My Dragon King System-Chapter 261: War In Eden Pt. 7: Enchantment

For a moment, all three of them were locked in silence. None moved to act first.

Gaia leaned slightly toward her sister and whispered, "I didn’t think he’d be this difficult to deal with."

Umgadi didn’t turn her head, but replied just as quietly: "We must see to his defeat, sister."

There was no room for hesitation anymore.

Gaia nodded in acknowledgment and adjusted her grip on her staff, then began twirling it rapidly in her right hand as she prepared herself for another assault.

With that silent agreement between them, both Gaia and Umgadi launched forward simultaneously.

Gaia was slightly ahead of Umgadi, her staff already pulled back in preparation for a wide arc swing aimed directly at Asahel’s midsection.

Asahel remained perfectly still as they approached. His sword stayed raised and pointed toward them without wavering.

Then, just as Gaia came within striking range, Asahel moved into action.

His sword swept upward in a smooth arc to intercept Gaia’s incoming staff strike.

The two weapons collided mid-swing with a thunderous crack, and Gaia gritted her teeth as she felt the force of Asahel’s counter reverberate through her arms.

Umgadi flew over from behind her, bringing down her own staff in an attempt to strike at him while he was locked against Gaia, but Asahel pulled back from Gaia.

As he flew backward, another planetary orb made its way from behind him. However, his senses immediately picked up the second attempt at a sneak attack.

He veered off its path immediately, and in that split second when he wasn’t looking, Gaia lifted her left palm toward him. Enormously large roots appeared out of thin air and shot forth toward him in a violent attack.

But Asahel’s gaze quickly returned to the incoming roots, causing him to use Rebellion.

The roots gained consciousness, behaved erratically for a moment, then flickered and faded away.

"Tch." Gaia clicked her tongue in frustration.

"Again," Umgadi called out as she was already chasing toward Asahel. Gaia followed up as well.

Together they surged forward once more toward their half-angel opponent and continued their relentless assault.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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On the part of the battlefield where Adam and Lilith faced each other, the exchange had become a sort of stalemate.

Lilith’s divine magic was Enchantment. Through it, she could attach or separate powerful effects, not only from living targets, but also from abstract states.

This was precisely how she had concealed the dimension she occupied with the demon lords.

She had enchanted the dimension itself with concealment, severing it from outside perception entirely and making it invisible to any attempt to observe it.

At one point during their battle, Adam had opened his golden book and scribbled quickly across a blank page:

"Lilith was suddenly hit by a traveling asteroid."

The moment the final letter was written, reality shifted to accommodate his words.

An asteroid that had been traveling peacefully through distant space, minding its own cosmic journey like any other day suddenly diverted its course.

It accelerated dramatically, moving so fast it became little more than a blur of stone and fire as it shot directly toward Lilith’s position.

The asteroid closed the distance in an instant, hurtling toward her from the side with enough force to obliterate anything in its path.

But Lilith only grinned.

She raised her left hand calmly toward the incoming projectile and whispered, "Weight of Feathers."

Red energy rippled outward from her palm and washed over the massive asteroid, and the enchantment took hold immediately.

The asteroid’s weight was altered in that moment, reduced to something as light as a single bird’s feather despite its enormous size.

And just as the colossal body of rock was about to collide with her, it simply stopped the moment it touched her outstretched palm.

Its weight had been rendered so insignificant that Lilith held it there effortlessly, as though catching a floating leaf drifting on the wind.

She turned her head slightly toward the asteroid, pursed her lips, and blew a light breeze.

The gentle breath carried the massive celestial body tumbling away harmlessly into the distance.

Adam watched this without expression, and was already scribbling again on his book, beginning the first few letters of his next sentence on a fresh blank page.

And then suddenly his hand movements became extremely slow. His fingers dragged across the page sluggishly.

Each letter took several seconds to form, instead of fractions of a second.

Lilith had just enchanted onto him the effect of slowness, targeting his very movements themselves.

And almost simultaneously with that enchantment taking hold, a red magic circle materialized in front of one of her hands, spinning rapidly as it gathered energy at its center.

A concentrated blast wave of crimson energy erupted from the circle and shot directly toward Adam.

But just as it was about to strike him, a translucent golden sphere formed instantly around Adam’s body, encasing him completely within its protective barrier.

The blast wave slammed into the sphere instead in a brilliant explosion of red light that rippled outward.

Lilith had just preyed on one of the fundamental drawbacks of Adam’s Story Weaving.

The fact that he had to write whatever it was he needed to happen first.

And due to the nature of Lilith’s power, which required no such intermediary step between thought and action, she was inherently the faster caster between them.

It was a small advantage in isolation, mere seconds at most, but in combat between beings at their level, even fractions of seconds could mean life or death.

Both the attack and defense then passed away simultaneously.

The enchantment of slowness wore off as Adam’s natural resistance reasserted itself, and his golden barrier dissolved back into nothingness now that its purpose had been served.

They both ceased their assaults for a moment, hovering in silence as they stared at each other across the cosmic void.

Lilith’s grin widened with satisfaction.

"You will not be able to beat me this time, Adam," she said confidently.

Adam stared back at her for a moment without speaking. Then he said simply:

"I see."

And without saying anything more, his book and pen faded away, dissolving nto motes of golden light.

Lilith’s grin faltered slightly as a confused expression appeared on her face.