As the water rose within the tube, Mabel and Maryann tossed every one within the wall outside with water waves leaving the enemy within.
The waves guided them to a safe landing outside the water wall.
Mabel then closed the top of the tube in a way similar to how she generated the walls, leaving the four of them( herself, Maryann and the two enemies) immersed in the water-filled zone.
Suddenly, Mabel and Maryann began to attack the hooded figures.
They had much more advantage inside the water compared to outside.
They moved swiftly, with spears in their hands, striking the enemy continuously.
The enemy continued helplessly hovering within the immersion at the strike of their spears.
When the hits began to become more and more critical, the enemy ice user suddenly caught initiative.
He stretched out both arms and immediately the water began to rapidly freeze outwards from the point he was, until the whole water in the tube along with the water wall froze completely, the four of them stuck in position.
None of them could move a muscle.
Suddenly, Lethar the Verdugo who was part of those outside the ice, transformed his right arm into a long blade of about 5 meters length.
He jumped into mid-air and struck the ice hard at the center, the sharp blade dividing it into two halfs.
One half had Maryann and Mabel, the other had the enemy.
The captain of the guard who was a fire user immediately ran and touched the half-ice holding the girls with his palms.
Then with some chi-generated fire, he started melting the ice from the outside rapidly.
Soon enough, the ice melted, causing Mabel and Maryann to fall to the ground accompanied with a large splash of water.
Emelda then drew out another arrow and nocked it against the bowstring.
The captain of the guards then came to her and with one palm touched the head of the arrow infusing it with a deadly concentration of chi generated fire.
The flame wasn't large but it was really concentrated.
Emelda pulled on the string a little more and let go.
The arrow went straight at the half-ice holding the enemy in place.
"Ka-booomm".
An explosion sounded loudly, giving off a lot of smoke.
They all waited for the smoke to clear off.
When the the view was clear, everyone was wide-eyed at what they saw in front of them.
It was something, like a pod standing right in front of the ice that held the two other mysterious personalities. It seemed to have shielded the ice-held hooded figures.
Suddenly the pod-like thing suddenly started opening up from the center, along the vertical to reveal someone exactly like the trapped figures in the ice, the supposed pod spreading out to reveal large wings similar to that of what a giant bat would have.
Emelda started continuously infusing explosive energy in arrows and shooting at the new figure.
She conceptualized that the winged figure wouldn't dodge her attacks else the ones he was trying to protect would surely take the hit.
Simultaneously, the winged figure forged out what looked like a lightning sword of about 50 centimeters and began to deflect the arrows one by one with every swing of the lightning sword.
As Emelda was keeping the winged figure busy, the fire user among the first two who were still stuck in the ice, began to generate fire at his two palms warming up the ice, attempting to melt it.
As the ice was warming up, Mabel noticed it, infused her spear with explosive energy and threw it with an incredible amount of force ( her arm being super strong in her upgraded form) directly towards the figure generating the heat.
The spear thrust through the ice and the head of the figure demobilizing it.
What looked like blood but purple gradually exuded from the head flowing and slowly filling the inner part of the Ice around the head.
Unfortunately the crack made from the spear combined with the little heat generated by the struck mage weakened the ice, causing it to break into large sized bits which fell around, water accompanying it to the ground, also freeing the second figure.
The winged figure who had been distracted by Emelda up unto this point observed what had befallen his ally and suddenly turned towards Mabel and in an instant was behind her, his lightning sword stretched out, pulling blood off her body.
In one fell swoop he struck and killed Mabel.
"Nooo!!!"
Maryann screamed.
Maryann tried to react but his speed was in another level.
Immediately the winged figure had struck Mabel, he retreated to the front of his allies in a manner to protect them from any further attack.
Simultaneously Mabel finally fell to the ground with blood from her body splashing all over the ground.
The other two Verdugo who were with Lethar moved swiftly towards the mysterious figures but the winged figure, at an insanely high speed, struck them simultaneously knocking them to the ground before they could land any more damage.
He seemed to be extremely powerful and no one had known where he suddenly came out from.
The first two threats were terrible enough to fully occupy their attention, only for this one to suddenly appear.
The captain of the guards who was standing beside Mr. Arasaki at the time tried to make a move but Mr. Arasaki held his hand across the captain's chest restricting him.
"He's stronger than we think, we can't move carelessly"
Mr. Arasaki said.
"What do we do then?"
The captain asked.
"One of them is dead so the others are being overly protective.
They wouldn't fail to observe an nuances around them right now.
We'll require something more than direct attacks and cheap tricks.
As they were still conceptualizing their next attack the winged figure drew out a small dagger from his side and cut himself at the beneath of his index finger, releasing purple blood just like the one which exuded from the head of the figure Mabel had struck.
Suddenly irregular white patterns started appearing all over it's body all terminating at a fairly large white circle on his chest.
He then slapped his hand on the ground and patterns similar to what was on his body spread out a few centimeters away from his hand and a portal shining brightly was created on the ground.
He then lifted up his two allies, one on each shoulder and for the first time he spoke in a voice that sounded like a multitude.
"The age of the abyss has begun".
He then jumped into the portal on the ground like one diving into a swimming pool.
Almost immediately someone jumped off the acclivity of the mountain straight into the portal.
He had a mask on and a sword, hung askew on his back in it's sheath.
He moved too swiftly for any further details of him to be caught by anyone.
The light of the portal brightened for a few seconds and the portal disappeared along with the markings on the ground.