Chapter 90 - The General vs. 4 Mages (Part 2)

  I leaped into the fray, my sword already drawn. Laung myself between the earth mage and the fire mage, I swung my bde toward the earth mage, who quickly raised a stone shield to block the strike.

  The fire mage attacked from behind, but I parried with my sed sword, made of wind and lightning. With a swift movement, I shattered the stone shield with my metal sword, but I noticed Isabelle desding from above with her dagger. I spun around, deactivating my lightning sword, causing the fire mage to lose his band stumble forward.

  "Join that bitch!" I excimed, kig the fire mage mid-spin and ung him into the air with a burst of wind.

  "Shit!" Isabelle cursed as she was struck by the weight of her partner, both of them being hurled upward by the force of the wind.

  Turning my focus back to the earth mage, who had grabbed the dead water mage's axe, I charged at him. He swung the axe while I felt the ground tremble beh my feet.

  "You're too skilled for just a boy," he said as we exged ferocious blows.

  The man attacked relentlessly, using the quaking ground to throw me off bance. Suddenly, a spinning pilr unched a stone spike in my dire. He retreated, leaving me exposed to the attack. I spun around, shattering the spike with my sword and finishing the motion with a gust of wind, hurling the debris back at him.

  The mage raised a stone wall to shield himself, but I kept moving, quickly sg the wall and leaping over it. In mid-air, I fired successive bolts of lightning from my hands, f him to retreat.

  The earth mage kept raising stone walls, desperately trying to defend against the lightning I unleashed. With a sword in one hand and a bolt of lightning charging iher, I pressed forward with speed.

  "Stone Bde!" he shouted, and part of the wall broke off, f a massive horizontal bde that flew toward me. I ran toward the bde and dropped low, rolling to dodge it.

  "Lightning Beam!" I yelled, as I finished charging the energy in my hands. A massive bolt of lightning shot out in a straight, tinuous line, obliterating everything in its path.

  The earth mage, in desperation, scrambled to the side as I adjusted the lightning's dire, which tore through the stone walls oer another. He kept raising stone pilrs, trying to block the attack.

  ‘Bam!’ One pilr was destroyed. He raised another.

  ‘Bam!’ Another pilr fell.

  "FUCK!" he screamed in desperation, raising tless stone walls, oer the other, trying to shield himself from the lightning bolt.

  ‘Boom!’ The lightning pierced through the walls, shattering them one by one.

  The energy finally struck where he had been moments before, exploding everything and creating a massive opening to other rooms in the mansion. He narrowly avoided being caught. The mage had leaped into the air, raising a stone pilr that propelled him upward, trying to escape the reach of the lightning. My spell had ended, but I noticed the mage retreating

  "Scared?" I taunted, ughing as I charged after him. The earth mage kept running, panicked, as stone spikes sprouted from the ground, trying to impale me.

  The spikes emerged like pnts, but I spun my sword, sending gusts of wind that shattered them as I advanced.

  Using the wind’s power to sense vibrations in the air, I detected something approag from behind and leaped swiftly.

  A massive fireball crashed where I had been, exploding with a deafening boom. In the air, the fire mage lu me, fury burning in his eyes.

  "I'm here, you bastard! You killed my cousin!" he roared, swinging his sword to strike me. I parried his bde, but he quickly raised one hand, creating a burst of fire that pushed him downward.

  Trap!

  Threads began to move toward me, each tipped with wind bombs. I threw myself to the ground, dodging while sprinting. Explosioed around me, and stone ns started to rise in my path, trying to block my escape.

  ‘BAM!’ The ns exploded as the threads sliced through them with precision.

  The secret lies in the wind's vibration? Is that how these things are so sharp?

  I kept evading the explosions until I noticed something e hurtling toward me.

  "FIRE BEAM!" the fire mage yelled, unleashing a deadly spell.

  On one side, stone spikes sprouted from the ground, trying to trap me. Oher, the deadly threads closed in. Ahead of me, the fire beam raced toward me at high speed.

  "Thunder Wave!" I stomped the ground, sending a tremor that rippled through the earth, fracturing the grouh.

  "This is a mere imitation of a called Pte Teics!" A straight line divided the ground, destroying the path of the spikes trying to reach me. I quickly turo face the remaining two attacks.

  "Trio of Wind Bdes!" I jured three wind bdes fused together, spinning at high speed.

  ‘SWOOOOSH’ The bdes geed a powerful gust of wind.

  The wind wave collided with the fire beam, preventing it from reag me.

  "I told you, didn't I? The wind bees absolute when you master it!"

  I snapped my fingers, and the wind bdes shifted their rotation, turning horizontal and creating a vortex that began to pull everything around it. The Thread Lady's wires were sucked in, draggioward me as the fire was ed by the vortex.

  I leaped into the air, heading straight for the Thread Lady, whled desperately to resist the pull while geing a ter wind.

  "Are we done here?" I asked, delivering a kick with a wind explosion. She tried to block with her elbow, creating a wind barrier.

  "Thunder Roar!" I eled energy into my kick, which exploded with a reinforced air impact.

  ‘BOOM!’ The collision of our wied, and she was sent flying.

  I used my left hand to gee wind, holding myself in pd g the force that would have thrown me back, while the Thread Lady was smmed into a wall, uo defend with her other hand due to the threads being temporarily trapped in my vortex of bdes.

  She struggled to her feet, injured, but before I could tinue my attack, the fire mage came leaping behind me. I blocked his bde with my sword as we fell. Below us, I noticed many threads closing in.

  In a quice, I saw the bloodied woman still trying to manipute the threads, and I pnned my move.

  "You're finished, kid!" he shouted, pushing me downward, closer to the deadly wires.

  I observed the threads, realizing that Isabelle had sharpehem by maniputing them with wind. The fire mage pressed his bde against me, trying to force me into the cutting threads as we fell.

  The threads are fixed to the wall to make them sharper while she vibrates them... this will definitely cut me, even with a wind armor.

  I dropped my sword, surprising the fire mage, and his weight shifted toward me. I trapped his bde with my wind-infused palms as we tio fall.

  He tried to kick me into the wires, but I spun, rotating our bodies in the air.

  Knowing the threads o vibrate to stay sharp, I blew a strong wind, shaking them and g the vibration. We fell onto the threads, and I stepped on one, while the fire mage came at me. With a palm strike, I created a gust that celed his momentum. It was a Kung Fu move applied with mana.

  "Shit!" he cursed, floating for a moment in the air before I grabbed him by the shirt.

  "Want to see your cousin!? Then go join him!" I pulled him down, spinning in the air, and the thread resumed vibrating.

  I forced the man downward, smming him into the deadly threads.

  "STOP! ISABELLE!" he screamed, but it was too te. F his head downward, I drove it into a wire, pierg through his forehead. The wire caught halfway, and I quickly dragged him across the other wires.

  "AHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed in agony.

  I kept dragging him along, watg as the Lady of the Threads frantically waved her hands. Using my wind power to press down, I forced the wires to finish what they started, and his head was severed.

  "You fug bastard! You killed him!" she screamed.

  "Are you sure it was me? Or was it your own fug wires?" I retorted with a sarcastic smile.

  She shed out, sending more wires my way, and I could feel her fury.