Inner Sea of Stars, battlefield.
After a long battle, Nitocris was utterly exhausted.
Her consciousness had grown scattered from maintaining her concentration for so long.
Her physical strength was drained from repeatedly darting about to evade attacks.
Her body ached constantly under the crushing pressure of space, rejected by it due to her continuous use of spatial transfers.
Her Magic Circuits were on the verge of collapse from casting so many spells and overtaxing her mana.
She was almost incapable of fighting any longer.
Yet she was still fighting.
From the day she learned magecraft until now, Nitocris had never experienced a battle of such intensity, nor had she ever faced an opponent this powerful.
Ramses II, son and incarnation of the sun god Ra, the king of kings who radiated the brilliance of the Sun Wheel—Ozymandias.
Other than Nitocris herself, he was Egypt's greatest and most famous Pharaoh.
He possessed divinity of a high rank, the protection of the sun god, and immense Magic Resistance. He could practically ignore most magecraft—even spells cast by a magus of Nitocris's caliber.
Alongside peerless martial skill, he wielded multiple powerful Noble Phantasms, leaving Nitocris hard-pressed to deal with them all.
The Sun Boat of the Dark Night hung high in the sky, endlessly casting down golden beams of magical energy powerful enough to cause localized earthquakes, leaving no place to flee.
Ferocious Hot-Sand Sphinxes ravaged the earth, making them difficult to handle. Said to be the earthly incarnations of Horus, god of the sky, they manifested amid raging flame and wind. Also known as Fathers of Terror, they were Divine Beasts beyond Magical Beasts and Phantasmal Beasts, on par with Dragonkind. Possessing intelligence high enough to formulate tactics, any one of them could contend with a powerful Heroic Spirit, while their exceptional