463 459. The 110th Trial "Love".txt (1/2)

This time, Midgals Freeze was different from Freeze.

It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment defensive reaction, but a solidly purposeful build.

Hence, unlike the previous one, it was not offset in an instant.

Thanks to that, I could finally end the feeling of floating in the hot wind and put my feet on the 12 layers of ground.

At the same time, lava, like a ragged and large rainstorm, poured down from above.

A red-black river begins to flow through the twelve layers of unremarkable stone corridors, making it seem as if we are walking at the foot of an erupting mountain.

It's a dangerous situation, but I hastily turn my gaze upwards.

In a space where there should have been eleven layers, a two-attribute serpent swims violently.

Both of them were moving and biting each other like wild creatures.

The 《Midgals Freeze》 had accomplished its purpose of stalling for time.

However, the ceiling was unusually far away.

This was because the tenth and eleventh layers of ground were gone and the three layers were connected by a vault.

The information obtained from those eyeballs and the sense of magic 《Dimension》. There was no discrepancy between the two.

Then I wondered if there was any countermeasure for the 《Dimension》 on the other side, but around Maria, who landed in front of me as well as me, it was like a different story.

The ground where the two feet touched melted.

A shimmer from the heat rises and the light is refracted in layers.

It was as if a mirage was occurring and Maria's figure was strangely difficult to see.

Above all, the biggest problem was that the heat made it difficult for the 《Dimension》 to pass through.

When I was a novice explorer, there was a time when the Dimension couldn't pass through the lava around the 20th layer, and it was close to that.

That Maria was about to generate more flames.

I try to stretch the 'thread' and pull it back.

I've given up on persuasion and brainwashing through ”connection”--

Defaults.

I kicked the ground with my feet as hard as I could.

While retreating significantly, it also distorted space.

I knew that Maria would come to stop me like this.

Then we just 'adjusted' the story to go along with the original 'plan'.

For that reason, I'm going to take a break from it.

The longer it lasts, the stronger I, a dimensional wizard, become through information analysis. Nowadays, it is possible to control the flow (...) through 'writing' - more than the aim, the distance was essential due to the peculiarity of Maria's heat.

My body is dripping with sweat to an odd degree.

I wasn't affected by the heat.

Probably, the temperature in the labyrinth right now has doubled from the original around 20 degrees Celsius to around 40 degrees Celsius.

It's about the heat of a realistic midsummer - but my body, which is too protected by the ”massless cells” of the ”Magic Power Transformation (Level Up),” and which has no problem walking through flames that exceed 1000 degrees Celsius, was sweating.

In other words, what Maria is heating up with the magic flame is not the temperature in common sense.

The temperature of magic - or what should be called the temperature of the soul - is being heated intensely.

And it's .......

I mutter to myself as I kick the second step of my escape, change directions, and blend into one of the twelve-layered corridors.

If the spreading heat is special, the source of that heat is even more special.

''--[Freeze]''

Even though I muttered, the 《Freeze》 that directly touched Maria's flame will no longer be activated.

It's the ”Oblivion” of ”The One Who Steals the Reason for Fire”.

Perhaps it's because the ”price” was paid off the night before the departure of ”Blood Land”, but Maria was in excellent control of the ”curse”.

It's really unreasonable.

From a game lover's point of view, making people forget about magic is one of the forbidden things to do. No, I know that Maria doesn't know the game very well from her reaction earlier - but at any rate, I have a solution, so it's not a fatal wound yet.

''--[Freeze]

I muttered for the second time, taking a big gliding third step.

A chilly cold air was wrapped around my body.

It's true that I once forgot the magic freeze.

But now I've learned the magic freeze from scratch.

I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work.

I'm sure you'll be able to find out what's going on.

Maria's primary aim is not magic, but the 'forgetting' of the memories of 'Rustyala'.

Then the 'oblivion' of the 'Plan' and 'End of Season Festival'

--I'm not going to allow 'oblivion' (damage) to affect the 'Magic Kanami' I'm going to create from now on.

So, I should basically fight with general-purpose attribute magic that can be remembered again, rather than dimensional magic -- along with the third step, when I decided on a policy, one of my magic senses disappeared.

''............''

Between the current three steps, my best efforts at the Midgalls Freeze seem to have been defeated.

I could see that the cold air that could freeze the continent had been eaten without question.

Furthermore, from the hot wind blowing from behind me, I could see that the Flame Snake, which had finished eating the Ice Snake, was coming to chase me.

I can't let the flaming snake catch up with me.

I have a map of the labyrinth in my head.

However, if I take the wrong path or stop even once...

----?

I stopped in my tracks.

At the end of the fourth step, there was a fireball floating in the air.

Dozens of what looked like demon fire or fox fire.

I had seen them.

This is the 'Eye of Fire' that Maria is using to replace the eye she lost.

It was only a few seconds after the start of the 'Hundred and Tenth Trial', and yet this is the number.

It was prepared in advance for me to escape.

If you look closely, it's not just spheres.

There are flames of all shapes and sizes floating in the air, rhombus, squares, cubes and more.

I had seen this before, too.

That reflective (reflex) board-like flame is, as I recall, the one that was made to float when I was using resonance magic with Dia. The answer to that role is the diamond-shaped flames moving and vocalizing like a human mouth.

''--【Flame Arrow, Guardian Flame (Aegis).

At the end of the corridor, a light swelled up to fill the darkness.

A familiar ray of magic (laser) appeared from the end of the bend, hit the reflector I was looking at now, and changed the direction of travel.

I thought it was Dia's 《Flame Arrow》, but the color of that ray (laser) was not white, but red, and the quality of the magic power was different.

Maria alone is reproducing it. I bent and twisted my body to the limit and let that ray of light (laser) snatch at my torso.

Immediately, I tried to prepare for the next attack - but the irradiation continued.

Unlike Dia, this ray (laser) never ceased.

It didn't end with a messy release, but continued to maintain it at precisely the same power, making the magic converge in thin strands, hot and strong, and a single ray of light (laser) was strung through space like a thread.

''-- [Cutthroat Cilium Flame (Agni-Blaze)]

Suddenly, the reflector moves.

A beam of light (the laser) moves like a thread saw, trying to cut off my entire body in the space.

It goes back and forth five times, messily, but I avoid it all.

About ten seconds have already passed.

My battle instincts had come back a bit, and I was finally about to take a break from the rush from the tenth layer.

''There?'' --《Flame Flamberge》

----!

It takes my breath away.

I can't see Maria, but I guess she's fully captured and identified the location now.

But what I heard was the magic name of the flaming sword.

Do any of those fireballs floating around now take the form of a sword?

The answer always comes back as a flame.

'............?'

I felt a sudden rise in temperature from my back.

Not special magic or soul temperature, but this time firmly normal temperature also rose.

The sensation of being seared by a burner and my skin starting to burn.

I could feel the heat wave of what I should call the burning heat being born.

With a cold sweat, I look back.

At the same time, an earthquake.

A great labyrinth is shaken in all directions, and the temperature rises beyond the limit.

Somehow, I knew what was going to happen next.

-- This is the sum total of Maria's 'adventure'.

Since I became a flow maker, I've come to understand the rules and meanings of many worlds. That's why I know that the reason why the eyes are now looking at Maria instead of me is because it's a kind of ritual. When she said 'The Trial of the One Hundred and Tenth Layer,' she wasn't just joking. It was an advance statement that she was going to release her life as a 'price', so Maria has magical support.

A magic worthy of that Maria.

The first memory to be dredged up is a year ago. The flaming sword that chipped away at the continent when we fought the Palinclones at the center of the World's Vengeance Formation. That swing that pierced the heavens, vaporized clouds, melted continents, and changed the map.

No, Maria declared, it was more than that time.

And you're going to do that in an enclosed space like this?

And in my brain, an opinion that was too common sense.

It's Maria, because of course she's going to do it.

''--A, the [Absolute Robe]!

This one also pours as much magic as it can into it and generates ice.

The image of ice is a protective suit.

It's also a gapless substitute used for harsh searches such as magma.

When you are completely covered by the thick ice, your entire body is covered.

It was an earthquake that made it impossible to stand anymore.

Furthermore, the sound of bubbling could be heard coming from all directions.

The stones that formed the space were boiling to the point of view.

Following that, the ceilings here and there melted into a sludge, and flames erupted vigorously from within them. At the same time as I realized that the flame was the tip of the blade of the ”Flame Flamberge”, the ground, the walls, and everything I was looking at right now melted as if pushing away the soft chocolate cream.

There is no longer a material barrier to Maria's ”Flame Flamberge”.

''............!

Eventually, all of my vision was engulfed by the bright red flames.

It's the floating sensation again.

My body was protected by the Zero Degree Clothing (Absolute Robe). However, the unprotected foothold was slashed, melted and gone.

Being swallowed by the sea of fire is not a metaphor, but an actual occurrence.

There is no such thing as the feeling of swimming in the sea.

But, fortunately, I can feel the momentum of the flames passing by little by little.

-- this is a swing of a flaming sword that is too huge to grasp the full extent.

Believing that, I continued to defend myself with my magic, prepared to 'forget' the 'Zero Degree Robe'.

And then the sea of flames engulfed me for a few dozen seconds.

The end is coming.

When the flaming sword was finished being drawn out, my body was struck by the ground.

It seems that I fell from quite a high place, and the ”Zero Degree Clothing (Absolute Robe)” that was weakening shatters from the impact.

He poked the ground with his raw limbs and sensed the situation by the muddy feeling of it.

When I looked up, I saw a space that did not resemble a labyrinth.

Wide.

Anyway, it's wide.

Rather, there was nothing around me that made it seem as if I was already outside.

Only steam and smoke rose, and oddly shaped clouds were forming in the sky above us.

Furthermore, as far as I could see, red-black lava was spreading out and bubbling up like the aftermath of a rainstorm.

The surface of the ground is shimmering like glass in many places, probably due to the fact that the labyrinth is made of many magical stones.

I'm safe, but I almost feel as if I've been sent to hell.

However, I take a good look and get a good reality check.

In the distance, I spot a cliff with a strange stripe pattern.

The stacked strata is a layer of a labyrinth.

Thanks to the cut surface of the flaming sword, I can be sure that we are still in the labyrinth.

However, it was sneaky.

Roughly nearly twenty layers seemed to have been burned away by a single swing of the flaming sword.

As far as I can count the layers of strata that were piled up, the current location must have exceeded 30 layers.

I don't even know if we are in that seven-colored ore area.

Without having time to think about the situation, the magic name that follows.

''-- ''The Scorching Hot World's Skeletal Flame (In Lavos Blaze).''

Flames that could no longer serve as mouths are everywhere.

With the proclamation of the magic name, a huge sphere of flame arose in a cloud of steam and smoke in the sky.

A brilliant white flame.

A magical sun.

When I looked directly at it, even though my retinas were burned, I saw the surgeon's Maria floating in the center of that sun.

As a result of controlling the high heat spontaneously, she easily acquired the ability to fly. However, it did not seem to be able to travel at high speeds, and was about to fall down leisurely like cotton wool.

The sun would not only burn the retinas, but also the lungs that were short of breath, trying to scorch the soul beyond even the organs.

But this sun's fire was too much.

And it's too much of a fall.