Editing Sorcery Hacker:Volume1 Phase2 (section)

===Part 16===

“Hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hmm.”

The humming devil in a red leather vest and longish tight skirt had been waiting for ''that moment.''

She had used a third party to capture Sky City Celedileka Urban Design Manager Jorbe Alphoverin and she had gotten him to tell her the city’s vulnerabilities. What mattered there was learning where the crucial points were. All four outer blocks were covered in a web-like array of the mist mana known as Intangible Mist, but the central core of that array was disguised as a civilian facility.

That poor sacrifice had taken over the entire sky city’s foundational design, so he had only known the general areas for those four cores. He had not known the specific location or what they were disguised as. It was fairly standard, but he had drawn up countless different plans without knowing which ones had been ultimately adopted.

In Fire City Flared’s case, it had been the giant crane that symbolized the unloading of cargo in the harbor block. That had been destroyed when the dragon breath was guided toward it.

Finding the one in Wind Castle Town Silphine had been more difficult, but she had ended up coming full circle and returning to the basics. Whether in the name of anti-terrorism or whatever else, she looked to see what part of the town was most heavily defended. After making many different observations and calculations, she had settled on the giant spherical theatre floating within all the tall buildings.

By destroying two of the cores, the Free Audience Restriction would waver and switch over to emergency power, but the problem was how short that switchover was. Rushing through the artificial air currents to reach the wavering wall of light would not be fast enough after she destroyed the spherical theatre. The barrier would be back up under emergency power before she could get in.

So.

She had needed an ultra-long-range and high-firepower weapon that could destroy that spherical theatre core while right next to the Free Audience Restriction.

There was only one sorcery gun that devil could have relied on for that.

“Anti-dragon rifle Critical Disaster. Hm, hm, hm, hm, hmm☆”

Even the sunny and starry sky had disappeared.

With a blast rivaling a dragon’s roar, the beam had shot through the uneven jungle gym of ultra-high-rise buildings and giant walkways that was the wind town. That straight-line beam had skillfully weaved between all obstacles to accurately pierce the center of the giant spherical theatre. The semi-auto weapon ejected a fading empty cartridge thicker than her thumb. Its purple light fleetingly vanished and it lost its color like a withering flower. The aurora-like barrier wavered for about one multi-time<ref>Approximately 75 seconds.</ref>, but that was plenty of time for a single person to pass through.

The Free Audience Restriction was only meant to prevent intruders coming in from outside.

It was not just a wall of destruction, so anyone could pass through unmolested if they were moving from the inside to the outside.

She had a single goal.

This was the center of Sky City Celedileka’s government. It contained all of the important government offices, the great cathedral of the Forturiana Church which was all but officially recognized, and Light Castle Brightio where the king lived.

With the enormous rifle named Critical Disaster resting on her shoulder, that extraordinary sniper licked her lips and whispered to herself.

All while she calmly walked within arm’s reach of someone’s throat.

“Now, let’s get this show on the road.”