Whoosh!
Amid the volley of arrows filling the sky, one arrow suddenly tore through the air and flew straight at the barrier of the anti-air spell constructed by the Amakusa-Style Church.
Bzzzz!
When that arrow touched the barrier, unlike the other attacks that had been blocked, ripples of magic power continuously spread from its arrowhead, making the barrier tremble.
The next second...
Crash!
With a crisp sound, the arrow shattered through the barrier as though breaking glass and shot toward the brow of an Amakusa-Style Church magician whose expression changed slightly.
Watch out!
Beside him, another Amakusa-Style Church magician noticed it, shouted, and roughly shoved him aside.
Bang!
The arrow that had grazed past his brow at the last possible moment struck empty space and slammed into the truck's cargo compartment. With an explosive boom, the entire truck shook violently as if struck by lightning.
"Yah...!"
"Ah...!"
On the truck, the Amakusa-Style Church magicians cried out in alarm, instantly thrown into disarray and nearly falling off.
"This is bad!"
In the lead truck, Gohwa let out a cry when she saw it.
"Our anti-air spell has been analyzed and broken by the Knight Faction!"
At those words, Tatemiguya Itsuki clicked his tongue.
"That was faster than I expected! Damn it!"
Unlike close-quarters combat, which was merely a physical brawl, magical combat was a battle of wits.
Once a magician entered battle, their mind usually had to begin operating at high speed.
In a simple physical fight, all one had to do was catch the opponent's attacks with the naked eye and block them.
But blocking magical attacks was not so simple.
The most typical example was when the defender used a spell capable of nullifying physical attacks, while the attacker used a mental attack spell. No matter how exquisite the