Surprise, shock, tension, and fear successively flickered across the faces of the magicians, who were almost at a loss for what to do. They couldn't fathom how their once-brilliant achievements could fail so suddenly, especially a few Magicians who were utterly baffled. However, it was the leading Mage who first realized that there could be only one reason for this result: a Magic Practitioner more powerful than themselves was hidden nearby!
Only now did they realize just how foolish it was to stand so unguarded in front of the soldiers, overconfident in their abilities, and the price of such foolishness was their lives.
Before the Mage's Protective Shields could even take form, two dark figures shot out from the ranks of the Half-beast Warriors. Knight Spears, filled with fighting qi, tore through the sky with a strange whistling sound. Faint black energy enveloped the dark figures as the spears easily shattered the Protective Shields conjured from Magic Scrolls.
