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◈ Reincarnated as the Villain's Heir
Chapter 30: You Dissed Dark Magic Again, Did You?
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Lilisha's body was wrapped in flames, and when she next appeared, her entire body was burning red.
I knew that form, which could be called an incarnation of flame.
This was-
"This is the Arcane Truth of Magic... the destination of magicians and their ultimate form!"
The Arcane Truth of Magic.
A magician could reach it by understanding the essence of their own magic.
Its form varied, but some transformed into inhuman beings like Lilisha.
In this state, mana jumped severalfold to several tens of times higher, and the user gained special abilities.
"Magic... True Understanding...!"
"Leticia, step back. The current Lilisha is dangerous."
"Lord Alphys, for Lilisha to reach the Arcane Truth of Magic, she truly is a genius."
"Maybe, but that one is not very good. Just get out of the field."
I chased Leticia, who did not seem fully convinced, out of the Safety Field.
Lilisha, now flame as if her whole body had become magma, smiled as if she had been waiting for me.
"Alphys, what do you think? Now you understand that I am on a different level from you, who can only use little tricks, right?"
"Yes. You are a genius."
"Hehe! Ahahahaha! I wanted to hear those words!"
"Are you happy?"
"Yes! I have been looking forward to making you, the first person who ever humiliated me, submit!"
She was being affected by mana rampage from holding more mana than her body could handle.
An enormous amount of mana rushing through her body amplified her mind and kept her mood elevated.
In other words, it was extremely dangerous.
For some reason, Lilisha had reached the Arcane Truth of Magic.
This was a trap for magicians.
Sometimes, a magician who trained by pushing themselves to the limit would feel that limit and understand a truth.
I worked hard.
Therefore, I should be rewarded.
From extreme fatigue and stress, they escaped by deciding their own limit.
That completed an Arcane Truth of Magic that fixed the limit of their magic.
The current Lilisha believed this was the ultimate destination.
What an idiot.
The dangerous part was that because she had decided her own limit, she could not be expected to grow further.
Lilisha believed this was the limit of being a magician, so at this rate, she would never grow again.
In short, the Arcane Truth of Magic was also a double-edged sword.
The current head of House Parsifam, Branmud, should have known that.
"Hey, Alphys. You really did me in last time. We are inside the Safety Field, but I will hurt you plenty."
"So you are satisfied with something like that."
"I have reached the Arcane Truth of Magic. In other words, it is the same as mastering magic as a magician."
"Good grief. What a troublesome young lady."
I drew the magic sword.
To be honest, thanks to the Arcane Truth of Magic, her mana alone was higher than mine.
But battle was not so simple that mana alone decided the outcome.
"That sharp tongue ends here! Die!"
Lilisha's hands transformed into flames and spread out like a fan.
By becoming flame herself, she was creating infinite attack patterns.
"Dark Smog, renamed Blind."
The dark magic Blind simply wrapped the target in darkness.
Unlike Dark Smog, its range was wider and it should work on more opponents, but-
"Ahahahaha! What is that?!"
"Tch. So you do have resistance."
Like this, many strong enemies did not fall for it.
If I remembered right, she should not have had much blindness resistance, but the Arcane Truth of Magic had boosted her resistance.
Yes, it was better not to think of this as Lilisha while also being Lilisha.
Her dark resistance had probably risen along with it, so I needed to be careful with direct dark magic too.
Next, after using mana reinforcement, I slashed at Lilisha with the magic sword.
"Too slow!"
Lilisha dodged the attack with speed surpassing mine.
I barely blocked the countering flames with the magic sword, but an explosion of flame approached from behind.
"It is over! Explosion!"
"Shadow Entry."
Explosion after explosion, and on top of that, Lilisha herself had become flame and controlled the entire field, leaving no place to run.
If I took that directly, even I could die.
If there was a place to escape, it was Lilisha's shadow.
"He vanished...?!"
"Dark Needle!"
I fired Dark Needle from directly below and grazed Lilisha.
But most of the Dark Needles were dodged because she entered flame form and slipped away.
That was Lilisha's current ability.
While she was turned to flame, damage was nullified.
Even if I swallowed her with the magic sword's darkness, I could only erase part of the flame.
If I was going to do it, I had to strike when she was in human form, before flame form could nullify the damage.
"That hurt...! Using gloomy magic like darkness!"
"You sound like some thug from before."
I looked composed, but the heat was something else.
I had to settle this before the heat did me in.
"Then one more time! Explosion!"
"Repeated upper-level magic is nasty..."
I cut through the explosion in front of me with one swing of the magic sword and buried it in darkness.
As for the left, right, and rear-
"Black Hole."
Black holes appeared around me and sucked up the explosions like vacuum cleaners.
However, because they were only local, they could not defend completely.
The blast hits were certainly damaging me.
"Hmm. Dark magic has quite a few little tricks. But when it comes to trading high firepower, it seems disadvantaged."
"Everything has strengths and weaknesses."
"The fire attribute is simple, but its power is the greatest of all attributes. Lightning for speed, earth for defense, wind and water for irregularity. Darkness is... somewhat plain. Father does not value dark magic much either."
"Seriously? Branmud has no eye for talent. Maybe he has never seen truly terrifying dark magic."
"...What did you say?"
With her red body and red face, Lilisha was visibly furious.
I smiled meanly.
For a moment, I considered using the power of my destruction pulse, but no matter how I thought about it, she was not an opponent worth that much.
Standing there was only an immature person drunk on mana.
"Hey, young lady. What do you imagine when you think of darkness?"
"Dark. Plain. What else?"
"There is a sense that magic depends on imagination. If you see fire as only fire and water as only water, that is as far as it goes. Even darkness has many possibilities if you change your perspective."
"Then show me! Explosion!"
Lilisha once again caused great explosions over and over.
The watching students screamed at the roaring blasts.
"He is gone... Shadow Entry again! How boring! I know where you will come out!"
"Dark Needle."
"See!"
Lilisha easily dodged the Dark Needles that emerged from the shadow.
But what came out from there was me, and also not me.
"Huh...? What? A black... person?"
A shadow person dyed entirely black stood there.
I also came out, standing beside the shadow person in front of Lilisha.
From here, I would get a little serious.
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