Black hole!
Kubo's pupils contracted violently as he saw an immense black hole of energy spanning the sky!
Space warped savagely around its edges as the black hole devoured all the energy and light between heaven and earth.
It was as though a pair of invisible hands had torn a vast hole in the void, and all matter wailed as it poured into that opening.
Yet one small, upright figure seemed to be reborn from that apocalyptic black sun!
He soared upward, borne by an indomitable will, forcibly tearing through that irresistible devouring force. He swiftly escaped the collapsing void and hurtled into the distance.
With nothing but the strength of the Third Circle, he had confronted a Fifth Circle death trap head-on!
It was audacity so absolute that the whole world seemed to tremble before it!
This was no mere escape, but an ant's arrogant counterattack against a dragon-and... he had won!
At that moment, Kubo's mind went blank. He fell into a daze, as though everything he believed in had crumbled.
With all his knowledge, wisdom, and understanding as a Fourth-Ring Miracle Wizard, he simply could not comprehend it-
How could a Third-Ring Wizard who had yet to clear away the fog and embrace miracles walk away so calmly from a Fifth-Circle Wizard's overwhelming power, time and time again?
In the clash between their spells, they had actually ended in a draw.
Suddenly, information Kubo had once dismissed with a sneer exploded through his mind like thunder.
It was the dossier on Dago Heka that the Southern Ring of Law had sent earlier.
"A prodigy of spellcraft seen once in a thousand years in the south, a wizarding genius without equal..."
Recalling the lavish praise he had once considered exaggerated, Kubo now realized that everything in that dossier