"Little girl, that martial art you just used..."
Rivale looked at Linie with excitement, a hint of fanaticism in his tone.
"It is the martial art of the Warrior Eisen."
Linie held her battle axe with both hands, gravely shielding Aura behind her.
"As I thought... but you are a Demon. You couldn't possibly be Eisen's apprentice, right?"
Seeing an interesting existence, Rivale seemed to regain his interest in conversation.
Solitär and Aura were obviously happy to accept this. After all, they knew their mission was to stall for time, not to actually kill Rivale.
"This is my [Magic Imitation]... I can imitate any move I have seen."
Linie explained her magic without stinginginess.
"Truly an interesting ability... Imitating others' techniques, is it...? It is just a pity that your strength is too low. Otherwise, this wound could have been deeper. You need to at least make me bleed a little for it to be considered an effective attack."
"Hmm... However, being able to achieve this degree is already very remarkable. Little girl, you are the second person to wound me in the last hundred years. Come, tell me your name."
"Linie... And about my lack of strength, Lady Fíliya already told me... So, the path I choose now is a different direction."
Linie spoke coldly, then actively launched an attack.
"Linie, you!"
Aura was greatly alarmed, thinking, The opponent is the God of War! Isn't it better to talk more and stall for time...? How dare this child initiate an attack... This is a bit too brave...
Aura bit her lip tightly. Watching Linie's 'heroic' appearance, she felt her face burning hot.
Linie, with you being so brave, where does that leave me, Lady Aura...?
Rivale's mood was obviously completely different from Aura's. Seeing this young demon attacking him, Rivale was exceptionally happy.
"Oh? Switched to my martial arts this time...? Just from those one or two exchanges earlier, you have already completely learned it... Interesting, truly interesting."
Rivale watched Linie use his own moves, his mood soaring to the peak of delight.
"Then, how about this..."
Rivale began to use different martial arts, but before he could even fully swing out his new move, he saw that Linie had already changed her stance in mid-air, using a technique identical to his.
"To be able to instantly learn a move that was only half-executed... This [Magic Imitation] is truly remarkable."
Rivale made no secret of his praise for Linie, and then continued to switch between various moves, beginning to exchange blows with her.
This development made both Solitär and Aura somewhat surprised.
After all, they knew very well that although Linie's [Magic Imitation] was indeed domineering, with her strength, even if she learned the God of War's martial arts, it would be impossible to fight Rivale to this extent... The numerical difference in stats between the two was simply too great.
So... there was only one explanation for what was happening before their eyes.
This Rivale was actually deliberately holding back and not hurting Linie.
"I... did I see that right... This is..."
Aura looked at the scene before her, finding it inconceivable, and rubbed her eyes with a face full of shock.
"Mm... Rivale is feeding moves to Linie... After learning that Linie can imitate any move, he started deliberately displaying more techniques... He completely intends to let Linie learn all of his martial arts."
Solitär also had a look of doubt on her face. Although she could roughly guess Rivale's thoughts, she still couldn't understand the mindset of this kind of martial artist.
Why would Rivale help his opponent become stronger...? Warriors are indeed strange creatures, Solitär thought.
"B-But, why would he do that?! Are the brains of these warriors who learn martial arts not working properly? We are enemies right now!"
Aura voiced the doubts in Solitär's heart. To this, Solitär could only shake her head.
"I don't really understand either... But isn't this situation quite good? I originally thought we would have to pay a price to hold him back... but it turned out like this."
Solitär watched the figures of the two warriors fighting further and further away, almost running out of her field of vision, and her mood suddenly became subtle.
Ever since Lady Fíliya stepped into this Great Barrier of the Golden Land, she felt something was a bit strange.
There were two points she was confused about.
First... why was that Tomato Kid alone?
It was easy to understand that Stark would lose his reason and run to challenge Rivale beyond his capabilities, but... why wasn't Little Eggplant there...?
Given the relationship between the two, when Stark acted recklessly, Little Eggplant would definitely stop him. Even if she couldn't stop him, Little Eggplant would at least come along with him. But just now, there was no sign of Little Eggplant at all... This was very strange.
As for the second point... Where on earth did this Macht go?!
Logically speaking, this guy who had been imprisoned for decades, seeing someone destroying the barrier, shouldn't he be looking forward to it and starting to coordinate from the inside? He should have taken some action inside the barrier as well. Yet now, not only was there no sign of him, but even Mana Detection couldn't capture Macht's mana.
Macht must still be inside the barrier; this was beyond doubt. There was only one reason Mana Detection couldn't find him: that guy was concealing his mana.
Tsk... Playing hide-and-seek with me, are you?
Fíliya wandered around in this shining golden world for a good while, finally getting a bit annoyed. Thinking that Solitär and the others were still fighting for time for her outside the barrier, while she was wasting time here with Macht, left a bad taste in her mouth.
Thus, she chose a wide street. This street was filled with a crowd turned into gold.
Hmm... Want to hide? Then I will force you to come out and meet me.
Fíliya took a deep breath and made up her mind.
She activated Flight Magic and flew above the crowd.
She sprinkled a marvelous mana from the air, coating those golden human statues with her magic blade.
Immediately following that, a miraculous scene was born. The dozens of golden human statues on this street began to gradually recover.
The brilliant gold on their surface faded away like melting ice and snow.
Soon, the dozens of people on this street successfully regained their flesh and blood bodies.
Tsk... I can only restore this many at once. The consumption of this thing is really huge. And this Weise has a population of tens of thousands at least. If I really had to save people, it would take until the end of time...
After complaining in her heart, Fíliya slowly raised her hand and launched an attack on the crowd that was still in a daze.
Boom!
Several violent explosions abruptly woke the crowd.
"What is going on... Why has the street turned into gold?!"
"Enemy attack! Run!"
"Who is she? Is she a mage from an enemy country...? Impossible, how did she sneak in... Where is Lord Macht?!"
"Lord Macht! Where are you! Please save us!"
Fíliya looked at the crowd fleeing in defeat below her vision, feeling exceptionally refreshed. It turned out that being a villain was such a fun thing.
Just a second after she was feeling triumphant, those collapsing and fleeing humans turned back into gold again. Even Fíliya herself turned into gold along with them.
Of course, having already mastered the Gold Transformation Magic (Di Agolze), she immediately turned herself back.
Standing in front of her at this moment was naturally the head of the Seven Sages of Destruction, Macht of the Golden Land.
What caught her attention first was, naturally, Macht's head of very conspicuous, flashy pink long hair.
"Lady Fíliya, I must say, you are indeed a human capable of creating miracles."
Macht looked at Fíliya with slight vigilance. Seeing that Fíliya could turn herself back into flesh and blood, he was still a little surprised.
"Is that so? So you use this method to say hello? If I hadn't truly learned the Gold Transformation Magic, I would have died from that just now. You really are something."
Fíliya looked at Macht with great disdain.
"No, I simply used a wide-range Gold Transformation Magic. You were naturally covered within it, Lady Fíliya. Anyway, you can undo your own gold transformation, can't you?"
Macht replied with a smile.
"Also, your method of using the Command Bracelet to force me to appear is also very brilliant... However, speaking in terms of human world laws... your behavior just now was undoubtedly a crime, you know?"
What Macht referred to was naturally Fíliya's act of attacking civilians. However, Fíliya had no psychological burden regarding this. After all, she could precisely micromanage her attacks; she had just scared those civilians earlier without causing any casualties.
Macht wore a Command Bracelet on his right hand, and within this Command Bracelet, three orders were embedded. The one Fíliya utilized was naturally the one: 'Forever obey the people of Weise.'
After the people of Weise issued a tangible cry for 'help' that contained no possibility of ambiguity, this guy who only wanted to play hide-and-seek with her had no choice but to show himself.
"Alright, cut the crap. Guess why I'm looking for you."
Fíliya looked at Macht with a wicked grin.
"Mm, based on my understanding of you, one of your goals should be to show off to me that you have successfully analyzed my Gold Transformation Magic."
Macht's tone was also very calm.
"Oh? Quite smart... That's right, I am indeed here to slap you in the face, but that is just an incidental goal. As for the main one, guess again."
Fíliya crossed her arms over her chest, speaking in a tone that sounded like a command.
But Macht was obviously a very cultured demon. Even though Fíliya's attitude was exceptionally arrogant, he still appeared very calm.
"Regrettably, I cannot guess... Lady Fíliya is an inconceivable human. I don't think anyone can understand your thoughts."
Macht continued to speak in that emotionless tone.
"Why do I feel like you are beating around the bush to scold me?"
"You are overthinking it."
"...Ugh, fine. Anyway, I came in this time to borrow something from you. You absolutely must not be stingy."
"Oh? I wonder what Lady Fíliya wants to borrow?"
A look of doubt emerged on Macht's face.
"Mm... To borrow your head for a use."
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