The Headmaster shifted from disbelief to a begrudging aowledgment of the situation. She realized that Kintovar's fusion of teology and magic was not to be uimated due to her knowledge of Solene’s defeat.

  With a nod, the Headmaster ceded, "Very well, Kintovar. Let the battle between magid teology ence."

  The mages prepared to unleash another round of magic attacks at Kintovar. They seemed unfazed by her advanced equipment .One of the mages boldly stated, "We don't care about your equipment. If we nd a hit on your face, you'll take damage!"

  Their elemental powers crackled once more as they jured torrents of fire, ice, lightning, ah, sending them toward Kintovar.

  Becky, wielding her Hammer infused with earth magially made her move. She brought it down forcefully onto the ground creating a powerful earthquake that rippled through the battlefield. The ground shook violently, causing disarray among the mages whled to maintain their footing.

  Sybil went swift and precise with her sword. She dashed forward with incredible speed. Her sword while killing off several of the mages who were caught off guard by the suddehquake and her lightning-quick attacks.

  Becky looked over at Kintovar and fidently decred, "We'll hahe small fry for you, doc. Focus on the Headmaster!"

  Their coordinated efforts disrupted the mages' assault and gave Kintovar the opportunity to front the Aimathema directly.

  Aimathema used her psychic magic to lift Kintovar into the air and dropped An.

  "Why resort to such primitive means as ons when those two have very little magic power to speak of?" the Headmaster inquired with a hint of curiosity. "Yet they are offing mages effectively with your creations' ons…. How? Expin yourself, Kintovar."

  Kintovar was suspended in the sky by the Headmaster's psychic power, but she remained posed.

  "Magic is not the only path to power, Aimathema. Becky and Sybil have proven that teology be bined with their own skills. With that, they created a formidable force. Do you see the potential of unity between the different disciplines?"

  Clearly frustrated by Kintovar's words, The Head of the Academy dismissed her with a wave of her hand. A powerful psychic blow struck Kintovar, causio flin pain; however, Kintovar swiftly retaliated by aiming her Bg-356 and firing at the Headmaster.Her invisible shield materialized once more, but this time, it showed visible cracks under Kintovar's attack.

  Aimathema’s eyes widened in surprise. She came to realize that Kintovar's teology posed a gehreat.

  The Headmaster, reizing the urgency of the situation, unleashed her attack.

  “Psychiova!”

  She sent a powerful shockwave of psychiergy radiating outward. The Nova hit Kintovar, Becky, Sybil and the remaining mages with tremendous impact. Their bodies were rocked. They struggled to maintain their bance.

  Kintritted her teeth as the psychiergy disoriented her. It made it challenging to trate. Becky and Sybil also felt the effects, their movements momentarily hampered.

  Seizing the opportunity, Aimathema prepared to follow up on her advantage. She began to el her psychic powers to their fullest extent. Her aura of mental domination expanded and enveloped the battlefield in an oppressive, suffog energy.

  “Psychiinion"

  A field of mental dominatioended from her enveloping the area and affeg everyohin its reach.

  Everyone found themselves uhe oppressive weight of the Headmaster's psychiflueheir thoughts became muddled, and it became increasingly difficult to focus or resist her ands.

  With a wicked grin, she directed her attention toward Kintovar.

  Kintovar had her own thoughts being clouded and her willpower tested. She felt the oppressiveness of the Headmaster's psychitrol. She struggled to maintain her crity a the Headmaster's influence.

  "Psychiinion," Aimathea decred with smugness, "is a power that bends minds to my will. You may be resourceful, Kintovar, but in this state, even you will find it challenging to utilize that brilliant brain of yours."

  Kintovar, despite the mental strain, mustered her willpower.

  Kintovar knew she had to act quickly to break free from the mental shackles. She focused her thoughts orategy – the skyborne bombs she carried.

  Despite the mental haze induced by the Aimathema’s psychifluence, Kintovar mao activate the bombs. They hovered arouhe spherical devices shimmered with the aura of Artificial magic.

  “Deploy!”

  The bombs shot upward into the sky f a menag field of potential destru above the battlefield. It oised to raiation upon the Headmaster and her forces.

  The sky borne bombs hovered menagly above. Kintovar cshed with the Headmaster's psychic power. The Headmaster was still fident in her trol over the situation. "You set up your own demise, Kintovar. You've fotten who holds the reins here."

  With a surge of her psychic abilities, the Headmaster lifted Kintovar into the air once more. Kintovar was now suspended in mid-air. She struggled against the oppressive force. Her gaze darted between the bombs and the Headmaster. It didn’t take her long to realize the impending danger.

  The Headmaster directed her psychic powers towards one of Kintovar's h bombs, sending it hurtling towards Kintovar. The bomb, infused with artificial magic, crackled with energy as it approached.

  Kintovar's eyes widened as she saw the bomb rapidly closing in on her. She khat she had only moments to react before the explosion would e her.

  In a desperate bid to save herself from the impending explosion, Kintovar took out her grappling hook attat. With quid precise movements, she aimed the magic hook towards one of the h skyborne bombs, the very same bomb that the Headmaster had seowards.

  The magic attat tched onto the bomb, allowing Kintovar to gain trol of its movement in the air. She khat timing was critical, and with exceptional accuracy, she calcuted the perfeent to release the bomb.

  With precision, Kintovar sent the bomb towards her intearget—the Headmaster. The bomb flew through the air, crag with destructive energy as it closed in on its arget.

  The Headmaster was distracted by her psychic powers. She didn't anticipate the sudden reversal of the bomb's trajectory. She turned just in time to see the skyborne bomb desding upon her and then the realization dawned in her eyes.

  The bomb flew at the Headmaster with a powerful explosion whigulfed her. The power of the attack sent shockwaves rippling through the battlefield. Debris was scattered and some mages could feel the aftereffects of it and stumbled nearly falling to the ground.

  Kintovar desded to the ground unharmed.

  The Headmaster, her fury unabated by the damage she had sustained, called upon her formidable powers once more. With a gre, she shouted,

  "Temporal Acceleration!"

  As if time itself had quied arouhe Headmaster's as became a blur. She stood with an unusual haste. Her posture and demeanor altered by the temporal manipution. It was as if she had bee a force of nature. Her every movement marked by swiftness and precision.

  In the flurry of accelerated movements, the Headmaster closed the distah astounding speed. Kintovar, forced to relinquish her Bg-356, found herself on the defensive against the relentless strikes of the Headmaster's staff.

  The Headmaster's attacks were precise and uing, each strike aiming to break through Kintovar's defenses. Kintovar, despite her agility and resourcefulness, struggled to keep up with the Headmaster's frenzied assault.

  Kintovar attempted a kick, but the Headmaster proved quicker and more precise.

  “Bad Move.”

  With a swift and calcuted move, the Headmaster directed her staff toward Kintovar's eye, her psychiergy building at the tip. A massive beam of psychiergy surged forth, a trated torrent of power that struck Kintovar with unyielding force. The impact was overwhelming, and Kintovar was sent flying backwards, her body engulfed in the dazzling dispy of energy.

  The power behind the attack was immense. Kintovar’s body tumbled upwards before crashing to the ground. Smoke and debris billowed around her, and for a moment, it seemed as though she had beeed.

  But Kintovar was not oo yield so easily. She slowly, but resolutely, began to rise once more. Though battered and scorched.

  Kintovar adjusted her sungsses ahe strain of the Headmaster's accelerated movements, her mind raced to find a solution within the chaos of the battle.

  ‘This is proving to be quite the challehe Headmaster's psychic abilities are formidable, and this temporal acceleration only adds to her advantage. I o find a way to level the pying field…’

  Kintovar observed the Headmaster's hasty movements, trying to dis any patterns or weaknesses itacks.

  ‘Her speed is impressive, but it also makes her as someredictable. I use that to my advantage.’

  Kintaze shifted to the Bg-356 lying nearby, momentarily fotten in the heat of battle.

  ‘That on could turide, but I'll o retrieve it without getting caught in the Headmaster's psychic grasp.’

  She sidered her other tools and abilities, searg for any advantage she could exploit.

  ‘The grappling hook attat might give me some reach without getting too close. If I distract her for a moment, it might be my ce.’

  The headmaster raises up her staff, then forms a rge yellowish energy from it. It splits into several bsts which went towards Kintovar. Kintovar quickly evaded the rapid bsts of yellow energy sent her way, her agility and quick reflexes keeping her out of harm's reach, she seized the opportunity to strike back. With a swift motion, she aimed her grappling hook at the h bomb nearby, hoping to redirect it towards the Headmaster.

  However, the Headmaster's accelerated movements made it challenging for Kintovar to predict her as accurately. The bomb sailed wide of its mark, exploding harmlessly in the distance.

  Before Kintovar could regain her bearings, the Headmaster closed the distah arming speed. Her staff ected with Kintovar's chest, sendiaggering backward.

  Despite the force of the blow, Kintovar refused to stay down. She pushed herself upright with effort.

  The Headmaster roared outwards with a shout that echoed through the battlefield. She ihe formidable power of her psychic abilities.

  "Psionic Break!"

  Her staff crackled with intense psychiergy, and a trated beam of pure psychic fored at its tip. This beam took on an ominous bck hue as it homed in on Kintovar, trag her movements with unerring accuracy.

  The Headmaster's Psionic Break surged toward Kintovar, its dark energy crag with malevolent power. Kintovar, reizing the gravity of the situation and the o respond with equal force, made a split-sed decision.

  With a swift, fluid motion, she activated her Giant Bck on. The enormous on materialized before her, dwarfing even the formidable BG-356. It hummed with ominous energy, radiating a palpable aura of power.

  Kintovar aimed the colossal on at the approag Psionic Break. The sheer size aructive potential was her ter attack. With a thunderous roar from Kintovar, the Giant Bck on unleashed a devastating bst of energy. It went head-on with the Headmaster's attack.

  The csh of titanic forces created a shockwave that tore through the battlefield shaking the very grouh them. The two immense energies met in a cataclysmic explosion that engulfted the entire area.

  Ohe dust and debris settled, the oute of the csh became evident. Both Kintiant Bck on and the Headmaster's Psionic Break had been celed out.

  Kintovar swiftly switched from her Giant Bck on to two small guns, she wasted no time in opening fire at the Headmaster. However, the Headmaster dispyed an almost uny agility, effortlessly dodging the barrage of bullets. Her temporal acceleration gave her an edge in evason.

  With a sly grin, the Headmaster taunted Kintovar, "You'll find it quite challenging to hit me, Kintovar. Your teology alone won't be enough."

  The Headmaster's yellow energy surged around Kintovar's remaining skyborne bombs, and her trol over them became apparent. The h bombs began to shift in the air, aligning themselves with the Headmaster's will.

  "Kintovar,” Aimathema began with a mog tone, "yoing to have quite a bit of trouble getting out of this situation."