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.

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

Maugrier's arrows weren't on Leonel's predicted trajectory, there was only one explanation: He had used Force to control their

took advantage of this and applied the concepts of 'Spirit Pressure Storms' here, he could

SHUUU!

breath as he felt two arrows tear through the

on the last one, continuing to close the

Maugrier's expression changed.

first, he had sneered seeing Leonel's reaction. Though he had been surprised that Leonel was a mage, after a moment, he laughed in his heart. How could

started to cast 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

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

thought that Leonel was simply a talented fool with no battle experience, but this situation completely

deflecting his last arrow told him all he needed to know.

the battlefield, he obviously knew that high fluctuations of Force would disrupt techniques. But, this was the first time he

been waiting to see a grand show, but now he had

"My Lord!"

guards surged forward to try

recover and pester me with more arrows. If I can't read the trajectory of his arrows, it'll be too difficult to dodge at

as he wanted to temper his spear skills here, this wasn't

steps

surged into the earth beneath his

'Impossible!'

had been too busy snickering at Leonel earlier to

more difficult and took far more Spirit Pressure than directly creating your own as

natural state were favored even amongst Childes. The disparity between them and normal mages was like the difference between clear

further, an Earth Mage who could do such a thing would be a bane to all warriors who called them an enemy. The reason was simple.