Chapter 42 : Vali Awakening and Lavi Tribulation (2)

On the banks of a small river with a calm current, suddenly a powerful explosion occurred and created a wall of ice that reached 10 meters high.

And the one who caused this phenomenon was the two people who were fighting with their positions facing each other with wooden sticks that emitted magic circles.

<Pov Lavinia>

'She's exhausted, this is my chance!' I thought, looking at Augusta who was gradually exhausted from old age.

Every minute, this old woman can always dodge my attack magic… the place that was once a forest has now turned into a hell of fire and ice.

Rivers have now turned to ice and forests are now mostly burned by the heat of the fire.

This battle started, a while ago… to be precise when Yuuya-san and Shark went to look for other victims.

A few moments later they both left, that's when a group of wizards from the Wizard of Oz arrived.

And also the elite troops they not otalentedlent in magic and also some low to mid-level Sacred Gear users.

But they were still hit, for fighting two Longinus users simultaneously.

When the elite troops were defeated, only Augusta remained but it seemed Vali was taken away somewhere.

I must have seen it wrong.

{AN : Vali is completely forgotten}

"Do… you want to know why Glenda left you without saying a single word?" Augusta said with sweat showing on his face.

"Hnn?...curious yes but I don't want to hear my Master from your mouth!" I replied when Yuuya told me about his hunch.

I'm certainly happy that he's worried about me, but I have to keep looking for my teacher, and hearing an explanation from his mouth directly isn't one of them.

"Hehehe... Hmm, so you want to hear it directly from Glenda's mouth? Well, hear it from yourself directly!" Augusta said with a triumphant grin.

The old mage raised his palm, forming a small magic circle.

Augusta discussed what seemed to be a type of magic circle communication.

"Can you hear me, Glenda?"

After speaking, the old woman's voice was heard through the magic circle.

'...For you to suddenly contact me, I was wondering if something had happened, Augusta.'

Hearing that voice, my eyes widened instantly

The voice was familiar to me.

Augusta was cheerfully talking to the person on the other end of the magic circle type of communication.

"Right now, I'm just a battling Ice Princess disciple. How about you let her hear your voice. Hasn't she been desperately looking for you?"

In response to Augusta's words, the woman, who appeared to be my master, replied as follows.

'...There's nothing to discuss.'

The tone is one of blunt rejection.

"--!"

I was left speechless by this response, and my whole body was shaking.

Thoroughly enjoying my reaction, Augusta let out a laugh.

"Kakaka! How cold! There was no time when you more or less loved this girl like a princess? Yet you are fine saying something like that! How heartless!"

'...'

In response to Augusta's statement, the magic circle that appeared in communication with Glenda was silent for a moment.

And then, he called me.

'--Lavinia."

I don't want to hear that again!, the answer I received could be said to be regretful.

'I'll say it one more time. --What I have to tell you, is nothing.'

After the last communication, the magic circle disappeared.

As for myself.

"..."

Dropping my wand, my hands hang languidly, and with the gaze becoming unfocused, my facial expression may be clouded by an atypical lack of composure.

I who has the title of Ice Princess and stood beside her had stopped my offensive posture.

It's really cruel, after taking good care of me after my real parents' departure, you're the one who brought me back to life, I've even considered you as my mother.

But why did you leave me like this!

Believe it or not, I believe in the communication call but the voice belongs to Glenda.

I opened my mouth with a shiver

"...N-No way."

With a voice unimaginable than usual, from within my body, from the bottom of my heart, I screamed.

"NO, YOU LIED!!! I don't, I don't believe that...!!"

I staggered. My legs had no doubt become wobbly from quite the shock.

His heart and body condition had been completely shaken.

However, they are still one battle in progress.

Augusta smiled triumphantly as my mentality crumbled, and a magic circle's dangerous aura emitted from his hand, and a black magic circle with a pleasing pattern began to unfold.

"You have lost your senses then. Now!"

In an instant, a large black magic circle began to expand around the defenseless me. Strange overflowing magical power

from it, and began to cover me starting from his toes.

With no time to fight back, I was enveloped in deep black magic power.

"LAVI!!!" A male scream came from the side along with his black dog.

Dressed as a devil, the man looked expectantly at me.

'Ah~...that's right, I shouldn't let my mind go weak, Yuuya-san please save me' I thought when I saw Yuuya running with outstretched arms.

and my whole body was painted black, and my consciousness suddenly disappeared.

<Pov End>

...

'Damn I'm late!' I thought when I saw Laviana devoured by black paint all over her body.

Changes also occurred to Augusta, The old wizard's body glowed, after turning into a ball of light. This ball of light flew at high speed towards Lavinia who had turned black, and finally collided with Lavinia.

The sphere of light that entered Lavinia had turned jet black.

At which point, the magic circle disappeared, and the black magic jet also died as Lavinia collapsed to the ground.

What was left was--only Lavinia.

As explained in the report I got from the remnant records of the witch who left her hiding place in the outskirts of the Greek country.

Body picking technique.

This technique requires a long and difficult process. For this to happen, at least the body the mental expert wants to take is down.

after that only a few magic spells and souls are inserted into the body that the expert wants to take.

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I can only look at Laviana with pity, as I predict that Glenda is her teacher as well as the one who took care of her since she was little when she had no one else.

Parents, close relatives, or friends… all of that disappeared when Lavinia was very young.

Only Glenda was willing to stretch out her hand at that moment, and not everyone had good intentions.

Glenda is just messing with Laviana and thinks of her as a rudimentary vessel.

Then Lavinia's body that Augusta had expertly picked up got up slowly and laughed loudly.

'Ahahaha!'

Augusta then turned to look at me with the light of pleasure.

"Not too bad. I've taken this and lost a body but, damn Glenda you prepared the perfect container for me!. Now, how should we do this?" Augusta said to himself while looking at his hand that was spewing ice.

"Are you able to oppose two types of Longinus? Well, a Red Shinigami and a cute puppy?"

A pile of ice rose to the surface and formed the shape of an ice giant, and in the opposite direction appeared purple flames smoldering in the form of a purple flame giant with the crucifix burning fiercely with purple flames slung over the shoulders of the giant.

Augusta was currently thinking that if she had won, it was impossible for a human without a Sacred Gear like me to be able to fight her in a perfect state and two types of Longinus were now in her hands.

"You think adding one more toy wins you?" My taunt to Augusta made his face twitch.

"You'll regret what you said!" shouted Augusta angrily, and the two fire and ice giants started walking closer.

"Nee...Kuro" I called while looking at the Kuro on the ground.

"Woof!" Her response.

{AN: I'm not sure the gender but it should be a girl}

"You can rampage now!" I ordered, as Kuro happily jumped up and down and returned to her position.

He growled while emitting soft white energy shining on her body.