Lan Qingyou was truly something else, asking about her opponent's abilities right in the middle of a battle.
Alisa rolled her eyes, unable to keep her composure at such a blunt, direct question.
“You want to know?”
“Yes.”
Lan Qingyou nodded with great sincerity.
After all, this girl had just said they would fight using their research results.
That meant she was incredibly confident in her findings, perhaps even treating them as her trump card.
Lan Qingyou figured she might as well ask directly so her opponent wouldn't hold anything back.
“Is that so?”
Alisa seemed a bit surprised that Seymer hadn't mentioned her research to Lan Qingyou.
But the surprise lasted only a moment.
In the next second, she tossed the thought aside.
“Since you've asked so earnestly, I'll let you see for yourself.”
With that, Alisa waved a hand toward Lan Qingyou.
Even as the owner of a Magic Eye, Lan Qingyou couldn't see the intent behind the gesture, no matter how hard she looked.
However, in the very next second...
An explosion suddenly erupted behind her.
Lan Qingyou whipped her head around to see a cloud of white smoke rising, with something charging out from within.
A person!
A second later, Lan Qingyou saw it clearly. It was a human figure.
And in the next, she saw a witch dressed in a white witch's robe, her face obscured by a white veil!?
Yes.
It was exactly like the three white-robed witches Alisa had sent onto the stage earlier!
Swish!
The moment the white-robed witch leaped from the smoke holding a trident, she lunged straight for Lan Qingyou's midsection.
It was a lethal strike with absolutely no intention of holding back.
And it didn't end there.
When the attempt at a one-hit kill failed and Lan Qingyou dodged, the falling white-robed witch actually threw the trident at her.
Lan Qingyou naturally dodged the projectile as well.
But just as she was about to say something after avoiding the second attack, another explosion sounded behind her.
She turned to look, only to see the same trick repeated.
Except this time, the explosion produced significantly more white smoke.
As she suspected, more white-robed witches armed with various melee weapons surged out of the white smoke.
Since none of them could fly, each witch could only manage two attacks against Lan Qingyou.
Even so, Lan Qingyou found herself frantically running for her life.
There was no helping it; these things were appearing far too close to her.
So close that she began to suspect it was intentional.
Actually, there was no need to suspect—it was definitely Alisa's doing.
“You have no sense of sportsmanship!”
Escaping the witches' killing formation, Lan Qingyou hovered in the air, gasping for breath as she shouted down at Alisa, who was protected in the center of the white-robed witches.
Even though Lan Qingyou was only dodging and not attacking, it was unexpectedly exhausting.
“Didn't you want to see my research? Now that I've shown you, you're unhappy,” Alisa shouted back.
Despite the distance, Lan Qingyou could clearly see the beaming smile on the other girl's face.
That brat... that was probably the most brilliant smile she had seen from her since they met.
Was her pathetic display really that funny?
No... wait...
Alisa said this was her research result... so those white-robed witches were it?
If that were the case, she supposed one would need to smile brilliantly for a product launch... like hell!
“This is cheating! Who said you could bring other people into the match!”
Recalling how this girl could open teleportation portals earlier, Lan Qingyou assumed she was using that trick to call for backup.
However...
“Who said that? This is my research result. If you don't believe me, take a look.”
Knowing when to quit while she was ahead, Alisa enjoyed Lan Qingyou's disheveled state for a moment before satisfiedly lifting the white veil of one of the white-robed witches beside her, revealing the face beneath.
Uh...
This... twins?
It was a person who looked exactly like Alisa, though compared to Alisa, this person's eyes looked far more dull and vacant.
As Alisa lifted the veils of the white-robed witches one by one, Lan Qingyou saw more and more 'Alisas.'
Wait!
Research, the Mana School, advocating for the use of one's own mana, reducing dependence on materials...
“Clones!” Lan Qingyou cried out.
On Blue Star, cloning was strictly prohibited... So that was it. That was why Seymer had refused her invitation and rebuked her.
It seemed this was the root of the problem.
“The correct term should be homunculus. As an alchemy expert, you should be very familiar with that term.”
Alisa's tone was full of boastful pride.
And she had every right to boast.
On Blue Star, such experiments would have certainly been shut down.
But in this world, whether it was clones or homunculi, there were no so-called morals or laws to restrict one's actions.
One could say Kalim was a hellish place for many, but for Alisa, it was a paradise.
A paradise where she could realize her research one by one.
“With just a few of my own tissue cells, I can use culture dishes and Mana School alchemy to grow them into qualified soldiers, qualified workers, qualified pharmacists...”
“I can say with certainty! No technology is better suited for the crisis currently facing the Transmigrators!”
Protected at the center of the homunculi, Alisa proudly raised her head and spread her arms, announcing loudly to the sky as if showcasing her homunculus technology to the world.
“Now then, let us begin the second war—one beyond mere magic!”
Looking up at Lan Qingyou, the smile on Alisa's face became even more arrogant.
In the air, Lan Qingyou watched as more and more white-robed witches appeared around Alisa. She didn't want to waste any more time.
“If you want to settle this this way, then I, Lan Qingyou, accept your challenge!”
Delivering her line with a touch of melodramatic flair, Lan Qingyou mimicked Alisa's earlier gesture and waved her hand grandly.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One by one, steel golems were pulled from Lan Qingyou's cards and arranged into formation.
“Heh! Now it's getting interesting!”
Knowing Lan Qingyou had golems, Alisa grinned.
She then summoned even more white-robed witches.
In an instant, the already small arena in the Ashlands was packed to the brim with the 'military forces' of both sides.
No one knew exactly how many there were.
But a rough estimate suggested that each had deployed at least two or three thousand units.
Then...
“Attack! Don't give them a moment to breathe!”
Alisa shouted from within her sea of homunculi. The white army of homunculi raised their weapons and charged with a roar toward Lan Qingyou's army of pink, purple, and black steel golems.
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