POV: General
"Charge!"
"How dare they say we're fakes?"
"Brothers, let's show these snot nosed brats what we're made of."
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With the gangsters' shouts, twelve out of the twenty of them unsheathed their swords from their scabbards which previously hung from their waists as they charged towards the carriage where Arthur, the triplets, Leo, and the old butler were at.
At the same time as they charged, the remaining eight who were left behind took out their wands which hung at their waists as they chanted.
"God of Fire, bless me with your strongest of flames! Come forth and bring fiery hell: [Fireball]!"
"God of Water, bless me with torrential downpour! Come forth and wash away my enemies: [Waterball]!"
"God of …"
With each successive incantation from the enemies colorful balls of elements rained down upon the earthen wall creating more and more cracks.
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Wanting to alleviate some pressure from his older brother and knowing full well that they will be pelted with those same spells once the wall breaks unlike before when they had the mana barrier from the carriage protecting them, the smart and slightly harsh speaking second brother, instead of using a wand like the gangsters, he simply chanted, "God of Light, bless me with your soothing comfort! Come forth and refract: [Bending Light]!"
Soon after, all light which previously reflected off of him instead refracted bending around him giving off an illusion as though he turned invisible to his enemies and even to his allies.
Even the ever present shadow cast by his body could no longer be seen.
With his spell now active, he no longer had to worry about being seen and surrounded as he dashed into the battle.
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Not wanting to let his older brothers down, the youngest of the triplets as soon as the earthen wall was cast, took his wand out and in quick succession cast multiple fireballs, knowing his eldest brother's earthen wall would not last long against such an onslaught of spells.
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As for Leo, although the weakest and magically inept out of the bunch, he didn't want to be a burden as he took out his prided great broadsword he too charged around the wall to meet the enemies in a frontal head on clash.
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The old butler; however, stood behind the wall instead of charging forth, nor did he start casting a spell like the youngest of the triplets.
He simply used his mana sense to observe the battlefield and its proceedings.
With each elemental spell landing, he could see more and more cracks forming on the earthen wall as debris and dust flew everywhere.
Despite that, he did not feel worried, as he could "see" unlike the enemies that the second youngest of the triplets had already arrived near the back where the enemy mages were firing their spells from.
Leaving the "battle mages" for the others to handle.
As if they could communicate telepathically, the youngest of the brothers, instead of firing at the mages's spells and neutralizing them, chose to fire at all the battle mages who decided to go around the wall.
As for his son, who was born with mana, yet had no affinities for any elementals charged straight towards the earthen wall, as if he were going to bust through it.
Yet, with his prior knowledge and mana sense he could easily see before his son even took his first step, the oldest of the triplets created an earthen staircase straight to the top.
And with great ease his son ran up the fifty stairs and jumped down on the other side ready to meet the approaching gangsters.
While all that transpired in a mere moment was expected, something which he didn't expect was the young hitchhiker, who did not use the space element which he previously saw him using. Except, it was something even more astonishing.
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POV: Arthur
Watching them being so coordinated I couldn't help but commend them in my heart.
But even then…
[Hmm…] I rubbed my chin as I thought. [I doubt, despite their earlier confidence they could win when they are down in numerical advantage.]
Knowing it was my time to help, I closed my eyes to concentrate.
Despite that, I was still able to use mana sense during my casting, allowing me to watch the entire battlefield and its proceedings.
Which is another one of the gifts that God had given me, other than voice transmission which I already knew I could use from conversing with Yuki, but another more crucially important skill to know is mana sense.
Mana sense gives the user of the skill a bird's eye view of a certain range depending on how much mana was poured into the skill before its usage.
With the usage of mana sense, as I had previously predicted the situation was not looking good.
The "older" mature and steady triplet previously Main had blocked innumerable amounts of magical spells with his earthen wall. However, after repeatedly blocking spells, cracks could soon be seen extending out from where the magical spells had landed.
However, the magical attacks were not the only attacks he had to defend from because most of the gangsters were not mages, with their weaponry in hand they had also charged towards us at the start of the battle.
To combat against the charging gangsters and to alleviate the pressure for the elder brother, the previously "disappeared" second brother was to my surprise actually "invisible" and had already bypassed the battle mages and started culling the mages in the back.
As for the third brother he had neutralized three mages all by himself by somehow being able to cast three fireballs with each usage of a spell compared to the enemies who can only shoot one type of fire ball and water ball at a time.
Leo on the other hand, had it the worst although the enemy mages were no longer focusing him and the wall and were more preoccupied with the "Invisible" enemy who had already killed three of their brethren. He still had to defend against twelve battle mages, a few of which had already injured him even bypassing his custom made armor. The only reason he was able to last so long was because of his artifact, which allowed even him a non mage to unleash fire with each swing.
And the earthen wall behind him which should have been a disadvantage, was actually helping him because only three gangsters could attack at a time rather than being surrounded from all sides and attacked simultaneously.
Even with his armor, weaponry, and fighting style being better, I could clearly see that the toll of having to fight twelve enemies by himself was starting to get to him. Even with superior equipment and a much more polished fighting style, the mental toll was too much to bear not only that but every time he would be close to killing one or more of the three attacking him they would be replaced with someone new and energetic.
And it seems I wasn't the only one who could see that the situation was dire, if not for my quick voice transmission, [Don't worry] and the fact I was finally done casting, the eldest of the triplets would have stopped supplying mana to his shield and rushed out with his ax in hand.
"Haste!"
"Boost!"
"Elemental Resistance!"