66 Shirley VS Kyla (1/2)

Kyla created a second layer of mana protection on her body that allows her to defend against Shirley's sonic attack.

Using her superb mana manipulation, she created this skill and named it ”Mana Insulation” with Sheryl's recommendation. The concept of this is actually quite simple but unfortunately, aside from taxing mana consumption while maintaining the skill, the user will also be unable to hear any sounds at all.

But for the sake of defending against Ultrasonic Burst and having a chance to counter attack, it is just a small price to pay.

Kyla can only maintain Mana Insulation for 30 seconds so she has to defeat Shirley as quickly as possible. Fortunately, her opponent wasn't aware of her limitation and how large her mana consumption are so she may have longer time that she can use.

But she can't bet on that, she must take down Shirley before her Mana Insulation dissipated. Kyla rapidly thought and planned her attack in an attempt to destroy her opponent's Mana Shell.

Booom!

An explosion suddenly resounded as Kyla was about to attack Shirley. Of course, she hadn't heard anything but only felt that her Domain Magic had taken damage. She was maintaining the spell around her as protection from any incoming magic attacks and felt another huge consumption of mana was triggered to maintain her Domain Magic.

She realized that Shirley was now circling around her very fast as she uses another magic spell in an attempt to destroy her Continuous Flame Orbit and shatter her Mana Shell.

At first, Shirley defended against the onslaught of her opponent's magic. She used Water Sphere Protection against the domain but she felt that if this continued, she wouldn't win. She has to attack instead and break Kyla's defense.

Shirley used a haste spell and circled around Kyla looking for a best angle. After she saw an opportunity, she pointed her Sonic Gun and used her other spell.

”Echo Blast!”

This is an entirely different magic spell compared to Ultrasonic Burst. The latter is inaudible and invisible magic spell that directly affects unprotected magicians.

But this time, the Echo Blast was a sphere of mana that was thrown to Kyla. Although it ultimately hadn't reached her Mana Shell, the damage it dealt to her domain magic is massive. It took Kyla a huge amount of mana to retain her domain and hadn't been able to counter attack.

Shirley hadn't left unscathed as she miscalculated the power of her Echo Blast when it hit Kyla's Flame Orbit. Although, it destroyed a part of her opponents defense, the massive vibration after their mana spell collision affected her Mana Shell as it trembled crazily before she was able to stabilize it.

”That was surely dangerous. I really should keep my distance before activating that spell.”

Shirley said and noticed that she can now use again her Ultrasonic Burst. She did not hurry and try to use it against Kyla but tried to analyze the latter's abnormality.

She actually noticed that Kyla has bit delayed responses in her action. Although it wasn't much, it still caught her attention.

Wallace had actually taught Shirley on how to defend against Ultrasonic Burst. Apparently, the magic spell utilizes unperceivable frequency to affect her opponent. Wallace realized that Mana Shell could not defend against this kind of attack so he developed the artifact aiming to take advantage of this, so the Sonic Gun was born. He also advised Shirley that if a magician could defend against the spell, they must have an ability to stop the sound coming for them.

'It means that the opponent isn't hearing any sound and only depending on their sight and mana detection.'

Shirley remembered Wallace's advice as she noticed Kyla's reaction on her few attacks.

Although it doesn't seem to be too disadvantaged, with 4th gen mana artifacts, their senses were boosted to the highest level they could achieved. Listening ability doesn't pale in comparison with vision skills.

”Blinding Mist Fog!”

This is the skill that first year magicians from Leonhearts used. Of course, this skill wasn't originally with Wallace but he improved the version up to his standard to give a good combination with Ultrasonic Burst.

A fog quickly covered the whole stage obstructing Kyla's sight.

Now, Kyla could really only depend on her mana detection. In case that Kyla could summon a magic spell to clear the fog, tt would still give Shirley a few seconds to send her attack.

'Tsk.. 20 seconds more. I can't stay like this.'