"Useless, useless, useless, useless!!!!"
"Keep killing me, Mash! Keep killing me!!!"
"Hahahahahahahahahahahaha------!!!"
Flauros laughed maniacally as his body split into several more duplicates. Mash had just destroyed one of Flauros's pillars with her shield when she came under attack from even more pillars, struggling bitterly behind her shield.
"This regenerative ability—!?"
Mash gritted her teeth and resisted, but she ultimately could not block every attack. One of Flauros's beams struck the ground beneath her feet, triggering a violent explosion.
"Ah—"
Mash cried out in pain and was blown away by Flauros.
Fujimaru Ritsuka had kept running. Seeing Mash in danger, he seized the opportunity to leap up and catch her. Lawrence held a gemstone in his left hand while tracing a wide circle with the other, then abruptly shoved it toward Flauros.
A massive number of gemstone blades and gems of various other shapes burst forth from Lawrence, each performing its own task, while also healing Mash's injuries.
But the problem before them now was—
"What the hell is going on!?" Lawrence gritted his teeth as he tried every means possible to rescue Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash and ensure they landed safely, glaring at Flauros all the while.
"We clearly destroyed the pillars, yet even more of them were born—" Mash and Fujimaru Ritsuka rolled across the ground before getting back to their feet. Mash raised her shield to block a beam, looking strained.
Flauros's pillars were enormous, and there were now even more of them. Rather than weakening under Mash and Lawrence's attacks, their offensive only grew denser.
Imitating his son Adelson, Lawrence assembled magic mirrors made of gemstones into a mirror capable of reflecting magical energy. The mirrors linked together and formed a barrier behind Mash, but Flauros's firepower was simply too overwhelming. On top of that, Lawrence's