Explosions were happening on the aerial fortress one after another, it was Drake unrestrainedly pouring out his firepower.
Lucius turned his body, accurately finding Drake's location among the series of exploding flames.
As expected, Drake had rushed over from the direction that he was facing, and a fist covered with a gauntlet had been blasted over.
A ball of flames had erupted, leveling a patch behind Lucius.
Lucius had blocked Drake's palm, and puffs of smoke had emerged, and while the burns had been rapidly healing, his five fingers had closed together, grabbing Drake's fist.
While holding Drake tightly, Lucius had punched over, imitating Drake's attack method.
Drake had been blasted away, spinning around, and there was a hint of surprise in the look that he had given Lucius after steadying his body.
The way that Lucius had unleashed that punch just now, including the pattern of magic power circulation, had clearly been exactly the same as his own.
So that was it, this was the Lucius who had integrated the magic of soul, muscle, bone, and blood.
Through the brand new magic, his control over his body had reached a new realm, and his ability to adapt and learn had been developed to the limit.
Drake's moves weren't complicated, so it wasn't strange for them to be learned. Drake wouldn't be shaken by this kind of thing, moves were moves, and in the end, it would still depend on who the user was!
Drake had kicked out with a flying leg, which had collided with the leg that Lucius had kicked over, causing another gale.
Lucius had revealed a smug smile on his face, and had actually begun to suppress Drake in the test of strength.
Drake's body's muscles had tensed, and feeling the vast power that had been transmitted from his leg, he had laughed.
Ring of the Nibelung, activate!
Drake's body had swelled slightly, and the characteristics of dragonification had begun to appear on his body, and what had happened at the same time was the explosive increase in power on Drake's body.
Lucius, who had been able to suppress Drake just now, had been blasted away by the explosive increase in power just like that, and Drake's pursuit had also followed.
"Fire Dragon's... Crushing Fangs!"
Drake's hands, which had transformed into dragon claws, had left countless crimson "claw marks" in the air, launching a dense attack at Lucius.
The magic power barrier that Lucius had set up had been torn apart directly like thin paper before Drake's claw strikes, forcing him to retreat.
"Stella, I'll borrow your move!"
Drake hadn't pursued, but had instead stretched out his palm towards Lucius.
"Dragon Queen's Jaws!"
Nine fire dragons had drilled out from Drake's palm, and had rapidly expanded, turning around to become large enough to cover the entire aerial fortress in an instant.
The nine fire dragons had spiraled around, sealing off all of the directions that Lucius could dodge, and had then opened their mouths, which were filled with flaming fangs, biting towards Lucius together.
The nine fire dragons had crashed together, causing an astonishing explosion, forming a huge fireball in mid-air.
The sound of the wind had rung out in Drake's ears, and that fireball had been torn apart by powerful magic power before Drake's eyes.
Lucius had walked out from within it, he couldn't be said to be completely unharmed, he could see a large amount of light motes gathering on his body, repairing the damage that had been caused by the flames.
"Tch! He's really troublesome!"
Drake had said in a low voice, but he didn't know that the Lucius on the other side had the same feeling.
The moment that their gazes had met again, the two had moved at the same time. The figures of the two who had erupted at the same time had completely disappeared, and only the sounds of explosions and the explosions that had appeared on the aerial fortress from time to time could prove that the two were fiercely clashing.
Drake's figure had reappeared, his legs rubbing against the ground as he retreated, and the two deep traces had then been buried by the shattered buildings.
Drake had raised his head, looking at Lucius, who had been blasted into mid-air, and the power of the muscles in his legs had erupted, directly shattering the ground as he chased after him.
Lucius had waved his hands, and magic circles of different colors had spread out.
"The warm-up ends here! Next, I'll let you see the power that humans should truly rely on, Drake!"
The magic circles had covered each other in layers, and the celestial phenomena seemed to have begun to change along with the power of this one magic.
"This world has elves who are favored by magic power, magical beasts who have powerful bodies, and even devils who are far more excellent than humans in both respects.
But what has always been great are humans, because humans are more skilled in knowledge and wisdom, and the magic that has been condensed from them."
As Lucius's voice had fallen, the light of heavenly punishment had descended from the sky, and multi-colored pillars of light had shot straight towards Drake.
The aerial fortress had been pierced through directly, and looking at that hole that had been blasted out, Drake, who had dodged out by a hair's breadth, couldn't help but have a feeling of lingering fear.
Looking at Lucius, Drake said in a cold voice, "Although I also quite agree with your view about humans, it seems that my understanding of magic is a bit different from yours!"
Saying this, flames had ignited in Drake's hands, pushing his body, directly blasting off.
"Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!"
Drake had transformed into a flaming arrow, directly skimming across the sky, shooting through that incomparably complex magic circle.
What had been reflected in Lucius's eyes was a roaring dragon made of flames, and within that phantom was Drake, who had clenched his fist.
"Flame Dragon King's Crushing Fist!"
Compared to the defense that Lucius had formed by gathering all of the attribute magic, the flames that Drake's punch had unleashed seemed quite monotonous.
But the moment that the two had collided, his defensive magic had been broken through by the flames like a hot knife through butter. Even the two magics of severing time and space, which he had the most confidence in, had been burned through.
For flame magic to be able to do this, this was something that Lucius couldn't understand. The magic power level that Drake had used was completely mismatched with the power of those flames.
For Lucius, who had been trying to master all of the magic in the world, the things within it that he couldn't understand had made him especially irritable.
Not knowing if Drake had noticed something, he had opened his mouth, continuing to provoke him, saying, "You'll lose today, because magic isn't that simple of a thing!"
Drake's fist had continued to increase in strength, shattering the last defense before Lucius, blasting him away.
From the moment that Drake had begun to learn magic, Ignia had taught him that magic was a power that originated from the "heart" of mages, it was a miracle that the world had responded to the will of mages, triggering it.
Knowledge and wisdom had indeed structured the foundation of magic, but what was more important above that was the mage's own will.
Magic wasn't something that could be measured with values, nor was it a technique that simply used magic power.
Mastering all of the magic in the world? Was he relying on that magic that had touched a trace of the rules of the source of the world?
Drake had even thought that Asta was really incompatible with this guy Lucius in every respect!
Not only was there the difference between all magic and no magic, but there was also the difference in will.
Even though he didn't have magic, Asta possessed the firmest will. This was the exact opposite of Lucius.
Creating an equal world, dominating the entire world, mastering all of the magic... there wasn't a single one of these goals that Lucius was willing to achieve even if he had to give everything for it.
With such a difference in resolve, Drake could even guess how Asta would defeat him without him.
Lucius had frowned tightly, he wasn't Julius, and couldn't understand what Drake was saying.
Having mastered soul magic, he could easily twist a person's will, and it was precisely because of this that he couldn't understand what use there was for that kind of fragile thing.
Drake didn't have any interest in explaining it to him, it was better to use reality to give him the most powerful proof.
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