Seeing her elaborately devised surprise attack crushed through sheer
power, Lina felt a rising sense of both trepidation and exhilaration.
Her mind suddenly returned to that saccharine sweet, heartburn
inducing sight from earlier.
At that time, she had thought he was merely messing around with the
fight.
But at that time, Tatsuya had certainly whispered something to
Miyuki.
Thinking about it, it was fully possible Tatsuya had been informing
her about 'Dancing Blades'. She had seen Tatsuya decompose five
incoming blades at once.
It was not a sequence for any intermolecular force neutralising magic
that she knew, but from the results, she guessed that it must have
somehow undone the bonds holding molecules together.
But that wasn't the point.
What was critical was that it had targeted multiple projectiles closing
in at the same time, and dealt with them at the same time. What had
stopped her attack, was not Miyuki's strength alone.
(I see...so he won't make a move, but he'll go ahead and speak. Not
bad!)
Miyuki thought.
I absolutely cannot lose.
Lina thought.
I'll have to go full force.
The two of them cried out at the same time.
"Miyuki!" "Lina!"
"This is it!"
The world froze.
The world burned.
The magic of the two repainted reality itself, as two worlds collided.
Glinting with crystal light, an endless plain of ice and snow.
Roaring with thunder, an infernal storm of fire and lightning.
A hell which froze the air in eternal winter, 'Niflheim'.
A hell which consumed the air in scorching purgatory, 'Muspelheim'.
On one hand, an area magic which slowed down the vibration of gas
molecules freezing not only water vapour and carbon dioxide, but
right down to nitrogen as well.
On the other hand, an area magic which decomposed gas molecules
into plasma, and furthermore, by forcibly separating the ions from the
electrons, created a high energy electromagnetic field.
The sheer cold cooled the plasma back into gas, and the molten
plasma reverted the frozen air.
The fury of the two powers now clashing created an aurora on the
ground.
It really was a very pretty sight.
Almost enough to make one forget that life and death hung in the
balance.
Tatsuya, his finger on his CAD trigger, carefully scrutinised the scene.
If either side lost control, he would immediately erase the spells.
He expected substantial difficulty in canceling the magic of these two
at the same time, but he was a magician who specialised in restoration
and decomposition. He fully intended to surpass such absurdity.
In the midst of that aurora, as fire and ice met in what seemed an
eternity of mutual destruction, in less than a minute the tide was
revealed.
The cold air was expanding, and the plasma was shrinking.
In the first place, Miyuki was a magician who excelled in large scale
magic over a wide area.