"W-We're here?"
Looking at the dean's residence before them, everyone seemed unable to react for a moment.
Clearly, they hadn't had time to prepare themselves.
It wasn't just them, either. Even the enemy apparently hadn't prepared to receive Raizen and the others. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been not a single black-robed Magus in front of the dean's residence, and the enemy wouldn't have failed to make even the slightest preparations.
Raizen had used Space Control Magecraft to erase the preparation time for both sides, catching them completely off guard.
However, there was clearly an exceptionally skilled Doll Master on the enemy's side.
It seemed that the other party had already stationed someone here in advance. Even though the attack had come suddenly, they had still reacted immediately.
And then...
"Boom!"
As a surge of magical power rose, attacks came crashing in.
One was an attack that swept over them like a typhoon.
The other was an attack in which spikes shot out from the earth as though the ground were violently trembling.
The gale and earth spikes attacked at the same time—one falling from the sky, the other bursting from underground—and they came so suddenly.
If it had been anyone else, faced with such a sudden attack, they probably wouldn't even have had time to react before being shredded by the storm or pierced through by the spikes.
Unfortunately, the people here were no ordinary individuals.
"Sigmund!"
Charlotte, who possessed the ability to sense spirits, reacted first. As though venting the frustration she had accumulated earlier, she instantly poured magical power into Sigmund, who was resting on her arm, activating the Magic Circuits of the "Magic Sword."
A murderous glint flashed in Sigmund's eyes. He opened his dragon's maw and fired a dazzling beam of light.
The beam was shaped