NOVPUBNow, it had just barely reached the most basic standard.
"Miss," the elder attendant said, "by all accounts, this should be enough..."
"No, it's not enough," Daphne shook her head and then softly said, "Uncle Terry, we've staked everything the Terrell Family has on this spell."
Uncle Terry's mouth fell open slightly, then he understood Daphne's meaning, and subconsciously looked toward "Hewinia" not far away.
He was still waiting there.
Facing the powerful Six Notes·Magic, he hadn't said a word.
But he exerted a tremendous psychological pressure on everyone present.
Terry also knew that if their attack failed this time, they would absolutely not have a second chance.
And it wasn't just them— the entire Terrell Family would have no second chance either.
With this in mind, Terry slowly nodded: "I understand, miss. I'll keep increasing the mana input."
"No, not just you," Daphne shook her head, then reached for her garment's clasp again, "Me as well."
Terry's eyes widened immediately: "Miss, you..."
With a "click".
As the button was undone, the robe was shed from her body.
Daphne stood half-naked in the icy, snowy landscape, her comely face and figure in stark contrast to her skin.
Scars and notes crisscrossed, making her skin look not like that of a young girl, but rather like the cracked skin of an old person.
And when Bai Wei saw this body, a look of surprise couldn't help but emerge on his face.
"It's the... Amplification Scale?"
The Amplification Scale was a different kind of engraved note, not as rare as the score but still special.
Its effect was just as the name suggested, amplifying the power of Chorus Magic Spells.
But this did not come without a cost, and the cost was the Amplification Scale itself.
The higher the magnification, the greater the price paid— at best permanent loss of notes, at worst endangering life.
Daphne approached the Magic Cube once more and reached out her hand toward it.
When her hand hovered above the Magic Cube, the notes on her body immediately resonated with it.
The Magic Cube vibrated madly, increasing in size rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, it had risen from Sixth Rank to Eighth Rank, and it was still growing.
In stark contrast to the increasingly swelling magic was Daphne's condition; her complexion grew visibly paler at a noticeable rate.
It was as if she wasn't infusing the Magic Cube with magic power, but with her life force.
"Are you willing to go to such lengths?" Bai Wei said softly, "This is indeed interesting."
Under Bai Wei's gaze, the Magic Cube kept rising, getting larger.
From a Sixth Rank Magic Cube, it jumped to Eighth Rank, then to Tenth Rank, Twelfth Rank.
Eventually, it grew to a point where it was innumerable, far surpassing the highest rank of Magic Cube Bai Wei could recall from his past life.
Of course, it wasn't just size and number that expanded.
The contained, frenzied, and powerful energy of the Chorus Magic made even Bai Wei uneasy.
Oh no, it wasn't him that was uneasy.
More accurately, it was Hewinia's body he was in.
Just like how humans innately feel a sense of fear when facing snakes, a mage faced with such a vast and pure magic energy would also naturally become uneasy, almost instinctively wanting to retreat.
Bai Wei uttered a light "tch": "Don't tell me things are going too far."
He had proposed a direct duel with Daphne and the others for two reasons.
First, he genuinely wanted to try out the unique Chorus Magic and test the limits of what Hewinia's body could achieve.
Second, he needed a reason to keep these people from leaving because if they truly wished to flee with Hewinia's current physical condition, Bai Wei would have found it difficult to hold them all back, and should any of them escape and spread the news of the Golden Score, that would be troublesome.
Thus, by using this reason to keep them here and then figuring out a way to blow them all away was the plan.
However...
Looking at the Magic Cube that had expanded to fill his entire field of vision, massive like the sun itself, Bai Wei couldn't help but think.
It seemed that the one to be blown away would be him.
...Heh, just kidding.
The middle finger of his left hand lightly tapped on the Magic Wand.
As long as that finger was there, Bai Wei couldn't possibly lose. Just like in a game, "Termination" was also a treasure for Mages like Holy Sound.
Aside from the difficulty of interrupting Seven Notes spells, the other spells were roughly the same; the only difference was the cost.
But at least, the cost would definitely be much less than what that carefully concocted Magic Cube would require.
The Magic Cube was almost complete.
Now, he just had to snap his fingers, and all the ambitions this girl called Daphne and her family held would vanish in an instant.
Just had to snap his fingers.
With a "thud".
Daphne suddenly fell to her knees in the distance, and Bai Wei's lightly tapping finger stopped, then he looked over.
In just a few minutes, Daphne seemed like a different person.
Her once voluptuous body now was so thin her bones were visible, her breathing intermittent, as if she might stop breathing at any moment.
