The air vibrated with magic power, a roaring sound erupted, and the magic power visible to the naked eye, enveloping the entire body, was intentionally compressed and wrapped around Rin's right arm. A fist, dazzling like a comet, smashed into the pointed head of the Bridge Giant, which resembled a drawbridge pier!
Alice Kuonji, observing all this, remained calm and composed, because fairy tale familiars possess a special defense mechanism called 'Inheritance Defense,' derived from ancient fairy tales. If one cannot target the weaknesses described in the fairy tale, simple magic and physical attacks will not have much effect.
But this composure was shattered the moment Rin's fist landed on the Bridge Giant's head.
The Bridge Giant's stony body was covered by a faint, bubble-like luminous film. This seemingly fragile bubble represented millennia of legend for fairy tale familiars! As long as the monster's weakness in the fairy tale could not be broken, this film would ensure the fairy tale familiar would not be destroyed.
However, the moment the magic power attached to the outside of Rin's fist touched this 'Inheritance Defense,' the supposedly unbreakable 'Inheritance Defense' instantly shattered like a real bubble! Rin's heavy fist, roaring like a dragon, solidly smashed into the Bridge Giant's head!
"What?!" Even Alice, who was not accustomed to human emotions, couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice.
It was like a comet striking Earth! The Bridge Giant's head, which was shaken by the blow, had a fist-sized crater smashed into its surface by Rin. The violent magic power instantly surged into the Bridge Giant's head through this breach, forming an invisible magic net within the solid stone head, and then... "Explode!"
"Boom!"
The magic power detonation was like a small nuclear bomb placed inside the Bridge Giant's head. The internal magic power exploded, instantly blowing the Bridge Giant's head into scattered rubble!
Concept Analysis! This was the second trait of Rin's End Magic, gradually awakening as Rin's strength approached her origin. Its effect was automatic analysis; any concept existing relative to End Magic would be automatically analyzed by the concept of finale.
The power of magic comes from mystery; losing its mystery means losing its power. The end to which all finales ultimately return, even the origin cannot be higher than the finale; there is no concept that the finale cannot analyze. Therefore, existences formed purely by concept or magic cast will collapse and dissipate the moment they come into contact with End Magic!
Rin's fist was an attack, 'Inheritance Defense' was a defense; defense is relative to attack, thus it was instantly analyzed and decomposed by the concept of finale.
Rin stepped on the Bridge Giant's headless broken neck and rushed towards Alice behind the giant. The fairy tale witch, whose familiar had been destroyed, seemed stunned, remaining motionless, still watching Rin leap towards her with an unruffled expression.
Seeing Alice's calm demeanor, Rin instantly thought of something and instinctively felt a sense of crisis.
Not good!
The vast magic power fluctuations on her body immediately condensed and compressed! Forming a metallic sphere that enveloped Rin entirely, and then, in the next instant... "Boom!"
A stone giant's fist, the size of a ceiling, descended from the sky! It smashed Rin, along with the metallic sphere, into the ground! The strong wind generated by the heavy impact on the ground made Alice's short skirt flap loudly.
Her flying short hair revealed an exquisitely inhuman, doll-like indifferent face, devoid of any human emotion. Her slightly rotating black pupils shone like two obsidian stones, watching the shattered metallic fragments, condensed from magic power, gradually turn into smoke and disappear into the atmosphere.
Even if the top of the bridge pier was shattered, the bridge would not collapse. No one said the Bridge Giant's weakness was its head. If it could be so easily defeated just by losing its 'Inheritance Defense,' then how could the Bridge Giant be listed as a Devil-King-class item!
As Alice outputted magic power, magic particles appeared around the Bridge Giant's broken neck, gradually closing, condensing, and finally regenerating the Bridge Giant's head.
The giant fist slowly lifted. Alice's gaze turned to the huge fist crater. In the center of a large fist-print on the ground, there was a small, bloody human figure. Alice Kuonji walked closer to confirm, then sighed softly.
At this moment, the empty space not far behind Alice suddenly stirred! A series of piercing screams, tearing the atmosphere, came from the air. In a flash of lightning, the moment before Alice's sigh had ended, a small fist pierced through Alice's back, directly penetrating her lower abdomen, exposing spurting blood and fragments of internal organs to the air.
Attacking then retreating, completely disregarding Alice Kuonji, who had already sustained a fatal injury, the shadowy figure of the assailant flashed and disappeared behind a giant tree. It was Rin, who had just been smashed into a bloody pulp.
Rin, concealed behind the tree trunk, glanced at Alice Kuonji, who had just been ambushed. Her pretty face, which had shown no expression from beginning to end, now displayed an expression of disbelief. Her wide eyes looked down at the fist-sized hole in her lower abdomen. No matter how much she covered it with her hands, blood still gushed out like a spring. Finally, her legs gave way, and she knelt, then lay on the ground with a look of horror in her eyes.
Dying with eyes wide open... Rin leaned against the tree trunk and sighed deeply, her face showing an unconcealable regret and heartache... "Your acting is terrible, Witch sister."
Rin walked out from behind the tree trunk. Not far opposite, from behind another giant tree trunk, Alice Kuonji emerged completely unharmed, still expressionless, as if she had seen through the mundane world.
Rin's gaze again swept towards the 'Alice Kuonji' corpse in the Bridge Giant's fist print. On the ground there, only a dead blue, plump Robin remained, lying motionless.
Fairy Tale Familiar: lostrobinrondo.
A blue Robin. Intelligent, capable of speech, basically an idiot. A bird that constantly cycles between life and death, a memento from Alice's mother. It can transform into its owner's appearance and act as a substitute when attacked, but this ability cannot be used consecutively.
"Well, sister's familiars are really convenient, aren't they? You have all types, even familiars that can take your place and face death at the moment of dying. This ability to swap cause and effect is truly extraordinary."
"It's merely relying on my mother's blessings. Your illusion magic and invisibility magic are truly remarkable. To be able to create illusions that deceive magic perception, and invisibility that even the sleeping mirror (fairy eye/familiar) cannot detect, you have truly overturned my understanding of these two low-level magics."
The atmosphere between the two witches and the Magus, facing each other from a distance, grew increasingly heavy...
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