Another World Witch Training Manual

072. Liquid Domination!!

Bernis wrote in his manuscript: "I have spent three hundred years trying to reach the threshold of this art."

Those who are not exceptionally gifted and possess unwavering resolve should not attempt this technique lightly. If successful, it will cause the enemy's internal organs to rupture, their blood to flow backward, and their death to be gruesome.

However, the caster will also suffer an equal backlash, ranging from depletion of magical power to the shattering of their soul. Be careful, be very careful.

Eve's lips were trembling, but her eyes grew increasingly resolute.

She glanced at Xinlai, who was entangled by tentacles and covered in blood, in the distance, then looked down at the manuscript in her hand.

"I can do it..."

She said to herself, her voice as light as a breeze, yet as heavy as a mountain.

She closed the manuscript, tucked it into her waistband, then clasped her hands together in front of her chest as if in prayer, and took a step forward.

She stopped retreating and walked towards the Tide King.

With each step she took, the magical energy emanating from her grew stronger.

The water elements in the air began to converge around her, forming a visible pale blue vortex.

The Tide King seemed to sense some kind of threat, and a dozen tentacles abandoned the dying Sinlai and instead swept towards Eve.

Eve did not stop walking, nor did she even adopt the slightest defensive posture.

She simply continued walking forward, her gaze passing over the waving tentacles and fixed on the massive body of the Tide King.

In her pupils, the blue flames of magic had burned to their fullest extent.

"water……"

Eve's lips moved, and the moment the first syllable escaped her lips, the air in the entire underground palace seemed to freeze.

The tentacles that were attacking her suddenly stopped less than three meters away, as if they had hit an invisible wall.

The tentacles writhed wildly, but could not advance even an inch further.

"At the beginning of all things..."

Eve's voice echoed through the empty palace, each word carrying a power that transcended language.

The stone slab beneath her feet began to crack, not from external impact, but because the residual moisture in the slab was drawn together by the magic within her body, causing it to disintegrate from the inside.

"And so too will it perish..."

The Tide King let out an unprecedented roar, a roar filled not only with anger but also with fear.

It sensed that something was invading its body.

It was a force that it could not shatter with its tentacles, nor could it resist with brute force.

It spread from Eve's body, invisible and intangible, yet all-pervasive, like the omnipresent water pressure in the deep sea, seeping in from all directions, from every pore, and from every crevice.

Eve closed her eyes.

In her perception, the whole world had disappeared.

Palaces, pillars, chains, Sinlai—everything vanished into nothingness. Only one existence remained in her consciousness:

The Tide King.

She can "see" every blood vessel, every muscle fiber, and every cell in its body.

She could "see" the dark red fluid surging in her blood vessels, "see" her heart beating slowly at a rate of thirty times per minute, "see" digestive juices churning in her stomach, and "see" the hydraulic system in her tentacles precisely distributing every bit of force.

This is the prerequisite for casting the Liquid Reversal spell: absolute perception of the fluids within the target's body!

Eve withdrew her hand and slowly aimed it at the direction of the Tide King.

"I command..."

Her voice suddenly rose, no longer a whisper, but a declaration.

That voice carried the weight of Bernis's three-hundred-year heritage, and also contained the full will of a young girl to protect someone important to her.

"die!!!"

[Liquid Domination lv.5]

A blinding blue light burst forth from his palm, illuminating the entire underground palace.

The patterns on those sealing arrays all lit up at the same moment, as if resonating with the birth of this forbidden spell.

The rock layer above the dome suddenly cracked open, and a torrent of seawater poured down, but when it reached a three-meter radius around Eve, it all turned into blue bands of light, which wrapped around her staff and became part of the forbidden spell.

The Tide King's movements froze completely in that instant.

Its massive body froze in place, and its twenty-seven tentacles simultaneously lost their strength, drooping limply down.

Those blood-red eyes spun wildly, their pupils contracting and dilating rapidly, as if they were experiencing some indescribable pain.

Then, change began.

One by one, the pustules and warts on the surface of the Tide King's body began to burst, and dark red fluid gushed out from the ruptures.

Its skin began to wrinkle and collapse unnaturally, as if something was violently ramming inside it, tearing its body apart from the inside.

Those blood vessels, those dark red blood vessels that were faintly visible beneath its translucent skin, began to pulsate in reverse.

Blood no longer flows to the heart, but is instead drawn from the heart and rushes to the very ends of the capillaries.

Those delicate capillaries couldn't withstand the reverse pressure and burst one after another, blood seeping into the surrounding muscle tissue, turning the dark green muscles into an eerie purplish-black color.

The Tide King let out one mournful roar after another, its tentacles convulsing and twitching in excruciating pain, but it was too weak to launch any further attacks.

Large areas of necrosis began to appear on the surface of those tentacles, the epidermis peeled off, revealing the dark red muscle fibers underneath, which were also disintegrating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Its heart was pounding wildly, trying to re-establish normal blood circulation, but each contraction had the opposite effect.

Because the power of magic has completely reversed the fluid dynamics within its body.

Blood is no longer pumped throughout the body by the heart, but is forcibly drawn back to the heart from the whole body by some supernatural force.

A massive influx of blood into the heart stretched the organ, which had been beating for countless years, to its limit in just a few seconds.

The heart wall was stretched until it became transparent, muscle fibers broke one by one, and blood gushed out from the torn heart wall and flowed into the body cavity.

The Tide King's body began to swell.

It's not muscle swelling, but rather swelling caused by blood accumulating in the body cavity.

Its already ten-meter-tall body grew even larger in just a dozen seconds, its skin stretched to its limit, becoming translucent like a thin film, through which the dark red blood stagnating beneath could be clearly seen slowly surging.

Then, it began to contract.

Blood seeped from every pore and crevice, and the Tide King's body deflated rapidly like a punctured balloon.

Those once majestic tentacles have turned into withered ropes, dangling limply at the edge of the platform.

One by one, those blood-red eyeballs lost their luster, their pupils dilating like extinguished lanterns.

A final roar emanated from the Tide King's body, but the sound was extremely weak, like a wisp of wind whistling through a withered tree.

Its body collapsed with a roar, crashing heavily onto the platform, kicking up clouds of dust and rubble.

The chains that had bound it for millennia lost their target and crashed down onto its withered corpse with a dull metallic clang.

"roar……"

"roar!"

"..."

The Tide King is dead.

They died completely and irreversibly.