Those three and their familiars had made it halfway back to the main routes of the Crystal Caves. At first, one might imagine they were quite slow since Linfel spent even more time baiting the Level Five Magus around.
However, let's not forget that these Maguses were forced to stop because they ran out of Magic Energy first. Not to mention their much, much higher physical fatigue. They were your normal magus that you can find in every corner of the Ventis Sect. Maguses that used magic Energy for everything, even high-speed pursuits. It's just that doing it for so long, adding Magic Energy to make sure the body can sustain that speed, also exhausted the body.
The three Maguses weren't worried on their way back since these parts of the Crystal Caves were relatively safe, even if you left the mainly used paths. Unfortunately for them, that negligence gave Linfel the perfect moment to act.
*Kabrum! Kabrum!*
