Seeing that the one who had taken the stage was actually a Phantom, Alama immediately wanted to stop the match.
Illusion was, in the end, only a trick to fool the eyes and ears. Once it came to actual combat, it would be easily seen through, and the scene would likely become awkward.
Though he was happy to see Eiding taught a lesson, he was even less willing to let the banquet he had so carefully prepared for Inanna turn into a joke.
However, just as he was about to rise, he was startled to see that the Phantom Eiding on the stage had, without using any scrolls, split off more Phantoms once again—and condensed real magic explosions to launch an attack!
One had to know that an ordinary Phantom was merely a false image infused with magic power. At most, it could be remotely controlled to inject part of the magic contained in a spell into a magic scroll and activate the magic on it.
Yet Eiding could actually cast spells through this Phantom?
No. If it could cast spells, then it should not be counted as a Phantom, but as a clone.
Put that way, Alama remembered that the earlier background investigation on Eiding seemed to have mentioned that the founder of the Klar Family had apparently relied on a unique clone illusion art to win merit on the battlefield, thereby gaining a foothold in The Kingdom.
It was just that neither Eiding's father's generation nor his grandfather's generation had ever displayed this magic, so Alama had thought it had long since been lost.
Now it seemed this lost art had actually reemerged in Eiding's hands!
In truth, it had never truly been lost.
Even when the family had declined to the point of losing all its fiefs,