When Two Rivals Clash

Crack! Boom—

The seemingly sturdy crystalline ice barrier was as fragile as paper beneath the crushing force of those two powers.

It did not even have time to groan.

It shattered almost on contact.

That defensive structure, built from countless rule runes, collapsed completely before an even more violent concentration of energy.

Scarlet collided with gold.

Fire elements and metallic matter underwent violent annihilation.

They turned into torrents of amber magma, splashing and flowing in every direction amid heat waves that warped the air.

Every splashing droplet carried enough kinetic and thermal energy to pierce a second-ring wizard's shield.

Whoosh—

Ripples spread through space like waves across water.

A silvery-white figure appeared at a spot several hundred meters away.

The thin layer of silver ice metal coating his body melted, revealing Dago beneath.

The short-range spatial teleportation effect of [Spatial Silver Ice] was particularly useful against a "cage" like this, with attacks closing in from both sides.

It was not simply speed, but a leap across dimensions.

The Wizarding World had always had a saying: "Unless time takes the field, space reigns supreme."

Behind those words lay a truth built on countless corpses.

Whether spatial spells could reign supreme in other respects was another matter.

But when it came to evasion and escape, they possessed an enormous advantage that no other school of magic could match.

They crossed physical distances as though mocking their very existence.

Back when the Elder Mirror Forest secret realm had opened.

That plane filled with bizarre mirror-image rules.

The Miracle-Tier Spell Artifact staff that had left Dago a Spatial Energy Seed had only developed a trace of sentience.

Yet it had escaped from four miracle wizards belonging to the six great factions.

How terrifying was that?

Four fourth-circle wizards who had mastered the power of