With that, he had likely discerned the effect of the barriers. Thinking that unarmed combat would be more effective than magic, Bugogan raised his magic sword.

「Bugagah!」

And in the next instant, he had closed the distance between himself and Vandalieu. With a speed that was unbelievable coming from his enormous body that was three meters in both width and height, he swung his magic sword down.

His attack looked like it could cut a rock in half as if it were paper, but it was blocked by the【Impact-Negating Barrier】and didn’t even land a scratch on Vandalieu. The【Impact-Negating Barrier】absorbed not only the Mana, but also the kinetic energy of the weapon.

Kinetic energy is the energy needed to make a physical object move. To move a ten-kilogram dumbbell, ten kilograms of energy is required*. As that kinetic energy was absorbed by the【Impact-Negating Barrier】, Bugogan’s magic sword could not reach Vandalieu who was behind it.

TLN*: If you’ve ever done high school physics you’d know that this is wrong in so many ways…

In response to the strange sensation of having his weapon repelled by a soft wall, Bugogan’s face twisted in confusion.

With Bugogan’s blade stopped right in front of his face, Vandalieu looked at Bugogan with no expression on his face, but this is what he was thinking.

(This is bad, I’m going to die.)

On the surface, it seemed that Vandalieu was surrounded with an impenetrable defense. However, that impenetrable defense wouldn’t last forever.

(Stopping that one preliminary attack that wasn’t even a martial skill or anything cost me fifty thousand Mana.)

Vandalieu had been using his Mana excessively since the battle began; he had already spent half of it. He still had more than 50,000,000 remaining, but… If Bugogan attacked with a martial skill, it would cost tens of thousands of Mana to block it… Possibly even hundreds of thousands.

Of course, martial skills also consumed the user’s Mana, so they couldn’t be used endlessly. However, Bugogan could also use magic, so he would have much more Mana than his sons. And his Stamina would be even greater than that.