The Absolute Godspeed of Infinite Worlds

The sound of fierce wind roared in their ears.

A strong sense of weightlessness struck, making Aoko instinctively cling to Eiji's neck.

Only in this way could she give herself a little sense of security, and at the same time, she released a mist of magical energy, surrounding herself to protect her body from being cooked by the intense friction.

With continuous booming sounds, they ascended and fell several times.

This couldn't even be called flying, not even gliding—it was just a standing long jump.

It's just that the distance of the jump was absurdly far.

Half a minute later.

The two arrived in the suburban forest.

"It's completely destroyed…"

Aoko scanned the forest.

In some unknown battle with someone, this forest had essentially been razed to the ground.

The earth was torn apart, rivers cut off, and countless crisscrossing trenches blasted out by magic cannons. The scene was even more tragic than Eiji's previous battle with the phantasmal species.

No time to think too much, Aoko followed close behind Eiji, running deep into the forest.

"Alice, where are you?!"

Disregarding the possibility of attracting enemies, out of concern for her friend, Aoko shouted aloud.

"…Over there."

Eiji's heavy voice came from beside her.

"But you'd better prepare yourself mentally."

"Where—?"

Aoko didn't have time to ponder what he meant by that. She followed his gaze.

Then her voice got completely stuck in her throat, no matter what she couldn't make a sound.

On the messy dirt ground—

Only half a corpse remained.

As if it had been roasted through by high heat from head to toe, it no longer bore any trace of being human. The remaining upper body was covered in pitch-black scorch marks, with faint wisps of smoke still rising.

The tattered clothing fragments nearby barely revealed the original look of a black western-style dress, indicating her identity.

"You're kidding… right?"

Aoko was momentarily speechless, her hand covering her mouth trembling violently.

There was no mistaking it.

That was the corpse of the roommate who, an hour ago, had still been laughing and chatting with her.

From the disfigured corpse, traces of magical crests could still be seen. Not just on both arms—even her internal organs had been engraved with crests by her mother, and their vast scale was terrifying.

That was proof of Alice as the heir to the great witch. Enduring phantom pains from every inch of her body at all times—no wonder she always seemed so indifferent to everything.

Ah.

Well, that made sense.

To take a direct hit from that kind of attack—no number of lives would be enough to survive.

Aoko crouched down, wanting to touch but not daring to.

"Was it you?"

Eiji shifted his gaze from the corpse, his cold eyes fixing on the figure standing motionlessly in the distance.

A long black robe in the darkness, the silhouette of a woman, and lips painted with purple lipstick.

A witch.

The instant he saw her, that word popped into Eiji's mind.

The other party said nothing.

Dark magical mist rose from her body, her aura as ominous as a demon's, and the ground beneath her feet ceaselessly fed her magic power… no—it would be better to say, she was continuously extracting the spiritual land's magic power.

"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as an admission!"

Eiji raised his blade.

Then, without a word, he charged.

In absolute silence, he exploded his speed to its limit. Amidst the violent rush of air, he crossed over twenty meters in a single second, stabbing his blade toward the witch.

Clang—!

With a long ringing sound like a bell, the magical mist floating beside the witch formed a defensive layer, blocking Eiji's stab head-on.

The pitch-black magical mist rippled, but remained as steady as a mountain.

As if sensing the threat he posed, the witch leaned her body back slightly in surprise.

Immediately after, her robe fluttered like a butterfly's wings, lifting her entire figure dozens of meters into the sky.

Buzz, buzz, buzz—!

The witch's lips moved again.

In an instant, countless magic circles of various sizes appeared in the sky, forming an inverted bowl shape that enveloped the boy on the ground.

Eiji's expression turned grim in an instant.

Glancing around roughly — there were nearly a hundred magic circles!

Rumble!!

Countless tiny magic cannons fired out from the magic circles, converging on the spot where Eiji stood.

Bang!

Without hesitation, Eiji kicked off.

With blistering speed, he escaped from the bowl-shaped encirclement of magic circles, causing all the magic cannons to hit empty ground.

Then adjusting his body, steadying his posture, he leapt from the ground with an earth-shaking tremor, and his blade pointed straight at the witch's back!

His movement was lightning-fast.

But the witch's reactions were no less quick.

Nearly a hundred magic circles in the sky swiftly turned their muzzles, aiming at Eiji in unison once more.

"Now's the time!"

But this was exactly the moment Eiji had been waiting for!

In that instant, he set his speed to surpass the opponent's activation speed. His upward burst gained a massive acceleration, and with a thunderous boom, he broke the sound barrier.

Before the magic cannons could fire, Eiji's blade had already stabbed into the witch's back!

But—

Clang—!

The sound of steel colliding sharpened several decibels.

The black magical mist shrouding the witch's body violently trembled, but still showed no sign of shattering.

Eiji's blade hadn't even touched the witch herself — instead, it was blocked by the magical barrier covering her body.

Tch!

Eiji landed back on the ground.

Clicking his tongue, his gaze fell to the ground beneath the witch's feet.

This was the nexus point of the leyline—the witch was constantly absorbing the massive magical power from the ley line. Not only had it become the resource for firing her magic cannons, it had also become her natural protective shield.

A defensive barrier formed by the massive ley line's magic power was unimaginably thick. Eiji's near full-power slash had almost no effect.

"I have to find a way to sever her connection with the leyline!"

A sharp thought struck Eiji, and he urgently locked onto a strategy.

But how?

He knew nothing about magecraft, much less how to properly interrupt that connection.

This was the moment to rely on instinct.

Eiji abandoned thinking altogether, handing full control of his body over to his instincts.

Then, naturally, his gaze turned toward Aoko.

Aoko?

That's it!

The Aozaki family were the owners of this spiritual land!

To monopolize the leyline's magic power, they had constructed barriers across the land that could gather its power in one place!

Although most of the barrier's support points had been destroyed, not all of them were gone—at least the one by the park remained intact, and Aoko still held the land's ownership.

As long as she activated the barrier's power, she could wrest the leyline's magic away from the witch!

But at the same time—

The witch seemed to realize this too, aware that she currently had a single point of vulnerability.

So she directed all the magic circles in the sky to aim at a certain position on the ground.

"Aoko, get out of there!"

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