(Please subscribe! Please vote with your monthly tickets!)
(Many thanks to "You're Quietly Watching Me Update," "Lei Xiang," "Novel Complete," "Heaven Has Eyes but No Pupils," "Ten Nights of Black Rain," "Young and Headachy," and "Satoshi" for their tips!)
"Bzzz—!"
At one corner of the city wall surrounding all of Orario, a brilliant white light, even more blinding than the dazzling sun, spread outward like a tidal wave, swelling endlessly.
Wherever that brilliant white light covered, the corner of the city wall was split apart by lines of white light, trembling repeatedly as though it might explode at any moment. It looked extremely dangerous.
"Ahhhhhh—!"
At the center of the white light, Ais let out a strained cry.
It was not from pain, but from her desperate efforts to control the magic that had gone out of control.
"Ais!"
Lefiya, Tiona, and Tione panicked and were just about to rush into the brilliant white light when Riveria shouted loudly.
"Don't touch that light! It's dangerous!"
She truly deserved her title as Orario's strongest mage.
Even though Crush Magic was not magic from this world, Riveria's astonishing mastery of magic still allowed her to discern some of Crush Magic's properties and understand the danger of touching the white light.
Under those circumstances, Lefiya, Tiona, and Tione reflexively halted, not daring to advance any farther. They could only worry anxiously at the edge of the white light.
"Whoosh—!"
At that moment, a black shadow ignored Riveria's warning and shot into the brilliant white light.
"Hiss—!"
The brilliant white light vanished the instant it touched that black shadow, like mist being dispersed.
At once, in the eyes of Riveria, Lefiya, Tiona, and Tione, the brilliant white light seemed like seawater suddenly being parted. Everywhere the black shadow passed, the white light turned into