Bang, bang, bang—
The smoke refused to dissipate, as if Leah was wary of a sneak attack and refrained from using largescale magic.
However, Leah’s witch’s eyes likely allowed her to see the flickering of Shuna’s magical circuits when she cast spells, which explained the accuracy of her fla bullets—especially after Shuna blocked them with ice bullets.
Within the lingering smoke…
It felt like Leah was engaging in a childish ga of trading fire and ice bullets with her.
With her defenses up, even though she couldn’t pinpoint Leah’s direction in the smoke, she could still block all of Leah’s attacks by sound.
“Still holding on?”
“This backandforth in the smoke seems endless.”
“Why don’t you co out, and we’ll have an honest fight.”
“Oh, I forgot, you might not know. Will likes straightforward people the most—people like .”
Shuna wasn’t particularly angered by most of Leah’s words, but this bit of trash talk got under her skin!
She was a pretty straightforward person herself.
But…
Right now, she was indeed more injured than Leah, and she was still testing Leah’s strength.
Her attacks were fierce and not without thod, even adhering to a strict academic style.
Whether it was the Flaburst, her ultimate moves, or the temperature of her fla bullets, they were all quite high.
But…
Aside from her intense attacks and the high temperature of her fire magic, there seed to be nothing else.
Her attacks…
Were focused entirely on the heat of the flas and the intensity of the assault, as if designed to break through a particularly strong defense. Shuna had seen adventurers with such specialized skills before, but Leah’s focus was so singular that it seed like she was trained specifically to target a particular boss.
Because of this, perhaps her defense and agility were her weak points, completely uninvested?
What kind of attack would Leah launch next?
Was she already exhausted, or just getting started…
As Shuna pondered this, she noticed the smoke around her thinning…
Wait…
This was…
She looked over and saw that Leah hadn’t moved much; she was playing the role of a “stationary mage” quite well.
But…
She had dragged over the table filled with all sorts of witch tools and stood on it.
“Brand our fate, burn our souls, scorch our lives…”
Shuna listened to her begin her chant.
Extre Fla teor?
That was a familiar ancient magic, after all, Will had used it many tis.
With Leah’s abilities, such ancient magic should be instantcast…
No, wait.
Shuna realized that the smoke around her was dissipating… not because the ti was up, but because…
She was using the storm generated by her chanting to clear the smoke. For a longrange mage, the biggest obstacle was gone.
There was hardly any smoke left on the ground!
Moreover, she had found a table, giving her a clearer view and allowing the smoke to gather above her head.
“This is Extre Fla teor—”
With the airflow and storm, the smoke around Shuna was swept away.
The Extre Fla teor ca hurtling toward Shuna’s head.
But because of this, Shuna had an idea.
To execute this plan, the first thing she needed to do was…
Dodge this attack.
Leah’s round table was quite tall.
Clatter, clatter.
On the table were tools for drawing blood, tools for injecting blood, costics for grooming, an hourglass, iron hoops… oh, and Will’s discarded clothes.
When she first ordered this table, she had envisioned herself sitting elegantly at its edge like a mature witch.
But…
She hadn’t expected the table to serve such a purpose beyond holding tools.
It allowed her to stand tall, overlooking everything—
Indeed.
“Standing high, it’s quite exhilarating to look down on everything.”
Including the escape path of that wretched woman.
Shuna continued to run across the vast expanse of the Witch’s Box, evading Leah’s attacks.
“Run, run, don’t you feel like a rabbit in a cage, waiting to be roasted and served?”
The smoke had cleared.
At this mont, Leah treated the Extre Fla teor like a basic attack, bombarding Shuna as she ran within the fanshaped range in front of her.
“No matter how you run, you can’t escape—you can’t escape!”
Shuna was indeed fast on the field, even the speedoriented Extre Fla teor couldn’t touch her. But she could only advance in small arcs, maintaining a safe distance.
If she strayed too far, she’d expend too much energy dodging and couldn’t maintain it for long.
“You’re already an injured rabbit, why not stop and let roast you properly?”
As she spoke, another staff in Leah’s hand cracked from the head down.
She seamlessly discarded it and pulled another from her ring.
“The woman who lured him away from —”
The temperature in the room rose.
“The bastard who bewitched him—”
The room was filled with more and more craters.
“The villain who stole his gaze from !”
The pink in Leah’s eyes was gradually overtaken by an angry red, growing more intense.
Will had already responded to her.
She had already captured his gaze.
Why did people like this still appear to interfere?!
Kill her, kill her, kill her, kill her, kill her—
About five minutes of bombardnt.
Not just the Extre Fla teor.
Leah had used nearly every instantcast fire magic in her ring, but with the storm from the Extre Fla teor, the “Witch’s Box” wouldn’t easily be shrouded in smoke.
Though Leah didn’t want to admit it…
Shuna, who had taken a heavy hit in the first strike and endured the pain of burns, was indeed the strongest adventurer she had encountered.
No, precisely because she was such a strong adventurer.
She had to prove herself before Will.
The self who had spent three years in Entark with him, of course, could singlehandedly kill soone like this—
“Huff…”
When the ground was no longer suitable for running, Shuna finally stopped.
Leah’s relentless bombardnt paused as well.
Shuna didn’t respond to any of Leah’s trash talk.
Then…
When the ground was full of craters, she stopped.
“Finally stopping, ready to face ?”
Leah’s face lit up with a smile as she discarded her fourth staff and raised the next one.
No chanting.
Her trump card…
It was a midlevel magic she had developed with Will at Entark First Academy, aiming to advance toward the ancient magic “Primordial Candle.”
Because this magic required a long ti to brew various potions and a lengthy chant, after the first successful experint, she had stored a copy in her ring on Will’s suggestion, just in case.
If the person before her could withstand this move, she’d admit they had so skill.
Increasingly intense.
Increasingly hateful.
Increasingly arrogant.
Increasingly angry.
Increasingly jealous.
It was in this state that the ancient magic erupted—
On that ordinary staff, flas trembled, never before had flas burned, compelled by Leah’s aura and anger.
“Furious Blaze!!!”
Shuna found Leah quite terrifying.
Unlike other dungeon monsters she had encountered, Leah’s terror lay in her disregard for her own safety in her magical consumption.
Was it because a witch’s circuits were unique?
Or did the strange catalysts on the ground extend her efficiency?
For a normal person, such massive consumption, especially with hightemperature fire magic, should have overloaded them by now.
Watching the twelveyearold witch’s wild words from the chair, Shuna could only think…
Was this girl high and unable to feel tired?
But…
Was she really going to unleash ancient magic again so soon? And it seed to be an instantcast stored in her magical ring.
No problem.
Shuna had already devised a strategy, albeit with so risk, but it was worth a try.
“Furious Blaze!!!”
Shuna felt it, this magic…
Was extrely dangerous.
More dangerous than any fire magic she had seen from dungeon bosses.
It was as if it had been refined to perfection, designed to scorch anything that could be placed in flas, cooking it the mont it entered the fire.
A witch so specialized in fire magic, to the point of obsession, could produce ancient magic of this caliber.
But…
Shuna had prepared a response, a selfdeveloped “postmodern” magic of considerable strength.
Using water and ice to counter overly powerful fire magic was a last resort, as the resulting steam could cause more severe burns.
Shuna’s choice was…
“Thousands of Fla Bullets, Release.”
—A lengthy fire magic chanted while running.
—Using each crater as a rudintary magic circle.
—Detonating hundreds of delayedexplosion bombs…
—All at once!
Two completely different fire magics and highheat explosions collided.
It was an explosion far beyond imagination.
“?!”
Leah’s eyes widened.
The heat wave before her reached much farther than she had anticipated.
So…
Standing on the table, she was swept off by the heat wave.
“Cough… cough, cough, the smoke… the smoke is so thick.”
Staggering a few steps on the ground, she managed to stand.
Leah rose and quickly checked herself, finding no injuries.
But…
She felt a bit tired. Was it because the scent of BloodRed Mint Essential Oil in the air had been evaporated by the repeated hightemperature magic, causing her magical circuit catalyst to fall short?
In total, the ti spent here with Will had exceeded five hours.
—Had she known that annoying pests would invade her territory, she should have saved a bottle of BloodRed Mint Essential Oil to let her experience the highesttemperature magic.
“Now I can’t see anything.”
Leah used her staff to support herself as she stood, but the mont it touched the ground, it turned to ash.
Even a brandnew staff couldn’t withstand a single highlevel ancient magic?
The area was shrouded in smoke for the second ti.
“Adding fuel to the fire? What… what kind of suicidal attack is this?!”
She couldn’t understand her enemy’s actions.
Why use an explosion to counter an explosion?
Moreover, that person was much closer to the blast and added more fuel, surely…
As Leah thought this, a shadow flickered through the smoke.
—Still alive?
Damn, she was doing it on purpose, to disrupt her vision?!
Apart from the rapid footsteps in the smoke, nothing else could be heard.
But even hearing those footsteps was futile…
Whoosh—
The footsteps suddenly stopped.
Where was she?
As long as… as long as she found her position.
Then, in the next second.
Leah could see the other’s black hair, like a phantom in the smoke, elusive, appearing before her.
A flash of a blade.
—She’s using a knife, just… just need to grab sothing to block—
Almost reflexively, Leah instinctively grabbed for “sothing” to block the incoming blade.
She felt a rodlike object beside her.
Of course, in her own territory, how could anyone defeat her? Even the staff she discarded was within reach!
Clang.
However, when the blade t her staff, she heard the sound of iron clashing with iron.
—No, how could a wooden staff make such a sound?
—But it did indeed block the knife more securely and solidly.
The staff in her hand…
She had never seen it before…
And it was…
Made of iron?
“How… how is this possible? You calculated it perfectly, you shouldn’t… huh? This is…”
Shuna was also startled by the feel of her dagger.
What a joke?!
Wasn’t this the “Ancient Fla Staff: Prototype” that Will had been obsessed with crafting?!
It had just rolled to her side?
And it had blocked the move she was sure would defeat the already crazed witch.
—Will, oh Will, it’s not that I don’t want to save you.
—Please stop digging holes for yourself! I’m begging you!
Of course, at this mont, Will lay behind Leah like a lifeless corpse.
“Defense magic, rebound.”
“Tch…”
Shuna was knocked back two or three ters by the rebound.
The more force she had applied, the stronger the rebound, and it took her a mont to stand.
Leah, using the staff she had just picked up, steadied herself on the ground.
“Could it be…”
She opened her hand, and right where she often gripped it…
Was the unmistakable symbol of the Great Witch’s Hat.
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