The Age of Knights (Third Update, Bonus Chapter for a 10,000-Coin Reward 1/2)

This chapter was an additional update for "Meow Little One's" 10,000 reward.

Riding on the Landwalker Loki's back, Liszt did not exert much effort. He merely held his knight's lance as though paddling along, stabbing at the halo barrier.

Magic was an exceedingly wondrous thing—of course, anything related to magic power, whether living creatures, magic, or battle aura, was extraordinarily wondrous.

With strange and peculiar materials combined with a magician's rune inscriptions, magic power could be drawn forth to form magic arrays with special properties. The halo barrier before him was such a magic array, similar to the water-element spell Water Wave Shield, yet it was not composed of water. After casting Magic Eye, he saw that the halo's colors were not very distinct; it was chaotic magic power.

"Probably some kind of hybrid magic array."

As he went through the motions, he had ample energy to observe the halo barrier before him. He could see the colors of magic power upon the halo—some dim, some vivid—the contrast between light and dark outlining a web-like network of nodes.

Among them were several of the thickest lines, connecting to different spots on the ground.

"If I sever the nodes on these lines, I should be able to destroy the halo barrier, right?" Liszt's eyes lit up as he decided to test it.

He swiftly signaled with flags. "Change formation! Attack in the direction I guide!"

Boom!

He himself took the lead—one horse... one bird—striking at a node in the magic network. The knights of the Black Knight Order followed, charging one after another. Every impact seemed to have little effect, but Liszt could clearly see that with each attack, that thick magic-power line dimmed slightly.

Under the relentless attacks, the magic-power line was nearly beaten into dim collapse by the