Can You Still Be as Confident as You Were Just Now? (Asking for Monthly Votes)

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"Bzzzz----!"

As even space and the atmosphere began to tremble, beams of light formed from magical power flashed through the air like lightning, like lasers, raining down toward the apartment like a violent storm from the heavens.

"Boom boom boom boom boom----!"

As though missiles were being fired one after another into the fragile apartment, the walls—which already had a massive hole in them—erupted in explosions beneath the barrage of magical beams.

"Boom----!"

The seemingly sturdy wall burst apart under the brutal bombardment of the magical beams.

The apartment, which had initially only had a large hole blown through it, now had its entire wall destroyed by the magical beams, chunks of rubble exploding outward in every direction.

"Whoosh----!"

A fierce wind swept through the area, kicking up clouds of dust.

Thick smoke and scorching flames enveloped one corner of the apartment, swallowing the entire direction of the destroyed wall.

"Clang----!"

Then, in the next instant, a shield of light resembling seven petals, seemingly formed from pink radiance, shone out from the smoke and fire.

Within it, Archer extended a hand as though holding up that petal-like shield of light, staring at Caster in the sky as he slowly spoke its name.

"Law Aias----!"

—Law Aias.

A Treasure Tool named after Aias, the hero famed in Greek Mythology's Trojan War.

It was the shield used by Aias. An enhanced and elevated conceptual armament that boasted absolute defense against thrown weapons, it was a bounded-field Treasure Tool with invincible defensive power against projectile weapons.

Each petal represented one layer of defense.

Each layer of defense was equivalent to a city wall.

Using the extraordinary magecraft unique to him, Archer copied