After that shout, 4 Imperial Mages cast magic at the same time, powerful magic that required more than 1 person to activate, and 2 knights protected them while the rest along with Alec attacked Erina.
"From our information, that bitch is the witch with the lowest combat ability of the Top 3 Mages in the Mage Association. Although her combat ability is low, that bitch has many types of magic. Be careful!"
"Hoo~ The information about me is all leaked huh? Looks like a member of the Mage Association interfered too."
"You understand very well. Since your information is in our hands, the victory is ours. Do you still not want to retract your previous words?"
"Stubborn, I won't be on your side anyway I hate you guys. And I don't like siding with that stupid emperor of yours."
"This bitch, this is the 4th time you've insulted the Great Emperor, that sin should be atoned for with your life!"
The enraged Alec immediately moved to attack Erina with his speed. Alec was moving so fast that Erina was having trouble seeing with her eyes at the moment.
"In the Blue Rose army, I am the fastest, there is no way a mage can see this moving speed. This is the end of your life, think of your sins in the afterlife!!!"
In a few milliseconds, before Alec sword touched Erina neck, Erina figure suddenly disappeared and appeared behind the 2 knights guarding the 4 mages.
Erina instantly did something to the two knights until they collapsed without a fight.
"Protect the Mages!"
Alec gave orders to the remaining knights to protect the mages who had not finished casting their magic.
'Too slow.'
Within 1 second, Erina had already rendered 3 mages unconscious by drawing high voltage electricity from the ground they were standing on.
Then just as Erina was about to cast another magic on the last mage, Erina caught a glimpse of a triumphant smile behind the mage's lips.
"----"
As soon as the last spell was cast, the electricity in the sky converged and struck towards Erina, a powerful bolt of lightning striking directly at Erina.
A powerful explosion boomed throughout the forest, the entire surrounding area filled with smoke as a result of the explosion.
"Hahaha, I did it, I managed to defeat the number 2 witch in the Mage Association! Turns out number 2 is nothing!"
The mage who thought she won and was gloating about her victory soon lost her happy expression after the smoke cleared. Showing Erina who was completely unharmed.
"B-how could that be! That's a very powerful magic!?"
"The Imperial Mage turned out to be more stupid than I thought. It's true that in terms of fighting ability, I'm inferior to number 3 and number 1 but thanks to the amount of magic I have that's also why I'm number 2 even without having great fighting ability."
Erisa was the mage with the most total magic learned in the entire world even so that did not mean Erina was weak even Erina could be matched with legendary mages in magic knowledge.
Fighting Erina in magic was like trying to crush a giant rock with a wooden sword.
"Remember that boy."
Erina voice sounded very angry, not because she was insulted but because she saw how incompetent the Imperial Mage was as a mage.
Erina knew the discrimination of the Magicians in the Empire, but did not expect it to be this bad, the basic knowledge was not even taught properly. Moreover, the Empire was the starting place for the destruction of the Wizard bloodline.
"Looks like you still don't know why I'm still alive, so I'll explain for my free learning. Lightning can occur because the cloud's electric charge is moving so fast that the positive charge and negative charge separate themselves."
"Separate themselves, so what does that have to do with what's happening now!"
"Listen to the end, I'll continue. The point is that the negative charge in the cloud tends to bond with the positive charge that is where we are stepping now, when the negative charge is large enough, the flow of negative charge will slide down through the conductor path below."
"So?"
"How stupid are you guys, even though I told you like that, you still don't understand.
Well, basically I just changed the conductor path aimed at me to around me by turning it into a better conductor than me and then I also enveloped the surrounding air into a shield with insulating properties to temporarily disguise the positive charge in my body and dispel the lightning."
'I also use magic to lower the ambient temperature when the temperature change exceeds 100° Celsius.'
Erina decided to keep quiet about the last part because she herself was not sure whether the heat from the lightning would hit her or not.
Erina felt it would be very embarrassing to say that after bragging just now.
Erina had begun to distrust her own judgment since meeting Akasha, most of her judgments were wrong over and over again and made Erina's confidence fade over time.
"..."
"Is it too difficult to understand?"
Erina thought that her explanation was clear and to the point without beating around the bush. When Erina thought to explain even easier.
"You have too many gaps!"
Alec appeared behind Erina to catch Erina off guard while explaining to the young witch.
"You're too easy to read, quick lord."
Although Alec thought he managed to trick Erina but in reality Erina had realized the diversion from the start so Erina took Alec's attack and countered.
Alec bounced backwards against gravity and crashed into a large tree. Alec with a mouth full of blood asked Erina in surprise.
"What did you do just now?"
"I just reversed the attractive force into a repulsive force."
"Wh-what, you monster! As the emperor predecessors thought, magician is a dangerous existence, you should die here."
'Do you think only magician are monsters, you know too. Let alone a rank 1 Knight, he can cut off cause and effect easily.'
For Mage and Wizard, Cause and Effect is an important factor to use magic. So someone who could cut off causality was like a natural enemy of mages and wizards.
Feeling that the current situation was dangerous, Alec started using his trump card. Alec released a purple colored aura from his body.
"Aura user, huh? It seems like it's true that you're a great person, I thought it was just nonsense."
Everyone had a peak that everyone wanted and aimed for even for Magician and Warrior.
In the case of Magician, especially for a mage can be said to reach the peak after they are able to create their own original magic.
While Warriors, especially Knights, are said to reach the peak when someone is able to awaken the power of the Core within himself to envelop his body, it is called Aura.
This peak can only be obtained through hard work and talent alone making only a few people able to reach it.
"You should be honored to die at the hands of an Aura user."
"I'm afraid I've already met someone greater than you."
Instantly Erina figure once again disappeared and Alec reflexively jumped from his place.
*Explosion*
The place where Alec had stepped before exploded suddenly. Alec immediately used his sword to attack Erina who appeared a few feet away from him.
The waves generated from the pressure of the sword and Alec Aura slashed towards Erina and Erina faced the attack by simply moving her hands directly blocking the attack as if there was a transparent barrier wall in front of Erina.
"You-"
Feeling something strange, Alec tried to say something but suddenly Erina was behind Alec with sharp wind magic enveloping Erina hand preparing to slash Alec neck, Alec jumped back quickly.
"Awesome reflexes."
Erina honestly recognized Alec's reflexes.
Cold sweat fell from Alec forehead. Even if Alec had used Aura, Erina was still difficult to deal with.
"Oi Mage, use 'it', quickly!"
"B-well!"
The Imperial Mage rushed out a small black cube from one of the pockets of the mage who had fainted from Erina previous attack.
He threw the cube to the ground, the cube flew upwards and a special energy came out enveloping the entire area in the shape of a cube.
Erina was surprised by this sensation, a sensation that any magician would fear.
"Anti-Magic?"
"That's right! Hahaha, this is a tool created by the Great Emperor directly to deal with magicians. Magician without magic is nothing more than a baby in the eyes of the Knights!?"
'The Empire can produce Anti-magic? Amazing, the Empire technology is constantly evolving.'
Erina could only marvel at the technology the Empire had produced to fight against magicians.
(It looks like the Empire really intends to start a worldwide war.)
Erina once again felt giddy about the bleak future.
Seeing Erina not say anything made Alec confidence even higher.
"Are you afraid? If you're afraid how about you retract your previous words-"
"Fuck you."
Erina immediately gave Alec the middle finger.
Alec rational thoughts were instantly cut off and only the desire to cut off the head of the person in front of him was in Alec mind at the moment.
"...Die!!!"
Alec ran very fast, even faster than when he fought Erina before.
But because Alec mind could not think rationally due to anger plus the confidence of thinking Erina could not do anything in a room full of Anti-magic made Alec not alert and careful.
Just as his sword was about to split Erina head, a fist with unreasonable speed hit the armor protecting Alec abdomen until the armor shattered as well. Instantly Alec was sent flying far away and fainted instantly.
"You think just making me incapable of magic will make me weak, you amateur. Long-lived mages like me have been covering up such weaknesses for a long time."
Erina then looked at the remaining imperial mages and knights with a smile that felt horrible and horor.
"Then it's time for us to play."