Chapter 484: 444 Are you a girl?_2
Of course, in the face of the time magic that had its difficulty in resistance enhanced, the mysterious priestess’s efforts to resist still seemed somewhat feeble, and that was before Reiger’s trump card had even come into play.
Being able to link attacks seamlessly, that’s the true meaning of using "Time Stop."
Now, as long as Reiger could time it well, using delayed magic to attack the mysterious priestess would spell the end for him.
The reflection of magic mirrors?
The moment "Time Stop" was lifted, if Reiger’s timing was correct, his magic would instantly take effect on his opponent, giving them no chance to react.
The defense of the vestment robe?
Reiger did not believe that the robe could withstand the tenth-tier magic that could even sever space—"Current Severance."
So, this was checkmate.
Thinking this, Reiger felt that simply using "Current Severance" to kill his opponent didn’t seem particularly beneficial.
He still had many questions he wanted to ask this mysterious priestess.
Therefore...
"Use ’Energy Absorption’ to reduce his level to the maximum extent and make him lose the ability to resist," Reiger decided, taking a step forward to stand before the mysterious priestess.
And then, Reiger reached out his hand and pressed it against the mysterious priestess’s chest.
"Energy Absorption" was a contact-type spell, which could not be activated without touching the opponent.
However, upon this contact, Reiger realized that he might have been too hasty.
"..."
Silence spread between Reiger and the mysterious priestess.
Reiger lifted his eyelids to look at the mysterious priestess, as if he could see the fiery gaze in her eyes burning him.
Reiger fell silent again, then after a while, he spoke.
"You’re a woman?"
Upon these words, Reiger distinctly felt that the nearly scorching gaze of his opponent had become as if intent on flaying him alive.
"———[Magic Most Potent Delayed Effect—Energy Absorption]."
Without further hesitation, Reiger activated the delayed spell and immediately lifted the time magic.
"Boom!"
Almost at the same instant, meteor-like flashes of light, under the control of the mysterious priestess, turned direction and assaulted Reiger with the momentum to blast him to smithereens.
"[Light Attribute Nullification]."
Reiger instantly cast a new spell, which, as the name implied, was a powerful spell capable of nullifying attacks of the light attribute.
"Boom boom boom boom boom——"
The meteor-like flashes of light strikingly hit and blew Reiger away.
Reiger tapped the ground with the tips of his toes, creating several holes before finally halting his momentum and stopping.
"Die!"
The voice of the mysterious priestess changed, taking on the tone of a mature woman, confirming Reiger’s previous assertion—she was a woman!
But as the priestess prepared to call upon the maximum number of flashes to bombard Reiger from all directions, intending to reduce him to ashes, she discovered to her shock that the power within her was rapidly draining away.
Conversely, bursts of surging magic power glowed around Reiger, his strength visibly skyrocketing.
"Interference-type magic...!?"
The priestess decisively pulled out a crystal from her vestment robe.
Seeing this, Reiger knew that the priestess had prepared a magical artifact capable of doing something about interference spells that affected her directly.
"I won’t let you succeed."
With a flash, Reiger used his amplified speed to dart in front of the priestess.
"Ugh...!"
The priestess finally panicked, gripping the crystal in one hand and the gold scepter in the other, summoning flashes of light to strike at Reiger.
However, due to the effects of "Energy Absorption," the priestess’s strength had greatly diminished. The called-upon flashes were not only reduced to two, but their power and speed were also significantly weaker than before. To Reiger now, they seemed as slow as snails.
Even so, the priestess managed to retaliate after being hit by Reiger’s "Energy Drain," which in itself was admirable.
Keep in mind, those magic automatons that even level 7s would find difficult had been reduced to level 1 by Reiger’s "Energy Drain," nearly losing all their power.
While the priestess too had lost most of her power, her ability to resist, to cast magic, to respond to Reiger’s charge was nothing short of astonishing.
The priestess now probably had about the power of a level 3 to level 4, which was much stronger than those magic automatons.
Unfortunately, an opponent with merely level 3 to level 4 power was like fragile, thin paper to Reiger at his current state.
Reiger simply ignored the flashing attacks, allowing them to explode upon his body, and continued to advance unhindered to face the priestess.
"Slap!"
With a crisp sound, Reiger swatted away the crystal in the priestess’s hand, even reaching out to snatch the gold staff from her grip, disarming her.
"Despicable thief!"
The priestess did not give up her resistance and began chanting a magic spell.
In response, Reiger casually chanted a spell of his own.
"Undead Touch."
It was a contact magic spell, just like "Energy Drain," capable of afflicting the opponent with an abnormal status through touch.
The hand Reiger had used to knock away the priestess’s crystal brimmed with sinister magic power, and he swiftly touched the forehead of the priestess, who was only an arm’s length away.
In no time at all, Reiger’s finger reached her forehead, a step ahead of her chanting.
"Ugh... ah...!"
The priestess’s body shuddered, a moan of distress escaped her lips, and then she collapsed to the ground, unable to get up again.
"Paralysis...!"
As a magician of no small accomplishment, the priestess knew what had happened to her right away.
That sensation of electricity coursing through her entire body, causing her muscles to tremble and leaving her helpless, could only be paralysis.
"Exactly," Reiger looked down at the priestess from above and declared, "It’s paralysis."
At this, the priestess glared at Reiger angrily from behind her mask.
"Vile...!"
She spat out these words.
"How is this vile?" Reiger chuckled and shook his head, "To inflict an enemy with a paralysis condition is a perfectly legitimate interference magic. If this is considered vile, then aren’t your strange spells even more so?"
"My spells are strange?" The priestess laughed angrily, struggled to respond. "That would be your spells, wouldn’t it?"
Space magic, time magic, plus all kinds of other spell effects—how could this man have the audacity to call her spells strange?
He was the one cheating!
"I’ll curse you... I’ll curse you in the name of the great gods... you foul, rule-breaking magician...!"
The angrier the priestess got, the more such words she spat out.
"If you’d like to know what being cursed feels like, then I don’t mind obliging you."
Reiger was utterly unfazed.
He had learned many spells from the inhabitants of Nasalik Underground Tomb, with the total amounting to over a thousand, and among them were indeed types that could curse others.
"If you don’t want to suffer, then start talking," Reiger, toying with the priestess’s staff, began casting "Advanced Artefact Identification" on it, and inquired in a careless manner.
"Who are you? And why are you here?"
Upon hearing this, the priestess’s delicate body began to tremble.
"...how shameless of you to ask!" the priestess said, furious. "It’s you thieves who broke into someone else’s place. I’m the one who wants to ask who you are and what you’re doing here...!"
"Oh?" Reiger turned his gaze towards the priestess and asked, "Are you claiming this place as your territory?"
"Nonsense!" The priestess cursed, "This is a city blessed by the great gods, and my mission is to protect this city, therefore you are the invaders!"
Her declaration gave Reiger an incredulous thought.
"Could it be... you’re from the ancient magic civilization?"
Looking at the priestess, Reiger’s eyes suddenly changed.