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Chapter 42 - The crimson fox

Kazoru, Volts, and Miyu were having a busy fight against their foes. They couldn't locate where they were because of the confusion that struck them in every corner. They all had the same guesses as they were facing an illusionist.

Miyu Aqualin was a blue-haired girl who was a user of water magic, she wore the same outfit as Kazoru, the opposite of Volts because he wore casual clothing.

The illusionist created a large number of beings that were hard to see because of the misty air that blinded them. The place was filled with reflections of them from the mirrors. Even though they tried to hit one of them, their attacks would pass through them. They couldn't harm them, it was almost like hitting a ghost.

They tried to track him down by sensing the illusionist's mana, but it was almost non-existent; it felt like he didn't exist. Kazoru cleared the whole area with his flames, but not what he was expecting to be cleared off. The whole place was still filled with a misty atmosphere.

Volts used his magic to track the illusionist because there were too many footsteps to be heard.

His electricity was sending an electrical nerve to the entire environment; he could feel them simply by focusing on the electricity to the person because human bodies contained electricity in them.

"Found you!" Volts muttered while he closed his eyes. He informed Miyu and Kazoru, that there were two people in this room, one illusionist and one fighter. They couldn't see him but they were hit by the fighter.

Presumably, it was the illusionist's doing that made the fighter invisible. He asked Miyu to use her water magic. The man appeared behind them and stabbed Miyu right after.

"Got you!" The man stabbed Miyu in the back. And then the rest vanished suddenly.

The man realized something. His knife went through her. The tingly sensation came from her body, that he had stabbed her. His body began shaking incoherently and then was zapped by the high voltage of electricity.

[WATER MAGIC X ELECTRICITY MAGIC: CONDUCTOR WATER TRAP]

Volts planned this all along, and he knew he was about to land a strike after he talked about this. Previously, he asked Miyu to create a clone since there was a mirror everywhere to confuse them. As they stayed together, he asked Kazoru and Miyu to create a mist so the illusionist couldn't see them.

Volts knew the illusionist was watching. The illusionist could see through his illusions, but they couldn't.

So they created their misty atmosphere by combining Miyu's water magic with Kazoru's fire magic.

They stayed close. He predicted that the attacker could not see as well, but was directed by the illusionist. So he blinded the illusionist with their mist.

The man was defeated, and so the illusionist was next. Volts hinted at Kazoru and Miyu by pointing in the direction of his front.

[WATER MAGIC: WATER JAVELIN]

[FIRE MAGIC: MYSTIFURO ARCANIC E'XORA]

[ELECTRICITY MAGIC: ELECTRIC BOLTS]

The three used their magic to defeat the illusionist and destroy the whole room. They broke free from the illusion, and so they went to the next room.

Meanwhile, Akira and Kitsune were walking to their next room as they had already defeated the dungeon monsters.

Kitsune stopped Akira and told him to wait. Her ears budged, and so did Akira's. Akira sniffed an unpleasant smell, and Kitsune smelled it as well.

Akira tightened his grip and stared intensely. Suddenly, a giant web was fired at them. Akira deflected the web, but the sticky web was stuck onto his blade. His blade was glued to the ground because of its webs.

Akira pulled his scythe off the ground and broke the ground. Akira tried to shake it off, but the webs were sticky. Kitsune helped him as she blew a kiss on his scythe with her flames. The web was removed, and so Akira focused on more of the attack.

Kitsune told Akira to stay back and let her handle it.

[CRIMSON FLAME MAGIC: OPHASTUS MAMOLIA]

She created a flower-like flame, beautiful and warm as the flame melted the webs below their feet. Her crimson flames showed an elegant color, its gorgeous looked, was different from what Akira saw. Her flames removed all the webs that were surrounding the area. They could now freely walk without anything slowing them down by the sticky webs around them.

It didn't end there, as it tried to fire its webs at them. Kitsune's tails of flames erased its webs just by wiggling her tail.

"I see you" Her eyes glowed red and saw a man crawling on the wall, spitting his webs from his mouth. 

He began crawling away to a darker place. Akira pursued him and used his blood slash to attack him. He jumped down and showed up from the shadows.

A hideous, eight-eyed man with six arms and four legs, with spiky black hair, made his appearance. He then spat his webs like a bullet, and Akira moved his head, dodging his webs.

He hissed, and so he stayed away from them. "Kill, kill, kill," he muttered.

The man then used his hands to build a weapon as he hardened his webs, creating a blade-like weapon. He made 6 for his whole arms. Akira dashed forward and made a move toward the man.

His web was strong; it felt like he had just hit something like steel. The man tried to impale Akira, who purposely left a weak spot. Akira lifted his legs and climbed over his scythe. Akira kicked him in the back of his head, and he flew away.

He gained his balance and walked with his hands and feet. He threw his blade repeatedly, and Akira ran around him as he avoided his blades.

Akira ran by running on the wall whilst deflecting and dodging them effortlessly. Akira finally jumped from the wall and tried to strike him down.

His moves were swift like spiders, making Akira struggle as he tried to hit him. His strike caused the ground to shatter, leaving the place trembling.

[BLOOD MAGIC: FRENZY SLASH]

He consecutively launched his slashes diagonally and horizontally, right and left. The man just jumped, and so ran around very fast. The man jumped and was in midair, creating his blades.

Akira grinned, and so he flashed instantly in front of him and slashed him down with his scythe. Even though he dodged, he chopped off his three arms with his slash.

He didn't have a chance, so he summoned a swarm of spiders to attack. Akira's body hair was tingling as they crawled everywhere. Kitsune stomped the ground and created a large flame barrier, killing off all the spiders.

When Kitsune stepped forth, she told Akira to let her take care of him. "I'll show you what the crimson fox is capable of."

The man stared at her as he was sweating and gulping. He was trembling and started to make a weird noise coming out of him.

Her flames weren't to be underestimated. He jumped up and down on the wall repeatedly whilst making his webs. He created a thread through the whole surrounding cocoon to cocoon his prey.

Kitsune approached one of his threads and touched it with her fingers. She burned the whole thread, and so all of his webs were gone.

She said to him that it was pointless to create more webs, she could burn them whole without even trying and melt them all.

The man used all of his webs to cocoon her as he walked around her. She just folded her arms while closing her eyes. After the cocoon was finished, she ignited her flames and burned them whole.

She thought he was stubborn and didn't listen to her. So she burned him to ash with her flames. The man was caught by the fire and then vanished.

He shed his skin and escaped from her after his skin was damaged by the fire.

The man was gone but left a trace of his footsteps. Akira pursued him, but Kitsune stopped him. She said to wait and regroup. She knew it was a trap to make them follow him. Akira nodded, and so he went back to the room they had just gone into. He then bumped into an invisible person. It turned out to be Hiroshi, as he groaned because of the crash.

"Hiroshi?"

"Aghh, nice going, you idiot. Now you blew my cover." Hiroshi went visible as he patted his forehead.

"Sorry, didn't see you."

"You dumbass, didn't you have an enhanced sense?"

"I wasn't focused, I'm sorry"

"Hmm?"

Hiroshi then saw Kitsune and bowed. Akira stared at him, confused as to why he didn't act perverted towards her. Hiroshi knew she was a beautiful woman but was scared after he received punishment for stealing her panties.

Akira's mouth was widened by his bravery that he would steal a vice captain's underwear. Hiroshi chuckled with a confident grin as if he was proud of himself. Akira wasn't sure if it was praiseworthy or disgraceful. 

They then waited for the rest of the warriors to come by. They waited for about 12 minutes and finally arrived. 25 Warriors were okay but bruised and injured. She commanded the healer type to patch them up and so they all were set now.

The last room awaited them as the giant door was on their front.