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Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!!!
The long legs in her calf-high socks flashed with a dazzling magical arc. The power of 'Mana Burst' amplified Aoko's physique by several times, as if she had entered the berserk state of the Hulk.
"Aoko..."
Alice's face changed slightly, and a severe expression on her face, she reprimanded her softly.
A trump card should not be revealed so early. The meaning Alice wanted to convey was very obvious. She knew that Aoko could understand her meaning.
But Alice didn't understand. Understanding and obeying were two different things.
Her long, arcing legs suddenly bent and, with a powerful force, boom! The snow on the ground suddenly exploded, sending up a large spray of snowflakes, directly lifting the layer of snow on the ground and leaving a clear shoe print on the hard earth beneath.
Splash—!
Alice, who was behind Aoko, was unable to dodge in time, and the flying snowflakes all showered down on her. Her black winter hat and shawl were sprinkled with white stars.
The icy snowflakes melted on her pale, delicate cheeks.
A bone-chilling cold spread to her brain with the melting of the snowflakes. The witch's eyes instantly filled with anger—and even a hint of killing intent.
Alice's physique was somewhat sensitive to the cold.
The sensation of the snowflakes made her extremely unhappy. But what made her even angrier was Aoko's refusal to listen to advice, completely ignoring their battle plan and acting on her own.
For these two reasons, Aoko was now on Alice's little black book.
Whoosh~ whoosh~
The enraged Aoko was completely unaware that she had been marked by the witch. The high-speed charge stirred up a large amount of air, producing a piercing whistling sound.
In less than two seconds, Aoko had closed the distance to Touko. The distance between the two sides had shrunk from over thirty meters to less than three.
With one more step, Touko would be in Aoko's attack range. Aoko, with her body wrapped in a magical arc, only needed one physical attack, whether it was a punch or a kick, to completely defeat her.
"Still as hot-tempered as ever," Touko sighed helplessly.
Her black-gloved hand waved a profound trajectory in the atmosphere, and the rune of Odin, passed down through the generations, was carved into the atmosphere in that brief moment.
A surging flame suddenly erupted from her fingertips, converging into a huge fireball in the sky. The scorching high temperature instantly melted the snow on the ground. The high temperature it contained was enough to instantly turn a person into charcoal.
Touko waved her arm, pointed her fingertips at the rapidly approaching Aoko, and with a sharp aim, as if pulling a trigger, the huge, purplish-blue fireball, carrying an absolute high temperature, shot towards Aoko Aozaki.
"..."
Aoko's pupils constricted. The huge fireball grew larger and larger in her azure eyes. The biological instinct to fear fire drove her to quickly jump away, avoiding the fireball's path.
It was fortunate that Mana Burst was an all-around physical enhancement. This allowed Aoko's nerves to react in time, and she dodged the flame attack by a hair's breadth.
The fireball passed by Aoko, and after traveling another ten meters, it suddenly exploded, sending up a huge cloud of white smoke. It was a manifestation of the snow being vaporized at a high temperature.
A thick, white mist instantly covered the entire clearing, robbing all three of them of their vision.
A spark flashed in Aoko's mind. She instinctively rolled on the ground, avoiding the giant fireball that flashed past. Before she could stabilize herself, a dense, rough-hewn dozen or so door-panel-sized fireballs came crashing down on her.
"This kind of attack can be fired continuously!!!!" Aoko roared with frustration. With the superb dodging skills of a gymnastics champion, she dodged the huge fireballs one by one.
"Oh, that's thanks to Beo's selfless contribution. Speaking of which, so this is the true power of the rune?"
Touko glanced at the test tube she was holding tightly in her right hand, looked at the boiling golden blood inside, and at her own magical power, which had been multiplied by a dozen times. Her lips curved upwards slightly, and she continued to wave her left hand.
With the wave of her left hand, her palm seemed to have turned into a flamethrower, spitting out dazzling sparks, though the volume of those sparks was a bit too large.
Just as Haru's magical power, when casting a formula, would receive a high-mystery bonus, Touko's fire rune, cast with the blood of a Phantasmal Species, also received a huge bonus.
"No wonder the modern runes are not so famous. So, the power of the rune varies from person to person? Does it get such a bonus when used with a high-mystery?"
Alice, hiding outside the attack range, sensed the situation in the clearing and frowned, contemplating the principles of magic.
As for Aoko's situation, of being used as a target for cannon fire, Alice had no intention of helping. Who told her to shower her with snow earlier?
'This is an Aozaki family affair. I can't interfere.' Alice stood on the sidelines with a sage-like expression, completely forgetting who had been fighting Touko to protect Aoko in Shagi Park last night.
Aoko, with a carp-like roll, dodged another fireball and quickly stood up. She looked at the white, indistinguishable scene one meter away, her lip twitching.
"In this environment, how are you locking onto me!!!" she roared.
"Oh my? You haven't even learned the basics of mana perception? Alice, what kind of teacher are you?" Touko raised an eyebrow and looked at Alice with some surprise.
Her sharp gaze pierced through the thick mist and landed on her cheek.
Though the weaker Aoko was—the better for her—Touko was seriously displeased that Aoko had been taught so poorly by Alice. To be honest, she herself didn't understand what she was feeling right now.
"She's too stupid," Alice retorted, her expression impassive.
Though mana perception was just a beginner-level skill of mana micro-manipulation, Aoko, who couldn't learn any fine manipulation of mana, was just that stupid.
"Ah, I can't argue with that." Hearing this, Touko's face froze for a moment, and she shrugged helplessly.
Though they were talking, Touko's hands didn't stop for a moment. She was still an infinite battery, unleashing a terrifyingly powerful barrage of fire at Aoko, looking forward to the moment she was charred by a fireball.
"Damn it, Alice, whose side are you on!!!"
Aoko, with her body covered in an electric arc, used a vaulting horse posture to jump over a fireball and, in mid-air, she shouted with frustration.
"The side of truth," the black-bellied witch said, her emotionless tone a mockery of Aoko, dealing a severe blow to the young woman's spirit.
Aoko's brow twitched. She desperately wanted to quit the battle and fight Alice for three hundred rounds. But Touko's relentless attacks completely pinned her down, and with the misty environment, she could only be on the defensive.
"Tsk, if this goes on, I'll be kited to death. I have to think of a way," Aoko frowned, pursing her lips.
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