章節 76: Fordox 3

Before he could berating himself the pursuers began talking.

"You Phantoms' are nothing but ants, it is only a wise decision to hand over the location of where the heart of the infant Flaming Elephant is, if you do this we might leave your bodies intact when you die." the Second-level Spellcaster from the pursuers side said menacingly.

"Why don't you leave the girls to me, they will certainly look good in my collection, Hahaha..." one of the hobo witches licked her lips and laughed like a typical witch.

"Humph, a bunch of useless losers from an even more useless pig pen think this is over? You all wait until The Phantom eradicate the name Fordox from the map, then we'll see who laughs last." one of the girls said braving herself for what was to come.

"Hmm? You have a sharp mouth there. I'll enjoy torturing you too know your place, bastard! Frozen City!" the leader from Fordox chanted an Ice-type spell out of anger being called useless.

In a matter of seconds the ground beneath them got frozen, it looked like a domain however, it didn't have the ferociousness and characteristics of a domain; which is the drive away other elements from entering the reach of the domain.

The spell began spreading towards the small group bringing chill to them. It felt like a bunch of needle were piercing their skin as frost started to deal damage.

"Going against the weak is a very shameful thing to do, don't you think so people from Fordox?" a loud voice resounded from above the forest yet no one could see who owned the voice.

Spontaneously all nine of them looked up only to see an ark of flame falling at where the four hobo wizards stood. Being called a wizards wasn't for show despite their appearance, they all jumped back and evaded the scorching heat, one however, wasn't fast enough.

Still, his experience paid off, summoning a rock wall above his head the flame ark and the rock collided. Only if the Earth wizard knew the power behind that strike, he wouldn't have let the Earth wall stay afloat over his head.

Dust and smoke was everywhere. One of the witches directed a Wind-type spell and found their member with a crushed head, he was dead.

"FUCK! Show yourself your fucking coward!" the leader from Fordox bellowed to the sky.

They couldn't believe they just lost one of their brother's without knowing who attacked. It was shameful as wizards. As angry as they were they still began casting defensive spells onto themselves.

"Vel, who do you think it is? A Phantom shrimp maybe?" the second guy with them asked the leader with a pale face. That attack took a life instantly.

"I don't think..."

"Hahaha! A Phantom shrimp you say? Then I guess you are all turtles in a jar, right? Hahaha!" that looming voice rang loudly over the woods.

"...The Phantoms don't fight in the hiding." the leader, Vel, said trying to find the man in the trees. "It must be a busybody."

"Then let's start him out." one of the witches said.

The witches began channeling magic, using Mindpower she drew a transparent red rune in the air, waving her hands while saying obscure incantations. When the rune became bright enough a crack appeared right beside the woman.

It was a crack between Planes, as the crack grew wider a very long hairy thing came out. One, two, three four legs came out from the crack followed be a giant head full of eyes, after that was the abominable large abdomen, and then four more legs.

This was a very huge spider and Ben knew this exact demon creature. It Is a Cardinal Head Spider.

Ben had never seen such magic before that didn't involve the elements. He was wondering what type of magic it was and to what extent it could reach.

"Go find him my baby." the sight of watching such an ugly witch act like a caring mother towards the Cardinal Head Spider was just unsightly.

A deafening shrill screech bellowed out of the spider's ghastly mouth before it jumped onto the trees, It's speed was insane.

After some silence the sound of metal tearing through flesh, sizzling branches, the sound of rustling leaves from one tree to another and occasional screeches echoed throughout the forest.

The remaining three wizards didn't stand idle, numerous types of spell were shot into the air. Wind Blades and Fireballs flew to the sky. If they hadn't been so deep into the forest, it was possible that the place would have been burnt to the ground.

"Urgh, I hate spiders." the voice up in the trees said it was then followed by a shrill scream of agony.

"Ahhh!!" the hobo witch that summoned the creature held onto her chest then spat out a mouthful of blood. "My baby!! How dare you?! I swear, I'm going to flay you and hang you to root!" she kept screaming at the top of her lung as she continued to spit out more blood.

Those around her looked at her stunned. If she had such a reaction after summoning her beast to fight, it could only mean one thing; The beast is dead. How long did it take? it wasn't even up to ten minute the creature was summoned, yet, it was dead.

It wasn't that the creature was weak, it was just that its opponent was too strong. That was a Late Servant-class summoned beast and to have such monster attack would leave even some Second-level Spellcasters little chance to go unscathed, while killing some unlucky ones. At this moment Vel had sweat tickling down his whole body, soaking his robe.

THUD!

With a loud thud two halves of a giant spider fell. They all looked at this scene before then in disbelief, they had one thought in mind. Run. What use is it too bulky, steal, even kill those from The Phantom of you're dead. The answer, nothing.

They've made up their minds to run away from this place at all cost but was forced to look up because the temperature above them began rising at a ridiculous pace. Only to look up and find numerous giant fireballs the size football train down on them.

It was useless to dodge this attack so they attacked back. Still, it was useless. A loud explosion rang as they all got devoured by the flame

***

A few moments ago...

The five juniors retreated back sometime ago when their pursuers became distracted by that unknown figure that came to help them. They were running but then came to a stop.

Many questions raced through their heads. Who was that person? This was the most apparent question they all had. Was That person from their school? No. They knew for one, The Phantom doesn't fight in the hiding.

"Senior Norman, we have to help that person, it's the least we could do." one of the girls told the young man with a bleeding arm.

"Whoever that person was did this to save us, we going back their will only become a burden to him and might come in the way of their fight. That is going to bring us a lot more trouble than we are in already." Norman said.

"We can't just let him fight alone, we must fight back even if we die in the process it is always for The Phantom. I don't wish to see myself running like a coward in the face of a bunch of losers from Fordox." Pele who was supporting Norman's good hand over his shoulder said. The guy more or less had a good build to either be a swordsman or fighter than a Spellcaster.

"You're right, even though I'm injured let's take those bastards to hell and show them what The Phantom is made of. Let's go."