Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

Angelica, who was in contrast to Aleister, was not hurt at all, and was even able to analyze Aleister with ease.

As the name suggests, fantasy manifestation magic is a powerful magic that can turn fantasies in the mind into reality; the other magic is ever-changing and seems a little difficult to understand, but it is easier to understand if described in another easy-to-understand way.

Magic Copy.

The ever-changing magic of Caelum Sequence 1 can copy the opponent's magic and release it without consumption. Even the original inherent magic can be copied, and it can even automatically analyze the construction principle of the inherent magic. To some extent, it is a very rogue magic.

Some people joke that reaching the pinnacle of Caelum is equivalent to possessing all magic, but in fact, magicians think that copying other people's magic is very unambitious and usually avoid it on purpose. However, this is too much of an underestimation of Sequence 1 magic. Ever-changing magic can be stored, although there are limitations. However, if you want to overthrow the superior by surprise, Caelum Sequence 1 is the most suitable magic.

When Aleister fought Angelica, it was almost equivalent to possessing all of Angelica's Sequence 1 magic, but even so, Angelica's use of magic still exceeded Aleister's expectations. Protean Magic can indeed perfectly copy magic, but on the one hand, it cannot copy the experience of use, and whether it is used proficiently is another matter, and the second point is the weakness of Protean Magic.

Just like the need to concentrate when using fantasy manifestation magic, otherwise it may backfire on oneself, powerful magic is not perfect. The magic copied by the ever-changing magic will be released without consumption... This is widely known information recorded in the public magic book, and the general magicians also believe so, but as a witch, Angelica knows that this is a misunderstanding.

The principle of Protean Magic is not to consume nothing, but to avoid burdening the user as much as possible. If you keep copying high-cost magic, plus the cost of launching Protean Magic, you will be overloaded before the opponent falls. Isn't Protean Magic the stupidest Sequence 1 Magic in the world? Therefore, Protean Magic will automatically ignore the consumption of magic, in order to protect the user.

There are some types of magic, so varied that it is difficult to make them work even if they are copied.

"There is a flaw in the ever-changing magic. It will automatically protect the user. Therefore... if you encounter a Kryptonian type of magic that consumes vitality to use, it will not work even if you copy it."

"..."

Certain magic consumes not magic power but the life of the user. It is the trump card that the magician will never use unless it is the most critical moment. Magic that is unleashed by permanently damaging life is often very powerful. After all, even life is sacrificed, so there must be a due reward.

But...

"I am a witch. I will not age or die, so I can use magic that consumes vitality at no cost."

Angelica's mouth curled up slightly.

"You used a myriad of magic to counter the magic I used... but unfortunately, it got stuck when it came to magic that consumed life force, and you couldn't copy it, and you had no way to solve it."

"As expected of an Extraordinary Person, he is indeed extraordinary."

Aleister was full of praise, but he had to admit that he had underestimated the witch a little.

In just a few seconds, Angelica found the correct way to crack it... and it was a fatal flaw. Aleister had no way to crack Angelica's immortality, so the ever-changing magic would be completely stuck here. Any other magician would be countered by Aleister's copy magic, but Angelica was not one of them.

Angelica simply shrugged in response to Aleister's praise.

"If you keep fighting, all your hair will fall out. Let me make it clear that I am not interested in your bald look."

hair?

Because Angelica's topic change was too abrupt, Anna didn't even understand what Angelica was talking about at first. Then Anna noticed that there were indeed some hairs just below the floating Aleister, about twenty to thirty strands in number.

Aleister... Could it be that he has been losing his hair all the time he has been fighting his master...?

Anna fell into deep thought, and despite being an enemy, she couldn't help but start to worry about Aleister's hairline.

"You use methods similar to curses to transfer damage, making your life more tenacious than that of ordinary magicians."

273 Miss Witch and Infinite Energy

Curse killing, a common curse method in various stories, is to wrap hair around a straw doll, and then attack the doll to hurt the owner of the hair. Angelica has also used it.

Ordinary people may think that the killing curse is just a sinister and cunning magic suitable for villains in stories, but outstanding magicians will realize that the magic formula of the killing curse contains the principle of damage transfer.

"You should have studied and analyzed the magic formula of the curse, and modified it in all aspects. The rule of the curse is that after attacking the doll, the damage will be transferred to the main body, but you do the opposite. The damage to your main body will be transferred to the doll you prepared, so as to avoid fatal injuries. However, the curse formula you modified still follows the principle, and the medium is still hair, so every time I cause you a fatal injury, you will lose a hair... I have killed you almost twenty times just now."

Aleister lived up to his reputation as a genius magician, using a unique method to give himself a firm advantage in the battles of magicians. Even if he was not truly immortal, Aleister's research was enough to give him multiple lives at the combat level. If he had not encountered Angelica, Aleister would have won the victory with just the two trump cards revealed by Angelica.

There is no doubt that Angelica has the upper hand now.

However, Aleister showed no fear at all. Instead, his eyes revealed... madness mixed with joy.

Many people know that when orcs encounter an equally strong opponent, they will enter a state called boiling blood, which allows orcs to fight more attentively. However, this phenomenon is not exclusive to orcs. When humans encounter strong enemies, some will choose to escape, while others will also become more motivated.

Aleister felt the same way, and Angelica had a similar feeling. She hadn't met a capable opponent in a long time. Aleister must have more cards up his sleeve than just those to dare to negotiate with the witch.

Just as the two sides were about to start a new round of confrontation, a white figure flashed between them.

"Stop. Anyway... there's no benefit in continuing the fight, right?"

"Coppelia?"

Angelica was slightly startled. She didn't expect Coppelia to choose to intervene at this time. However, since the two sides had fought each other once, this was indeed the most appropriate time to mediate. There would be no situation where either of them would be dissatisfied with the other.

"Negotiations have broken down, and I don't see any other solution."

"Hmph, I think it's you who didn't show the corresponding sincerity."

Coppelia changed the subject and pointed the finger at Aleister.

A troubled look appeared on Aleister's elegant and easy-going face.

"how do I say this?"

"Think about it. Your condition is to use the Beyonder's body to complete the Golden Dawn's ritual, but - we don't know whether you have the ability to help Anna replace the magic furnace core, right?"

"right."

Angelica realized it later.

"I don't know if you can do it yet - we need a permanent mechanism."

Aleister's condition requires Angelica to provide a unique body of a Beyonder. However, as an equal exchange, Angelica's request is to transform Anna's heart, that is, the magic furnace core, into a permanent mechanism. Angelica is not sure whether the Golden Dawn currently has the corresponding ability.

After realizing this, Aleister immediately received Angelica's sharp gaze.

In response, Aleister raised his hands helplessly in surrender.

"Okay. I must admit that I cannot easily meet the conditions of Lady Black."

"How dare you play tricks on me...I'd better kill you."

"Can you spare my life for a while? Perhaps we can try to sit down at the negotiation table again."

Aleister and Coppelia landed on the ground one after another.

Aleister's attitude seemed to become much more tactful than before, because he had seen how powerful Angelica was, and because Coppelia had exposed the truth. Angelica also vaguely guessed that Coppelia chose to end the battle at that time, in part, to let Aleister experience the power of the witch.

Aleister enjoys fighting to the death with a powerful magician, but he is not a battle maniac who would risk everything for the sake of fighting. After calming down a little, he will understand that there is little point in continuing to fight to the death with Angelica, not to mention that Coppelia, the former witch of the Golden Dawn, is obviously on Angelica's side.

"Let me reiterate my request. I hope to go home with Anna and live a stable life until the end of time. But what is unforgivable is that Anna's magic core can only last for a mere eighty years."

Master, it’s actually seventy-nine years.

Anna wanted to correct it, but now she was more immersed in Angelica's vow to spend more time with her. For a maid, there is no better recognition than the master's unswerving loyalty.

"... Considering the technology used to make puppets at that time, the fact that the magic furnace core could maintain operation for eighty years after being activated was a very remarkable achievement."

"It's too short! Just eighty years, it went by in the blink of an eye!"

Angelica argued with reason, while Aleister was speechless. Is this the witch's sense of time? If there is really reincarnation in the world, eighty years might be enough for a person to be reincarnated twice.

"So I have to replace Anna's magic core with a masterpiece that can operate permanently: the permanent mechanism. I know the Golden Dawn is researching this... can it be done?"

"I'm sorry. A permanent mechanism is impossible to achieve, at least not according to current theory."

"..."

Angelica still stared at Aleister. She was very concerned about how long Anna could survive, but she was not so concerned that she lost her mind. To be honest, when Angelica knew that the Golden Dawn was researching permanent mechanisms, she vaguely guessed that permanent mechanisms would be difficult to achieve.

In the world where Angelica lived in the past, there was a similar perpetual motion machine, which carried the beautiful fantasy of human beings for unlimited energy. However, no matter how beautiful it was, the research on perpetual motion machines ended in failure because it did not conform to the most basic law of conservation of energy. In the world of swords and magic, magic is praised as a miracle, but magicians all understand that the operation of magic follows principles, just like the most basic magic formulas, magic also has its own operating rules.

"However, we, the Golden Dawn, have always challenged the impossible. Although the permanent mechanism cannot be realized, we have achieved a pseudo-permanent mechanism that is infinitely close to the permanent mechanism."

274 No such worldly thoughts

"The idea of ​​the permanent mechanism is not to create something from scratch. Our idea is to inject magic power and generate infinite magic power through continuous circulation."

"Yeah, I understand."

Angelica nodded. The design idea of ​​the permanent mechanism in magic is very similar to the perpetual motion machine design in the original world. The idea of ​​the first type of perpetual motion machine is to create energy out of nothing, and the same is true for the permanent mechanism in magic, but in two different worlds, they have been proven to be impossible to achieve.

"Injecting magic power into a special mechanism so that it can produce magic power in an infinite cycle... This should be your idea, right? In the end, it will probably fail."

"The permanent mechanism that we are closest to succeeding comes from this. Although it has been proven to be impossible to generate magic power in an infinite cycle, we have continuously improved it and achieved the great miracle of compressing magic power consumption without limit."

Angelica's eyes suddenly lit up, and she understood what this meant.

The concept of infinitely compressing mana consumption is similar to the concept of infinitely approaching zero. Although mana still consumes, it has been improved by Aleister and others to be close to zero. In this way, Anna's mana core is replaced with a pseudo-permanent mechanism. As long as Angelica injects mana into it, the pseudo-permanent mechanism can operate for a long time.

But there is another problem.

"That's great... But as I recall, the puppet's magic core cannot be replaced?"

"Exactly."

"Then how can we replace the pseudo-permanent mechanism with Anna's magic core?"

“…This is the new problem.”

Aleister smiled and spread his hands.

"After we created the pseudo-permanent mechanism, we also tried to use it on other things, but in the end, it ended in failure. It can only be used on the hearts of puppets. It is impossible to replace all the puppet hearts with pseudo-permanent mechanisms. Disassembling the puppet again is the same as making a new puppet. I have a..."

"If there is no other solution, just think of a new one."

Coppelia interrupted Aleister's proposal. As a former member of the Golden Dawn, Coppelia naturally knew what Aleister's proposal would be.

The Golden Dawn will not place any feelings on the puppets they created, even if they originally created puppets to achieve artificial gods. Aleister would suggest that Angelica destroy Anna directly, and then they would use the pseudo-permanent mechanism to recreate a one-to-one replica of Anna.

This suggestion is tantamount to dancing wildly on Angelica's minefield... Coppelia likes Angelica's arrogant look of pretending to be angry, so it's better to avoid making Angelica really angry.

"So I have a way to kill two birds with one stone. I will return to the Golden Dawn."

Coppelia proposed a path that Aleister had never imagined.

In principle, magicians who quit the magic secret society cannot return, and they must also clear their memories. But there is a saying that principles are meant to be broken. When the other party's conditions are too generous, principles are insignificant. Unlike the magic secret society Ouroboros, the magic secret society Golden Dawn did not study the differences between extraordinary people. Therefore, in Aleister's view, Angelica and Coppelia are both extraordinary people, and there is no difference between the two.

Since Angelica could serve as a medium for the Golden Dawn to ascend to the path of divinity, Coppelia could do the same. Aleister didn't care whether the [path] was correct or not.

"I will help you create a method to embed the pseudo-permanent mechanism. Anyway, I know that you are the type who will plan until the last minute for things that you are not interested in. Besides, I will not accept you to tamper with Anjie's body at will."

Coppelia finally told the truth. She was more concerned about the fact that the Golden Dawn's plan required the torso of a Beyonder, which Coppelia could not accept in any way.

The corner of Aleister's mouth twitched slightly.

"We are pursuing the path to becoming gods. The pursuits of ordinary people are not what we wish for. Besides, I have abandoned my human body and will not have such worldly desires..."

"That, too, won't work!"

Coppelia aggressively pulled Angelica to her side, as if to assert her sovereignty.

"I will never allow anyone to touch Anjie!"

Although it was a very courageous speech, unfortunately Angelica herself chose to sabotage it at a very inopportune time.

"But I will take the initiative to find other girls, okay?"

“Huh?! Anjie is too much!”

"Ahem... That being said, I would be a little concerned if others were to study Coppelia casually."

“Angie…! As expected, Angie cares about me a lot!”

"I swear on the honor of the magical secret society Golden Dawn that I have no messy thoughts."

Aleister was somewhat speechless. The Magic Secret Society was an organization formed by a group of magicians who gathered together for lofty ideals. It was completely different from the pursuits of ordinary people. Angelica and Coppelia's ideas were really too vulgar.

However, Aleister's righteous statement had no effect, and in the end it was still the moved Coppelia's explanation that dispelled Angelica's concerns.

"It's okay, Anjie. I have the means to create a backup body. As long as I transfer my consciousness to it, any one of them will be my real body."

"As I recall you only made pretty spare bodies?"

"It's okay to have a genderless body."

Coppelia is able to adjust her own condition at will according to the spare body she creates. To some extent, she can even change her gender and race. However, since Coppelia got attached to Angelica, her spare body warehouse is basically filled with dolls that look similar to Angelica. But with Coppelia's skills, it is not difficult to remake the body.

"…I feel a little guilty about this."

Angelica thought for a while. Coppelia's plan was perfect. The only thing that bothered Angelica was that Coppelia seemed to be busy from beginning to end. Whether it was researching how to transplant the pseudo-permanent organ to Anna or reaching an agreement with the Golden Dawn, Coppelia was the one who worked hard. Because she didn't want Angelica to be used in strange rituals, Coppelia even took the trouble to provide Aleister with a brand new genderless spare body.

It was something I strongly advocated, but in the end I felt like I didn't contribute much.

Angelica was naturally the type who was happy to work for a white-collar salary, but when it came to Coppelia, she was somewhat...

"No need to worry about it, Anjie."