Snow Phoebe Lake District, within Sovereign Palace.
"Angelite's victory symbolizes a new line of thought being applied to competition. Perhaps as match formats grow longer and longer, using the early rounds to wear down an opponent's mana will become a common tactic..." Having finished her late-night snack at dawn, Eileen walked into the bedroom while flipping through the German newspaper Kraviel Event News.
Reading the paper while walking gave her a small, private sense of delight.
This wasn't very ladylike...
But there was no one here but me!
...she thought high-spiritedly.
Sunlight-like mana rose and fell with her mood, as naturally as breathing. The next moment, Eileen caught a trace of noise. Instinctively, she flung the newspaper forward and flicked her right hand back. A handle-shaped wand slid from a hidden space into her palm.
Buzz!
Sunlight-like mana gathered, extending from the hilt like a long blade.
"Who?" Eileen asked coldly.
Had this been in her era, she would already have cleaved at them with her sword, adding a mana-word such as Edict: Death or Blasphemy: Shatter for good measure.
Sigh, a more civilized world meant she could not deal with things in more violent ways.
...As Miss Eileen lamented the changing times, she secretly condensed a Solarflare Blast.
Although Lin Zhaojun's Solarflare Blast had embarrassingly failed to break through the defense during today's match, that was Lin Zhaojun!
Eileen liked this technically skilled Witch very much, but she had to admit that when it came to wielding sunlight-aspected spells, she was still stronger.
The source of that trace of "noise" was before the enormous floor-to-ceiling window overlooking Snow Phoebe Lake.
That "noise" slowly turned around.
There was a flawless, beautiful face, and a pair of crimson eyes that clearly held little emotion, yet made one feel they contained a