Rin from Twenty Years Later looked at Aoko behind her, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan but utterly helpless. From her perspective, the current Aoko was like a magic apprentice in a web novel from Rin's past life, who, after great effort, summoned a divine beast only to find she couldn't control it.
Damn it, she became a summoned beast.
"Seriously, there's no need to rush, Aoko. Do you really think I'm someone who acts without considering the consequences? If I were to abruptly interrupt his spell now, that super high-pressure airflow would directly explode in the sky, potentially causing a butterfly effect that could alter global climate. It's better to wait for him to finish, let it fall, and then deal with it all at once."
She then reached into the inner pocket of her trench coat, rummaged around, and pulled out a palm-sized crystal bottle, which she tossed to Aoko. The bottle was filled with a chaotic-colored liquid. Strangely, even within the bottle, this chaotic liquid was still flowing, not forming a vortex, but flowing from left to right, never returning.
"Here, take this. Calm down a bit."
Aoko fiddled with the crystal bottle, marveling, "That's strange. Can you even bring things from the future when you descend?"
"Hmph, what's so new about that? Aoko, you're still as clumsy as ever. If I couldn't bring things over, where would this outfit come from? Do the Magi of your Aozaki Family always arrive naked when they summon their future selves?"
Well, it was that familiar complaining, that familiar taste. It seemed this was indeed that scoundrel Rin.
Aoko's face twitched slightly as she looked at the strange liquid in her hand. Suddenly, it felt more and more familiar the more she looked, and she abruptly realized what it was!
"This is...!"
"Yes, it's the time you just consumed to summon me. When I came along the timeline earlier, I conveniently gathered these fragments of time that were about to dissipate beyond the timeline, after materializing them."
"..."
This Rin from Twenty Years Later... doesn't seem to be just ordinarily strong!
A cigarette doesn't last long. Rin from Twenty Years Later flicked the remaining filter tip aside. Before it could fall into the flowerbed and become non-degradable waste, it automatically turned into dust and dissipated.
Looking at the completed Grand Wind Curse high in the sky, Rin from Twenty Years Later, having finished her cigarette, finally began to get serious. With a slightly solemn yet composed expression, she gazed at the superconducting plasma body formed by the super-strong wind pressure high above. Judging by the distance ratio from the ground to the sky, this plasma body must be half the size of Misaki!
If that fell, not to mention Misaki and Mihonoseki, probably half of Honshu Island would be blown up. It was practically half a Tsar Bomba!
"Die! Die! Die! This world! And you ants! All of you, be buried with me!" The completely deranged Predecessor Magus had already directed the world-ending Grand Curse to fall towards the ground. At this moment, it was a critical juncture.
Facing a magic of this caliber, Rin from Twenty Years Later finally made her move. She quickly stretched out her right arm and swung it, revealing a short sword. But to call it a short sword would be a severe misnomer, as the blade part looked like a multi-faceted jewel. The blade and hilt were carved from a single piece of jewel. Rather than a short sword made of jewels, it was more like a jewel in the shape of a short sword. But Aoko recognized this sword, or rather, not many in the entire magical world didn't recognize this absurdly shaped short sword.
"Jeweled Sword!" Aoko stared blankly at Rin from Twenty Years Later. Had Rin inherited Jewel Owner's Second Magic in twenty years?
"Jeweled Sword? Even if Jewel Owner himself came today, he wouldn't dream of stopping me!" The Predecessor Magus on the other side could, of course, see everything happening here. He was well aware of Aoko's summoning of her future self, but he didn't care. He also wouldn't believe that a young junior, even in ten or twenty years, could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
Holding the Jeweled Sword, Rin looked at the impending forbidden magic. She drew a line in the air with the Jeweled Sword! In mid-air, along the path of the forbidden magic falling towards the ground, a spatial rift wide enough to span the entire Misaki was torn open by Rin's single stroke! The Grand Curse, capable of destroying half of Honshu Island, was directly swallowed by the suddenly appearing spatial rift!
It's, it's gone... Aoko stared blankly at the empty night sky, feeling that her former grandfather on the other side was quite a blusterer. He used Fifth Magic to accelerate and chanted such a long Grand Curse, only for it to be casually sent into another dimension?
Why did it feel like Fifth Magic was being utterly crushed by Second Magic...? I inexplicably felt like I was losing face... "Impossible?! Even Zelretch couldn't achieve this level of spatial manipulation! Who exactly are you?!" The deranged Predecessor Magus was clearly unable to accept this fact and questioned Rin almost hysterically.
"Who am I? Aren't you seeing it clearly? Am I not the future self, twenty years later, of that Little Girl you just beat black and blue? You don't even understand the principle of 'don't bully a young man in poverty.' You are truly just a piece of trash destined to be relegated to the dust of history."
The cold Rin answered disdainfully. As her right foot stepped forward, with that single step from Rin from Twenty Years Later, the entire world's scenery transformed into a deep purple!
"This is the reverse side of the world. You can understand it as the shadow of the present world. Everything that happens here will not be perceived or affect the present world. It's a future technology specifically for mystics to open battlefields at any time. Be grateful, old man, this is a product from a future you could never reach."
Future Rin smiled disdainfully, mocking the Predecessor Magus who had fallen into panic.
"I don't have much time, so I won't waste it slowly with your Fifth Magic. Since I've had the rare chance to travel back to the past, let my friend witness 'my' strength in the future!"
With that, the Jeweled Sword in Future Rin's hand disappeared, returning to her body as a conceptual armament. She raised her right hand high to the sky, "To deal with an anomaly like you, existing due to the distortion of the world-line, this thing is perfectly suited."
"Illusory Projection: Parallel Replacement!"
The plane of space shattered in Rin's palm. A foot-long nail of extreme light formed and was grasped in Rin's hand. The moment it fell into Rin's hand, black magic crests, like cracks, covered the entire nail. Rin then closed her eyes solemnly, placed the Aurora Nail over her chest, and chanted:
"O Son of Man, cleave to the gods!"
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