Watching Tamamushi turn Chrysaor into starlight and continuously absorb it into herself, the magic power fluctuations on her body's surface gradually growing stronger, Charlotte, Frey, and Raishin looked at one another.
Compared to spatial magic, though absorption-type magic ranked lower, it was no less difficult to use.
After all, what was being taken was not one's own property, but magic power.
If it were absorbed into the body carelessly, it was perfectly normal for a rejection reaction to occur.
Therefore, absorption-type magic usually required extremely advanced and precise operation from the user. Even when installed within Automatons, meticulous control by the Automaton Master was essential.
If spatial magic was the kind of magic that was theoretically difficult simply to activate, then absorption-type magic was the kind that was theoretically difficult simply to control.
Yet Magnus not only had Tamamushi absorb Astrea's magic power at an astonishing speed and convert it into her own, but also controlled the other three Battle Team Automatons as casually as if he were taking a stroll! Among them, Kamakiri was even an Automaton equipped with a spatial Magic Circuit!
That alone showed just how high Magnus's Automaton Thaumaturgy skill was.
As Tamamushi continuously absorbed the magic power within Astrea, until she could no longer even maintain Chrysaor, Magnus extended his other hand before him, and a vast current of magic power surged from it.
"Buzz..."
The next moment, the space behind Astrea rippled in circles with a tremor.
Kamakiri, wielding an enormous scythe, suddenly emerged from the space behind Astrea. Her scythe aimed at Astrea's head, she tore through the air and, with a sonic boom, traced an arc of light toward Astrea's head.
"Buzz—!"
Just as Kamakiri's scythe was about to strike Astrea, a crystalline protective barrier emerged around Astrea with an even louder