As soon as Tolaen exited the ship, he floated toward Ringo, his demonic energy already gushing from his body. Ringo sensed a mental transmission reaching him, clearly, Tolaen was too lazy to initiate communication via the communicator, so instead, he used this method.
-Who are you?!- He roared in Ringo's mind.
Ringo scoffed, copying his method and sending it. -My name isn't important, the reason for my appearance is simple, hand over the Black Dog, Mercer, or die.
Ringo wasn't joking, if Tolaen really handed over Mercer, he could leave. After all, Tolaen is a mage, albeit one geared towards physical combat. Who knows what kind of spells this guy might have? He could even end up escaping. In the end, Ringo would be making an effort for nothing, so he could just take Mercer and leave satisfied.
Mages have many methods, even Ringo's vision of the future couldn't see everything they were capable of, after all, Ringo wasn't the only one in the galaxy with that kind of power, and protecting themselves against seers was practically the norm for mages.
However, he knew that his words would hardly satisfy Tolaen.
At the top of Grade A, being a pirate accustomed to solving problems with his fists, and being challenged in this way so openly?
Tolaen has killed for less, much, much less.
Just as Ringo had expected, Tolaen was furious. - Die!
Tolaen's body was enveloped in a fierce, demonic red energy as dozens of buff and shield spells covered his body simultaneously, the next moment, he charged towards Ringo with all his might.
Ringo sneered, twirling Umbra Alba in his hand, he advanced just as fast.
The movements of the two became blurry for the spectators, Umbra Alba with its spatial attribute quickly showed its advantage as it managed to cut through Tolaen's shields, although the damage was minimal, it still made Tolaen frown.
He realized that Ringo's power was far greater than expected, his mouth began to utter words in a demonic language while Ringo frowned. Tolaen wasn't stupid, he was a master at buffing himself, but he was also a master at inflicting debuffs on his enemies. Ringo felt his speed decreasing, his thinking slowing, his energy becoming harder to control, his energy dwindling...
Annoyed, Ringo stopped taking it lightly. The next moment, a nightmare blade struck Tolaen's soul directly. His mental shields were no weaker than his physical ones, but that didn't stop Tolaen from screaming in pain. Ringo's spiritual power was no joke, especially with the MCs' help.
-You bastard!- Tolaen quickly recovered, his hand engulfed in black flames, and charged towards Ringo, emitting flames that created a cloud of fire around him.
Ringo gestured towards Umbra Alba. - Distortion.
The next moment, space shattered around him, Tolaen was forced away again, screaming in pain, he finally realized that something was wrong, Ringo was much stronger than expected! Especially that spear!
He seized the momentum to step away as his mouth began to utter a series of names. Ringo quickly recognized what he was doing, he possessed the same power, True Name Release.
Ringo didn't stop him, he didn't even try to use the same thing. It was useless, Tolaen was much weaker than him, so at least it would be more fun.
As soon as Tolaen finished the spell, his body seemed to grow even larger while his energy pulsed much stronger than before. Roaring excitedly, his left arm condensed the black flames until they became a semi-transparent orb of energy around his fist, the energy emanating from that fist was extremely fierce.
Ringo had to admit that, in terms of using demonic power, Tolaen was far ahead of him.
Ringo didn't care, when Tolaen struck him, Ringo was directly injured to the point of spitting blood, being thrown back forcefully. Tolaen let out a proud laugh, but the next moment, he froze. The Ringo who had been thrown away disappeared, the real Ringo appeared beside him at some point, his spear pointed directly at him.
Ringo always focused much more on the power of Nightmares.
He used Broken Reality to transform his injuries into a dream, he appeared above Tolaen while a sphere of concentrated Void energy appeared at the tip of Umbra Alba.
-Void Jet!- Ringo said calmly.
Tolaen didn't even have time to scream, his chest was directly pierced by the void energy, leaving a large hole where the energy passed through. Tolaen's shields couldn't stop it, as the energy passed, a hole appeared on the right side of Tolaen's chest.
Tolaen finally felt fear, even while fleeing and using magic to heal his wounds, the hole was extremely difficult to close, he almost died!
-Where are you going?- Ringo asked calmly as he teleported in front of Tolaen.
Tolaen's eyes widened.
Wow! Who was the mage here?! If he hadn't sensed that Ringo was an Esper, he would have thought Ringo was a mage! This guy had already shown off several strange powers!
Tolaen knew he could no longer contain himself, Ringo represented an extreme threat to him.
His hands rose as his blood flowed from them, Tolaen's demonic flames transforming directly into purple flames.
Ringo's eyes finally showed some change.
For any other Super in the galaxy, this thing was extremely harmful, although it would hardly affect a BGA with Tolaen's current power level, this ball of purple flames was extremely dangerous for any being below that.
This is an advanced technique of the demonic race, Ringo didn't master it, but the effect was extremely insidious. Demon Race's unique advanced forbidden technique - Polluted Blood.
The power of this wasn't strong, but it was extremely insidious, causing genetic degradation through a polluted flame teeming with inferior genes that replace the original genes. For a Super who depended on genetic advancement to progress, using this power was like cutting off the future of a living being.
This type of pollution even affected the future offspring of living beings.
Using that was low, very low.
Sure, Ringo could do the same with his own power obtained long ago, Degenerate, plus he wasn't afraid of that sort of thing.
Want to mess with his genes? Hehe, ask Ringo's evolutionary power if he'll allow it!
Ringo rarely uses Degenerate because the ability is extremely insidious and he likes to repurpose his enemies, even now that Tolaen has used it, Ringo hasn't considered using the ability.
After all, if Tolaen were to fall into his hands, he would find great utility in a being capable of advancing to a BGA.