Chapter 567: 480 Fierce Battle to the Death!_2
"Is he... all right?"
Muttering words she herself didn’t believe, Altoria clutched the chosen staff in her hand, struggling internally.
She desperately wanted to support Reiger.
Although she was somewhat lacking in strength and could not directly confront Woodworth or the Elf Knight, if it was merely using magic to provide Reiger with protection and enchantments, then Altoria was capable of doing so.
If anything, enchantment was Altoria’s most acclaimed skill in her study of magic, capable of enhancing her comrades’ strength, making them stronger. The rest were mostly underhanded magics like lock-picking, prying open doors, and setting bombs, which were virtually useless in high-level combat.
Therefore, Altoria really wanted to help Reiger, but she was also afraid of holding him back, so she hesitated to take action.
But the more she hesitated, the more anxious Altoria became in her heart.
Especially after seeing a white meteor crash into the city wall, followed by a black hound wrapped in flames charging through the city area towards that direction, Altoria’s anxiety escalated.
And such anxiety, after hearing a hysterical roar, instantly peaked.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
Along with such roars, Altoria saw a werewolf-like fairy shatter the atmosphere and surge toward the city wall, engulfed in a torrent of Magic Power.
"What should I do? What should I do?"
Altoria paced back and forth in a panic.
In the end, the fairy girl bit her lip and, following the alley, ran towards the direction of the collapsed city wall.
...
"Boom!"
The roaring sound resounded endlessly, as if it would never cease, continuing to echo in the air of Salisbury.
Underneath the collapsed city wall, on the edge of a devastated district, the battle between one human and three fairies continued.
Or rather, at first, only one human and one fairy had burst out from the ruins, but soon after, a fairy leading a troop of demon hounds, engulfed in blazing flames, as well as a wolf fairy roaring repeatedly rushed into the battlefield one after the other, attacking the human.
As a result, the course of the battle had long changed. It was no longer one-on-one, nor one-on-two, but one-on-three.
"Maximum Enhance·Nuclear Explosion!"
Reiger charged into the fairies’ encirclement, and while they rushed at him, resolutely unleashed a wide-ranging attack magic.
"Boom!"
An astonishing explosion erupted along with a flash of light, blasting away the rock layers, the ruins, and the fairies charging towards him.
"Cough...!"
Gawain coughed up another mouthful of blood, his armor already tattered.
"Uh..."
Lancelot was still in a blood-drenched state, unable to stand steadily, only able to maintain her posture by flying, having rapidly ascended just a second before the explosion to narrowly escape its full impact.
"Mere magic...!"
Although Woodworth was blasted away, he was the quickest of the fairies to stand up, unscathed, and leapt at Reiger with a fierce expression.
"Get lost!"
Reiger’s eyes reddened as he entered a semi-frenzied state, no longer wasting words on this wretch, cutting down with his sword and creating flames that immediately engulfed Woodworth, blasting him and the ground around him several meters away.
"Bang!"
At that moment, Lancelot suddenly accelerated from the side and struck like a beam of light, hitting Reiger and sending him flying as well.
"Ugh...!"
Even Reiger couldn’t help but let out a pained groan from deep in his throat under such an assault.
But this only made the red in his eyes deepen.
"Maximum Enhance·Meteor Fall!"
Reiger unleashed another magic.
This was a tenth-grade attack magic.
Its effect was evident from its name; it summoned something from the distant cosmos to fall to the earth and strike at the enemy.
As a result, whether it was Lancelot, Gawain, and Woodworth on the battlefield ruins or the other fairies within Salisbury, all saw something breaking through the clouds and falling from the sky at that moment.
That was, indeed, a meteorite.
With a diameter of at least several hundred meters and an overwhelming mass, capable of crushing everything on the ground, the meteorite fell from the starry sky.
Watching the meteorite descend from the heavens, rubbing against the atmosphere, gradually lighting up with flames, and roaring as it plummeted, all the fairies in Salisbury showed expressions of terror.
Including Altoria, who was running towards that direction.
Including Aurora, in the room of the Lord of the Great Cathedral of Ash.
Naturally, it also included the three mighty fairies targeted by the meteorite’s unreasonable mass.
"Is this really magic...!?"
Gawain couldn’t help but exclaim loudly.
"Damn Son of Prophecy!"
Woodworth, too, was shocked and then filled with rage, dashing at Reiger and unleashing a flurry of claw strikes.
"Clang!"
Reiger raised his sword to block, and the claws struck the black blade, causing sparks to fly.
"Flame Dance!"
After blocking the claw aimed at his head, Reiger disregarded Woodworth’s other attacks, letting them slice through his cheeks, shoulders, arms, thighs, and flanks, with blood splattering from every part of his body, he swung his blade viciously.