Chapter 2270: The Battle of the Witches

"Riding a unicorn... well then, thank you for your trouble, Little Leanna."

Xia De patted the pure white beast; the latter let out a soft cry, then voluntarily lay down to let Xia De mount it.

Once Xia De was seated steadily, the small beast ran a few steps forward in the manor courtyard, then the white wings curled beside it unfolded. As the wings flapped, they flew into the sky, and immediately after, Xia De's illusion abruptly made them vanish together beneath the night sky.

Moon Bay City, east district, Pompey Street.

The scenery beneath the night sky twisted as large patches of strange colors appeared; then the illusion shattered. Miss Elise flapped her dragon wings and appeared together with Miss Aphrola, who held a long staff inlaid with moonlight-colored gemstones.

The two descended together, but as the fate rings behind the twelfth-rank Great Witch rotated slightly, their downward falling trend suddenly weakened, making them seem to float in the air.

Opposite them, the light giant that also appeared after the illusion shattered looked somewhat disheveled, its body's light flickering as if about to extinguish, but this time it did not disappear.

He stood in the city, his feet trampling the street; compared to him, Miss Elise and Miss Aphrola were like grains of rice. Of course, because this battle was taking place within the city, neither side had yet used moves capable of directly altering the surface terrain:

"You are the Light Great Witch of the 【Witch Council】? I have long heard of your reputation and have always wanted to see what light you follow, but now it seems the so-called 'witches' are nothing special."

Speaking thus, a ball of sunlight-colored light appeared again in the giant's right palm.

Miss Aphrola and Miss Elise looked down at the city below, gritted their teeth, did not dodge, but together raised shields to face the strike of the injured "Light Chaser."

And beneath this street district in the east of the city, which was obscured by illusion, while the bursting sunlight light exploded in the air and collided with the two ladies, Miss Sylvia grabbed Miss Bernice's hand, vanished from the spot, and abruptly appeared behind the light giant via spatial movement.

"Earth Power · Summon Stone Golem!"

As the stone man was thrown by Miss Bernice toward the ground below, the giant of the earth, amidst roaring, was summoned by the Earth Witch from the citizens' square.

The mud giant restrained the light giant's neck from behind; then Miss Aphrola, still facing the giant, waved her hand and threw out a light sphere also shimmering with bursting sunlight power.

The light giant struggled fiercely, shedding mud and falling stones from the mud giant's body; he pressed his hands together to extinguish Miss Aphrola's light sphere, but then suddenly cried out in agony:

"Ah~"

Miss Sylvia's dimensional slash severed his right arm, then she hurriedly pulled Miss Bernice and vanished from the mud giant's shoulder.

In the next moment, countless cracks appeared on the mud surface; then white light shot out from the cracks, and the huge stone statue completely exploded.

The Misses moving on the ground hurriedly raised shields to block this rain of rubble, while the light giant, waving one arm, continued to try to attack Miss Aphrola and Miss Elise, who flew around him like he was swatting flies.

Similar to the stalemate battle in the sky, the ground battle did not proceed particularly smoothly.

Under Bella Belindel's command, the high-rank Witch Followers quickly purged the Ring Mages at the perimeter of the stronghold. The Volcano Club on Pompey Street was the most important stronghold within the city for the 【Worshippers of Light Study Society】 during their Moon Bay operation. But even as the most important, the number of Ring Mages active here daily did not exceed fifteen, after all, this was still the urban district.

Thus, now, when facing the attack of Witch Followers numbering three times their own, the Ring Mages guarding the stronghold retreated step by step. If not for their ability to produce that strange light capable of melting everything, this club would long ago have been flattened by Miss Belindel, who was bent on revenge.

She did not want any damage to the Misses she led, so she advanced inward with extreme caution.

Intermittently, the Countess would look up at the sky, watching the "Light Chaser" counterattack, attack, defend, and finally attack again under the restraint of the other Great Witches and Miss Elise.

It seemed the ground battle would end quickly; the thirteen Ring Mages, limited by the urban environment, could not mount effective countermeasures, but the Great Witch of Fate still felt a vague unease in her heart.

Most unsettling was the large illusion that suddenly appeared and enveloped the surroundings half an hour ago; she had thought it was to prevent people in other parts of the city from seeing here, facilitating the "Light Chaser's" use of the light giant avatar technique. But inside the area covered by the illusion, even she could not perceive what was happening in the city outside.

Her intuition told her that something major must be happening outside, and this seemingly smooth offensive might encounter danger in the next moment.

"Still unable to transmit messages outward?"

A Miss who had rushed from afar stopped behind Miss Belindel; the Witch glanced at the space around the Volcano Club, almost completely filled with strange light, and asked that Miss again.

The brown-haired Miss spoke softly:

"No, this large illusion itself confuses space; we did not bring a high-rank Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi proficient in 【Spatial Perception】 this time."

The Witch's mouth twitched; she knew Xia De was skilled in such arcane arts.

"Then let us ignore the city outside for now; with them at the manor, nothing will happen."

She looked at the strange light that could not be breached, and the club which had already collapsed by one-third, and raised the long sword wrapped in burlap in her hand:

"Although I am not skilled in combat, I am still an eleventh-rank Great Witch."

The 【Angel's Right Arm】 was unsheathed; a soft white light emanated, and the angelic phantom appeared behind her.

In the sky, the light giant's regenerated right arm smashed down fiercely; the blue dragon Miss, the size of a grain of rice, raised her hand and blocked it hard; in a floating state, with a hundredfold size difference, she actually withstood that huge arm.

As her roar gradually grew louder, the blue dragon's phantom flashed behind her and vanished; then she slowly pushed that arm of the light giant upward.

Her sapphire eyes kept glowing, her own light contending with the light on the giant's body. And with another cry of "Dimensional Slash," the two phantom light slashes cut from the night sky by Miss Sylvia wielding 【Night Watcher】 once again left crossed sword marks on the light giant's chest.

The Volcano Club beneath the giant's feet, as a burst of holy white light illuminated the night, saw three huge cross-sword phantoms descend from the sky, planted like tombstones on the ruins of the remaining buildings of the Volcano Club.

The light cross-swords were not melted by those peculiar white lights; thus, they finally completely destroyed the remaining parts of the Volcano Club.

The "Light Chaser," sensing the unusual power, looked down at his stronghold, and just then saw the angelic phantom strike a sword at him.

That sword mark was initially ordinary in size, but as the light rose, it grew larger and larger. The light giant waved his hand to block, but then was startled to realize that this sword seemed impossible to block from any angle:

"The power of Fate?"

Fate guided this sword to hit his forehead; the massive sword light cut by the angel made the giant fall backward. That light finally contracted in size and transformed in the air into the "Light Chaser's" original human form.

He quickly stabilized his body; thick steam fog obscured the night sky; a complete thirteen-ring fate ring floated behind the "Light Chaser."

"Be careful! He is about to use his true full power!"

The "Light Chaser" floating beneath the night sky opened his eyes and looked seriously down at the club below. After confirming that this most important stronghold in the city had been destroyed by an unknown angelic power, he extended one finger and pointed toward the night sky.

The thirteen-ring fate ring rotated; every shimmering spirit rune seemed to resonate with the starry sky:

Core Enlightenment Rune · Summon, Miracle Rune · Stars, Blasphemy Rune · Power—

"Arcane Art · Starfall."

Suddenly, the clouds and fog above the night sky cleared; hundreds of stars flickered in the deep night, then suddenly descended toward the ground.

The speed of the Starfall was extremely fast; it seemed only in the next second, everyone saw those dense, semi-energized meteorites with diameters exceeding 50 feet appear above the city.

The scene of hundreds of bright white light streams falling should originally have been quite enchanting, but if no one intercepted them, let alone the eastern district of Moon Bay City, probably the entire terrain of Moon Bay Port would undergo permanent alteration.

"Damn it!"

Miss Aphrola, with long wavy brown hair, cursed ungracefully, then flew upward together with Miss Sylvia and Miss Elise to intercept.

Miss Bernice landed back on the ground to rendezvous with Miss Belindel, while the "Light Chaser" in the air did not pursue the witches attempting to intercept the meteor shower; instead, while slowly descending in altitude, he once again used his signature arcane art on the ground:

"Rain of Light."

A distorted light curtain appeared in the air parallel to him; then a dense array composed of white light points fell toward the ground like rain. This move covered almost half of Pompey Street, and when the light rain gradually ended, half the street's buildings had become dense with holes like a wasp nest.

The giant stone spheres rising in the middle of the street helped the Misses of the Witches' Council block most of the rain of light. When the giant phantom that appeared behind the "Light Chaser" punched apart the stone sphere where the two Grand Witches were, it found it completely empty inside.

He frowned and looked around. Amid the continuous explosions of falling stars from the sky above, he was about to strike at the high-circle female sorceresses who had escaped from the stone spheres to force the two Grand Witches out, when he suddenly felt himself grow heavy, accelerating as he plunged toward the ground:

"Gravity?"