Even though Beatrice had seemingly gone through the explosion completely unharmed, she knew just how on this edge this situation actually was.
If Beatrice had sent the arrows flying just a moment later, or if she had just used a bit less mana, she would have probably been sent flying by the powerful spells.
Although she could not estimate the power of these spells, Beatrice knew that going against them head on would not be pleasant in the slightest.
"Hopefully I won't have to use this spell until I become on official mage, I need to practice some other ones," mumbled Beatrice as she touched her chin and walked back to the center of the room.
A moment later, five Dark Bolts appeared around Beatrice, as they then began moving extremely fast.
Even though the power of a Dark Bolt was far inferior, and a single bolt could not destroy an extremely magic resistant target dummy, a single Dark Bolt can still be extremely deadly.
This was something that a bunch of experienced mages, who should have already known better, had learned today.
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As she looked at the five mages who were surrounding her with serious looks on their faces, Ella, who had put Elias to sleep not too long ago, faintly smiled, causing the leading mage to smile.
Seeing this smile, the leading mage, Alexander, couldn't help but have a bad feeling emerge from within him.
'What am I thinking, as long as she isn't an official mage, us five should be able to take her on no matter how powerful she is, and even more so, she's just a kid, how powerful could she really be?' thought Alexander as he helped his four comrades create a barrier around the female mage apprentice.
But even though this mage apprentice was currently being surrounded, and her last hope of escape was being destroyed with the creation of the barrier, the smile on her face still remained the same, no matter how close the barrier surrounding her was to finishing.
Rather, she simply stood still in the middle of the barrier, without moving in the slightest, causing the mages that were ambushing her to be somewhat confused.
Step by step, bit by bit, the barrier around Ella became more complete, and once it finally became complete, the inevitable happened.
Without any warning, the barrier, which was nigh-impenetrable to Mage Apprentices, suddenly shattered as a smile black shadow passed through it, causing an extremely loud noise to ring in the ears of the five.
Only a fraction of a moment later, even though the dark shadow had not touched it, the Barrier protecting one of the mages suddenly cracked.
Sadly though, before he could react, a Dark Bolt once again touched the barrier protecting the man, causing it, that had already been weakened by the previous spell, to shatter and allow the Dark Bolt to pass through his body.
In but an instant, four more Dark Bolts suddenly attacked the four mages, as the faint smile on Ella's face transformed into a full one.
By now, though, the four remaining mages reacted as any relatively competent group would.
Four spells, each of differing elements, suddenly flew towards Ella, who only had a smile on her face.
Sadly, though, that smile disappeared a few moments later as Ella noticed the true power of those spells which had been thrown towards her.
"Too weak, as expected, random mages I find here are just too weak," mumbled Ella as the spells approached her body.
The moment before the spells were about to land on Ella, the latter suddenly disappeared.
At this moment, Ella had been replaced by a black blob of goo, through which the spells passed without any difficulty.
But although the spells had passed through the blob, and had created several large holes in it, the blob seemed completely unbothered, as it then quickly regenerated before turning back into Ella.
As they saw this scene, three of the four remaining mages who had ambushed Ella fell into shock, whilst their comrade made a run for it.
In an instant, the wind mage who had just ambushed Ella turned around and began flying, aided by the wind, which allowed him to move at extremely fast speeds.
Thanks to his innate talent, Oliver was always much faster than his peers, but in the air, this difference was magnified a hundred-fold.
Unlike his other mage comrades, who could fly through the air at respectable speed, Oliver zipped through the air, leaving a sonic boom behind.
The moment he noticed this, Alexander couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Oliver, that sneaky bastard, since when was he so fast?!" asked Alexander as five dark bolts suddenly struck his barrier at the same time, breaking it and going through his body.
Thankfully though, Alexander did get some closure in the end, as in his dying moments, he could watch as a dark shadow rapidly approached that rat, Oliver, and smashed him to smithereens.
Even though Oliver was extremely fast, and could perhaps out speed a Dark Bolt whilst flying through the air, he was utterly helpless against the power of a Dark Arrow, allowing it to immediately shatter his Barrier, as well as his body the moment it made contact.
But even so, the Dark Arrow, which had just returned from its travel, did not stop after killing Oliver, in fact, the barrier that could block several Dark Bolt shots did not even manage to slow it down, allowing it to immediately go after his two remaining comrades.
At this moment, though, the two remaining mages had simply fallen into despair, and could not resist the arrow in the slightest.
As such, under Ella's uncaring eyes, the two bodies of the two were smashed to pieces.
A moment later, over a thousand elemental stones suddenly flew in front of Ella, after having been scattered after the death of their owner.
But as someone who had an S Grade Darkness affinity, and had reached the highest level a mage apprentice could, Ella did not have much interest in elemental stones.