Natalie's magical growth record

Chapter 84 The last line of defense
  "Are you attacking from here again this time?"

Feeling the whistling sound of wind passing by his ears, Philos immediately danced the long sword in his hand in an orderly manner as before to deflect the bait bullets, and then moved the long sword horizontally, blocking it with ease. The opponent aimed a straight uppercut to the face.

"Has it been blocked? Tsk."

Seeing that the attack was blocked again, Qiaocelin snorted with disdain. After a short weighing, she did not waste any extra energy and quickly used the strength of the opponent's sword to push her away and did a backflip to pull her away again. Keep distance.

After several rounds of failed attacks, Qiaoceline began to realize that it was not that she could not carry out smooth melee attacks on the person in front of her, but that she would undoubtedly continue to fight at close range when the opponent had weapons and the weapons could not be easily destroyed by her. Not a good choice.

So, if you can't break through at close range, let's try long-distance magic combat!

Thinking about it, Qiaoceline, who landed again, put away her punching posture, took out the pistol from the pocket on her waist, and prepared to start gathering magic elements as she planned.

However, before Qiaoceline's actions were put into practice, she saw that the gentle young man who had not taken the initiative to attack after several rounds of competition suddenly raised his sword in an alert manner, quickly approached her, and interrupted without mercy. Jocelyn injects magic into the pistol.

Yes, although compared to most of the elite backbone of the West District of Fire, Philos is not good at fighting, but as a user of extremely pure fire magic, he knows no matter what, against the equally extremely pure As a water magician, all you can do is try your best to prevent the opponent from using magic.

But this intention did not hide for long from the opponent Qiaocelin, who had experienced countless battles. Therefore, after the first round of magic attacks was suppressed, Qiaocelin took advantage of the situation and attached the hardness-enhancing magic energy to the surface of the pistol. She seized the moment when the opponent attacked with all her strength and threw the pistol heavily. At extremely close range, Using the weight of the pistol itself and her added strength, she dealt a serious blow to the man in front of her.

"succeed!"

Seeing that the opponent in front of her was indeed disrupted by this sudden blow, Qiaocelin naturally would not give up this gap, so she clenched her fist again and lowered the powerful attack at an absolute speed.

"I won't let you succeed easily!"

Feeling the gusts of wind passing by his ears, Philos immediately recovered from the pain just now, threw away the girl's weapon, then raised his sword, exerting all the strength he could muster to protect himself just now The face that was hit neutralized the increasingly fierce attack from the opponent's punches.

"You are indeed not as simple as I saw before. Although I really want to praise you for being such a rare opponent, I also want to end this time-wasting game as soon as possible!"

After saying that, Qiaoceline gritted her teeth and stabilized the strength of her punch to distract the enemy. She took the opportunity with her other hand to gather the magic elements around her, intending to release a small-scale wave to push away the enemy and win for herself. to perform advanced magic.

"Oops!"

Philos, who belatedly realized the other party's intention, secretly screamed something bad and wanted to get out of this restraint and mobilize magic elements to form a magic circle to resist.

Unexpectedly, it was too late. Just when he was about to retract part of his attention and focus on resisting the melee attack like the opponent, the opponent's magic attack was completed earlier than he expected. So when his defensive magic array had not yet taken shape, it was not large in scale, but the wave that was close at hand was already one step ahead of him, rushing his body, together with the long sword in his hand, back to the position before he rushed in.

Seeing that the plan he had finally prepared was disrupted by the unexpected situation, Philos couldn't help but have a headache.

Because the trouble was not the distance itself again, but that under the fierce impact of the water element, the fire element he attached to the sword had lost its effectiveness. What to do, in this situation, let alone fighting with the sword skills passed down from generation to generation in the family, just picking up this sword with one hand, which has increased in weight due to being submerged in water, is a task that should not be underestimated. problem.

I was really careless. I didn't expect that the two or three years of working steadily here would actually make his ability to deal with emergencies so much worse!
  If this continues, it won't even last the estimated time. How to buy time for Irene, how to let her bring the news to Cyrus and Lady Suzuran...

hateful!

Philos clenched his fists unwillingly and angrily at his incompetence, and stood up from the water in embarrassment. Regardless of his wet hair that was constantly dripping water drops and the details of the suppressed magic attributes, he immediately started to operate the magic circle, trying to use high-concentration Fire magic for the final confrontation.

However, the magic circle just rotated once and then stopped moving as he focused more and more on gathering magic particles.

what happened?

Philos's eyes widened in disbelief, and he took a deep breath. After calming down, he began to increase the strength of the magic elements, trying to drive the high-level magic he could think of.

However, just like before, he still failed to activate the magic.

"How, do you want to continue fighting?"

Seeing the other party's successive looks of embarrassment, Qiaocelin couldn't help but reveal an ironic smile, and faced the man's panicked gaze with a sure win.

"Is it because of your magical properties?"

While saying this, Philos, who figured out why he couldn't cast magic as he wished, quickly restrained his excess emotions and rushed towards Qiaoceline, planning to use close combat for the final delay.

"Oh, are you planning to kill the fish and break the net?"

Seeing that the other party was about to approach her, Qiaoceline didn't seem surprised. Instead, she smiled scornfully at the other party's behavior of flying into a flame. Then she was ready to take advantage of her ability to use magic and manipulate the water element to deal a fatal blow to anyone who blocked her progress.

However, unexpectedly, his magic failed to activate smoothly. What happened? It was her turn to be surprised this time. When she looked again, she saw that the other party had already taken out magic-restricting handcuffs specifically designed to target prisoners' resistance, and tightly bound her hands that were trying to cast high-level magic.

"Now, our situation should be the same. Should we choose to go back and live a relaxed life without any burden, or should we choose to resist and be destined to fail?"

As the last word of his words fell, Philos, who succeeded in catching him by surprise, immediately activated the flames of low-level magic and burned the chain connecting the opponent's hands, making the handcuffs truly become the last line of defense blocking the opponent's progress... …

(End of this chapter)