Lin Yue floated in mid-air, held aloft by Liya.
Isabena had wanted to come along as well, but Liya had rejected her, using the excuse that she “couldn’t fly while carrying two people.”
But was Liya truly unable to do so?
She had simply made up an excuse to keep irrelevant people at a distance.
She felt that Lin Yue and Isabella were getting a bit too clingy, and she feared that someone would always be in the way whenever she wanted to hang out with him in the future.
She needed to manage the sense of distance between those two.
At that moment, the high-level magic at Avelina’s main gate finally descended.
After witnessing it, Lin Yue truly breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he didn’t know which fellow had cast it, judging by the sheer scale, the crisis on the front lines was likely resolved.
Once high-level magic was deployed, even if there were remnants of the enemy left, the protagonist’s group would be more than enough to clean them up—especially with Liya here.
He could now focus on dealing with Airella’s situation.
He reached out, wanting to see the source of this mysterious energy, but Liya interrupted him.
“Don’t touch it recklessly.”
Liya had learned her lesson about touching things she shouldn’t.
If one didn’t want to be struck hard by a dragon, it was better to be cautious.
After clashing with the Forbidden Beast for a while, she finally understood the real reason why no one had been able to kill it for so long.
It was because the Power of Law was being neutralized.
Or rather, that wasn’t entirely accurate.
In short, Liya’s usual attack methods caused almost no damage.
Even when she used high-level magic, she could barely scratch its surface.
It was an awkward situation; one could tangle with it for a long time but simply couldn’t kill it.
Furthermore, its hostility was predicated on whether one interfered with Airella.
If one merely watched or protected the buildings, it wouldn’t strike.
“Hmm…”
Looking at the young girl floating in the air, Lin Yue rubbed his chin.
He didn’t have a good countermeasure yet.
In the original story, Airella had approached and unsealed the beast on her own accord, driven by the mindset of: ‘I’ll kill everyone who bears me ill-will.’
Liya’s attempt to force her way into the protection of the jade pendant had directly caused Airella to lose control.
Her judgment had been clouded, subsequently attracting even more magical beasts.
If she relied on the jade pendant to control the beasts, and the activation and attributes of the pendant were tied to her emotions, then the failure in the original story was entirely within the realm of reason.
That incident had also cemented her status as a “Witch,” eventually leading to her being driven out of human society and toward a tragic end.
What should he do now?
He wasn’t sure if he should make a move…
‘Should I try calling Isabena and Isabella over to test another type of Law?’
The dragon overhead continued to hover, seemingly waiting for something.
Liya turned to look at Lin Yue and noticed a change in his appearance.
Surprised, she said, “Lin Yue, why are your eyes so red?”
“My eyes… are red?”
From Liya’s perspective, Lin Yue’s pupils had inexplicably turned crimson and were glowing intensely, as if he were about to unleash some kind of magic.
Before Lin Yue could ask anything else, the light shield surrounding Airella suddenly trembled. With a whoosh, it turned pitch black.
“Lin—”
Before Liya could finish her sentence, the magical beasts in the sky suddenly charged toward the two people near Airella as if they had gone mad.
Their speed was eerily fast.
Liya opened a spatial rift to defend herself, but the impact pushed Lin Yue against Airella’s energy barrier.
The force sent Liya flying several miles away.
“What is going on… Huh?”
If Liya was blown away and her spell range couldn’t cover Lin Yue, then he might just break his legs from the fall…
In his desperation, Lin Yue subconsciously reached out to grab onto something to stay in the air.
As a result, his hand plunged straight into Airella’s shield, and he was forcibly pulled inside.
“This is…”
In an instant, as if being submerged by a tsunami, Airella’s memories flooded into Lin Yue’s mind through the medium of the jade pendant.
Beside the shield, Liya used her fastest speed to open a rift and return, but she was still unable to catch him.
Lin Yue slowly merged into the interior of the now-murky energy shield, entering a “duo mode” with Airella.
“…”
She didn’t know if this was good or bad.
Liya wanted to intervene by force, but she found that she still couldn’t affect the barrier.
“…”
She could only work her hardest to rescue them both before something catastrophic happened.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration hit her.
She remembered the Valianna sisters, who were capable of analyzing domains.
Her Power of Law wasn’t working, but perhaps someone else’s could.
‘I’ll just go grab them all and give it a try…’
Isabella arrived at the main gate and found that the battle had long since ended.
The remnants of the army were at their wit’s end.
Near the Mage Tower, only Lillian, who had yet to wake up, and Allen, who was standing guard, remained.
“Charles…”
Charles was currently being healed by magic on the ground.
Aside from his severed arm, there didn’t seem to be any life-threatening issues.
After using ice magic to freeze and preserve the severed arm, Isabella walked over slowly.
She wanted to ask the nearby ordinary students what had happened at the main gate.
“The beasts… The magical beasts are coming again!”
Before Isabella could ask, a new crisis arose.
It seemed to be an aftereffect caused by Erylla’s side.
In an instant, the remaining Alpos soldiers were tackled by the beasts.
Strangely, however, the monsters did not launch indiscriminate attacks against the Avelina students.
Just as Isabella was about to step in, a spatial rift appeared behind her.
It was Liya and Isabena, who had been dragged along as a “tool.”
“Sister?”
“Bella, ah…”
Seeing that her sister was safe and sound, Isabena wanted to offer her some warm words.
However, remembering how her recent actions had put her sister in danger, she didn’t know how to speak.
Looking at her trembling sister, Isabella was certain that this was truly her.
She gently hugged her own flesh and blood and said, “It’s all right, Sister…”
Hearing Isabella’s worried words, Liya raised an eyebrow, crossing her arms with an expression that said, ‘Would I really let anything happen to you while I’m watching?’
But since the sisters were catching up, she didn’t want to ruin the atmosphere.
After a while, Isabella spoke softly.
“Why are you walking with Professor Liya, Sister?”
In her last memory, Liya was still fighting the Forbidden Beast alone.
When she went looking for Lin Yue and Isabena, they were already gone, which was why she had come to the main gate to investigate.
“Well… Lin Yue and Airella are trapped. I can’t break that turtle shell. I thought that since you two are sisters, you both should possess the Power of Fusion and Decomposition…”
Since it was the power of fusion, perhaps the two of them together could produce a miraculous effect.
Liya was also puzzled.
Why was it that the universal spatial laws of the continent were useless against the barrier in this incident?
There shouldn’t be a power in this world stronger than the Power of Law.
The Power of Law was equivalent to the first processed product made from the world’s source code; generally, nothing should have a higher priority than it.
Unless… it was the Source of the World itself.
This was exactly why the Valianna sisters’ Law and Allen’s Blade of Law were so important.
If this world were a sweater, their abilities would be the equivalent of tools for cutting, knitting, and unraveling it.
Hearing Liya speak, the two sisters looked at each other and nodded, indicating their willingness to help.
Both of them had deep connections with Lin Yue.
Furthermore, if this problem wasn’t resolved, the magical beasts would continue to appear endlessly.
They had to agree.
Liya opened another spatial rift.
She cast a cold glance at the Alpos army, and with a wave of spatial law, she completely wiped out the remaining soldiers.
“Follow me…”
She lifted the two sisters, intending to fly with them.
“Professor Liya… didn’t you say you couldn’t fly while carrying two people?”
Isabena looked at Liya with a face full of confusion.
She had believed Liya’s words without a doubt, not expecting the boomerang to return so quickly.
“Hmph…”
Liya gave a light snort, too lazy to explain.
She couldn’t exactly say she had intentionally separated them because she was afraid of losing her favorite status.
That would be too childish… even if she actually was a child.
“Wait… cough, cough!”
Just as the three were about to teleport, the weakened Charles on the ground suddenly sat up and said to them, “Take me with you…”
Liya looked at the half-dead playboy and said indifferently, “We don’t need you… just focus on recovering.”
She then disappeared into the rift with the sisters.
“Char… Charles, you were just healed. You should lie down a bit longer until the high-level healers arrive…”
Yuan, who was brewing a recovery potion for Charles, was startled by the man’s superhuman willpower and obsession.
Charles ignored the suggestion, dragging his mangled body step by step toward the center of Avelina.
Wearing a fox mask, Maper stood atop the Mage Tower at Avelina’s main door.
She looked down at the situation below and breathed a sigh of relief.
She took out a pen and paper, stuffed the status report into a small nightingale construct, and then looked at the Forbidden Beast in the sky with a worried expression.
“Fox…”
Just as she was about to head downstairs to see how things would develop, a black-and-blue figure blocked her path.
“Panda.”
Looking at the person wearing a bear mask, Maper raised an eyebrow.
“You’ve worked hard this time.”
Panda wiped the twin blades in his hands, seemingly having no intention of making small talk.
He simply held out his hand and said, “Where is the stuff you promised me?”
Maper sighed, knowing this guy never cared much for friendship.
Although his strength was decent, there was no room for conversation outside of business.
By comparison, Lin Yue was much more interesting.
Or rather, there was no one who piqued her interest more than Lin Yue.
“Someone will deliver it to your place in a few days.”
Hearing Maper’s reply, Panda slowly stood up, seemingly unwilling to waste any more time here.
“Leaving already? Don’t you want to meet the newcomer?”
Panda gazed at Allen, who was guarding Lillian below, and said in a voice devoid of emotion, “He is… very much like me.”
With that, he turned and left, appearing to have other matters to attend to.
Maper stood with her hands on her hips, watching him depart.
Compared to Allen, Lin Yue was the person she really wanted to introduce, but she didn’t know where he had run off to.
A faint sense of foreboding rose in her heart, one she didn’t dare speak aloud.
‘Stay alive for me…’
This was the first time since she had grown up that she genuinely did not want to lose someone.
Maper turned and boarded the carriage that had been waiting for a long time.
Starting today, she would have to plan for the long term.
However, she didn’t know if time would allow it.
Lin Yue tumbled through the air a few times, unable to find a center of gravity.
Or rather, this space had no gravity at all.
He felt like a ball being kicked back and forth.
When he finally landed, he was swallowed by the surrounding eerie environment.
It felt as if he had traveled into a stream-of-consciousness work, making his head spin.
Just as he was at a loss, an ethereal voice suddenly echoed in his ear.
“This place…”
Flash!
The scene before him suddenly turned bright.
He slowly opened his eyes and found a somewhat lonely figure crouching in the white void.
“Airella?”
Sensing his gaze, Airella suddenly flinched and slowly turned her head.
“Lin Yue?”