"Fighting here will draw too much attention. Come with me to a mirrored sub-dimension!"
"[Spatial Magic: Mirror World]!"
Katerea flicked her wand and tapped lightly at the empty air. An invisible ripple spread out, and Takumi didn't resist as the wave washed over him.
For Katerea, causing excessive casualties would bring pursuit from human powerhouses, and the Celestial side would never just sit by. For Takumi, a battle between the two of them in Kuoh Town would level the area—something he had no wish to see.
Their figures vanished from the spot and arrived in the mirror-dimension version of Kuoh Town. Everything was inverted, and a deathly silence covered the world. With Katerea and Takumi's arrival, life and destruction descended together.
Takumi opened his [Jade Eye] at once to inspect Katerea's information.
[Name: Katerea Leviathan]
[Level: Demon Lord–class]
[Traits: Leviathan Bloodline (Purple), Archmage (Purple), Ancient One (Blue), Magic Scholar (Blue) …]
[Leviathan Bloodline (Purple): Descendant of the Original Demon Lord Leviathan; possesses Leviathan's traits and extraordinary potential.]
[Archmage (Purple): Exceptional magical aptitude; has gone very far in the arcane arts and can wield city-erasing spells with ease.]
[Ancient One (Blue): Across a millennium, has formed unique insights into all things, greatly increasing personal comprehension.]
"Oh~ little one, your eyes aren't ordinary either!" Katerea's voice rang out the instant Takumi read her panel. Clearly, she sensed his peeking.
Takumi realized then that those with great power could indeed perceive his Jade Eye's appraisal. As for Chisato before… she must have simply allowed it.
No time to dwell on it—Katerea's aura in the sky was still skyrocketing!
BOOM!!!
With no need to hold back, even the collision of their pressure alone burst into tangible shockwaves! The rippling blast shattered nearby streets with ease—and this was only the appetizer.
Knowing that the Boosted Gear could ceaselessly raise its host's power, Katerea chose to finish things quickly.
"Behold Leviathan's might—the tailed sea-serpent dragon, sovereignty over the ocean, power to drown the world in chaos!"
Katerea cried out; twelve black devil wings unfurled behind her. In an instant, roaring magic condensed into a cataclysmic tsunami that swept across the entirety of mirrored Kuoh Town!
Crash!
Rumble!!
Street after street and tower after tower were swallowed in a heartbeat! The surging waves seemed to have a will, birthing countless sharp, conical lances that stabbed toward Takumi below.
Staring down the onrushing tide and attacks, Takumi focused all of his magic to a single point.
"[Boosted Gear—Balance Breaker]!"
Vmmm!!!
Unleashed draconic majesty crushed the ground for a kilometer around. The roaring aura scorched the air, incinerating the crashing waves in a breath. Scarlet armor wreathed in blazing flame appeared before Katerea's eyes.
Demon Lord–class! Without question—Demon Lord–class! For a moment, Takumi's terrifying might overshadowed even the Katerea in the sky.
"How is that possible!? Balance Breaker!?"
"No—you shouldn't be able to control that power!"
The certainty vanished from Katerea's face; mature features twisted with alarm.
Many humans in this world bore Sacred Gears, but only a few ever attained Balance Breaker, much less with a God-Slaying Gear like the Boosted Gear. By the data Katerea knew, Takumi had only recently awakened his Sacred Gear!
"Boost!!!"
The emerald jewel on the scarlet gauntlet blazed, raising Takumi's power yet again! There was no time left to think. Katerea, flustered, drove the tsunami forward once more. From the massive currents emerged colossal sea-fish, sea-serpents, and giants—so vivid they might have always existed—and none weaker than a High-class demon!
Attacks of such scale belonged squarely in the strategic category. The wide city of Kuoh was smashed apart in an instant by manifested sea-beasts; tens of thousands of monsters surged to devour Takumi.
Takumi met a fanged leviathan head-on and punched without hesitation.
Bang!!!
Power unparalleled—mere graze reduced the shoal of sea-fish to mist. The ultimate flame sheathing his armor roared higher, burning every encroaching monster to cinders.
"Too low… the efficiency's still too low!!"
Dragon wings flared behind him; his swelling aura seemed to warp space.
"[Boosted Area Anti-Magic Sanctuary]!!!"
A super-wide barrier bloomed from Takumi's position. Originally one of Freya's spells—by deploying an Anti-Magic Sanctuary, any technique touching it would be nullified.
By stacking Boost and Area amplifications, he had forcibly converted a defensive barrier… into an offensive one!
Vmmm!!!
Expanding at light speed, the sanctuary erased Katerea's conjured tsunami like rotten wood. In an instant, the Anti-Magic field blanketed ten thousand li, pressing so hard that Katerea couldn't catch her breath.
Mighty dispelling force seeped into her body without pause; the spells she'd tossed out so casually before became exceedingly difficult to cast.
As she weighed how to break free, a howling wind tore up from below!
Katerea's pupils shrank—Takumi, in Balance Breaker, traced a crimson afterimage through the air and reached her in less than 0.01 seconds!
"Can't dodge!"
Too late to evade, Katerea dipped her body and brought her wand across her front.
BOOM!!!
Air detonated with a thunderclap. An irresistible force exploded against her chest! The wand that had accompanied her for years snapped with a resounding crack! The surging impact slammed straight into her abdomen—organs collapsed in an instant, her spine shattered under the force.
Spinning like a shell, Katerea blasted toward the border of Kuoh Town.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Towers that had yet to crumble were pulverized as she rocketed through them. Like a meteor, she plowed a trench over ten kilometers long, stretching beyond the town's edge!
THUD!
Only when she smashed into a mountain's rock wall did Katerea finally stop skidding backward.
"Gah—!"
Blood fountained from her lips. Wounds ripped across her voluptuous body spewed scarlet as if without limit, painting the ground around her a gruesome red…
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