Chapter 64: Astellia (4)
Fire, water, wind, and earth.
Around Leon, the four elements began to glow, swirling like stars in the universe, dancing mysteriously in perfect harmony. All eyes in the room turned toward him.
Leon had chosen not to summon his familiar, as it wasn’t necessary for what he was about to do.
A subtle vibration emanated from his fingertips—the power created by the clash of the elements.
Combining elements into a single destructive force was magic that only high-level mysticism could achieve. Arpina’s Sixfold Heavenly Radiance was a prime example of this.
To Arpina, harmony was the ultimate union where everything merged into one. Her Sixfold Heavenly Radiance embodied this philosophy, a dazzling beam that split the heavens and devoured all before it. Its overwhelming destructive power was nothing short of awe-inspiring.
But Leon had chosen a different path.
Instead of restraining his power, Leon intensified the magic, pushing even more mana into the swirling elements around him. The colors of the four elements brightened and vibrated intensely as they tried to merge, but like opposing magnetic poles, the elements repelled each other.
Trying to fuse four different elements without limiting their individual properties made the process significantly more difficult.
Leon’s eyes reflected the swirling colors, shining like a rainbow. Sweat beaded on his forehead, and his fingertips trembled slightly with the effort.
He wasn’t trying to create one singular powerful force by merging the elements, but rather, he was attempting to maintain the inherent qualities of each element while allowing them to influence one another and evolve into something new.
What he sought was not a grand, unified spell, but the fleeting moment when the elements intertwined and crossed paths—the boundary where new possibilities emerged.