Happened at the same time Sam was fighting Elijah.
Vic was firing her guns at Lamar. Nate was unleashing a barrage of ice attacks at Lamar as well. No effect. Nate was confused, so was Vic. They knew what they needed to do—deal a significant blow. The thing is, how the hell do they do that?
Nate notices that Sam was struggling and wants to help him out. But he needs to focus. He can't use that spell yet, because he can't focus on it and fight at the same time.
Lamar was relentless, despite his reluctance to kill the two. Nate had to play complete defense as Vic wasn't good at close-quarter-combat. He was occupied worrying about himself, Vic, Derrick, and Sam. Which led to many openings for Lamar to slip past. Not so much as mortal wounds, but enough to distract Nate with the pain. He was bleeding quite a lot.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" He panics in silence as he tries to keep up with Lamar's swift slash and stabs. He defends with "Ice blade", which was too long and heavy to make a quick counter. Or with "Frozen Fist", which was good for defending against Lamar but that's it. He'll be quickly overwhelmed by the barrage of attacks.
Vic was helping from the sidelines. Trying to shoot Lamar. But the bullets just pass through him. "What the hell should we do?" Vic thought. She didn't want to shoot carelessly or big explosion, because non-sorcerers were running away from the fight.
"You're name's Lamar, right?"
"Yeah."
"Tell me something; why are you working for Shujin?"
"Money. One of the reasons."
"The others?"
"He's a Supreme-Rank sorcerer. Doesn't matter if we're smoke, he can still kill us somehow."
"How'd you figure?"
"He showed us."
"How?"
"None of you are light sorcerers, it doesn't matter."
"Hmph."
Nate then took a second before attacking. He signaled Vic to wait as well. He thought about what he'd been taught at the Varr house. To deal with a body spell is to use an opposite element. Or a similar one. "He's an anomaly class sorcerer. Assassin as well. He's similar to that Terror guy. But his is smoke instead of semi-liquid acid. Not as troubling, relatively. Something opposite? Can barely do anything to smoke. Smoke is gas, then something similar. Wind!"
"Using a body spell constantly would drain your mana. But these two are anomaly classes so they have an exception. However, anomaly class or not, using body spells to move drains your mana still."
Nate brought his hands together and rubbed them in a horizontal circular motion. The dirt and leaves scattered on the ground were slowly levitating and traveling in a circle around Nate. "I only know how to use wind recently." He then pushed both his hands at Lamar. A wall of wind sent Lamar and his smoke body back a few meters.
His hands then start to tremble. His knees feel weak too. He began to sweat a lot. He realized using wind, the hardest constitution to master, drains your mana. But he had no options left. "Vic, I need your help with two things. Clear the coast."
"What're you gonna do?"
"Just see."
"Okay."
Lamar then beckoned his hand at Vic to evacuate the people. She took the opportunity and helped evacuate. Nate clenched his forehead. He was quite perplexed. "Why?" He asked.
"I kill my targets, not random innocent people. I'm a professional killer. Not a mass murderer."
Nate then takes a moment to think. Using the time of people evacuating. It was quite a short time. Then he got an idea that would drain Lamar's mana in-trade of his. The people then were evacuated completely. "Do you know how a hurricane is formed?"
"No."
"When warm moist air over the water rises, it is replaced by cooler air. The cooler air will then warm and start to rise. This cycle causes huge storm clouds to form."
"So?"
Nate casts "Ice Rink" and freezes the floor. Then he erected a dome around Lamar. Trapping him in it. Lamar then started breaking the dome. "Vic, flamethrower!" Nate ordered. She casts an actual flamethrower. "Melt the ice, quick!" He said. Then she did. Her flamethrower isn't actually a real one. It doesn't have a tank pack. It just burns with her mana. The dome quickly melts and steam shrouded them. Nate then unconsciously used a lot of his mana, near all of it, to cast a strong gush of cold wind.
The wind was slowly becoming visible by its rotating motion. It rose in height and quickly formed a tornado.
Because of the steam, dome, and flamethrower, Lamar turned 100 percent into smoke. Therefore, he gets brought into the tornado. The speed of the tornado exceeded its average of 110 miles per hour. Lamar's mana was drained quickly because of the speed of the tornado. With all his effort, he tried to get out of the tornado as the smoke. He reached a bit outside and he ran out of mana. Then he turned back into a human. He was thrown out of the tornado, and Nate dispelled it. Nate used the last of his drained mana, to form a small ice spike. Holding it in his hand, he used the momentum of Lamar being thrown and pierced his heart. He was screaming before, but after he was stabbed, as his mouth filled with his own blood, it made him choke while screaming. Groaning in deep agony.
It was at that moment, Elijah received a heavy wound from Sam.