attention to the aftermath.
Come to think of it...
There shouldn’t be any problems, right?
Forget it! It’s not my concern!