“Because she won’t be satisfied with this little exercise if it ends so soon.”

  The raging fmes that formed a tall, nigh imperable wall of pure hellish fire disappeared, catg the attention of Momonga, Lelouch, the twins, and Albedo.

  And from behind it, they could see Aika standing with her left hand raised in front of her as the st bit of light particles from the [Dispel] magic she used to erase Ulbert’s [Hell Fire Wall] dissipated from her palms.

  It was as Lelouch had said… Aika wouldn’t gh the wall of fmes, not because she couldn’t, but because she would end the fight too early.

  Instead, she simply dispelled the spell with a simple wave of a hand.

  “Rose of Agony.”

  As the words left her luscious lips, bck thorny vines with blooming bck roses appeared around Ulbert’s legs, ing itself around it as it climbed higher and higher, before disappearing.

  “That is…”

  Despite only for a very brief moment, Momonga and the other fluardians present did not miss the appearance of the bck roses and vihat suddenly ed around Ulbert’s feet.

  And they also did not notice the visible panic that Ulbert dispyed before he immediately took off from the ground using [Fly] that he had cast earlier.

  But… No matter how quickly he tried to fly away, he was still slower than lightning.

  “Maximized Magic. Dragon Lightning.”

  Voracious lightning crackled from her hands. And in the moment, a massive dragon of lightning charged with a thunderous roar.

  “Kuh!”

  Despite everything, the phantom of the gray goat supreme being and owner of the [World Disaster] job css which boasted the greatest fire power out of all other csses barely mao dodge the massive thunderous lightning attack from another holder of the [World Disaster] job css.

  The flowi-bck sleeve and part of the velvet cape that adorned Ulbert’s right half had vanished, revealing his dered cwed right hand and arms.

  Immediately after, the bck thorny vines and roses appeared once more, and this time, it had already ed itself around his waist.

  The flying phantom of Ulbert crashed back down to the ground with a heavy thud, tumbling for a few meters, before nding face down on the cracked ground.

  Bits of lightning crackled all around his body as smoke slowly drifted upwards from his scorched arm.

  “Khh! Kuhaa!!”

  Jet-bck blood escaped his lips as Ulbert coughed heavily on the ground. The effects of the Rose of Agony he so feared had already reached the sed stage and affected him greatly…

  Seeing the result of her spells, a satisfied smile bloomed on Aika’s beautiful visage.

  The 7th Tier Spell, [Rose of Agony], was an exclusive spell she got accessed to upon maxing her Empress of Evil Job Css.

  At first, the 7th tier spell did not seem to do much. It was a siarget spell that did not deal instantaneous damage, damage over time, or disabled its target. It simply cursed its target and decreased their movement speed and evasion for 20 seds.

  However, this effect was merely the first of five stages of the spell. And upon being hit by an attack, the spell will move onto its stage.

  With each hit, the briar rose will rise higher and higher. On the sed hit, it would rise up to the waist and inflict true damage equal to 5% of the caster’s magic attack for 10 seds.

  If the target was hit once again within those 10 seds, the briar rose would rise up once again and around their chest and neck, tinuing to deal true damage. In addition, 10% of the caster’s magic attack would be inflicted every time they tried to cast a spell or a skill.

  The fourth hit would cause the thorny vio around their arms, slowing the target’s casting speed and decreasing their accuracy. And on the final hit, it would fully around the target’s head, dealing massive damage and inflig the “blindness” dition for another 10 seds.

  Ulbert, having gaihe knowledge, memories, and personality of the true Ulbert despite being a phantom, knew of the effects of the spell.

  It was one of Aika’s favorite spells to use, and as her self-procimed rival in terms of being a mage with the highest magic damage, he had studied and learned about all the spells she had ever shown him.

  However… simply knowing didn’t necessarily make him capable of dealing with it, especially with Aika’s inhuman speed, rea time, and proficy with it.

  Thus, Ulbert’s first and immediate rea was to fly away, knowing that going on foot was simply a fool's errand given the decreased movement speed debuff he received from [Rose of Agony]. However… With Aika’s proficy with magid his lowered evasion rate, he failed to dodge her [Dragon Lightning], raising the [Rose of Agony] spell by oage and causing him to lose tration on his [Fly] spell.

  Now, he had been tossed out of the frying pan and thrown straight into the fire, as the [Rose of Agony] now further decreased his movement speed and was now doing quite the siderable amount of tinuous true damage onto him. And this time, he would o cast [Fly] once more unless he wao bee a stationary living target practice for Aika.

  Meanwhile…

  ‘Hm~ Should I use that spell now…? No, that would make everyone here horny… I’ll just use that tonight when I’m aloh Yuuji~ Fufu~’

  Aika pted on ells she would like to try out as she waited for the phantom Ulbert to rise up to his feet.

  Oher side of the battlefield, sparks and g of steel reverberated throughout the entire Amphitheater.

  With aremely enthusiastic Spirit Sword S, in his hand, brimming with excitement, Yuuji had to hold back quite a bit so as to not actally slice through Phantom Touch Me’s sword, armor, and body in one ssh.

  That said, Yuuji leasantly surprised by the phantom’s strength.

  While he hadn’t tested his full strength in this form yet, Yuuji knew from his “memories” just how powerful he was, even if he didn’t use his space manipution magibsp;

  The inal Touch Me had never won a duel against him… In fact, they all ended up in the white cd world champion being thhly overpowered through sheer strength.

  Yuuji even “recalled” when Touch Me asked him why he woulder the World Tour and vye for the “World Champion” title, given he was the most powerful pyer he had ever known.

  But evehe Phantom of his past close friend, guildmate, and World Champion, was still the stro oppo he had ever faced.

  While Tatsuya was objectively the most powerful with his magid martial art skills, Touch Me, despite being a Phantom, was stronger physically.

  Ead every blow of his sword was heavy, and his defenses, with the “pliah Law” armor ah Recover” shield, were tougher than Yuuji first expected, making it quite difficult to gauge how much power he should use.

  Fortunately, with Alice’s innate ability, “Cirvoyance”, and his enhanced senses aion speed, Yuuji was able to use them to his advao deal with Touch Me’s attacks.

  With his shield braced before him, Touch Me raised his sword up into the sky, shining brilliantly in bright, white light, and swung down with a heavy might.

  “Haaaah!!! [Divine Smite]!!!”

  A powerful bst of divine energy shook the air and ground, reverberating throughout the entire arena.

  While this wasn’t Touch Me’s most powerful skill, the [Divine Smite] was a favored skill used by Padins food reason.

  it was a reliable, high-damage skill, especially against those with ive karma values, that could be invoked instantly. Aremely powerful skill, sidering the cost of casting it.

  Moreover, sidering the energy Touch Me’s sword was emanating, Yuuji could guess that he was using it at quite the high tier level.

  A before the mighty smite of the stro divine warrior, Yuuji calmly raised his sword and decided to see the effects of one of his stro skills that he could only use 3 times a day.

  The “Wuardian” job css was aremely powerful defensive css. In fact, if it had existed within Yggdrasil, it would’ve been beled as a brokenly overpowered css which all pyers would pin about and riot for until the devs deleted it from the game.

  In addition to the massive increase in physical defense, magic defense, aa had several features whionga would’ve, and had, called “broken”. And one of its most powerful features was the [Aegis] skill, which had an active and passive effebsp;

  The passive effect granted him immunity to curse, charm, psychic damage, aal attacks. This effect alone was enough for it to be sidered as overpowered.

  However, Yuuji was already protected from the listed harmful effects thanks to his [Divine Physique] SSR. Thus, the first passive effect did not be him greatly.

  The sed passive effect, however, was truly and utterly broken.

  It gave him resistao the harmful effects of the ultimate on in both Yggdrasil and the New World; World Items.

  Although not pletely, simply giving him the ce to resist the effect of an otherwise absolute item, without needing to own a World Item himself, was an immense boon.

  And finally, the active ability of the [Aegis] skill called [Invincible Light]allowed him to pletely resist and ignore any attack, spell, skills, and spell effects up to three times a day, even super-tier spells.

  His half-angel and half-demon flowed briefly as he raised Est in his hand, which was now emanating a brilliant white light that shines with all colors of the rainbow.

  Yuuji met the powerful divine smite of the holy warrior head on, and the previously shining sword brimming with divine energy suddenly lost its light as it was deflected.

  Like hitting an adamantine wall, the divine bde bounced off Yuuji’s sword, causing shock to run through the jet-bck phantom knight before him.

  Then, the hing he knew, a tremendous, heavy force hit his shield like a battering ram, sending the phantom of the world champion skidding through the dirt grounds of the arena.

  Touch Me looked up, rec from the shock of his failed skill and sudden hit, and saw Yuuji having just put his right leg back down to the ground and readied his sword.

  “Est.”

  ‘Yes, master…’

  The beautiful, silver white elemental waffe form of Est shined brightly. And as Yuuji swung his sword, a crest-shape bst of pure magical energy shot towards Touch Me.

  The [Spirit Bst] hit squarely on the shielded knight, having no or the ability to dodge such a powerful and quick bst of magid the impact created a massive explosion of energy, flinging dust and dirt from the ground up into the air as a massive cloud.

  And as Yuuji returo his initial stah Est to his side, fog on the figure of Touch Me within the cloud of smoke, Momonga, Albedo, Aura, and Mare stood in frozen awe and amazement, absolutely speechless.

  Only Lelouch, who had “seen” and “remembered” multiple instances of Touch Me beiroyed in ways worse than he was right now, stood calmly and watched with amazement for seeing true magic he had only seen in fantasy be done iy.

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