As Xander started to run forward, he noticed that all three men had looked directly at him and started to track him.
"What the f*** is happening!?" one of the men yelled.
"I don't know, but be ready for anything!" the man with the spear yelled.
'So they still can't actually see me, but they can sense me enough that they might as well can,' Xander thought.
He finally made it to the spear-wielding man and pierced forward with his spear, ready to kill him instantly, but his spear went straight through the man, doing no damage at all. The man did move awkwardly, though.
"What the f*** was that?" the man yelled as he backed away, fully on guard.
'So I have to phase out of the mirage realm when I attack,' Xander realized.
'That kind of sucks, but I think it would be too broken otherwise.'
Having cleared his head and not wanting to waste any more qi, he ran forward once again. This time, just before his spear landed, he phased back into the real world, and his spear pierced the man's chest with 'Wraith's Touch' activated on its tip.
"Ahhhhh!"
"Dammit!"
"Cough!"
"Splat!"
The man yelled and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Sang-min(Korean: Sahng-mean)!" one of the men yelled as they rushed over to his aid.
Xander ignored them and attacked again, this time being blocked by 'Sang-min'.
With the other men nearing, Xander phased back into the mirage realm and ran around, trying to get to his back, but him being clearly sensed didn't help at all.
He sliced forward with 'Soul Rend' this time as he phased out of the mirage realm, and the man with the spear blocked with a wall of fire.
"Dammit!" Xander yelled.
Xander stepped to the side, hiding behind the wall of fire, and he pierced forward with a beam of 'Necrotic Blast' the second the wall of fire went down. It hit the man in the chest once again, this time causing him to fall to his knees—not quite dead but out of the immediate fight.
Xander phased back into the mirage realm and ran toward the next guy.
"Jae-hoon(Korean: Jay-hoon), get ready!" one of the men said as the two put their backs to each other.
'Damn.'
Xander, this time, attacked the guy on the left, 'Jae-hoon.'
He used a large amount of qi this time, using three attacks.
He used 'Necrotic Chains' to tie him down, 'Death Spikes' to attack his legs, and he phased out of the mirage realm with 'Wraith's Touch' on his spear.
He attacked all at once, the man unable to dodge due to the chains that took him a second to break as he froze them solid and, with a slight movement, broke them.
He blocked the spear, leaving the spikes of death qi to hit him in the back as he coughed up blood, and his wounds had all the life force sucked out of them.
Xander sliced forward with a wave of 'Spectral Slash,' then he dodged back as the second man pierced forward with his sword, and the man he attacked blocked with a wall of ice.
Xander ran farther to the left, trying to create distance from the second guy, and began his attack once again, slowly coming out ahead of the injured Jae-hoon.
"Stop it, you bastard!" the second man yelled as he ran forward, but he was stopped by chains of death qi and didn't have any quick way to get rid of them, so he had to watch as Xander cut the man down in front of him with another spike of death qi piercing him in the back, allowing Xander to push past his solid defense and stab the man in the throat with 'Wraith's Touch' activated, killing him instantly.
"Kim Jae-hoon!" the man yelled in anger and pain.
"Phew!" Xander let out an exhausted breath as he hopped back into the mirage realm.
He didn't bother trying to circle his last opponent and charged up a massive spear of death qi with the attack 'Grim Reaper's Spear,' then he reared back and let loose his spear, and the spear of death qi followed.
Xander wasn't sure if he could do it, but he wanted to try. He waited until both spears were a meter away from the man, who had already put up his guard, barely able to sense the spears, and let them phase back into reality.
"Ahhh!"
The man was stabbed right in the stomach, 'Wraith's Touch' doing a large amount of damage.
The man had only managed to block the large spear of death qi, not sensing the smaller and more subtle real spear.
Xander ran forward as he phased back into reality and grabbed his spear, making sure to overcharge it with death qi as he ripped it out, pulling it to the right, cutting the man in the process.
The man was now half dead and was easily finished off in three more moves.
After that, Xander walked over to the last remaining enemy, Sang-min, the first opponent he had beaten but not killed, and finished him off.
With all his enemies dead, Xander laid on the ground, catching his breath. While he hadn't been injured during the fight, he had used more than 80% of his qi and was dead tired.
"Thank you! Thank you!" both the boy and girl said as they ran up, got on their knees, and bowed to Xander.
Xander glanced in their direction and said, "Please, there is no need for all of that."
The boy, who looked to be a head taller than Xander with black hair and eyes, raised his head and said, "But there is. You saved us from a life of slavery. Thank you so much. We owe you our lives."
At this point, Xander was feeling awkward, so he just stood up, walked over to them, and made them stand up to their feet.
"Please, just help me get back to civilization and we can call it even."
"But…" the girl tried to say. She was also tall for a girl, a little taller than Xander, and she was really pretty, with her hair and eyes the same color as her brother's.
"No buts. Just help me out and we're even." Xander was starting to feel bad; he had barely even wanted to save them, and now they were being so nice. It made him feel terrible.
"Ok. Ok. We can definitely help you out. Which city do you want to go to?" the tall boy asked.
"Umm… I don't really know. I just entered the tower, so I don't even know where I am," Xander answered.