Pendragon's Infinity Gauntlet

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With a snap, the high-voltage wall vanished without a trace. Five hundred meters away, Oriana, who looked like a tiny dot, frantically prepared her vocabulary cards again. Even so, it couldn't stop the asphalt road from churning up with overwhelming force. When the tsunami of stones struck...

"With this hand as flame, its form as a sword, its function is to judge crimes!"

Cards engraved with runes fluttered in the air.

At the same time, a red flaming sword appeared in Tyr's right hand. She swung the sword horizontally at the stone tsunami, completely ignoring the fact that the Cleansing God and the others were right next door.

"Huh!!"

The moment Jing Shen frantically ducked, the tip of the Flaming Sword clashed violently with the stone shard. Then, the Flaming Sword lost its shape and exploded forth in a burst of energy. The targeted burst of flames avoided Jing Shen and Fang Cun below, slashing horizontally at the raised asphalt wall, scattering it in all directions.

The detached Jing Shen, without rolling over, immediately got up and ran forward. Fang Cun, drenched in sweat from the heat, found it incredibly exciting and decided to wait and see the magicians fight first, rather than transforming to save Academy City.

Tyr uttered a new chant, and a new flaming sword was born once more.

Oriana fiddled with the word cards in her hand.

Thus began the fierce conflict among the three.

The current time is 5:50 PM. There are 10 to 70 minutes left until the deadline.

The place where Fangcun and the others got close to Orianna was the experimental airport. The project should have been suspended during the Daihasei Festival, as there were no workers on the glider and no lights on the buildings within the territory.

Unlike a large international airport, this place feels more like a small runway used by companies like Cissna for their own aircraft. There are three straight runways, each about 30 meters wide and 700 meters long, running side by side.

The buildings are the control towers on both sides of the runway: fishplate-shaped supports for the aircraft. Rather than aircraft research, this is more like runway research, with each of the three runways equipped with huge fans and additional equipment such as aircraft catapults.

However, because of the attack that Oriana had just unleashed, the control tower's equipment collapsed, the experimental machine in the storage bracket was blown away, and the asphalt road was destroyed as if it had been tilled, and was completely turned upside down.

Both sides ran through the rubble that had been damaged by the explosion.

Chapter 367 Basketball Substitute

Chapter 367

They were 300 meters apart.

"Ah."

Under these circumstances, Oriana Townsend smiled.

There are 250 meters left to go.

"I think the battles between boys are more interesting. That saint still hasn't come."

He brought the word card in his hand to his mouth.

The distance is about two hundred meters.

"The additional guards and reinforcement mages still haven't arrived. Heh, it's interesting to have a lot of people."

He grinned slightly, giving a strange smile.

The distance is approximately 150 meters.

"Aha! Looks like there are only four of you members! Oh dear, I really was fooled by that cunning woman!!"

Oriana called out happily as she tore a word card.

"And one of them was already destined to leave! I always thought she was the most level-headed... or was it because of that? To prevent her companions from falling into the trap, she placed herself in the most dangerous position! Hahahaha!!"

The sound of shattering glass echoed outwards from Oriana, and then bounced back like an echo a second later.

At that moment.

All sounds suddenly disappeared.

Countless passenger planes were clearly flying back and forth in the air, but the sound seemed to be blocked out, like turning off the volume of a television.

Tyr, running alongside the God of Purification, took out a rune card.

"Is it a barrier? This is the type that cuts off all communication, regardless of whether it's physical or magical!"

"!?"

The cleansing spirit wanted to look around, but the enemy was right there.

Tyr next door couldn't confirm either. The two approached Orianna side by side, while Fangcun lingered at the back, temporarily slacking off. The memory of destroying the fake body last time was still fresh in his mind, and he wondered what kind of package this magician had prepared for him. Orianna maintained his smile and quickly responded along with the word cards in his hand.

The distance of one hundred meters was instantly reduced.

Jing Shen and Tyr each planned to attack Oriana from his left and right flanks, but Fang Cun glanced at them and charged straight at him. Because the Flame Sword had a long defensive range, Tyr was able to aim quickly.

"hiss!!"

As a sharp exhalation sound rang out, the Flame Sword swung down from top to bottom in one breath.

Oriana grunted and tore a word card.

A water ball the size of a basketball appeared in his right hand. Fang Cun almost thought he was about to summon a stand-in for an NBA ambassador, but Orianna simply used the water ball to catch Tyr's flaming sword.

No explosion occurred.

Before that, Oriana's water sphere twisted and enveloped the Flame Sword.

"!!"

Before Tyr could even react, the water vines had already wrapped around her wrists along the sword. Then they traveled up her wrists to her shoulders, enveloping her entire body from head to toe in one go. Covered in a three-centimeter-thick film of water, Tyr lost her balance and collapsed to the ground. With her other hand, besides the one gripping the flaming sword, she pressed it against her throat.

(If this continues, I'll have to breathe...)

"Tyr!!"

The God of Purification turned away from Oriana and reached out to Tyr, who was lying on the ground.

"Oh dear, I'm not so sensitive as to be satisfied so easily!"

He spun around and delivered a powerful left spinning kick to Jing Shen's side. Jing Shen's body suddenly stopped.

"Well!!"

As she tried to regain her balance, Oriana concentrated all her strength in her shoulder and rammed into Jing Shen's chest. Jing Shen hurriedly defended with both hands, but the impact came down from above. Struck by a blow capable of piercing even a thick door panel, Jing Shen's body flew backward. A sharp pain shot through her as her body hit the sharp, uneven asphalt.

Oriana faced the Pure God lying on the ground and brought the word card to his mouth.

"Smash it!!"

With that cry, Tyr, who had collapsed beside Orianna, unleashed the Flame Sword. The water that had surrounded her scattered in all directions.

Fang Cun decisively stopped approaching; her plan to tear apart the magic with her bare hands had fallen through.

Tyr's right hand sprouted a new flaming sword, which she aimed at Oriana from below with a low stance. Facing the sword tip aimed diagonally at his chest, Oriana took a step back with his left foot, as if making way for someone on a narrow path.

Even so, it was still not enough to stop Tyr's stab.

In contrast, Oriana's hand, holding the word card, was positioned towards Tyr's chin. It felt like a light clenched fist, almost like a gesture of asking for a handshake. Tyr, attempting to retaliate, lunged at the fist with his entire body weight.

A loud boom resounded.

Tyr's upper body arched backward, falling to the ground without any resistance, her flaming sword vanishing. Oriana's gaze left the fallen Tyr, a slow smile appearing on her face as she looked at the Cleansing God. Even out of the enemy's sight, Tyr seemed to have no intention of launching a surprise attack. Her black clothes and red hair fluttered slightly, as if blown by a gentle breeze.

"Tsk!"

Jing Shen tried to stand up, but her body swayed.

Seeing her expression, Oriana smiled gently:

"Your back is still weak. It'll be easier for a child to grow if they fight me like this."

"It's so noisy..."

Jing Shen opened his fists and then clenched them again.

“I will stop you here, and I will not let you use the ‘Apostle Cross’. If you try to cause trouble in Academy City and destroy the Daihasei Festival, I will definitely stop you.”

"To call me a troublemaker is too hurtful, isn't it? This should be our best performance. I don't know what the Anglican Church told you, but the Apostolic Cross is not something evil. All religions aspire to the happiness of people and the world. For such a religion, the Apostolic Cross, which changes everything 'in the most beneficial way,' might just be able to break down the wall between magic and science and lead people towards happiness?"

Hearing Oriana, who was fiddling with flashcards, say this, Jing Shen's lips curled into a smile.

She looked at the destroyed runway and gave a terrifying smile.

“Well said. Because I can’t see the wall between science and magic, it doesn’t feel very real, but I know that’s a good thing—however,”

She paused there, glanced briefly at the fallen Tyr, and then channeled her power into her five fingers.

She clenched her fist even tighter.

The human hand, which can do other things, has now become a weapon.

Jing Shen said:

"To me, the balance between science and magic, and the dominion over the world, are trivial matters. What troubles me is your use of the 'Apostolic Cross' here. Do you know what such an action signifies?"

"Hehe, of course. Do you think I've been working so hard all this time? It's to suppress Academy City using the 'Apostle Cross.' But you don't have anything to worry about. Suppressing may not sound nice, but everyone would feel happy about it, and no one would doubt their own happiness. Such a perfect world is waiting for you..."