If the eye of Melancholy is the greatest passive defense he had at hand, then the eye of insight can be considered one of the active defenses that saved him countless times from threats that don't belong in the category of mysticism.
Before long when the two arrived, he had already noticed the two oddities who flew in the air without a care for the world, exuding a high amount of magical radiation from the distance. After being found out by Rosso, he did what he had planned to do and hid himself when no one was looking and waited for them to fly away.
But they never did fly away, instead, they attacked the plantation and then him, bringing his wrath onto them.
"Foolish beings." With the mage being butchered by the Knight, there was one less work for Rosso to do, who divided the skin, the flesh, and the bones of the Knight, before cleanly arranging them for the visitors that might arrive here later.
Then, he disappeared.
