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The Gray Sage looked at the scene as his eyes were filled with conviction, the darkness around him was also trying to restrain him with every step, but as someone that manipulated darkness as well as light, it was possible for him to overpower it and keep walking.
The woman noticed him as the ritual continued, her phantasmal crimson-red eyes glared down at him with contempt.
"Hoh? You're getting closer? Even in the verge of dying, old man?" She asked.
"…I have to." He said.
"Then come! Let's fight! And let us see if you can defeat someone already dead!" Laughed the woman manically.
The Blue Sage submerging in darkness looked at the Gray Sage slowly walk away… his eyes were filled with shock and frustration.
"No… Wait… Please… Don't leave me…!" he cried.
However, the Gray Sage didn't intend to back down.
He had already made up his mind.