(ψ｀▽′)o Sneak attack! Caught a hairless elf!
At night, all the villagers had gone to sleep.
The luxurious carriage Annie, Frieren, and Fern had ridden in was still parked in a spacious meadow outside the village, perfectly intact.
Meanwhile, in the large bathhouse, Frieren and Fern were soaking in the hot spring, which they found incredibly soothing, while reading the magic books in their hands.
Frieren was still reading the books they had taken from the Red Mirror Dragon's lair, while Fern was reading the Thops's Barrier she had gotten from Annie.
"..."
Thops's Barrier seemed a little difficult for Fern. As she read, her brows gradually furrowed.
``` <An Examination of Thops's Barrier—Observations and Analysis of an Atypical Glintstone Defensive Mechanism>
Recorded by: Unknown Scholar (This magic was discovered beside the scholar's remains)
Archive Number: TP-001 ("Top Secret" magic classification, restricted, not for loan)
I. Introduction: A Neglected Legacy
This spell, "Thops's Barrier," was named after its discoverer, "Thops," an academy scholar who had once been exiled.
Within the academy's orthodox glintstone magic system, this spell was proposed by Thops and long classified by the academy's mages as a "vulgar, low-class" heretical technique. Its value had been widely dismissed from the outset.
But was that really the case?
Research, field observations, and combat tests have shown that this barrier possesses exceptional interference capabilities against glintstone magic and even Golden Order incantations. As a purely "conceptual defensive spell," it may reveal a more fundamental law of magical interaction, one obscured by the established worldviews of the Lands Between and the academy of magic.
For the sake of confidentiality, this paper aims to objectively document, analyze, and reexamine this buried spell.
II. Primary Function: A Bastion Where All Spells Fall Silent
Indeed, Thops's Barrier has an extremely limited and purely