I got back up to my feet, my body still a bit shakened by the fist of Nageyama, terror, fear, defeat was what the normal human being would feel if they were in my shoes and they were witness first hand to this kind of power. But joy however rushed through me.
"N-not bad Nageyama."
"Not bad?"
Nageyama chuckled looking on at my beat up body, clearly I wasn't in the same shape as I was before I took such a hit head on. My shirt was burnt off and my cloak torn.
"Very well, I will burn that mouth of yours. And after we acquire the Heaven's Paradice we will burn that Kohana descendant and Crimson Heart to the ground!"
Nageyama laughed evilly unknown he had hit a nerve in me.
"If you so much as touch anyone from Crimson Heart Nageyama, I'll kill you."
My voice was deepened in rage, nothing angered me more than the thoughts of my friends being threatened.
"Hahaha, Brats like you shouldn't make threats!"
Nageyama took a deep breath before a bit of smoke escaped his mouth.
"Sage Art: Phoenix flame Bomb!"
Nageyama spew from his mouth a large blast of flame that assumed the form of a serpent's head towards me.
BOOM!
"What the!?"
Cedric and Rachel stopped running and turned around facing the explosion which they knew was most definitely was caused by Nageyama.
"Xavier!"
Rachel didn't waste anytime running back to me, she knew I wouldn't be able to survive a blast of that caliber.
"Rachel!"
Cedric held her by the hand stopping her from moving forward.
"What are you doing!? we have to help him!"
"And sabotage our mission!? we just have to trust that he's got this covered now come on! we gotta get to Helena before they do!"
Rachel grunted realizing what Cedric said was true, if she turned back now and Tendon Seis gets their hands on the heaven's paradice, there's no stopping whatever they were planning.
"Tch, all talk and no show."
Nageyama scoffed and walked away from the scene, everywhere around us was literally set ablaze due to the phoenix flame bomb large range. Black smoke engulfed the position I stood in.
"I hate brats who run their-"
SWOOSH!
An air canon escaped from the cloud of smoke and knocked Nageyama who let his guard down off his feet.
"O-oof!"
He groaned as his body hit the ground several times before stopping.
"I-impossible!"
From the burning ground and smoke, Nageyama could see the silhouette of the man he fought and his eyes widened on the realization that I was still alive but now driven by anger.
"There's no way he could still be al-"
His unbelief was interrupted as I used the aero surge and vanished from the spot I stood in, the wind pressure created as I ran cleared the smoke and Nageyama quickly looked over his shoulders sensing me.
"Tempest Canon!"
I fired off a Tempest Canon towards his back, alarmed he leaped upwards in the air and evaded it. He focused his gaze back at me but I wasn't there anymore.
"Tempest Canon!"
"What!?"
He turned his sights forward swiftly in midair and his face met with another air canon. As it propelled himself backwards, I also appeared behind him firing off another Tempest Canon before the second one could dissipate.
I repeated this cycle launching an air canon towards him from every direction.
"W-what is going on!"
Nageyama exclaimed in his thoughts as the collision of several air canons with him being at the center of it all prevented him from speaking and moving any limb.
The instant all the air canons dissipated, his eyes met with that of mine as I was above him. Swiftly I inhaled with my mouth before emitting a blast of wind towards his abdomen.
"Compact Bomb!"
"Shit!!"
Nageyama exclaimed as he knew very well that dodging my spell was nigh impossible. He vomited blood as the compact bomb spell blasted him into the ground after making contact with his abdomen and dust arose all around him.
I landed on the ground with my feet a few meters away from Nageyama. With no expressions present on my face, I glared down at where he was blasted through.
"T-sk."
His right hand was placed on the ground as he struggled to drag himself up to his knees, as he looked towards me the torn cloak wrapped around my neck flapped gently in the breeze as did my hair.
The wind revealed the scar on my eye and his eyes widened on realization as he saw the Crimson Heart guild mark on my chest.
"I-I recognize you, a wind system, a scar on his right eye and the wind mage of Crimson Heart. T-the Storm Bringer Of Crimson, Xavier Storm!"
It was quite an irony, I remembered the first time I crossed paths with him and he asked me if he was so well-known even beyond the borders of Mysthaven, now it's the same case for me.
"Now it all makes sense, why a mere mage could push me this far to use my Sage magic, how you could survive my phoenix flame bomb."
Nageyama stood to his feet smirking as flames erupted from the right side of his body and cold vapor emanated from the left side of his body.
"It makes sense now, how you could run your mouth like a brat upon realizing the sheer difference in power."
From his right side his flames burnt off everything around him and from his left the vapor that escaped froze everything around it.
"Now that I know who you are, I will go all out just to kill you, Xavier Storm!"
His dark sage magic sent tremors into the ground which caused everywhere around us to vibrate at the influx of power.
Truly he was a powerful Sage, normally this level of power would have left me concerned but his threats towards my guild had left me pissed, now I'm going to make him regret pissing me off.