In Gospel Country, on Highway 47 leading to Azula, a Floating Car crackling with electric light was racing along the ground. Its smoking, sputtering chassis made it abundantly clear that its antigravity module had completely failed, while the two rear lights cycling rapidly through red, orange, and yellow showed that its autopilot module had completely malfunctioned. A mad driver was flooring the accelerator, speeding wildly down the road.
A streak of Aura swept across the night sky and landed on the roof, turning into an extremely skinny, short Goblin. He was only ninety centimeters tall, wore nothing but a scrap of rag around his body, and yet held a spring-steel spike longer than he was tall—practically a spear to him.
He aimed at the driver's seat inside the car and drove the steel spike savagely through the roof!
The steel spike did not meet the sensation of piercing flesh. Instead, a straight blade stabbed out from inside the car and slashed hard, cutting off half the Goblin's foot. Yet the Goblin showed not the slightest pain from the severed limb.
Before setting out tonight, he had been blessed with the "Pain Blocking" miracle. As the price, all his reflex nerves would fail—most close-combat sorcerers who roamed the underground world disliked using Pain Blocking. After all, pain could still be overcome somehow, but the weakening of reflexes caused by the loss of pain sensation was the difference between life and death in a clash decided in a flash. But Goblins were among the very few close-combat sorcerers who did not rely on Body Art, and that was obvious from his Movement Miracle, "Rainbow Light." As the most famous and most powerful miracle of the Light Art Faction, Rainbow Light could turn a sorcerer into a streak of light for ultra-fast movement,