Kai, James and sister Teresa dashed across the streets, following James as he tracked down his sister using his mirror magic.
Luckily, the location isn't quite far and he managed to reach there under 10 minutes. It was a hill close to Silver city.
As they appeared, what stood in their line of sight was the entrance cave, normally it would be look like a typical cave but now it was covered with snow and even the ground as well.
But what stood out was a silhouette laying down infront of the entrance of the snowy cave. It was a kid around 10 with dark brown hair was wearing a plain white shirt, a pair of dark blue shorts, and brown shoes.
"Mark!!" Kai shouted out as he recognized the boy and rushed towards him. Sister Teresa followed him but James just continued and entered inside the cave.
Although Kai couldn't see Mark's face, he was able to recognize him from his hair and clothes.
"Mark! Do you recognize me?" Kai said as he raised mark up but mark didn't respond.
"Uh! this wounds... " Kai frowned upon seeing the bruises all over Mark's body.
"Mark! How are you feeling?" Kai called out once again but mark didn't respond, he still has a lifeless look in his eyes as his eyes was now dull blue.
"This won't work. He's under some spell and is pretty much a vegetable." Sister Teresa said as she placed her right hand on top of Mark's head and then a white light enveloped Mark.
"...." The color of Mark's eye returned as he regained consciousness and his wounds all over his body was being healed.
"Uh? Kai? Sister?" Mark said, surprised to see Kai and the sister.
"So what exactly happened?" The sister asked.
"I don't really know. All I can remember is going to my room and fell asleep." Mark explained as he tried to remember what happened.
"Mark, we are going to save your sister and the other kids. Can you wait by yourself by the cave?" Kai suddenly asked.
"Huh?" Mark said with a confused look before he understood Kai's words and said, "No! don't leave me out here alone, stay with me!!" He pleaded.
Seeing Mark's reaction, Kai remained his scarf and wore around Mark's neck.
"Don't be like that, You're a man, aren't you? Just for today, I'm leaning you my scarf! Now that you have this on, there is nothing to fear because that scarf has all the courage in the world imbued in it!" Kai said with a proud look.
"Now, just wait for us to return!" Kai added.
"Yeah, sure." Mark agreed after hearing Kai's words plus the scarf was really warm.
"Remember, I'm only lending it to you. I'm going to need it back!" Kai explained.
After leaving those words, Kai turned to the entrance of the cave and frowned before dashing inside with sister Teresa following behind him.
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"Ahhhhhh"
"Hahahaha!! This is great, this is so great!!! I'm going to wring you dumb kids of all your mana!!"
Inside the cave, Blake was laughing loudly with a crazed look as he heard the screams of the girl scrapped tightly to a wooden chair while she was getting her mana drained by the machine.
But her screams died down as she lost consciousness and blood dripped from her nose and eyes.
"Oh, looks like this one is gone." Blake said with a satisfied look as he released the girl on the chair and threw her unconscious body to a spot where other unconscious kids were gathered.
"Now the next one. Bring that girl over there!" Blake ordered Noah as he pointed towards a girl with short black hair that is swept to the left side, black eyes and was wearing a blue dress.
This girl was naturally James' sister, May.
Noah hesitated a bit before he nodded and walked towards May. He grabbed her and pulled her towards Blake who had a devious smile on his face. But before he could reach him brother.
"MAAAAAYYYY!!!"
A shout echoed inside the cave, causing Noah look behind and saw a young man with light skin and shaggy brown hair approaching them.
"Thank goodness, she's alri...." James paused mid sentence as he gaze shifted to a group of unconscious kids who had blood flowing from their eyes and nose.
"What the hell were you bastards trying to do to May!!" James shouted with anger present in his eyes and quickly manifested a mirror Infront of him and shot a light beam towards Noah.
Noah quickly reacted and dodged to the side while letting go of May's hand. However, he did not dodge the light beam completely as it still managed to gaze his right shoulder.
"What? We are under attack! He's a mage and a magic knight at that." Noah said while sitting on the ground.
"I can see that idiot! Damnit, how the hell did he find us so quickly?" Blake grumbled with an annoyed look. Thanks to James' appearance their plans were ruined.
"Fight back! You can use magic too!" He commanded Noah.
"Y-yeah." Noah mumbled before he used his snow magic and sent forth a burst of snow towards James.
James calmly reacted and created several duplicates before dodging the snow attack.
"Damn, I can't hit him." Noah thought as he used his snow magic once again and manifested several snowman Infront of him.
"GET HIM!!" He commanded, obeying Noah's command, the snow men lunged towards James.
"Give me a break!" James voiced out with an disappointed look before he manifested several mirrors around him before unleashing several beams of light.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The light beams slammed into the cave walls and bounced around, piercing through the snow men bodies.
"I'm going to kill you all!!" James declared
"Shit! This is good and also scary." Noah thought with a look of disbelief and fear.
"Damnit! I haven't gotten all the mana from the kids yet.... And" Blake thought as he tapped the edges of his glasses.
Apparently, his glasses was a magic item that allows the user to gauge the mana of others.
"How can this brat have so much power!" Blake questioned with a look of disbelief as he gauged the mana level of James.
"What should I do now?" Noah asked with an agitated look.
"Oh shut up! Think for yourself you damn fool!" Blake grumbled.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Blade suddenly heard footsteps and shifted his gaze towards behind him. He saw a young man and an elderly woman wearing a nun attire approaching.
Upon appearing, Kai and sister Teresa saw the missing kids that they were looking for and noticed that some of them were laying lifeless on the floor.
Sister Teresa swiftly rushed towards them and raised one of them up, checking their condition.
"Man was forcefully drained from these kids. If they are not treated quickly, I don't think they'll survive for long." She said upon checking their condition.
"You bastards! What the hell have you done!!" Kai said as his blood boiled with rage and and his forehead twitched in anger.
"Damnit, new enemies!" Blake grumbled as he checked Kai's mana level with his glasses. Upon that, his face quickly turned pale.
"Shit! What's this level of mana? Is this guy really human?" Blake voiced out as his body trembled in fear upon seeing Kai's magic power. Without warning, Kai suddenly appeared Infront of Blake and slammed his right fist into his Blake's fat stomach.
Bang!
As his Kai's fist made impact, Blake felt like vomiting all his food contents and his body was sent flying towards the cave wall.
Boom!
As blake crashed into the wall of the cave and the force made him lose his breath.