Vivian's Wrath

Vivian was angry.

She had always been a good-tempered girl since childhood, even the type to appear weak in front of outsiders. Aside from a few times her troublesome little brother Andy had made her mad, Vivian had never truly been angry before.

But this time, the girl was genuinely furious.

Yet even so, Vivian still didn't use an offensive Magic Missile. Instead, she poured all her mana into a defensive Magic Shield.

If they had a choice, though—

The Fire God Cult members behind her would rather have been "splat" dead by Vivian's Magic Missile than face what was coming next.

Why?

Because while the damage might be small, the humiliation was immense.

Behold: Vivian, the anger-limited mana vacuum. The little girl waved her hand, and the mana elements drifting through the forest rushed toward her like a son seeing his mother, swarming desperately into the young girl's body.

"Wh-what!" Others might not feel it clearly, but Luo Er, a fellow "Spellcaster" and Fire Mage of the Fire God Cult, instantly went pale with shock.

He found that even the mana inside his own body was starting to slip out of control, wildly turbulent, on the verge of a rampage.

This was a gap in attributes—or rather, the natural suppression a high-level Spellcaster exerts over a low-level one.

Don't be fooled by Vivian being only level 10 while Luo Er was level 15. In a natural environment, a person's growth and development are always balanced.

Luo Er's total attribute points at level 15 were definitely higher than Vivian's. But those 15 levels' worth of points were evenly distributed across all attributes. When it came to the "Elemental Affinity" attribute alone, he probably only had one-seventh left.

So in the world of "Fall of the Gods," how did you judge a native's talent?

You looked at which attribute their evenly distributed points leaned more toward. The more they leaned, the more talent they had in professions related to that attribute.

And what about our Miss Vivian?

Under the "manual operation" of some deranged Wolf Cub, she hadn't put a single point into any other attribute. She had dumped all her attribute points into "Elemental Affinity"!

That was what created the scene where Vivian, at a mere level 10, could overpower the Fire Mage Luo Er and single-handedly beat down the entire Fire God Cult.

"Impossible..."

"This is impossible! How... how do you have this kind of power?!" Luo Er was losing his mind—or rather, his worldview was collapsing.

The Magic Barrier that Luo Er had shattered with "Flame Impact" just a second ago was instantly repaired by the girl in the blink of an eye.

No, "repaired" wasn't quite the right word. More accurately, the little girl had "reinforced" it.

And this "reinforcement" seemed... a bit too strong.

"Hold the line! All of you, hold the line! No retreat!" Luo Er screamed at his remaining Fire God Follower subordinates, but it was just self-deception.

Vivian's Magic Barrier at full power was no longer satisfied with just being thicker and tougher.

It began to expand rapidly. Seen from above, it was like pushing outward, a moving wall that forcibly shoved everything the little girl hated farther away—and that naturally included the Fire God Cult members.

A Magic Shield was originally meant to protect fragile Spellcasters, forming a barrier that, at most, had a radius of a few meters.

But Vivian's Magic Shield right now...

"Useless! A bunch of useless trash!" Luo Er roared, but even he could do nothing against the barrier before him. He could only watch helplessly as it pushed him farther and farther from Vivian and her group.

As for the ordinary cultists, forget it.

If they didn't attack the barrier, fine. But the moment they dared to strike Vivian's Magic Shield, they were met with a rebound force multiplied several times over.

Before long, several Fire God Followers were sent flying by the passive defense of the Magic Shield.

And this was all without the girl even casting an offensive spell. Their side was nearly wiped out.

Shameful!

Disgraceful!

As the most trusted subordinate of Her Eminence Bishop Eudoxia—at least, that was what Luo Er believed—they weren't disgracing themselves; they were disgracing the Bishop!

"Great Fire God above, pour out your wrath upon this world, gather here—Flame Impact!" Luo Er once again gave his all, chanting the strongest spell he could use.

Fire Rush!

And then, the next moment.

Luo Er saw the village girl at the center of the distant area. On her palm, the same scorching energy began to spin and surge.

"Th-that's..." Seeing that familiar technique, Luo Er's face turned even paler in an instant.

Yes, that's right.

After watching Luo Er use Flame Impact once, Vivian thought, "Why not give it a try?"—and she actually pulled it off.

But while Luo Er's Flame Impact only had enough mana to condense into a flickering Flame Bolt, Vivian's...

Boom!

The flames seemed to roar.

The fireball in the girl's palm grew larger and larger under the dense mana, many times bigger than a normal "Fire Rush." In fact, any spell in the little girl's hands, under her extremely lopsided attributes, would be multiplied several times over, completely transformed.

"A-a second-tier spell?! How, how?! You can actually use a second-tier spell?!"

"This isn't Flame Impact... this... this is a second-tier Fireball!"

No wonder Luo Er was so convinced that Vivian's Flame Impact was a Fireball.

When the fireballs in their hands were compared side by side, it was like a giant meeting a dwarf. Vivian had condensed one too large to hold in a palm, suspended midair, a massive sphere several meters across, while Luo Er's was—

Barely covering his hand, a Flame Bolt the size of a washbasin at most.

And so, one side wielded a Flame Impact comparable to a Fireball, while the other had a truly minor Flame Rush. When their spells collided—

Whoosh!

Luo Er had the honor of becoming a Charred Man, blasted farther than anyone else. If his Magic Shield hadn't automatically deployed at the critical moment, he would have been devoured by flames, not even ash left behind.

A Fire God Follower, a Fire Mage who worshipped the Fire God, was defeated head-on in fire magic by a village girl from the countryside.

"Mission failed."

"We misjudged this village. The villagers' strength." When Luo Er said the word "villagers," he nearly bit through his lip.

"All units. Retreat! Let the Bishop handle her!"

They were truly terrified of Vivian now, inside and out, their confidence crushed completely by the young girl.

However.

Vivian still couldn't cross that line of "killing." She didn't strike down these Grey-robed Ones ruthlessly, even allowing them to flee.

But don't forget.

Beside the girl was a Wolf Cub with a heart blacker than coal.