The process of casting the spell went smoothly, and Lucina felt that if she continued at this pace, she would be able to disintegrate in no time.

But in an instant, the terrible sound of metal grinding that he had heard suddenly sounded in front of him, startling Lucina into a thrill, and almost making the previous spell casting progress go to waste—fortunately, he reacted quickly and was able to maintain his progress and continue to work.

It was the first time I heard that voice so close without warning, and it really made everyone's nerves, which had been slightly relaxed, nervous again.

“...... Hey, Tia. Get ready. Immediately calming down, Lucina solemnly and deeply called out to Rafipol to evacuate the cube and called out to the water spirits.

Knowing what the master wanted to do, she stroked her long light blue hair slightly and closed her eyes slightly. Between the hands that were raised, a ball of magic water had already been lifted in the sound of the wonderful flow of water.

It's her charging for the spell she's about to unleash. Creating a magic water ball in advance to accumulate spell energy allows her to strengthen her subsequent spells and increase the strength of her mana.

A similar energy storage tactic is used by many mages. It's just that it may not be spherical.

The well-charged magic water ball immediately left Tia's palm and hovered behind the side of her body. The second water ball re-spawned almost at the same time, and flew out of the palm of the hand with a more rapid "grunt" of plastic energy—followed by the third, fourth, and fifth that flew out faster and faster...... until the number of water balloons is saturated to seven.

While many of the soldiers were stunned, Lucina's side had also completed preparations for the disintegration of the cube - and now the dark red light was full of restlessness under the guidance of Lucina's mana just now.

While shouting for the guards to stay away, Aya took her hand away from the cube, and her half-spun body suddenly flashed back more than two meters, grabbed the frost spirit that accompanied the flash, and swung her staff while glowing with a strong blue light, sending a short-flashing, specially calculated shock wave of frost energy towards the cube.

The mana ripples that had been deliberately twisted on the large "Mana Rubik's Cube" to disintegrate it did not delay in responding to the impact of the shockwave. The massive red cube burst apart in an instant, in a direct glow of red and blue, disintegrating into a stream of arcane energy.

The shockwave spread rapidly, but Lucina was prepared. With Quick Cast enabled, she omitted the Ice Crystal Shield's chant time and grabbed Frost Spirits tightly and struck down.

With the sound of metal slamming the staff's tail against the ground, a transparent hemispherical shield of ice crystals was formed in the bitter cold air before the explosion spread to the crowd - the shield's protective power proved to be absolutely easy to intercept this energy.

I saw that the shock wave was stopped by the shield, and did not break through the defense line at all. But before everyone had time to breathe a sigh of relief, the inside of the cube, which was originally invisible due to the sight of the shock wave, was exposed, and suddenly everyone's hearts were suspended: what was originally locked in the cube can now be regarded as knowing the mystery.

A black lightless sphere floated in the air and slowly rotated, its body constantly conjuring spikes to thrust around, and then retracted inside, turning into a smooth sphere again. Looking at it, Lucina suddenly understood something: maybe this is why she heard something scratching the metal before!

It was the sound of the orb spinning its body while imprisoned inside, emitting short spikes that slid the inner walls. In this way, everything makes sense.

“...... Hey, what the hell is this?" In the face of such a monster, a guard with a shield in front of him as a defensive gesture was dumbfounded: "This is not a creature at all!"

"Tsk...... Pure Shadow Energy Body......" Recognizing that it was a human-created Dark Elemental Creature, Lucina snorted, not at all surprised: indeed, if it was a physical creature inside, it would be difficult to completely enclose the surroundings with a cube like this.

Thinking so, Lucina sensed the enemy who had no desire to move for the time being, and was surprised to find that its magical energy and shadow aura were extremely strong and restless—which was a bit counterintuitive.

After all, judging from the various performances of that mage, he should be a mage who is not very clever. Was this really the creation of him, the mage who had been killed by the demon who had gone out of control?

For a moment, she wondered why the mage had chosen the warehouse instead of the basement, a wonderful and peaceful environment for spellcasting. But the thought was quickly dispelled: thinking about the cacophony of the monster rubbing against the cube earlier, it was understandable that he wanted to cast a spell in a clean and equally unobtrusive indoor environment. The own warehouse, which also belongs to the courtyard, is definitely a good choice to be able to concentrate.

However, there was also a mage's magic power to maintain the intact barrier, and even if it made a sound, it would not be too loud.

But why he summoned the Huggers is a question...... No, it's better to go there and summon the demon is already a problem. What's the point of using mana resources to strengthen control over the shadow creation, but to summon creatures separately?

Seeing that the shadow creature still had no intention of moving, Lucina couldn't wait. She felt that there was no point in continuing the stalemate, and that it was better to act immediately. Therefore, Guladan was ordered to rush over and take control of the situation.

With the hard body of the stone demon, he was not afraid of the spikes of the black ball at all.

The stone demon, who was already eager to try, immediately grew his body to a height of more than four meters almost above the ceiling of the basement, let out a rather imposing roar, and immediately ran towards the black ball, and grabbed it with open arms as it approached.

Seeing this, the black ball let out a low hum, and more than a dozen dark red spikes more than a meter long pierced out violently around his body, spinning counterclockwise at high speed, and in the sharp friction with the rock, it shook the stone demon's grasp, and left a scratch on his thick and powerful palm.

Lucina ordered in her heart to be on standby for the time being, except for Guladan's demon envoys, so she called back the black flame gargoyle Rafipol, who wanted to help, and stared at the battle situation with a serious face: Guladan smashed his fist into the black ball that was still spinning, and was bounced away again by the fierce sound of "poof".

But despite this, the black ball remained in the same position, with no intention of moving.

However...... Before the stone demon could launch his next attack in anger, something unexpected happened.