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Reiger had learned a total of five types of magic from Revelia Leos Alfr, the strongest Magic Guide in the city known as the "Nine Demon Princesses" — three defensive spells and two offensive spells.
The three defensive spells are as follows —
A supplementary defense spell that can enhance both physical and magical resistances, protect the target of the spell, and even slightly heal the target’s injuries — "Life-bound Illusion".
A defensive spell that can resist all of an enemy’s attacks and protects the target of the spell — "Thin Veil Breath".
And a barrier spell that can completely block the enemy’s attacks on both physical and magical levels — "Dimensional Blockade".
From Revelia, Reiger had first learned these three defense spells. It probably was her way of telling him that protecting oneself and one’s allies is more important than attacking the enemy.
Then, Reiger had learned the two offensive spells from Revelia.
One of them, an area-of-effect fire spell classified as Tactical Level Magic, which Reiger had once used in the Franzel residence and had been recognized as a Tactical Level Magician — "High-level Victory Sword".
The other one, which Reiger was using at that very moment, was an ice spell that could completely encase a certain area and target in three blizzards — "Frenzied Fimbul Winter".
Thus, as the icy Array of magic expanded beneath Reiger’s feet, a cold wind began to blow.
"Crack crack crack —"
This was the sound of the ground gradually freezing, icing over little by little.
Amid this uncomfortable freezing noise, mixed with the icy wind, it swept across the cavern, the city, and the fiercely battling battlefield, quietly transforming it into a world of ice and snow.
"Fall back!"
"Move back quickly!"
"Don’t stay here!"
Kazi, Axel, and Diego were the first to see the blizzard coming, their faces showing horror as they bellowed desperately, urging the knights to move back.
"That guy...!?"
"This is... Tactical Level Magic...!?"
Revin and Nipede were also greatly startled, having not expected Reiger to use such high-grade magic here, hurriedly moving away.
"Ooooooooooooh —!"
The giant guards who were chasing Liz couldn’t react in time and were engulfed by the blizzard.
Indeed, it was much stronger than the giant guards Reiger and Revin had encountered before. Just its "Strength" and "Endurance" abilities had exceeded Reiger’s predictions, likely not just at Lv.7 anymore.
However, this guardian giant also had the same vulnerabilities as the previous one — its "Agility" and "Dexterity" were vastly inferior to its "Strength" and "Endurance".
This guardian giant’s "Dexterity" and "Agility" were at most around Lv.6, and even among Lv.6 they were at the bottom, only slightly better than Lv.5 — possibly even lower than some creatures specializing in these abilities at Lv.5.
Such a creature couldn’t dodge the sweeping blizzard and was directly covered by the ice and snow, trapped in the frigid wind.
"Crack crack crack —"
All at once, the sound of crystallization also started on this giant guard.
The giant guard struggled powerfully, yet it was still slowly being frozen within the blizzard, as ice spread over its body.
The extreme cold assaulted this massive creature, causing its feet to merge with the icy layer on the ground. More and more ice formed on its body, slowly turning it into a huge ice sculpture.
Before long, the nearly ten-meter-tall giant was completely frozen, turning into a mountain of ice sitting in the snowfield, completely immobile.
"Liz!"
But as the initiator of all this, Reiger felt no joy in his victory. Instead, he called out to Liz as if he had merely done something trivial.
"Yes!"
Liz didn’t need Reiger to speak or to use their contract’s connection to understand his intentions. She intuitively flew towards the entrance of the ancient city, charging towards it.
"Ooooooooooooh —!"
Just right, accompanied by a roaring sound, two giant guards happen to turn out from a street inside the city gate.
They were the giant guards wandering through the city.
As Reiger had said earlier, these giant guards, upon sensing the commotion here, blindly rushed in this direction.
Liz met them head-on. Holding the Sword of Moslo like a sword-whip, she unleashed a series of sharp, swift strikes, slashing at the two giant guards.
"What are you guys standing around for?"
Reiger finally spoke up to Revin and Nipede, who appeared slightly dazed beside him.
"Hurry and take care of the remaining gatekeeper!"
The remaining giant guard had already charged out of the snowy grounds, rushing towards the Meipros family’s knight encampment, his body covered in bursts of white frost, seemingly almost affected by the Frenzied Fimbul Winter, almost turning into another iceberg.
Revin and Nipede instantly snapped to, quickly suppressing the various astonished and chaotic thoughts in their minds, and launched an attack on the giant guard.
Nipede raised his staff, chanting battle-level magic, allowing his enormous magic power, comparable to a tactical-level magician, to surge.
As a magician with a magic aptitude for control at level four and interference at level four, Nipede’s strongest abilities were naturally interference and control magic.
Thus, Nipede first used interference magic to weaken the enemy, making the already slow giant guard even slower, and then he used control magic to attack.
Nipede usually used control magic to manipulate the earth in various ways, but since they were inside the body of the underground monster Yarakulon, the ground that seemed to be earth was not really earth but the flesh of Yarakulon, his most commonly used control magic was therefore rendered useless.
Therefore, Nipede chose to use summoning magic, summoning two magical creatures in front of him.
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
The two summoned creatures, immediately controlled by Nipede, flew towards the giant guard.
Surprisingly, the creatures Nipede summoned were not some nameless entities, but two dragons.
Both dragons, about three meters tall with wings, roared at the giant guard who was much bigger than them, showing no fear as they charged towards him.
As dragonkin, although not true dragons, these two dragons also possessed considerable strength, at least comparable to creatures of a classification level of Lv.6. Now, with the two attacking together, even the giant guard could not ignore them.
The giant guard swung his stone spear, preparing to swat these two "little birds" away, but Nipede continuously applied interference magic with debuff effects, allowing the two dragons to easily dodge the guard’s sluggish attacks. Next, they opened their vicious fangs and pounced on the giant guard, biting fiercely.
"Pfft!" "Pfft!"
Following the sounds of tearing, the two dragons successively bit the giant guard’s shoulder and back, causing him to roar in pain.
At that moment, Revin, holding the Sword of the Resister, rushed forward.
His fighting style was much simpler, seizing the opportunity while Nipede distracted the giant guard, wielding his extremely sharp greatsword he chopped away, cutting very deep wounds into the giant guard.
Nipede was not to be outdone, continuously controlling the two dragons to attack the giant guard while pulling out a magic crystal from around his waist, unleashing the power of this magical item. Beams of light formed around him and shot towards the giant guard, blasting onto him.
Since he could only use battle-level magic, and was proficient in the less powerful control and interference magic, Nipede had the weakness of insufficient firepower and low output.
To compensate for this weakness, many of the magical items he carried were capable of causing high damage to enemies.
Now, Nipede used one of these magical items, releasing light-attribute attack magic, allowing beams of light to continuously explode on the giant guard’s body.
The combined efforts of a Sword Saint and a magician capable of rivaling a Sword Saint like this were indeed suppressing the giant guard, making victory only a matter of time.
Seeing this, Reiger no longer paid attention to the two and activated his flight magic, flying towards the direction of the city gate.
There, Liz was fiercely fighting with two giant guards.
Originally, with Liz’s abilities, even using her most powerful War King Sword Skill, she would likely have difficulty handling one giant guard, let alone two.
But because Reiger had layered countless magic enhancements on her, greatly boosting her strength, Liz was now able to exchange blows equally with the giant guards without falling behind.
Add to that the Breath of Love, it must be said, this was an unexpected surprise.
Observing Liz’s first use of the Breath of Love in combat, Reiger came to this conclusion.
"Liz’s compatibility with the Breath of Love, perhaps, is no less inferior even compared to Kanroji Mitsuri, the Pillar of Love."
That was the case.
Because of her high compatibility with the Breath of Love, Liz had mastered this breathing technique in just a few days, and had maximized the power of this breath style.
If Liz, not using the War King Sword Skill, was originally just a novice Swordsman newly entering Lv.5, at the lowest rank of Lv.5, then with the Breath of Love, Liz definitely possessed strength comparable to the higher ranks of Lv.5.
Thus, with countless enhancement spells amplifying her power, Liz’s current display was completely at Lv.6 combat prowess, and dealing with two giants with only Lv.5 in ’Dexterity’ and ’Agility’ was not difficult at all.
This performance was somewhat beyond Reiger’s expectations, leaving him both surprised and puzzled.
"Didn’t this girl say she’s never been in love? Why is her compatibility with the Breath of Love so high?"
Could it be, although she’s never been in love, she secretly has someone she likes...?
Suddenly, Reiger felt a déjà vu as if his own little cabbage was about to be snatched away by someone else.
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