Ken's whole plan was fairly simple with few complications. He knew from the main storyline that the red haired demon guy would stalk and strike first, so with his knowledge of events Ken activated any sensory skills at his disposal immediately he stepped foot in the last floor which turned useless cause, Ancient magic.
But his most recent perception skill picked up on something. [Gravitational force Perception] allowed Ken to basically sense organisms by the strength of the gravitational force no matter their concealment skills but there was a problem.
From the skill he sensed their general location and numbers but not where the guy was among the flying organisms with things on their backs, meaning if he attacked there was a large possibility of missing the guy and him escaping.
So he decided to be vigilant to block any who will become his target, immediately the guy strikes and he will block, the rest will be a piece of cake as he'd have revealed his location. But in a moment of carelessness and cockiness, Ken failed to anticipate his opponent's move with the Ancient magic he's acquired a few steps ahead, leading to his current predicament:
""Ke-Kenshiro!!""
Riveria and Yue's scream rang out. Slightly away from Ken, Shia, Hagime and Tio could only watch Ken being swallowed by beam and breath attacks absentmindedly, only to regain their senses when they heard Yue and Riveria's sorrowful screams they've never heard even once ever since they met.
The portals disappeared first before the beam from above visibly thinned out until merging with the air with a sizzle sound. Yue, frantically jumped to where Ken was as he appeared from the disappearing light and was still in a defensive fetus position, even though he had become tattered.
As he was about to fall and succumb to his injuries, Yue arrived and gently laid him down.
"Kh! Ken! Kenshiro!!"
Maximum uneasiness could be seen on Yue's face while she made Ken drink the Sacred water she took out. Ken's condition was quite miserable. His hands and legs he used to defend his vitals were burnt so badly that even the bone that could be seen were burnt black.
Luckily, his ingenious idea of micro weaving Azantium metal into his clothes saved him from getting more degree burns around his back and abdomen. Even so, as a sign of his growth as well as the efficacy of the sacred water; muscle tissues and blood vessels started reconnecting.
Riveria who stood unmoved from her position, looked up as her eyes flashed crimson light in rage, and with a tight grip on her spear. With her innate ability she traced the trajectory of the beam attack, before she used the magics in her weapon to induce zero gravity around it.
Fueled by rage, Riveria throws Spear of Slaughter with immense strength that it produces a sonic boom due to the defiance of gravity. The rest looked weirdly at her thinking she's lost it in rage for attacking an empty space but were proven wrong when a magic shield along with a pyre of wyverns materialized to block.
Ken would have found their ignorance blissful if he saw, as the spear penetrated the barrier with little resistance before pinning it's victim –a wyvern with a turtle on it's back– to the ceiling of the boss room for a few seconds before the wyvern slipped through the spear and fell into the magma.
"Tsk" was heard from Riveria who knew she had missed her intended target. Spear of Slaughter then flew back into Riveria's hands before a voice was heard:
"Woman, that was dangerous… ...indeed a force that cannot be overlooked; it was really the right thing to ambush here. You are all too dangerous. But that man was making me uneasy…"
The others look a little to the side of the pyre of wyverns to find a reddish brown skinned man with red hair and pointed ears riding a white pseudo-dragon. There was no need for intros as the group knew these two were responsible for the beam and portal attacks on Ken.
"Uranus, for him to depend your surprise attack and also survive a combined attack from you and your pyre, this man is very abnormal... these women too. What are you? How many Ancient magics have you acquired to be this strong?"
The man was glaring from the sky with his dangerously narrowed golden eyes, similar to Tio and Ken. He asked that question while being cautious of Yue and the others who glared back at him. He thought Yue and the girls' power came from Age of god's magic from the Great Labyrinths.
"Urge!!... that really hurt"
'So I was selected because he trusted his instinct? I was careless eh '
""Ken"" Yue and the girls' voice rang out before the demon even opened his mouth. As for Hagime, he stood his ground as a relief smile curved his lips. Riveria and the rest jumped from their footholds to Ken's side with worried looks. Seeing how Ken's arousal immediately eased the tension he built, Freid frowned as this indicated their undying trust in the man's strength even with his current appearance.
"So you've awoken, Irregular leader"
"I'm Kiyama Kenshiro... you are?"
He didn't act tough by trying to stand or raise his upper body for he knew his own body, so he opted for the demon to waste time.
"... Truly you're worthy of hearing the name of this apostle of God. Freid Bagwa is my name, remember it as I send you to the afterlife"
"I dont think having two Ancient magics gives you claim to such title, no?"
"Ignorant heretic should stay that way!!."
"Heretic?... then this might be divine punishment for killing that demon at Ur, Haiyaa"
Ken then kept the conversation going while he telepathically gave Riveria some instructions.
With his eyebrow twitching for an instant, the Demon race man answered with tone somewhat lowered than before.
"Trying cloud my judgement with anger is beneath you... In the name of Alva our God, be cleansed from this world"
His words was a signal for his white pseudo-dragon and the other wyverns to unleash hell on Ken and the girls.
ZIINGGG!! BOOMM!!
"Tempest Dome" "Absolute Fortress"
Not allowing for a second mistake, Tio and Yue respectively conjured their most effective defensive spell against the barrages of breath attacks.
"Am I that unimportant in your eyes?" shouted Hagime as he fired a shot from his cannon "Orkan", which forced Freid to cast an ancient spell while the wyverns with turtles defended with their lives.
"Cosmic Shift"
With it he disappears from his previous location, leaving Hagime guessing and on guard but not for long when Shia warns him of the dangers behind after a brief foresight.
Luckily, Ken had summoned Hagime's Cross-bits on time which Hagime uses to defend Uranus' beam attack. Freid frowns at the unpredictability of this party and proclaims:
"Your artifacts are starting to annoy me... the next move would be your end. Cos-- huh?... Impossible!!"
ZIINGGG!!! ZIINGGG!! BOOOM!! TZZZ!!
Before he could use the spacial spell again, a black dragon appeared before him and without any comments released a dragon breath which was met with Uranus' breath attack which created energy fusion and shock from the point of intersection.
Hagime used this opportunity to air step on to Uranus' back to engage in a close quarters combat with Freid Bagwa.
While that fight was ongoing, Yue and Shia defended and countered against the well fortified pyre of wyverns as Ken who was now partially healed stood up.
"Using magic conversion to speed my healing drained more mana as expected. Dammit! I now can't use Forth Sight to directly vanquish this demon"
Said Ken as he looked at the sorry state of Freid and Uranus who lost in their confrontation with Hagime and Tio and now seek protection behind the abilities of the turtles from the continuous attacks of our protagonists.
With a grimace, Ken pulled Helsing with shaky hands and tries not to miss in his current state.
' Switch to Second Circle... Mist Dispersion activate '
A blue magic circle with proper geometric lines within scanned the barrel of Helsing as Ken took aim at the wyverns defending Freid.
CLICK! FSSSH!! CLICK! FSSSH!!
"W-what going on?" shouted Freid in horror as he continues:
"An attack that bypasses both magical and physical defenses?... Dammit "
Not caring whether his little creature destroyed the keystone or if spatial spells could work against such abilities, Freid in fear took out a medallion to create an escape route through the ceiling to which he promptly retreats with Uranus.
"Thank goodness, his fear overcame his reasoning..." said Ken as he wears his Outlaw helmet to control Third eye hovering outside.
"T-this?... What was that frightening attack that made them vanish, Master"
"Second Circle magic..." replied Ken without much thought as he appeared to be multitasking in the helmet.
"...Mist Dispersion?" (Yue)
"What's that?" (Shia)
"... I don't know the details myself but I helped create the magic circuits on the gun"
"It's a theory I coined... or copied based on my most versatile ability. When activated, it can decompose muscles, tissue, bone, even organs into the basic molecules such as ions and the basic elements... ...it simple terms my targets dissipate to dust, transform into steam and then scatter.
As long as I can identify my target in any shape or form, this spell unaffected by distance or physical space can get them"
Ken takes off his helmet with a satisfied smile as he explained the scientific imagery behind this spell which sends a shiver down their spines for a good reason.
Riveria comes down from atop the wide cylinder with a dead small winged creature in her hand.
"You were right, Ken. This thing was trying to destroy the keystone..."
"Good job, Riveria. Now everyone let's get our reward"
"What about that despicable demon that escaped?..."
"Hehehe~ he has also received divine punishment "
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Meanwhile, outside the Volcano.
Freid stopped his escape when he realized things weren't so simple;
Firstly, if the attack was a deadly as it appeared to be (which it is for anything living or nonliving), he should be dead.
Secondly, he escaped without activating his failsafe– the keystone that held the active Volcano from erupting.
"Only two things come to mind;
He's either out of mana that he pushed his limit to kill all the wyverns or he wanted to scare me to escape so that I won't know that spatial magic is the spell's weakness... or both"
What he didn't know apart from the fact that he would have been dead if Ken had mana to use [Forth Sight] even in his current location; was that he was being monitored by Ken through Third eye twenty five meters above him.
Ken then activated the attack feature of Third eye aimed at Freid who was contemplating whether he should wait to ambush them outside or to go in and finish it.
Using fire magic to superheat the surrounding air particles and using wind magic to focus them into a powerful beam attack that exploded upon impact, Third eye just executed the attack of Combustion man.
SHHHH!! BOOOOMM!!! Aaaaghhh!!
Freid and his partner screamed in pain as they fell into the sandstorm along with great injuries.