Magical User Aozaki Aoko Case Files
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“Oh my, the powerful super magic fireball technique is really refreshing,” Aoko and Orange floated in the air not far from the Creation Science Building, stretched their bodies and exclaimed, “Doing this from time to time is a good way to relieve stress~”
“I don’t think my teacher can be killed in this way,” Orange stared at the top of the Creativity Building, which had become a ruin. It was now obscured by thick smoke and residual flames. “I suggest you be careful.”
As soon as Orange finished speaking, two crescent-shaped attacks made of sand flew out from the black smoke and flew towards the Aozaki sisters from two directions.
Aoko stretched out her hands and released two blue balls about the size of basketballs. As soon as the two balls left her hands, they flew towards Baru Yereta’s Sand Blade.
At the moment when the two “magic bullets” hit the Sand Blade, the magic bullets expanded rapidly, and the magic power inside them spread outward like dense silk threads, and then rotated inward, forming a collapsed magic vortex that swallowed up the yellow sand.
Qingzi quickly flipped through a few pages of the spell book and then recited the spell quickly.
“Ut Ventus!”
A sudden gust of wind appeared along with Qingzi’s spell, blowing from behind her into the ruins filled with billowing black smoke.
As the billowing smoke was dispersed by the strong wind, a ball made of yellow sand came into the eyes of the Aozaki sisters in the ruins of the top floor of the Creation Science Building. This must be the reason why Baru Yeleta survived Aoko’s attack.
“Where are you from, Gaara?” Aoko muttered.
As the yellow sand shield dissipated, it revealed Orange’s mentor who had survived the violent explosion.
Inole Baruereta Atolohom no longer had her previous elegant appearance. Her top hat was gone, her gray hair fluttered in the wind, her green robe was tattered, and burns caused by the flames could be seen in many places on her skin, but she still stood firmly in her place, staring at Aozaki Aoko.
Chapter 61: Death of the Monarch
Lord Baruyereta didn’t waste any words, because a magician like her would never try to beg for mercy when faced with a situation where the opponent wanted to kill her.
Because that would only make the other party want to humiliate her, and as one of the three great nobles, she would not allow herself to do that.
She stretched out a hand, opened her palm and pressed down. The yellow sand in the green handbag gushed out, forming a huge palm in the air that covered the sky and grabbed the Aozaki sisters fiercely.
Even Lord Baruyereta, one of the top masters of the magic world, was struggling to manipulate magic sand of this magnitude.
She clenched her teeth, her palms trembling slightly, but she still maintained a downward grasping posture, trying to use the giant hand of sand in the air to capture the Aozaki sisters.
“So flashy.” Aoko snorted disdainfully, and then her long red hair grew rapidly, from almost reaching her hips to longer than her legs.
The fifth magic began to show its prowess in the core area of the magic world, and countless eyes, both openly and covertly, were focused on Aoko.
“Subjective axis·fixed.” As the self-suggestion spell was recited, the magic circuits throughout Qingzi’s body were lit up, and immeasurable magic power gathered from Qingzi on different timelines towards her in front of her.
Then Qingzi stretched out her right index finger and drew a horizontal line from right to left.
And above her, dense stars appeared out of nowhere, ready to take off.
As Baruyeleta’s hand of sand got closer and closer, Qingzi snapped his fingers lightly, and the many stars behind him suddenly burst into infinite light.
“Incineration.”
Orange saw this situation and his mouth twitched, because he had been defeated by this trick in the past.
At this moment, she could only hold on to Aoko’s thighs tightly to prevent herself from being killed as collateral damage.
It was a tide of light, an immeasurable bombardment of magical power that overwhelmed the huge Hand of Sand. The time it took to block the torrent was not even as long as the magic circuits that Orange had snatched from Northern Europe. It was evaporated into gas in an instant.
As the giant hand disappeared, Aoko gently pressed her palm down, and the continuous output of light changed direction with her movement, slowly cutting through the Creative Department building from top to bottom, as easy as using a gas torch to melt a cream cake.
Just before Aoko was about to burn the glass of the entire Creative Science Building, a voice came into her ears.
“Flagalac!”
Almost at the same time as the sound was rang out, a strange-looking object shot towards Qingzi’s head at an extremely fast speed.
A strange weapon with a spear-like front end and a ball at the back.
However, Aoko, who maintained the fifth magic, subjective axis fixed state, understood the nature of this weapon before it was thrown.
It is a weapon that can distort cause and effect, launching after the opponent’s attack, but allowing the weapon to hit the enemy first.
The so-called Sword of Backlight is a precious legacy from the Age of Gods.
Aoko stretched out her hand lightly, used just the right amount of strength to grab the treasure with her bare hands, and then squeezed it hard. With a burst of magic lightning, the backlight sword, Flagrak, was reduced to powder.
“what?!”
A shocked voice came from somewhere on the grass below. Aoko looked down and saw a beautiful woman in men’s clothing, wearing a smart suit and with neat short hair. In one of her hands, she was holding Lord Baruyereta, who had lost both legs and one arm.
“Bazette Fraga Macremis,” Aoko’s voice was clearly heard by everyone nearby, “This is a personal grudge between us Aozaki and Baru Yereta. If you don’t want to be implicated, put her down and leave here.”
Bazette was about to retort, but was stopped by the weakened Baruyereta.
“The fifth magic… represents the ultimate mystery of calorie consumption…” Baruyereta said, “Even…Flaglak, who can reverse cause and effect, cannot surpass her celestial principles…”
“Put me down, Bazett,” Lord Baruyereta said in a tone of giving up, “Leave here, and let Barthelmero hold a meeting of the Crown to discuss how to deal with this matter…”
Bazette frowned. She had recognized that the little girl next to the fourth magician was the target of her seal, but it was obviously impossible to carry out the seal under the current circumstances.
As a working soldier, there was no reason to save the relationship between her and the head of Baruyereta.
After figuring out the key points, Bazette gently placed Baruyereta on the grass, activated the strengthening magic and quickly left the scene.
“Tell the Arbitration Bureau,” Aoko’s voice reached Bazette, who was fleeing the scene, “Remove the seal of Aozaki Orange, or you will be the next to suffer the fate of the Creative Department.”
After saying that, Aoko refocused her attention on the withered old woman lying on the ground. She had no interest in this so-called person who “faced death with grace”.
These people only died more beautifully in the face of absolute power. Qingzi had no interest in torturing her. Sending her to a quick death was Qingzi’s greatest kindness.
“If it’s possible… ahem…” Inole Baruyereta Atolohom said intermittently, “Please leave my mark… to my family…”
“I refuse,” Qingzi said mercilessly, “I’m afraid that if Chengzi is caught by the designated executor of the seal you sent, even if she proposes the same conditions, you will not accept it either.”
Hearing this, Lord Baruyereta closed his eyes in pain.
“Arde!”
As the incantation echoed between the clock tower blocks, a fierce shaping magic called Shroud of Flame summoned a large net of high-temperature flames, wrapping up the remains of Baruyeleta.
After only a short while, Orange’s former teacher was burned into a charred corpse right in front of her eyes without making a single cry.
The precious magic seal that had been passed down for hundreds of years was also burned with her death.
“Don’t be sad, Orange,” Qingzi said calmly, “The pretentious magic nobles will be nothing but a handful of dust after death. I really don’t understand where these pretentious guys get the confidence to decide the fate of others.”
“As the saying goes, there is a cause and an effect. If you do something, you will pay a corresponding price.” Qingzi said to Chengzi in a relaxed tone, “Unless she is as strong as me.”
“Tsk,” Orange turned his head away, no longer looking at the charred body on the ground, “Someone is such a cocky egomaniac.”
Chapter 62: The Clock Tower’s Response
Now that he had killed Baru Yereta, one of the three great noble monarchs, and Qingzi had consumed a lot of spell slots, there was no need for him to stay within the range of the clock tower for the time being.
The Clock Tower suffered a severe blow, and Aoko estimated that these magicians might have two reactions.
The first reaction was to blockade the entire London and not give up until Aoko and Orange were found.
This is a more extreme possibility. Considering the current level of the Clock Tower’s permanent military force, it is probably not a rational choice to completely turn against a magician who can come and go in the Clock Tower and burn glass with ease.
The second reaction is to pretend nothing happened on the surface, but secretly look for the traces of the Aozaki sisters and try to contact them secretly.
This possibility is what Aoko and Chengzi think is the most likely thing to happen after discussion, because the biggest principle of a magician is to hide himself, and Aoko’s silky combo of sweeping the floor is really not stealthy at all.
Therefore, the smartest thing for the Clock Tower to do now is to remove the seal and bounty on Orange’s head, and send someone to seek reconciliation with Aoko, so that except for the Baru Yereta family whose head and building were killed, the rest of the people can be said to be happy with the news.
After all, magicians are such selfish, ruthless, and cunning creatures. In an age of mystical decline, one less great noble means that everyone else can get a bigger piece of the pie.
Moreover, although Inole Baruyereta Atolohom, who was killed by Aoko, was one of the three great nobles, the Baruyereta family stood on the side of the democrats.
So when this “noble traitor” was killed, the happiest people should be the nobles led by Barthelmero. As the faction with the most resources, when the democrats lost a general, the first thing they had to do was to take the initiative to attack and seize the city, so sending people to contact Qingzi was a must.
However, as a magic family from the Far East, the Aozaki family has always been deliberately ignored by the aristocratic faction in the Clock Tower. The reason is nothing more than envy and jealousy mixed with contempt, or being swept up by some complacency about their own “glory days”.
After the two of them teleported away, they returned to the luxurious suite of the Brown Hotel and stayed there that day.
For a magician, staying in one place for a long time to do research can be said to be a basic operation, and there will be no situation where they feel bored due to not going out for a long time.
However, although Qingzi and Chengzi had no problem, Dazhuang, who lived in the magic pet’s pocket, couldn’t stand staying in one place every day, so the first thing Qingzi did every morning was to open the window and let Dazhuang go out for a walk.
Defeating Baru Yeleta and destroying the Sword of Reverse Light both provided Aoko with a large amount of “experience points”.
She didn’t know how this “experience value decay” mechanism was calculated, but she easily defeated her opponent by lightly using the fifth magic. It seemed that according to the rules, Aoko got the rewards of defeating an “equally matched opponent.”
Aoko used meditation to get some spells in the hotel, and then steadily gained some experience points by learning these spells. She barely got the experience required for a level up, and added all the experience to her super spellcaster profession.
(These spells are 5th-level Feeblemindedness, 5th-level Bigby’s Protective Palm, and 6th-level Tamsen Transfiguration)
So her super spellcasting level reached 2, and her total spellcasting level reached 12.
By raising the level of super spellcaster, Qingzi gained the special ability exclusive to this advanced profession for the first time, expel (Ex).
This special ability allows the super spellcaster to have an advantage in damaging and expelling external creatures, as well as penetrating and dispelling spells. In other words, anyone who is labeled as an “outsider” will most likely be severely punished when facing a super spellcaster.
This ability is useless against ordinary magicians, but Aoko knows very well that Type-Moon is a place full of evil spirits, and there are a lot of outsiders. Strictly speaking, she may even be one of them, so the versatility of this “passive skill” is still very good.
In addition to special abilities, Qingzi also gained an additional fifth-ring spell slot and a sixth-ring spell slot due to the increase in spellcasting level, which is cause for celebration.
Since Qingzi’s own vitality is very strong, the health growth brought by upgrading now seems insignificant, but it is better to have it than nothing.
Qingzi was learning the magic web spell, and Chengzi was not idle either.
Because her body had rejuvenated and she was restricted by Aoko from making human clones, she had no choice but to focus on studying familiars.
Inspired by the movie projector, Orange recently completed a cat-shaped familiar that she had been researching while studying abroad in the Clock Tower.
It is said to be in cat shape, but in fact the body of this familiar is a movie projector costume that Orange has been modifying.
The cat-shaped image projected by this projector will become a “summoned creature” that cannot be reached by normal attacks. As long as the projector is not destroyed, this big cat can continue to attack at super fast speeds, which is quite cheating.
However, this cat does not have any individual consciousness. All of its actions and reaction logic were “programmed” into it bit by bit by Orange. It is completely a product of mimicry.
Aoko and Orange practiced several rounds with this monster in the suite, but because they were worried about damaging the hotel facilities, they were unable to measure the maximum combat power of Orange’s new familiar and had to give up.
—Dividing line—
While Aoko and Orange were staying in the hotel, the clock tower had lost its former dullness. Various groups of people were fighting for interests because of the decline of the Baruyeleta family.
As the contemporary leader of the Clock Tower, Barthelmero Lorelei is now both happy and sad.
Happy was in trouble with his old enemy Baru Yeleta, sad that Orange’s surprise attack was like a slap in the face of the Clock Tower.
This was a completely unprecedented experience for her, because magicians in the past usually did not fight with the association. Even Jewel, who was respected as the Marshal of Magic, recognized the status of the Clock Tower nobles.