I Escaped the Exile Story Only To Find It Was a Regret Trope

56 – 11# Their Resolve (4)

However, contrary to his bold words.

Veris took a defensive stance. Perhaps it was the obvious choice. Yuri and Ha-young had not yet revealed their full strength. Yushin nodded.

Even now, they were engaged in considerable mind games.

It’s better not to reveal your trump card first. If you reveal your trump card and it gets countered, then it will be irreversible. Unless you have overwhelming strength.

Perhaps if it were Veris before he was struck.

But from Veris’s perspective, who had already taken a proper hit from Yuri and Ha-young, he had no choice but to proceed cautiously. If he loses here, the aftermath will be no joke.

‘Especially that half-god b*stard smirking from afar, that woman can never do anything good!’

Even though she handed over all the information related to Veris. She was the one who made the fight somewhat feasible. But if he loses here?

[She was arrogant while claiming to be a saint, I knew it.]

‘I can never tolerate that!’

A half-god who gives you a hard time while claiming to be right. Just imagining it made Veris grind his teeth. But apart from that, Veris thought calmly.

Overall, it cannot be said to be a favorable situation.

Especially the way of fighting using buffs is Veris’s basic combat style. Just because it’s basic doesn’t mean it can be ignored. Basics are the foundation of everything.

In other words.

Having lost the basics.

It means it’s hard to achieve anything beyond that.

Strength is like a foundation built meticulously. Especially if the most important base is missing, the fragile strength will inevitably collapse.

‘Besides, this woman hasn’t even used her full power yet.’

For now, this woman named Yuri is in the front line, and that guy named Hayoung is in the rear. Hayoung is also using attack magic, but it’s not that impressive.

So, it would be logical to subdue the rear first.

For some reason, this woman named Yuri is easily following my movements. In other words, she still has some leeway. It means she’s hiding her strength.

‘Is she luring me in deeper?’

If that’s the case, she plans to use all her remaining power to finish me off. She certainly used her head well. It’s just that I saw through it because it was me.

‘Tsk, this damn woman. No gaps.’

On the other hand, Yuri was also sinking into anxiety. It wasn’t bad at first. The plan succeeded properly, and she even landed a proper blow.

But that was all.

Even though she had a clear advantage, the opponent didn’t allow any more effective hits. She kept pushing with momentum, but.

Still, at the most advantageous timing now.

Honestly, she wanted to secure a definite victory. But she couldn’t ignore an opponent who wouldn’t easily break even in such a favorable situation.

‘This woman, she’s not just all talk.’

At first, she thought Yuri was a loose woman clinging to her brother, but after facing her directly, she realized she wasn’t just a pretty face.

But that attitude is unacceptable.

The disdainful attitude of treating others like bugs. That was something she could never tolerate. It’s only natural. Who would overlook such contempt?

However, she had to correct the evaluation of being all talk.

They corrected each other’s evaluations and started fighting with all their might. The first to show movement was Veris. She had no choice.

‘If this continues, I’ll be exhausted and caught.’

She knew the other side had a trump card. But if it dragged on to a war of attrition, she would be the one to collapse from exhaustion. So, she brought it out immediately.

Before she became too exhausted to move.

As Veris’s movements changed, Yuri and Hayoung tensed up. After all, this woman also came with her brother and Athena. She must have that much power.

“Sister! What’s going on?!”

“Wait a moment. I’ll check it properly.”

[Magic Eye]

A magic that can see through the opponent’s power, as well as fog and darkness. The Magic Eye was activated. The blue eye-shaped pattern that appeared in the sky was directed at Veris.

Thanks to this, Hayoung knew what Beris was doing.

She was continuously strengthening herself by stacking buffs twofold, threefold, or even more. Although her reaction was slow, Hayoung could cover this speed sufficiently.

Hayoung immediately used buff removal to eliminate Beris’s buffs. This may seem easy on the surface, but in practice, it is incredibly difficult and exhausting.

‘The only time my buffs were removed was when I fought the sage.’

As Banselin had explained before, the amount of magic power consumed to remove a buff varies greatly depending on the power of the buff. And Beris was a saint.

A saint’s buff is on a different level compared to ordinary buffs.

Therefore, not only ordinary wizards but even archmages who could build their own towers could not erase Beris’s buffs. The magic power consumption was unimaginably high.

Even the sage did not simply erase the buffs with brute magic power. Instead, he created a highly efficient buff removal spell to counter the saint.

In other words, from Beris’s perspective, Hayoung, who used raw magic power to erase buffs, appeared as an extraordinary monster. Therefore, she strikes first.

Removing the buff was a bait. Beris aimed to attack Hayoung directly while she was focused on buff removal. And Beris’s choice was very effective.

“Teleportation?!”

“When did she learn such magic?!”

“Could it really be magic?!”

One of Beris’s hidden trump cards was spatial movement, one of the miracles of the gods that could only be used once a day. She used it right now.

‘She used the blessing. She wouldn’t use it against an ordinary enemy.’

Thanks to this, the situation changed rapidly, but it was not a favorable situation for Beris either. The blessings Beris possessed could each be used only once a day.

What does that mean?

It means that the blessing of space could not be used again for the rest of the day. So Beris saved and saved the blessing until the last moment.

In other words, from Beris’s perspective.

She judged that she could not win without using the blessing. Of course, the desire not to lose to rookies in front of Athena also played a significant role.

But Hayoung was not just sitting and learning support. Her teacher was Banselin, one of the heroes who led the Great War to victory and an archmage.

[It’s best not to let the enemy get close, but not all situations go that way.]

[Can’t we solve it with magic?]

[A skilled wizard might be able to. But allowing the enemy to get close is already a disadvantage.]

A wizard is not just about shooting fire and creating poison clouds. Starting from buffs, debuffs, terrain transformation, spell blocking, transformation, and so on.

They are an inexhaustible supporter who can bring beneficial effects to the team or harmful effects to the enemy. But allowing such a wizard to be approached?

The team’s power consumption becomes ridiculously high as a basic premise. Because the wizard has to somehow deal with the close enemy.

[Surprisingly, wizards are not weak in close combat. It’s just that there are more threatening enemies in close combat.]

Using magic to deal with a close enemy is one way. However, the problem was that there were many enemies more threatening than the wizard in close combat.

There is a big difference between leisurely casting spells from a distance and desperately using magic to defeat an enemy at close range.

Therefore, the best way is to keep the enemy at bay as much as possible. But life doesn’t always go the way you want it to. More often than not, it doesn’t.

[Then what should I do?]

[You have to endure as much as you can. Not to defeat the enemy, but to avoid being defeated.]

[Do you do that too, Principal?]

[I’m an exception. I fight well both in close combat and from a distance.]

Recalling Ban Se-rin’s teachings, Ha-young immediately used magic. A wall made of giant rocks appeared, blocking Beris and Ha-young. Beris laughed.

“Just to buy time with this!!”

[But it’s okay even if it’s impossible. Trust your team and endure somehow.]

However, the solid rock wall couldn’t last even 10 seconds and was destroyed by Beris. But Ha-young was smiling. She had already endured enough.

“I was surprised. Suddenly teleporting.”

[Your comrades will surely save you.]

The moment Beris broke through the rock wall and charged.

What appeared in front of her was not Ha-young.

It was Yuri, who had been waiting in full readiness.