Back above Gazing moon village.
The old man who saw Lilia's meteor spell next to him simply flew a little bit up to avoid any damage whatsoever from the outcome.
While the black-red dragon really wanted to flee and abandon Thomas, he simply couldn't, thanks to the fact that he is his contracted pet, so he just looked up and waited for his death Silently.
Thomas already had enough of the stress of not knowing when he was gonna die, without wasting any more time he channeled his teleportation device trying to flee away with his little life.
Thomas who saw that the old man didn't react, heaved a sigh of relief realizing that the old man is probably a warrior and didn't feel anything from that distance.
Looking at Lilia next, he managed to detect a faint smile on her face, but he directly rejected what he thought he saw and started waiting for the 3 seconds to be over.
The 1 second alone seemed to be like years for Thomas, and he even seemed to age by a few years cause of how overwhelmed and frightened he was.
However, in the blink of an eye, the old man vanished and reappeared in front of Thomas, while already holding a sword which no one knew when did he get it out.
With a swoosh, the old man brandished his long sword beheading Thomas and the dragon mount under him. The old man was so fast that Thomas didn't even realize what happened even after his death.
The old man sneered disdainfully " Did you really think I wouldn't feel the mana fluctuations just cause I'm a warrior, how did you not use that chicken brain of yours and recalled that I was a tier 4 warrior and not just your typical tier 3 warrior ant that you used to see around you".
" Well, I guess you are dead and can't answer me anymore, nonetheless, maybe in your next life you will get a better brain and luck so you can live for a few more years".
Before Thomas's and the dragon's bodies began falling, he took the ring away from his hand and again vanished, reappearing in his prior location above Lilia.
" Hoh hoh, this storage ring actually contains what I needed and even more than that, wealthy people are really the best to kill and rob". The old man casually commented while putting the ring on one of his fingers that could fit it in.
After finishing Thomas, the old man's face suddenly turned from relaxed to deadly serious.
Lilia's face as well turned deadly serious, and she immediately pushed her meteor into the village.
Everyone already accepted the fact that they are for sure dead the moment they saw the spell descending upon them.
You can spot some families hugging each other and crying, realizing that it's their last time together in this life, you can also see some who accepted their fate and simply waited patiently till the gigantic fireball hit the village.
Jack was one of those people, he didn't bother to run cause he knew that every attempt to outrun his outcome of death will mean a fate worse than death itself.
Some people which seemed to be ordinary villagers without any martial arts or magic merely died through the heat alone that was generated by the meteor.
' Well I guess I'll be dying after I just healed my injuries and not taking revenge, life is really unfair ' those were Jack's last emotions before the meteor hit the village.
Everything was instantly devastated the moment the meteor touched the ground, the whole village was no more, and a big crater measuring thousands of meters in width and going a few meters down formed in its location.
A few seconds after the meteor hit the ground, darkness and silence enveloped the whole place in surrounding area, and no one for sure managed to survive even if they tried using some defensive magic items.
" I really can't stop loving such a scene unfolding in front of me, such a beautiful sight, why can't the whole world burn like this, well anyway, I took care of the ants down below, now let's start our business old man, Shall we?" Lilia stared a little at the crater she created while joy and satisfaction filled her heart.
The old man didn't even bother answering this mad woman, and without any further ado, he circulated his mana into his legs, and arms and dashed forward, leaving behind some afterimages in his path.
Lilia quickly reacted and used a stone firewall coupled with two firebirds that were flying in the warrior's direction from left and right.
" Show me some of your skills old man, I'm eager for a good bloody fight".
" You talk too much girl".
The old man suddenly halted his dash and stopped before the stone firewall, he glanced at the two birds rapidly approaching him and muttered to himself, ' Triple slash '.
Saying so, he raised his sword with both his hands above him, and then slashed his sword downward in a vertical way, it looked simple, but what seemed like an ordinary movement, actually contained devastating power in it.
Three vertical slashes that were purely made of mana came out from that single attack, the middle one targeting the wall, while the other two were targeting the birds.
Before any slash hit its appointed target, he once again muttered softly 'Quick steps '.
The old man completely vanished and reappeared just behind his slash that was aiming for the wall, while again softly mumbling ' Triangle'.
The warrior made three movements in the blink of an eye with his sword which looked like a triangle, and another attack formed by mana appeared out of his movements.
The triangle caught up to the middle slash and completely enveloped it.
The slash and triangle cut through the stone firewall like tofu, and the two birds were also cut in half, totally disappearing out of sight.
The vertical slash enveloped by the triangle kept heading toward Lilia without showing any signs of slowing down at all.
Lilia who saw this couldn't help but chuckle a little and she again softly said ' twin fire stone hands'.
Two giant fire stone hands formed out of fire and stone stood in between Lilia and the vertical slash.
Upon contact, a loud boom echoed through the surrounding area, but to the old man's contrary expectations, the vertical slash didn't even manage to penetrate the first hand, and his attack got totally blocked.
Before he can fix his position, he noticed the firebirds that he had already cut in half and disappeared doubling in number, each half reappeared again and turned into another smaller firebird while rapidly closing in on him with much more speed than the ones before.
" Did you really think that my spell will be destroyed just like that, take this hit for your arrogance now old man ".
The old man didn't give any attention to what she was saying and simply took out another sword from his ring and slowly said ' Tornado'.
The warrior started spinning in his spot without moving at all, waiting for the birds to reach him.
The three first birds finally reached him but they were totally destroyed by his two swords in the process, and only the last one managed to directly hit him.
But no serious injuries were taken out of that hit thanks to his magic robe, but a few more direct hits will for sure make a difference and won't look shallow like this one.
Stopping his tornado, the warrior got again into position above Lilia and circulated his mana through his whole body, waiting for Lilia's attack.
After all, he doesn't have to start chasing her to land an attack, the young woman already used a good amount of her mana into her meteor spell, so all he had to do, is tire her down and then finish her off in one clean move.
The attacks that the old man used were simply to prob the young woman's strength and not to injure her or anything, but even though it was meant to prob her, he still didn't expect his attack to not even penetrate at least one hand.
The young woman seemed to see through the warrior's thoughts and couldn't help but chuckle, " Do you really think that you can defend and attack from that far till I run out of mana? You are really underestimating me so much if that's indeed what you intend to do old man".
Lilia flew up a little to face the old man and cast another spell " firestone bullet".
Lilia after all has an affinity towards both fire and earth, and she luckily got to harvest some spells for both attributes, so she can still fuse them to make her spells way stronger.
Even though her main Cultivation technique is a fire Cultivation technique, she can still use her earth attributes in a lot of different things, starting with the fact that she can amplify her fire spells with stone spells.
So even though the spells that she's using looked simple from the name or the outside image, the power contained in them is actually not something to be trifled with at all, and even some middle-stage tier 4 people might have a headache dealing with a double attribute mage.
Cause the fusion of two attributes in a single attack is not easy at all and needs a lot of training to achieve, but the moment you start fusing two attributes in a single spell, you will be much more respected and feared in the different towns.
Sadly in cities, a double attribute mage is so common that you can even see them acting like guards or bodyguards, and only a triple attribute mage will gather some attention towards him.