Dimensional Descent

Though it was only by a few centimeters, the overall result would be far different than what he anticipated.

Leonel's blood boiled and his spine ran cold.

In such a threatening situation, he grew more focused, his thinking speed accelerating so quickly that time seemed to slow.

In an instant, Leonel zipped through all of the potential countermeasures he had and responded with the best.

BANG!

His foot slammed into the ground, a swirl of wind and oppressive Spirit Pressure surging around him.

"[Earthen Wall]. [Layering Arts]. [Harden]."

It was impossible to cast a spell so quickly. Even for Leonel.

An arrow crossing ten meters was the matter of a blink of an eye. But, even Leonel's fastest cast would take a full second.

However… It was then Leonel's Dreamscape flashed, sending out a branch of lightning.

In the core of it all, a book stood: 'Fostering a Mage's Battle Sense'. In fact, it wasn't just the book, but a specific chapter by the title of 'Spirit Pressure Storms'.

There were many things that could influence a mage's casting. Depending on the environment, there were an infinite number of variables. One such variable was the so-called 'Spirit Pressure Storm'.

When a high level Mage Art was cast, it would cause Force to converge. High concentrations of Force made it more difficult to control, especially when the concentration was of an opposing Force type to the one you were trying to use.

trying to cast a large scale Water Elemental magic right after someone cast a Fire Elemental magic was several

predicted trajectory, there was only one explanation: He had used Force to control their

took advantage of this and applied the concepts

SHUUU!

cold breath as he felt two arrows tear through the skin on his

a step forward, he cut down on the last one, continuing to close

Maugrier's expression changed.

been surprised that Leonel

three different spells at once. Even the weakest, [Harden], should have taken a veteran mage two seconds to cast. To make it worse, [Layering Arts] was a high level auxiliary Mage Art that multiplied the strength of spells by stacking

take a talented Magus upwards of ten seconds to cast alone. In such

simply a talented fool with no battle experience, but this situation completely upended his

arrow told him all he needed to know. The

Demon Lord and a veteran of the battlefield, he obviously knew that high fluctuations of Force would disrupt techniques.

he had laid his guard down when he saw Leonel's stupid attempt. He had been waiting to see a

"My Lord!"

death guards surged forward to try to protect

blocked again, he'll have time to recover and pester me with more arrows. If I can't read the trajectory of his arrows, it'll be too

had already made a decision. As much as he wanted to temper his spear skills here, this

steps made the demons around him feel as

into the earth beneath

'Impossible!'

too busy snickering at Leonel earlier to realize, but this boy was actually directly

atmosphere. Using already existing elements was far more difficult

could manipulate the elements in their natural state were favored even amongst Childes. The disparity between them and normal mages

Earth Mage who could do such a thing would be a bane to all warriors who called them an enemy. The reason was simple. Not every place had water or fire or strong winds, but any place