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Shalltear's figure had appeared behind Reiger, her pipette lance already thrusted out, the tip less than five centimeters from Reiger's heart.

Reiger immediately turned and drew his sword.

"Clang!"

The slash, flickering with lightning, seemed to cut through even the frozen space-time, allowing the flow of time to resume.

Of course, the flow of time resumed not because the frozen time had truly been severed by Reiger, but because time-related magic spells all share a nearly identical limitation: they cannot be used while attacking.

Reiger had launched an attack, hence "Time Stop" was lifted, allowing the flow of time to return to normal and causing the weapons of the two combatants to strike each other simultaneously.

"Splat!"

Reiger's slash tore open Shalltear's chest, causing a spray of blood to burst forth.

"Boom!"

Shalltear's pipette lance also struck Reiger's body, emitting a tremendous sound.

However, despite their mutual strikes, the outcome was entirely different.