"Genos Angelus!"
The moment Alfia spoke the name of her magic, the terrifying impact surged toward Elise.
Looking at the figure standing motionless amid the multicolored radiance shimmering around her, Alfia's lips curved upward slightly. It seemed Elise had understood what she meant!
"In that case, let me have a proper look!"
"Just how far can you go?"
Beneath the pressure of that immense impact, Elise tightened her grip on the Sacred Demon Sword and felt the bond between herself and Est become even closer.
Combined techniques like this usually tested the coordination between both participants.
In a sense, it was somewhat similar to the Orga Luxes from the world of Asterisk War, which also possessed concepts such as compatibility and synchronization rates.
Several years had passed since Elise first formed her contract with Est. During that time, she had used the Sacred Demon Sword to crush countless enemies and slay vast numbers of monsters.
All of those experiences had accumulated within Elise, and her coordination with Est had grown increasingly effortless.
Now, Elise was borrowing Est's power to manipulate that unique force...
Chaos!
In the world of the Elementalists, there were six great Elemental Lords. Light and darkness had been born first, followed by earth, water, wind, and fire.
Upon closer examination, one would discover that the four Elemental Lords born later corresponded perfectly to the legendary four elements of chaos. Perhaps the author of Blade Dance of the Elementalers had taken inspiration from that concept.
Using those four chaotic elements as a foundation, Est had recreated the primordial power of chaos.
Not only that, but through Elise's cooperation, they had incorporated even more unusual elements and attributes into it.
For example, light and darkness, holiness, and the stars—Prana...
This made the power of chaos even more complex. An ordinary person would probably be unable to wield such a force freely.
What a coincidence, then. Elise was no ordinary person, and Est was not even human. She was a spirit!
Their control over power was something others could scarcely hope to rival.
Gather...
Gather even more!
Motes of light representing different elements drifted around Elise. Under her guidance, they began merging together.
Their originally distinct colors transformed into something strange.
To offer a comparison, it was like taking clay of every color, kneading it all together, and shaping it into a single sphere...
It possessed an uncanny sort of beauty!
In the past, Elise had used sword techniques such as Brilliant Elemental Slash, recklessly expending enormous quantities of elemental energy and wasting a considerable amount of power.
Although Elise possessed an abundant supply of Prana and had almost never exhausted it, continuing like that would inevitably foster a wasteful habit. That would become a serious problem for her future development.
In a battle against a truly powerful opponent, such a flaw could become fatal!
Now, however, Elise concentrated all that energy together, forming a unique wave of power.
"What is... that?"
A sense of mortal danger washed over them. Alfia and Zald became wary almost simultaneously.
Everyone present, even Erebus several hundred meters away, was frightened by the energy fluctuation and stared at the scene in utter shock.
"What... is that power?"
Simply standing near it was enough for Alfia to sense mortal danger. If Elise unleashed that strike, who could possibly withstand it?
"As expected, you truly are powerful!"
With a smile on her face, Alfia watched as her strongest magic engulfed Elise and everything around her.
But Alfia knew this confrontation would not end so easily!
Boom!
Without warning, a beautiful pillar of light shot into the sky, completely dispersing the dust raised by the battle and making the battlefield clear once more.
What appeared before everyone's eyes next was a sight almost impossible to imagine.
Elise had taken no action against Alfia's Genos Angelus. She merely stood there with her Barrier of the Stars spread around her.
Instead, the impact surging toward Elise grew weaker and weaker the closer it came to her.
"What's happening? Why is the attack... weakening?"
Alfia soon discovered the reason. Just as she had sensed, the attack truly was growing weaker!
Although it appeared that Alfia's magic was colliding with Elise's barrier, that was not actually the case.
Upon closer observation, one could see faint threads hidden within the attack. Tiny motes of light were also flying toward Elise before gathering around her.
"Don't tell me... the substance around her can absorb energy?"
Just as Alfia suspected, even her strongest magic, Genos Angelus, could not escape Elise's absorption...
"This isn't an ordinary attack. It's a supreme technique created by incorporating a trace of chaos!"
"Watch closely!"
Elise glanced toward Alfia and forcibly seized control of all the energy around her, gathering it at the tip of the Sacred Demon Sword.
"Although I still can't fully control this power within such a short time, its might is unquestionably beyond what any human could withstand!"
Elise raised the Sacred Demon Sword above her head, slowly aimed it in Alfia's direction, and then... swung it down!
Boom!
At that moment, time itself seemed to freeze. Even the attack Alfia had unleashed earlier faded into insignificance.
Then, in the next instant, the wind... split apart!
Although Elise had aimed her attack in Alfia's direction, she had not aimed it directly at her.
No one lost their life to the technique. Elise had unleashed such an attack only because she wanted to demonstrate her strength.
However, the attack was simply too powerful. Even Elise could only direct something like this toward one place...
The sky!
Whoosh!
In an instant, the clouds overhead underwent an unimaginable transformation...
The edges of two white clouds looked as though someone had sliced between them with a blade, leaving behind a cut so perfectly straight that it seemed almost unnatural.
Sunlight poured through the opening and fell upon the earth, illuminating the stupefied faces of Alfia and Zald.
Never in their lives had they imagined they would witness such a scene.
Elise...
Had she actually cleaved the sky apart?
This was no longer something an ordinary human could accomplish. At the very least, neither of them had ever witnessed anything so outrageous in all their years!
As their gazes lowered from the sky, Elise's distant figure appeared once more before them, sword still in hand.
At that moment, the two adventurers who had once belonged to the strongest familias finally experienced Elise's overwhelming power firsthand!
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