Chapter 44 What Kind of Magic Is This?
Catch me? Klaus was ecstatic, his emotions surging.
Too late!
He only needed one-fifth of a second to—
Bang!
Suddenly, there was a sound like a leather wallet being slammed hard onto the ground.
In front of Selene, an ethereal barrier suddenly appeared and collided head-on with the diving Klaus. His sword slashed toward it, and the barrier was instantly covered with cracks, but Klaus's charge was stopped cold.
Klaus was brutally flung backward, his entire body hurled away.
And in less than a second, the magic Selene had just used on the old butler reappeared on Klaus.
"Ahhhhh!"
Just like the old butler, Klaus immediately let out agonized screams.
He fell straight to the ground, blood-red crystals emerging on his left arm and right cheek. But because he was a wizard, the crystallization on his body spread much more slowly than it had on the old butler. At least after he hit the ground, he could still resist—
As this continued, while I was hiding behind Selene, I finally saw clearly how this magic was cast:
In Selene's palm, there was a very thin, vein-like ethereal tube. One end was connected to Klaus's body, while the other disappeared into the "eye" pattern in her palm.
As if noticing that I was watching, the "eye" pattern moved.
Its pupil had originally been centered, but then it suddenly shifted to the left—
It was giving me a side-eye.
But I felt no fear whatsoever.
I just stared right back.
What are you looking at?
Perhaps because she noticed "Donald's" gaze, or because the pattern in her palm told her something, Selene tilted her head slightly and gave me a friendly nod.
"Don't go over there, Donald. Be careful."
Seeing me about to step forward, Selene stopped me without hesitation. "Klaus is just putting on an act. He hasn't lost his ability to fight. This little bit of pain means nothing to wizards like us. If getting hurt meant losing combat ability, he would've died long ago."
Hearing this, Klaus's pained cries abruptly stopped.
He raised his head, glaring at me, and slowly got up from the ground. His left eye had already crystallized, while his right eye was bloodshot with rage.
"Donald! You betrayed Anna first, then you betrayed me! You're an even more shameful traitor than I am. Do you think you'll have it easy? You're a traitor too! If I die, you'll die too!"
Klaus growled in a low voice, the muscles on his back twitching and bulging abnormally.
As if ribs from his chest had grown out through his back, small wings made of bone slowly protruded from him.
Betraying Anna...
When she heard this, Selene instinctively became wary of me, but seeing Klaus's appearance, her expression suddenly changed.
She immediately changed her tone. "Anna, Donald, quick! Let's kill him together!"
As soon as she finished speaking, her open right hand suddenly clenched tight. Bright red crystals suddenly pierced out from Klaus's various joints, pinning him to the deck like a crab.
"What is this?"
I raised my unsheathed sword, asking somewhat curiously.
But Selene was sweating profusely with anxiety. "Don't ask, just step back! Don't touch him with your weapon!"
After receiving the warning, Anna immediately raised her wand. Though she was also a rookie, she was at least a wizard. Her magic power instantly turned into an invisible blade and slashed at him.
But it still couldn't hurt Klaus, whose mutation was becoming increasingly severe.
Klaus just shook his head as if scratching an itch, and the blade formed by magic power didn't even break his skin.
...Too far away, not enough power?
Anna's face instantly turned pale. She gathered her courage and moved closer to Klaus while condensing her magic power again.
But before she could finish gathering it, her steps gradually slowed and came to a stop.
This time, it wasn't because something had happened to her.
It was because she was stunned.
A metal hornet suddenly appeared beside "Donald," letting out an alarming buzzing sound as it lunged at Klaus. After a ripple of magic power, enormous flames swallowed everything in sight.
Klaus's mutation was completely interrupted.
He didn't explode into pieces, but a huge hole was blown in his chest. He remained in that position, no longer breathing.
Anna raised an eyebrow, looking at me with a strange expression.
What kind of magic was that?
This was definitely not magic from this era.
The most common familiars for wizards were animals. In real duels, no one would use those fragile creatures. She had never seen anyone use this kind of self-destructing metal hornet. Wizards nowadays still rely on close combat to decide the outcome. Moreover, Donald had indeed been just an ordinary person who couldn't use magic before, so why had Donald, who couldn't use magic, suddenly become a wizard?
Who was he?
Could it be that... at this very moment, she was inside someone's dream?
But just as Anna was about to ask me, I had already disappeared from where I stood.
The next moment, the entire world froze.
Then, the world suddenly filled with cracks, shattered, and melted away in silence.