Editing Apocalypse Witch:Volume4 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 3===

“What?” groaned Marika from the audience surrounding the ring.

This was well past the point where she could pass him information with a flashing light.

“What was that? What just happened!?”

“Miss Kyouka said that Balinese Hinduism believes the world is formed from an endless battle between good and evil. Isn’t that what this is? To her, a battle between the gods is no more remarkable than seeing the sun rise in the east every morning.”

There was a circle there.

Enter it and you died.

That was one of the massive gears that kept the world moving.

Gamelan and Kecak were two examples of how Balinese Hinduism used dance as a specialized tool to accurately pass down their culture and legends. Sometimes a priestess would use her body to express a legend and other times multiple people would precisely operate a single doll. Legong, Ardja, Topeng Pajegan, Baris – they would change the format depending on what kind of story they were telling and they would tell of the world’s structure through their rhythm and movements.

Thus, anyone who stood on the stage and used their body to dance was worthy of controlling miracles as an embodiment of the legends.

If the priestess using her body to represent the eternal battle between good and evil were to stop, that would mean the world had run out of steam as well.

“Is Karuta okay!?”

“That was not lethal. His severed arm will be good as new in 30 seconds.”

That was not very long, but only under normal circumstances.

And standing in the ring was not at all normal.

A single round in boxing, for example, was three minutes long. A lot of fierce fighting could happen in such a short time. It wasn’t hard to imagine the rush of attacks that could hit someone if they were defenseless for 30 whole seconds.

“And these Barong and Rangda things move too quickly for even me to see,” said Aine.

“…”

Marika and the others were magicians who could slice through the average bullet or missile with a sword.

And yet…

“If you can move faster than your opponent can even perceive while enclosed in a ring without access to any tricks, then the rush of attacks will be at a far greater density than what an ordinary human can pull off in a boxing match. This will likely have an attack density greater than a Gatling gun.”