"Are you sure that we are allowed to rampage here?" I ask while looking at the empty land. The moon is the only thing that illuminates the entire place.
"Don't make it sound like we were going to fight for death here. We are just here to train a little and create battle techniques and strategy." David said.
I look away from David while trying to hide my evil smile.
The training should be fighting someone who could do the same things as the Lich. Yeah, I'll be sure to enjoy this.
I tried to sense human presence if there are any and I could sense multiple people far ayaw from us. It seems like they are monitoring us from afar.
"I'll just restore this place if it gets destroyed. Now let's begin."
--Thunder Shock--
A bolt of lightning shoot out from my moon staff trying to hit David but he evaded it.
"What the hell was that Archie?" Makoy said while holding his sword.
Everyone prepared their weapons at hands except David.
"What was that Archie, you could have hit me. Be careful when you use your spells."
He reminded me.
"Are you guys still don't get it? The training is fighting me. The one who has the same ability as the Lich. Fight me like your lives depends on it. Don't worry if I accidentally kill you, I'll revive you."
--Divine Judgement --
Light made of sword manifested in the air and targeted the five of them.
--Chaotic Slash-- Makoy
Light speed slashes hit all the light sword erasing it from existence.
I guess the power of S-class is not a joke.
"That spell is the one he used to wipe out the monsters at Mindanao right?" Christine ask.
"Are we seriously doing it? Is he really gonna kill us and revive us after we die?" Makoy.
"We have no choice but to fight him. It's 4 against 1 and we have David here with us." Ferdinand said.
"Hey Archie can you just stop this?" David asks me.
"No, let's have some fun David, show me your abilities. Didn't you want to show them off before? Now it's your chance."
--Dark Claw--
Suddenly shadows made of darkness manifested in their shadows, trying to grab them but luckily all of them manage to escape.
--Piercing Arrow--
A energy in a form of arrow shoot towards my direction, I didn't move away and suddenly a barrier manifested infront of me, protecting me from the attack.
"Now you are getting it."
--Teleport--
I arrive behind their back and I raise my moon staff. My grimoire starting to turn it's pages.
--Inferno--
Fire burst from my staff burning the entire ground. All of them scattered.
Suddenly the temperature drop and the flames died out.
David begun unsheathing his sword and raise it in front of me.
"Fine, if we lose I'll make you kneel infront of me."
David then swing his swords and Ice spears begun forming in the air shooting at me. I levitated to avoid it when suddenly my barrier activated.
--Rune of Saber--
Makoy slash my barrier but he failed to destroy it, I could feel mana above me and I look there when an arrow hit my barrier.
--Piercing Arrow--
Now they are finally getting serious. Their collaboration is quite formidable.
--Star Gaze--
Magic circle form from above releasing small meteorites that I controlled at will.
"Everyone come here" David shouted.
David created a solid wall of Ice, protecting Christine with him.
--Liquefied Ground--
The ground suddenly turns into a soft dirt making Makoy who is still running unable to move.
Ferninand jump and cover Makoy from my attacks.
--Metallic Body--
His body turned into metal, protecting Makoy who was sinking in the ground.
"He can multi cast." Christine said while shooting an arrow to me but my barrier defended me against it.
"He is a monster. It consumes so much mana defending against his attacks." David complains.
--Shinning Light-- Christine
Christine activated her skill and shoot an arrow to the sky. Upon reaching a certain height it exploded creating several small arrows that rains down the area.
I ignored her attacks since my barrier could defend from it, I look around to look for Makoy but suddenly I could feel a presence behind my back despite levitating.
--Gigantification-- Ferdinand
Ferdinand suddenly turns into a giant and punch my barrier making me fly from another direction.
--Final Flash-- Makoy
Suddenly a sword hit my barrier from the other side stopping me from flying.
Suddenly a pillar of Ice rose up encasing me and my barrier in a Ice Prison.
"Christine noww!!!" They all shouted together.
--Nihility Arrow--
Suddenly a dark and ominous arrow shot towards my direction. Its fast, extremely fast. I can't avoid it.
Suddenly it hit my barrier and exploded.
The explosion is so huge and powerful that it even made a crack to my barrier.
Luckily my barrier survive because of its ability to convert magic attacks into mana and now it is repairing itself.
"Taste this." David suddenly jump and swing his sword at my barrier.
"What is that? You are not a swordsman so the quality of your sword attacks won't harm me." I said while looking at him.
"Is that so?" He grinned at me.
Suddenly my barrier is slowly being frozen. Yes my barrier might come from a legendary grade item but David is SS rank himself and his sword is a legendary grade as well. It's not impossible for him to freeze my barrier and make it brittle.
It's no good, I will lose my only reliable defense.
--Power Punch--
Suddenly my barrier received a strong hit from the giant at it has finally been breach.
--Teleport--
I teleported higher and levitated using my boots.
"You manage to break my barrier, I underestimated you. Fine, I'll show you what real magic is."
--Epic Magic, Total Destruction--
Several purple magic circle appeared on the sky and each of them contains a power equivalent to a s-class mana.
"This is bad, hey you are going to kill us with that?" David said while waving his sword at me.
"Do your best to survive"
I unlease the magic and dark energy pours down on the ground. Each one of them is so strong that you the only way to survive it is to avoid it but then again how will you avoid an attack that explodes up to 10 meter radius upon hitting the ground? Not only that, the entire kilometer area has been bombarded with deadly magic. There's no way they can outrun nor avoid it.
David created a strong dome of Ice protecting everyone inside. Several energy blast hit the dome continuously and i could feel that the barrier will collapse any given moment.
"Hahaha is that all you've got? I still have plenty of spells here to show off." I said while continuously bombarding them.
I couldn't hear them from the inside because of the explosions but I made sure that they could hear me.
The Ice Barrier finally collapse and all of them are sticking out together with a terrified look in their faces.
I kinda feel bad so I cancel the magic.
"All of you aside from David who's mana has already been near depletion, do you still want to continue?" I ask them while slowly descending to the ground.
"You, are you going to kill us? What the hell was that?" Ferdinand said in a terrified tone.
"We came here to practice not to fight for our lives. You should have gone easy at us." Christine said.
"My greatest and most powerful skill that kills the Death Knight has been block by your barrier. What the hell? It was a very unfair fight, you can levitate, teleport and create a barrier at the same time while attacking." Makoy added.
"It's very unfair. You have a compete set of legendary items with you while I am the only one wearing a good item here." David complain as well.
"I guess this is enough already. Stop talking about how unfair it was, I am alone and there are four of you. If I had gone easy on you, you will definitely win. Didn't you manage to break my barrier and surprise me multiple times already? You are the unfair one, after all it's a common knowledge that a mage without a guard is just a minion in a real battle."
I complained as well.
"You probably could have been wipe out the Marinduque monsters all alone. I feel like we are not needed there." Christine said.
"Yeah, the battle didn't even last long and we are utterly defeated without scratching you." Makoy added.
I move close to them without any intention of harming them. My grimoire then starts to flipping its pages until it stops to where the healing spell is.
"Please stop saying nonsense, like I said a lone mage is only a minion in a battle field, I'll heal you all at once so don't resist the magic." I said.
--Mega Heal--
We actually have a talk about it by the Chairman, and we decided to keep the fact that I probably can defeat the Lich and its army on my own to prevent the people from putting a lot of burden on me. It has been decided that I should include the other S-ranker on the fight so people will not rely only on a single person when there is a dungeon related problem that appears on the country.
"You are ok now. I'll restore the entire place first before we return to the dam. Make sure to remembered your experience here. Your fight with me will probably make you aware on how dangerous the dungeons are."
I then levitated of to the ground and perform my spell.
--Time Journey--
The place started to restore it self and it took me a whole minute to finish the restoration.