Machina caught her with the gold thread but the charging attack was too much for her and she was knocked back
But she had expected that She skillfully flipped through the air and landed back on the ground And in that instant
Blinding light shined from the spot where she had just been standing In other words from the grass below the Enju who had knocked her away
A pillar of heat appeared and enveloped the Enju A redheaded body with both legs blown off flew a few dozen meters into the air
Machina had lost the direct clash but only a few of her golden threads had snapped and they were still plenty strong She had twisted the threads together so they were highly resistant to slashes meant to cut them Tchh
The next closest Enju cut at her
She caught that on the threads as well and let the force of the slash send her flying Again the ground erupted into flames immediately afterwards
Ghghsuch a cheap trick
The first one to step on the mine and lose both her legs had gotten up Smoke was billowing from the stumps of her legs but they would regenerate soon enough
Even when they outnumbered their opponent 18-to-1 the Enjus did not grow cocky They quickly realized what Machina was doing and stopped moving
By staying on the move Machina could keep this battle against 18 isolated to 1-on-1 battles They overpowered her even then but the landmines prevented them from staying in place for long and their attacks grew much more sporadic They could not deliver a finishing blow during those short 1-on-1 battles She was still slowly losing but
Are you hoping to buy time
The 18 laughed
FeTUS had a maximum of five Witches so they could work as a team If today’s goal was to rescue Fujita Mutsuki it was natural to assume Machina was here to buy time
Then it’s too bad
The laughter of Enjus reverberated eerily across the golf course
It echoed across that vast space
There were more than just 18 A quick look suggested more than 100 were surrounding Machina
Your time has run out So die
They all charged at her at once
Even if Machina could plant enough mines she could not detonate them until she was outside of their range The enemy had used their numbers to eliminate the space she needed for that
In a way forcing your way through with pure numbers was the ultimate strategy Machina had nowhere to run
Although she had no intention of running
I am not here to buy time
The grass rose up below her feet and surrounded her Each blade rapidly grew white and frozen
I intend to eliminate you all
Hah Let’s see you try it
The hundred Enjus continued their charge
Each blade of frozen grass was made by using Dimensional Transition to burden it with a heat-eliminating nature Thus anything that touched it would be frozen
But it was still no more than grass Anything that touched it would be frozen but if that frozen flesh crushed it only the first five or six needed to be frozen to act as shields for the rest This could not prevent their human wave attack How are you supposed to eliminate us like this
The lead Enjus prepared to attack They were starting with 7 More than 10 followed after that so they were prepared to attack in waves
They all gathered around Machina
I never said I would personally be doing the elimination
What a pain
Back on the helicopter Ange waited for a beeping signal while peering down from the opened cargo door like Machina had earlier
Even at 100m up she could clearly see that more than a hundred enemies had gathered below
It was fortunate she could not see their individual faces Kagari Enju and Ange were like the shadow and light split from the same person Their hairstyles and fashion sense were different but they were otherwise identical and she did not want to see that The helicopter exploded
The golden wings emerging from her back had touched it
Angel fire was a light meant to destroy their enemies It would provide no heat to any matter that was not their enemy
But what she had produced here was different It was wrapped in the same Joule heating as normal fire
The fire did not maintain its form It became a plasma jet with enough heat to instantly liquefy and rupture a mass of metal like a helicopter
She aimed her beloved sword toward the center of the 100
Syzygy
A few of the hundred noticed a shrill sound
But it was no use The source dropped down at almost the same time
It was awfully slow for light but it was a giant glowing pillar It threatened to squash the hundred from above at the speed of sound
They detected the attack almost instantly and worked to defend against it but that worked against them Their black skintight suits were equipped with KKs to break down fires of more than 100 thousand degrees but Gweh
The pillar of light was far hotter than that It surpassed the KKs’ limits and the heat made it inside Their physical bodies were based on demons so they were all fried
No demon could oppose the divine light of angel fire
Just like spraying insecticide on a swarm of ants the pillar of light burned the remaining ones surrounding it