Chapter 469: The Exit of Magic

The servant immediately stepped forward respectfully and handed over a palm-sized jar.

This is a potion that cost tens of millions of dollars. It can stimulate a large amount of magic power in a short period of time.

In this situation, it can allow Yuan Hongnai to support this extremely complex magic circle and make the scene seen clear.

But now is not the best time to use it...

Gen Hongna bent her fingers and opened the lid of the potion, while holding her breath and adjusting the angle of her peeking.

The already extremely shaky chaotic picture began to rotate, revealing a sickening dizziness. Yuan Hongna frowned and held back, letting the picture facing the back slowly adjust until it was aimed at the front of the "evil wizard".

…right now.

She raised her hand and poured the entire can of sticky liquid at her feet. The red magic power gushing out of her body rose up like a flame, expanding rapidly, and then contracted in an instant, pouring into the magic circle.

The scene I peeked into originally looked like a piece of glass covered with frost and mist, but now the impurities were wiped away and the vision suddenly became clear.

Gen Hongna looked at it with a look of confidence that she would win.

When she saw the scene in front of her clearly, there was a hint of surprise in her expectant eyes.

——Through the illusory "one-way glass", the "evil wizard" who shouldn't have noticed them suddenly raised his head and looked straight in her direction. As if through the divination screen, dozens of kilometers away, he met Minamoto Hongna's eyes.

Unlike the clear face that Yuan Hongna expected, the young man was wearing a pure white mask without any decorations, which completely covered his face. The only exposed eyes were also hidden in the heavy shadow cast by the mask... No, not only his face, but the "evil wizard" also had a layer of pale clay-like shell on his body. The unfortunate "sacrifice" on the ground was also wrapped up, making it difficult to see.

...was discovered?

...She had spent several days studying the hidden array pattern, and the almost non-existent magical fluctuations, but they were actually discovered? !

Gen Hongna gritted her teeth and suddenly increased the observation distance, trying to penetrate the layer of clay-like substance and see something clearly.

But at this moment, the screen suddenly went dark.

——A tentacle covered with pitch-black mucus suddenly stretched out, climbed onto the "one-way glass" from the other side, and crawled upwards, blocking most of the screen.

Immediately afterwards, one disgusting tentacle after another stretched out and piled up, until it completely covered the "one-way glass" that was supposed to be extremely secretive and insubstantial.

At the moment when the figure of the "evil wizard" was completely blocked, a red eye suddenly opened in the center of the tentacles, close to the "glass" - an extremely beautiful eye that seemed to belong to a human.

No matter who this eye is on, it will instantly become the focus of admiration.

But installing it in a place like this only makes people feel terrified and slightly nauseous, just like being alone at home late at night, hearing some unusual movement and looking out through the peephole, only to be met with a pair of malicious eyes peering into the room through the thin glass.

Yuan Hongnai had never seen such a sight before. She subconsciously looked into that eye and clearly saw the layers of resentment, malice, jealousy, and pride inside it... Emotions like a tide poured out of the eye and washed into her mind. As Yuan Hongnai stared in increasing horror, a "crackling" sound suddenly came from the front of the tentacle that was flapping continuously.

She just slowly sensed that something was wrong, but the next second, the tentacle actually followed the extremely weak connection, crossed the barrier of dozens of kilometers, stretched forward suddenly, and pierced into Minamoto Hongna's left eye amid Koizumi Hongzi's terrified screams.

"ah--!!!"

The adult witch covered her eyes tightly and roared in extreme pain. Yuan Hongna's mind was blank, and she felt as if her eyeballs were pierced by countless steel needles. The severe pain made her lose the ability to think in an instant. She covered her face and fell to her knees. Before she completely lost consciousness, her mind was filled with shock and fear from the most instinctive, and there was no room for other emotions.

The magic circle and the crystal ball shattered in an instant. When the servant and Koizumi Hongzi finally came to their senses and trembled as they stepped forward, there was only the fallen Gen Hongna and the blank floor in front of her - the magic circle was gone, and the crystal ball was also worn out, collapsing into a pile of powder finer than sand.

The servant supported Minamoto Hongna, recalled the scene just now, and carefully pulled open her hood while calling for emergency assistance.

He thought he would see a blur of flesh and blood.

But it didn't.

——Gen Hongna looked surprisingly intact. Except for her face and eyes which were distorted due to pain, everything else was the same as before.

He looked at the scene in confusion, suspecting that the tentacles he had just seen were just illusions created by some wizard.

He couldn't help but turn his head again to look at the place where the magic circle was, but he only saw Koizumi Hongzi's extremely surprised face.

"…The source of her magic power is gone." Koizumi Hongzi stretched out a hand and covered Minamoto Hongna's eyes blankly.

The source of magic power is something that every magician is born with, and it is passed down from generation to generation. When the previous generation dies or loses the qualification to possess magic power, it will automatically be passed on to the next generation.

The source of Gen Hongna's magic power was originally transferring to Koizumi Hongzi at a very slow speed. That is the foundation of a magician's foothold.

But now, Koizumi Hongzi can no longer feel the trace of magic power belonging to their family.

She recalled the tentacle that had fiercely pierced her aunt's eye just now, and the way it had retracted with something wrapped around it, and she shuddered silently: "...What on earth was that thing?!"

…

Dozens of kilometers away. In an abandoned warehouse in Haido-cho 6-chome.

One minute ago.

Jiang Xia was hiding in the warehouse, beating Shikano Shuji evenly, making his stubborn murderous aura become fluffy.

But at this moment, the ghosts suddenly became restless, looking around blankly, vaguely feeling that something invisible was approaching.

After being stunned for a moment, Jiang Xia immediately struck Shikano Shuu on the back of the neck with a knife, knocking the possible witness unconscious.

Then he carefully felt the changes around him, and after a while, he felt that there was a faint breath of magic.

Recalling the magic knowledge he had learned from Terai Huangzhisuke during his previous visit, as well as the old man's advice to "be careful that they use divination to find your lair and then ambush you with heavy firepower." To be on the safe side, Jiang Xia immediately put on his hood and quickly applied a layer of clay on his face and body.

——Although a body is not a permanent necessity for a psychic, Jiang Xia is very satisfied with this body that has the same name as himself, and does not want to be disturbed by the witches in his peaceful life.

Just as he wrapped his body in clay, he suddenly sensed a much stronger magical power than before, and the source seemed to be in the air in front of him.

…Although I’m not quite sure what happened, there is no doubt that “there was a sudden explosion of magic power in front of me.”

Jiang Xia was just about to pull a little out of politeness.

But before he could release his shikigami, he suddenly looked dazed. There was a buzzing sound in his head, and the depths of his pupils suddenly turned red.

(End of this chapter)