The Witcher: The Journey to Transcendence from Marvel...

Chapter 106 It Was You All Along

Weiss walked along the city streets, his eyes scanning his surroundings as he carefully observed the city's unique scenery.

Finally, after passing through the last row of buildings, we arrived at the edge of the dense forest that surrounds the city.

The man remained silent, following closely behind Wes. Just as his toes touched the forest ground, a blazing flame attacked from the front, heading straight for his face.

The man reacted quickly, dodging the sudden attack with a sidestep.

"You dodged the sneak attack using your speed? You're quite agile."

Wes's voice came from directly in front of the man.

"Then, let's reduce your speed for now." Before the words were finished.

The word "weak" came out of Weiss's mouth.

With this incantation, an invisible force enveloped the man, making him feel incredibly heavy and every movement extremely difficult.

"Curse magic? Just how much magic does this guy know?!" The man was surprised, but also became more wary.

Wes's offensive did not stop there. He held his wand and shot out a powerful bolt of lightning towards the man.

Just as the lightning was about to strike its target, it vanished without a trace in mid-air.

Is this his magic? Magic that can erase magic... I can't let him get close, or he might erase my magic.

Realizing this, Wes quickly distanced himself from the man and began to test him with different spells.

Whether it was elemental magic or curse magic, all attacks were inexplicably neutralized the moment they touched the man, completely igniting Wes's curiosity.

"I never expected to meet such an interesting magician so soon after arriving in this world."

[Seize him and force him to reveal the secrets of magic.] Wes's gaze was fixed on the other man, like a hawk locking onto its prey.

Wes began trying to use other forms of magic.

He summoned a swarm of locusts, which descended upon the man in a massive, overwhelming attack. However, this time, the man did not immediately use his previous magic to wipe out the insects; instead, he began to dodge and leap through the forest.

[He didn't cast that spell; was it because he used up too much magic power?]

But the man's agile movements in the woods showed no signs of magic or exhaustion.

[His magic couldn't eradicate the locusts? Or rather, the creatures?]

Various possibilities flashed through Wes's mind.

No, his method of using magic wasn't erasure, but rather some kind of special interference.

To confirm further, Weiss decided to test the waters again.

In this dense forest, there are many birds, which have become Wes's cannonballs.

"A barrage of bullets!" As Wes's spell fell, countless birds transformed into sharp "bullets," shooting towards the man.

"It seems I've been found out." The man had nowhere to hide now. "I didn't want to use this magic in the first place."

A chill emanated from the man, and the air seemed to freeze.

"Ice-shaped Rose".

As the man chanted his incantation, a magnificent rose bloomed in the air, its beauty concealing a deadly chill.

Birds and locusts were frozen in the cold, encased in ice roses, all signs of life frozen in this moment.

[The ice-making magic, and the kind of magic that can erase magic—it was her.]

Wes had his answer.

The man before her was actually Ultear Milkovich, the daughter of Ultear, the Ice-Shape Mage.

She holds multiple identities: a member of the Magic Council and Jellal's assistant, but her true identity is the leader of the Seven Kin of Purgatory, the strongest direct combat force of Hades, the guild master of the dark guild "Devil's Heart".

The method that could erase Wes's magic was none other than the legendary lost magic, "Arc of Time."

This magic can revert the state of things to the past or push them into the future, but it has no effect on living things other than plants—this is known as the "Arc of Time".

She didn't truly erase Wes's magic; she merely returned the space to its state before magic existed. However, this had no effect on the locusts and birds Wes had summoned.

"The magic of manipulating time, how interesting." Wes stared directly at Ultear.

Having discovered the other party's weakness, Wes opened the briefcase without hesitation.

With a loud bang, countless scarabs swarmed out, rushing towards Urutia like a tidal wave.

Faced with such a dense swarm of insects, Urtia felt a chill run down her spine.

Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!

"Ice-inspired Lotus!"

Crystal-clear ice petals unfurled around Ultear, forming a barrier that tightly protected her in the center of the flower. Scarabs swarmed in like a tide, relentlessly gnawing at the ice petals, but the ice lotus's defenses were beyond imagination; even under such a dense attack, it remained indestructible.

"Exploding Flame!" An orange-red fireball struck the ice lotus, blasting a hole in it.

Unexpectedly, the Ice Lotus's repair speed was astonishing; the blasted opening closed in an instant, and it even froze some of the scarabs.

"So ordinary flames are useless after all. In that case," Wes said, waving his wand in his hand.

The black flames coalesced into a majestic eagle, swooping down with destructive power.

Ultear sensed the power of this magic.

The effects of the Fiendfire Curse can be erased simply by using the "Arc of Time." With her will, time reverses, and the Fiendfire Curse vanishes without a trace, as if it had never existed.

This scene gave Wes a deeper understanding of the wonders of time magic, and at the same time, his gaze toward Ultear became even more intense.

"Let me see where your limits are!" Wes waved his wand again, and the sky was instantly filled with countless black arrows formed from Fiendfire.

Each arrow carries immense power.

Faced with this overwhelming offensive, Urudia's forehead broke out in a fine sweat.

"There are too many!" she exclaimed inwardly.

Activating "Arc of Time" requires a large amount of magic power, especially when facing such powerful magic, the consumption of magic power increases exponentially.

Ultear was born with exceptionally powerful magic, which is why she was able to wield the "Arc of Time".

She wasn't afraid to compete with Wes in terms of magic consumption.

At the same time, Wes had just absorbed the energy of the Philosopher's Stone, doubling his total mana, and his body still contained a massive amount of energy that had not yet been fully absorbed.

During each battle, Wes could feel himself slowly absorbing this energy, thus becoming stronger after each fight.

This world is never short of battles, and every battle makes Wes stronger.

(End of this chapter)