The attack came without warning, not even the slightest wind of it.

It was as if the tentacle-like strips of black cloth were really just hallucinations, and the strips of cloth that extended towards Hercules didn't seem to have the slightest strength.

But the moment the pitch-black matter extended, Hercules shook Illya off his shoulder, and then clenched the small half-axe sword in his hand that only had the handle of the axe, and slashed it towards the ground.

"Boom!!"

Under the majestic force, the earth shattered, and the cracks spread in the direction of the black shadow, and the rubble splattered violently.

The cracks in the earth that spread out resisted the strips of black cloth that stretched out, and at the same time continued to stretch towards the black shadows.

However, when the ingenuity contained in the earth came to the black shadow, it was like a stone that had submerged into the water, only setting off a little ripple on the black shadow's body, making the black cloth fly wildly, and there was no other movement.

It was as if it was really just an illusion, and all attacks were ineffective against Him.

“…… Nothing. ”

With Lu Xia's eyesight, he naturally saw through the real body under the cover when the cloth was flying, but because he saw his true body clearly, he frowned slightly.

"Parallel to existence and non-existence, is that thing an imaginary creation?"

Imaginary creation refers to the "thing that does not exist" that is created.

Like imaginary space, it is a kind of thing that does not exist in the first place, but is only assumed because it uses the concept of imaginary numbers with magical properties.

After all, magic is a discipline that uses concepts, and after the invention of the concept of imaginary numbers, the concept itself has become a force that can be used by magic.

But then, it's troublesome.

Because the imaginary creation itself is a substance that does not exist in substance, but no attack can hit something that does not exist, in other words, it is inherently invincible.

However, if Ryuxia used the Eye of Death at the risk of brain burnout, it was not that she did not have the possibility of capturing the concept of imaginary numbers—it was just a possibility.

The best way to do this is to find the magician who controls this imaginary creation.

In the field.

After discovering that his attacks had no effect on the shadow, Berserker's fear grew stronger and stronger, to the point where he could not hide it.

Immediately afterward, instead of trying to confront the shadow, he turned around and led Illya out of the place.

It was a completely intuitive decision.

In other words, he made protecting the Lord his first priority, and everything else, such as the grievances of being suppressed by Ryuxia and the fear of the unknown, had to be relegated to the back.

However, at this very moment-

"Buzz ——!"

A pitch-black road appeared on the ground beneath the shadow's feet like an image projected on a blackboard, and in a form that did not conform to the laws of physics, it stretched straight in the direction of Illya.

It was almost instantaneous.

And because he did not have the slightest warning, and the way he attacked was completely confused, no one could react.

- In addition to the big heroes who have an innate sense of strong intuition.

Before the dark road was about to touch Illya, the big hero subconsciously stretched out his hand and gently pushed the silver-haired girl out.

“——”

Silent.

The pitch-black path spread to the feet of the great hero, and it swelled violently, forming a seemingly bottomless abyss, from which pitch-black tentacles stretched out, tightly wrapped around Hercules' limbs and body.

And the moment he was entangled by this pitch-black tentacle, his body suddenly deteriorated.

Starting from the part that was entangled, both the skin and the bones had a sense of strangeness as if they were haunted by a curse, and this extremely ominous curse was still rapidly spreading to the whole body, as if the whole person had become no longer himself.

"Roar, Roar, Roar, !!Roar, Roar, Roar, Roar, T

Hercules let out an angry roar, his muscles clattering, trying to break the black tentacles that were entangled.

But echoing his struggle, the bottomless abyss under his feet also suddenly expanded, and black tentacles that were several times more numerous emerged from it.

He had just broken off the previous tentacles, but he was entangled by more tentacles, and most of his body was covered by those tentacles, and his whole body was rapidly deteriorating.

“Berserker……！”

The girl who was pushed out on the side suddenly panicked in her eyes when she saw that Berserker was sinking deeper and deeper, and no matter how much she roared, she couldn't escape the dark cage.

She gritted her teeth, then snorted, her body suddenly trembled, and countless scarlet stigma suddenly flashed all over her body.

The stigmata were all spells.

It was carved all over her body, not only the back of her hands, her face, her legs, but even under her clothes, showing a scarlet luster, and her whole body was filled with magic that was overwhelmingly beyond ordinary magicians.

In essence, it should be the magic circuit on her body, but it should have been artificially modified before she was born, and her magic circuit was specially forged, so that she became the crystallization of the magic circuit.

If you consider it from the Einzberren family where she was born, maybe this girl is the little chalice of this generation, so she was inflicted such a perverted transformation, turning the magic circuits of her whole body into a spell.

At this moment, she manifested these spells, presumably intending to use them to free Berserker from the shackles of the shadows.

Ryusha stood not far away, watching all this with cold eyes.

To him, the situation of Illya and Berserker was irrelevant, and he wanted to know the imaginary creation—or rather, the purpose of the man behind it.

In that case, then we might as well use Berserker as a sacrifice to test the abilities and means of the imaginary number creation.

“……？”

At this moment, Lu Xia's eyes suddenly rose abruptly, and his eyes couldn't help but fluctuate slightly as he looked at the direction of the black shadow.

"...... that?"

In the field.

"Boom!!"

Suddenly, a dazzling golden light fell from the sky.

At the same time, a narrow, but seemingly inviolable, golden barrier stretched out from under Hercules' feet, enveloping him directly.

The pitch-black tentacles were cut off inexplicably, and the golden enchantment separated the inside and outside, no matter how much the pitch-black abyss squirmed, no matter how unwilling to stretch out the tentacles, the enchantment would not move at all.

The next moment.

A male figure wearing a red and white magic robe appeared in the middle of the field, attracting the eyes of several people.