'Tier 1 forbidden spell, [Crash Magic Ring].'
Grey internally thought to himself as he struggled to cast this normal tier 1 spell, that he himself dubbed a Forbidden spell.
'Huh…'
Francesca thought to herself feeling weird all over her body, starting from her small shoulder that was carrying Grey.
"AHHHHHHHH!"
BOOM!!
Before she could continue trying to understand the weird feeling she started to scream in the loudest voice like she was in the worst pain ever.
Considering that she tortures people for a living, it would be expected of her to have a high pain tolerance.
The pain was so high that she was distracted, such that she tripped and fell whilst she was running, Grey was thrown off and fell in a big explosion rolling on the ground.
"AHHHHH! IT HURTS!!! IT HURTS!"
In the chaotic battlefield, someone screaming and saying those words was normal. The fighting people only glanced at her for a while before continuing to kill each other.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!!!"
While she was screaming with bloodshot eyes she turned to Grey who was still struggling with the torture spell that she had put to him.
"Francesca!! Crawford!!"
"Francesca!! Crawford!!"
"Francesca!! Crawford!!"
Grey did not answer her, he just kept shouting her name, it would not take long for someone to get his attention and turn to the screaming Francesca.
People had seen her before, now there was someone shouting her name.
"IS THIS YOUR PLAN?!"
Francesca asked with rage in her eyes as she turned to Grey.
"STILL TRYING TO ESCAPE?!! THE METHOD YOU USED?!! WHAT WAS IT?!!! IF I CANNOT HAVE YOU, THEY WON'T TOO!!"
Francesca said with anger, as she started to accumulate mana whilst still holding her pretty head. It seemed that the world did not want her to have this prey, it kept getting in her way.
'She is too dangerous.'
Grey kept looking around hoping someone would recognise her name, and help to deal with this crazy woman.
BOOM!!
"Argh."
Grey marginally dodged a tier 1 spell fired off by Francesca, it seemed that she could only fire off only tier 1 spell. Grey had to dodge with some difficulty as he too was still in pain.
"Francesca Crawford!!"
He could only chant her name as he retreated away from her, he too could not cast any spells. The spell he had hit her with was a special spell, that he managed to cast whilst in pain.
It required physical contact with the enemy to work and used pure mana to work. Thus it was less painful because he did not have to manipulate the elements.
Grey managed to recover enough to start running away, and she would not let him escape, she might be famous, but that was only to a very limited number of higher rank mages.
'Even if you shout my name hoping someone will help you, there are a few people who know my name.'
"What?!"
That was Grey as he released that she had just cut off one of his arms with a flame blade spell, the wound was not bleeding as the fire cauterised the wound.
Grey immediately started sweating in pain, but he did not scream, he turned to look at his pursuer.
'The spell is still working, her Magic Ring is still incapacitated, and it seems she can only focus long enough to fire off single spells due to the pain. I know there must be someone who knows her name.'
"Francesca Crawford!!"
"GREY GRAM, STOP SHOUTING MY NAME!!"
She was still raging in anger and she too could feel many people were looking at her in this chaotic battle, anyone of the could recognise her name anytime soon.
'I can only grit my teeth and finish him of before retreating. I really wanted to torture him. Fuck it!'
Francesca had wanted to kill off the genius very slowly as she usually does, but the fellow had annoyed her to no end, forcing her to increase the rate of her killing.
The cutting of his arm was a way to try and make him scream, but as can be expected from a trained military person, he did not scream.
'You forced my hand GREY GRAM!.'
"DIE!!!"
Grey heard her shout, which forced him to turn and look.
"Ah… Fuck. How I hate irrational people, and people say I am wrong."
Grey could see multiple weapons made of concentrated darkness elements with a bit of wind surrounding them.
'She does not even want to leave my body, she wants to completely turn me into ash.'
Grey could feel that if he was hit at any part of his body by those weapons, he would die immediately.
Grey had recovered long enough to cast tier 1 combination spell, [Bright Light Enclave], the spell was made up of light type spells in order to have increased resistance against darkness.
Grey was immediately covered by a bright sphere of light.
"Still struggling?!"
'How long will my state last? What did he do to me? My magic ring seems to be incapacitated.'
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
That was the sound made as the darkness and light elements of the attack and defence spells collided.
The two elements seemed to destroy each other when they met which created big explosions and launched Grey a long distance, however the light sphere had done its job but Grey was tired.
Casting a combination spell in his condition had taken a lot from him.
"Francesca Crawford."
Grey said out her name as she stood overlooking his battered body, which was missing an arm and was bleeding from the previous explosions.
PANT. PANT. PANT.
"Any last words, Grey Gram?"
Francesca was heaving in tiredness due to the pain of [Crash Magic Ring].
PANT. PANT. PANT.
"Actually I have many. I am sad that I have not had sex before. I have not used [Explosion] like that anime girl. But those are not important."
Grey too was also tired, the battle had been long, and he could feel it reach its end.
The reason why it had not finished was that the tier 3 commanders were still fighting the last time Grey observed the situation.
PANT. PANT. PANT.
"Oh really Grey? What is an anime? Never mind that. Though about your virginity, I would have done something about it if you had let me capture you before."
PANT. PANT. PANT.
'This woman is too crazy, I don't want to meet her again, even in the afterlife when I get there in time.'
Grey did not believe today was his last day alive, call it intuition if you want, he still had not used any of his Destroyer spells.
But doing that would get him in more trouble because a method to combine combination spells had been researched many times in this world and had not been found.
Many people would do anything to make him reveal the method.
"Will you not tell me how you magic ring works, even in this situation where you are guaranteed to kill me."
"Nope I won't."
"I just had to ask."
'As crazy as she is, she is still super cautious.'
"I will give you a clue though. Think of Absence."
Francesca did not say anymore, Grey could feel the fire elements accumulating around her in large amounts, she was going for the kill.
"Bye Grey, it was nice meeting you."
Grey just nodded to his killer.
BOOOM!
There was a big explosion of fire, it was possible to find charred body parts exploding in many different directions.
It was very gory how the human body could break apart like that spilling its bloody contents.
Argh!
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"
That was Francesca who was raging in anger as her mana flowed out of her body, she might not have recovered enough to double cast, but she could still single cast.
The woman seemed ready for battle as she looked at her enemy who had prevented her from finishing her work.
"OLD MAN, DROP DOWN MY PREY!"
Francesca demanded not even taking time to look at her enemy.
"Miss Francesca Crawford, an operative from the Secret Intelligence Agency from Ruhen tasked with the killing of undeveloped talents fromm our Arin."
Francesca's enemy was an old man who talked with calmness even though he was bloodied all over and missing one of his arms, the working arm was carrying Grey like a sack.
Cough. Cough. Cough.
"I apologise for having to make you come and rescue a normal tier 1 mage like myself Commander."
Grey said as he struggled with some coughs.
"No its fine, if you got the attention of Miss Crawford here. It means you are very special."
"OLD MAN IGNOCIA, DON'T THINK I AM AFRAID OF YOU!"
'He is tired, missing a lot of blood, I don't need to kill him. I just need to get close enough to kill off Grey.'
Francesca seemed to recognise her enemy at this point, but she did not seem afraid of fighting a tier 3 mage.
"Oh really. I actually wanted to kill you off. Dogs who have been killing our your talent."
Commander Hans Ignocia did not seem like a calm old man, but an angry animal going for blood, he dropped Grey on the ground who struggled to stand by himself.
The blood lust he was releasing was deep and heavy, as expected from the commander and a battlefield veteran.
However before they could fight all the peoples of the battlefield all looked into the distance.
The was a several kilometres phantom flouting in the air, the phantom seemed to be feeding on the death energy that had accumulated in the battlefield.
The phantom used the energy to make it self more corporeal.
Grey felt his legs collapse in instinctive fear, but commander Hans supported him. The commander also had a severe face as he looked at the giant phantom, but he was stable.
"What did that prince do?!!"
Francesca asked with fear in her heart, even her who had affinity to darkness felt dread. Her legs were trembling, as so was her whole body.
"That is the Legendary spell in the darkness line of spells, [Reaper Summoning]."