"About mages?"
The Priestess Girl blinked curiously and looked toward Fang Zheng.
"Mr. Fang Zheng, do you want to know about spellcasters?"
"That's right. During the previous battle, I realized I didn't know much about spellcasters, so I wanted to ask Miss Fina about how those mages fought and such."
Fang Zheng was not making an excuse. If he had once felt there was no need to understand mages too deeply, then he now had to change his mind. A bald Charles alone had left him in a miserable state. If Nymph had not helped him, he might have had to flee in a panic. Considering that their future enemies might include a Destruction Mage, Fang Zheng naturally intended to gather some information about spellcasters first.
"Of course. What would you like to know, Mr. Fang Zheng?"
"What exactly was that Lightning Shield? Why did it suddenly appear when I attacked him?"
This was what Fang Zheng found hardest to understand. At the time, he was certain he had stopped the bald mage with Time Stop. By all rights, the man should have been at his mercy. Yet the instant Fang Zheng brought his sword down, lightning suddenly appeared and knocked him back. At the same time, his Time Manipulation was interrupted. That was what baffled him most.
But Fina quickly gave him an answer.
"Based on what you described, I believe it was a mage's specialty, Spell Trigger... It is a technique that stores a spell in advance and activates it automatically under certain conditions. Most intermediate mages know this technique. I imagine Mage Charles had set a Spell Trigger to cast Lightning Shield when he was attacked, which was why your attack was blocked, Mr. Fang Zheng."
What the hell, isn't that basically an automated cheat?
Hearing this,