"Ray, you can throw me aside!" Kana twisted her body around to plead at him in a panic.
"Its dangerous Kana, please stay still. Keep a tight hold of me and don't let go of me!" Ray ordered in No Nonsense Tone, hugging Kana even closer.
"Your back's wide open" Ethan suddenly disappeared from before Ray.
In the next moment, he was standing diagonally behind him, swinging his sword at his back.
However, Ray immediately charged forward with Kana embraced in one arm. Ethan's sword cut through empty space at the last moment.
(Ethan really is teleporting after all. So he is a space magic user. Shit... most of my mana was consumed on running away from those black creatures through ["Blink"]. Now I have less than half mana so I can't use spells like ["Lightning's Incarnate"] or ["Hell's Fist] or ["Time Zone"].
Plus those spells takes time to cast and here I can't do that since I have to protect Kana as well. So I will have to fight with Rank 4 spells for now) Ray evaded the attacks while analyzing the situation with precision.
Having Kana around him was making close combat rather difficult, as Ethan was able to move freely by teleporting around.
Ray decided to use some magical spells. Next time when Ethan teleported behind Ray.
Ray immediately cast ["INFERNO"]. Like this both Ray and Ethan kept fighting.
Ethan used fire magic spell which surprised Ray a bit, so he was unable to protect his back.
Ethan immediately took advantage of this moment and teleported behind Ray so that he could kill Kana.
"Tch..."
And yet, he was unable to slash Kana in the back. Ray had created a barrier of Ice magic using spell ["Ice Shield"] to block Ethan's sword.
Still, a single blow from Ethan's blade had enough force to create cracks on the barrier. Because in the end the ["Ice Shield"] was a Rank 4 spell. And here both Ethan and Ray were far higher level mages.
"Now it's my turn," Ray said while creating flame missiles several centimeters wide around him using ["Blue Flame Missile"].
Of course, Ethan had no intention of just taking the hit from these missiles and disappeared on the spot. Ethan was sure he will not die, but he was he will be injured, and he was afraid of penetration power of these Rank 4 missiles.
But who was Ray? He was someone who was personally trained by the strongest person in this world "The Vampire Queen".
Ray was able to predict where Ethan would move to with a high degree of precision. He fired the ["Blue Flame Missiles"] spell at the area on the ground where he predicted Ethan appearing.
Ray made full use of his spell mastery and Fast Casting Speed to continuously create more missiles and firing them at the ground. It almost looked like a meteor shower of Blue Flame Missiles.
(Kana was also shocked because it was her first time watching fight between strong mages and Knights. She has seen a lot of fights, but this was on whole other level.
She realized Ray never took any of his classmates seriously. At his full strength Ray Combat Power was no joke.
She realised that the only reason Ray was struggling against Rank 6 dragon in the Lava dungeon was because dragon had Scales which had high defense otherwise Ray would have completely destroyed the dragon if it had weak defense like human or any other race.
She is too weak as compared to Ray)
Ray's capabilities of fast casting these ["Blue Flame Missiles"] spell were Good.
However, Ethan was also impressive. He dashed about the ground, swinging his sword to cut down the Flame missiles while evading the rain of attacks. He sometimes disappeared and reappeared in a different position in the distance when he was not able to dodge or slice the missiles.
After a while, Ethan came to a stop and looked up at Ray floating in the air.
"Here, you can have these back." Ethan said and created a portal and spatial distortion around his surroundings.
Immediately after, space fluctuated around Ray and several flame bullets surrounded Ray in every direction. Ray immediately cast ["Blink"] spell and teleported out of there.
"I have to admit one thing. You are strong. I don't know how you managed to reach this level of strength at this young age." Ethan suddenly said to Ray.
"....." Ray watched him silently.
"Be it your swordsmanship or your magical talent both are exceptional. Good! Unfortunately you met me and will soon die. Sigh, It's a pity." said Ethan.
"What the fu*k?!"
Suddenly, Ethan swung his sword few meters away in front of Ray, but the blade of the sword had disappeared and was closing in from behind.
Ray's ["Danger Sense"] kicked in, and he promptly held his sword ready behind his back and caught the blow. The sound of clashing metal screeched, surprising Kana into looking for the source of the sound.
When she spotted the blade that had warped through space to float in the air, she broke out in a cold sweat. If she was in Ray's place she would be dead already by this attack.
"You can tell from where my attacks are coming from, can't you? Your battle instincts are wonderful" Ethan said, then resumed swinging his sword. One swing, then another, followed by one more all at different angles and speeds.
The sound of swords clashing gradually got faster. Ray saw through Ethan's attacks and knocked back all the blows, but he was treading on thin ice doing so.
"...." Kana was frozen stiff. All she was doing was hugging Ray, yet she felt closer to death than living. The attacks seemingly came from nowhere, but Ray blocked them all for her and that was the only thing keeping her alive.
"Let's become more serious than" Ethan said, using his teleportation to warp behind Kana. By the time he finished warping, he had already made a stabbing motion.
Ray immediately came in between Ethan and the Kana, but Ray realised that the distance of Ethan's sword was far from there location.
Ray realized that Ethan will warp the sword as well.
Ray hurried back to his original position as soon as he realised the attack. The next moment, the blade of the sword Ethan held, came from inside the portal. If Ray hadn't returned, it would have pierced through Kana's body, However Ray was also very late, and he suffered consequences.
"Guh...." He was unable to block the attack successfully and took the blade in his left arm. His left arm was almost separated from his body.
"RAY!!!!" Kana paled. It was clear that he had been stabbed in order to protect her. Only when the arm regenerated did Kana sighed in relief, but she was feeling guilty.
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