The swirling vortex lifted Jack's slashes into the air. Just as his sharpest slash was about to be unleashed, Jack stopped his hand. His lean figure leaped, landing on the tiled roof of a house.
After deflecting several slashes, Kaiser, seeing Jack stop, breathed a sigh of relief as the vortex barrier was about to shatter.
He landed lightly to the side.
"Mercury Creation Magic: Silver Star of Execution."
Nozel, who had been lurking in the street, launched a surprise attack. Mercury, like water pillars, continuously elongated and intertwined, forming a silver cage that trapped Bai En within.
Nozel, who thought his ambush was successful, vaguely saw the fox-masked figure in the cage turn and look at him.
A faint blue glow seeped from beneath the mask, like two slender lines.
The next second.
His vision shifted.
In Nozel's close-up view, the mercury cage appeared beside him, and the masked figure was standing exactly where he had just been.
"My position was swapped?!"
In that instant, Nozel was almost certain that the masked figure's magic was Spatial Magic... and not the traditional kind, only capable of teleportation or offensive spells, like other Spatial Mages.
"Historically, the Clover Kingdom's Spatial Mages have only been from the Byrd family. Could this masked figure be from the Byrd family? The vice-captain of the Golden Dawn?"
"No, it could also be a Mage from the Spade Kingdom or the Diamond Kingdom."
"Wait..." Nozel realized a problem. Up until now in the battle, he hadn't seen the masked figure's grimoire. "Where is his grimoire?"
His gaze swept around, then he looked up.
On the side of a nearby tower, a rather unusual grimoire floated. "A four-leaf clover grimoire?!"
"What's with that almost transparent cover?"
The grimoire, emitting a white light, quietly hovered high in the air. Its cover was like clear glass, almost transparent, and each page was nearly identical to the cover. The overflowing light on the cover revealed a four-leaf clover pattern.
Other than that... there were no other engraved patterns.
It was completely different from ordinary grimoires, exuding a sense of strangeness and mystery.
"This can't go on... I need to end this battle quickly."
Uncharacteristically, Nozel coordinated with the other two. "Kaiser! Jack!"
"Hehehe... I told you, Royal Sir, don't tell me what to do!" Jack's face showed irritation. A blue light surged from the scythe on his arm, and the overflowing aura seemed capable of tearing everything apart. "I know what to do."
Kaiser was much calmer. "Sir Nozel, please do as you wish. I will fully support you."
The silver thorn prison around him began to dissipate. Nozel unleashed all his magic without reservation. The cold aura made the air subtly tremble, and countless mercury threads began to float into the air.
Kaiser clenched his fist, and a massive vortex materialized in the Royal Capital.
The silver threads began to gather under the stirring of the vortex. Sparks and the sound of thunder subtly rubbed within the vortex, and the mercury took shape within it.
Jack unleashed slashes, and countless blue sharp edges filled the mercury vortex.
[Mercury Magic] × [Vortex Magic] × [Severing Magic]
Trinity, Combined Magic!
A giant mercury vortex with slashes as its sharp edges surged towards Bai En. The chaotic and restless magic stirred and destroyed everything in its vicinity.
"Even if you use Spatial Magic, you won't be able to move or traverse within such a massive Mana Zone. Just be annihilated with the storm!"
Bai En gazed at the continuously rotating and tearing mercury vortex. The magic in his body also surged. The "Blue" derived from negative infinite distance and the "Red" derived from positive infinite distance, the azure and crimson lights, flared intensely.
When negative infinity and positive infinity were defined at the same position, the starry "Purple" was born from the azure and crimson.
The "Purple," twice as large as "Blue" and "Red," collided with the giant storm.
Blue light, silver glow, and starlight converged above the Royal Capital, then, like a giant fireworks display, they stirred up air currents, spreading outwards. The booming sound of the explosion was heard by everyone in the entire Royal Capital.
In the lingering smoke and ash.
The three Captains still stood on the rooftop, but Bai En's gaze was no longer on them, but on the tall figure that appeared at the street corner.
"Oh my~ You all have made quite a commotion."
"You almost destroyed the entire town. There are many innocent people here, you know~ If you're going to fight, shouldn't you choose a more spacious location?"
"Wizard King Sir." Nozel, Jack, and the other two looked at the newcomer and placed their fingers on their chests in a knight's salute.
Julius waved his hand, signaling them not to be so concerned with etiquette, and to just be casual.
"I didn't expect to meet you so soon," Bai En looked at the newcomer and suddenly spoke.
"Oh?" Julius smiled. "So, according to you, you would seek me out one day?"
Bai En did not reply.
But silence was also the best answer.
"In that case, let's take this opportunity today. There's no need to wait any longer."
Bai En answered honestly: "Not yet. Right now, I'm not 100% confident I can win against you. When that day comes, I will come for you."
"Is that so?"
"I look forward to that day, but on one condition: you must be able to leave here."
Julius slowly extended his palm, the center of his palm facing Bai En. "Time Restraint Magic: Chrono Stasis."
"Whoosh."
"Whoosh."
Spheres wrapped in strange magical patterns appeared at Bai En's flashing locations. Relying on Six Eyes and Mana Zone, he keenly captured the coordinates of Julius's magic, using instant transmission to evade Julius's Time Magic.
"Blue-Red in-between."
The Red of positive infinite distance underwent distance reconstruction with Julius's position coordinates. The Red from Bai En's fingertip flashed out, crimson light bursting like a thread in the air, instantly appearing at Julius's location.
Time spheres enveloped the crimson Red.
Under the succession of time spheres, the Red was accelerated and attacked Bai En again.
Also, due to the hesitation in the attack, Julius pre-read time, peering into the future through his unique Time Magic. He flashed behind Bai En, his outstretched hand like the scythe of the Grim Reaper.
"Time Restraint Magic: Chrono Stasis."
Time spheres wrapped in strange patterns enveloped Bai En.
Just when they thought the battle was over, a crimson Red shot out again, and Julius flashed to dodge it.
Bai En waved his hand inside the time sphere. "Farewell."
The next moment, he vanished from the time sphere.
Behind the Aqua Deer's base, by a large lake, an unusual magical fluctuation emanated from the air...