"Gravity?"
"So, besides that sword with Anti-Magic, there are other weapons with special abilities?" The Clown laughed. The rather boring dice-grabbing game was starting to get a little interesting.
Another dark purple sword plunged into the sunken ground.
The Clown touched his chin, looking at the strangely colored longsword with interest. 'Alright, the sword above my head has gravity. What about this one?'
As he was thinking, Mana overflowed from the Nine Lights sword, and the Clown's fingers paused slightly.
'...It's also a weakening type of magic that dulls the five senses, just like before, but much more powerful than that girl's magic... It penetrates my defenses like needle pricks... dulling the five senses.'
Bai En gathered Mana, and using his control over the Mana Zone, he moved at high speed. The two swords he held were Magic Conversion and Heavenly Canon. The pressure of the gravity field had no effect on him.
Bai En, holding Magic Conversion, swung his sword at the Clown.
White Fluorescence like a phantom, shuttled through the domain.
But without a doubt, the Clown easily dodged Bai En's slashes every time, even... by using Space Magic to flash away when he was 5.01m away from Bai En.
"Faster, faster!"
His horizontal slash missed. Bai En looked at the Clown, who was floating in the air but deliberately remained within the gravity field, and frantically urged himself on in his heart.
Bai En's movement speed became faster and faster, but he still couldn't touch the Clown.
Another vertical chop missed, leaving a deep, long mark on the cracked ground, like a dancing dragon or snake.
The energetic Bai En, after repeated slashes, found his breathing becoming rapid, and his stamina seemed to be unknowingly reaching its limit. 'I feel so powerless... Am I really still this far behind?'
The Clown seemed to notice Bai En's change. He spoke as if to console him: "Actually, it's not that you're too weak, but... I'm too strong!"
"To be able to do this much, you're already very remarkable."
Bai En propped himself up with his longsword, talking to the Clown on the surface, while frantically thinking in his mind how he could win: "Are you encouraging me?"
'The speed of spatial teleportation is very fast, plus the acceleration of Time Magic... It's exactly like Shimazaki, the eyeless man from Mob Psycho... In a one-on-one situation, if I let go of Magic Conversion or removed the five-meter Magic Conversion range... I would definitely get a beating.'
"It's not easy to achieve such rapid movement by relying on the Mana Zone and my current Mana."
"As for why you can't keep up with me, ultimately, it's because you're at a disadvantage in terms of magic." The Clown looked directly at Bai En, revealing information about himself for the first time: "But when it comes to magic... there should be no one in this world who can surpass me."
'Tch, who would believe that? Isn't Anti-Magic much more powerful?'
The Clown focused slightly, "Anti-Magic?"
"???"
Bai En was stunned: 'This guy can hear my thoughts?'
"That magic on your sword is indeed very powerful..." The Clown paused, "But to say it completely surpasses my magic, that's not very realistic."
He extended his hand.
From his palm emerged magic other than Time, Space, and Fire. Blue lightning flickered in the air, "Lightning Magic."
"Even so... your dice only have six sides, so at most, you can only master six kinds of magic, right?" Bai En stated his speculation.
The Clown's eyes were strange, and he asked, "Who said that?"
"Is that not the case?"
In Bai En's sight, the lightning in the Clown's palm changed: Wind, Water, Earth, Wood... "This?"
"Besides the Anti-Magic you mentioned that can erase all magic, I should be able to use all the magic in this world. If I had to give my magic a name, I think 'Creation Magic' would be more fitting."
"What you said about the six sides of the dice having six types of magic, that's true, but those are just the six types of magic I commonly use."
'...' Bai En didn't know what to say. With these stats and abilities, wasn't he just like Lucius Zogratis, a big boss?
"Who is Lucius Zogratis?"
Sure enough... he even knows mind-reading magic.
"The host of the Time Devil." Bai En did not conceal it.
"A devil?" The Clown muttered, "When I traveled the continent before, I did encounter them a few times, but... they don't seem as powerful as the rumors say."
"Hehe..."
Bai En's laughter was somewhat cold.
But... his laughter quickly stopped.
"Comparatively speaking, the gods... they are more powerful, aren't they?"
"Gods?"
"Are there really gods in this world?" Bai En asked.
The Clown nodded, "Of course."
"Where are they? What do they look like?" Bai En asked curiously.
"Revealing too much about the gods makes it easy to be targeted by them~" The Clown abruptly stopped the question, "The answer to that question will have to wait until you become stronger and find out for yourself."
"Alright, alright."
"If the dice-grabbing game continues, it probably won't be fun anymore." The Clown's fingertips spun the dice freely, "So let's try a new way to play."
Bai En also felt that the probability of winning the dice from this pervert was not high, so he withdrew his gravity field. After Luck and Magna got a little closer, the Clown began to explain the new game rules.
"Very good~ Everyone, it seems that snatching the dice from my hand is still too difficult."
"Then let's slightly lower the difficulty of the game, so you don't return empty-handed." The Clown's dice spun, and the number "three" appeared on the face of the dice, "So the theme of our next game is combat!"
"This time, your opponent isn't me... but..."
A black gate appeared out of thin air behind the Clown.
The black iron gate crashed open, and a giant crocodile, tens of meters long, walked out from within. Its emerald scales gleamed with a crystalline light, and blue icy mist subtly spread from its sides.
"This battle is not a team effort, it's one-on-one~ I will summon four magical beasts, and you can choose randomly. As long as you win, you can get the treasure of this Magic Palace~"
"Doesn't that sound very simple?"
"Of course... there's also an additional challenge. If anyone can defeat the magical beast in front of them without using Mana, they will receive a hidden reward~" The Clown said excitedly.
It's not easy for someone to enter this Magic Palace and awaken me; I have to have fun all at once.
"So what's the hidden reward?"
The Clown slightly raised his hand, and the silver liquid under the circular platform rippled. A clear seed with silver patterns flew out and floated into his hand.
"This is... a Sky Elf."
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