At the southern region of Silver city, two young men could be seen looking at a mage with a swollen face that was restrained using fire magic.
One of them had snow-white hair and icy blue eyes while the other one had brown hair with matching eyes.
These two young men were Lyon and Kai.
Apparently, after Kai defeated the rogue mage's puppet which he called Alpha #4, he immediately summoned the puppets #3, #2 and #1, one after the other, which Kai defeated with little to no effort.
Alpha #3 had the ability to produce muddy water but despite the magical disadvantage, Kai rushed it and destroyed it with a single punch. Fire magic was weak to water magic, therefore, naturally fire magic won't work on the muddy water.
Kai dashed towards the corpse with burst step, dodging all of it's attacks and landed a devastating punch on the reanimated corpse's chest, destroying it in a single motion.
Frustrated by this event, the rogue mage summoned Alpha #2. It had the appearance of a man covered in bandages without any legs. Its arms are restricted inside a black straitjacket. The corpse also wears pants of similar designs and a tattered cloth around its neck.
It had the ability to conjure Lightning Magic. As it creates a wave of electricity, it launch it towards Kai with accordance of the mage's orders. Kai was able to defeat by dodging all of its attacks and unleashed a fire spell at point blank range, reducing the corpse to ashes.
Afterwards, the mage summoned Alpha #1. it had the appearance of a thin man covered in bandages and white clerical attire decorated with diamond-shaped ornaments. Additionally, its head has an eye-shaped ornament attached on the face.
Kai had little difficulty while facing this reanimated corpse because of its magic. The corpse could use Barrier Magic, a defense magic capable of erecting a spherical barrier around itself and its master.
The barrier was strong enough to withstand Kai's intense burst of flames, in order his fire magic wasn't working on it.
However, the corpse could also attack as well, manifesting small blades and launching it towards Kai, rendering him on the defensive.
While seemingly being at the disadvantage side, Kai calmly analyzed #1 magic and swiftly finds its weakness.
In an instant, Kai used Fire line, a spell that focuses on penetrating power than destructive power. Kai concentration flames on his fingers and unleashed an intense beam of fire towards Alpha #1 and breached its magic barrier.
#1 was incinerated without giving the mage any chance to react. Seeing his finest corpse being easily defeated, the rogue mage begins to succumb to his fear towards Kai.
Upon seeing the fear in the mage's eyes, a wicked smile appeared on Kai's face. Then it started, an intense round of beating that lasted for 20 minutes.
Lyon was forced to witness the brutal scene of Kai landing fierce punches on the mage's face. The mage was quite handsome but that was nowhere to seen after Kai finished with him.
The only reason Kai stopped punching the mage was because Lyon stopped him, saying that he needs to be alive so they can question him.
After landing three more punches on the mage's face, satisfied, Kai finally released the mage from his grip and restrained him using fire magic. Lyon wondered how could his friend be so ruthless.
"Alright talk. Who are you guys? There's no real pattern to your invasion, it only look like mindless terrorism. But I know that's not the case. What are guys after?" Lyon questioned the mage with a fierce look.
The mage sighed before answering, "My name is Isaac and I came from the outer rings. Two years ago, I was the top recruit in the magic knights."
As if remembering, Lyon yelled out, "Wait! you're that guy with tremendous power!"
"You know this guy?" Kai asked with one of his eyebrows raised.
"No, but I heard of rumors about him. Rumors say that he had more magic power than all the recruits and even the nobles." Lyon explained
"But that doesn't answer the important question." Kai said before facing the mage and asked, "Why would someone with as talent as you do this?"
"Because I was forced out! Those bastards bitched out saying my magic was too dangerous and kicked me out. No stood up for me when all that was happening. Despite my taken being higher than the nobles themselves, I was abandoned by this kingdom and its people. My goal was to use this power of mine to get revenge. On the magic knights, the people and this kingdom that forsook me!!" Isaac shouted with anger in his eyes.
"Hold on! Don't tell me you killed people because of such childish reason like that." Kai said as his forehead twitched in anger. All this chaos was because this bastard was throwing a tantrum.
"Childish? Look at his guy, reasons are best when they are simple." Isaac said with a creepy smile.
"This fucker!!" Kai said in anger as he was about to beat up Isaac. Maybe he was too lenient on his beating.
"Kai wait, something isn't right. I don't think this guy is telling us everything." Lyon stated. There's no way that this guy would cause so much chaos just for a reason like that, was he seeking death. There has to be something he wasn't telling them.
"Of course, there's another reason. But I'm not going to tell you guys that." Isaac thought as he watched the two young men before him.
"Then I will just beat it out of him! Yes, I will do that and break a few bones, let's see if he remains quiet after all that." Kai said with a devilish smile as he crack his knuckles.
"Leave him to me, boys!"
Suddenly a voice spoke out from behind. Kai and Lyon turned their heads to see the individual who spoke out and they were shocked to see the man before them.