In an instant, Iri vanished from everyone's sight, and then a startled cry from Holy Hymn was heard from behind them.
"Eeek… Holy Light… Ugh…" Unfortunately, Iri didn't give Holy Hymn a chance to use her magic, directly swinging her fist at her beautiful face.
By the time the others reacted, Holy Hymn had already been sent flying several meters by Iri's punch, directly knocked unconscious and unable to get up.
"Uh… that, my sister, can you please not hit the face?" Queen Aesel immediately raised both hands in a gesture of surrender; he didn't even intend to fight back and just surrendered.
"Of course!" Iri replied with a smile, then unleashed an Iri Iron Fist straight at that scoundrel's face…
Less than two minutes into the opening, three members of the Black Scripture team had fallen, a result that greatly astonished the peeping Toms.
"This… wasn't a counter-short-distance teleportation measure prepared beforehand?!" Gelos was also utterly bewildered. This training ground was already within Theocracy's anti-teleportation barrier, and before the battle, Queen Aesel had been specifically instructed to prepare for anti-teleportation. Could it be that he actually considered Clementine his sister and wanted to go easy on her?
"I don't know…" Unmatched Warrior Mokoredd shook his head, glanced at Queen Aesel, who was lying on the ground with swirling eyes, and raised his greatsword.
"Bumarl!" Unmatched Warrior Mokoredd shouted, then charged forward. Gelos stood rooted to the spot, and a magic circle for casting a spell appeared on him. He thought, these people from another world are too straightforward; if they want to use a tactic, they still have to call out the person's name. Isn't that just warning the opponent to be careful?
Sure enough, God-Lord Chains threw something, aiming straight for Iri. Such a sneak attack was too much of a failure!
"Arrow Flight Defense activate…" Iri immediately activated a pre-prepared magic scroll. Normal ranged attacks couldn't breach this barrier.
But just as the object God-Lord Chains threw hit the barrier generated by the Arrow Flight Defense magic, it immediately exploded, emitting a large amount of white smoke.
A smoke bomb? Is it to cover Unmatched Warrior Mokoredd's assault? How naive! How could such a small trick, which only obscures vision, possibly affect her? Iri scoffed at this.
But just as Iri had this thought, she noticed that one star on her Guardian Ring was missing. This smoke wasn't just for obscuring vision, was it?! It actually had an abnormal status effect! This isn't good!
God-Lord Chains's belt still held a large number of the small bombs he had just thrown, and she only had two chances left to resist abnormal statuses. The next target to eliminate must be him!
At this moment, Unmatched Warrior Mokoredd also arrived, taking advantage of the smoke and Iri's distraction to slash with his sword.
Iri reacted quickly, raising her hammer to defend. When the greatsword in his hand collided with Iri's hammer, it produced a very clear but abnormal metallic clanging sound, which made Iri feel very uncomfortable.
For a split second, Iri's mind seemed to stop thinking, and her normally bright eyes instantly lost their color. However, this dazed state only lasted for less than a few tenths of a second before being dispelled by Iri's Guardian Ring.
Regaining her senses, Iri used her brute strength to push Unmatched Warrior Mokoredd away, quickly retreating several steps. This was because from directly above Iri, several light spears had already been launched towards where Iri had just been standing. It must be Gelos's magic. Although Arrow Flight Defense was active, it couldn't resist magic.
If Iri had been even half a second slower just now, she probably would have been hit. Fortunately, with the Guardian Ring, her dazed state was instantly dispelled, and she reacted in time…
This is tricky now. Unmatched Warrior Mokoredd's greatsword is probably his "Divine Artifact." Even defending against it can cause a dazed state… This is quite fatal for her, who greatly fears abnormal status attacks.
They didn't intend to give Iri a moment to breathe. Before Iri could catch her breath, she noticed a slight tremor in the ground beneath her feet. She glanced out of the corner of her eye at the two people behind Unmatched Warrior Mokoredd and noticed that one of the chains originally wrapped around God-Lord Chains's arm had directly pierced into the ground.
This works too?! This greatly surprised Iri, and she quickly tried to evade, but unfortunately, she was half a beat too late. God-Lord Chains's chain broke through the ground beneath Iri's feet and wrapped around Iri's ankle.
"Got her! Connecting Chains! Bind her!" God-Lord Chains exclaimed with a triumphant grin.
All the chains wrapped around God-Lord Chains's arm immediately scattered and burrowed into the ground at an extremely fast speed. The chain on Iri's side acted like a living creature, winding up Iri's ankle. The feeling was as bad as it could get, like a cold snake coiling up her ankle. Before Iri could react, the chain quickly bound Iri completely and securely.
Ugh… I have to admit, their cooperation was indeed brilliant and quite successful, especially since she was now tied up by God-Lord Chains's chains. Iri tried to break free with her brute strength, but the chain didn't budge… It should be said that she couldn't exert any strength at all. Did this chain have such a special effect?
"Is this enough? Clementine, you lose," Unmatched Warrior Mokoredd said, looking at the immobilized Iri.
"That's not necessarily true," Iri said. Although she couldn't move and her freedom was restricted by the chains, Iri didn't intend to give up.
"It's useless. Those bound by my God-Lord Chains will not only gradually lose strength but also be restricted from using magic below the third tier. Little sister, just give up," God-Lord Chains said, shrugging.
"Oh! Magic below the third tier, huh? Then I'll just use magic of the third tier or higher," Iri replied with a smile.
"Heh heh! Little sister, do you see the situation clearly? Your spell hasn't even begun to chant, and the three of us can slit your throat at any time. Give up! Little sister, it's already impressive that you managed to take down three of our team members at once," God-Lord Chains tugged at the God-Lord Chains in his hand, seemingly trying to remind Iri that she was currently unable to move.
"Hmph… Ice Aura, Level 4 activate…" Iri revealed a very sinister smile and quietly mumbled to herself.
Then, the chains wrapped around Iri instantly became covered in white frost. God-Lord Chains hadn't even understood what had happened when his arm, still holding the God-Lord Chains, completely lost sensation, and his arm was also covered in white frost.
"Ah!! My hand!" God-Lord Chains was instantly terrified.
"Oh! Don't move around, okay? Your arm is already frozen, and if you move around, I can't guarantee it won't shatter like ice," Iri said with a smile.
"Ugh!" God-Lord Chains's arm was completely frozen, and it was also frozen together with the chain. And because that chain had come from underground, the ground and the chain were also frozen.
In other words… God-Lord Chains was also unable to move, because if he moved around, his arm would very likely break off and shatter. One must know that such damage would require very high-tier recovery magic to heal, otherwise he would lose an arm forever.
"Clementine! That's enough! Please don't go too far!" Gelos also realized the seriousness of the situation and walked over, saying.
"Hasn't the battle not ended yet? How can you say it's too much? You six against one, and you're using all sorts of divine artifacts and secret treasures against me, and I haven't even said you're going too far. Now! Please continue fighting," Iri replied with a smile.
"You… Alright! Even so, you still can't move. Since you want to get hurt so much…" Gelos's face hardened, then he slowly approached Iri, holding the spear in his hand.
The spear in Gelos's hand looked very ordinary, even quite old and low-quality. Usually, such inconspicuous items tend to have the most outrageous performance, so he couldn't be allowed to get close directly.
"Hmm! I have no intention of getting hurt, but I'll warn you first, if you take one more step forward! I can't guarantee the outcome," Iri said.
Gelos stopped in his tracks, looked down, and saw that the ground he was about to step on was already covered with a thin layer of ice.
What kind of magic is this?
He had never seen such ice magic. Gelos slightly averted his gaze, looking at Bumarl's arm, which was frozen solid. Would he also be frozen if he stepped on it?
This was no laughing matter. Although his armor had strong resistance, and the resistance magic he had just cast was still in effect.
However… his body still felt the temperature of the entire training ground dropping rapidly. He couldn't risk it!
"Hmm! Not coming over, huh? A wise decision…" Iri snickered, saying.
However… in her heart, she was panicking. Fortunately, she had bluffed Gelos. Her full-power Level 5 Ice Aura, capable of freezing God-Lord Chains's hand from such a distance, was already pushing her limits.
That damned Holy Hymn had applied status resistance buffs to them earlier. If it weren't for the equipment Cocytus gave her that enhanced freezing effects, she wouldn't have been able to do it at all.
Looking at Gelos's shiny armor and his divine strength, Iri had no idea if her Ice Aura would be effective against him.
"…" Gelos looked at Iri's sinister smile, only frowning, then stood in place and activated his magic.
Just like before, several light spears fell directly from above Iri, piercing into her body. But as soon as those light spears touched Iri's body, they immediately seemed to be obstructed by something and simply vanished. This astonished everyone present, including the peeping Toms, even more.
"Hmm! It seems your magic has no effect on me whatsoever!" Iri said with a smile. This was another of Iri's trump card pieces of equipment: the Amulet of Fortitude given by Albedo was working. Now Iri had the ability to resist ten magic attacks. However, Gelos had shot four light spears just now, so the number of resistances was consumed four times at once.
Gelos, somewhat at a loss, activated the light spear magic again, but the result was the same. Clementine, with a smile on her face, took the light spears he shot directly, and she herself was completely unharmed.
What in the world was going on? Gelos himself was starting to doubt reality.
His Luminous Spear was a fourth-tier attack magic, and with the penetration special bonus from the Divine Artifact, Spear of Death Thorns, in his hand, there should be no equipment or magic with resistance properties that could withstand it! But Clementine in front of him had taken two rounds of his attacks without a scratch.
"I already told you it has no effect, are you still going to waste MP?! Well… if you want to waste MP, I won't stop you," Iri said with a triumphant laugh, still panicking inside.
Two rounds of light spear attacks had already consumed eight resistance effects. If he came for another round, she would really be in trouble. Now, she could only rely on her acting to deceive him! Iri thought to herself.
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