The knight who had beheaded the old man earlier was moving in front of the second elder to kill him as well.
"Kotaro... do it if you are ready, no more waiting." Ryota and Akina whispered to Kotaro, urging him to move, while focusing all their attention on Selania.
Unfortunately, we did not find about the function of the stone, there is no need for this charade to continue further." Kotaro felt lost and couldn't help but finish this play.
It was as if Kotaro and his two friends had been able to break free from their cages a while ago, but they didn't, so that they could discover the purpose of this conspiracy, but now it's time to end this farce, especially since the life of another man hanging on the edge.
Suddenly Kotaro started releasing his magic, he became impatient and no longer wanted to stay inside this cage, powerful mana was released and a random aura surrounded the place around him, but the feeling that emitted from this magical energy was not hot and suffocating as before but cold and deep Like an abyss, this feeling didn't exist due to fire magic, but this was Kotaro's second magic, gravity magic.
Of course he did not want to use this magic and brought people's attention to him but there was no other choice, fire magic was not suitable to free him from this situation.
"Child, you seem to have some strength." Selania was astonished and yet she maintained her cold attitude: "But it is useless, this cage is specially designed to withstand the attacks of average C level mages, a kid like you who recently started learning some spells wouldn't even be able to leave a mark on this cage."
"truly?" Kotaro snorted, not caring what this woman said.
Kotaro wasn't releasing his magic in the entire hall, he only focused it around the cage, so Selania wasn't able to sense Kotaro's level and only guessed that at best he wouldn't exceed the elementary C level.
The ranks of the mages were divided from weakest to strongest, according to the following order, level E, the level D, C, B, A, S, and level Z, between each rank there were three sub-stations, elementary, average and higher
At this time, when Kotaro's momentum reached its peak, he detonated his magic and a black aura spread out on the border of the iron cage, a bulging force arose that was applied to the cage structure, and the pressure generated by gravity magic made him vibrate from inside and outside.
"jiggle." The bars started getting louder and could no longer hold up well, and at this rate it wouldn't take long for them to separate from each other.
When Selania saw that the cage was about to break, her face began to turn pale, and wrinkles appeared on her forehead: "Who is this boy?" She couldn't help but wonder, the arrogant and confident look she had previously shown was disappearing and that was replaced by worry and a bit of fear: "Knight, end the lives of those two old men quickly, something is not right."
"The rest, encircle these three's cages and don't allow them to move." And the knights hurried with their weapons are drawn against Kotaro Akina and Ryota.
The cage that contained Kotaro was continuing to vibrate and the bars were no longer bear, at this moment Kotaro raised his gravitational magic energy and decided to release everything.
"Bomb" A small explosion occurred in the center of the hall, destroying the cage in which Kotaro was imprisoned and the rods that formed it flew in all directions scattered along the red carpet.
At the same time, the knight with his sword pointed upward was sending his cold blade towards the neck of the old man who didn't know he was a second away from death, but this second was enough for Kotaro to prevent it.
Kotaro came out of the cage and stood still, his aura intensified and he spread his sharp intent, he didn't waste any time and shouted: 'Gravity field'.
At this moment it was as if the entire world had sunk into an abyss, the knights who were standing, the old ones as well, Selania and even Akina and Ryota, all felt their body weight double and their bodies getting harder and harder to move, especially the knights, who were just level E mages. They couldn't stand it even a bit and their bodies fell like flies to the ground with their weapons making a sharp sound. Everyone was in a kneeling position and trying to get up but to no avail, among them there was even someone who touched the floor with his cheeks and couldn't raise his head, the scene was really funny.
Originally it wasn't that Kotaro let the former old man be intentionally killed in order to get the information they wanted, but because he couldn't do that at the time, he needed to focus all his magic on one area of the cage in order to smash it with one blow but this process required some time, especially since the cage was very solid, so the three friends could not help but accept the old man's fate.
"You look great like that, stay where you are and don't try to resist."After everything happened so quickly, Kotaro walked among the knights flattering them with his overwhelming look, like the angel of death who came to take their souls.
He did not attack them, but turned towards the knight who was trying to kill the old man, he was also kneeling and tried to support himself with his hands and knees so that he would not fall further.
Kotaro picked up the knight's sword from the ground and it was also heavy but as soon as he touched it it became light again, Kotaro smiled at the helpless knight and the latter felt a cold structure invade his body, as he predicted what would happen next.
"Thank you for your posture, it is suitable for cutting your head." Kotaro sneered and waved the sword toward the protruding neck.
Ryota and Akina, who were better off than the other knights, saw what Kotaro would do and they looked surprised. What happened to their friend? Is he just going to kill someone in cold blood? These thoughts wandered to the two and they couldn't believe what they saw.
The sword was about one centimeter from the neck, and the knight was praying with his heart and recalling all his beautiful memories and the decisions he made in his life and trying to know how it would have happened to him if he did not join this organization, and it seemed that the tape of his whole life had passed before him, he didn't do anything but close his eyes and wait for his head to fall off, but after waiting for so long he didn't feel anything, his head was still attached to him and he wasn't dead yet.
The knight felt something strange and opened his eyes and looked over him, to see that the sword had stopped close to his neck.
Kotaro was silent and frozen in place, he couldn't take the last step and kill the knight, he was panting and bitterness in his heart increased, at this time and while he was about to do it, he heard a voice inside his heart, Kotaro didn't know if this voice was real or just an illusion on his part, but he closed his eyes and focused to listen to him, the voice was soft and sweet of a tender and gentle woman, carrying the following words: "Kotaro! My dear Kotaro! Don't do that, don't let your anger control your actions, I know you don't want this, I know your heart is stronger!" The voice continued to shine: "Don't forget yourself, I know you can forgive."