Chapter 33: Welcome Back
After the ability of "separation" was released and the white fog was dispelled, the situation of the battle changed further in an unknowable direction.
The most obvious point is that the delphinium has switched from the previous defender to the attacker. It's just that this kind of "attack" is not an attack in simple hand-to-hand combat, but an attack in intelligence.
Possessing the ability to separate means that as long as a certain ability of the kite is known and understood by her, this ability will be instantly excluded from the battle.
Keeping an eye on the kite's movements, the delphinium changed the form of the masterpiece to attack it, while constantly observing the opponent's every move, and began to look for the object of the next ability in his mind.
She knew exactly what she was going to do now and what her real goals were. It is impossible to seriously injure or even kill the other party in this short period of time, and the only thing she can do is to weaken the ability of the kite.
Although the weaving life under normal conditions cannot permanently deprive the other party of its ability, as long as the "separation" is successfully achieved, at least for a short time, the other party will not be able to use it again.
The first time she used her life-weaving ability to separate the other party's qi, as long as she was able to cut away a key concept the second time, then the kite's combat effectiveness would be greatly weakened. At that time, let Red Si and defeat the other party.
And with the fighting style of Red Siyou, what is the biggest obstacle to defeating the kite?
Delphinium began to think about this.
One of the obstacles is undoubtedly the qi that has been separated, and the other party relies on its own qi to greatly weaken the lethality of the red mind and the technique, which is undoubtedly a troublesome ability.
And the other obstacle seems to be the ink-like magic suit in his hand.
Kite's name for this magic costume is "Hundred Martial Arts", and judging from its use and performance, the ability shown by this magic costume is deformation, as well as strong penetration.
Whether it is the magic barrier created by the magic method, or even the masterpiece of the delphinium itself, once it comes into contact with the kite's magic costume, it is as if it has lost the nature of its magic power, and it is cut by the "Hundred Martial Arts" with a physical form.
Although it is not clear what this magic suit is capable of, judging from the appearance alone, this is already a threat enough to Hong Sihe.
Because Hong Sihe obviously does not have the ability to fight in close combat like herself, as a magical girl whose style is ridiculed as "Turret", her combat relies on magic and magic costumes to suppress the enemy from a distance. Because of this, once Kite chooses to turn the magic costume into a long-range weapon and engage in a long-distance tug of war with Red Sihe, Red Sihe, who lacks defensive means, may become a target.
Thinking about it this way, if the opponent's only long-range attack method is separated, then the next battle situation will definitely lead to a situation that is favorable to Red Sihe.
It's just that the idea is beautiful, but the reality is regrettable: the delphinium can't directly separate the other party's "magic costume".
Because the essence of the magic costume is actually the true appearance of the magical girl.,Separating the magic costume means directly depriving the other party of a part of the original appearance.,The concept of "true appearance",Just listen to it, you know that it's not something you can handle now.。
The stronger the concept of separation, the more mana is consumed to maintain it. Even if it is a delphinium at its peak, it is extremely difficult to separate a part of the true appearance of a flower card with a single sword.
Therefore, if she wants to solve the other party's magic costume, the concept she cuts out must not be a "magic costume", but something else.
So, what exactly is this thing supposed to be?
With this thought, the attack in Delphinium's hand also became much stronger, and she began to abandon some of her defenses, and even began to take some of the injuries on her own initiative, in order to force the kite to make some more risky responses.
This is not only because she has little time left, but also because she wants to force the other party to reveal more of her abilities.
This kind of thinking naturally cannot be perceived by Red Si and Semi on the sidelines, and in their perspectives, the battle undoubtedly begins to turn to Delphinium suppressing the kite. The dispelling of the white mist directly caused the kite to deform its fighting style. While its movements are still swift and skillful, they have apparently become much more awkward.
The white mist, which was made of "qi" and cut by the delphinium, was a natural defense against magic. In past battles, this means of defense is invincible, whether it is against humans or beasts. Because of this, kites have become accustomed to abandoning their defenses against magical attacks in hand-to-hand combat.
Although this does not mean that she has lost her ability to fight normally against magical power, the sudden change in her fighting habits has indeed affected her to a certain extent. It is precisely because of this that the delphinium was given the opportunity to attack.
There is not much time left for the reappearance of the costume, and the delphinium will have to take a more aggressive approach if it wants to win in the time it has left.
The kite was unable to use his qi defenses, and the delphinium gave up her defenses in order to achieve victory, and the battle began to become extremely dangerous, and small wounds continued to appear on the two of them, but they ignored them.
The costume has only a minute's duration left.
Both the delphinium and the kite had no room to speak, and were engrossed in each other's movements, reacting as quickly as they could.
The scissors in his hand have gradually become illusory, and the original solid outline has been blurred, but the battle between the two is still in a stalemate. Even though the delphinium has gradually suppressed the opponent's offensive, it has never been able to find an opportunity to win.
But she didn't get anxious because of this, on the contrary, the more anxious the situation, the calmer her consciousness became.
The weaving life in his hand was almost unable to maintain its own form, and it was not far from dissipating, but the delphinium still couldn't observe any chance to decide the victory.
If you know the exact ability of the opponent's magic costume, then Delphinium may be able to do something directly to the "Baiwu", but unfortunately, the kite is just belligerent, which does not mean that she is a fool, and when her own qi is separated, she will never mention anything about her ability.
Obviously, she also knew that the delphinium's magic costume had a certain time limit, and when the five-minute time limit was over, the enemies in front of her would no longer pose a threat. So instead of anxiously settling the battle, the kite now is more like enjoying the battle.
There is only half a minute left before the time limit for reproduction.
The pace of the weapon fight became faster and faster, and the delphinium began to press further in an attempt to find the flaws in the other party, but although the kite had fallen into passivity, it was still strictly guarded, and would rather suffer some minor injuries than reveal other information.
If it weren't for the fact that the nature of the battle between the two had changed, I am afraid that no one would know that they were not fighting to the death, but fighting a unique intelligence war.
When the battle entered the last twenty seconds, the kite even began to defend like a turtle shell, and everything was only pursued without mistakes and misses, and completely gave up the attack.
"Is this the way to win head-to-head?" Delphinium had to speak again, trying to provoke with words, "Rely on delaying time to win? ”
"Soldiers have the art of war, and war has strategy."
The kite slightly hooked the corners of his mouth in the fierce attack: "Endurance is also an indispensable part of the fight, and it is not a shame to outperform the opponent in endurance." ”
"Qubble." Delphinium pointed out the essence of the other party's words with a blank face.
"The truth is, as long as I win, I have a clear conscience."
Kite smiled a little indifferently: "No matter how nice it sounds, victory is the most important thing, when there is a possibility of winning, no matter how embarrassing it is, you must seize the opportunity!" ”
After saying this, she continued to adopt a defensive posture, as if she was going to drag it out to the end.
With only ten seconds left, Delphinium gave up all off-the-crow tactics and began to make a last-ditch effort, using up a hundred points of her energy and starting to attack as best she could.
Blades, daggers, fist gloves, she continued to use different forms of magic costumes, and at the same time, she also narrowed the distance between the two sides step by step, until finally, the two of them were enough to see each other's eyes clearly.
The heavy pupils of the kite are like a cluster of fiery fire, burning with confidence; The eyes of the delphinium are like a calm lake, containing the unknown.
With only five seconds left, she untied the silk thread in her hand, intertwining it into a form she had never seen before, a scythe that stretched out from behind the kite.
"Masterpiece, the fifth, Harpa of the harvest."
Taking advantage of the deformed nature of the silk thread itself, the delphinium bypassed the laws of human movement, and in this way, the Delphinium sent the blade of the sickle to the back of the kite's neck, and was almost able to cut the back of the opponent's neck by almost a millimeter.
At such a distance, she could complete the attack with a slight retraction of the scythe, thus taking off its head.
And this is the first and last time she checkmates the other party in this close combat.
She didn't expect to be able to kill the other party with such an attack, but only by giving such tremendous pressure could she possibly see Kite's true magic ability.
In the last five seconds of the reappearance of the costume, the delphinium hooked the scythe in her hand.
Under her gaze, the kite's expression changed from stunned and puzzled to happy and relieved. Then, as if in the towel, she lifted the inky metal in her hand and poured magic into it.
"Hyakwu."
At the sound of its shouts, the scythe in the Delphinium's hand became extremely solid in that moment, and it was difficult to cut into the neck of the kite. As if it had touched something that was much harder than the blade, the scythe slashed aside.
This fatal attack was easily fended off with a shout from the kite.
This seems to be her victory in the game, but both of them actually know that from this moment on, Kite has already lost in this intelligence war.
Because she exposed her ability to disguise.
The Delphinium's masterpiece, the scythe, is also derived from its own magic costume, and through personal interweaving and processing, it is endowed with far more lethality than ordinary techniques. Theoretically, as long as the attack works, there is nothing that cannot be cut.
If you want to make this attack ineffective, you need to use stronger magic to hedge and break up the blade of the scythe from the magic level to solve this attack.
But obviously, under the pressure of such an urgent choice, what Kite adopted was not the release of magic power that she was not good at, but the magic costume ability that she was most familiar with.
And the final effect of this ability is as if the scythe in the hand of the delphinium has turned into mortal iron, and the moment it hits the kite, it loses all the properties given by the magic power.
This kind of sight can only occur when ordinary mortal iron cuts into a magical creation, as if it has touched some hard and smooth object, and it is blocked without being able to do any damage.
So, what exactly did the kite do, it is not difficult to guess.
In the last two seconds of the costume reappearance time, Delphinium raised the scissors in her hand and completed the cutting action in one second, announcing her understanding of the kite's ability at the last moment.
- "De-manatilization, physicalization." ”
To ensure that the manifesto was accurate, she described the ability from both positive and negative perspectives. Then, he felt a huge amount of magic power coming from the scissors that were about to dissipate, and almost took away most of the magic power in his body.
Click.
With a light crunch, the scissors in Delphinium's hand crumbled along with the inky metal in the kite's hand.
Having reached the time limit for reproduction, Scissors accomplished its mission at the last minute.
After each repetition, the records of things in the "Hundred Records of the Hundred Seas" will be completely consumed and need to be replenished for a long time.
For magic spells, Red Soul can compensate for this shortcoming by recording the same spell in large numbers, but for something as unique and unique as magic costumes, this method is obviously not versatile enough.
This also means that the battle has been decided here, and the success of the delphinium to declare the opponent's magic ability almost means victory; The failure of the declaration means that the two have lost their chance to win.
As for the result, it was already clear when she saw the magic costume in Kite's hand - she succeeded.
The magic costume, which was originally in the form of a liquid metal, had lost its metallic luster at this time, and had completely turned into a black, ink-like mass of magic.
This means that, no matter which angle of the delphinium's declaration is correct, at least she has succeeded in separating the ability of the kite: from now on, no matter how the costume changes form, it is only changing the shape of the magic, and it no longer has the terrifying penetration and lethality of the past.
Even if the other party has any means to further liberate the ability of the magic suit, the disappearance of this concept is irreparable, and the concept that is the core ability of the magic suit is removed, even if it is strengthened, it is difficult to say how useful it is.
As for how long this state will last, at least judging by the remaining mana consumption of the delphinium itself, it won't be a problem to maintain it for a few more hours.
And a few hours is enough time for Red Si to solve this battle.
The two looked at each other quietly, and neither of them spoke for a while. Delphinium was calm, but her slightly shaky fingers proved that she was not without pressure; Although Kite was separated from the ability of the magic suit, her face was more satisfied after a fierce battle than the frustration of defeat.
"I lost." She spread her hands with a smile on her face, "You're right, my magic ability is 'physical'. At the same time, it is also the core ability of the magic suit, and without it, it will be difficult for me to defeat the junior over there in my current state. ”
"'The current state' refers to the state of not using Wonderland and further abilities, doesn't it?"
Delphinium exhaled slowly: "In other words, you actually have reservations. ”
"As I said, I don't want to use my own wonderland."
Kite shook his head: "My Wonderland, although it has extremely strong restrictions on everyone in the range, actually has an overwhelming advantage over myself. Unfolding Wonderland, using the rules, this kind of victory is no fun. If you say you don't want to use it, you don't need to use it, and as for further things, there's no need to talk about it, I hate bullying fights. ”
"You seem to be confident in your other abilities as well."
Delphinium raised an eyebrow: "Rather, I've never seen anyone who regards 'using all your strength' as 'bullying'. ”
"The full strength of being a martial arts cultivator is different from the full strength of being a magical girl."
Kite crossed his hands on his hips: "There is no fun in a game without rules, there is no point in fighting without enemies, enjoy every valuable battle in life, respect every opponent who can bring me fun in the rules, this is my life creed." ”
- "This kind of creed will only lead me to go back with you and be scolded by the leader!" ”
Seeing that the two of them were even about to feel a little sympathy for each other, Semi on the side shouted in a rather broken heart: "You should hurry up and start a wonderland, hurry up and liberate!" We're not here for a family, the source of the beast is a very important thing! ”
"Shut up, Semi, and don't say such spicy things while I'm enjoying the aftermath of the war."
The kite glanced at it dissatisfiedly: "I finally enjoyed a hearty battle, so I don't want to continue to worry about the troublesome things that the leader explained." ”
"So you're going to just go back?"
The other party's easy-to-talk attitude made Delphinium feel a little unreal, and couldn't help but speak in order to confirm: "Obviously you haven't used all your abilities yet?" ”
"Losing is losing, and I don't like to make excuses."
The kite waved her hand: "However, I didn't say that I would just go back like this, right?" ”
"What?" The delphinium and Semi beside her made a puzzled sound.
"Please, I finally got out of the penance and returned to the human city, I also want to enjoy modern life."
The kite looked at the one person and one goblin who made a sound: "I only came to Fangting City this morning, and let me go back to the wasteland in the afternoon?" Penance isn't such an ascetic, I'm going to have a good time here for a few days! ”
"As for the fight, it's not just that one."
She clasped her hands and stuffed them into the wide sleeves of her robe: "It's rare to find such a good opponent, I will definitely have to fight with you a few more times, and don't mind if I bother you when the time comes." ”
“…… You mean, this time it doesn't count, next time it will be compared. Delphinium slightly hesitated to analyze the meaning of the other party's words: "What if I lose next time?" ”
"Then I'll kidnap you and the source of the beast together."
Kite smiled a little heartily: "I'm really interested in you now, and I'm looking forward to your strength after healing your injuries." If you can add claw marks, we're going to have a lot in common. ”
"It doesn't matter how many times you win, but if you lose once, you're really losing......"
Delphinium sighed helplessly: "I remember you were still saying things like 'you won't bully the weak' just now. ”
"Hmph, all principles are based on my preferences and moods."
Kite straightened out his tattered robe, rolled up his sleeves, and rolled up his hem: "If you want me to give up completely, defeat me who really did my best, at that time I will admit that I have failed the mission, and then obediently leave." ”
After saying this, she stretched out her hand, grabbed Semi, who seemed to be dissatisfied, and waved her hand at the slightly tired Delphinium: "Let's go, next time I will go directly to the Alien Bureau to find someone to contact you." ”
After saying this, the pitch-black magic enveloped her figure, and the figure of a person and a goblin turned into an afterimage, disappearing from the front of the delphinium and Hong Sihe.
Leaving the two magical girls standing in place, looking at the already empty sky, not knowing what to think for a moment.
Delphinium pondered what the kite said before leaving, and finally had to admit that neither she, nor even Fang Ting City, was capable of driving away this uninvited guest now, and it seemed that she had to accept the existence of such an "enemy" here.
Fortunately, the other party doesn't seem to be the character of Mousse who doesn't agree with ordinary people, saying that he wants to play here, and he is probably just playing - if he doesn't eat the overlord meal.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh helplessly, turned back to Hong Sihe, and wanted to ask about the specific situation here.
It's just that she just turned around, and she was greeted by a hug.
- "I'm back, Senpai. ”
Red Sihe had already flown over from behind, hugged the delphinium, and pressed her chin against the delphinium's forehead. And even if Delphinium wanted to look up, she didn't look down at all, just to hide her slightly hot face after making this action.
Feeling this long-lost hug, the delphinium opened her mouth slightly, and the question she was about to ask was replaced by another sentence at this moment, and when she spoke, there was only a simple response:
"Ah, welcome back."
It's not just Hong Siyu who came back, but also the magical girl who has retired once, but now has returned to this world again.
Next, resume the normal update.
(End of chapter)