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Myuu skips ahead, giving no time for the progenitor to utter even a single word. She spins her twin spears and activates her final skill right off the start, as it was acting like a passive more than anything. [Grail of the centralised nebula], an overwhelming verdant aura collapsed around her feet as her mana attempts to soar to the sky... It hits the sealing and splashes outwards, painting the air with lime comets.
"...?!"
As if rebelling against Myuu's very own final skill, the progenitor unleashed her own aura. The room was dyed in jett black, her aura was so much superior to ours that it had become palpable. A sensation akin to drowning quickly takes hold and paralyses us. At this rate... We were going to lose before we even go into an actual fight...
Just how unfair is this...
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I exert my own magic as much as I can, circulating through my entire body as fast as I could. The aura is a leakage of excess magical particles, often times the battle will cause this excess to be spent so it mostly appears only at the start. That is of course, if the individual magical girl doesn't leak their aura on purpose despite there being no more excess. Usually we are greedy monsters, we'd saved every bit of magical particles we have in our well, down to the last drop.
A soft voice permeates my right, chanting the few familiar words that we've gotten to experience countless times at this point. If our own auras are not able to defend us, then it was better to go on the offense and deal with it actively rather than die quietly. That was what Paridia represented, it was better to reveal a trump card as a show of rebellion than not resist at all.
"Oblivion Magia, Star's wrath." (Paridia)
Out of all of us, I would say that she had the most firepower by default. She was the only one who's skill actually had an offensive effect of firing damaging beams of light. While the other 2 of us were simply using utility skills to make our body slightly tougher and fighting desperately with human methods. We create weapons and fight with techniques as we don't have access to something so iconic about magical girls, such as a magical laser beams.
It forms a tiny chasm in my heart, ever since I've received back all my memories again... But what is it...? Why can't I identify it...? But I couldn't think much about it during battle, I had to focus my entire will and concentration on the situation before us to survive.
A blinding light envelops the darkness, piercing through every nook and cranny of the room and even through the room. Nothing can escape it, the violent turbulence spread into the corridors, disintegrating everything it makes contact with. It looked like a flood of pure white, but in the end it was simply light. It shot through every obstacle imaginable and vaporised everything in a radius of 100 km.
A 100km Oblivion Magia, the biggest I've ever seen. One look and anyone would have thought that she had gotten stronger, so much so to an absurd extent that she can form her own dimension to this degree... But all she did was simply getting used to her own magic, she familiarised herself with her own skills, passives and Oblivion Magia and improved her control to her greater extent.
That was all. This increase in size was not due to an increase in quantity, but quality. It borrowed the concept that lied at the very core of her magic, her Oblivion Magia. So rather, it was an effect of her Oblivion Magia to become this big rather than the opposite, which is her well becoming bigger. This was the final stage of the Oblivion Magia, it incorporates all 3 of her skills rather than only the first 2 like last time.
The final skill... Was the one that allowed her to escape Triney's existence erasing bullet. Triney had reached the peak of her own magecraft as a researcher, interconnecting and compounding her own skills to a transcendent level and still infusing them into tools like her gun and her ammo to reduce the magical particle cost. She was the most efficient magical girl, that even now Paridia wouldn't be sure if she could kill. She wasn't the strongest persay, but what does strength matter if she's methodological and efficient enough to get the job done? She was such an existence that had gained strength beyond the normal scope of her skills.
The secret to Paridia's final skill... Was that it replicated a star's core. It wasn't as well known or as powerful as the sun created by the black headed with pink inner hair Celistane Frey, zenith commander of the Rising Knight Order. But to them, it was now their strongest asset. Paridia did not summon the star here or recreated it like Frey did, she became the star. Piercing heat beyond the human flesh infused with magic assaulted the progenitor, leaving her garment flapping under the destructive velocity of the shock waves.
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... Flapping? Paridia who now has better magic control informed us before hand that she could apply her passive on us, so her Oblivion Magia wouldn't damage us. Essentially it is a forcefield that changes the concept of the destructive star energy into something that cannot hurt us. Rather it just passes through us as if we're part of it.
In other words, we wouldn't get harmed but... Under this much energy such that we can't see a thing due to how blinding it is, how was I able to observe her magical combat dress shaking in the wind...? Sure I was looking through my own radar like passive... But... There isn't any wind around. Moreover, she seems to be untouched even in this harsh environment... What kind of monster is she...
I didn't expect it to be so easy, heck I thought she would shrug off Paridia's attack since it's not effective on a single person due to how widespread it is. But to suffer absolutely no damage... That is out of the expectations.
"..." (Progenitor)
With a single snap of her finger, the light dissipates and Paridia was nowhere to be seen. Was this what she did to Gerald... Her magic was on the level of a god magical girl, it was so high up that it could no longer be observed. So if she breached our will stat, our magic resistance by brute force... We wouldn't be able to do anything about it... It opens us up to every attack, and she seemed to be able to freely teleport us away or worse... Snap us out of our existence...
"... MYUU!!!"
"Got it!!!" (Myuu)
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At the very least, Myuu won't be affected by such petty tricks. With her new final skill, she would come back no matter what.
"[Destiny that reaches Akasha], seal of Oblivion. " (Progenitor)
A transparent black cube materialises around Myuu with one corner embedded into the ground, it's slanted diamond shape from its posture filling myself with even more dread.
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I can't let her finish me off too.
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It looks like I have a single chance to play all my cards. I shot off all the anti magic I've been extracting at the progenitor.
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Title: Kaorin
Magical girl effectiveness level: A
Perimeters:
- Physical: A
- endurance: A
- speed: A
- will: A
- well: A
The last step, launched in quick succession right after the anti magic. Of course her own trap wouldn't work against her, I bet she was the one who built those massive traps that could erase a country. I can't give her a chance to even breath or think.
"Oblivion Magia, world of wandering fate."
This isn't a shoddily built pseudo-Oblivion Magia like the one I made last time. This was the culmination of my journey, my heart and my fist. It brings the entire space under the control of my first and second skill. Even the infinite prison requires magic to maintain it, so if I disperse the magic...
*Ping*
It shatters like glass. Myuu was now free. Paridia on the other hand had become one with the energy and light created by her third skill, she was actually dispersed rather than teleported away. So she simply reformed back into a humanoid body of white light. Now the 3 of us was back.
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I threw all the anti magic I had at the progenitor, now I was no longer being hindered. Going over 100%, my magical particles was inevitably being leaked into an aura as it was near impossible to contain all of it. I form 2 vacuum blades in my palms.
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As usual, I lifted my foot off the ground in a way that carried all my speed and energy. My strength shot through the ground leaving a sizeable crater with a diameter of 30 metres.
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I've refined my own magic continuously over this arduous journey, my body feels so incredibly as if it was floating through space at this moment. My heart beats even faster than normal, beyond what would seem humanly possibly. My magic despite breaching the usual capacity by twice the maximum amount is somehow flowing completely unperturbed. A smoothness that isn't normally possible, a feeling born from a perfection that cannot exist...
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My body continues to breach all its previous limits imposed by its cardinal flesh, as if it was slipping into another world, reaching a place far away with no hope of coming back. It begins to light up like fireworks, crosses of white light flash across the air around my arm, elbow, shoulder and waist. My vacuum blade lengthens and sharpens continuously, not out of purpose but of nature. It too begins to break out of its own shell, its handle bridges the gap between the blade and my magical circuits, acting as an extended appendage that could bend at my will.
Each time more magic is infused into my body and I move faster, the flow of my perceived time grows slower. It feels like I'm approaching the last pace of my own accord rather than forcing it with a technique, I was organically getting stronger. For whatever reason, Magia Retainment: Perpetual was no longer breaking down my body. Rather it was directing the flow so well, it feels like I'm slowly losing myself and becoming something else.
Thin and slender to a point, the vacuum sword had forged itself into a void rapier as it reaches unimaginable speeds.
"This is proof of my will, this is proof of my love of... My friends."
"..." (Myuu)
The tip of the blade reaches the progenitor in an instant, long before my body passes half the distance between us.
*PingPingPing!*
"...!?!"(Progenitor)
It shatters through every barrier with its destructive force rivalling the durability of space. When it comes down to a fight between a spatial attack and a spatial barrier, the one that prevails will be the one infused with more magic. As such, the void rapier pierces through the space barrier, the energy barrier, the curse barrier, the attack barrier, the magic barrier with relative ease.
It was an effect of my second skill, the ability to move things. The blade didn't attack the enemy, it simply moved through her barriers and her flesh. It looked like it was piercing everything but it was actually moving things forward to wherever the tip of the blade moved to. Now not only is the blade infused with my first skill, now the second skill is properly integrated in and maintained by my extended power. With Magia Retainment, the extremely high magical particle cost of the second skill was no longer a problem.
"Tch, I didn't expect the barriers to be useless despite after collecting so many... That's simply absurd... Moving through the attack barrier that blocks any attacks..." (Progenitor)
The void rapier had pierced deeply through the centre of her chest and wedding dress. Her cold eyes laid their Ruby coloured irises on me, opening her pale lips to reveal of finely set teeth. An ominous air shook my entire body.
I was planning to use my Oblivion Magia to dispel or deflect any magic that she might cast, rendering her defenceless against my rapier. But at that moment, my fear won out and I jumped back as fast as I could. Letting go of my rapier to switch locations as quick as possible. Just as I was about to land my feet onto the ground after retreating, she reappeared right in front of me. Her face not having moved a single muscle since I last saw her. In her supple fingers was a similar rapier of her own.