Locke looked toward that strange blue ring. As the blue light shone over him, he saw that it completely ignored his Permanent Defense Field and illuminated his body in an especially bizarre manner.
But Locke soon frowned, because he sensed that the strange blue light had pierced through his physical body and was shining toward the core of his soul.
The power of this curse seemed extraordinary. It merely existed in the form of magic, but at the final moment, whether because it was suppressed by the restored earth or because the Life Force Field barrier at the very core of Locke's Permanent Defense Field covered the surface of his soul, the blue light was blocked there.
The being behind the Ghost Bride seemed extremely unwilling to accept this. It was on the verge of descending, only a step away from truly being born into this world through the magic of that First-Ring Crystallization Wizard.
But at this moment, Locke had manipulated the ecology and created a counterattack in the form of a torrent of Life Energy, causing its plan to fail completely.
Even at this final juncture, when it tried to attack the soul of the Wizard before it, the soul of a Wizard protected by a Permanent Defense Field was exceptionally resilient.
That was why First-Ring Wizards were so difficult to kill. With this Permanent Defense Field, even if their physical bodies were gone, they could continue to exist independently for a long time with only their souls remaining.
To kill a Formal Wizard with a Permanent Defense Field, one had to kill him at least twice. The first time was to destroy his physical body; the second was to destroy the soul that possessed his Permanent Defense Field.
If a Formal Wizard was proficient in Death Magic