Anyone who enjoys RPG games, especially those with magic or elemental attributes for each character, would know.
Just how incredible an attribute with the following traits is.
One. This attribute has a 99% magic resistance against the seven types of magic attributes available to humanity.
If an attack is supposed to deal 100 damage, it reduces it to 1.
Two. This attribute also has about 50% magic resistance against other elemental attributes that humans cannot use, such as wood or lightning.
Just because a being is non-human doesn’t mean they can easily dismiss those who possess this attribute.
Third. To inflict 100% damage against this attribute, a human must perfectly balance all magical attributes and activate them simultaneously.
What does that mean?
It means that, like squeezing paint from seven different tubes with absolute precision—down to the milligram level—one must extract and mix the magic perfectly before using it in order to deal full damage.
If an enemy with such an attribute were to appear, most people would immediately think.
– Damn it, this is a gimmick boss, isn’t it?
If the enemy has super armor, you’d have to manipulate some kind of device to strip it away.
Or maybe there’s a mechanism that ensures all seven attributes can be used equally at all times.
Or the protagonist or a party member awakens to a hard-counter attribute and uses that power to defeat them.
That’s what people would normally assume.
But Esdinas of Heaven was different.
More precisely, the people in the game had no idea about these properties at all.
If they had known that the celestial beings with this attribute were actually aliens walking the TS yuri path, they would never have allowed the protagonist or any other character to acquire the power known to people as “angelic power.”
Instead, they would have made the protagonist awaken to a more natural, human-origin power or found another solution.
But the developers didn’t do that.
And I myself only discovered the horrifying truth hidden beneath everything after I fell into this world.
Even so, the overwhelming nature of this magical attribute is undeniable.
A hard-counter attribute against all of humanity.
Using this so-called angelic power, I can suppress almost any troublesome situation.
Just like right now.
[Open the door!!]
[Damn it, it’s a barrier… Ugh! There’s a barrier here too?!]
[No way. Are you telling me that unless we break through this barrier, we can only enter through a predetermined path?!]
The students were desperately trying to enter the Old School Building, but thanks to the powerful barrier I had deployed at the center of the building, no one could enter the forest within.
“How is it, Instructor Kadisha?”
“Perfect. There’s nothing I even need to fix.”
Kadisha clicked her tongue in amazement at the magical barrier I had set up.
Of course, I wasn’t personally supplying magic to sustain the entire barrier covering the Old School Building.
I could create such barriers if necessary, but I used a much simpler and more efficient method.
“Instructor Kadisha, is there any issue with the mana lines maintaining the barrier?”
“Nope. The barrier’s central axis is built around each graduate school’s gymnasium, right? Unless all eight axes are destroyed, this barrier won’t collapse. And on top of that, the mana infused in the barrier’s surface is…”
Tap, Tap.
“This… It’s angelic power.”
Kadisha pointed at a pair of panties emitting RGB-colored light.
The sealed angel inside the panties was shaking violently, and the energy pouring out of it was flowing along the eight mana lines, traveling like electric currents outside the Old School Building in radiant RGB light.
That RGB glow looked no different from a typical rainbow-colored light attack.
Without a microscope, no one would be able to detect the curly-haired angelic soul hidden within the mana waves.
Thus…
[What the hell is this rainbow-colored barrier?!]
To the naked eye, the barrier appeared invisible most of the time, but when attacked with magic or when someone tried to physically pass through it, it would shimmer in rainbow colors and block the attempt like a force field.
“Ever since the angel went berserk trying to enter the Old School Building, we needed a way to keep students from sneaking in.”
“That’s right.”
“I could have just set up a normal mana barrier like a glass dome, but that would require an S-rank Grand Mage to pour their magic into it daily, right?”
“Yeah. Back in March and April, it was easier to just intercept intruders one by one.”
“Exactly. But after the vacation ended, and we figured out how to partially utilize the angel’s power sealed in those panties—”
“More precisely, we learned how to read its mana wavelength and replicate its effects to some extent. Heh.”
Kadisha smirked as she clearly laid down the distinction and pulled up a screen displaying a mana wavelength.
“Take a look at this.”
Two radiant mana wavelengths shimmering in seven colors.
However, while the former had black, squirming, worm-like strands writhing between the waves, the latter had meticulously arranged “empty spaces” between the mana waves.
“The first one is the wavelength of the angel trapped inside those panties, and the second is the empty space where the mana signals emitted by the angel can flow. Being able to construct something this precise… is thanks to you, Phoenix.”
“I merely did what I could.”
Swoosh.
From the right screen, the black strands quickly flowed down along the empty space.
It wasn’t the angel’s soul, but rather the mana wavelength emitted by the angel, swiftly traveling through the empty spaces and temporarily imbuing the barrier with an angelic attribute.
A type of magic that only activates when necessary.
“It’s unfortunate that we can’t directly use this magic in our bodies… but at least we’re putting it to good use like this.”
Kadisha seemed quite regretful about the overwhelming anti-magic resistance that angelic power—Celestial Ability—possessed against human magic.
“As you put it, with that ‘Celestial Ability,’ you can win against 99% of all mages, right?”
“That’s already being countered, though, thanks to Yunia.”
“True. After Yunia revealed the potential of non-attribute mana, and the fact that it could stand against this so-called Celestial Ability—angelic power—one-on-one, the world was thrown into chaos.”
“…”
“Because of that, the Church of the Goddess is debating whether or not to send paladins to the Great Martial Tournament. And if those people saw this barrier…”
“They wouldn’t notice anything. Not that this barrier’s magic pattern is practically identical to angelic power.”
“Why?”
“Because the so-called divine power they use is a degraded version.”
This was a peculiarity Instructor Kadisha had discovered in her research—one that graduate students would have to investigate further in the future.
“The question is: does the divine power bestowed by the Goddess and carried within those born with her blessing truly match the divine power wielded by an angel descending directly from Heaven?”
“A difficult problem. You’re not going to give me the answer, are you?”
“I could tell you right now, but that wouldn’t be research—it would just be verification.”
If someone from the future were to say, “This is how you solve it,” regarding one of the world’s Seven Great Hypotheses, then the efforts of countless scholars who had worked to unravel it would be rendered meaningless in an instant.
“Instructor Kadisha, you still have many papers to write. If I just give away the conclusion now, what’s the point?”
“True. Research is only fun if you write the papers yourself.”
….
Kadisha was someone destined to be a professor.
She had a mindset entirely different from ordinary humans and was the type to constantly seek out graduate students with a predatory glint in her eyes.
“So, what’s the weakness of this barrier?”
“There are two.”
“Two?”
“Yes. The first… is that to those who know the secrets of this world, it feels a little unsettling.”
“Hmm, fair enough.”
Swish.
A black shadow grazed the empty space of the non-attribute mana barrier.
If one didn’t notice the moment it passed, it wouldn’t matter.
However, the murky light flowing through it bore an uncanny resemblance to the black, curly strands one might find in a hotel room they were staying in with their girlfriend.
“And the other? That people with angelic power can easily enter? Something like that?”
“That might be a spoiler, but you’ll see for yourself when the case arises.”
“So, it’s not angelic power?”
Kadisha clicked her tongue in mild disappointment, but soon nodded and tapped the magic stone imprisoning the panties.
“Then what, an angel?”
“Someone who has the potential to be possessed by an angel?”
“…No way.”
“Those with an inherent disposition that allows an angel to take residence in their body will be able to pass through without any issue. Specifically… individuals who wouldn’t find it strange if an angel possessed them right this instant.”
That is—
“Lesbians who like women can pass through this barrier without any problem.”
Yuri.
This barrier rejects everything except yuri.
Therefore, if someone is genuinely yuri, they can pass through freely.
More accurately, the barrier does not reject them.
If anything, Celestial Ability welcomes them rather than repels them.
“That’s it?”
“Yes.”
There was one more thing.
“That’s all.”
Beings who had undergone TS—individuals who had once been male but were now female—could also pass through.
Because that was the essence of an angel.
“Anyway, unless they’re one of those people, passing through is—huh?”
“…Oh my.”
One side of the barrier infused with pseudo-Celestial Ability.
“…Emergency.”
Someone had just crossed the barrier.
