028, Trace On?!

Rin's eyes widened, her cherry lips parting slightly as she swallowed. "This... was Teacher Kuzuki's doing?"

She wasn't surprised that her teacher was a Master, but no matter what, she couldn't accept the fact that Saber had been knocked down by a human!

But whether Rin was surprised or not meant nothing to Kuzuki. The instant he retreated to the glass window, he decisively smashed it with his elbow and leapt up, intending to escape.

However, at that moment, Rimuru calmly stepped forward.

With that single step, ripples rapidly spread outward, and Souichirou Kuzuki crashed directly into an invisible barrier. With a bang, he was sent flying back.

Then Rimuru lightly raised a hand and pointed. In the direction of the door, dozens of spinning dark-blue magic circles instantly appeared before Rin. "Well, since you touched one of mine, I'll deal with you in the way you know best."

High-Speed Divine Words, that was what it was called.

Under Rin's shocked gaze, Rimuru once again demonstrated what it meant to know a little about magecraft, recreating the terrifying spectacle from that night—how, in a mere second, he could construct a massive number of Magic Cannons and unleash a devastating attack comparable to great magecraft.

High-Speed Divine Words referred to an advanced incantation or divine chant mastered by Magicians of the Age of Gods. Human vocal organs couldn't produce it, but once mastered, it allowed one to discard chants for ordinary magecraft. Even for great magecraft, it could reduce the process to a single operation—and the number of operations determined the rank of a spell.

The framework of large-scale magecraft consisted of multiple nodes. It could be understood as the total number of magic circles that needed to be constructed. These operations could be assembled one by one by a single