The Absolute Godspeed of Infinite Worlds

Outskirts, Forest.

This is the final support point of the large barrier that covers Kinoko Town.

The edges of the forest are covered by small repellent barriers to prevent anyone from mistakenly entering. Therefore, no one should be visible here, and the area should be as silent as the haunted forests in horror movies.

However, when Alice arrived here, she found that the barrier around the forest had been artificially damaged.

Could it be Touko?

Alice silently heightened her guard, but at the same time, she felt confused.

If it were Touko, then why would she not choose to keep the barrier intact and set traps around it? Destroying the barrier openly like this would only alert Alice to the presence of someone, raising her vigilance.

"...Who is it?"

Alice, holding a blue glass cat, used it like a lantern, step by step, walking deeper into the forest.

At the center of the barrier, she saw a figure standing motionless like a puppet, rooted in the dirt for an extended period without moving at all.

The person was wearing a cloak that covered their entire body. From the silhouette, it appeared to be a woman, but Alice couldn't tell who it was.

It didn't look like Touko.

Alice and Touko were somewhat familiar with each other. They had studied magic together a few years ago, but this cloaked woman's aura was completely different from Touko's.

The woman turned her head silently upon hearing Alice's voice, revealing the lower half of her face, which was painted with purple lipstick.

Danger!

Alice's instincts as a magus screamed at her.

The intense sense of danger, so powerful it almost made the air change, caused her scalp to tingle. Without hesitation, she released the blue glass cat.

The glass cat fell into the ground, sinking in like a stone dropping into water, and immediately, an enormous magical force erupted from Alice's body.

The magical energy was so vast that it exceeded Eiji's by dozens of times, enough to cover the entire forest in a single breath, forming her own massive magical field.

Boom—!

But during the time she prepared, the woman's lips slightly moved.

Then, a massive magic cannon shot toward her at lightning speed!

The magic cannon emitted an astonishing light and heat, its barrel diameter about half the height of a person. A direct hit would definitely turn a person to ashes in an instant!

Alice didn't dodge, or rather, the opponent's spellcasting speed was so fast that she couldn't evade it.

Chirp chirp!

But after the magic cannon passed over her, only a few blue feathers floated down to the ground.

A blue robin hurriedly flew away.

Its name was Robin. Although it was utterly useless except for conversation, it had the rare ability to take a fatal blow for its master.

Boom boom boom————

The ground rippled.

Huge stone fingers, five in total, stretched out from the earth, then swept away dust and trees, allowing a gigantic body to rise.

It was a mysterious entity over eight meters tall just from the waist up.

It wildly devoured the surrounding dirt and trees, using them to fill its body and further expand, transforming into an imposing giant.

The Giant of the Bridge.

A fairy creature modeled after the London Bridge, with over a thousand years of mystery, it was an almost unfair existence in the modern magical world. With at least fifty tons of brute strength, it could easily crush countless spells.

"Who exactly are you?"

Alice stood on the giant's shoulder, looking warily at the woman in the distance.

At this moment, only the giant gave her a sense of security.

The woman's magecraft was so powerful that it was unbelievable. Even a simple magic cannon displayed a terrifying power that left Alice astonished.

"..."

Despite Alice's question, the woman remained silent.

Her lips moved again, as though chanting.

But if it were chanting, her speed was abnormally fast. It seemed like she could complete an incantation that would normally take an ordinary magus several minutes to prepare, in just a single second.

Such chanting speed made Alice feel inadequate.

"High-speed chanting?"

No.

Alice listened carefully, trying to discern the truth of the magecraft from the woman's voice.

What shocked her was that the incantation coming from the woman's mouth didn't seem to belong to any language from modern countries, not even one Alice was familiar with.

"Could it be... High-speed Divine Words?!"

Alice's scalp erupted in alarm.

The overwhelming sense of fear made her hairs stand on end, and countless thoughts intertwined in her mind. Every cell in her body screamed at her to flee immediately.

Voom—!

Voom—!

Voom—!

But the woman didn't give her any time.

Dozens of enormous magic circles appeared from the ground, the sky, and the atmosphere, all targeting the Giant of the Bridge.

Then, they all fired!

Each magic cannon was as thick as Alice's waist, and every barrel emitted a blinding light like daylight. Each shot gave off an intense heat, like the sun!

This wasn't a battle.

It was simply slaughter.

The Giant of the Bridge opened its arms to protect its master, but it only managed to resist for a few seconds before its entire body was bathed in the magic cannon's light and exploded into pieces.

Alice fell to the ground in a sorry state.

But then, two crossed magic cannons came rushing towards her, one from the left and one from the right.

She tried to dodge or block them.

But the density and caliber of the magic cannons were so enormous that it was impossible to avoid. Any summoned familiar was instantly destroyed.

In her pitch-black pupils, despair was reflected.

The intense bombardment came closer and closer, and in her eyes, the light was as bright as midday.

Then, the magic cannon swept through her small body from the front.

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Boom—!

The light shot into the sky, shattering the night's dark clouds.

The light scattered like divine punishment falling from the heavens.

The disturbance was so great that the entire Kinoko Town was shaken, and more than a hundred thousand people fell into panic.

Park.

"That direction is... the outskirts forest?"

Aoko looked in disbelief at the huge flash in the sky in the distance.

"What is with that magical concentration? Who could be using such a large-scale magecraft?"

It was like a bottle overflowing with water, with magical energy expanding massively from the direction of that forest.

Was it Alice?

No, even if it were Alice, she shouldn't be able to expand the scale to such an extent without a long preparation time.

"...There are other enemies over by Alice."

Eiji closed his eyes, as if communicating with someone, and then his gaze turned cold.

"I have a bad feeling... Aoko, protect yourself."

"Eh?"

Eiji bent down, cradled Aoko by the legs, and, to her surprise, picked her up horizontally.

Boom!

Then, he threw himself forward once again.

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