As the dust was settling, the sound of Metal clanking could be heard.
And then the image of a man came into view.
A young master would more fit his appearance. Black hair and lifeless eyes with a hint of disgust shown on his face was enough to describe he was a prideful being.
Although injured, upon seeing the amman shine knelt down and bowed.
In front of him was Girardi, a member of the Trinity one of the most dangerous cult in the world, and a follower of the [Serpent that devours its own tail].
"Shine do you know what you done wrong".
"Young master I apologize for making you come all the way down".
Girardi upon looking around noticed of all the shine was the only surviving subordinate just shooked his head and turned back to shine.
To be honest,the reason for the attack was just for fun,
He got Intel that a hailed prodigy was going to take the academy examination with her parents coming to support her.
After all since his birth, he grew up in an environment where prodigies were worshipped and he wasn't one of them.
So bringing one to despair and then launched attack during the examination to kill them off.
At first he wanted to.leave since his subordinate was taking forever, but seeing an high adept keep up with a mid master made him reconsider.
(If I am correct his is also the one who stop a gate from collapsing,even better I must crush him).
"Shine I want no more disappointment", he said immediately injecting a syringe into his neck.
Just then shine started bloating, his muscles pumped up twice their size, veins appearing on his head,
"Ahh this is power" he said while screaming at the top of his voice.
He then charged towards Desales who rose his sword to defend himself.
Just then Girardi brought out a stone and crushed it.
And a dome barrier materialized around them.
"Although I won't mind destroying you outside, I believe one mustn't mess with mother nature too much".
Nicholas quickly focus on his attention on Girardi.
—Status—
Name: Girardi
Power category: Conjurer
Rank:Mid expert
STR: 59
AGI: 26(250)
STA: 48
VIT: ??(250)
END:30
Skills:
Dark flame(D+), Bind, Dark spirit summoning(E).
Looking at his stats proved Nick found out his opponent stat wasn't that high but looking at how well equipped he is and how he casually pulled out artifacts and magic tool made him stay on guard
¶¶ Ruby sorry to interrupt but can you help me mark all the magic tools and artifacts In the area.
A response came immediately as dialogue boxes appeared beside all the artifacts and magic tools Detected.
[I mustn't act rashly, since he already believes he has everything under control I will play along until he lets his guard down and creates an opening].
With a strategy formulating in his mind, he stood in place and avoided eye contact.
Looking at Nicholas taking a stance and not attacking Girardi thought to him self.
[It seems you already want to buy time for help to come from outside, okay then I'll make sure to crush you completely].
Taking out a small metallic box and a high quality mana potion, he drank the potion and started pouring mana into the box.
The box was an artifact called
[Chrome safe]
It was a legendary grade storage type artifact that allowed the wielder to store a skill attack directed at him.
Rumour has that it was even able to store the signature attack of the strongest monster to every come out of a gate.
[Dragon Breath]
As Girardi activated it with his mana the artifact hummed and the released the skill stored inside.
[Shadow Paradise]
An skill only used by some constellation with the
Extra{It consumes mana crazily when calling for a shadow warrior, for every warrior called the more mana is consumed.
"Haa haa haa what the matter, feeling scared move" Girardi said mockingly.
Nicholas on the other hand finished examining the skill deployed and started making plans.
[Although i would love nothing more than to attack him will my new purple flame, but after appraising his armour the defense on it is top notch, lucky bastard although weak for someone your age you have a lot of artifact].
Thanks to his clear mind he was able to avoid showing tension on his face much to the annoyance of girardi.
Then he summon both the winter sword and the demon sword of enhancement( alzera 4th form).
Although he hadn't fully gotten an hang of dual wielding and the winter sword, but with the blade incarnate he should be able to go head to head with girardi he hoped.
Shish shish, all ready for action some shadow warriors popped up from the ground and started running toward nicholas,weapon drawn and held high.
Swish
The incoming shadow were cut and dissolved into the ground.
"It seems the rank of warrior has to be lower than the caster".
As he was cutting down the shadow warriors, he found out their rank was low, ranging from novice to adept.
"Maybe it because he no knowlegde using the skill before combined with his low rank".
After analysing it he decided to taunt his opponent.
"Hey weirdo, can't you throw something interesting my way, first you trap me here and secondly you through me give me something not worth my time".
"Do you have no shame oh God you are weak".
As he said those words a dark flame hurdled his way, as he hurriedly coatted Alzera with BLACK.
He block the flame as alzera and BLACK negated the impact.
Looking at the cause of the attack he found girardi looking at him with contempt and anger written all over his face.
If look could kill an ordinary nicholas would be dead.
"I wanted to savour you death slowly but you just had to push it" he said as some round mana amplification devices were spinning around his back.
Taking out a pouch he injected man into the and dropped them to the ground.
"If you wanr to die then die".
From the pouch fifty tiny monsters tore out of it, increasing in size they ran towards nicholas frenzly.
"If i shouls die then don't blame me for being rude".
Turning alzera to face the ground, holding the hilt he same some deadly words.
Come forth my calamity
"PESTILENCE"