"I take it that means you're ready."
The assistant referee cracked a joke, but she did not treat the matter as one. She directly raised her little flag to signal that preparations were complete.
The head referee nodded, swiftly rose into the air, and at the same time tossed down a quick fireball.
The fireball hit the ground.
In that instant, Jiang Han felt an extreme terror, an extreme panic—an endless tide of magic power crashing down upon her like a merciless rainstorm.
In that single instant—only that instant—Jiang Han was already in such a wretched state that she was nearly destroyed by raw magic power alone.
The moment panic and fear flashed through her mind, she had already read the casting sequence for the Attraction Spell and swapped places with a patch of gas in the sky.
The instant that instinctive action was complete—
BOOM!
One-eighth of Duel Island had already become ruins. Ludwig's incomparably terrifying magic power had crushed apart this vast island—an island that even a witch like Lilith would need legendary spells to demolish.
Crushed it apart with ease.
As easily as a child crushing a wad of tissue paper in one hand.
"If you want destruction, then I'll give you destruction."
That was the attitude Ludwig conveyed. Her terrifying magical shove had merely been a greeting gift.
The Sovereign Scepter in her hand lit up.
First came lightning, then a gravitational micro black hole capable of destroying the horizon, and then a conceptual spell that could return everything to stillness.
Jiang Han drove her magic power to its absolute peak. First, with a simple dispelling spell, she removed the gravity and the conceptual incantation settling over her. Then, with an effortless Leap Spell, she dodged the lightning with astonishing reaction speed, as though it were