Clash

Desert.

A desert stretching beyond sight.

The blazing sun hung overhead, scorching the earth so fiercely that the air shimmered and warped.

In barely a second, snow-lashed Snow City had become this. For a moment, none of the three could react.

Love, however, quickly analyzed their surroundings.

"This is a Pocket Dimension imbued with the concept of infinite extension... Looks like she's getting serious."

Scholar was a bad person.

Even Truth, who had studied under the same teacher, saw her that way. Whatever her original intentions, she had undeniably harmed society.

Still, Scholar had more limits than most people like her. She had never used her Magic Power to cause destruction on a massive scale.

Now she had moved everyone into an uninhabited Pocket Dimension. What she intended to do was obvious.

Was she about to attack?

"Knight!"

Even without Shen Yin, the team's combat instincts were sharp enough for Knight to react.

Though their enemy was a Sunlit Rank far stronger than she was, Knight raised her shield in front of Thousand Blades without hesitation.

Why not protect Love? Come on. If even Love couldn't handle an enemy's attack, what good would Knight's shield do? Love might seem like a mage, but they all knew how strong she really was.

The next instant, the sky darkened, and another thick laser beam shot toward them.

With Love there, a contest of abilities was pointless. Her suppression might even leave Scholar at a disadvantage, so Scholar decisively chose the most primitive way to fight.

A raw blast of Magic Power!

Love naturally couldn't let Knight take an attack that powerful head-on.

A massive petal unfurled in midair. The laser struck it and scattered outward, carving deep furrows across the earth. The sand along those furrows had nearly turned to glass.

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