Dark Magus Returns

The four of them taking on such a large beast in front of them, it seemed like an impossible task for most of them. For Raze, though, he seemed unfazed; he had taken on bigger and more frightening beasts in his lifetime.

Sure, he was much weaker now compared to back then, but he was unfazed, unlike the others in front of him.

The three large giant snakeheads had fired out the spit from their mouths again, and seeing how his last attack was frozen, Raze had decided to move to the side instead and, in doing so, he had used his Dark Pulse this time on the green substance.

"Using Dark Pulse against the strange ice spit is useless, so let's see what it does with this!"

The results were different as the green spit was splattered in all sorts of different directions. It had exploded but not in a good way. Droplets of the green substance had gone everywhere, and where it landed in the snow, it melted instantly.

'So using the attack against this one is bad as well, is there anything I can do?' Raze thought.

The red-colored spit was heading toward the others, and they were quite unsure about what to do, or what its effects would be.

"Hey, why don't you block it with your super strong body, that's what you're good at, right?" Liam said, trying to push the back of Simyon, but he was as solid as a large boulder and wasn't budging at all.

"Hey, if I get hit by that, I'm not sure my skin can withstand such a thing!" Simyon shouted back.

Maybe if his body was at a higher level, but he still just had a common metal body, despite all the training he had done.

Surprisingly though, it wasn't them two that charged forward but it was Safa instead. She rushed, and at the right time, she thrust out her spear at the spit attack and started to swirl it in a circle. The spit had turned into flames that were spiralling around the spear.

Suddenly, rather than the flames looking like an attack of the snake's, it looked like it was part of Safa's attack. After controlling the flames, she thrust the spear forward; the attack left the spear like a tornado hitting the side of the snake's head.

It flinched to the side slightly and had markings on its face. Not a serious wound but a wound.

"Whoa, she's good, she's really good!" Liam said. "I mean, I know she had been learning directly from Teacher Lee, but I guess she didn't really get the chance to show all her skills at that event."

With the spear in her hand, Safa was quite impressed herself. The technique she had learned was indeed one from Teacher Lee, but when redirecting and throwing the strike back, it felt almost stronger than the spit that had attacked her.

Little did she know, that was due to the item in her hands.

'That strange shape-shifting sword, it doesn't seem to be like an ordinary weapon,' Raze noticed. He was keeping an eye on how the others were doing and seemed to have his eye on one person more than the other. 'It has the power to generate more strength than normal. Is it at the unique or elite level?

'Although no one knows how to enchant weapons, just like the book I found in the other dimensions. I guess there are weapons that Pagna warriors have found to utilize themselves, but it can't be higher than the Unique level; otherwise, Alter would have taken it away.

'Which means, a lot of what Safa just did was due to her own strength. Due to my accomplishments at the event, she was somewhat overshadowed," Raze thought. "Either way, what she just did has given me an idea of how to beat this thing!'

Raze had swung his sword, unleashing a wind slash; it had hit the large snake but appeared to do nothing. He continued to keep an eye on one of them, and it was the green-colored one. The moment it opened its mouth, Raze, with his hand ready, had fired out a Dark Pulse.

It had hit the spit, and immediately it exploded; as it did, it went everywhere, including on the body of the snake. As it hit it, the hard scales started to melt away, and blood was pouring from part of its body. The attack didn't do a massive amount of damage, but Raze was just testing something out for the bigger plan he had in mind.

Watching at the back, both Dame and Gunther were still standing around five meters apart from each other side on. Neither of them looked at each other and instead were looking at the students. Both Simyon and Liam were avoiding the spit attacks.

Although it looked like a simple task, they came out close to the same speed as bullets. The two of them looked to aimlessly be running around, but they were keeping a close eye on the snake's head for when the right time to move was.

All of them were showing great talent.

"Why do you ask a question you don't want to know the answer to?" Dame replied.

"Oh, that's brave of you to assume that," Gunther replied. "I am curious about who you are, for you to answer like that. If I were to know the answer, would that mean me and you would be enemies."

"I just wish to stay in the academy and cause no trouble, nothing less, nothing more, just as I have been doing now," Dame stated.

"I suppose if that is all you will be doing, and it's going to be staying that way, then I can allow it," Gunther commented. "But if that day comes, it will be nice to know if I am stronger than you or not."

A mutual agreement seemed to have been made between the two, and Dame liked that. He was starting to like this Gunther a lot, and was making him think that maybe these Dark Faction guys weren't so bad after all.

On the field, Raze was making his way to the others, and he decided to use whatever he could to take this beast down, so he gave quick instructions to them all.

"Safa, be ready to redirect the attack of that fire-spitting one when I say so. Hold onto its attack as long as you can. Simyon, brace yourself, and Liam, distract the green one as much as you can!" Raze shouted.

The others, hearing the straightforward orders, snapped into listening mode. They weren't sure why but they trusted him as if they knew he already knew best. Even Liam, who was practically bait, was running around.

The fire-spitting snake had spat out its spit, and Safa did the same as last time, twirling it around her spear but had been doing so for longer.

When the ice spit was going toward them, Simyon had braced himself like he had been doing but he was worried for what was about to come. That was until he could see lingering black magic moving up and into his earring.

"Activate your earring now!" Raze shouted.

Simyon had rubbed the bottom of his earring, remembering what it had done to Liza at the event; it had rebounded her attack. But would it work against an attack like this, or would he become something frozen?

"Face the red one!" Raze shouted.

Simyon shifted his body, and the ice spit had touched his skin. It landed on him but didn't turn him

to ice. The effect of the earring was taking place, and soon the attack had bounced off him, heading straight for the fire snake. n--OIn

It crashed into its body, freezing it over.

"Now!" Raze shouted.

Safa knew what she needed to do, and she had readied her attack going straight for the body of the now frozen snake. At the same time, Raze had jumped up and thrust both of his hands together.

"Dark Pulse!"

The flames had crashed into the bottom part of the snake's body, while Raze's Dark Pulse smashed through the ice of the snake, snapping its head into tiny little pieces that dropped onto the floor. With its head gone, blood as well as flames were coming apart from the body.

It sprawled, hitting the ice snake and started to burn the head of it. They had managed to kill two birds with one stone, completing the task which was more than Raze could ask for, but now how would they deal with the last one.

Liam was still running away from the spit constantly, and their attacks weren't strong enough. They had only defeated the other two snakes by using their own attacks against them. Unless they could use the same trick again as they had done with Simyon.

"Don't worry, there is one more thing in my arsenal. If you guys have seen me use my magic, then what's one more thing!" Raze smiled.

Jumping from the ground right past Liam, he saw something grey in color. It was almost just as fast as Dame and Gunther were.

"Is that a living statue?" Liam asked.

It was made out of stone, and even the sword in its hand was made of stone. When in the air, it spun its body and swung the sword; the image of eruptions was coming from the background.

"Is that… visual Qi, and isn't that the Erupting Fist Clan's technique? It looks the same as from Ricktro, but somehow it's even stronger!"

When the sword struck the top of the head of the snake, it slammed right onto the ground, blood pouring out from the top of its head.

Landing right next to the head of the dimensional boss was none other than the mythical Soldier Statue, that had the blood and skills of all five of the major clans, and not just that, but the combined power of all the master disciples.

'This soldier, does that belong to Raze as well?' Gunther thought. 'Strange powers, incredibly strong in Pagna skills, and now something like this. With all of this going for you, people will be wanting you from all over, just like the Crimson Crane with the Dark Magus..wait a second…'