If they did not have to fight right now, Shade had planned to find a way to call Iluna over, then borrow the power of angels and demons from Priest Augustus and Doctor Schneider before the battle. He would also borrow a few relics specifically meant to counter angels from Miss Danist, the Academy Library administrator—such relics did exist—and finally ask Sister Devlin to lend him her Angel Level Relic longsword, Ashes.
With the power of angels and demons, Iluna's balancing suppression of angels, relics to provide strength, and two Angel Level Relic longswords in hand, Shade had a seventy or eighty percent chance of defeating her without using divinity.
"The arena is this lake at the island's center. You are not permitted to leave its boundaries."
The White Robed Lady spoke, then waved at Professor Drake. The professor vanished from the lake surface.
"Favored of the Recorder, I once governed the power of the 'water' element among the four elements on behalf of My Lord. Long ago, the Material World's oceans covered far more territory than they did now. After My Lord departed, strange, ominous things that whispered gradually occupied the deep sea. I once led the ocean races of the Second Epoch in an attempt to reclaim the abyssal homeland of those beautiful races."
Since this involved matters from the Second Epoch, she truly was an angel of an Ancient God.
The shimmering light on the water seeped into Shade's body, and "she" whispered softly by his ear:
Outlander, you have encountered "Miracle."
The Angel of Wisdom has bestowed her story upon you.
Outlander, you have obtained the thaumaturgy "Control Water Flow."
Due to the authority granted by the angel, you can manipulate the lake water beneath your feet with greater precision.
"Thaumaturgy of Control Water Flow, along