Divine Edict (vols. 11 and 13)

Hajime instantly used a mana shockwave to try and push Yue back.
He knew that as long as some unknown entity was possessing her, he
couldn’t afford to stay close. However, he wasn’t able to take more
than a step before—
“I order you in the name of Ehit... Stop moving.”
“What!?”
Hajime blinked in confusion as his body submitted to Yue’s
command. It felt as though all his nerves had been cut off from his
brain.
Yue, or rather, Ehit, smiled sweetly at him.
Hajime knew that smile. It wasn’t Yue’s usual smile, but he’d seen it
once before. It was the same smile he’d seen on the statue of Ehit in
the main cathedral, back when he’d first been summoned to Tortus.
The smile was just as repulsive as he remembered.
Ehit casually pulled his arm out of Hajime’s stomach... and a fountain
of blood gushed from the hole. As Ehit bathed in Hajime’s blood, he
brought his hand to his lips and licked it.
“I see. This is the pleasure a vampire feels when drinking blood. I
must say, this is quite something. I had planned to make you suffer
an agonizing death, but perhaps I should keep you around for your
blood instead,” Ehit said with a sneer.
“Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!” Hajime screamed,
squeezing out every last ounce of strength in his body. Yet more
blood spilled from the gaping wound in his stomach, but he didn’t
seem to care. His mana glowed bright crimson as he pushed his
Overdrive spell to the limit.
A second later, there was a loud snap and Hajime regained his
freedom. He swiftly backed away and aimed Donner at Ehit.
He knew Yue’s body was immortal, so his priority was restraining
Ehit, not harming him.
“Tch...”
However, Hajime’s railgun-enhanced bullets failed to reach their
target. Though they possessed enough force to blow through the
apostles’ claymores, they stopped inches from Ehit’s face.
“My my, I didn’t think you would be able to break free from my
Divine Edict. I suppose I should have expected as much from an
Irregular. Thunderlord’s Judgment!”
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“I order you in the name of Alvaheit— Stop.”
Alva’s Divine Edict ate away at Kaori’s soul. Thanks to Aiko’s Soul’s
Repose, Kaori didn’t lose consciousness immediately, but Yuka, Suzu,
and the other students all stopped in their tracks. However, his
wasn’t as strong as Ehit’s, so even Tio and Shizuku would be able to
break free of their own accord, given time.
Unfortunately, the apostles refused to give them even a moment to
resist. They created magic circles with their feathers and rained
lightning down on the trio. Tio’s scales and Kaori’s apostle body were
both highly conductive, so the lightning was exceptionally effective
against them.
Alva also tossed Shea into the lightning storm, making doubly sure
that she wouldn’t make a comeback.
“I also order you— Accept your punishment.”
The four of them had instinctively started emitting mana to protect
themselves, but they stopped upon hearing Alva’s command,
screaming as the lightning struck their unprotected flesh. By the time
the storm passed, the four of them were twitching weakly, their
bodies covered in burns.
That was the reason Shea had lost to Alva. She could fight his Divine
Edict. In fact, it only took her a second to break through it. But that
second was precious time lost, and slowly but surely, Alva had been
able to pile more and more damage onto her.
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Vol. 11 (both)
Banter's Words:
Ehit's Divine Edict is capable of completely halting magic in its tracks and controlling people entirely, but people on the level of Hajime and Yue (below) are capable of resisting it and even using it themselves.
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Realizing he couldn’t win, Ehitruje finally decided to try to flee.
“I order you in the name of Yue—don’t move!”
“Impossible!”
Yue hadn’t just been sitting around and twiddling her thumbs while
waiting to be rescued after Ehitruje had taken over her body. She’d
been keeping a very close eye on him, analyzing all of the spells he
cast and figuring out how they worked. She was a genius mage
who’d become the strongest vampire in existence by the time she
was a teenager. Ehitruje’s magic may have been complex, but she’d
felt him using it with her own body, so she was now able to replicate
it to some extent. Though of course, casting Ehitruje’s Divine Edict
cost so much mana she nearly blacked out. Still, she gritted her teeth
and kept herself conscious through sheer force of will. As a result,
Ehitruje was momentarily bound in place.
Vol. 13