Magical User Aozaki Aoko Case Files

Since the two had been fighting for a long time before, although Kuonji Yuzu can now use the property of Flat Snark to generate true ether on its own to compete with the Golden Wolf, which is a complete soul materialization, once the night passes and the real sun rises, Kuonji Yuzu will no longer have any advantage, and the duel between her and Orange will be reversed.

Kuonji Yuzu hesitated, she took out a rune stone hidden in the pocket of her cloak and looked at it. This was a communication stone that Aozaki Aoko had left for her. As long as she injected magic power and crushed the stone, Aoko would know her situation and immediately enter the battlefield.

Regardless of day or night, the imaginary beast that materializes its soul will never run out of energy...

Thinking of this, Youzhu seemed to have made up her mind. She exerted a little force and tightened the communication stone in her hand.

---Dividing line---

On the other hand, the argument between Orange and Beowulf Lug is almost over. The fantasy of the earth is ultimately no match for the power of the contract that penetrates Orange's soul...it backs off and agrees to retreat.

Aozaki Touko's monitoring familiar also landed on Beo's back hair at this time. Originally, Touko didn't need to retreat this familiar, but considering that she had spent a lot of money on making various costumes and dolls in order to defeat her sister this time, it would be better to recycle this monitoring familiar in order to maximize the utilization of resources.

But sometimes, you cannot successfully retreat from the battlefield just by agreeing to do so.

Although it's nighttime, this abandoned amusement park has been resurrected by Flat Snark, and its interior is actually flooded with lights.

But for some reason, all the lights are now extinguished "in the same direction", as if there is a light-devouring monster somewhere in the darkness, devouring all the light one by one.

Beor Luger immediately became alert and stared at the dark spot in the distance in the direction it was escaping.

Strangely enough, as a fantasy species, Beorug undoubtedly has night vision. It can see everything clearly in the unlit wilderness, but when it encounters this darkness, it can't see anything in it.

But Beorug was not afraid, because he knew that there were few things in this world that could hurt him, let alone kill him. So he remained cautious and moved forward step by step, trying to figure out what was in the darkness.

As it moved forward step by step, the strange darkness in front of its eyes was shrinking step by step, which made the giant wolf reveal a human expression of contempt and disdain.

But for some reason, the puppet soldiers and toy monsters that had been entangled with it before were no longer approaching. Beorug was a little confused, but it was a good thing that those guys didn't come to chase it. The wounds on its body had begun to heal rapidly.

Beorug took a step forward, and the darkness retreated a step. But just as Beorug was satisfied with his own strength, he saw something strange in the land where the darkness retreated.

It was a human body.

No, only half of the body, to be precise, only the upper half, was standing on the ground.

All of its arms were placed in front of its body, in the pose of Buddhist prayer with palms clasped together, while the lower half of the humanoid was placed upside down on the ground not far from it.

Beor Luger was a little confused. What on earth was this thing?

"Those are my puppets," Aozaki Touko's serious voice came from the familiar on her back, "Be careful, I can't contact the core of these puppets."

Having been beaten black and blue by the many fantastic creations animated by Flat Snark, Beorugu was somewhat afraid of these things that looked a little wrong at first glance, so it no longer rushed forward like before, but gradually retreated, intending to escape in another direction.

But before it could take a few steps back, it felt a biting cold coming from its tail.

It immediately jumped forward, then turned around and looked back, and found a wall at least tens of meters wide blocking its retreat path.

The "wall" looked vague and seemed to be made of some swirling dark mist.

If it was just an ordinary wall, Beorug could smash it into pieces by just ramming into it, but the thing in front of it was obviously wrong.

Because the more Beorugu stared at the dark wall, the more frightened he became and he didn't want to move forward.

"What's wrong with you, Beo?" Orange's voice was a little anxious. "Just jump over this mysterious thing! It's not that high, right?"

That being said, as a wild beast, Beorugu has always trusted his intuition very much. Throughout its long life, its intuition has always been right and has always led it to success.

And now, its instinct told it to run away, to stay away from this strange "wall".

Beorug, who had always been loyal to his own desires, turned and ran, passing the puppets on the ground that were doing strange prayer postures, and ran in the direction where the darkness retreated.

However, the more it ran, the more damaged dolls appeared around it.

They are in the same prayer posture, with the upper and lower bodies separated.

Neatly arranged, these praying dolls form a path into darkness.

Beorugu did not stop. He did not have the time to care about these inexplicably broken dolls. He just wanted to follow his instincts and escape from this damn amusement park.

However, when it was about to reach the end of the puppets, all the darkness gathered together like fog, slowly spinning like a tornado, and then dispersed.

Beorugu certainly didn't have the leisure to stop and watch, as it was not a human with a strong curiosity.

It rushed towards the black "tornado", which could not stop its progress at all!

But when it was about to approach, the darkness gradually dissipated, and a woman with long red hair gradually emerged from it, staring at Beorug and Aozaki Touko's familiar with a smile.

Chapter 36 Fear

Born in the eighteenth century in the deep mountains of Northern Europe, in an isolated werewolf village.

Since the day he was born, Luger Beowulf has never felt or understood what fear is.

It does not decay, age, or die.

As a complete living being, it has been thinking in its small world about what life is, what defects are, and what death is.

But among these concepts, Lug Beowulf never thought about what fear was.

However, at this moment, it seems to have some strange feeling that it has never experienced before.

The biological structure simulated by Beo, the structure in the brain called the amygdala, sent a strong signal to its consciousness and concluded that "the red-haired woman in front of it is very dangerous."

But Beo didn't understand why. In his eyes, humans (including oranges) were flawed and fragile creatures. Even those so-called "magicians" were only slightly more difficult to deal with than ordinary humans.

But the existence before it was completely different, Beo's instinct told it so.

The red-haired woman stretched out her right hand towards it, and darkness surged out of her hand like the tentacle of some brachiopod, spreading towards Lug Beowulf.

The golden wolf, who experienced the feeling of "fear" for the first time since its birth, was unable to move.

Its autonomic nervous system works simultaneously with the brainstem, hippocampus, and hypothalamus, activating a range of physiological responses.

There was a very human expression of fear on the wolf's face, and its heartbeat was like the beating of a drum, which could be heard even from a distance of several meters.

"Beo?! Beo? Why did you stop?" Orange's voice came from the familiar on the back of the golden wolf, but the giant wolf did not respond.

Its pupils were dilated and its muscles were as tense as steel. If someone slashed at it with a sword at this moment, sparks might really fly.

It is the embodiment of invisible, corrupt, and unspeakable fear. Its instinct does not believe that it can overcome it or defeat it. Instead, it can only sit and wait for the boundless darkness to swallow it up.

In this world, for Luger Beowulf as an individual, there is nothing more terrifying than the red-haired woman in front of him.

Aozaki Touko discovered that Ruge Beowulf's strong and tall body began to tremble violently. Even through the familiar used for reconnaissance, Touko could feel the strong fear of this fantasy species.

Orange knew that her ambush had failed because her greatest reliance, Ruge Beowulf, had somehow fallen into fear and was unable to move. This was obviously some unknown magic.

But Cheng Zi was very confused. What kind of magic in this world could have an effect on a three thousand year old mysterious golden wolf? This was completely impossible in her knowledge system.

Just as she was in a state of confusion, she suddenly found that her perspective tilted to the side and then she fell to the ground.

Luger Beowulf's huge body lay motionless on the ground, his eyes rolled back.

His toothy mouth was open, his tongue hanging out, drooling all over the floor.

Orange quickly controlled the familiar to fly near Beo's head, but found that its pupils were completely dilated, and even the heartbeat that sounded like a drum just now could no longer be heard.

It's dead.

---Dividing line---

"How ironic, Orange."

Aozaki Aoko walked out from the shadows on the side and looked at Aozaki Touko's familiar and the "corpse" of the giant wolf on the ground.

"Aoko," Orange said in a deep voice, "How did you manage to kill Beo? As far as I know, the magic of the Aozaki family is not that kind of thing."

"Ah, that's a little bit of my personal corporate secret, I'm sorry I can't tell you, sister," Qingzi said in an apologetic tone, doing a skirt-lifting ceremony without a skirt, "but it's obvious that your puppy has a very serious flaw, and I seized this flaw and defeated it."

"...I failed this round." Orange's voice came from the familiar's body, "See you next time."

With that, Orange's familiar ignited with blue flames and soon dissipated into a cloud of dust.

Only then did Aoko let out a breath and stretched her body a little. Even for her, defeating a guy like Luger Beowulf was not easy.

At some point, Kuonji Yuju had fallen from the sky, put the Moon Oil back into the small bottle, carefully put it back into her cloak, and walked towards Aoko.

"...How did you do that?" Youzhu also asked Qingzi the same question. After all, she had just been fighting with the golden wolf and she knew very well how terrible this guy was.

"This beast was frightened to death," Qingzi said, "or it believed it was 'frightened to death', so it entered a state of stagnation."

“...?” Youzhu tilted her head slightly, finding it difficult to understand her roommate’s explanation.

"It had never experienced fear, so I gave it fear," Aozaki Aoko explained. "It would be difficult for me to defeat a beast of this level head-on, so I tried a trick."

"Through changes to the environment and the setting of the atmosphere, I stimulated its maximum fear threshold," Qingzi said with a wink, "and through some of my personal 'little tricks', I entered its heart and implanted the image of fear into its mind, resulting in the current result."

"...What are you going to do with it?" Youzhu stopped asking Qingzi how she did it and continued to ask other questions, "Will it come back to life?"

"If it wants, it should be able to 'revive'," Qingzi said, stroking his chin, "but I suspect it may not make any moves for hundreds of years."

"Just use it as a cursed body," Qingzi looked at the golden wolf as if it were meat on a chopping block, "This is the punishment for it staring at you with 'that' look in its eyes."

As a witch and a magician, Youzhu of course knew what "that" look meant. She rolled her eyes at Aoko, then stood aside and stopped talking, quietly watching how Aoko was going to deal with this illusion creature that was in a state of suspended animation.

Aoko pulled out her spell book, then a teleportation scroll.

"I know a good place to imprison this guy," Aoko said to Yuzu, "Grab my left hand."

Youzhu took off his gloves, walked over and held Qingzi's left arm. Qingzi held the giant wolf's body with his right hand, then activated the teleportation scroll, and disappeared from the spot with Youzhu and the giant wolf's body.

Chapter 37 Prison of Imaginary Numbers

It is definitely not an easy task to "scare to death" a fantasy creature of Luger Beowulf's level.

Aoko admitted that she had a sense of humor in posing the remains of the dolls, but she did cast a silent illusion spell on some of the doll remains to make them look even more eerie.

In addition to these, she also used her slightly modified fog spell (dying the fog black) to make the surroundings look darker, the wall of darkness that prevented the giant baby golden wolf from escaping, and the fourth-ring spell Phantom Killer that ultimately dealt a "fatal blow" to it.

Of course, all spells except the Phantom Killer were actually to increase the success rate of this final blow. Every setting she used to create fear was to reduce the enemy's immunity.

Although this series of operations did involve an element of gambling, it undoubtedly saved the cost of using the fifth magic once.

Although Aoko herself does not have to bear the cost of the fifth magic (harm to the world), when she uses magic, it is very likely that a red shadow will be attracted, so that a simple situation may become very complicated, so she decided to try the magic of the illusion school to see if she can scare to death the guy who was scared away by Shizuki Sojuurō's method of dealing with wild beasts in the original time and space.

Now it seems to be working very well.

The Phantom Killer is not a mystery of this world, so it ignores the degree of the Golden Wolf's return to the Age of Gods. Its spell effects target its inherently timid weakness, ultimately resulting in a damage effect where one plus one is far greater than two.

If she used a spell from the school of enchantment or a spell to hold the monster still today, it would most likely be immune to the monster's constitution or willpower, so while Qingzi was observing the battle between Youzhu and Ruge Beowulf, she decided to use a spell from the school of illusion to deal with it.