"I see. So it's you, the culprit leading the world toward destruction."
The moment the Taboo skill reached max level, Tsukasa knew the whole truth, and instinctively sensed that this man's very existence was an error.
The world was asking her for help.
"Kill this man!" That's what the voice said.
That was not a voice from the system.
But a roar from the world itself.
Tsukasa looked at Eidor sitting on her shoulder.
Did they see the same scenery and hear the same voice?
"You can kill him," Eidor said through Telepathy, "but this is only his clone."
Tsukasa looked at the muzzle aimed at her, and the purple eye on her left activated an Evil Eye.
「Petrification」
The muzzle instantly turned to stone.
The Petrification phenomenon even spread through that part toward Potimas's entire body.
"!"
Potimas's eyes widened.
One of his arms broke off, turned to stone, and fell to the ground.
"You can use magic within the barrier?!"
"This is impossible. The Anti-Magic Barrier has already cut off your connection to the outside world. How can you still use skills when you can't connect to the system?!"
"What on earth did you do?!"
It seemed that the fact she could use magic within the Anti-Magic Barrier had dealt a strong blow to this man's pride.
Tsukasa held up an index finger.
「Purgatory」
Flames ignited from within Potimas's body.
"Answer me!"
Potimas completely ignored the flames on his body and roared as he rushed toward her.
「Fireball」
Boom!
Tsukasa looked expressionlessly at the wreckage lying on the ground, its skin all burned away and mechanical fragments scattered everywhere.
Even at this point...
Potimas was still able to speak.
"Tell... me."
"Why... can you still... use magic?"
The principle of the Anti-Magic Barrier is to create a zero-energy space.
Because this space rejects the existence of all energy, even the system cannot continue to function.
And the result is that all skills, including the ability values themselves, will be weakened.
Because the practitioners of this world all possess skills and ability values through the system, once they lose the energy support of the system, they are just ordinary humans, no different from Villager A on the roadside.
Precisely because this barrier is so abnormal, Sensei, whose strength was originally not weak, would be defeated so quickly.
What would happen to an ordinary person facing a Terminator? The result is predictable.
But the Terminator in front of her was only at this level; without that barrier, he was nothing.
Since this body of his was built for the Anti-Magic...
Barrier ability, then naturally it couldn't be very powerful.
After all, the Anti-Magic Barrier would cut off the connection with the world.
In other words, even if he installed a stronger energy system in this body, the moment the Anti-Magic Barrier activated, the system would also be paralyzed.
Tsukasa opened her right hand to grip a Dark Spear and stabbed it down into the wreckage.
Only after confirming that this Terminator was completely silent did she put all these parts into her Storage Magic Tool.
"Why can I use skills within the barrier?" Tsukasa chuckled softly. "How could I possibly tell you a secret like that?"
After all, since you are my enemy, she had no reason to tell an enemy her trump card.
The reason why Tsukasa could still use skills within the barrier was simple.
That was the exclusive racial skill of the Fairy Race.
「Heart of Nature」
The Anti-Magic Barrier can indeed weaken the energy within the barrier to a point infinitely close to zero, but it is always only 'close' and not complete elimination.
Potimas couldn't possibly do such a thing either, because energy is the foundation of the world.
To create a complete Anti-Magic world, one would at least need the ability to create a world.
The most fundamental effect of 「Heart of Nature」 is to deepen the connection with the world.
And when this effect is expressed in numbers, it is rapid mana recovery.
Within the Anti-Magic Barrier, Tsukasa was not completely unaffected.
However, because of her talent as a member of the Fairy Race, she had a very close connection with the world itself.
Unless she was locked in a world without energy, her energy supply could not be completely cut off.
So the impact of the Anti-Magic Barrier on her was only a temporary reduction of her MP limit.
"But, so the truth of the world is like this."
Tsukasa sighed. Although she had already learned the general truth from Eidor's mouth, now that the level of Taboo was maxed out, she finally understood everything completely.
First of all, this world was indeed on the brink of destruction, just as Eidor had said, with the system only temporarily maintaining this world.
However, because the battle between the previous generation's Hero and Demon King consumed too much energy, the System's energy is now about to run out.
If energy isn't replenished in time, the System might even shut down.
As for why the battle between the Hero and Demon King consumed so much energy, that's because of the Hero's exclusive skill.
The Hero possesses a skill to oppose the Demon King, a one-hit kill skill, and this skill consumes the System's stored energy.
The stronger the target locked by this one-hit kill, the more energy required to pay.
The previous generation's Hero used this skill in the battle with the Demon King. Their attack even broke through dimensions and struck a Classroom on Earth. That single blow completely drained the energy the System had accumulated over many years.
However, there seem to be some inside details in this matter.
Their situation as Reincarnators is also quite special.
Those skill points... perhaps the Reincarnators actually stole a portion of the System's energy too.
"In other words, to save this world, first we need to seal the titles of Demon King and Hero, then recover the energy..."
Tsukasa thought of Wakaba-san's strength and felt this task was simply impossible to complete.
First, it's certain she can't defeat the Demon King.
Then, the Hero's skill is an unreasonable burst divine skill. Although it can only be activated once, that attack can be said to kill gods if gods block it.
Even if the Hero's own attribute values aren't high, as long as that move exists, she absolutely can't defeat the Hero.
So this task is fundamentally impossible to complete.
"Forget it, it's none of my business. I'm not the Savior."
Although initially moved by the world's voice and almost wanting to do something, in the end she found she was just moved for nothing.
Because this might be a task she has no hope of completing in her entire life.
But... if she doesn't do something.
It just feels very uncomfortable.
So.
"Although I can't dismantle those two time bombs, I should still be able to deal with those thieves of the Elf Race. And since I'm already enemies with the Elf Race now, isn't that just perfect?"
Tsukasa picked up the unconscious teacher, planning in her heart how to extract information about the Elf Race from the teacher's mouth.
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