151: Noren's [Divine Authority]
Shifting the view back below, just as Lina was harboring suspicions about the cloaked figure's identity, the battle between Noren and the cloaked figure had already entered a white-hot stage.
"Boom!"
Another powerful leaping slash landed. The pitch-black sword in the cloaked figure's hands crashed down heavily. Rolling black mud flooded the earth. Deep purple and black sword energy gushed forth from the cracked ground. The howling sword wind even made it difficult for Noren to open her eyes.
However, immediately afterward, while the greatsword in the cloaked figure's hand was still embedded in the ground, at this moment when he should have been unable to do anything due to inertia, two purple-black sword energies appeared out of thin air, directly slashing Noren, who was still in a low-altitude flight state, away.
"Mmm..."
Noren spread the black bat wings behind her and barely managed to steady her figure in mid-air. Just then, she suddenly felt something warm flowing on her arm. She looked down and saw that a nearly ten-centimeter-long gash had been opened on her right arm by that purple-black sword energy. Bright red blood was continuously flowing out from it.
Most critically, with Noren's Blood Clan royal self-healing ability, an injury of this level should have healed in an instant! Yet the reality was that the Death Magic attached to the sword energy was continuously and forcibly suppressing Noren's body's self-healing, making it impossible for the wound on her arm to immediately close.
This was the first blood spilled in this battle. No one had expected that it would actually be Noren, the Blood Clan princess, who would be injured first.
However, judging by the expression on Noren's face, she didn't seem to feel any shame from this. On the contrary, right now, she had more or less figured out the cloaked figure's attack pattern.
It had to be said that the power of Death Magic was truly quite bizarre. The black mud could corrode everything it touched, whether objects or life. Those phantom-like projections similar to clones could also drill out from the void at any time. It was simply impossible to guard against!
Just like those two slashes earlier. Although the purple-black sword energy had obscured most of her field of vision, Noren had still seen it clearly. Just a second after the cloaked figure's heavy sword landed, two phantoms had suddenly emerged behind him. And the sword energy that had wounded Noren had been swung by those two phantoms.
Judging from the current battle situation, the phantoms created by this cloaked figure seemed to be able to imitate everything the main body did. Whether attacking or defending, or even the attachment and use of some Death Magic, these phantoms could perform near-perfect imitation at a one-to-one level.
The most incredible thing was that the creation of these phantoms seemed to have no so-called "cooldown." Whenever Noren finished off one phantom, the cloaked figure could instantly create the next one. The speed was so fast that Noren couldn't even sense his magic consumption.
Power that transcended the common principles of magic. This was Noren's assessment of this black-robed figure before her.
However... even though her opponent possessed such bizarre Death Magic, Noren didn't feel the slightest fear toward it. On the contrary, she was impatient and eager.
She had finally found a guy who not only gave her a legitimate reason to use her [Divine Authority], but also had the capital to match it!
Her Noren just had a soft personality. That didn't mean she lacked the bloodlust and pride of a Blood Clan noble!
"Playing house ends here. Next comes the main course~"
"Enjoy it properly, Mr. Cloaked Figure, who dared to bully Lina!"
Noren raised her small arm that was still bleeding, extended her pink, tender tongue, and lightly licked it. The next moment, her bright red eyes lit up. An ancient and mysterious rune gradually emerged from within them.
"Authority again? Hmph!"
Facing Noren who had once again deployed her "Authority," the black-robed figure snorted with disdain. He raised the pitch-black sword in his hand, allowed the black mud to entwine around it, and then swung it to slash a purple-black crescent-shaped sword energy toward Noren.
At the same time, five phantoms simultaneously emerged from behind him. Their movements were perfectly synchronized as they each slashed a sword strike toward Noren.
Six sword energies converged in mid-air, ultimately condensing into a massive crescent blade with incomparably majestic momentum, as if it could split the entire world in two. Carrying the force of toppling mountains and overturning seas, it flew toward Noren.
Facing this attack that combined a full six sword energies into one, Noren showed no signs of dodging whatsoever. She smiled mysteriously and extended her pale little hand toward the sword energy before her.
That appearance was simply like she wanted to block this sword strike with her physical body.
An idea as childish as her appearance.
This was the cloaked figure's first reaction upon seeing Noren's actions.
Even the Torido's authority could only convert non-living, non-energy substances, such as soil and metal. For attacks like already-formed magic that were aggregated from pure energy, even a Queen-level authority could not convert them.
Noren's approach was simply telling everyone present that she was nothing more than a little girl who had only magic power and bloodline but knew nothing about using authority.
The cloaked figure had originally held this disdainful thought.
But the next moment, everything that happened in reality gave him a harsh lesson.
Noren actually caught that massive sword energy with her bare hands!
"This... how... is this possible?"
The cloaked figure's pupils instantly constricted. However, before he could recover from his current shock, Noren performed an even more impossible miracle before his eyes!
Slender blood lines gradually climbed from Noren's body onto that crescent-shaped sword energy suspended in mid-air, gradually enveloping and wrapping it. The shape of the sword energy also changed slightly at this moment.
First it was kneaded into a ball-like shape, then slowly stretched out. Finally, when the blood lines dispersed, the original crescent sword energy formed purely from energy was gone. All that remained was a single-handed longsword in Noren's hand that could be called a miniature version of the pitch-black sword.
She had reassembled and converted the cloaked figure's attack into her own weapon.
"Power that exceeds the scope of authority... you... who exactly are you?"
"Exceeds authority? Well~ Mother said something similar. She said—"
"Rather than calling it [Authority], calling this ability [Divine Authority] would be more accurate~"
Noren loosened her grip on the sword. At this moment, wielding that sharp blade condensed from Death Magic in her hand, she was already using it with practiced ease.
This was the true face of Noren's "Authority."
This was also the reason why she, as a dignified Blood Clan princess, was able to obtain approval to leave the royal city and come to the human world to live with only one maid.
The [Divine Authority] of "Atavism," the ability to convert all non-living matter in the world at will.
This was the true source of Noren's confidence in daring to face the cloaked figure alone.
No matter how bizarre Death Magic was, it ultimately still belonged to the category of magic.
And [Divine Authority] was power that had already transcended the scope of magic and reached the divine realm.
This was power that should have been mastered only by gods.
It could be said that in the modern era where the mystical was nearly hidden.
[Divine Authority] was the truly supreme power in this world.
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