Spade interference
The enemy this time was not simple, from his aura and the power of the initial confrontation he is nearly equal to me. I released mana pressure and all the Spade soldiers but something weird happen as none of them fell to the floor but their faces paled. The leader had a grin on his face seeing mana pressure fail to do anything.
Strange!
Hmm, so they invented an artifact to counter mana pressure.
"Everyone! deal with the other mages, I will take care of the leader" I said without looking back.
I released my mana and started setting up the mana zone. I took the stance and used the spell
[ dark flame magic: flame hurricane and phoenix missile ]
A red tornado emerged from me sucking all the iron swords together with the phoenix missiles destroying them. The man wasn't idle and kicked the ground and shot towards me creating a metal sword, I jumped from the air towards him and our weapons clashed creating a lot of sparks.
" Did the quality of the Clover kingdom's mages goes so down that now brats are being sent to explore dungeons . "said the man still smoking a cigar.
"The same brat that you haven't been able to defeat yet, " I said making a strong slash and breaking his iron weapon.
" Don't get ahead of yourself brat !. Never Graham will kill you and become the official dark disciple.
Those girls there look nice I will claim them as a reward after killing you along with all the loot "
Said Graham creating a strong iron armor blocking my attacks.
" I don't care what dark disciple is, if you can think that you can escape from me, dream on! "
I kicked him to the ground followed by throwing one of my daggers toward him. He balanced himself on the ground and just as he was going to shoot a spell, I exchanged position with the dagger and made a large wound on his chest.
This was one of the abilities of the dagger I figured out. I could call back and exchange position with the dagger as long as it is within a range of my mana zone.
He gritted his teeth and clapped his hands ." You are in my range !"
[ Iron magic: Iron maiden ]
A large no of iron sands emerged from the ground and covered me in a short cage with spikes that could create hundreds of holes in a person. As the iron cage covered my face as a girl and around the cage large no of chains emerged and locked the cage in place.
Just as he thought he got me the cage completely broke and I emerged with [ orbs of destruction ] on the top of five [ kagune] emerging from my back. I didn't waste time throwing two orbs toward him like a missile. Sensing the danger from them he kicked the ground and a 20 m long spike of iron emerged from the ground and met with the orbs of destruction causing an explosion with a deep crater.
Everyone from my side had their mouth open from witnessing the showdown.
An iron sword deflected from the collision went towards Mimosa who was distracted. It was just inches away from her face but then it got completely broken by Asta's demon dweller sword.
" Focus Mimosa. We can't be a liability to Julian ni now "
" H-Hai Asta san "
Meanwhile, after stopping the two orbs he transformed his hands into a cannon and shot two equally destructive orbs.
[ Iron magic: blast cannon ]
I send the rest of the two orbs to meet his causing another large explosion. With the smoke gone he was nowhere to be seen on the ground.
Now with my mana zone ready I resummoned the two daggers jumped in the air and made a large slash towards the ground
[ Dark flame magic: dawn ] a large phoenix made a battle cry and met with a giant crocodile that emerged from the ground.
[ Iron magic: war machine ]
He emerged from the ground with a large humanoid armor-like armor and punched the ground.
[ iron magic: forest of death ]
As soon as he did that large about of tentacles emerged from the ground each about the length of 50 m and attacked me in unison and he jumped towards me. I now had to face a large no of tentacles along with the bulky armor that could transform into any weapon.
More Spade mages emerged from the opposite side of the forest but I left the others to deal with them. They seem to have someone strong but not something they can't handle.
We have been going up for like a while now, he was getting tired as this was not a simple fight we didn't give up our vigilance as a single moment of carelessness can cost us our life.
I reinforced my entire body with [ advanced reinforcement magic ] and engaged in a nerve wreaking physical fight. I kept on destroying everything he sent at me and he did the same but my attacks were doing damage to him.
My [flaming fist ] met his and started melting his giant armor. [ Fireball, phoenix missile, etc ] flew out continuously. It was a showdown between red flames and black-silver iron.
One thing he neglected was that the heat of the surrounding was increasing, with complete preparation I cast a deadly short-range spell enhanced many times with mana zone.
[ Mana zone: Great eruption ]
Along with [ Mana zone: great fire annihilation] at point-blank range.
The ground about 50 m all around me burst out like a Volcano with extremely hot dark red flames reaching up to a hundred 100 m into the air. It destroyed everything around the area including his armor. Moreover there flames were far from normal as every time it melted something, the flame got stronger absorbing the surrounding mana.
The flame diminished and what came out a chattered person with one hand completely turned to Ashes.
" This wasn't supposed to happen…I was going to become a dark disciple…you destroyed everything! EVERYTHING! " He shouted as his eyes turned red and he used the last spell.
[ IRON MAGIC: DEATH MISSILE ]
He shouted and the entire area around him turned into a forest of metal spikes and every spike blasted like missiles each aiming towards me from every direction. I took my dagger and rotated like a Beyblade destroying everything and turning into a literal red war machine. After destroying everything, I shot one of the daggers at him at full speed. It with a sonic boom and made a giant hole into his abdomen; I switched position with him and finally, with one strike, his head fell off with his entire body disintegrating into the red fire.
This time finally Graham was dead. I cast [ great fire annihilation ] and completely melted the rest of the metal spikes emerging from the ground.
***
I staggered and flew towards the rest of them and laid on the ground and began panting. During the entire 1 hour flight we were just one direct hit away from killing each other. This fight was mentally and physically tiring.
From what I understood this guy had the strength of a captain. Seems like Spade is hiding a lot.
I didn't know why there were people like him in the Spade kingdom and what the hell is Dark disciple.
I was not unharmed as even without KI and mana sense, a lot of his attacks reached me because I had to protect the others.
That is why I like doing solo missions so that I don't have any liability while fighting. That bastard was purposely focusing on the others while fighting.
I took out a large metal spike from my stomach and cast Phoenix's robe. My body pained as my injuries started to heal.
" Stop looking at me and call the spatial mages and bind those mages, " I said by closing my eyes for a moment.
Seeing everyone's faces I could tell that they knew they were a liability in the fight and I had to constantly protect them throughout. Even while dealing with the Spade mages Luck did most of the work and took down 70% of the mages.
" That was so Awesome Julian ni ! " said Asta
" I will reach that level soon ' said Yuno to himself
" I never expected to see you become so strong Julian -san, " said Mimosa healing Asta.
I ignored them and focused on healing and ensuring that I don't get an infection.It was nearly 8 in the night when our battle finished.
Approaching the Spade mages, I checked their bodies trying to find the artifact that blocked my mana pressure but I could not find it. On close inspection, I found different black patterns on their arm which were slowly dissolving and within a few seconds completely gone.
[You are thinking correct. Those tattoos emitted forbidden magic but the effect was temporary]
'Sigh! whatever'
An hour later Finral, a spatial mage of Golden Dawn, and a person under wizard king arrived at the destination. They fell on their back seeing the amount of destruction.
Taking both the rings in my hand, we started flying towards the nearest magic knights' camp.
After flying for an hour we reached the nearest Magic knight camp where I surprisingly met Captain Charlotte along with a healing squad waiting.
"Seems like the raid was successful," Charlotte said.
"Diamond and Spade had interfered, " I said dipping the captured Spade mages.
I handed Charlotte our spatial rings and gave a short overview of the situation. From the corner of my eyes, I saw Yuno talking to the blond-haired girl that I saw in the magic knight's exams.
"Well, Captain Charlotte you can find the rest of the details from them" I pointed towards the Golden Dawn.
I left the explanation to them and entered the portal to the base.
I found Yami on the couch reading a newspaper, I opened my grimoire and took out a sword that looked similar to a katana.
" This is for you, I know it's not a katana but the design is similar ".
Yami caught that sword and said thanks with a gesture.
'Tsk can't even say thanks properly '
Asta and Noelle entered with Finral closing the portal.
I took a bath, ate dinner, and directly took the bed. I had no interest to do anything else.
***
Third Person POV:
At the site, a large shadow emerged a man beside him was flying a small creature with two horns.
" Did you record everything? "
" Yes …sir Nacht, " said the small creature.
"The more I see, the more interesting it gets…anti-magic…phoenix flames…I wonder what else can I see. Hope you are not lazing around Yami
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