He was Hickman Arlington.
After coalescing from eight groups of shadow into a human form, his flying speed remained constant, but he now had far more means to counter his enemies.
He drew a black magic wand wrapped in bandages, swiftly tracing magical runes while muttering an incantation, invoking some sort of magic curse.
The shadowy magic runes, brimming with dark energy, exploded the moment they took shape, creating several black discs suspended in midair.
These black discs hovered vertically, as though they were teleportation gates made of spells.
Some kind of segmented shadow demon stretched out from the black discs, lunging at the incoming tracking thunder arrow.
The segmented shadow demons, resembling black centipedes with their surfaces covered in ring-shaped segments and their bellies adorned with many slender black legs.
From each black disc, five meters in diameter, emerged one such frightening segmented shadow demon.
