From the moment Odin hurled Gungnir to its sudden disappearance, only an instant had passed.
Odin was utterly astonished. Gungnir was not truly invincible, but in his past experience, so long as his opponent's magic was weaker than his own, Gungnir's guaranteed-hit effect would take hold.
He was merely a wizard. How could he possess magic capable of rivaling a god's?
But before he could figure it out, Murphy's attack had already arrived. Several more beams of light descended. With his strongest means of attack gone, Odin could do nothing to those satellites for the moment and had no choice but to transform into lightning to evade them.
Even as Murphy directed the assault on Odin, he felt uncertain. That person's silhouette from earlier had seemed to be his own?
And the thick fog surrounding him had looked almost identical to the mist of the Spirit World Murphy had once seen.
Could this be another time loop?
Manipulating time was no simple matter. "Time Reversal" consumed an enormous amount of magic. Taking the Time Magic Box he had previously possessed as an example, reversing his own time and sending himself back ten hours had been its limit.
Although, with a Time-Turner, time magic would draw upon the magic of the entire Magic Web node through the Time-Turner rather than consuming a wizard's own magic, repeatedly reversing time within the same period was equivalent to continuously adding load to the Magic Web. If it exceeded its capacity, completely paralyzing the Magic Web was entirely possible.
Therefore, unless necessary, he would not use time reversal to solve problems. Yet today, he already knew that he would make at least three reversals. That meant the future might be extremely grim.
But there was another point that concerned him.
When he had repaired that