Special Permanent Defense Field Magic

Locke had no idea how long he had been fighting within the Eternal Dusk Garden. Even the [Cortical Charge Pellets], [Purple Cycad Intoxicant], and [Spirit Spring Soul Surge Potion] left over from his previous preparations for battle had all been used up. In front of the manor, he had slaughtered until the ground was covered in piles of rubble.

Memory Fragments belonging to First-Ring Wizards flooded into his mind, becoming Locke's own.

From these Memory Fragments, Locke had even pieced together the Permanent Defense Field possessed by this First-Ring Wizard in life. It was the Shapeshifting School's First-Ring Magic, [Stone Statue Legion].

Thus, as long as he remained somewhere, the statues and stone statues in that place would automatically be granted [Continuously Changing Forms], gaining the [Ability to Act] necessary to destroy any enemy.

Even if there were no statues in an area, this Formal Wizard could have used Shapeshifting School spells during his lifetime to easily create whatever statues he wanted out of the surrounding materials.

This was the power of Permanent Defense Field Magic. Even if they were both First-Ring Magic, because a Permanent Defense Field occupied the wizard's crucial soul structure—the Magic Pressure level—it consumed very little and could be cast extremely quickly.

The type of Permanent Defense Field Magic often determined most of a wizard's combat strength.

Many wizards learned and developed their spells after reaching the First Ring specifically to support their own Permanent Defense Field Magic.

This was also what Locke had come to understand during the battle in this secret realm.

When the clock tower rang for the third time and time reset once more—

Driven by the Spell Model of [Armed Plants], Blackchain Sword Bamboo collided once again with the two-handed greatsword held by the expressionless Angel Statue Soldier.

Locke sensed that