Dark Magic (V20)

It was now that Ultima truly understood the importance of ReCoCo that Rimuru had always talked about. All that said, it was too late for that now. She could not give up at this point and had to find some way to tackle the problem. Ultima realized that the clue was in the ‘Nihilistic Parade’ used by Gadra.

The reason why the old man went out of his way was because it was dangerous. Why is that?

The answer was obvious. Because it had worked. It had to do with the nature of magic.

Magic rewrote laws by influencing magicules, and since spiritrons were a part of magicules, it was inevitable that ‘Magic Nullification’ would be an anti-magic guard. However, among the dark magics, nihility magic in particular had the characteristic of invoking the void of hell and making any energy disappear on contact. That is why ‘Magic Nullification’ could not nullify it. This was already a certainty. Ultima did not hesitate to limit her attacks to nihility magic.

“Die, dark magic Nihilistic Banish.”

Ultima’s nihility magic enveloped Fenn.

“Tch, such a pain in the ass. Demons really are good at harassing people!!”

Fenn’s fighting aura drowned out the void but failed to do any damage. ‘Nihilistic Banish’ was the most powerful dark magic and the counterpart of ‘Disintegration,’ but to Fenn, it possessed no more significance than mere harassment. Even so, it was not meaningless. Just as a pile of dust could form a mountain, and just as a drop of water could pierce through stone, repeated attacks would eventually bring Fenn down.