The silent night with little moonlight that we were in was destroyed when an arrow of wind and aura that looked like a small spear lit up the entire region. When the convoy of smugglers got close enough to us that it would be a matter of seconds for them to realize our presence surrounding them, the archer who was poised on top of one of the trees fired the deadly arrow following the orders given to him.
The arrow's ridiculous power was unleashed as it exited the archer's bow, it absorbed a massive amount of wind element in the air concentrating all of it on the aura that had sucked to the point of almost drying out the warrior. I knew that this was a special arrow, but I was still very surprised by its power and ferocity, it didn't take long for the archer to faint after shooting the arrow, due to the lack of light inside his body he must have lost a little more than 80% your aura to fire this arrow.
The arrow traveled the distance of the mage almost instantly hitting him directly, but even if this arrow was a unique level four arrow, a green core mage is not an invalid idiot when facing his attack. Before the arrow hit him flames erupted from his body destroying the wagon he was sitting on and when the arrow hit him a huge explosion of fire and wind interrupted mine from the caravan.
The element of surprise would be our advantage, but I think the blast that hurt and threw half the caravan members away is a better advantage than a simple surprise attack.
As instructed, everyone rushed at the smugglers in a wild dash, I think Erick screamed attack as he started to run, but even close to him I wasn't able to hear his voice. The sound of the explosion was so loud that it slightly hurt my ears even when I had shielded my body with my aura.
The smugglers near the explosion must have been deafened.
When Erick reached the first smuggler who was getting up to block Erick's sword, I noticed a red light that didn't appreciate being fading but glowing brighter in my flame.
I only had a few seconds to realize what that meant, I jumped forward pulling Erick with me, he had just plunged his sword into my chest which was pulled into mine from the piercing when I jockeyed to the ground with Erick.
Erick who was so taken aback by my meaningless action to him that I barely managed to turn his face to my side, before a beam of concentrated fire came towards us passing through where we were standing and hitting the warrior who was in the rear. from the attack.
Even without looking back I already knew someone had died, just the sound and flesh being torn apart in a concentrated explosion was enough to know that the fire mage was alive and his destructive power was something I couldn't handle.
The mage who was still covered in flames and smoke appears to have fired a volley of these beams of concentrated fire in various directions. When Erick and I raised a ring of fire I blew it out of the cluster of fire that covered the mage, this ring of fire was more like a wave of living fire killing and destroying and killing whoever was close to the mage, which is very strange since all the dead were smugglers on his side.
"Kill the mage!"
Erick's scream made everyone aim at the fire crater, but before we could get close to him, a huge fireball came out of the flames and it was coming towards me, to be more exact the mage must be attacking the idiot who screamed at the top of his lungs to kill a certain mage covered in flames.
I used my aura and wind element to the fullest to jump to the side avoiding the fireball that exploded right next to me. This mage is very strange his strength is not very high for his level, a green core mage and really capable of powerful spells, but he shouldn't be able to cast so many spells with his maximum power in such a short period of time, this mage is casting level three spells as basic spells.
After being forced to roll to the side because of the wind unleashed by the fireball's blast I scrambled to my feet only to find that I was extremely close to one of the smugglers who was also recovering from the mad mage's latest attack. I stabbed my knife into his chest as I lunged towards him.
Before getting up after having killed the smuggler I heard two more explosions caused by the pyromaniac mage. Finally standing up I could see the battlefield that was a fire that destruction, but what shocked me the most was the black region that was the source of all this destruction.
A corpse with a huge hole in the side of the body, this hole caused by the wind arrow must have destroyed a good part of his internal organs must have been caused when he defended himself, the corpse was leaning on a staff that still glowed red illuminating a burned corpse, apart from the mage's staff that appears to be intact, the rest of his equipment appears melted along with the black flesh.
As I look around more carefully I see some smugglers being killed by the allied smugglers, but I also see that several people died on both sides from this fire mage's attacks. I think we won, but that doesn't seem to be quite the victory we were hoping for.
With the death of the smugglers who were still alive I tried to see if there was any aura away from us, but as I didn't find one it means that all the smugglers died. I went towards the charred corpse to talk to Erick who was a little scorched, I think he couldn't dodge the almost dead wizard's attacks so well.
"What the fuck was that?! Was that really a green core mage, Erick?"
"Yes, but obviously not an ordinary one."
"Serious? That piece of shit killed more people on your side than we did. And if we hadn't been far away from him he would have killed more than half of us."
"We didn't expect him to have so many expensive and unique medications with him. Only freaks carry this combination with them."
"Drugs?"
My question was ignored because Erick was focused on the mage's corpse. Erick kicked the charred corpse away and tried to pull the staff off the ground only to get burned when he touched it, the aura and shadow element he used to wrap his hand was not enough to protect him.
The concentration of fire element that this staff still has is still very active, had this staff not been made of a very fire resistant material it would have melted completely instead of being slightly deformed. The firepower that was channeled through your body during the fight completely surpassed your level, what kind of medicine does that?
Erick walked away from the staff and turned to me.
"That motherfucker must have taken some medicine to be able to survive all this time after being pierced by Fin's arrow. He must have taken a berseker potion, a vitality, healing, mana boost potion and to finish he must have swallowed a liquid fire essence since he is a fire mage."
"This combination is famous and there are certain alchemists who prepare a franc containing this combination of drugs and stimulants. This is called Dead Man's Revenge or Dead Man's Madness, a mage who takes this combination can unleash a power far beyond his natural limit, but in doing so he kills himself."
"Only madmen who are not afraid of the pain caused by breaking through the confines of their body with outside help that will destroy their body completely have the courage to take something like this. In this mage's mind he must have wanted to kill all enemies after realizing that he had been mortally wounded by an elemental arrow."
"So the dead mage released so many fire spells that he burned to death before dying from having his half of his torso destroyed by the elemental arrow?"
"Basically yes, but burning to death doesn't show what happened to these mages. With each spell he unleashed, the temperature of his veins rose nonstop because of the mana and violent elemental energy flowing from his core to his staff, his body burned from the inside out to the point that his skin charred."
"How does he manage to stay conscious for so long?"
"It's the Berseker potion. This thing not only shuts off the ability to feel pain, it prevents the person who took it from realizing they are hurt."
"Isn't that the same thing?"
"No, the pain part is to keep someone's brain from shutting down the connection between brain and body, the second part is for a mage or warrior to be able to sweat out their skills as if they were completely fine, even if part of your body missing."
"This potion is very powerful and aggressive."
"For that reason she is a taboo. The madness of the dead and a combination that has become a taboo, and it's really hard for anyone to have the courage to create this kind of mixture, it's not easy to create it and any alchemist has better ways to get money. We didn't think this group had that kind of inclination."
"But with everyone dead, I think we'd better collect everything we can because all this destruction must have caught someone's attention."
"Luckily for us no, at most someone will hear the explosions and think it's thunder. This place is more isolated than you think."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, otherwise we wouldn't have ambushed them here. Did you hear the explosion caused by the wind arrow? We already expected that the fight would cause noise, but we were lucky that this mage cast his spells more directed towards the ground, if he had thrown one of them up I wouldn't be surprised that someone saw a fire explosion in the middle of a dark sky. "
"I'm going to take a look at what's still whole and sellable."
"OK good luck. I don't think there must be much left."