An Overwhelmingly Terrifying Enemy

"[O fire, come—]"

When that clear, ringing voice echoed across the battlefield, everyone fighting the vividly colored monsters froze.

"A chant?!"

Lefiya Viridis cried out in disbelief.

"A monster is actually going to use magic?!"

How unbelievable was that?

Among the Dungeon's many monsters, quite a few could indeed use attacks resembling magic. But having them chant spells like the humanoid races and cast actual magic was fundamentally impossible.

Monsters were monsters—ferocious creatures born from the Dungeon. They might possess intelligence, but they would never possess reason.

Even if these creatures, who lived by following their own savagery and instinct for destruction, could speak like humanoids, they could never calm themselves, maintain a Serene Heart, and chant spells to invoke magic.

The rationality and wisdom required for magic belonged to the humanoid races. It was not a realm monsters could enter.

Yet now, a monster was chanting magic before the adventurers' eyes, filling them with an immediate sense of absurdity.

However, their opponent was a Corrupted Fairy fused with a monster. Even though she had fallen and lost her reason, using magic remained an instinct of this race born for magic.

Thus, as the Corrupted Fairy chanted, a massive magic circle spread beneath her.

It was a magic circle filled with ominous patterns. Crimson Demonic Power rose from within it and wrapped around the Corrupted Fairy's entire body as an immense surge of power erupted.

"Riveria!"

Watching this, Finn trembled and cried out in alarm.

"Put up a barrier, now!"

Riveria began chanting without hesitation.

But the enemy's magic activated far faster than Riveria's.

"[Roar, roar, O Flame Vortex, O crimson cliffs, O hellfire's howl. Borrow the strength of the sudden gale to seal the world—the burning sky, the burning earth, the burning sea, the burning springs, the burning mountains,