1–15.
1–10.
3–8.
Jiang Han gradually improved. From being utterly unable to adapt to her opponents' offensives, she had become capable of adapting, seizing opportunities, and launching simple counterattacks. She could even rely on her instincts and abilities to claim a few victories. Of course, those victories were built on Histeria, Lin Zhaojun, and Alesha restricting their abilities to Josephine's maximum values.
Put simply, those victories were not reliable.
The moment Josephine displayed even the slightest state beyond her own limits, the outcome was still a crushing defeat.
Rumble!
The meteor shower of flames formed by shadow fireballs bombarded the ground without pause. Yet each fireball turned into ice blossoms, lightning, and heavy clouds of lethal stone dust upon landing. The stone dust became dragons and tigers, the ice blossoms transformed into phoenixes and huang, and the lightning took the form of qilin. Illusory and real, true and false.
Jiang Han struggled to hold on amid it all.
Then her eyes lit up. Gathering her magic power, she fired an Eternal Ice Eye toward her left side, blasting a phantom figure out of hiding.
It was Lin Zhaojun.
She fully demonstrated what it meant to possess the finest bodily coordination and spellcasting focus under heaven. Completely off-balance, with her magical shield frozen and her vision obscured, she cast [Illusory Camouflage] (5th-circle, illusion) with a single gesture, blending her body into the phantoms and vanishing into thin air.
"You missed your opportunity."
Her voice echoed through the air.
"Your instincts made you rush to attack with your innate spell-like ability the moment you discovered an enemy."
The rain of shadows ceased.
Lin Zhaojun appeared on Jiang Han's right, avoiding the range where her tail could strike directly. She pressed the short blade issued to Josephine-style witches against Jiang Han's