As Alexei invoked his innate technique, the atmosphere heated up like never before. The searing, terrifying heat caused the air to warp violently. Bubbles of magma exploded, spewing still-scalding lava into the air.
Although Alexei attacked, his attack even affected his allies, Michael and Ana's faces changed drastically, they didn't have the fire resistance to stay in this environment without reinforcing their bodies.
Fleur was not surprised at all by the scene in front of her, if she had such a powerful offensive power, she would do something like this, not only eliminating her enemies, but also her future enemies, in other words, herself!
But Michael didn't think so, especially when he was so close to Alexei. Feeling his skin burning and his flesh quickly drying out, he quickly strengthened his body and moved away from Alexei.
His face was extremely grim as he looked at Alexei, even though he was strengthening his body, the human body was still the human body, there was a limit to how much heat one could take.
At this moment, Alexei's body showed several signs of third-degree burns, especially his face had a large burn that covered his entire left cheek.
Forming a seal with his hands, he responded to his ally's betrayal with extremely cold words.
"Innate Magic Manipulation - Great Movement of the Universe - Universal Gravity."
A terrifying pressure of purple light emanated from Michael's body, spreading out with him at the center. At that moment, the entire ground sank a few inches in an instant, showing the incredible gravitational force being exerted on the place.
Asterion, who had already donned his armor, was perfectly fine, but the gravity had still affected him, making his movements a little heavier, but only a little. If he hadn't saved his magical energy, he would have summoned Baskerville and the gravity wouldn't have affected him at all.
Rose was the complete opposite, looking like a fish that had returned to the water, her hands behind her head with an arrogant smile on her lips.
In her case, Rose was manipulating the space around her, forcing an equal force against gravity, effectively nullifying the gravity applied to her, making her practically immune to the effects of gravity.
A fact that made Michael particularly grim, along with his burned face, his expression was somewhat terrifying.
Alexei, being pulled around by gravity, felt his organs twitch and a trickle of blood run down the corner of his mouth. The great pressure of gravity caused him to be injured almost immediately.
Ana was in the same condition, but the lightning around her turned electricity into electromagnetic force that fought against gravity.
Fleur was the strangest, she was perfectly fine despite being under the influence of gravity. This caused all eyes to turn to her, all confused as to how she was fine in the face of such a terrifying gravitational force.
"If you keep looking at me like that, I'll feel shy." She spoke with a false shyness on her face that made everyone roll their eyes at his brazen performance.
Rose in particular looked at the half-breed with a deep frown. "You body, you're not here." As she said this, Asterion briefly activated his second innate technique and a pentagram appeared in his eyes, then it faded and his eyes returned to normal.
In that brief moment, Asterion confirmed Rose's words, this was not Fleur Delacour's real body, or rather, what was in front of them was just her projection into the material world.
As Asterion spoke his conclusions, the faces of Ana, Michael and Alexei were grim to say the least. They were pawns in the battle against Rose and Asterion. They could even assume that if they defeated Asterion and Rose, Fleur would appear and defeat them, who would be weakened after such a fight.
If they lost to Asterion and Rose, the three young men would have nothing to complain about, they would even be proud to say that they had fought for a long time against two wizards of special rank.
But to lose to Fleur was nothing less than a humiliation, a great humiliation that would stain their reputations forever. Especially Michael and Alexei, who wanted to enter politics after graduation, would be seriously damaged.
Fleur seemed unconcerned that she had been exposed; on the contrary, she laughed merrily. Because it was very simple, Asterion Black and Rose Potter didn't let everyone go at that moment.
Something that Ana, Michael and Alexei understood very well, but which made the taste of being a pawn even worse. From the beginning they had been nothing but pawns in Fleur's hands.
"From now on I hate blondes." Michael spoke with a bitter tone, but he didn't decrease the supply of magical energy for his innate technique, he did the opposite, he doubled the supply!
*Crack!!!*
The purple energy fell even more heavily to the ground, sinking the hard, rocky ground even further.
Alexei didn't stand still either, lava began to spew out of the ground even more voraciously, the already high temperature became completely unbearable, a normal person would die in a matter of seconds if exposed to such a high temperature.
Ana didn't stand by and watch the destruction, she floated in the air, her hair fluttering in the wind while her eyes shone with thunderous lightning, and with a wave of her hand, white and blue lightning flooded the place.
Cedric was already pale behind the throne, he was only a level 2 wizard, he couldn't do much in the face of the ruthless power of three level 1 wizards.
Luna was the complete opposite of Cedric, the girl lay comfortably on the stone throne, completely unaffected by the negative effects of the innate techniques, because the throne blocked the influence of other wizards besides herself.
Asterion moved his arms a little and walked towards Alexei, who was under a field of lava, demonstrating his incredible resistance to fire and heat.
As for Michael, he left it to Rose, she was best suited to fight this kind of enemy in their limited situation at the moment, otherwise Asterion would have summoned Mahoraga or simply the Mercury Serpent, capable of eating space.
Stepping onto the lava, Asterion walked with his red eyes looking directly at Alexei, his armor completely protecting his body from the heat and molten rock.
Alexei didn't stand by and watch Asterion approach him so casually.
Lava dragons rose from the ground and roared loudly, their roar accompanied by a pillar of lava that flew towards Asterion.
Asterion raised his hand, summoned his black sword, and swung it at the lava pillar. The sword had the ability to cut through atoms, and it sliced through the lava pillar like butter.
Asterion appeared in front of the dragon and slashed vertically, the whole dragon was sliced in two, the two halves turned back into lava and fell to the ground splashing molten rock.
Asterion didn't wait for Alexei to react and appeared in front of him, grabbing his throat and lifting the son of the Russian Minister of Magic, even though he was smaller than his opponent.
"Your technique is powerful, unfortunately for you, when someone manages to overcome the heat, their innate technique is not as powerful." Asterion commented with a smile on his face, he wasn't lying to Alexei, the young man did have a very powerful innate technique, but when he met someone as prepared as him, his innate technique didn't matter.
Alexei tried to release the grip on his throat, but Asterion's hand was like a pair of steel tongs, it didn't move at all with his movements, holding tightly to his neck.
Asterion smiled coldly and tightened his grip, causing Alexei's face to gradually turn pale and then purple from the obvious lack of oxygen.
However, Alexei didn't give up, he put his hands together and formed a special seal on his hands, a terrifying smile forming on his face.
"Domain Expansion - Lava World."
Being so close, Asterion had no time to try to escape.
In an instant, reality changed, black walls formed around Asterion and Alexei, and the world completely changed in front of both young men.
In a single moment, Asterion found himself in front of a world made of lava, the sheer abysmal temperature of which began to melt Asterion's armor.
If it had been normal, Asterion would have had to use magical energy to restore the armor and it would have been intact again, but he couldn't use that much magical energy!
"You surprised me, I didn't expect you to master your domain expansion." Looking at the lava world around him, Asterion remained stoic.
"I mastered it a few months ago, in a battle of domain expansions, if you had used your expansion, I would have lost the next moment." Alexei commented, stroking his own neck with a look of fear on his face.
"Unfortunately for you, that will be the cause of your loss." Asterion spoke, looking at Alexei, a black pentagram appearing in his eyes.
A pentagram that sent shivers down Alexei's spine, but it was impossible, he was in a whole world of lava!
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